And if you're at #FOSDEM this weekend, watch out for @Floppy and say hi - we'd love to meet you and nerd out about #3DPrinting and #ActivityPub ❤️
Escribí una cosa sobre cómo librarse de X desde Europa, intentando ser muy pedagógica, en especial para personas que pensada tengan alguna relación con instituciones públicas. Por si os resulta útil para moverlo: https://redesnuestras.net/2026/01/28/que-pueden-hacer-las-instituciones-democraticas-europeas-para-defenderse-de-x/
#ElonMusk #ActivityPub #X #Grok #EU #techsovereignty
If the network being decentralized is key to decentralizing power, how did Google running on the open web get so powerful while nobody has really done that with podcasts? The structure is obviously important but it's also not enough. There can't be a nexus for dealing with the network. People want to search the whole thing and Google gave them that. Podcasts have so far avoided that by making it work well enough in different apps and/or maybe avoiding the need for it. IDK
Happy to read about Roomy project that is open source alternative to discord that supports Activity Pub.
https://itsfoss.com/roomy-discord-alternative/
#roomy #opensource #activitypub
I’ve a question about using boosts with the #WordPress #ActivityPub plugin.
If I have two WordPress sites, both with the plugin, can I boost a full post from one to the other? Will it appear as a post in the second site? Has anyone written about this?
Will shortly test but thought I’d check if someone has tackled this and written it up first.
cc @pfefferle.
Dear god, do you do anything but constantly bitch?! Why are you even on social media if you hate it so fucking much?!
A little bit about me. I am a Computer Scientist and I have recently had contracts for developing apps for both the AT protocol and The Activitypub protocol. I am saying this to get ahead of the annoying nerd culture of the fediverse.
I am going to be honest. I am tired of the bitching about Mastodon. You guys act as if you don’t have other options.
In 2023-2024, Zuck decided he would pull a google and subsume the fediverse. So he “federated” (but not really) with fediverse, allowing Threads users to READ what mastodon.social (ugh) server would show. Can’t TALK to fediverse users, just see their posts AND CONTENT (must… feed… LLM…). That was followed by a bunch of idiots following Dorsey, and his VC techbro funded “BlueSky” twitter-reborn. Sod as “DeCentrAliZed aND fReE”, it is centralized as fuck, EVERYTHING passes through their ONE cluster of servers, controlled by their choices. Even if you pay them tubes (no, seriously), and run a “hard” PSD server, you are still controlled (account, permissions) by central BS server. That douchebaggery also tried to subsume the fediverse, by “bridging” it. Same deal as Threads.
Now, the users of those are seeing the nazifying of both, and eyeballing the fediverse they can mostly read but not interact with, and getting buyer’s regret. BUT, they want to bring the bullshit they are used to along.
So we see “Starter Packs” talk, basically a large file containing thousands of accounts that are either available for download OR THAT THE INSTANCE PUSHES TO YOUR ACCOUNT AUTOMATICALLY. TL;DR they control the start of what you see and who you can read from and talk to… exactly like xitter, threads, linkedin, facebook, bluesky… all the Big Corp controlled platforms.
As an aside, I think it is duplicitous and disingenuous, so I have the above quote as text.
I don’t care either way about starter packs, because they are just explicit models of the implicit social connections people already have. It is not the starter packs that you have an issue with; it is the relationships and the culture that you have an issue with. You do not want people with social connections to other platforms here. Just say that. Again, I’m not a fan of Mastodon, so I am not using it to speak to you.
Yeah, and this is exactly why I am self-hosting. Since this is my site, I can choose to defederate or federate with any other instance, granted they don’t defederate from me first. In my opinion, Mastodon consumes way too much of the fediverse, so for anyone who doesn’t like starter packs, I would recommend just not using Mastodon.
I am blunt because, like I said, I am tired of the constant bitching. If you don’t like starter packs, don’t use Mastodon. If you disagree with the federation decisions of an ActivityPub instance, find another one. And if you can’t find any run how you want, run your own. The issue is that you don’t want certain people here, so you can run your own instance and determine who you want there. I’m not the pot calling the kettle black because I own this, lol.
For example, I am not posting from Mastodon, lol. Mastodon is to ActivityPub as Bluesky is to the AT Protocol. ActivityPub and the AT Protocol were made for more than just microblogging, but because people have a tacit expectation that everything should plug into microblogging, here we are. Your points are valid, which is why I don’t use Mastodon and have my own instance.
Hello Fedi, any ideas why my account on Vernissage can be found from other platforms like Mastodon or Pixelfed, but does not show any posts?
Other accounts show up with with their existing posts.
Can you point me to something in the settings, @mczachurski?
What did I miss? https://vernissage.photos/@linkshaender
Buenas gentes del #fediverso , necesito vuestro #fediconsejo
¿Me recomendaríais una instancia de blog compatible con #activitypub tipo #writefreely ? A ser posible, una que sea gratuita y cuya interface esté en castellano o catalán.. Sólo es para trastear un poco.
¡Gracias!
#Roomy is a chat platform, alternative to #Discord, uses #ATProto & planned to use #ActivityPub, so that you can log in with your #Mastodon ID . Might eventually be useful for a #WatchParty
https://itsfoss.com/roomy-discord-alternative/
All right, let’s talk about xoro, an #ActivityPub #RSS and web search disenshittification engine I’ve been building