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We were excited to see the recent release of Ghost 6 with ActivityPub features. The Ghost team have been an active participant in our Long-form Text project. John O'Nolan, founder and CEO of Ghost.org, was kind enough to answer our questions about the software and its community. SWF: For our readers who don't know Ghost, how would you describe the platform? JO: Ghost is an independent publishing platform for people who take writing seriously. We're open source, non-profit, and built to give […]

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/10/10/interview-with-john-onolan-about-ghost-6/

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10.10.2025 12:54
roughnecks (@roughnecks@social.woodpeckersnest.space)

Is it normal that in my instance's federated timeline there are boosted toots from people I follow?

#fediverse #mastoadmin #gotosocial #activitypub

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10.10.2025 04:05
rauschma (@rauschma@fosstodon.org)

What are your thoughts on adding #ActivityPub support to a blog? I feel like blogs are different and should be separate from social media(?)

A simple solution for letting people comment on a blog post could be embedding a post including all of its replies. However, for blogs, you want comments to survive as long as possible and Fediverse servers generally don’t guarantee that.

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09.10.2025 23:22
marxistvegan (@marxistvegan@union.place)

Life off of mainstream social media is so nice. I have not been using it for years, and only had it for work but finally deleted my #facebook account today. Before doing so I briefly looked through and just was reminded how shitting these profit motive social media sites are. More power to #mastodon and #activitypub for creating a sane part of the internet

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09.10.2025 23:19
smallcircles (@smallcircles@social.coop)

I added @pukkamustard #CPub project to the #ActivityPub C2S tracking list at..

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience/issues/130

CPub was created as part of the https://openengiadina.net research, where also #ERIS content addressing spec originated.

See:

https://codeberg.org/openEngiadina/cpub

https://codeberg.org/eris

Current and past @NGIZero grants provided by the #EU via @nlnet has made this inspiring work possible.

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09.10.2025 22:55
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Destroying Autocracy – October 09, 2025

Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.

It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.

DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.

FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.

The Programmer’s Fulcrum is the future (and smaller) home for a fusion of Symfony Station and Battalion. Its tagline is Devs Defending Democracy, Developing the OMN.

You can sign up now and for 2025 get an email with links to and featured articles for each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with their featured articles. And you’ll be set with TPF after the fusing.

We are posting on the Fediverse now at @thefulcrum @thefulcrum.dev and original website content will start in 2026.

Featured Item(s)

Open Media Network writes:

A central thesis of Tolkien’s books is that evil provides the means of its own defeat. Sauron forged the One Ring that destroyed him. Shelob impaled herself on Sam’s blade. Smaug exposed his belly to Bilbo and revealed the weak point that brought him down. Tolkien’s world is full of this pattern: the seed of destruction lies buried inside the will to dominate. Power over others always carries its own undoing.

But there’s a second truth, less often spoken. Good must still act. The Ring did not cast itself into the fires of Mount Doom, it had to be carried, inch by inch, through the mud and terror, by two small Hobbits who refused to give up. Shelob could only fall because Sam held his arm firm when it would have been easier to drop the blade. Smaug was slain not by fate, but by the hand that fired the black arrow.

Even when evil weakens itself, the act of courage still has to be taken. The small people still have to step up. And there’s a third lesson here, one that feels painfully relevant to our time: good only loses when it surrenders to hopelessness. Denethor’s despair nearly doomed Minas Tirith.

Frodo would have fallen without Sam’s stubborn love. Bilbo’s small act of faith. In Tolkien’s world, hope is not naïve optimism, it’s an act of defiance.

A Tolkien view of OMN

Join us and become a hobbit in the Open Media Network.

Speaking of OMN, we have an announcement this week:

Announcing The Programmer’s Fulcrum, our retirement project

We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.

The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery

The Kyiv Independent reports:

The military branch behind Ukraine’s battlefield apps turns to weapons bureaucracy

Ukraine’s parliament backs creation of cyber forces in first reading

The Christian Science Monitor reports:

How Ukrainian drones are slowing Russia’s advance in the east

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:

What Europe’s New Gig Work Law Means for Unions and Technology

Eiffair shares:

Kagi Love

Its FOSS News reports:

Wikidata Launches Free Vector Database as Open Alternative to Closed AI Systems

NiemanLab reports:

Nonprofit news is growing strong — especially local nonprofit news, a new report shows

And the Columbia Journalism Review reports:

Too Small to Mess With

Heisse reports:

A defeat at the Supreme Court: Google must prepare changes to the Play Store

Nextcloud has:

Nextcloud vs Microsoft interoperability: how open source gets it right

Open letter to EU Member States on the proposed CSA Regulation or “Chat Control” law

Tuta announces:

Europe’s future is at stake: Open letter against Chat Control

Patrick shares the good news that pressure still works:

Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy

404 Media reports:

Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

Burning Web shares:

Five Beliefs

Great Stuff.

Neutral

CyberCultural shares:

What the Internet Was Like in 2000

Homestar Runner 🙂

The Brookings Institute says:

We should all be Luddites

The Guardian reports:

Governments are spending billions on their own ‘sovereign’ AI technologies – is it a big waste of money?

Poynter announces:

Poynter launches AI Innovation Lab to house its growing AI portfolio

CommonsDB is:

Exploring CommonsDB’s role in AI training data

The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back

TechCrunch reports:

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones

Italian businessman’s phone reportedly targeted with Paragon spyware

Pariah States

The Kyiv Independent reports:

Russia’s digital Iron Curtain descends as Kremlin chokes remaining internet freedoms

IFTAS reports:

Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services

Bleeping Computer reports:

Russian Hacktivists target critical infrastructure, hit decoy plant

North Korean hackers stole over $2 billion in crypto this year

The Columbia Journalism Review reports on:

Israel’s Influencer Insiders

DarkReading reports:

Chinese Gov’t Fronts Trick the West to Obtain Cyber Tech

China-Nexus Actors Weaponize ‘Nezha’ Open Source Tool

The Register reports:

OpenAI bans suspected Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to plan surveillance

The Columbia Journalism Review reports:

How Anti-Cybercrime Laws Are Being Weaponized to Repress Journalism

Big Media

FAIR reports:

MAGA’s Little Helpers: Sinclair, Nexstar and the Consolidation of Broadcast TV

Poynter reports:

The leader of a major press association resigned after his board opposed a lawsuit defending journalists’ rights

Big Tech

404 Media reports:

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

CNET reports:

The Hidden Dangers of the Digital ‘Yes Man’: How to Push Back Against Sycophantic AI

The Guardian has:

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

LitHub has more Cory Doctorow action:

How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

Cybersecurity/Privacy

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:

Tile’s Lack of Encryption Is a Danger for Users Everywhere

Fediverse

Social Experience Design says:

Welcome to Social coding commons

Hamish Campbell has:

Live at c-base a #fluffy Fediverse conference

STAR WARS: The Soft Empire

Riley Testut reports:

Evolving AltStore PAL

Fedify announces:

Fedify 2.0—the CLI now runs natively on Node.js and Bun, not just Deno

Go To Social announces:

We’ve just made the proper release of v0.20.0 of GoToSocial, aka Sinister Sloth

TechCrunch reports:

Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the Fediverse

Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter ‘Packs’

Mastodon has:

Community consultation: new Terms of Service (for mastodon.social and mastodon.online)

It’s cool to join Mastodon but not these two instances.

Our ideas about Packs

Trunk & Tidbits, September 2025

NHAM announces:

NHAM Update Opus 10 (Fedi Music Television Edition)

Super awesome.

Castopod announces:

The Official Castopod Plugin Repository

RSS

InEssential explains:

Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App

Lighthouse has:

A deep dive into the rss feed reader landscape

Other Slightly Federated Social Media

Azhdarchid has:

Delusions of a protocol

TechCrunch reports:

Waffles eat Bluesky

I have said from day one that Bluesky will become enshittified. But, ATProto has some potential.

And to be fair, some of the leaders of ActivityPub and its largest platform (who value growth over safety) are egotistical pissy ass fucks when they are even slightly criticized.

But we are all fighting technofascism so let’s try to work together on the protocols front at least. Its ok to have debates and disagreements with allies. But treat them like allies when doing so. If they are your friends you can even call them pissy ass fucks. 😉

Speaking of, A New Social announces:

Bounce from Mastodon to Bluesky

Why would you? Although maybe its works with Blacksky, Northsky, or Eurosky.

CTAs (aka show us some free love)

That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.
Follow me on the Fediverse. Or this site via the button in the footer. Or via RSS. Or even our future home in 2026, if you want a head start.

Keep fighting!

Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
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#ActivityPub #AI #AltStore #ATProto #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Bluesky #Castopod #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #fluffy #GoToSocial #IFTAS #Mastodon #NHAM #StopChina #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism

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09.10.2025 22:15
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Announcing The Programmer’s Fulcrum, our retirement project

I want to take this opportunity to let followers of Symfony Station and Battalion know about what is going to happen in early 2026.

The Programmer’s Fulcrum is the future home of Battalion and Symfony Station as they merge into my retirement project. 🙂 Its more focused coverage will be on the items and ideas in Battalion’s Techno Anarchist Manifesto that relate to development.

So, visit our Fediverse page to get an idea what our Fediverse posting and curation is like. Paste @thefulcrum @thefulcrum.dev into your client’s search field to follow us.

Visit our Tools and Resources page to see many of the items we will cover.

In general for Symfony Station that means coverage of the development aspects of CMS options for the Open Media Network. Think Grav CMS, Ghost, WordPress, Micro.Blog, Write.as, and Write Freely. And maybe Drupal CMS, we’ll see how easy 2.0 is to use for the average Joe and Mustang Sally. It will mean less Symfony, Drupal, TYPO3, and PHP coverage.

For Battalion that means coverage of the Fediverse, Open Media Network, and community-focused open-source software. It will mean less Evil Empire, Big Tech, Pariah States, and cybersecurity coverage.

And probably less cursing all the way around.

In 2025 after joining our list, you will have full access to the website as well as our newsletter featuring new weekly content. It will consist of links for each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with the featured item of each. 2026 will see the birth of TPF’s original content.

Of course, you can follow via RSS as well. Or even Bluesky although I’m not a fan and probably won’t monitor this bridged account. If you like what you see today you are set for the future.

That’s it. We aim to be the Fulcrum. You’re the pivot. Developers helped build Techno Feudalism (aka the shit we’re in). We can help kill it.

If the slightly different approach The Fulcrum takes is not for you, good luck. Stay safe and sane!

Reuben Walker
Publisher, The Programmer’s Fulcrum
Developers defending democracy and developing the Open Media Network.

#ActivityPub #Autocracy #Democracy #Fediverse #Mastodon

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09.10.2025 20:58
danielk (@danielk@pkm.social)

@elsua @MonaApp @ivory Fantastic things are happening everywhere. The #ActivityPub plugin for Wordpress (coupled with the friends plugin) means you can participate in the whole fediverse from and with your blog. No mastodon account needed, nada.

And there is even an a plugin that allows you to use mastodon apps with your #Wordpress blog. Crazy.

Then we have ActivityPub in Ghost or Discourse.

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09.10.2025 20:52
HNumberger (@HNumberger@mastodon.social)

Gut, dass ich von Facebook hierher gewechselt bin - so komme ich (wenn auch indirekt) auch endlich mal in den Genuss eines Preises 🤣🤪😎

#GrimmeOnlineAward #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Friendica #ActivityPub #SocialMedia