JBrickelt963 (@JBrickelt963@framapiaf.org)
@tired_and_wired I'm not sure I understand. Are you looking for a #video hosting service as an alternative to which application? Otherwise, for an alternative to #YouTube, there are #Peertube instances connected to the rest of the #Fediverse with #ActivityPub 😉
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daltux (@daltux@ayom.media)
Estou para postar fotos do #Flokinho no #Pixelfed @daltux@metapixl.com #Sabafoto e vi que, curiosamente, há opção para desligar comentários na publicação.
Escrevo isto aqui pois era algo sobre o qual havia reflexão, ontem, entre possÃveis motivos que afastariam da nossa #Federação os chamados "influencers" nas redes antissociais privativas/centralizadas.
Enfim, mais um ponto de reflexão: 
(nem 
) não deveria ser a regra de como a Federação #ActivityPub funciona... 
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Kye (@Kye@tech.lgbt)
Did I imagine it or did Ghost's ActivityPub support have a way to migrate followers before the 6.0 release?
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mariusor (@mariusor@metalhead.club)
Added a small UI improvement to #ONI instances.
Once you have a local actor set-up with an avatar, it will also show up as the favicon of the website.
The only issue so far is that SVG images don't get rendered properly as icons. Need to investigate some more about this ...
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item (@item@hub.netzgemeinde.eu)
@julian
Now you can send in a summary that is used, and that gets you heaps closer to a better UX than what came before.
Mastodon has misused summaries for content warnings since someone from the demo scene sent in a PR for Mastodon to do so in 2017.
So this means that Mastodon stopped doing so on Article-type objects and actually regards summaries as summaries and handles them accordingly instead?
And when and with which version was this rolled out?
Or did Mastodon insist in the creation of yet another text field which has to be rolled out to all macroblogging and long-form blogging server applications? Even though ActivityPub does have a perfectly good summary field, only that Mastodon uses it for CWs?
Although I must say that the step from displaying Article-type objects as title (if there is any) + link to displaying them as title (if there is any) + summary (if there is any) + link is not that big. Mobile users who see their Web browsers popping up as a nuisance will still ignore your content.
On the other hand, this does not only appease Eugen Rochko, the Lord and Creator of the Fediverse and all of its technology (according to the Gospel of Mastodon, anyway), but also those Mastodonians who demand there must not be any posts with over 500 characters in the Fediverse, and who immediately block everyone who exceeds 500 characters even only once even on the federated timeline.
Besides, there is still "long-form", multiple-paragraph content going out as Note-type objects. In general, I guess that comments always go out as Note-type objects.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #Summary #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #ArticleType #LongFormContent
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fedizen (@fedizen@mastodon.social)
»Big Updates Are Coming to Loops« https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/big-updates-are-coming-to-loops/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
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w (@w@makertube.net)
Fedinspect GTK demo
https://makertube.net/w/8AJV75EyQY9Sh6yHPSYfkj
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objects (@objects@mitra.social)
Week in Fediverse 2025-08-08
Servers
- PieFed v1.1
- Ghost v6.0
- Mastodon v4.4.3
- Hubzilla v10.4.2
- Hollo v0.6.6
- Ktistec v2.4.8
- NeoDB v0.11.8.1
- Wafrn v2025.08.0
- NodeBB v4.4.6
- kmyblue v19.4
- Lemmy Development Update July 2025
- Trunk & Tidbits, July 2025 (Mastodon)
- Bridging the gap (ActivityPub for WordPress)
- jekyll-activitypub: A plugin for Jekyll to generate an ActivityPub feed
Clients
- Tuba v0.10.0
- Photon v2.0.1
- Aria v1.3.5
Tools and Plugins
- Fediverse Redirect v1.15.0
- fedidevs.com: Discover amazing developers across the fediverse
For developers
- APx v0.15.0
- Fedify v1.8.1
- Botkit v0.2.2
- Fedialgo v1.0.4
Articles
- Reflections on the social web
- Navigating the UK Online Safety Act
- Mastodon Defence Command: The Scam Wave
- IWF Offers Fediverse a Way to Block CSAM
- Fediverse Report – #128
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0198674a-03a6-4e5c-39fc-b934f3ee7708
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item (@item@hub.netzgemeinde.eu)
@silverpill
The dataset doesn't include some other popular platforms like Friendica, but I am sure they also display long form content just fine.
Friendica and its descendants from the same creator, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte, can produce long-form content just fine. With just about all bells and whistles from a title plus six levels of headlines to an unlimited number of images embedded within the text.
So yes, they can display it as well. However, outside of their own communities, hardly anyone knows what they're capable of. Thus, Fediverse developers often try to solve problems that aren't even really there because they were solved before they became problems.
Mastodon's lack of support for articles, linking to the originals instead, is not really a lack. It's a deliberate design decision from around 2017 or so.
See, the first ActivityPub implementation was on Hubzilla. That was in July, 2017. And Hubzilla implemented ActivityPub by the book.
Mastodon followed two months later. But Mastodon has always had its own "interpretation" of ActivityPub that was limited by Mastodon's own intentional design limitations in order to remain Twitter-like, purist, minimalist, old-school, original-gangsta microblogging with as few features that Twitter didn't have as possible.
This is also why Mastodon has a HTML "sanitiser" built in. Up until the release of Mastodon 4.0 in October, 2022, that "sanitiser" reduced any and all incoming HTML to plain text. And it did so for all object types, including the Article-type objects which Hubzilla sent. After all, Hubzilla can act as a fully-fledged long-form blogging platform.
However, the ActivityPub spec defines Article-type objects as formatted long-form content. Still, Mastodon defaced Hubzilla's Article-type objects by reducing them to plain text.
So Mike Macgirvin got into contact with Eugen Rochko and told him to adhere to the spec and deactivate Mastodon's "sanitiser" and make it support full HTML rendering for Article-type objects.
And Eugen Rochko said that bold type and italics and bullet-point lists and images in the middle of the content have nothing to do with old-school microblogging, so they have no place on Mastodon, so he won't implement them.
This head-butting went back and forth. Eventually, Eugen presented a "solution". And that was not to render Article-type objects at all anymore. Instead, Mastodon links to them and adds their title above if they have one.
This was only done to shut Mike up so he'd stop complaining about Mastodon defacing Hubzilla posts and breaking the spec by doing so. From Mike's perspective, however, what Eugen did was flip Hubzilla the bird by completely refusing to show actual Hubzilla content and practically lock out a competitor.
Mike's reaction was to break the spec himself and switch Hubzilla from sending Article-type objects to sending Note-type objects, regardless of Mastodon still defacing them.
With the exception of a very short period after the release of Hubzilla 9.0 when Mario Vavti and Harald Eilertsend learned the hard way that Mastodon still links to Article-type objects, Hubzilla has only sent its posts as Note-type objects ever since.
Mike's other creations have different ways of handling object types.
Friendica, by default, sends posts with titles as Article-type objects and posts without titles as well as comments as Note-type objects. This can be deactivated so that Friendica only sends Note-type objects.
CC: @Laurens Hof
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #ArticleType #NoteType #LongFormContent
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objects (@objects@alceawis.com)
A brutally-simple proxy for #ActivityPub that lets you circumvent instance blocks by masquerading as another domain name. All it does is replace all hostnames in the text proxied through, and for signed POST requests, it swaps the public keys and re-signs the requests
#proxy
https://gitea.moe/lamp/activitypub-proxy
Wonder what @Gargron has to say about thi-
Actually I don't.
#repost •acws #acws
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objects (@objects@mitra.social)
Long-form articles
I was reading the Fediverse Report – #128 post by @laurenshof and several sentences caught my attention:
Ghost’s connection to the fediverse currently means that following a Ghost blog from your fediverse account results in seeing a post with the article headline and a URL
That's how Mastodon displays Article objects: only a headline and a URL (see issue #24079). However, Mastodon is the only fediverse platform that removes content from articles. According to funfedi.dev data, others don't remove content:
https://funfedi.dev/support_tables/generated/object_types/
GoToSocial, Hollo, Misskey, Mitra, Pleroma. These platforms either have full support for long form content or use graceful degradation. The dataset doesn't include some other popular platforms like Friendica, but I am sure they also display long form content just fine. So this really has nothing to do with Fediverse or #ActivityPub.
Fediverse platform developers (including Mastodon, Ghost, WordPress, WriteFreely and more) are collaborating on creating a space on the fediverse that suites the need of blogging and articles well
I keep seeing this again and again, it increasingly looks like an attempt to take credit for solving the problem with articles in ActivityPub. But the problem doesn't exist, it is literally a flaw in a single implementation that can be fixed with a single line of code.
There are, of course, real problems with rich content. How to prevent tracking when remote media is embedded in the page? What to do with CSS? What about interactive content? Unfortunately, I haven't seen anyone talking about these problems.
This is a long form article, by the way. You can read it from Mastodon.
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admin (@admin@mastodon.raddemo.host)
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 ...
Continued 👉 https://blog.radwebhosting.com/how-to-host-your-own-mastodon-server-on-a-vps/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon.raddemo.host #activitypub #installguide #selfhosting #rubygems #selfhosted #rubyonrails
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