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i am so attending FOSDEM 2026

Fellow fedi developers:

I challenge you to a karaoke competition, and the fediverse will vote on the winner, sponsored by https://loops.video and #ActivityPub

#FediDevVoice #FOSDEM2026

I've seen multiple call outs from our fediverse leadership for monetary contributions. If there ever was a time, it is NOW to show your support at all levels.

Your local instance administrators need money to keep it running.
Your favorite app developers need money to fund their work.
Platforms themselves need funding.

And, reach out to the people that keep your feeds running and say thank you.

They need to hear it. #FediThankYou

#FediDevs #FediFunding #Fediverse #ActivityPub

this was such an awesome event!!! it was such a pleasure to meet you all!!!

(way too much people to @-reply everyone, but I hope you all feel addressed)

🫶

#fosdem #fediverse #socialweb #socialwebfoundation #activitypub

Dear Fediverse Administrators,

Please consider relocating your website to a web hosting provider based out of the United States of America.

Historically, fascist governments do not ignore the little guy -- That's you, and your users.

#Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #CherryPick #IceShrimp #Sharkey #WebHosting #Cdn #Dns #WebHost #Hosting #Vpn

And it’s a wrap for my first (EPIC) day at #FOSDEM.

It’s hard to put into words how incredible - and energizing - it feels to be around the creators of the #ActivityPub protocol, founders of #Fediverse software, admins of popular instances and developers of tools I use every day.

I took the opportunity to thank them in person for their incredible work 😊

It’s also been amazing to finally meet IRL lots of cool people I had been corresponding with for months on the Fediverse.

The best day 💛

This is probably a dumb question but is it possible/advisable for more people to host their own content? Seems like instead of having giant servers where everyone’s stuff is stored we could all just host our own files and people connect to them? Grateful for any insight into the downsides of doing something like that (aside from having to learn how to run a server) #fediverse nub here #activitypub #pixelfed #loops #mastodon

✨ EPIC selfies from #FOSDEM part 2 ✨

with two legends: @johnonolan (founder of Ghost) and @pfefferle (creator of the Wordpress #ActivityPub plugin)

I'm off to #FOSDEM2025 at the end of this week to join the #SocialWeb devroom, and talk about @manyfold on Saturday afternoon!

Looking forward to talking to folks about #ActivityPub federation, #3dPrinting, #WebGL... pretty much anything TBH! And looking forward to a trip on the Eurostar, too 🚅

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4181-manyfold-federating-3d-models/

Loops mobile app source code:

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-app

The rest will be pushed shortly, just preparing a new TestFlight build ✨

#loops #activitypub

We have had 2 speakers hoping for Mastodon to add (ActivityPub) "Article" support.

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025 #SocialWebFOSDEM #ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #Fediverse #WriteFreely #Friendica

At #fosdem John O’Nolan, CEO of @index announced the public beta of Ghost 6.0 to be launched in march 2025, to add #activitypub federation features to the successful Ghost software, released with MIT license and already adopted successfully by several news organisations. With federation enabled, Ghost will allow the creation of content curation platforms and federated independent news sources aggregating content from the #fediverse,

A few facts and thoughts about #BlueSky being decentralized or not:

1. #ATProto (the protocol behind bluesky) is decentralized and open-source, but is controlled by a for-profit (albeit fiscally a public benefit) organization, "Bluesky Social PBC".

2. "Bluesky" refers to a sum of ATProto concepts, notably the AppView (bsky.app), the main Personal Data Servers (PDS, bsky.social), and the Relays (or firehose, bsky.network). There are others, but they're the 3 important ones.

3. Anyone can run their own AppView, PDS or Relay AND consume the content from/get their content consumed by the Bluesky infrastructure. HOWEVER, not everything is trivial or cheap to run.

3.1 A PDS, which contains your data (account details but also posts, likes, follows, etc), is trivial and cheap to self-host. Cheaper than hosting a mastodon instance, even, because it does way less stuff and receives way less requests. See https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

3.1 An AppView (the presentation layer, where users interact with ATProto content) can be created by anyone, but the bsky.app backend is NOT open-source, so there are not a ton of options right now.

3.2 Running a relay is trivial but expensive to self-host. This is because its purpose is to act as an aggregator for all the PDS so that AppViews can consume the data in a way that scales better. The Bluesky relay implementation (bigsky) is open-source: https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo/blob/main/cmd/bigsky/README.md
About 2.5 months ago, 4.5TB of storage was needed and an OVH server costing 150$/month worked to host a full-atmosphere relay (more on that later).

1. To make a comparison with #ActivityPub (the protocol behind #mastodon ), the AppView and PDS is the same thing in ActivityPub, and the concept of relay doesn't exist. There are advantages and drawbacks to both architectures, I might do a future post highlighting those.

2. With those definitions out of the way, some observations:

5.1 A lot of users self-host their PDS, but the vast majority of users chose the simpler option.

5.2 There are some alternative AppViews built on ATProto, but the vast majority of users visit bsky.app.

5.3 There are very little non-bluesky self-hosting of relays, mostly because of their prohibitive cost. Running the bigsky relay is expensive partly because of design decisions for ATProto and partly because it takes ALL content from ALL accounts for ALL the network on the atmosphere (in this case atmosphere == fediverse but for ATProto). This is like if your Mastodon instance queried ALL servers for ALL accounts querying ALL posts. In the future, there might exist relays that don't scrape ALL data but only a subset of it, which would bring down costs, but it's not yet the case.

1. So "is Bluesky decentralized?"

6.1 In theory, yes, everything that bluesky does on ATProto can be.

6.2 In practice, however, the most decentralized part of Bluesky is the PDS, where the user data is stored, and even that is not that decentralized.

6.3 Will it stay this way? I'm hopeful it won't, but I don't know. ATProto is fairly new compared to ActivityPub, and the ecosystem around it was mostly built by the BlueSky company, but I expect this to change in the future. However, the cost of entry for things built on ATProto will always be more than the cost of entry for things built on ActivityPub.

6.4 Things built on ActivityPub will always be more decentralized than things built on ATProto, because of design decisions from both of these protocols.

The Ghost approach to #ActivityPub looks great. They get it. Real engagement and ongoing conversations not just broadcasting. I had a similar experience when Mastodon replies started showing up as comments in WordPress, but Ghost is really building this into the core with the reader view as well. “You can’t be on the social web without being social.” #FOSDEM #SocialWebFOSDEM

I know #activitypub is very powerful and most servers only "use" a subset of its features. I'm wondering, is there a #fediverse activitypub server software that tries to use _every_ feature? It doesn't have to look great and deliver a good experience, I'm just curious.

To be more precise, I'm not asking for a library or framework, but a full running server that you can install.

@frankstrater @dansup @peertube

Other than that.. I started calling current AS/AP fedi the "as soon as possible" fediverse, where necessarily early app implementations served as the de-facto reference implementations for the #W3C #ActivityStreams and #ActivityPub open standards.

At serious cost: Ever increasing #ProtocolDecay and subsequent #WhackaMoleAdoption i.e. retaining app-by-app interop pipes against moving release targets.

When is Video domain getting standardized? That's my question.

Over 600 people have applied to my call for dreamers and builders to join our team at Pixelfed!

I was not expecting this level of interest, and it will take me a few more weeks to go through them all.

Y'all going to make me cry, I can't believe the outpouring of support we are getting!

We can build better, together. And we will. ❤️

#pixelfed #dreamers #activitypub

I wish news organizations on Fedi would integrate ActivityPub directly into their websites so I can comment on articles from my Fedi account.

That would be REAL nice.

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Brazilian #Museums Rock the #Fediverse: by stitching two #WordPressPlugins, #Tainacan & #ActivityPub, #Brasiliana has managed to provide a framework for "digitally sharing #museum cultural heritage collections with indigenous communities."
“In its new role as a facilitator of dialogue on memory, heritage, and collections, the #museum creates a conducive environment for open, transparent, and well-documented discussions.”
@daltonmartins
https://brasiliana.museus.gov.br/digital-decolonization-of-collections-innovation-broadens-the-scope-of-museums/

I need a Fediverse explanation that’s so simple anyone can relate to what I’m talking about.
Can someone give me an analogy that’s relatable? I’ve tried everything
#Fediverse #activitypub #discussion