Notices by Jeff Sikes (box464@mastodon.social)

Sand sculpture in progress! Yesterday they were using VR headsets to etch the logo into the sand.

@tchambers I see quite a few creators using @cottonbureau on-demand plans for their merch but I’d hate to steer you wrong on pricing. It appears to me there’s no upfront cost, but the cost of each item is higher than a preordered stock run.

With just 32 hours left to go...I can't believe it...they are less than $500 away from meeting the $55k goal, which will add in-app live streaming capabilities.

Let's make this happen. 💪🏼

https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

#PeerTube #Fediverse #ActivityPub

I’ve enjoyed going through all the protest signs this evening. The one I saw in San Diego today that keeps coming back to mind is a simple message written on the sidewalk in chalk. Really gets to the heart of the matter for me.

#NoKings

I guess I should be linking to the list, too....

Thinking bigger than an awesome list, but it will do for now.

https://codeberg.org/box464/awesome-fediverse-merchandise

Happy to be finding so many fediverse merchandise stores lately - I was sure I had them all when I setup the list originally. Glad to be proven wrong.

Here's an instance specific one - get the vmst.io logo on a t-shirt! The title of the shirt is "Toots In / Toots Out". 🎺

https://cottonbureau.com/p/5HW79D/shirt/toots-in-toots-out#/17589602/tee-men-premium-lightweight-vintage-royal-tri-blend-s

#FediMerch #Fediverse #ActivityPub @vmstan

Just added a new store to the fediverse mechandise awesome list, Forge & Craft. Get an amazing fediverse t-shirt and check out the rest of their merch, too! Any sales, fedi related or not, support the creators directly.

https://shop.forgeandcraft.co.uk/

#FediMerch

PeerTube will add live streaming to the mobile app if they reach their next milestone. Let’s make it happen! Share this post and donate if you can!

#PeerTube #Fediverse #ActivityPub
https://framapiaf.org/@peertube/114664231712788428

New Fedi Mech Store added to my awesome list. Get your Fediverse for Freedom stickers from @andypiper here!

https://fediverseforfreedom.org/

#FediMerch #FediverseForFreedom

#FediForum has just ended. It was quite different from previous years. The addition of keynote speakers was exciting, and I think garnered a bigger crowd.

The un-conference portions take some getting used to for newbies but all were welcome into the discussion, regardless of expertise in the topic.

After attending 3 or 4 other FediForums I finally gathered up enough courage to turn my microphone on for a few minutes make some kind of sounds out of my mouth. 😅

#FediForumAttendee

Announced at #FediForum Fediverse Resources is a hand curated collection of resources associated to the fediverse. Contributions and curation (removing dead links, adding new one) is welcome!
 
https://fediverseresources.com/

Good news from @j12t at #FediForum, the ActivityPubRocks website is now back under the control of W3C and updates will be coming soon.

https://activitypub.rocks/

We're looking at a mocking tool called ActivityFuzz. It provides you ways to emulate activities from various fediverse platforms (misskey, gotosocial, etc.) and test them without spinning up each one individually for testing! The data is pulled from the Fediverse Schema Observatory.

Lots of excitement among the attendees for this one. Follow @darius for updates as this continues to be developed.

This is a project from the Applied Social Media Lab.

https://asml.cyber.harvard.edu/

#FediForum

BadgeFed is up next, and this is a fun one. This allows you earn badges across the fediverse. Any type of badge from serious LinkedIn stuff to silly stuff like Cat Master if you post 1,000 cat photos on your account.

Collect badges and show them off! I've already gotten a few "early tester" badges for helping test. :)

You can follow along at @badgefed

https://badges.vocalcat.com/

Quickly moving to Manyfold, a way to share 3d models across the fediverse and between manyfold instances. You can follow at @manyfold

https://manyfold.app/

Career Cupid, a job matchmaking platform. Answer some questions and it finds other people with similar skillsets to help you network and can also match you to organizations that are hiring.

@thecupid

https://cupid.career

Oh, also shared a new ActivityPub toolkit! Definitely going to check this out.

https://activitypub.mushroomlabs.com/

#FediForum

There's agreement between devs that there needs to be a decision made on a path forward so all can start building out compaitble solutions.

So - make the decision please! 🙏🏼

#FediForum

There's some discussion about the different between MIGRATION and PORTABILITY. With portability being considered a better solution. Migration = moving your posts from one server to another. Portability = separating your posts from the platform entirely.

#FediForum

I joined a session about data portability. This is the one thing about ActivityPub that disappoints me. Sure, you can migrate follows and followers. But the post migration is missing for most platforms. Truly disappointing.

I'm happy to see some big dev names in here and I am probably coming off as an ungrateful, complaining end user. :AngeryCat:

https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola.html

#FediForum

A reminder that @news is offering a live chat of #Fediforum and that continues today.

https://wedistribute.org/2025/06/fediforum-june-2025/