Notices by Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com)

@jensimmons I would love to have a major browser start making progress on supporting custom protocol handlers (or any alternative solution) that could make it smooth for Fediverse users to interact cross-instances.
For example opening fedi://front-end.social/@jensimmons and have the browser direct me to your profile on my instance.
That will probably require work with the W3c and we can help, but having implementors with us is really needed

@anildash let’s talk? 👍

@HistoPol Mastodon 4.4 only support creating quote posts that are created by other software.

You can not yet quote other posts from Mastodon, this will come later in the summer.

@ikuturso @paul

@Sarahp Target for 4.4.0 is end of month (or first week of July).

4.5 is "when we finished fully implementing quote posts", which I hope will be September or October at the latest.

@Gargron

@paul We bump the version as soon as the previous version gets a Release Candidate, so mastodon.social displayed a 4.4 version since last October.

Ingesting remote quote posts is behind an experimental flag that has not yet been enabled on mastodon.social, but it should be very soon.

@HistoPol @Gargron

Our team is growing, and I am very excited that there are now 2 developers focused on the Mastodon web interface, with a designer joining in a few weeks.

Brace yourselves for a lot of interface improvements in Mastodon this year 💅
https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/114460783162498046

We are implementing the final version of RFC9421 (HTTP Signatures) in Mastodon, and would like to test this with other ActivityPub implementations.

Do you know of any AP implementations supporting both incoming (verification) and outgoing (signing) RFC9421 signatures, and if possible with support for the double-knocking mechanism as described in https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-http-signature/ (section 3.5)?

#activitypub

@thisismissem @randahl It looks like they all follow the recommended accounts, but we do not see anything abnormal regarding their emails or IPs, and some are definitely real people.

We keep a close eye on this, but we can not block / ban every user that follows some recommended accounts and does not post.

Promouvoir Mastodon, ça se fait aussi (et surtout ?) sur le terrain.

Ça fait plaisir de voir que petit à petit, il y a une vraie prise de conscience sur les sujets de souveraineté numérique et les problèmes posés par les réseaux sociaux centralisés (et leur transformation en arme anti-démocratique)

@BeAware So far, we are not planning to forbid linking to statuses if the person refuses to be quoted. A link is not a quote. There are still a lot of open questions (like, what is the UI behaviour if you paste such a link into the composer? Maybe we should ask the user if they want to transform it into a quote?). This is something we have in mind and will continue working on it. So far we mostly focused on the ActivityPub side of things.

@BeAware This is a very hard question in a decentralised network, as you can not trust any other servers. The research and pre-FEP discussion that we linked in the blog post go into more detail around those questions.
@pierrenick

@laurenshof I just read the latest Fediverse report, and wanted to mention that other AP implementors like Mastodon were also at the longform workshop along with the other mentioned projects. We (Mastodon) want to ensure that consuming long form content over ActivityPub is the best experience possible and are excited with what is cooking :)

@stefan this is the website repository, work is happening in other repos like https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications and https://github.com/mastodon/fasp_ruby

Pachyderms are meeting at #fosdem2025!

❤️ PostgreSQL

Je fais l’aller-retour Paris-Bruxelles en fin de semaine pour le #FOSDEM, en voiture (le coffre rempli de goodies Mastodon), et je cherche un•e passager•e pour ne pas faire la route seul.
Départ de la gare Ermont Eaubonne vendredi vers 9h30, puis départ de Bruxelles lundi vers 11h30.
Avant que je me tourne vers Blablacar, ça intéresse quelqu’un ici ?

@kissane I really hope that people will use our work on https://fediscovery.org to innovate and build really good (and custom) discovery algorithms that admins can then opt in for their instances.
(and before people mention it in the replies, the specifications mandate that only accounts that opted into discovery can be indexed/processed)

@sandrousseau Bonjour, heureux de vous voir ici !

N'hésitez pas à me contacter si vous avez besoin d'aide avec Mastodon (par exemple pour récupérer vos followers de votre compte historique).
On s'est croisé à la soirée HelloQuitteX et je vous ai donné ma carte, donc vous devez avoir mon mail :)

Je vois passer pas mal de journalistes ou politiques qui quittent X, dénoncent ces gros réseaux sociaux propriétaires, et disent qu'il faudrait une alternative ouverte et européenne… sans connaître Mastodon.

Donc agissons : si vous travaillez pour / connaissez (contact direct seulement, sinon je sais faire) des institutions ou personnes dans cette situation, n'hésitez pas à me DM pour faire une mise en contact avec elleux, que je leur parle de Mastodon et que je leur explique tout 🫶

J’ai eu le plaisir de faire un entretien avec @rekrek pour @bastamedia, ou je reviens sur l’actualité récente des réseaux sociaux, leur lien avec les milliardaires américains, Bluesky, et notre annonce récente de la fondation Mastodon (et de pourquoi c’est vraiment important qu’il existe un RS ouvert et non soumis au capital)

https://basta.media/mastodon-bien-commun-surtout-vu-environnement-mediatique-politique-quitter-X

Ami·es journalistes ou politiques, n’hésitez pas à me contacter si vous voulez aussi discuter de ces sujets 😉

We received a lot of strong applications for our Senior Front-end role at @Mastodon but @inganomads and I would like to see more diverse candidates in our initial pool.

Do you know of any communities (forum, Slack, Discord, newsletter…) with a diverse audience and a focus on front-end development? Grateful for any recommendations.

The full job description is here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/6a0953c4-812b-4697-b5b3-ea0a2ae402c0

Thanks!

#hiring #diversity