The FEP-8a8e (Fediverse Enhancement Proposal) had at lot of progress in the last months. In the meantime, the document has become somewhat more extensive than originally planned, but contains not only instructions for new features that have to be tediously implemented, but also a lot of advice and points that should provide orientation for developers of Fediverse applications that support events.
It now covers:
Required attributes
Events with Open End
Timezone
Physical and Virtual Locations
Event status
RSVP (Attendee Management)
Event Banner and Poster Images
Event Categories
Discoverability
Event Organizers
Upcoming Events Collection for ActivityPub actors
Term Definitions
Many thanks again to all reviewers and co-editors:
We warmly welcome further feedback from the communities of #Friendica, #Mobilizon, #Hubzilla, and other Fediverse platforms supporting events. If you’re working on such an application or are part of these communities, your insights would be very valuable! @developers@mobilizon
:fediverse: Fediverse Sprechstunde! 🗓️ am Donnerstag 24.04.2025, 19:30 Uhr! ONLINE!
Bist du #neu oder #neuhier in der Welt des Fediverse? Kein Problem! Wir helfen dir bei den ersten Schritten: Profil einrichten, Sicherheitstipps, Posten und Vernetzung. Sei dabei!
Hauptthema: #Lemmy mit @Ranslite . Ich freue mich darauf und hoffe es werden weitere Nutzer von Lemmy dabei sein. Lemmy ist wie ein föderiertes Reddit aufgebaut: Der Fokus liegt auf Themen-Communities, in denen Beiträge (z. B. Links, Texte, Bilder) gepostet und kommentiert werden. Die Diskussionen sind eher threadbasiert und themenzentriert.
Eingeladen sind ebenso alle, die bereits Erfahrungen mit Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed, Misskey, Hubzilla oder anderen Anwendungen haben und ihr Wissen gerne weitergeben möchten.
:fediverse: Wissensaustausch: Deine Kenntnisse im Fediverse könnten anderen Teilnehmern sehr nützlich sein, besonders denjenigen, die noch neu in der Community sind. :fediverse: Networking: Dies ist eine hervorragende Gelegenheit, sich mit anderen engagierten Mitgliedern der Gemeinschaft zu vernetzen und neue Kontakte zu knüpfen. :fediverse: Ideen und Inspiration: Deine Perspektive als erfahrener Benutzer oder Betreiber einer Instanz kann dazu beitragen, innovative Ideen zu fördern und die Zukunft des Fediverse mitzugestalten.
Der Raum wird 10 Minuten vor Beginn geöffnet. Der Link: wird hier 1 Tag davor gepostet
Das Online-Treffen findet auf unserem BigBlueButton-Server statt. Du benötigst keine zusätzliche Software, sondern nur einen Browser – vorzugsweise Firefox oder Chrome – ein Mikrofon (es handelt sich schließlich um eine Sprechstunde) und, wenn du möchtest, eine Webcam. Wir freuen uns auf einen lebhaften Austausch! 🎙️ 🙋♀️
Der Ablauf der Sprechstunde sieht folgendermaßen aus: Zu Beginn geben wir Tipps und Hinweise für Anfänger und Einsteiger. Anschließend geht es um Ratschläge für Instanzbetreiber und Moderatoren. Ein solcher Austausch ist wichtig und notwendig für eine gute Vernetzung untereinander. Die Welt des Fediverse ist Größer und vielfältiger. Mehr Miteinander statt Gegeneinander.
@Joaquim Homrighausen @Kevin Beaumont To be fair, full data portability via ActivityPub has only been available in a stable release of anything for two weeks.
That was when @Mike Macgirvin 🖥️'s Forte, created in mid-August of 2024 as a fork of his own streams repository and the latest member of a family of software that started in 2010 with Friendica, had its very first official stable release.
And, in fact, Forte just uses ActivityPub to do something that (streams) and its predecessors all the way to the Red Matrix from 2012 (known as Hubzilla since 2015) have been doing using the Nomad protocol (formerly known as Zot). It's called nomadic identity. This is technology that's over a dozen years old on software that was built around this technology from the get-go, only that it was recently ported to ActivityPub.
Now, nomadic identity via ActivityPub was @silverpill's idea. He wanted to make his Mitra nomadic. He started working in 2023. The first conversion of existing non-nomadic server software to nomadic still isn't fully done, much less officially rolled out as a stable release.
If Mastodon actually wanted to implement nomadic identity, they would first have to wait until Mitra has a first stable nomadic release. Then they would have to wait until nomadic identity on Mitra (and between Mitra and Forte) has become stable and reliable under daily non-lab conditions. (Support for nomadic identity via ActivityPub on (streams) worked nicely under lab conditions. When it was rolled out to the release branch, and existing instances upgraded to it, it blew up in everyone's faces, and it took months for things to stabilise again.)
Then they would have to look at how silverpill has done it and how Mike has done it. Then they would have to swallow their pride and decide to adopt technology that they can't present as their own original invention because it clearly isn't. And they would have to swallow their pride again and decide against making it incompatible with Mitra, Forte and (streams) just to make these three look broken and inferior to Mastodon.
And only then they could actually start coding.
Now look at how long silverpill has been working on rebuilding Mitra into something nomadic. This takes a whole lot of modifications because the concept of identity itself has to be thrown overboard and redefined because your account will no longer be your identity and vice versa. Don't expect them to be done in a few months.
Testei aqui agora, e amei o #Raccoon, @notizie ! Peguei a versão do F-Droid e está funcionando lindamente! Adorei os recursos específicos para a #friendica . Até o calendário eu consigo acessar agora. 😃
E já comecei a fazer a tradução para português do Brasil lá, dando minha contribuição pra esse projeto tão bacana.
No quiero exagerar, pero creo ser de los primeros colonos de estas tierras llamadas #Fediverso, cuando uno de los primeros servidores, llamado Laconica aparecía... a finales de la primera década de este siglo...
Desde entonces he habitado al menos media centena de instancias de diferentes protocolos y estilos, pasando por diaspora, gnusocial, peertube, xmpp, matrix, plume, lemmy, y muchos otros (algunos ya se me han olvidado)
De todas, #Friendica es la que me ha gustado mas, no por su estilo sobrio y en exceso sencillo, sino por la increíble cantidad de funciones -que una vez descubres y entiendes para que y como funcionan- me encantan
Me gusta #Linux, pero no soy fanático de su aspecto técnico, sino mas bien de la filosofía que lo rodea, que básicamente caben 100% con mis valores. La mayor de las veces, sus complicados entuertos técnicos me ponen de los nervios
I used to post constantly to that #Friendica group. However, I am incredibly pleased with the moderation toolkit of #Piefed, so it only makes sense to use that software instead.
For those who don’t know, Piefed is a #Reddit-like platform – similar to #Lemmy and #Mbin – but I feel it has amongst the best community management tools of the federated Reddit-like platforms. So I am thrilled to be migrating an old community over to Piefed.
Oh yeah, and I’m looking for moderators. So if this interests you, let me know.
Embed this noticeGeorgiana Brummell (dandylover1@blob.cat)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 16:43:32 JST
Georgiana BrummellI'm trying to figure things out and also see how I can search for and follow people and tags, since I can't do it from the main blob.cat site. That said, there does appear to be two different interfaces! One is blob.fe and the other is blab.fe. I don't really understand this yet, but I'm sure I will in time. Perhaps, one is the main Akkoma setting. That said, while TweeseCake is fully functional, Enafore, Semaphore, and Elk.zone all seem to be down. They all send the request to blob.cat, and I am able to authorise it, but I can't post anything or see anything related to Notifications, my profile, etc. I would expect this from Semaphore, as it's older, but Enafore is its direct replacement, so I'm not sure why it doesn't work. Elk.zone says right on the page that it's experimental, so again, I am not surprised there.