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27.01.2026 17:16
pfefferle (@pfefferle@mastodon.social)

sneak peek :)

https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/2633

#wordpress #activitypub #stats #fediverse

27.01.2026 15:43
wjmaggos (@wjmaggos@liberal.city)

Is social media its own thing or is it an attention layer for the open web? Is it mostly about these separate things we call posts, or should every piece of writing or audio or video be able to be boosted itself?

I think that's the divide between #ATproto and #ActivityPub. #bluesky wants to dominate a world of posts like Gmail dominates email etc. Social running on a protocol but one company decides most people's experience. Or should we give the public full control over what media goes viral?

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27.01.2026 15:40
cooper (@cooper@burningboard.net)

𝗧𝘀𝗰𝗵ü𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆!👋

Warum unsere digitale Zukunft nicht Mark Zuckerberg oder Elon Musk gehören darf.

Wir stecken in den „Walled Gardens“ von Meta & X fest. Aber es gibt einen Ausweg: Das Fediverse (Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed).

Es ist weit mehr als eine Nische – es ist Europas wichtigste Chance, die digitale Souveränität zurückzugewinnen:
🔒 Datenschutz: Kein Überwachungskapitalismus.
💻 Unabhängigkeit: Server stehen in Europa, Open Source-Software.
🤝 Kontrolle: Chronologische Feeds, keine manipulativen Algorithmen.

Die EU und Bundesbehörden machen es vor. Jetzt bist du dran!

Klicke auf den Link und erfahre mehr über das Thema:
https://c-pr.cc/9xmy6

#fediverse #digitalesouveränität #mastodon #activitypub #bigtechalternativen #europa #datenschutz

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27.01.2026 15:34
Oregon_Pacifist (@Oregon_Pacifist@retro-gaiden.com)

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the instance mastodon.social is 30% of the entire #Fediverse. If it ever goes down for any reason, a huge chunk of the Fediverse will go down.

It defeats the purpose of having a fully decentralized network if most people pile into a single instance.

#Activitypub #SocialMedia #Decentralization

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27.01.2026 12:07
lara_vm (@lara_vm@mastodon.social)

@zotheca oh ja, unbedingt!! Das hätte ich vor zwei Tagen gebraucht! 😅 Ich find es mangelt noch ein bisschen an gut verständlichen Erklärungen zu #activityPub (incl was es mit den relays auf sich hat) oder ich hab sie in der Eile noch nicht gefunden. Daher: Danke!

PS: vllt kannst du in deinem Post noch ergänzen worum es grob geht ;)

#fediverse

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27.01.2026 10:45
ktistec (@ktistec@epiktistes.com)

I didn't think I'd ever pull it off 😀, but the new editor framework is complete and with it support for creating polls. One nice extra—you can now choose which content editor to use (rich text or Markdown) on a per-post basis without updating your settings.

The full set of changes in this release:

Added

Front-end support for creating polls.
Editor selection support for content, polls, and optional metadata (name, summary, etc.).
Poll expiry notifications for poll authors.

Fixed

Poll closed_at handling for drafts and remote polls.

I'll try not to be quite as ambitious for the next release! 😅

#ktistec #crystallang #activitypub #fediverse

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27.01.2026 08:56
yubal (@yubal@masto.es)

Ahora que para sorpresa de nadie la empresa conjunta estadounidense de #TikTok que la red social tuvo que crear para que no les bloquearan ha salido mal, mucha gente busca alternativas. De momento parece que hay dos que se posicionan:

Una es #UpScrolled, red social indie australiana creada por un desarrollador palestino-australiano.

La otra es #Skylight, que pese a ser de USA es una red social de código abierto que usa el mismo #ATProtocol que #Bluesky.

No se menciona tanto, pero también está #Loops basada en #ActivityPub.

¿Conseguirá alguna de estas alternativas asentarse?

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27.01.2026 08:49
rcarmo (@rcarmo@mastodon.social)

Every single messaging app is proprietary or annoying to integrate with to the point where I’m teaching my #agents to talk to each other via a local #activitypub server, which is just weird. I’m expecting them to start posting #cat pictures any minute now.

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27.01.2026 04:47
archives (@archives@cobalt-blue-gear-wyrm.x10.network)

Bluesky is An Ontological Space for Sadomasochism, Trolling, & Schadenfreude

So, during the initial exodus from Twitter after it became X following Elon Musk’s purchase, many people left but kept their accounts, purposefully to bully, surveil, antagonize, and troll others. People—including me—moved to Bluesky, Mastodon, or both, and used their Twitter accounts purely for harassment and similar behavior. Essentially, X became the place you went to act like a dumpster fire. Because most people within occult niches are highly toxic, I tend to not only block them but also block anyone they follow for reasons I’m about to explain.

I really only use that account to criticize occulture, post nudes, or share YouTube videos. Since I’m aware of fed posting, I avoid commenting on political topics or anarchist discourse on the Clearnet. Keep that in mind. If you scroll through my profile, you’ll see me poking fun at chaotes, posting nudes, gushing about or complaining about my husband, sharing dating horror story YouTube videos, or pet grooming videos. If you look at my likes, you’ll only see gay porn, mathematics papers, engineering papers, etc. There’s no mention of anything political, especially genocides.

There was a person I’d never interacted with who was part of a starter pack for occultists. I blocked them. Then I woke up this morning to find I was added to this list:

Chomsky Honks
Genocide apologist posting cringe from a Starbucks as it burns down around them

So, with all that in mind, these occultists I’ve never interacted with added me to a list. I am neither invested in Bluesky nor strongly connected to their network, primarily because I block almost everyone on it and don’t ever look at any feeds whatsoever, including the Home, followers, or Discover feeds. Therefore, the posts I do interact with are from pockets of people way outside my network. It’s kind of like driving to the bathhouse in Atlanta from a small town in Bubbafuck, Georgia, because everyone in your small town is garbage. Same idea, ontologically.

Honestly, I don’t care, because I’ve mostly moved back to Mastodon and blog more.

What they’ve done is implicitly a form of defamation, because they feel slighted and justified in defaming someone they don’t know, simply because a stranger they’ve never spoken to blocked them. I tend to do a basic block on anyone who blocks me, because if you’ve decided you don’t want to see me, there’s probably no good-faith reason for us to engage in the future. It’s likely there’s some malicious intent later on. As you can see with this, I was correct.

So, in order for them to know I blocked them, they had to continuously check who had blocked them, and they believe people who block them should be punished through bullying. Since the description of the list doesn’t fit me, they retaliated out of malice. The idea behind these cliques is pretty simple: they feel threatened by anyone who rejects their normative statements because it means they are being rejected, and they view any form of dissent as an existential threat. As a result, they believe people who reject them, set boundaries, or dissent from the consensus of their culture need to be punished, and the AT protocol provides convenient tools for brigading. Ironically, these people are anti-fascist yet have a very Christian-like evangelical way of viewing the world. The lack of insight is pretty funny.

I’m the child of cult leaders and members with Cluster B personalities, so I’m not clutching my pearls, especially since I’m already set up elsewhere outside of Bluesky. They do not have the means to impose significant consequences on me, so I find it amusing. I genuinely find it funny how they eat each other. I’m not calling anyone to action—I’m just enjoying the fire.

This person wasn’t aware of who I was. We never interacted, and being added to a list that defames me happened directly after I blocked them without any prior interaction. I saw their account from the firehose and wasn’t algorithmically presented with it, meaning we’re not even in the same clique. Now, if they had said something like “spams hashtags, trolls, makes alts,” that would make sense.

When you look at it for what it is, they wanted to defame, disparage, and brigade—punitive actions because they interpreted a boundary as hostile. This is projection, as they are weaponizing a mechanism to enforce boundaries. Do I care? No. I’m just pointing out how it turned its predecessor, X, into what it is now. It became a place for people to harass others, not a space for genuine, good-faith discussions, connections, or even debates. That is not my interpretation.

Well, to anyone who knows, you might ask: Did they block you because you have a particular reputation? No. I am a Web 1.0 mage, so the networks I’m known in have roots and associations in the old forums. The occulture people who have fixated on me for years go all the way back to Wizard Forums, the psionics forums, the unsolved mystery forums, etc., from the early 2000s. If you’re a circa 2016 social media influencer mage, you probably wouldn’t know me—primarily because the moment I see you, I’ll block you. There’s also a moderation block list just for me and my alts.

This behavior is typical of the culture on Bluesky, so much so that it’s a common complaint people now have—many no longer view block lists as legitimate moderation tools. People are being advised to be skeptical of lists with a large number of people.

Oh, I’m not playing the victim here. I don’t care, because I could easily get back at them. I’m infamously vindictive and petty. More importantly, it supports my point and vindicates me. I’m not signaling victimhood; rather, I’m pointing out a culture, albeit one I participate in. Tying this back to my initial point: part of what signaled the death of Twitter as a serious forum and its transformation into X was the bullying. A while ago, I did a phylogenetic memetic analysis that basically showed how the culture on Bluesky is highly derivative of image boards. But don’t you bully and troll people? Yes, yes, I do – on Bluesky, and the lack of moderation and culture enable it. That’s my point.

Bluesky is an accelerationist and reactionary platform that gives you the tools to surveil and harass people. The developers of Bluesky and the AT Protocol have explicitly said they are technological accelerationists and libertarians. I’m not virtue signaling here; rather, I am saying Bluesky is a reactionary platform, so its culture should be understood as performative, hostile, and adversarial—not cooperative or collaborative. Just like Twitter. You can’t do what I do on Bluesky on the fediverse, because the culture won’t allow it.

You saw this type of behavior on Tumblr, where the population carrying the memetics of that culture migrated to Twitter and now Bluesky. Essentially, Bluesky became a place where malice, bullying, and hostile behavior became so normalized that I’m not even upset about lists being weaponized like this. For example, I’m not posting this on Bluesky, and I, myself, have bullied people on Bluesky. But I behave myself on Mastodon. I am using myself as an example. The trolling is happening on Bluesky. The thoughtful posts are happening on Mastodon. The blog this will be posted on is federated, so this is being posted to the fediverse.

That’s what happened to Twitter. It started normalizing hostile, toxic behavior, so that people left the platform and only returned to Twitter for schadenfreude. I have my own WordPress fediverse instance. I am just on Bluesky for the schadenfreude.

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26.01.2026 23:35
radwebhosting (@radwebhosting@mastodon.social)

How to Host Your Own #Mastodon Server on a #VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)

This article provides a guide for how to host your own Mastodon server on a VPS.

Running your own Mastodon server on a VPS is an excellent way to enjoy an efficient and secure Mastodon experience.
What is Mastodon?
Mastodon is a #decentralized social media platform that enables users to post ...
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