Notices by Week in Fediverse (weekinfediverse@mitra.social)

Servers

- Hollo v0.5.5
- Pixelfed v0.12.5
- Manyfold v0.105.0
- Mitra v3.21.0
- Gancio v1.25.0
- Merp Relay v0.2.2
- March 2025: Search Update (Bandwagon)
- PieFed development update Mar 2025
- Funkwhale 2.0 Alpha candidate
- Pinka: A commenting server that bridges static sites to ActivityPub sites

Clients

- Fedilab v3.31.0
- Mastodon for iOS v2025.1
- Pixelfed (React Native) v1.2.0.1
- Voyager v2.26.0
- Interstellar v0.9.0

Tools and Plugins

- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v1.4.1
- Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS): A tool to seed communities, so your users have something in their All feed
- Meh… another comment system

For developers

- Fedify v1.5.0
- ActivityPods v2.1.1

Protocol

- FEP-5711: Inverse Properties for Collections
- Lemmy RFC 0008: Plugins

Articles

- Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances
- But It's Public, You Posted It On the Internet
- New Paradigms in Trust and Safety: Navigating Defederation on Decentralized Social Media Platforms
- PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 2: creator edition)
- Fediverse Report – #109

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0195ba9c-b3d5-7402-e337-39b10034bcfc

Servers

- streams v25.3.15
- Mitra v3.20.0
- Hubzilla v10.2.0
- PeerTube v7.1.0
- Manyfold v0.104.0
- Lemmy v0.19.10
- NodeBB v4.2.0
- snac v2.74
- ActivityPub for WordPress v5.5.0
- GoToSocial v0.18.3
- Gancio v1.25.0
- tootik v0.15.5
- Activity-Relay v2.0.8
- gathio v1.5.1
- NeoDB v0.11.5.5
- Vernissage Server v1.6.0
- Development Update: Sandcastles edition (Letterbook)
- picverse: ActivityPub based blogengine
- Jaseur: An ActivityPub server implementation in C++ developed using AI agent technology

Clients

- Tusky 28.0
- Pixelfed (React Native) v1.1.0.1
- Blorp v1.0.3
- Tesseract v1.4.32

Tools and Plugins

- Lemmy Schedule v1.14.2
- Lemmy Webhooks v0.21.1
- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v1.4.0

For developers

- apsig v0.5.0
- Fedify v1.4.7

Protocol

- FEP-c180: Problem Details for ActivityPub
- FEP-ae0c: Fediverse Relay Protocols: Mastodon and LitePub (Finalized)
- FEP-d556: Server-Level Actor Discovery Using WebFinger (Finalized)

Articles

- Website League and the Rise of Island Networks
- The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls
- Silly Mastodon apps
- Hands on with Ghost’s New ActivityPub Beta
- Fediverse Report #108

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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01959655-f2a7-6172-cb8c-8d6c51cebb2d

Servers

- Mitra v3.19.0
- Mastodon v4.3.6
- GoToSocial v0.18.2
- Pleroma v2.9.1
- tootik v0.15.4
- Misskey v2025.3.1
- Gancio v1.24.4
- NeoDB v0.11.5.1
- kmyblue v17.3
- NodeBB v4.1.1
- Vernissage Server v1.4.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, February 2025 (Mastodon)
- Actually, I take that back (Ghost)
- Gush! - A federated social media platform for sharing the things you love
- Forte: Nomadic fediverse server
- Merp Relay: Lightweight Fediverse message relay

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.549
- Fedilab v3.30.1
- Mastodon for Android v2.9.5
- Impressia v3.1.0
- Voyager v2.25.0
- Phanpy changelog

Tools and Plugins

- PeerTube livechat plugin v12.0.3

For developers

- ActivityPods v2.1.0
- Granary v8.1
- Roboherd: A framework for building Fediverse bots

Protocol

- Activity Streams/Primer/Tombstone type

Articles

- Why Content Creators should consider the Fediverse
- Mastodon to GoToSocial Migration
- Fediverse Report #107

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01957251-017a-d6e9-a72a-7e34ac1e1a86

Servers

- Akkoma v2025.03
- Pleroma v2.9.0
- Sharkey v2025.2.2
- Manyfold v0.103.0
- Vernissage Server v1.3.0
- snac v2.73
- ActivityPub for WordPress v5.4.0
- Hometown v1.1.2
- Misskey v2025.3.0
- Gancio v1.24.0
- NeoDB v0.11.5
- Iceshrimp v2023.12.13
- Lemmy Development Update 2025-03-07
- Hackers' Pub Introduces Flexible Username Changes: Breaking the Fediverse Norm
- ActivityPub integration for Elgg

Clients

- Fedilab v3.30.0
- Tuba v0.9.2
- Pachli v2.10.1
- toot v0.48.0
- P2Play v0.9.0
- Pixelix v4.0.0
- Pixelfed (React Native) v1.0.4.1
- RaccoonForFriendica v0.4.2
- Tesseract v1.4.31
- Blorp: A cross platform web, iOS and Android client for Lemmy

For developers

- fediverse-pasture-inputs v0.1.13
- Mastodon.py v2.0.1

Articles

- Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music
- PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 1: first impressions)
- Fediverse Report #106

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01954e2e-70bb-aee5-1f9e-913142a4354e

Servers

- GoToSocial v0.18.0
- Manyfold v0.102.0
- Hollo v0.5.4
- Mitra v3.18.0
- NodeBB v4.1.0
- Mastodon v4.3.4
- Misskey v2025.2.1
- ActivityPub for WordPress v5.3.0
- Castopod v1.13.4
- Ibis v0.2.4
- kmyblue v17.1
- PieFed development update Jan/Feb 2024

Clients

- Fedilab v3.29.1
- Pachli v2.10.0
- Voyager v2.24.3
- Interstellar v0.8.0
- RaccoonForFriendica v0.4.1

Tools and Plugins

- LemmySchedule v1.13.0
- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v1.3.0
- slurp: A tool for exporting data from and importing data to Fediverse instances
- Identity Graph Explorer: Find out how identifiers on the Fediverse / Social Web are connected to one another

Protocol

- FEP-dd4b: Quote Posts

Articles

- Importing Pixelfed Posts to GoToSocial with Slurp
- FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands
- Fediverse Report #105

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@DavidMarzalC @samsethi @sam Does it support ActivityPub, or only Mastodon API?

Also, is it open source? This newsletter only tracks releases of free and open source software.

Servers

- NodeBB v4.0.5
- Hollo v0.5.2
- Ibis v0.2.2
- Honk v1.4.2
- Mobilizon v5.1.2
- Lemmy Development Update 2025-02-21
- Hackers' Pub: ActivityPub-enabled social network for hackers
- FIRM: Federated Information Resource Manager

Clients

- TootRain v2.1.0
- Tinmop v0.9.9.14142135623730
- Dhaaga v0.16.2
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta40
- Alexandrite v0.8.20

Tools and Plugins

- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v1.1.0
- Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm

For developers

- Mastodon.py v2.0.0

Protocol

- FEP-f228: Backfilling conversations
- FEP-f06f: Object observers

Articles

- Talk about the thing itself
- GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls
- How to Launch Your Own Fediverse Community Server
- Fediverse Report – #104

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019505e9-69b3-ca9f-3b11-869a95dc3430

Servers

- Mbin v1.8.0
- snac v2.72
- Lemmy v0.19.9
- flohmarkt v0.8.0
- GoToSocial v0.17.4
- Hollo v0.5.0
- Manyfold v0.100.0
- Mitra v3.17.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v5.2.0
- Pleroma ActivityRelay v0.3.4
- NeoDB v0.11.4.7
- tootik v0.15.3
- kmyblue v17.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, January 2025
- Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon

Clients

- Mangane v1.13.6
- Thunder v0.6.1
- Fediboat: Mastodon TUI client with a Newsboat-like interface

Tools and Plugins

- Event Bridge for ActivityPub v1.0.0 (WordPress plugin)
- Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress v1.0.0
- LemmyWebhook v0.19.0
- Mastodon – Simplified Federation v2.2.1
- Utsukta Hub themes: A collection of custom themes developed for Hubzilla

For developers

- BotKit v0.1.1
- TootSDK v13.0.0
- apsig: Signature implementation used in ActivityPub (python)

Protocol

- FEP-efda: Followable objects

Articles

- Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes
- Last Week in Fediverse #103

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0194e1e4-74a9-17c1-c347-9674b1a3f9c9

Servers

- Hubzilla v10.0.8
- Hollo v0.4.6
- NodeBB v4.0.2
- Mitra v3.16.0
- snac v2.71
- Misskey v2025.2.0
- Ktistec v2.4.6
- ActivityPub for WordPress v5.0.0
- tootik v0.15.2
- NeoDB v0.11.4.5
- Breaking Changes in Lemmy 1.0

Clients

- Dhaaga v0.15.0
- Pixelix v3.4.0
- Pixelfed (React Native) v1.0.1.76
- Alexandrite v0.8.19
- Voyager v2.24.0
- Thunder v0.6.0
- Tesseract v1.4.30

Tools and Plugins

- LemmyLink: A cross-platform bridge bot that connects Reddit and specific Lemmy communities

For developers

- Fedify v1.4.0
- Bovine v0.5.18
- BotKit v0.1.0

Protocol

- FEP-a974: All Actor types should be followable

Articles

- A Fediverse app built on Solid
- Fediverse Report – #102

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0194bdbc-75e2-e709-a309-7b86a8df6d4c

Servers

- Manyfold v0.99.0
- Misskey v2025.1.0
- snac v2.70
- Hollo v0.4.5
- Gancio v1.23.0
- NeoDB v0.11.4.3
- forgejo-contrib/federation: The place to organize development around federation for Forgejo

Clients

- Elk v0.16.0
- Pachli v2.9.2
- Dhaaga v0.14.1
- Alexandrite v0.8.18
- Pixelix v3.3.0
- PeerTube Mobile v0.6.0

Tools and Plugins

- poduptime v5.5.0

Protocol

- FEP-2277: ActivityPub core types

Articles

- Improving Snac Performance With Nginx Proxy Cache
- Fediverse Report #101

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019499d8-2a50-b1df-6908-393384df7e2d

Servers

- Ktistec v2.4.5
- Manyfold v0.96.0
- Hollo v0.4.4
- NodeBB v4.0.0
- Hubzilla v10.0.7
- Smithereen v0.9
- μpub v0.5.0
- snac v2.69
- Mitra v3.15.0
- Owncast v0.2.1
- Gancio v1.22.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v4.7.3
- NeoDB v0.11.4
- Bandwagon.fm - Testing a New Search Engine
- Lemmy Development Update 2025-01-24
- WordPress - Improving Fediverse Engagement With the Reactions Block

Clients

- Dhaaga v0.14.0
- Pixelix v3.2.1
- Alexandrite v0.8.15
- Voyager v2.23.2

Tools and Plugins

- Bookface Light v4 (Friendica user stylesheet)
- Lemmy Federate: A tool to federate Lemmy/Mbin communities automatically between instances

For developers

- Fedify v1.3.4
- activitypub-federation-rust v0.6.2
- Federails v0.5.0
- ActivityPods - Our roadmap for 2025

Protocol

- FEP-9967: Polls

Articles

- snac2 - frontendin' alien toots
- Owncast Newsletter January 2025
- Comparison between Mastodon, Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams)
- The Challenge of Upward Momentum
- Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 100

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@m0xee @santiago @EkpyroticFrood

Funkwhale and Bandwagon come to mind.

Servers

- tootik v0.15.0
- Manyfold v0.95.0
- Ibis v0.2.1
- Owncast v0.2.0
- Mitra v3.14.0
- Mastodon v4.3.3
- ActivityPub for WordPress v4.7.0
- NeoDB v0.11.2
- Mbin v1.7.4
- Lemmy Development Update 2025-01-10
- Trunk & Tidbits, December 2024
- Bandwagon: Social Web for Musicians and Bands

Clients

- Dhaaga v0.13.0
- Voyager v2.23.0
- Tesseract v1.4.29
- Pixelix v3.2.0
- PeerTube Mobile v0.6.0

For developers

- ActivityPods v2.0.5

Articles

- Owncast v0.2.0: The Self-Hosted Streaming Solution Levels Up
- My year of Fediverse explorations
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 99

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019451e8-211d-4a09-c76b-4b3a69976dc1

Servers

- Hubzilla v10.0.6
- Akkoma v2025.01
- PeerTube v7.0.1
- Manyfold v0.92.0
- snac v2.68
- Castopod v1.13.3
- Ktistec v2.4.4
- tootik v0.14.1
- Untitled Gaming Social: ActivityPub platform that bridges game screenshots and achievements to the fediverse
- “Event Bridge For ActivityPub” plugin released on WordPress.org

Clients

- Mastodon for Android v2.9.4
- Mastodon for iOS v2024.12
- Dhaaga v0.12.0
- PeerTube Mobile v0.5.5
- Tesseract v1.4.28
- RaccoonForFriendica v0.4.0

Tools and Plugins

- Fedinesia v3.3.2
- poduptime v5.4.2

For developers

- BotKit: A framework for creating ActivityPub bots

Articles

- Fediverse tech roadmap 2025
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 98

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01942e1c-9727-6a7b-ff14-2a50884355ec

Servers

- Hollo v0.4.0
- Mitra v3.13.0
- Ktistec v2.4.3
- Hubzilla v10.0.5
- Sharkey v2024.11.1
- Friendica v2024.12
- Epicyon v1.6.0
- Castopod v1.13.2
- Vidzy v0.2.0
- NeoDB v0.11.0
- Hatsu v0.3.2
- The first 12 plugins of Castopod
- PieFed development update Dec 2024

Clients

- SubwayTooter v5.547
- Pachli v2.9.1
- Tesseract v1.4.25
- Relatica v0.15.0

Tools and Plugins

- Poduptime v5.4.1

For developers

- Fedify v1.3.3
- Granary v8.0

Protocol

- Public Key Directory Server Specification v0.1

Articles

- Posty for Pixelfed: What Fresh Hell...
- The Future of Calendaring

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0194094b-415b-6213-1c3e-a28d90730723

Servers

- Hubzilla v10.0.0
- snac v2.67
- tootik v0.14.0
- activity-pub-relay v0.8.0
- Mastodon: Annual Report 2023
- μpub: micro social network, federated

Clients

- Tusky v27.0
- Tuba v0.9.1
- Pixelix v3.0.0
- Voyager v2.22.0
- Tesseract v1.4.21

Tools and Plugins

- FediAM v0.2
- Threativore v0.7.0
- Posty: This is How You Take Your Posts With You

For developers

- Bovine v0.5.15

Articles

- botsin.space postmortem
- How much does the fediverse cost?
- Building a Better Social Web
- Surf is a “Social Browser” App From Flipboard

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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Servers

- Ibis v0.2.0
- PeerTube v7.0.0
- Mitra v3.12.0
- Pleroma v2.8.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v4.6.0
- activity-pub-relay v0.7.0
- flohmarkt v0.6.1
- Manyfold v0.91.3

Clients

- Tuba v0.9.0
- PeerTube Mobile v0.5.2
- Relatica v0.14.0
- RaccoonForFriendica v0.3.2

Tools and Plugins

- Mastodon Bird UI v2.1.1

For developers

- FediTest v0.5
- fediverse-pasture-inputs v0.1.12

Articles

- The 2024 IFTAS Needs Assessment Report is Here!
- Integrating ActivityPub within Solid specs
- Sharkey: a Fediverse project that is beautiful inside & out
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 97

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0193c19e-7bc6-495c-46e6-099a402b25e6

Servers

- snac v2.66
- Lemmy v0.19.8
- ActivityPub for WordPress v4.4.0
- Mobilizon v5.1.0
- activity-pub-relay v0.6.0
- NeoDB v0.10.5
- Trunk & Tidbits, November 2024

Clients

- Husky v1.6.1
- AndStatus v62.01
- Voyager v2.21.0
- PeerTube mobile app : discover videos while caring for your attention
- tinmop: An opinionated client for Gemini, gopher, kami and Mastodon/Pleroma

Tools and Plugins

- Mastodon Bird UI v2.0.6
- PeerTube plugin livechat v12.0.2
- Fediseer v0.25.0
- notectl: A maintenance CLI tool for Misskey

For developers

- Fedify v1.3.1

Protocol

- Nomad Protocol and Nomadic Identity in the Fediverse
- FEP-1311: Media Attachments

Articles

- Alt Text Health Check image accessibility report #2
- PeerTube, a network of independent, self-managed and interconnectable platforms
- Why is Meta adding fediverse interoperability to Threads?
- Creating a generic "Log-in with Mastodon" service
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 96

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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@julian Added.
Normally, release candidates are not included, but I agree that this one is significant. Thank you for your work!

Servers

- flohmarkt v0.6.0
- Hollo v0.3.0
- Manyfold v0.91.0
- Mastodon v4.3.2
- Mitra v3.11.0
- Castopod v1.13.1
- WordPress v4.3.0
- Gancio v1.21.0
- Hatsu v0.3.1
- NeoDB v0.10.4.15
- Lemmy Development Update 2024-12-06
- Enigmatick End-to-End Encryption Design

Clients

- Mastodon for iOS v2024.11
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta39
- Voyager v2.20.0

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v7.1.13
- PeerTube plugin livechat v12.0.0
- TangerineUI for Mastodon v2.3
- MARL: Mastodon Archive Reader Lite
- Mastodon starter packs

For developers

- Federails v0.4.0

Protocol

- FEP-6606: ActivityPub client to server collections addressing conventions

Articles

- Mastodon’s weaknesses and how to fix them
- Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse
- Threads Beta Feature Enables Fediverse Profiles
- Last Week in Fediverse – ep 95

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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