xenomorph (@xenomorph@mastodon.ml)
Интеграция Threads с Fediverse — палка о двух концах. Meta строит рекламную империю на контенте независимых сообществ, добавив интеграцию с Fediverse.
Но пока админы малых серверов оплачивают хостинг из своего кармана, как например администрация данного ресурса, корпорация просто забирает данные по ActivityPub и монетизирует их через рекламу.
Если в этой схеме нет отчислений авторам или поддержки инфраструктуры Fediverse, мы остаёмся продуктом, но в еще большем масштабе.
#Fediverse #Threads #ActivityPub #Meta
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miclgael (@miclgael@hachyderm.io)
Does anyone use #Bookwyrm ? or know another #ActivityPub / #Federated / #GoodReads alternative?
I don't read much, but when I do I want to have an API about it. lol
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strypey (@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)
#TIL that #Mirlo has funding to add basic ActivityPub federation, so their artists can be found and followed in the fediverse;
"NLNet is awarding Mirlo €40,000 to help us fund our work on decentralization.
...
Integrating a very simple version of ActivityPub (the protocol that underpins Mastodon) into Mirlo. We're being mindful that this will not be people's primary ActivityPub service, so we'll keep things simple for now."
@mirlo, 2025
https://mirlo.space/team/posts/funding-federating-mirlo/
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tiagojferreira (@tiagojferreira@bolha.us)
ActivityPub: Protocolo para Redes Descentralizadas - DEV Community
https://dev.to/rafaelbonilha/activitypub-protocolo-para-redes-descentralizadas-425e
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display (@display@nekocave.xyz)
@cyrmax Теперь вопросы.
1. У тебя стоит сеть #ActivityPub. Твой клиент Mastodon-подключился к Активити-Паб серверу?
2. Что есть "клиент для слепых"? Screen reader с Браилем? Программа-скринридер для смартфона, которая подключается к скринридеру с Браилем? Что именно он делает? Создаёт интерфейс с area-тегами (не знаю как это в мобилках работает, я не пишу мобилки)?
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romanzolotarev (@romanzolotarev@mas.to)
moving to @hi
#activitypub #snac2 #selfhosting
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display (@display@horche.demkontinuum.de)
Presentation - Friendica - Hidden in plain sight since 2025
01.02.2026
Friendica has been part of the Fediverse since 2010, one of the oldest active projects of the Fediverse - yet Friendica has flown under the radar most of the time.
A great talk from @tobias
#Fedivers #Friendica #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Fosdem
fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
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archives (@archives@cobalt-blue-gear-wyrm.x10.network)
Astroturfing Is Pretty Pointless When Social Subgraphs Are Fragmented (e.g., the Fediverse)
I am seeing astroturfing in the fediverse again, by AT Protocol developers implicitly trying to shill their products. I think it is stochastic behavior by developers with too much time on their hands. Honestly, I do not care. I like the people on ActivityPub more, but I like the AT Protocol better, and I have developed for both. Astroturfing on ActivityPub networks is fascinating to me because it is so pointless.
I am actually a computer scientist whose specialty is combinatorics, social graphs, graph theory, etc. Specifically, I use this to create epidemiological models for the memetic layer of human behaviors that act as vectors for diseases, using the SIRS model. I do not just study germs; I study human behaviors.
The models I construct extend into a “memetic layer,” in which beliefs, norms, and behaviors (such as risk-taking, compliance with public health measures, or susceptibility to misinformation) spread contagiously through social networks. These behaviors function as vectors that modulate biological transmission rates. As a result, the spread of ideas can accelerate, dampen, or reshape the spread of disease. By running computational simulations and agent-based models on these graphs, I study how network structure, influential nodes, clustering, and platform-specific dynamics affect behavioral contagion. I also examine how these factors influence epidemiological outcomes.
To say it very concisely, I study how the spread of bat-shit insane beliefs influences whether or not there is a measles outbreak in Texas. Ironically, this is an evolution of my studying semiotics, memetics, and chaos magick in high school. I got a job where I can use occult, anarchist techniques professionally.
I think a large reason why I do not care about astroturfing in the fediverse is that it’s so pointless, lol. Astroturfing to manipulate the narrative would actually work better on Bluesky to keep people there than trying to recruit from the fediverse. Furthermore, big instances are relatively small. Some people on Bluesky have follower lists larger than an entire large instance in the fediverse.
Within ActivityPub networks, astroturfing rarely propagates far, because whether information spreads depends on properties of the social graph itself. Dense connectivity, short paths between communities, and a sufficient number of cross-cutting ties support diffusion. ActivityPub’s architecture tends to produce graphs that are fragmented and highly modular. This limits the reach of coordinated activity.
ActivityPub is a system where each instance maintains its own local user graph and exchanges activities through inboxes and outboxes. This makes it autonomous and decentralized. The network consists of loosely connected subgraphs. Cross-instance edges appear only through explicit follow relationships. The ActivityPub protocol does not provide a shared or complete view of the network. Measurements of the fediverse consistently show uneven connectivity between instances, clustering at the instance level, and relatively long effective path lengths across the network. Under these conditions, large cascades are uncommon.
However, with the AT Protocol, global indexing and aggregation are explicitly supported. Relays and indexers can assemble near-complete views of the social graph. Applications built on top of this infrastructure operate over a graph that is denser and easier to traverse. There are fewer structural barriers between communities. The diffusion dynamics change substantially when content can move across the graph without relying on narrow federated paths.
Astroturfing depends on coordinated amplification, typically through tightly synchronized clusters of accounts intended to manufacture visibility. Work on coordinated inauthentic behavior shows that these tactics gain traction when they intersect highly connected regions of the graph or bridge otherwise separate communities. In networks with strong modularity, coordination remains local. ActivityPub’s federation model produces this kind of modularity by default. Coordinated clusters stand out clearly within instances. Their effects remain confined to those local neighborhoods.
Astroturfing on ActivityPub therefore tends to stall on its own because of the underlying graph topology. Without dense inter-instance connectivity or any form of global indexing, coordinated campaigns struggle to move beyond the immediate regions where they originate. Systems built on globally indexable social graphs, including those enabled by the AT Protocol, expose a much larger surface for viral spread. Network structure and connectivity account for the divergence where that is independent of moderation, cultural norms, ideology, or intent.
It’s just really funny to me how these stochastic techbro groups waste so many resources. I personally don’t want to go viral, which is why I avoid platforms where I can. The fact that it’s harder to achieve high virality on ActivityPub is exactly why I prefer the fediverse over the Atmosphere. One way to think about it is that you can change the ‘genetics’ of a system with a retrovirus, where memetic entities act as cultural retroviruses to reprogram the cultural loci of a space. That is their end goal. They are trying to hijack cultures memetically. You see this a lot with culture jamming.
Basically, the astroturfing on ActivityPub networks is designed to jam and subvert the culture. But, as I have already said, the topological structure makes memetic virality stall. However, they cannot achieve that kind of viral spread in the fediverse, which is why I cannot understand why they do this every year.
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bloeckchengrafik (@bloeckchengrafik@social.tchncs.de)
Unfortunately for anyone reading this, I had an idea, although I'm not ready to talk publicly about it.
But I do have a question for #fedidev s out here: Is there a nice way to handle account fragmentation? So having 3 accounts for 3 platforms that need to write-interact with the activitypub stream?
Really new to all of this, sorry if this question is kinda noob-y
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sundaymidnight (@sundaymidnight@tuiter.rocks)
Diferencias entre Bluesky y Mastodon
- Llevarte los datos
Cuando cambias de instancia en Mastodon, te llevas tus seguidores y siguiendo, pero las imágenes se romperían si trataras de migrar. Bluesky te permite migrar absolutamente todo sin que se rompa, como si tus datos fueran un cofre cerrado que mueves de servidor (PDS o Public Data Server).
#Bluesky #Mastodon #ActivityPub #AT #Fediverso
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Argyle13 (@Argyle13@xarxa.cloud)
Algo que me ha animado: ya disponible #MolTo, una red federada de trabajo y contactos profesionales, basada en #activitypub funciona muy parecido a #LinkedIn y se puede abrir perfil y cuenta utilizando tu cuenta de Mastodon.
Por ahora veo muchos post en neerlandes, inglés y aleman, asi que por que no entramos españolitos hasta el moño de LinkedIn (voy a postear en inglés y español, que me gustaría poder pillar proyectos internacionales como antes).
AQUI INVITACION
https://nolto.social/join/KRK9DB
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mariusor (@mariusor@metalhead.club)
Speaking of #ONI, I can't wait for the Sanitizer DOM API to start making an appearance in mainstream browsers later this month.
Currently the biggest chunk of the 140K that make the JavaScript application that comprises ONI is composed of the dompurify library I'm using now to do sanitization of NaturalLanguageValues in #ActivityPub objects.
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