Hey all, feel free to delete if sharing YT videos isn’t permitted, but I made a video on the Fediverse last week and specifically talking about Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and Peertube.
Just thought I’d share in case anyone wanders by and wants an overview.
politically intense
PieFed is good about being able to easily filter that stuff out, it’s better than Lemmy, it even asks if you want that when you signup
PeerTube is pretty underwhelming for now…but since you already have the content, it’d be easy for you to start posting there. The more people who post, the less underwhelming it will be.
Servers
- Vernissage Server v1.32.0
- snac v2.91
- Lemmy v0.19.17
- Mitra v5.0.0
- Gush! v0.0.33
- Mastodon v4.5.8
- Hubzilla v11.2.0
- Mobilizon v5.2.3
- NodeBB v4.10.1
- appy v0.5.0
- Madblog v1.3.0
- A Redesign for Profiles (Mastodon)
- TinyAP: Tiny ActivityPub Micro-blogging
- oeee-cafe: The federated and networked oekaki board
- ActivityPub bots: ActivityPub / Mastodon compatible instance to quickly create and deploy multiple bots
- ProFed: Federated professional network
Clients
- Holos v1.1.0
- Fedilab v3.37.2
- Pachli v3.5.0
- Mastodon for iOS v2026.02
- Summit v1.80.0
- Blorp v1.11.0
- Aria v1.4.8
- Announcing Nicolium v0.1.0
- Hackers' Pub Android
Tools and Plugins
- Poduptime v6.3.1
- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.5.0 (WordPress plugin)
For developers
- Fedify v2.1.0
- APx v0.22.0
- Federails v0.8.0
Articles
- Dipping a Toe into the Fediverse (Again)
- Can we have a more “social” media?
- Mastodon (Bluesky/X/Instagram) is not the right platform for posting long-form content (a blog is)
- FediMod FIRES on building better and decentralised social media applications
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019d0d0a-2958-a430-8db0-95350f8495e5
Profiles are the primary way for people using Mastodon to ‘meet’ one another on a deeper level – beyond a threaded conversation or search results. You might have noticed that the overall design of Profiles hasn’t been explored in a while, and in the meantime, we’ve heard requests and challenges from people who use Mastodon every day.
The profile redesign supports some of our current priorities:
Make the Fediverse Intuitive. We want people who are new to Mastodon and the Fediverse to be able to discover and connect with interesting accounts, without having to understand the details of decentralisation. The new Profiles view includes an updated handle explainer, and a new editing experience delivers a more consistent, unified experience across web and native mobile apps.
A Home for Everyone. As well as individuals, Mastodon is also home to organisations (NGOs, local governments, software projects, etc) that want to share news and interact with their communities. The layout changes offer us a solid starting point from which to explore features that will help these “institutional users” to make their most out of their presence in the Fediverse.
ooh facebooky
Oh. So does an mbin client have SMS too?
What is an aggregator?
@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com It doesn’t. It was just a comparison.
And aggregator is something or someone that aggregates, that brings things together. The fediverse network is one, for example, as it brings together the several sites you see in users’ IDs, such as Divisions by Zero, The/Brain/Bin, Blåhaj Zone, Mastodon Social, etc.
A very jovial greeting to all,
About 20 minutes ago, I started the build for Hubzilla 11.2; as usual, it will be available for all to enjoy, and update their own instances after about an hour or so, so please don’t update until then.
If you’re curious about the code, you are most welcome to check out the Hubzilla code at: https://framagit.org/hubzilla/core/-/releases
and, of course, the docker image code at: https://github.com/dhitchenor/hubzilla
Questions, issues and PRs are all welcome; I’m looking forward to speaking with you.
@COSCUP@floss.social 2026（台北、8月8–9日）にて、Fediverse & Social Webトラックが採択されました！#フェディバース、#ActivityPub、オープンなソーシャルウェブをテーマに、丸一日・計6時間のトラックを予定しています。
発表者向けのCFPはまだ始まっていませんが、公開され次第お知らせします。お楽しみに！
#Fediverse #SocialWeb #COSCUP #ActivityPub #fedidev
Our Fediverse & Social Web track has been accepted for @COSCUP@floss.social 2026 (Taipei, Aug 8–9)! We’ll have a full day—six hours—to fill with talks on the #fediverse, #ActivityPub, and the open social web.
The CFP for speakers isn’t open yet, but we’ll announce it here when it is. Stay tuned!
#SocialWeb #COSCUP #fedidev
@hongminhee @COSCUP STAYING ABSOLUTELY TUNED
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca • !newcommunities@lemmy.world • !fedigrow@lemmy.zip • !newcomers@piefed.zip
Hi ! I hope you are well ! Here is our weekly thread 😎
The fediverse is big ! Let’s share our small gold nugget found in the fediverse. :)
It could be :
- A new peertube channel
- An interesting mastodon account to follow
- Your new community ! Yes ! Why not ?
- An cool gallery of picture from pixelfed
- A playlist from funkwhale
- A text that moved you
Let’s dig together ! 😁
!iran@piefed.social
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44736295
A consortium consisting of multiple interested parties including Murena, i.e. /e/ OS, iodéOS, and Volla, is working on an open source alternative to the Google Play Integrity API, which is to be offered on smartphones that are not running a Google-certified Stock ROM.
For those who do not know, the Google Play Integrity API is Google’s official security and anti-abuse framework that lets Android apps verify that they are running on a genuine, i.e. unmodified device, installed from Google Play, and not being tampered with.
Sadly, this framework tends to discriminate against Custom ROMs, i.e. operating systems that are not running Google’s apps and services, no matter their actual device security state.
Full Google Play Integrity is tied to the ROM being certified by Google, and running Google apps and services - many banking and government apps make use of it right now.
The consortium around UnifedAttestation wants the new framework to rest on three foundations:
it will be part of the operating system, apps can add support for it with a few lines of code
operation of the validation service will be decentral
an open test suite for checking and certifying operating systems on specific devices
The whole thing will be open source, developed under the Apache 2.0 license.
Developers of Scandinavian government apps have already indicated interest, considering the project a first mover for Europe.
Personal comment: I think it’s good that there is now validation service for government & banking apps that is not tied to Google’s infrastructure, and more crucially does not require Google’s apps and the Play Services to be installed.
Isn’t checking the bootloader enough?
Not really. If I’m running as root or with a custom firmware, I can easily fake that my phones bootloader is locked, when in fact it isn’t.
Attestation creates a “chain of trust”, starting at the hardware level. So, an external website can verify that the hardware -> operating system -> application software are all “intact”.
“intact” is a very subjective term (which is why many technical people are against it), but that definition of “intact” will be defined by Google, Apple, Microsoft, or (possibly) whatever this EU Governing Body is.
However, it will not be defined by you the device owner.
Basically a rewrite, could be interesting.
Open source projects almost never have screenshots what’s up with that
The artist donation model is the real innovation here. Most music streaming sucks because the economics are backwards. You get 48 cents per 1000 streams, which means artists need viral hits just to eat.
Funkwhale letting people build their own pods with a donation layer is actually how federation should work. Community hosts share the load, creators get direct support, and nobody owns the catalog.
Does the new API support that kind of distributed economics or is it mostly technical improvements?