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Week in Fediverse 2026-11-06


Servers

- Mitra v5.12.0
- ties v0.4.0
- Mastodon v4.7.5
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.4.3
- NeoDB v0.20.0
- NodeBB v4.16.7
- Wafrn v2026.11.01
- PieFed v1.7.19
- FitPub v1.3.1
- Lemmy Development Update October 2026

Clients

- Smither v3.7.0
- Aria v1.5.16
- Snowdrop v0.0.10

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v8.2.4

For developers

- APx v0.28.0

Protocol

- FEP-f12e: Consent-respecting attributions
- FEP-2fa1: Federated Categories
- FEP-5837: Content Credentials for Media Attachments

Articles

- Noodling on Nodeinfo

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Week in Fediverse 2026-10-30


Servers

- Pleroma v2.11.0
- Hollo v0.9.25
- Betula v1.9.0
- Mastodon v4.7.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.4.0
- Bookwyrm v0.9.4
- PeerTube v8.3.2
- Misskey v2026.10.1
- Ktistec v3.14.0
- NeoDB v0.19.10
- Iceshrimp.NET v2026.1.3-beta
- NodeBB v4.16.5
- wanderer v0.21.2
- Wafrn v2026.10.03
- Lemmy v0.19.21
- snac v2.97
- Trunk & Tidbits, September 2026 (Mastodon)

Clients

- Pachli v3.10.0
- tooi v0.28.0
- RaccoonForFriendica v1.1.8

Tools and Plugins

- Event Bridge for ActivityPub v2.0.0 (WordPress plugin)

For developers

- Fedify v2.4.5

Protocol

- FEP-65ca: Common Client Configuration
- FEP-d1cb: Same-origin actor re-identification
- FEP-f799: Coordinated Inbox Delivery Suspension

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9.4.0 — Picture This


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Someone replies to your post from Mastodon with a photo. Until now, your blog showed the text and dropped the photo. With 9.4.0 that can change.

This release is mostly about what you and your visitors see: images in replies, quotes, and your blog profile. It also contains another round of security fixes, so please update.

Images in Replies


There is a new option in the ActivityPub settings: Show images attached to replies. When you turn it on, images in replies from the Fediverse show up below the comment text. Image descriptions come along, so the images stay accessible. Replies that are only an image, with no text, are accepted too.
A Fediverse reply in the comment section, with the photo of a steaming coffee mug shown below the comment text.
The images are cached on your own server, so your visitors never load them from the other server. Up to three images per reply are shown. Images only appear on approved comments. Pending, spam and trashed comments show only their text, and their images are never downloaded.

The option is off by default. WordPress itself does not show images in comments, so this changes how your comment section looks, and we did not want to do that without asking. One thing to keep in mind: if your site approves comments automatically, images from other servers become visible without anyone looking at them first.

If you turn the option off again, the images disappear and the descriptions show as text. Turn it back on and they come back.

Quote Posts From the Fediverse


Since 7.7.0, your site can receive quotes. Now it can quote, too.

The new Federated Quote block works like the Reply block. Paste the link of a Fediverse post, and the block embeds it in your post. When you publish, your site asks the author of the quoted post for permission. If they agree, your quote is marked as verified on their server. If they decline, your post stays, but the quote turns into a plain link.
The Federated Quote block in the editor, with the URL of the quoted post, a note that the author will be asked for permission, and an embed of the post.
The editor shows where the request stands, approved or declined. It also warns you if the author does not allow quotes at all. You can still publish in that case, but the author will probably say no.

There is also a quote bookmarklet on the Tools screen, next to the reply one. Click it on any Fediverse post and you get a new draft with the Quote block already in place.

This depends on the other server. Mastodon supports the permission request since version 4.5. Other software might not answer yet, and then your quote stays unverified.

On the receiving side, the Comments screen has a new Source column. It links incoming replies and quote posts to the post they came from.

A Name and Face for Your Blog Profile


Until now, your blog profile on the Fediverse used your site title as its name and your site icon as its avatar. You can now give it its own. Under Settings → ActivityPub → Blog Profile there is a new name field and an avatar picker. If you leave them empty, nothing changes, and the site title and site icon are used as before.
The Blog Profile settings with the new name field set to "Slow Mornings" and a custom avatar.

Security, Again


As in 9.3.0, this release fixes vulnerabilities that were reported to us.

  • Signed requests are checked more strictly. They have to be addressed to your site, and signing keys from other servers are verified more carefully.
  • Blocks are respected everywhere. Accounts you blocked can no longer reply to, like, repost or quote your posts and comments, and only the sender of a reply or like can change or remove it.
  • Content from other servers is handled more safely when it is imported as posts or comments.
  • Apps you connect can only do what you allowed them to do, and only on content the connected user is allowed to change.

If you run the plugin, please update.

Smaller Things You Might Notice


  • More languages. Posts are federated with the language Polylang assigned, and posts from Mastodon apps keep the language the app set. Handles like @renée@café.example now work in mentions and search.
  • Blocks that fit your theme. The Followers and Following blocks take their colors and font from your theme, and the Reactions block has a new Counts style that can replace the comments link in a query loop.
  • Your uploads folder stops growing. Profile pictures were downloaded again on every page view, leaving a copy behind each time. The update removes the extra copies.
  • Fewer duplicate emails when another server delivers the same message twice, or when a reply also mentions you.
  • Comments: replies are no longer auto-approved because the account liked a post before, likes and reposts no longer leak into comment lists, and comment links open the right page.
  • What your followers get: no extra image under your posts, summaries that stop at the “Read more” tag, podcast files from outside your media library, and account moves that are verified and reach your followers.
  • Apps and the ActivityPub API: mentions from Mastodon apps are federated again, and replies to posts on other servers are delivered.
  • Compatibility: fixes for WordPress 7.1 and 7.2, PHP 8.5, Polylang, and sites behind a proxy.
  • Under the hood: remote content is cached through the object cache, and endpoints that other servers call now have a rate limit.

The full changelog is in the GitHub repository.

Get It


Download from WordPress.org or grab it on GitHub. If your site updates automatically, you already have it.

Turn on images in replies, try quoting a post, and let us know how it looks on your site. Which servers answer your quote requests, and which ones stay silent?

Thank You


A huge thank you to everyone who contributed code, tested early builds, filed bug reports, or reported a security issue for this release.


I've just published version 2.97 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Quote-posting your own posts is now allowed (do it by adding RE: https://example.com/you/post-id in its own line in a post body).

The Mastodon API can now be disabled by setting the mastodon_api directive to false in server.json (no need to compile it out).

Fixed a crash in chunked transfer encoding code (special thanks to Sergey Bronnikov for bringing this to my attention).

Tweak to JSON loading code to circunvent fmemopen() issues on Illumos / OpenIndiana systems (contributed by aleteoryx).

Mastodon API: Fixed error in voting code (contributed by uilebheist), more aggressive old data purging.

comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse


Week in Fediverse 2026-10-23


Servers

- Hubzilla v11.4.2
- TinyAP v0.2.1
- Iceshrimp v2026.5.4
- GoToSocial v0.22.3
- Wafrn v2026.10.02
- Castopod v1.15.6
- NeoDB v0.19.9.1
- Merp Relay v0.4.3
- NodeBB v4.16.4
- Loops Server v1.0.0-beta.15
- PieFed v1.8.6
- wanderer v0.21.1
- 5.0: A closer look (Mastodon)

Clients

- mlmym v26.4.1
- Summit v1.88.0
- RaccoonForFriendica v1.1.5

Tools and Plugins

- Analytodon v2.5.0

For developers

- Mastodon.py v2.3.2

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Week in Fediverse 2026-10-16


Servers

- GoToSocial v0.22.2
- Hollo v0.9.23
- snac v2.96
- Funkwhale v2.0.12
- Vernissage Server v1.44.0
- FitPub v1.3
- Hometown v1.3.1
- yukimochi/Activity-Relay v2.0.12
- Iceshrimp v2026.5.2
- NeoDB v0.19.8
- Forgejo v0.17.0
- NodeBB v4.16.3
- PieFed v1.8.5

Clients

- IceCubesApp v2.1.6
- Mastodon Bird UI v4.7.3-2026-10-11
- RaccoonForFriendica v1.1.3
- chan-fe v0.5.0

Tools and Plugins

- Poduptime v6.3.3
- FediFetcher v8.2.3
- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.7.0 (WordPress plugin)

For developers

- DrFed v0.1.0
- Fedify v2.4.4

Articles

- Some quick thoughts on Unit Testing ActivityPub
- Threads and the Fediverse: The Threat That Wasn’t

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Previous edition: mitra.social/objects/01a12226-…



自分の場所を持ったまま、写真は世界とつながる


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前回の記事では、写真をどこに置くのかについて書いた。

InstagramやXのような大きなプラットフォームだけではなく、Fediverseという選択肢もある。

では、そもそもFediverseとは何なのか。

名前を聞いたことがあっても、Mastodonのことだと思っている人もいるかもしれない。

あるいは、InstagramやXの代わりになる新しいSNSだと思っている人もいるかもしれない。

でも、少し違う。

Fediverseは、一つのSNSの名前ではない。

Fediverseとは何か


Fediverseという言葉は、FederationとUniverseを組み合わせたものだと言われている。

簡単に言えば、それぞれ独立したサービスやサーバーが、共通の仕組みを使ってつながっているネットワークだ。

ここだけ聞くと、少し難しく感じるかもしれない。

写真で考えてみると分かりやすい。

例えば、もし世界に写真を展示できる場所が、一つしかなかったらどうだろう。

世界中の写真家が、その一つのギャラリーに作品を持ち込む。

どんな写真を展示するのか。

どの写真が目立つのか。

どの写真家が多くの人に見てもらえるのか。

そのすべてを、その一つの場所が決めることになる。

もし、そのギャラリーの方針が変われば、写真家たちはそれに合わせなければならない。

でも、実際の世界には、一つのギャラリーしか存在しているわけではない。

それぞれの場所に違うギャラリーがあり、写真集を扱う本屋があり、ZINEを置く場所がある。

写真家は、自分の作品に合った場所を選ぶことができる。

そして、それぞれの場所にいる写真家や観客が行き来することで、もっと大きな写真文化が生まれていく。

Fediverseも、少しこれに似ている。

一つの巨大なサービスだけが、インターネット上のすべての人を集めているのではない。

それぞれが独立した場所を持ちながら、互いにつながることができる。

そのために使われている共通の仕組みの一つが、ActivityPubというオープンなプロトコルだ。

ActivityPubは、サーバー同士が情報をやり取りするための仕組みを定めている。

そして、こうした共通の仕組みによって、独立したサービスやサーバーが相互につながるネットワークをFediverseと呼ぶ。

違う場所にいる人とも、会話ができる


Fediverseを理解するうえで、自分が一番分かりやすいと思うのが、メールだ。

例えば、Gmailを使っている人がいる。

相手がYahoo!メールを使っていたとしても、普通にメールを送ることができる。

Gmailを使っているからといって、Gmailを使っている人としか会話できるわけではない。

Outlookを使っている人ともやり取りできる。

それぞれが違うサービスを使っていても、メールという共通の仕組みがあるからだ。

Fediverseも、この感覚に少し近い。

それぞれが違うサービスや場所にいても、共通の仕組みによってつながることができる。

もちろん、メールとFediverseがまったく同じ仕組みというわけではない。

でも、

「同じサービスを使っているから会話できる」のではなく、「共通の仕組みでつながっているから会話できる」

という考え方は、Fediverseを理解するうえで大切なポイントだと思う。

Centralized (既存SNS)


Fediverse


いろいろな場所が、ひとつのネットワークにつながっている


では、実際にはどんな場所がつながっているのか。

Fediverseには、さまざまなサービスがある。

例えばMastodon。

短文の投稿を中心としたSNSとして知られている。

Pixelfedは写真を中心としたプラットフォーム。

Misskeyには独自の文化や機能を持ったさまざまなサーバーがある。

動画ならPeerTube。

コミュニティ型のサービスならLemmy。

そして、Webサイトもその中に参加できる。

WordPressにActivityPubを導入すれば、WordPressで作ったWebサイトもFediverseとつながることができる。つまり、Fediverseに参加する方法は一つではない。

WordPressを使わなければいけないわけでもない。

写真を中心にするならPixelfed。ブログや出版を中心にするなら、FediverseとつながるWebサイト。MastodonのようなSNSを使うこともできる。

それぞれは違う目的や文化を持った場所だけれど、共通の仕組みによって互いにつながることができる。

写真を「投稿する場所」から考えてみる


ここで、もう一度写真について考えてみたい。

例えば、自分が撮った写真をInstagramに投稿する。そこにはたくさんの人がいて、写真を見てもらうための仕組みも整っている。それ自体は、とても便利なことだ。

一方で、Fediverseでは、写真を置いている場所と、写真を見る人がいる場所が、必ずしも同じである必要がない。

Mastodonを使っている人が、Pixelfedにいる写真家をフォローする。あるいは、写真家自身のWebサイトをフォローする。

Webサイトに新しい記事や写真が公開されれば、それを普段使っているFediverseのクライアントから見つけることもできる。

自分の写真を置いている場所と、それを見る人がいる場所を、同じサービスに限定しなくていい。

写真家にとって、これは意外と大きな変化だと思う。

つながりを残したまま、別の場所へ移る


Fediverseのもう一つの面白さは、活動する場所を変えられることだ。

例えば、今いるサーバーやサービスが自分に合わなくなったとする。

写真家で言えば、これまで展示していたギャラリーから、別のギャラリーへ活動の拠点を移すようなものだ。

もちろん、写真を壁から剥がして、そのまますべて持っていけるように簡単な話ではない。

Fediverseでも、投稿やすべてのデータが完全にそのまま移行できるわけではない。

ただ、Fediverseにつながるサービスの中には、これまでのつながりを維持しながら活動の拠点を移すための仕組みを持つものもある。

例えばMastodonでは、別のサーバーへアカウントを移行すると、対応しているソフトウェアを使っている場合、現在のフォロワーを新しいアカウントへ自動的に移すことができる。

一方で、投稿やメディアまで完全にそのまま移行できるわけではない。フォローしている相手やブロック、ミュートなども別途エクスポート・インポートする必要がある。

つまり、

「一度ここにアカウントを作ったら、ここから出られない」という考え方ではない。

すべてが綺麗に移行できるわけではないけれど、これまで築いてきたつながりをある程度維持しながら、自分に合った場所へ活動の拠点を移すことができる。

例えば、もしXとInstagramがActivityPubでつながっていたらどうだろう。

Xで長い時間をかけて築いてきたフォロワーとのつながりを維持したまま、Instagramへ活動の拠点を移すことができる。

「Xを離れたら、これまで築いてきたものをすべて失う」ということではない。

もちろん、実際にはサービスごとに移行できる範囲や仕組みは異なる。

それでも、一つのサービスに自分の活動を完全に縛り付けるのではなく、つながりを持ったまま、自分の拠点を選び直せる。

これも、オープンなネットワークだからこそ生まれる特徴の一つだと思う。

まだ、Fediverseがすべてではない


ここまで読むと、Fediverseが今のSNSに取って代わるもののように感じるかもしれない。

でも、現時点ではそうではない。

Instagram、YouTube、Xなど、既存の大きなプラットフォームには圧倒的に多くのユーザーがいる。

写真を多くの人に見てもらうという意味では、今でも非常に強い場所だ。

Fediverseに移れば、すべてが解決するわけでもない。

むしろ、「既存のSNSをFediverseに置き換える」という考え方自体が、少し違うのかもしれない。

Fediverseは、別の方向へ進んでいる。

その進化のスピードは、大手SNSと比べると遅く見えることがある。

一つの企業が「明日からこの機能を追加します」と決めて、世界中のユーザーに一斉に提供する仕組みではないからだ。

複数の企業、開発者、サーバー管理者、コミュニティが、それぞれの場所で少しずつ作っている。だから、時には遠回りにも見える。

でも、その遅さは、誰か一社がネットワーク全体の未来を決めているわけではないことの裏返しでもある。

一つの会社がすべてを決める速さではなく、いろいろな場所がそれぞれ進化しながら、全体として少しずつ変わっていく。

自分は、そこに面白さを感じている。

これからどうなるのか


実際、Fediverseを取り巻く動きは少しずつ広がっている。

新しいサービスが生まれたり、既存のサービスがActivityPubへの対応を進めたりしている。

そして、少し興味深い動きもある。

ジャーナリストやメディア関係者をFediverseへ迎え入れようとする動きも出ている。

例えばMastodonは、記事の著者とFediverse上のアカウントを結びつけ、記事を共有した際にその著者を見つけてフォローできる機能を導入した。The Verge、MacStories、MacRumorsなどが初期の導入例として挙げられている。

さらに2026年のMastodonの技術方針でも、ジャーナリストや公的機関などが既存の大手プラットフォームに代わる場所を探していることを踏まえ、そうした人たち向けの機能を強化していく方針が示されている。

これは写真家にも少し似ていると思う。

写真家が自分の作品をSNSだけに預けるのではなく、自分のWebサイトや写真集、ZINEなど、自分で管理できる場所を持とうとするように、ジャーナリストにとっても「自分の発信をどこに置くのか」という問題は重要になっている。

EUでも、こうした動きはすでに始まっている。

欧州データ保護監督機関(EDPS)は2022年、Mastodonを基盤とした「EU Voice」と、PeerTubeを基盤とした「EU Video」という分散型SNSのパイロットを開始した。EUの機関や組織がアカウントを作り、Fediverseにいるユーザーとつながることができる取り組みだった。パイロットは2024年まで運用され、EDPSはその結果を成功した取り組みとして報告している。

こうした動きが、これからどこまで広がっていくのか。Fediverseがこれからどこまで成長するのか。既存のSNSとどう共存していくのか。

そして、写真やジャーナリズムを含め、インターネット上で作品や情報を発信する人たちの環境がどう変わっていくのか。

このあたりは、これからも追いかけていきたいテーマだ。ただ、今ここでその話を全部する必要はないと思っている。また別のタイミングで、Fediverseそのものの未来について書く時が来たら、その時に改めて考えてみたい。

だから、Webサイトもつながれる


ここで、Dystronixの話に戻りたい。

自分は写真を残していく場所として、自分自身のWebサイトを作りたかった。

自分のドメインを持って、自分でデザインして、自分で写真を選んで、自分で文章を書く。

そこには、自分が撮った写真だけではなく、写真について考えたことや、インターネットについて考えたことも残していきたい。

そのために、自分はWordPressを使っている。

そして、ActivityPubのプラグインを使うことで、このWebサイト自体をFediverseにつなげている。

自分が使っているこの仕組みに近いものとして、Ghostというサービスもある。

Ghostは2025年にActivityPubのソーシャルWeb機能をパブリックベータとして公開し、Ghostの出版物をFediverseにつなげる取り組みを進めている。

つまり、WordPressでなければいけないわけではない。

大切なのは、どのサービスを選ぶかではなく、自分の場所を持ちながら、その場所を閉じたものにしないこと。

自分にとって、そこが重要だった。

なぜDystronixはFediverseにつながっているのか


だから、DystronixがFediverseにつながっている理由は、

「WordPressを使っているから」ではない。

「Mastodonが好きだから」でもない。

Fediverseが今のSNSより大きいから選んだわけでもない。

すべてを置き換えられると思っているわけでもない。

自分が大切だと思ったのは、

自分の場所を持つこと。

そして、

その場所から世界とつながれること。

その二つを同時に実現できる仕組みとして、Fediverseに魅力を感じた。

写真を撮る場所を自分で選ぶ。

写真を展示する場所も自分で選ぶ。

そして、その場所とどこにつながるのかも自分で選ぶ。

これから先、Fediverseには新しいサービスが生まれるかもしれない。

今とは違う方法で写真を共有する場所が出てくるかもしれない。

だからこそ、特定のサービスに依存することよりも、サービスをまたいでつながれる仕組みそのものに意味があると思っている。

Dystronixは、その中の一つの小さな場所にすぎない。

でも、自分の場所であると同時に、外の世界ともつながっている。

自分の場所を持ったまま、閉じない。

それが、このサイトがFediverseにつながっている理由だ。

本記事に掲載している写真は、すべて omi kim が撮影したものです。

著者について

omi kim

大阪を拠点に活動するストリートフォトグラファー。
写真・Fediverse・個人Webについて発信しています。

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Week in Fediverse 2026-10-09


Servers

- Hollo v0.9.22
- PieFed v1.8.0
- Mitra v5.11.0
- Mbin v1.11.0
- Catodon v26.10.0
- NeoDB v0.19.6.3
- NodeBB v4.16.2
- Lemmy Development Update September 2026

Clients

- Tusky v33.0
- Pachli v3.9.1
- IceCubesApp v2.1.4
- Summit v1.87.0
- Pixelfed Mobile App v2.0.0
- Aria v1.5.15

For developers

- Fedify security updates: 2.0.30, 2.1.26, 2.2.15, 2.3.10, and 2.4.0

Protocol

- FEP-4f18: ActivityPub Network Time

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: mitra.social/objects/01a0fe1a-…


#Mitra v5.11.0

codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra/…
codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra-…

- Posts from followed FEP-1b12 groups are displayed in home timeline. Reposts attributed to a group account are no longer generated.
- Posts can be quoted on Mastodon (contributed by @lnkr)
- Support for text/plain post format.
- Database integrity violations that occurred when multiple queue workers were running have been fixed (contributed by @nak).



Week in Fediverse 2026-10-02


Servers

- PeerTube v8.3.1
- Hollo v0.9.20
- Mastodon v4.7.3
- Ibis v0.3.4
- Wafrn v2026.10.01
- Hometown v1.3.0
- Misskey v2026.10.0
- NeoDB v0.19.5
- Hatsu v0.3.5
- Wanderer v0.21.0

Clients

- Pachli v3.9.0
- Fedilab v3.45.0
- chan-fe v0.4.0
- PeerTube Mobile v2.3.0

For developers

- Fedify v2.4.0
- activitypub-federation-rust v0.6.6
- Fedipub v0.10.0

Protocol

- FEP-070c: Block synchronization across servers
- FEP-302f: QuantPub — federated personal metrics for quantified-self sharing
- FEP-6757: Content License Metadata in ActivityPub

Articles

- Why Does Nobody Use Lemmy?
- Fediverse News – Summer 2026

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: mitra.social/objects/01a0dbf1-…


Week in Fediverse 2026-09-25


Servers

- Pixelfed v0.14.0
- Ktistec v3.13.0
- XWiki ActivityPub Extension v1.7.12
- Misskey v2026.9.1
- NeoDB v0.19.3

Clients

- Fedilab v3.44.0
- Smither v3.6.7
- Pixelix v5.2.2
- RaccoonForFriendica v1.1.1
- Aria v1.5.14

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v8.2.1

Protocol

- FEP-c0d0: Context Locking

Articles

- The Algorithm, Apparently Chronological

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: mitra.social/objects/01a0b604-…



Blocks on the fediverse have a consistency problem.

When a Block or Undo Block gets lost between servers, the two sides quietly disagree about who blocked whom. Sometimes that means a blocked account can still reach you.

Our fix, FEP-070c: Block synchronization across servers, is now accepted as a draft. Pixelfed is the first implementation, merged and shipping in our next release.

codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src…

#pixelfed #pixeldev #activityPub #fediverse


Can someone explain to me why was Pixelfed, Loops, and Dansup being singled out for AI use?

There's no shortage of Fediverse software that are either built with AI assistance (including vibe coding), or welcomes AI contribution, but I'm not seeing the same level of outrage.

Did Pixelfed, Loops, and Dansup specifically promise to be AI-free?

#Fediverse #ActivityPub


Week in Fediverse 2026-09-25


Servers

- Pixelfed v0.14.0
- Ktistec v3.13.0
- XWiki ActivityPub Extension v1.7.12
- Misskey v2026.9.1
- NeoDB v0.19.3

Clients

- Fedilab v3.44.0
- Smither v3.6.7
- Pixelix v5.2.2
- RaccoonForFriendica v1.1.1
- Aria v1.5.14

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v8.2.1

Protocol

- FEP-c0d0: Context Locking

Articles

- The Algorithm, Apparently Chronological

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: mitra.social/objects/01a0b604-…


#ibiswiki

嗨,各位关注 @board 的各位 Fedi 用户们大家好!好久不见呢

俺想简单谈谈关于 ibiswiki 该项目

大家或多或少都知道,在 #Fediverse 中、最著名的论坛社群就是 Lemmy 了,初始项目发起及其开发者是 Nutomic

Lemmy 一直以来也被称之为最好的 Reddit 替代品

最近俺了解到 Nutomic 很早推出了一个新项目,但似乎很少有讨论:Ibis - A federated online encyclopedia & 一个联邦在线百科全书

请注意:这不是介绍 #Fediverse 的 Wiki,Ibis 本质也是一个 #ActivityPub 实例

因此,Ibis Wiki 是可以让持有 #ActivityPub 账号的用户在当前的 Ibis Wiki 实例上编写或编辑当前 Wiki,也可以参与讨论

1/2


Week in Fediverse 2026-09-18


Servers

- Wafrn v2026.09.11
- TinyAP v0.2.0
- Mastodon v4.7.2
- PeerTube v8.3.0
- NodeBB v4.16.0
- NeoDB v0.19.0
- Gush! v0.0.42
- PieFed v1.7.16
- Lemmy Dev Update August 2026 and 1.0.0-beta.2
- Trunk & Tidbits, August 2026 (Mastodon)

Clients

- Fedilab v3.43.4
- Smither v3.6.5
- Voyager v2.49.1
- mlmym v26.4.0

Protocol

- FEP-22cd: Attributing translations
- FEP-7628: Move actor (Final)

Articles

- People, Algorithms, Social media and the Fediverse

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: mitra.social/objects/01a091f1-…


Week in Fediverse 2026-09-11


Servers

- Hubzilla v11.4.1
- Bookwyrm v0.9.3
- Cookifed v0.1.0
- Ktistec v3.12.1
- Misskey v2026.9.0
- gathio v1.6.7
- NeoDB v0.18.2
- Appy v0.7.0
- PieFed v1.7.15
- Wafrn v2026.09.01

Clients

- Voyager v2.49.0
- Miria v4.0.1
- Aria v1.5.13

Tools and Plugins

- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.6.4 (WordPress plugin)

Articles

- Static ActivityPub Publishing

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: mitra.social/objects/01a06eb0-…



Threads mit Lücken in Friendica


!Friendica Admins

Als Admin von #Friendica beschäftigt mich schon länger eine Frage:

Warum zeigen viele entfernte #Threads beim normalen Lesen nur zwei, drei Antworten und der Rest taucht erst auf, wenn ich (in friendica als Nutzer) „Vollständiger Thread“ anklicke, oft erst Tage später?

Die Ursache ist mir bekannt: #ActivityPub liefert nur adressiert aus, was nie zugestellt wird, kann mein Knoten schlicht nicht anzeigen.

Wie aber gehen andere Admins damit um? Ist das für euch eine akzeptierte Grenze des #Fediverse, oder justiert ihr aktiv an fetch_replies und max_fetchreplies_depth?

Mich würde interessieren, ob die Thread-Lücken bei #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Akkoma und Co. genauso auftreten oder ob ich das primär in der Friendica-Welt zu spüren bekomme. Bei Mastodon sollte es IMHO jedenfalls genauso sein.

Wer von euch überlässt das Nachziehen der Replies-Collection komplett dem eigenen Server, wer greift manuell ein, oder hat einen pragmatischen Weg dazwischen gefunden?

Eigentlich sollte man erwarten, dass die ausliefernden Server ihre Replies-Collection halbwegs zuverlässig pflegen, statt dass jeder Betreiber auf eigene Faust nachhelfen muss.

Über konkrete Erfahrungen und Einstellungen würde ich mich freuen.


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Das Projekt Mangrove bringt Rezensionen direkt in unsere Timelines.
Die Idee: Orte oder Personen, die bewertet werden, erhalten ein eigenes ActivityPub-Konto.

Man kann den Bewertungen für ein bestimmtes Café oder einer Person, deren Geschmack man schätzt, einfach folgen. Neue Rezensionen ploppen dann ganz natürlich in der Timeline auf – inklusive Sternen, Text und Bildern.

open-reviews.net/technology/fe…

#ActivityPub #Bewertungen #mangrovereviews


♲ Open Reviews Association - 2026-09-11 20:41:46 GMT

Mangrove reviews now speak ActivityPub. Follow any subject or reviewer from Mastodon or any other Fediverse app, and new reviews land in your timeline as posts.Look for the Follow button next to a subject or a reviewer on mangrove.reviews . Paste the handle into your app's search, or open the follow page on your own server.

Try it: @r-485971ceb2082160

Integrate it into your app: open-reviews.net/technology/fe…

#ActivityPub #Mastodon
"follow" button


Week in Fediverse 2026-09-11


Servers

- Hubzilla v11.4.1
- Bookwyrm v0.9.3
- Cookifed v0.1.0
- Ktistec v3.12.1
- Misskey v2026.9.0
- gathio v1.6.7
- NeoDB v0.18.2
- Appy v0.7.0
- PieFed v1.7.15
- Wafrn v2026.09.01

Clients

- Voyager v2.49.0
- Miria v4.0.1
- Aria v1.5.13

Tools and Plugins

- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.6.4 (WordPress plugin)

Articles

- Static ActivityPub Publishing

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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Nach mehreren Tagen Messung möchte ich unsere Untersuchung zum ungewöhnlich
anwachsenden PHP-FPM-Pool abschließen.

Der wichtigste Befund ist inzwischen recht eindeutig:
Von 196.466 ausgewerteten Slowlog-Ereignissen enthielten 195.069 einen
curl_exec()-Aufruf, also rund 99,3 Prozent.

Zusätzlich konnten wir einen betroffenen PHP-FPM-Prozess während eines realen
Ereignisses mit ss und strace beobachten. Dabei wartete der Prozess über viele Sekunden wiederholt in poll() auf Daten eines externen HTTPS-Sockets. Über ss ließsich derselbe File-Descriptor derselben PID eindeutig einer externen Verbindung zuordnen. Gleichzeitig bestanden mehrere weitere PHP-FPM-Verbindungen zu denselben wenigen Gegenstellen.

MariaDB und Redis antworteten im selben Zeitraum dagegen sehr schnell. Der Engpass
lag also nicht primär im lokalen System, sondern im Warten auf externe HTTP-
Kommunikation.

Nach der schrittweisen Anpassung der Wartezeiten und der FPM-Reserve hat sich das
Verhalten deutlich beruhigt. Auch der Load Average ist wieder auf ein normales Niveau
zurückgegangen. Die Zahl der Slowlog-Ereignisse fiel ab dem 4. September massiv ab.

Der Slowlog ist deshalb inzwischen wieder deaktiviert.

Mein persönliches Fazit aus der Untersuchung geht inzwischen über die konkrete
Friendica-Instanz hinaus:

Eine föderierte Instanz muss nicht nur selbst stabil laufen. Sie muss auch so mit
langsamen, fehlerhaften oder zeitweise unerreichbaren Gegenstellen umgehen können,
dass deren Zustand die eigene Funktionsfähigkeit möglichst wenig beeinflusst.

Ich habe die Ergebnisse deshalb noch einmal ausführlicher in einem Fachartikel
zusammengefasst:

Föderation braucht Fehlertoleranz an den Instanzgrenzen

Hier der vollständige Artikel

Dabei verzichte ich bewusst auf konkrete Grenzwerte oder eine allgemeine „Best-Practice-
Konfiguration“. Die Werte hängen zu stark von Instanzgröße, Nutzung, Federation-
Volumen und Systemumgebung ab. Entscheidend ist aus meiner Sicht nicht das Kopieren
einzelner Parameter, sondern das Verständnis der Zusammenhänge und die Messung auf
der eigenen Instanz.

#Friendica #Fediverse #Sysadmin #ActivityPub #Federation


Week in Fediverse 2026-09-04


Servers

- Ktistec v3.12.0
- Mastodon v4.7.1
- Vernissage v1.43.0
- snac v2.95
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.3.0
- Owncast v0.3.0
- gathio v1.6.6
- NodeBB v4.15.2
- tootik v0.25.2
- NeoDB v0.18.0
- Bonfire v1.0.7

Clients

- PleromaFE v2.11.4
- Fedilab v3.43.3
- Tuba v0.11.1
- Pixelix v5.2.0
- Summit v1.85.0
- Shoot Web App v1.3.0

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v8.2.0
- Poduptime v6.3.2
- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.6.3 (WordPress plugin)

For developers

- APx v0.27.0
- Library progress report - September 2026 (GoActivityPub)

Articles

- A reasonably practical guide to validating RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures for ActivityPub in PHP

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: mitra.social/objects/01a04a26-…


I've just published version 2.95 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. This is an important release, as it fixes an issue that can lead to denial of service attacks, so please update as soon as possible. It also includes the following changes:

Fixed a bug in the notification page that made snac hang forever while trying to read abnormally big files.

Improved support for text-only web browsers: it's now possible to configure a set of web browser user-agent strings that will receive simpler HTML in the private timeline web UI. Basically, it consists in avoiding details / summary HTML tags as much as possible.

Added some fixes to media proxy code.

Fixed EmojiReact code to allow any emoticon defined in emojis.json, not only those with colon-wrapped identifiers.

Fixed a bug in notification filtering (paging was sometimes incorrect).

Added a notification filter for Webmentions.

Mastodon API: Don't return reactions count as string (contributed by mkljczk), implemented GET /v1/media (contributed by clairemont).

Fixed bug in documentation examples (contributed by Sprite_tm).

Updated Ukrainian and Russian translations (contributed by wincentbalin and koru).

comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse



9.3.0 — Modern Signatures and a Summer of Security Reports


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It has been almost three months since 9.0.0, and eight releases: 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.1.0, 9.2.0, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.3.0, and now 9.3.1. Together they added seven new things, closed ten security issues, and fixed close to fifty bugs, which is a very different balance than usual.

This post covers the new things first, and then explains where the rest of the summer went.

Modern Signatures, On by Default


Every message your site sends to the Fediverse carries a signature, the digital equivalent of a wax seal on an envelope. In July 2025 we wrote about the move from the old draft format to RFC 9421, the official standard. Back then, sending with the new format was a setting for early adopters, and we promised to turn it on for everyone once the rest of the Fediverse was ready.

With 9.3.0 it is on by default. Your site now signs outgoing requests with RFC 9421, and falls back to the old format when the server on the other side does not understand it yet. For almost everyone this changes nothing you can see. Your posts keep arriving, your follows keep working.

A small number of servers advertise support for the new format but handle it differently in practice. If your posts suddenly stop arriving on one particular server after this update, you can switch back. Open the ActivityPub settings, click Screen Options in the top right, enable Advanced Settings, and turn off the modern signature format in the Advanced tab. Please let us know in the support forum which server it was, so we can look into it.

Your Podcast Travels With Its Audio


If you publish podcast episodes with Jetpack, your episodes now federate as episodes. The audio file and the cover art travel with the post, so your followers get a playable player in their Fediverse app instead of a link they have to click through.
A screenshot of a WordPress hosted Podcast Episode on Mastodon.
Version 9.1.0 did the same for Podlove Podcast Publisher, where the episode summary now goes out with the post rather than being dropped.

A Quieter Inbox


Likes, reposts, and quotes are lovely until there are two hundred of them and your email inbox has two hundred entries. Until now, switching those off meant switching off notifications for real comments and replies too.
Screenshot of the E-Mail Notification settings in WP-Admin.
9.3.0 separates them. There is a new notification setting that turns off emails about likes, reposts, and quotes, while comments and replies from the Fediverse keep reaching you. Reactions still show up on your post, you just stop hearing about each one individually.

Smaller Things You Might Notice


  • Fediverse and ActivityPub logos in the editor. On WordPress 7.1 and newer, both logos are part of the block editor’s icon library, so you can use them in a Social Icons block or anywhere else an icon fits.
  • The follow, reply, and reaction dialogs speak up. Screen readers now announce errors in those dialogs instead of leaving people guessing why nothing happened.
  • Scheduled posts show the right preview. Since 9.1.0, a scheduled post shows the Fediverse Preview, so you can see what your followers will get before it goes out.
  • Avatars that actually update. The scheduled refresh of remote profiles was not refreshing anything. Commenters kept the avatar and bio they had when they first showed up. Fixed in 9.1.0.
  • Two new FAQ guides, added in 9.0.1, for the two questions we get most often: follow requests stuck on “pending”, and comments from the Fediverse not appearing on your posts.


For People Building on the Plugin


9.1.0 added an actor autocomplete endpoint, so a Fediverse app connected to your site can offer typeahead search when you are mentioning someone. There is also a new filter for sites that need to federate inside a private or internal network, which mostly matters for intranets and staging setups.

In 9.3.0, apps connected through the ActivityPub API now use the standard permission names from the specification, and fetching remote content through your site counts as reading rather than posting. Apps also see the real error when a post is missing, instead of a generic failure that told them nothing.

Where the Summer Went


Seven new things in three months is not much. Here is the reason.

Since June we have had a steady stream of security reports. Ten of them became entries in the changelogs of 9.1.0 and 9.3.0, and a few more landed quietly as fixes. Every report has to be read, reproduced, judged, fixed, tested, and shipped, and the fix has to be written so it does not break the sites that already work. For a team our size that is most of a week each time, sometimes more.

This is not a complaint, and a real thank you to everyone who sent a report and then waited while we worked through the queue. Nearly all of the reports were real, and every one of them made the plugin safer for the people running it. This is responsible disclosure working the way it should. It just means the roadmap moves slower than it looks on paper, and features that were planned for July are still open.

We are not alone in this. WordPress core is seeing the same wave, and for the same reason: AI models have become good enough at reading code that finding a plausible vulnerability is now cheap. The security team wrote about it in The Core Security Initiative, and the project started Protect The Shire to review the code in the plugin and theme directories at a scale that was not possible before. The same tools that raise the number of reports also help everyone work through them. On balance, we think this is good for the ecosystem, even on the weeks where it does not feel like it.

In general terms, the security work in these releases covers four areas:

  • Content from other servers is cleaned before it is stored, and again before it is displayed, so what another server sends cannot influence how your site behaves.
  • Data that belongs to you stays yours. Your followers, the profiles your site has cached, and your reader posts are not readable by logged-out visitors, and the setting that hides your follower list is respected everywhere.
  • Activities are checked more strictly against the account they claim to come from, so a server cannot act on behalf of someone else.
  • Apps you connect can only do what you allowed them to do, and nothing wider.

We are keeping this vague on purpose. The details are in the reports, and we would rather not hand a recipe to anyone whose site has not updated yet. If you run the plugin, please update.

What the Fixes Cover


The fifty or so fixes across these releases are not one story, but they fall into a few groups:

  • Finding each other. Profiles and posts were not always found when an address contained unusual characters, or was written with different capitalisation, or when the other server answered in an unexpected shape. Several fixes make lookups work in all of those cases.
  • Reactions arriving once. Likes and boosts could be recorded as duplicate comments, or come back after you marked them as spam. A deletion on Mastodon did not always remove the matching comment on your site. Both are fixed.
  • Caching. ActivityPub responses were sometimes stored by page caches meant for regular web pages. Since 9.2.0, those responses are served only to clients that ask for ActivityPub data and nothing else, which keeps them out of caches like LiteSpeed and Surge. Support for the WP REST Cache plugin was removed as part of this.
  • Publishing edge cases. Posts scheduled for a future date were removed from the Fediverse when edited. Hidden page elements, like the text inside a closed dialog, ended up in the content sent to your followers. Backslashes vanished from imported titles. Small things, annoying every time.
  • Living with other plugins. Fixes for sites running Polylang, Jetpack, Surge, and the Mastodon importer, which was creating duplicate posts when an archive was imported twice.
  • Admin screens and the editor. Styles that failed to load on the Fediverse screens and in the Followers and Following blocks, an editor warning about unsaved changes that appeared right after saving, and a handful of errors that filled up log files without breaking anything visible.

The full, item-by-item changelog for every release is in the plugin’s changelog if you want to read it in detail.

Get It


Download from WordPress.org or grab it on GitHub. If your site updates automatically, you already have it.

Thanks to everyone who filed a bug report with steps we could follow. Those are the ones that get fixed fastest.

Now that signatures are modern by default: does anything still deliver differently for you? And what would you like to see us build once the queue is shorter?


I've just published version 2.95 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. This is an important release, as it fixes an issue that can lead to denial of service attacks, so please update as soon as possible. It also includes the following changes:

Fixed a bug in the notification page that made snac hang forever while trying to read abnormally big files.

Improved support for text-only web browsers: it's now possible to configure a set of web browser user-agent strings that will receive simpler HTML in the private timeline web UI. Basically, it consists in avoiding details / summary HTML tags as much as possible.

Added some fixes to media proxy code.

Fixed EmojiReact code to allow any emoticon defined in emojis.json, not only those with colon-wrapped identifiers.

Fixed a bug in notification filtering (paging was sometimes incorrect).

Added a notification filter for Webmentions.

Mastodon API: Don't return reactions count as string (contributed by mkljczk), implemented GET /v1/media (contributed by clairemont).

Fixed bug in documentation examples (contributed by Sprite_tm).

Updated Ukrainian and Russian translations (contributed by wincentbalin and koru).

comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse


🆕 blog! “Book Review: ActivityPub by Evan Prodromou”
★★★★⯪

As part of my grant from NLnet to improve my Fediverse bot project, I'm spending time making sure I understand all the fundamentals of ActivityPub. The problem with Internet standards is they're scattered all over the place. Abandoned forums, half-maintained wikis, mailing lists with obscure rules, and…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/book-…
⸻
#ActivityPub #BookReview


Week in Fediverse 2026-08-28


Servers

- Hollo v0.9.13
- gush! v0.0.41
- tootik v0.25.0
- Mitra v5.10.0
- Pixelfed v0.12.9
- Hollo v0.9.15
- Funkwhale v2.0.10
- PieFed v1.7.13
- tootik v0.25.1
- NeoDB v0.17.8

Clients

- Pachli v3.8.1
- Fedilab v3.43.2
- RaccoonForFriendica v1.1.0

For developers

- Fedify v2.3.6

Protocol

- FEP-49eb: Batched Inbox Delivery

Articles

- A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our server
- The Problems and Successes of Fediverse Comments on my blog
- The Fediverse is Throwing a Music Festival

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: mitra.social/objects/01a0269e-…


Say goodbye to Linked Data Signatures


blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/…

We now support verifying FEP-8b32 Object Integrity Proofs using either eddsa-jcs-2022 or mldsa44-jcs-2024.


The latest version of Mastodon can verify FEP-8b32 integrity proofs, which replace outdated Linked Data Signatures.

Docs: docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/sec…

#activitypub #fedidev #fep_8b32


Week in Fediverse 2026-08-21


Servers

- Funkwhale v2.0.8
- PieFed v1.7.11
- TinyAP v0.1.13
- Wafrn v2026.08.04
- Mastodon v4.7.0
- gathio v1.6.5
- NeoDB v0.17.7
- NodeBB v4.15.1
- Flox v2.7.0
- 5.0: Laying the foundation (Mastodon)

Clients

- PleromaFE v2.11.3
- chan-fe v0.3.0
- Tuba v0.11.0
- Mangane v1.24.3
- Mastodon for iOS v2026.07
- Miria v4.0.0+125
- Summit v1.84.0
- Voyager v2.48.5
- Pixelix v5.1.1

Tools and Plugins

- Pluraldawn: Decodes indicator emoji information from account avatars to provide a PluralKit-esque experience inside of various fediverse webapps

Protocol

- ActivityPub Miscellaneous Terms

Articles

- Implementing Pagination for ActivityPub Collections
- Owncast Newsletter August 2026

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Previous edition: mitra.social/objects/01a001c8-…


Week in Fediverse 2026-08-14


Servers

- Akkoma v2026.08
- WriteFreely v0.17.2
- Wafrn v2026.08.03
- Mitra v5.9.0
- Ktistec v3.11.0
- Hollo v0.9.11
- Mastodon v4.6.6
- Forte v26.8.11
- gathio v1.6.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.2.2
- NeoDB v0.17.6
- NodeBB v4.15.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, July 2026 (Mastodon)

Clients

- Aria v1.5.11
- Snowdrop: Multiplatform client for Mastodon API compatable Fediverse software

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v9.1.1

For developers

- Fedipub v0.9.0
- Library progress report - August 2026 (GoActivityPub)

Protocol

- FEP-e4de: Closing Registration on Unattended Servers
- FEP-633c: Guardians

Articles

- Deploying your own Vernissage instance

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I really think we can bring proximity back to social networks, and #ActivityPub is the best place for it.

#FediHood connects you with people in your own city. Posts carry a local topic: help, events, buy and sell, meet people, news.

Moderators earn their role through good actions in their own area, and lose it through bad ones. The power stays with the users, not with big tech that puts money before moderation.

fedihood.social


Hello World


Coucou! This is just a first post announcing Nuages to the world.

Nuages is an ActivityPub app, connecting to your favourite servers that support the Client to Server API.

Follow us to get our latest updates, we’ll be officially launching the app in the coming weeks 😉

#ActivityPub #c2s #ActivityPubAPI #Fediverse


Week in Fediverse 2026-07-24


Servers

- WriteFreely v0.17.0
- Ktistec v3.9.0
- Vernissage Server v1.41.0
- GoToSocial v0.22.1
- Bookwyrm v0.9.1
- PeerTube v8.2.3
- Lemmy v0.19.20
- ties v0.3
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.1.0
- NeoDB v0.17.2
- NodeBB v4.14.2
- PieFed v1.7.7
- FitPub v1.2.1
- ActivityForge: ForgeFed implementation in Rust

Clients

- PleromaFE v2.11.1
- Aria v1.5.9
- Pixelix v5.0.0
- Summit v1.83.0
- Jerboa v0.0.88
- Holos v1.15.0
- Rocinante v1.1.8

Tools and Plugins

- Superblock v3.1 (Hubzilla addon)
- Polls for ActivityPub v1.0.10 (WordPress plugin)

Protocol

- FEP-de8d: Emoji Catalogs

Articles

- I added ActivityPub to this blog

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Week in Fediverse 2026-07-17


Servers

- flohmarkt v0.20.0
- Vernissage Server v1.40.0
- FitPub v1.2.0
- Wafrn v2026.07.02
- TinyAP v0.1.11
- NeoDB v0.16.5.0
- PieFed v1.7.6
- Catodon v26.7.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, June 2026 (Mastodon)
- matrix-appservice-activitypub: Turns your Matrix server into a fully functioning ActivityPub server
- Discord–Fediverse Bridge: A self-hosted bridge between Discord forum channels and ActivityPub community actors
- ~petersanchez/honk: Fork of honk

Clients

- PeerTube Mobile v2.2.0
- Photon v2.4.0
- Tesseract v1.5.5
- Aria v1.5.8
- Mitra Mini v0.5.0

Tools and Plugins

- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.6.1 (WordPress plugin)
- Polls for ActivityPub v1.0.9 (WordPress plugin)
- Telegram ↔️ Mastodon Bridge Bot: A Python bot that forwards text messages, photos, and albums from a Telegram chat to your Mastodon account

For developers

- @shootpub/activitypub-types: ActivityPub types package with support for FEP-2277 Activitypub core types (duck typing)

Articles

- The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE

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Week in Fediverse 2026-07-10


Servers

- Betula v1.8.1
- Stegodon v1.8.6
- Ktistec v3.8.0
- Mitra v5.7.0
- Ibis v0.3.3
- Gathio v1.6.3
- NodeBB v4.14.0
- Wanderer v0.20.0
- Wafrn v2026.07.01
- Gush! v0.0.40
- PieFed v1.7.5
- Harmony v1.4.0

Clients

- Mastodon for iOS v2026.05
- tooi v0.27.0
- Voyager v2.47.4
- Aria v1.5.7
- Holos v1.14.0
- Rocinante v1.1.0
- chan-fe: Imageboard-style frontend for Mitra and Mastodon-compatible fediverse APIs

Tools and Plugins

- tag-federation.online: How Widely Do Hashtags Federate?
- Fedigraph: A dashboard for exploring the fediverse

For developers

- BotKit v0.5.0

Protocol

- FEP-4772: Representing bookmarks
- FEP-521b: Switch the default in FEP-521a to be 76171% cooler

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#Mitra v5.7.0

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- Improvements related to groups: adding group description, editing and deleting groups, better navigation.
- Showing total number of voters in polls.
- The "Posts and replies" tab was removed from the profile page, replaced with filters (show reposts / show replies).



Week in Fediverse 2026-07-03


Servers

- TinyAP v0.1.10
- GoToSocial v0.22.0
- Mobilizon v5.2.4
- Bonfire v1.0.5
- PeerTube v8.2.2
- Ktistec v3.7.0
- PieFed v1.7.0
- Mastodon v4.6.3
- Hollo v0.9.6
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.0.2
- NeoDB v0.16.3
- Wanderer v0.19.3
- Trunk & Tidbits, May 2026 (Mastodon)
- Lemmy Development Update June 2026 and 1.0.0-beta.1

Clients

- Fedilab v3.42.1
- Pachli v3.7.1
- Aria v1.5.5
- Rocinante v1.0.9
- Holos v1.12.0
- Mitra Mini v0.4.2

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v7.1.21
- owncast-emojiwall v2.1.0
- Polls For ActivityPub (WordPress plugin)

For developers

- Why implementing ActivityPub is hard, and why it doesn't have to be (Fedify)

Protocol

- FEP-8c13: Context-Authority Routing with Object Integrity Proofs for Restricted Threads
- FEP-f228: Backfilling conversations (Final comments)
- FEP-7628: Move actor (Final comments)

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Week in Fediverse 2026-06-26


Servers

- Vernissage Server v1.39.0
- Bookwyrm v0.9.0
- Mastodon v4.6.1
- GoToSocial v0.21.3
- Ktistec v3.6.0
- snac v2.93
- Mitra v5.6.0
- Misskey v2026.6.0
- NeoDB v0.16.2.1

Clients

- Fedilab v3.42.0
- Mastodon for Android v2.13.0
- Voyager 2.47.3
- Tesseract v1.5.4
- Holos v1.10.2
- Phanpy changelog
- Rocinante: A modern, open-source Android client for BookWyrm

For developers

- Fedify v2.3.0
- Masto.js v7.12.0

Articles

- FR#168 – LLMs Join The Fediverse

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Bubbles is pretty cool. It's a Hacker-News-style site that pulls posts from #RSS and runs likes and comments through #ActivityPub.

I really like it.

bubbles.town/


Week in Fediverse 2026-06-19


Servers

- Gush! v0.0.39
- Hollo v0.9.5
- FitPub v1.1.0
- Mbin v1.10.0
- PeerTube v8.2.1
- Mastodon v4.6.0
- Wafrn v2026.06.02
- Ktistec v3.5.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.0.1
- NeoDB v0.16.2
- NodeBB v4.13.2

Clients

- Nicolium v1.0.0
- Mastodon Bird UI v4.0.0
- Loops for Android v1.0.2.4
- Voyager v2.47.1
- Aria v1.5.4
- Loops is now on Google Play

Tools and Plugins

- PeerTube livechat plugin v14.0.3
- Canvas: A collaborative pixel canvas built for the Fediverse

Articles

- We've been hacked

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Week in Fediverse 2026-06-12


Servers

- Betula v1.8.0
- Bookwyrm v0.8.7
- Lemmy v0.19.19
- Mitra v5.5.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.0.0
- PeerTube v8.2.1
- NeoDB v0.16.0
- flohmarkt v0.18.1
- NodeBB v4.13.0
- Mastodon 4.6 for Developers
- Discord–Fediverse Bridge: Syncs Discord forum channels with Lemmy communities over ActivityPub

Clients

- Mastodon for iOS v2026.04
- RaccoonForFriendica v1.0.0
- Nicolium v0.3.2
- Voyager v2.47.0
- Tesseract v1.5.3
- Holos v1.9.0

For developers

- Fedify v2.2.5

Protocol

- FEP-5219: Groups and permissions
- FEP-7aa9: Featuring recommendations using a dedicated collection

Articles

- Non-Commercial Social Networks

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#Mitra v5.5.0

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- List of followed groups, group timelines and the ability to post to a group. The list of groups can be accessed from the menu on your profile page.
- "Load conversation" item was added to the post menu (admin only). Unlike "Load replies", it loads an entire thread, not just replies to the selected post.
- Partial support for ActivityPub outbox POST (only Like activities, disabled by default).



Week in Fediverse 2026-06-05


Servers

- Mastodon v4.5.11
- Hollo v0.9.3
- Wafrn v2026.06.01
- Ktistec v3.4.1
- tootik v0.23.1
- NeoDB v0.15.2
- wanderer v0.19.2
- Lemmy Development Update May 2026
- FitPub: A self-hosted fitness tracking platform for the Fediverse
- Harmony: Discord-style servers and chat with ActivityPub
- Menuverse: A federated menu system for canteens and institutions
- LAUTI: A calendar software where one can publish events, groups and places

Clients

- Pachli v3.7.0
- Elk v1.0.0
- Fedilab v3.41.0
- tooi v0.26.0
- Pixelix v4.4.0
- Aria v1.5.3
- Tesseract v1.5.0
- Interstellar v0.11.4
- Holos v1.8.0
- P2Play v0.10.1

For developers

- APx v0.25.0

Protocol

- FEP-bebd: Follow Invites

Articles

- Prikbord: Federated calendar for events in Rotterdam
- small details in my mastodon client that i wanted more people to notice
- From simple afterthought to over-engineered software
- FR#165 – Fediverse News May 2026

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Week in Fediverse 2026-05-29


Servers

- PeerTube v8.2.0
- Bookwyrm v0.8.6
- Gush! v0.0.38
- Hollo v0.9.2
- Mitra v5.4.0
- Ktistec v3.4.0
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.12
- tootik v0.23.0
- NeoDB v0.15.0
- NodeBB v4.12.0
- Catodon v26.5.0
- TinyAP v0.1.9

Clients

- Fedilab v3.40.2
- Nicolium v0.3.1
- Coho v1.2
- Interstellar v0.11.3
- Aria v1.5.2
- Loops Mobile App v1.0.2.2
- Mitra Mini v0.4.1

Tools and Plugins

- Event Bridge for ActivityPub v1.3.0 (WordPress plugin)
- hugo-ap-comments: Embed Mastodon / Fediverse replies as a comment section on your static Hugo site

Articles

- Stop Posting to Platforms — Turn Your Website into a Fediverse Node

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#Mitra v5.4.0

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codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra-…

- All users can load latest and featured posts from remote profiles. Previously this action was only available to admins.
- A category can be specified when adding an emoji to local collection. Mitra Web doesn't support emoji categories yet, but categorization should work in other clients.
- Improved reliability of the media proxy.
- Added command groups: account, ap, config, emoji, filter, invite, media. They are currently hidden from the main list of commands. Use help subcommand to view information about a group: mitra filter help.


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