Fascinating idea! And stuff like this is going to spark many more..
Would you Follow the book in order to see when it’s back on the shelf?
@benpate @julian@activitypub.space @smallcircles In case you haven't come across it yet, https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2024/03/12/activitypub/ will be a fun read!
> who says fediverse accounts need to be people?
Certainly not me. I'm thinking on an actor-based service-oriented fedi, which more closely represents actor model. Where the social network is a pure social graph of addressible actors, that can be introspected for the services they provide.
Yes, a book might be an actor, as well as the shelf :)
GNU MediaGoblin was founded by @cwebber. Inspired by GNU social reviving development of the StatusNet project abandoned by Identi.ca, they developed a vision of enabling federation features between MediaGoblin services, and between those and services running GNU social, GNU FM, etc. To this end, along with Jessica Tallon (@tsyesika), they got involved with the AP standardisation process, which consumed a lot of their time and organising energy.
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Response to MediaGoblin AP issue part 1;
> That's the clarity I was looking for, thanks. I've seen cases where conflict-avoidant maintainers say 'submit a patch' when what they mean is; 'this is an anti-goal but I don't want you to try to convince me otherwise, so I'll pretend to be open to a patch'. Clearly this is not you, which is a very good thing : )
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Response to MediaGoblin AP issue part 2;
~sturm
> If you yourself are interested in implementing these features, I'd be glad to discuss in detail
Sadly I have neither the time or the skills. But if I hear from a dev wanting to gain experience with AP, and keen to brush up their Python, I will suggest adapting SH's federation library to work with MG as a project.
Thanks for the frank exchange, and keep up the good work.
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So, an interesting issue came up in the #Fedify repo that I’ve been thinking about: #629.
You know how every #fediverse server uses schema:PropertyValue in actor attachment for profile metadata fields (like “Website”, “GitHub”, etc.)? Turns out, strict #AS2 validators like browser.pub reject it, because the AS2 spec says attachment should only contain Object or Link—and PropertyValue is a schema.org type, not an Activity Streams 2.0 type.
The thing is, we can’t just drop the type like we did with Endpoints (#576), because Mastodon and others rely on seeing "type": "PropertyValue" to render profile fields. But at the same time, it’s technically not spec-compliant.
I’m leaning towards writing a #FEP to formalize this existing practice rather than trying to invent a new type (like toot:PropertyValue extending Object), which would be a nightmare to migrate across the whole fediverse.
What do you all think? Has anyone else run into this? Would love to hear thoughts from implementers and spec folks.
#fedidev #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #ActivityStreams2 #AS2 #PropertyValue
@hongminhee +1 for formalizing the existing practice in a FEP.
PropertyValue is covered in FEP-fb2a, but it proposes an alternative representation which implementers must support:
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/fb2a/fep-fb2a.md
The source code of #PawFed is now available on #Codeberg. PawFed is a federated map for animal welfare: reports come from the #Fediverse via #ActivityPub mentions, and permanent places like shelters and vets are pulled from OpenStreetMap.
A location is not always required: if you have supplies or food to give away and can ship, just say so.
Found an abandoned animal? Just report it.
How to build a message: https://pawfed.org/tags
Source code: https://codeberg.org/tom79/PawFed
Servers
- Akkoma v2026.03
- Bonfire v1.0.2
- PeerTube v8.1.3
- Mitra v4.20.0
- NodeBB v4.10.0
- GoToSocial v0.21.2
- Funkwhale v2.0.0
- Ktistec v3.3.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v8.0.2
- PeerTube v8.1.3
- ties v0.2.0
- Wafrn v2026.03.02
- PieFed v1.6.13
- Some updates to ActivityBot
- tags.pub: Global hashtag server
Clients
- Fedilab v3.37.1
- tinmop v0.9.9.141421356237309504
- tooi v0.23.0
- Holos v1.0.0
- Voyager v2.44.0
- Aria v1.4.6
Tools and Plugins
- mastodon-bookmark-rss: A small app to let you connect your mastodon bookmarks to your RSS reader
- smol overlays: Chat overlay and emoji wall for Owncast streamers
For developers
- activitypub-federation-rust v0.5.11
Protocol
- FEP-3ab2: ActivityPub Event Streaming API
- FEP-34ec: Notification Collection Endpoint
- FEP-db70: RemoveAll Collection Activity
- FEP-c07e: add product type to object
- FEP-c195: JSONPath Filtering for ActivityPub Collection Retrieval
- FEP-f011: Full-Text Search Query Syntax for ActivityPub
- FEP-a1d1: ActivityPub Patch
- FEP-c81b: Agent Social Attribution for ActivityPub
Articles
- Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse
- The Purpose of Protocols
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019ce933-238d-11fb-304d-c3557c940c30
@weekinfediverse there have been a bunch of updates to @fabio's #MadBlog this week too
#HolosDiscover just hit 3 million indexed posts.
What matters more than the number: 145k deletions processed, 83k edits tracked, and over 1k opt-outs respected, all in real time.
Respecting people is the priority and the only way to do it right is to be a full #ActivityPub participant, receiving deletions, edits, and opt-outs as they happen. Before indexing anyone, Holos Discover follows their account, so they know they are being indexed and can opt out.
@apps #Holos is so promising, and #holosdiscover as well - I'd hope other web and mobile apps adopt it... and so glad it is here and live still.
@apps purely an FYI, not a call for any action but in case you're interested - a number of your top ten content sources are known spam services, more info here: https://about.iftas.org/library/known-spam-fediverse-services/
That would work!