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In the @newyorktimes: 
"#ActivityPub has also led to a wave of start-up efforts such as #Mastodon, a microblogging service that now has more than 14 million accounts connected by a network of over 14,000 host computers, as well as start-ups like #Pixelfed and #PeerTube, distributed services that offer features similar to #Instagram and #YouTube."
A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of #SocialMedia
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/mike-mccue-surf-browser-decentralized-internet.html
The New York Times · Facing the Looming Threat of A.I., Publishers Turn to Decentralized Platforms
Week in Fediverse 2025-03-14
Servers
- Mitra v3.19.0
- Mastodon v4.3.6
- GoToSocial v0.18.2
- Pleroma v2.9.1
- tootik v0.15.4
- Misskey v2025.3.1
- Gancio v1.24.4
- NeoDB v0.11.5.1
- kmyblue v17.3
- NodeBB v4.1.1
- Vernissage Server v1.4.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, February 2025 (Mastodon)
- Actually, I take that back (Ghost)
- Gush! - A federated social media platform for sharing the things you love
- Forte: Nomadic fediverse server
- Merp Relay: Lightweight Fediverse message relay
Clients
- SubwayTooter v5.549
- Fedilab v3.30.1
- Mastodon for Android v2.9.5
- Impressia v3.1.0
- Voyager v2.25.0
- Phanpy changelog
Tools and Plugins
- PeerTube livechat plugin v12.0.3
For developers
- ActivityPods v2.1.0
- Granary v8.1
- Roboherd: A framework for building Fediverse bots
Protocol
- Activity Streams/Primer/Tombstone type
Articles
- Why Content Creators should consider the Fediverse
- Mastodon to GoToSocial Migration
- Fediverse Report #107
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01957251-017a-d6e9-a72a-7e34ac1e1a86
Codeberg.orgMitra v3.19.0 - silverpill/mitra### Added
- Added collection support to `import-object` command.
- Added `mark-sensitive` filter action.
- Automatically remove unused tags from database.
- Add OpenGraph metadata to profile pages.
### Changed
- Don't load replies collection when context is requested.
- Refresh cache...
Looking 4 a strange sonic experience? Check out…
RADIO IRRTUM! (on air from Berlin)
↓↓↓ Deutsch Version below unten ↓↓↓
Da next issue of #RadioIrrtum! is approaching: This Saturday, 2025/03/15, 8:00pm UTC+1/Berlin time. At Alex Berlin FM at 91MHz or DAB+ K7D around #Berlin and worldwide at https://www.alex-berlin.de/radio-livestream .
#Radio Irrtum! is a German language #radioShow exploring the sonic vastness of the #underground. Emitted transmissions may raise your attention for new unheard #music all over this planets genre spectrum. Don't worry about the German language aspect - 'cuz it's all about the #music!
This time with focus on sad pop music and strange experimental sonic somethings, specifically:
- #Pop music from war zones
- South American #electroPop
- #SmoothJazz
- Cut-up club-worthy remixes of #remix.es
- Trauma-technological #club punk
- Laibach-style #EBM
- Truly experimental #junkElectronica
- well, #experimentalMusic in general
- #EggPunk for cats
- Heavy #shoegaze
- Spoken word #doomShanties
- Dreamy #EbassRomance
There is #CreativeCommons licensed music, and also I thought of having at least one (amazing!) Fediverse artist in here. But turns out, the London music legend Scanner is no more part of the #Fediverse, as his instance mastodonmusic.social closed down (a reasonable decision by the admin, no hard feelings). But this is something, we, the #FediverseAdmins should keep in mind: People (especially technical non skilled ones) once lost will be disappointed and unmotivated to come back :( . This is something very deep level in #ActivityPub, I am very aware - I hope there is a way to somehow address this in the future. Scanner wrote me, he is on Bluesky now, so with a bridge, you might still be able to follow hin there (look for "robinrimbaud") – and please don't hassle him about it, he has his hands full and SN's aren't his top priority 4 now.
Anyway: If at least a bit interested in kewl new unusual #music, tune in! 
I'll post playlist + manuscript later here (provided I’m home, else it will come up the day after). And if you have questions? I'll gladly answer! Just ask!
CU all on Saturday! :)
↑↑↑ English version above, the Deutsche welche jetzt ↓↓↓
Radio Irrtum! kommt näher → Samstag, 15.03, 20:00 isses soweit auf Alex Berlin (FM 91MHz/DAB+ K.7D / Stream URL oben).
Also die seltsam funke(ln)de Radiosendung, in der planetenumfassende Weiten des musikalischen Untergrunds erforscht werden
Diesmal mit…
- Pop aus Kriegsgebieten
- südamerikanischen Electropop
- smoothy Jazz
- cut up club
- trauma-techno Club Punk
- Laibach-Style EBM
- Junk-Elektronika
- experimentelle Musik
- Eggpunk für Katzen
- Shoegaze
- poetic Doom Shanties
- Ebass-Romantik
Das wird alles GROßARTiG! Details in englisch oben, Playlist + Manuskript nach der Show (spätestens Sonntag) hier drunter. Fragen einfach stellen – ich antworte (spätestens Sonntag)!
Bis zur Sendung… vielleicht? :)
Continued thread
Finally, our team had a wonderful time at #SXSW on Sunday and Monday, where Flipboard and @surf hosted the first #FediverseHouse. Our CEO @mike and the whole team are 100% #TeamFediverse, and were thrilled to meet and talk to so many other open social web advocates. Here’s a feature by @Markoff for @newyorktimes, where Mike, @Gargron and @reckless1280 discuss the rise of decentralized social media, and how it can help publishers and media companies survive and thrive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/mike-mccue-surf-browser-decentralized-internet.html
The New York Times · Facing the Looming Threat of A.I., Publishers Turn to Decentralized Platforms
Continued thread
“The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.” Here’s yet another brilliant feature by @Daojoan. “The fediverse won’t succeed just because it’s better. It will succeed if and only if people choose it. If they reject the idea that being trapped in someone else’s ecosystem is just the cost of existing online. If they stop believing that “free” means surrendering ownership of your own connections, your own history, your own data. If they see that the internet wasn’t built to be a factory for engagement metrics and AI-generated content farms. It was built to connect us, not silo us to pad a wealth-extremist’s bank account,” she writes.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied
westenberg. · The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few massive corporations. Every post, every “friend,” every creative work—
ActivityPub Badges, a minimalistic implementation of a badge system similar to Credly, but leveraging the ActivityPub protocol.
Name for a domain?
The upcoming possibility of browsing to remote federated categories/communities has me thinking about interesting use cases for it.
Note that Lemmy, PieFed, mBin, and other "community-centric" software already do support this, so it's nothing new, I'm actually playing catch-up.
One interesting use case centers around NodeBB's /unread route, which tracks new topics since your last visit. Since ever, and even now in v4, this is only for local categories, but if you're able to "subscribe" to a remote category, then we could enable use of this page for that content too.
Think about waking up and seeing a self-curated feed of new content from your subscribed communities! There are some interesting parallels to RSS here, too.
What other forum-centric use cases do you think would be enhanced by the ability to browse remote categories?
So many people in Denmark now talk about building a Danish/European social media platform (I proposed it 12 years ago and was laughed at) They want to start from scratch, but I keep saying we can build it on the ActivityPub protocol (alternatively Bueskys but I don't trust that in the long run). Anybody here who has experience with that? And know of other countries having done that? Contacts to people who could help build it? #activitypub #socialmedia @mastodon
Well, this is very exciting... a Manyfold 3d viewer right in your timeline!
GIF
#Smithereen now allows you to transfer your followers between servers.
Shoutout to #FediMeteo @admin and @stefano for the #RSS and #ActivityPub #federated #weather service. Finally, a reliable weather tool across platforms.
A week or so ago I reached out and they added my community. Every time the new weather report post or RSS feed comes through, I appreciate it so much.
Thanks again! #WX #Fediverse
Important! ActivityPub…
Important message! Message important
FR : Retrait d'ActivityPub de mon blog principal
EN: Removal of ActivityPub from my main blog
I love this, it is my first test, but what a nice thing to read the post directly in #mastodon or whatever client you are using
hachyderm.ioHachyderm.io
Hi @andrew_s@piefed.social/@freamon and @nutomic@lemmy.ml —I'm working (not-so-secretly) on refactoring NodeBB so that it is able to "browse" remote audiences/group actors, and that would include things like PieFed and Lemmy communities.
N.B. Given varied nomenclature (group/category/community/subforum), the ForumWG calls this structure an "audience".
Where I am at now is working through the logic for slotting an object into a category.
The most obvious choice here would be to look at as:audience. It's even specified in 1b12, and the majority of threaded implementations follow 1b12.
I am making this post because nutomic explicitly removed the audience from being served in Lemmy (as of January this year), so I don't think relying on that property would be wise.
I asked in that issue whether Lemmy finds community via to/cc (it does). Does PieFed do the same?
Would this also open up the possibility of a topic/context being part of multiple audiences/communities? Interesting...
NodeBB Communityfreamon
Replied in thread
https://fedihost.co #Mastodon instances have been updated to v4.3.6
This release updates some dependencies for security.
Learn more about this release here:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.6
Fedihost.coFedihost - Managed Fediverse HostingFedihost is a managed fediverse hosting service. With a couple of clicks you can be up and running with your own Mastodon or Peertube instance.
Continued thread
anndddd ran into the issue where #Mastodon doesn't pull in older posts. explanations make sense, but why #ActivityPub outbox then? does any platform use it?
Destroying Autocracy – 13 March 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.
Featured Item
Tech Policy reports:
Describing the technologies that make all of this possible as “AI” masks what they really are: government surveillance targeting free speech. Today, the government’s use of (Big Tech) data threatens to deny rights while slashing government services, and the risk of being singled out hovers over anyone who disagrees with the administration.
A system linking the views expressed on an individual’s social media accounts to the platforms gathering government data is an immediate threat to the freedom to express ourselves and live without fear of government interference in that expression.
Through fear of service denials, investigations, targeted audits, and other potential abuses, the existence of this apparatus leads citizens to curtail Constitutionally protected speech acts. Creating a situation where citizens reasonably fear that their speech will lead to a suspension of rights, denial of services, or taking on other risks that threaten democratic participation and debate.
What is clear, however, is that the moment such an incursion into rights can be articulated, there is a vast legal precedent under the Privacy Act that can be brought forward in response. For that reason, Americans need more, not less, public expression of diverse ideas and robust rebuttals to the intrusion of this public-private partnership into our civic life.
The AI State is a Surveillance State
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
The Next Web reports:
4 European satellite firms are vying to replace Starlink in Ukraine
Politico reports:
EU-US rift triggers call for made-in-Europe tech
The Next Web reports:
European cloud hosts are offering an escape from AWS, Azure, and GCP
Clayton Computer reports on:
Community Tech: Moving Beyond Free and Open Source Software
The Verge reports:
‘Careless People’ publisher won’t pull the book Meta is trying to stop
Media Matters sues X to stop lawsuits outside of the US
Krebs on Security reports:
Alleged Co-Founder of Garantex Arrested in India
404 Media reports:
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider ‘Scientific Exile,’ French University Says
TechPolicy reports:
DOJ Sets Record Straight of What’s Needed to Dismantle Google’s Search Monopoly
TechCrunch reports:
UK competition probe of mobile browsers finds Apple-Google duopoly is ‘anti-innovation’
Could deeptech serve as Europe’s path to autonomy from the US?
Open web initiatives Project Liberty and Solid could be teaming up
Meta faces publisher copyright AI lawsuit in France
Judge allows authors’ AI copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward
ArsTechnica has more:
Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight
The United Nations announce:
The OSI First to Endorse United Nations Open Source Principles
Neutral
Tech Policy reports:
Out of Balance: What the EU’s Strategy Shift Means for the AI Ecosystem
BleepingComputer reports:
X hit by ‘massive cyberattack’ amid Dark Storm’s DDoS claims
Usually this would be in the cybersecurity section. But, since it was against the box of c^nts known as Shitter the story gets moved here.
OpenSource reports on:
Overcoming barriers to Open Source procurement in the European Union
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
Tech Policy reports:
How Disinformation Is Undermining Trust In Brazil’s Most Used Digital Public Infrastructure
The Guardian reports:
ICE accessed car trackers in sanctuary cities that could help in raids, files show
404 Media reports:
Here is NASA’s Contract with Clearview AI
The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
Corporate Europe Observatory reports:
Huawei corruption scandal shows EU has learned no lessons on ethics rules
TechDirt reports:
Trump’s Latest Weapon Against Critics: Destroying Their Lawyers
Pariah States
The Register reports:
Expired Juniper routers find new life – as Chinese spy hubs
BleepingComputer reports:
Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices
North Korean Lazarus hackers infect hundreds via npm packages
TechCrunch reports:
North Korean government hackers snuck spyware on Android app store
Big Media
The Associated Press reports:
Washington Post columnist quits after her opinion piece criticizing owner Jeff Bezos is rejected
The Bulwark reports:
‘State Propaganda’: Anger Erupts Inside Univision Over Airing of Trump Ad
Ethan Zuckerman reports:
Jay Rosen and Taylor Owen: Can journalism survive Trump? Can democracy?
Big Tech
Not a Tech Bro says:
The government is not our business
The Index reports:
The Fascist Tech Bro Takeover Is Here
Unfortunately, it’s true.
The BBC reports:
Facebook was ‘hand in glove’ with China, BBC told
Radio Free Asia reports:
Hong Kong media urged to back up Facebook protest videos
MalwareBytes Labs reports:
Android devices track you before you even sign in
One of the many reasons I have a Fairphone with the e/OS operating system.
The Guardian reviews:
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams review – Zuckerberg and me
Terror
Michah Flee shares a:
Step-by-step guide to reading the leaked militia chats yourself
Very cool.
Cybersecurity/Privacy
DarkReading reports:
Democratizing Security to Improve Security Posture
OpenAI Operator Agent Used in Proof-of-Concept Phishing Attack
Binance Spoofers Compromise PCs in ‘TRUMP’ Crypto Scam
He, he.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation shares:
Choosing the VPN That’s Right for You
BleepingComputer reports:
Critical PHP RCE vulnerability mass exploited in new attacks
CISA: Medusa ransomware hit over 300 critical infrastructure orgs
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Hamish Campbell explains:
Why the Fediverse Needs a Connection Between Mainstreaming and Grassroots
The Nexus of Privacy shares:
Notes (and thoughts) on organizing in the Fediverse and the ATmosphere
Ghost has an update:
Mastodon has:
Trunk & Tidbits, February 2025
SplitBrain details:
Mastodon to GoToSocial Migration
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
TechCrunch reports:
Open social web browser Surf integrates with Bluesky in latest beta
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
- That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.
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Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
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#^Forte - eine "starke" Fediverse-Plattform ist im Kommen
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#fediverse #forte #activitypub
Vor über einem Jahr, im Januar 2024 wurde ein Artikel von mir auf der Webseite GNU/Linux.ch in der "Fediverse-Serie" zum Fediverse-Dienst (streams) veröffentlicht...
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