Activitypub micropayments idea:
what if instead of some digital token like Taler or Monero, I send a digital “cheque” instead, which is a signed payment intent, signed with the other actor’s e.g. Liberapay pubkey.

At the end of the month, the other person can take all these micropayment cheques and prove to liberapay that other people owe you money, and everything is settled in one transaction.

#Activitypub #micropayments #taler #liberapay

@hongminhee @COSCUP
If there's any kind of travel bursary, I'd be delighted to speak.

@hongminhee @COSCUP woooooooooooo! Let me know if @swf can help in any way

@evan@cosocial.ca @swf@socialwebfoundation.org That means a lot, thank you! I’d love to take you up on that—will send you a DM with some specifics shortly.

@julian Ahh, thanks Julian! That makes sense. That’s pretty much the same guidance I got from Claude and ChatGPT too. If I go for Apple at some point, I won’t be able to just wrap the site and call it a day. I’d need to build out more native functionality, and I’m not going to pretend I fully understand that path yet haha.

@julian Also I didn't answer the question fully. I'm doing this in phases. I started with PWA as this is all still very early, and I am trying to prove people want to use the app. I don't have the full plan mapped out but know I would need to make changes for the Apple review if I go that route.

@julian What about automated export and import of the posts? So that they at least exist in the new history, even if other federated servers will still point to the old domains?

@shinmera @julian there's no support for importing toots from other instances. Your export is only an archive.

@julian I know absolutely nothin' about mastodon internals

Week in Fediverse 2026-03-13

Servers

- Sharkey v2025.4.6
- Gush! v0.0.32
- Wafrn v2026.03.01
- PeerTube v8.1.0
- Ktistec v3.3.3
- Stegodon v1.8.2
- Hollo v0.7.6
- ActivityPub for WordPress v8.0.1
- Misskey v2026.3.1
- tootik v0.21.2
- Vernissage Server v1.31.0
- NodeBB v4.9.2
- PieFed v1.6.12
- Trunk & Tidbits, February 2026 (Mastodon)
- Madblog: A Markdown Folder That Federates Everywhere

Clients

- Sengi v1.9.1
- Fedilab v3.37.0
- Aria v1.4.5
- ap, the ActivityPub API command-line client

Tools and Plugins

- slurp v1.1.0
- Owlbot: An Owncast chat bot with a modular event-driven architecture

For developers

- Pubby: A general-purpose Python library to add ActivityPub federation support to your website

Protocol

- FEP-0151: NodeInfo in Fediverse Software (2025 edition) (Finalized)

Articles

- Link Preview Manifest: A Proposal for the Fediverse
- FR#157 – Social Software Distribution

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019cc4d0-1232-6c08-970c-83c7f49e1a73

No, I know nothing about @portafed@mastodon.social. Inkwell is its own fediverse instance. If I had owners, I wouldn’t be solo deving a product with AI.

@julian@activitypub.space > are you involved with @portafed@mastodon.social as well?

This was in the context of suggesting that because Inkwell was developed with what appears to be a centaur(1) approach, and you think the Portafed ReadMe reads a bit like Trained MOLE scat, the two might be linked. This is drawing a rather long bow ; )

I think you may be tilting at windmills about Portafed. The author confirmed, in response to your post, that they used a Trained MOLE to help with some surface documentation. This could also be an example of a centaur approach.

Maybe English is not their first language? Perhaps they have a form of neurodivergence that makes them excellent at writing cryptographic hieroglyphics, but poor at writing natural language to explain their work to other humans? It pays to ask probing questions, for sure, but not to leap to conclusions.

(1) I’m referencing @pluralistic@mamot.fr’s writing, on when automation is used to support a human (centaur), and when a human is reduced to a meat-based support system for the automation (reverse-centaur, or “human in the loop”). IMHO his best piece on this is Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs.

@julian @Edent dansup? No, it is not his site.

@technical-discussion @julian @Edent @silverpill I think it is @melvincarvalho

@django @technical-discussion @julian @Edent @silverpill yes socialdocs is something i help look after. Anything needed?

I’ve seen two or three in !selfhosted@lemmy.world in the last week. Really concerning.

@julian@activitypub.space > This morning I saw another product show up that was my butt generated

When you come across these, please ping me, and I’ll add them to the watchlist for this on the fediverse.party wiki.