Starting to feel, more and more, like I need to build my own #ActivityPub thing. This book sounds like a good foundation to build off of. Authored by @evan@cosocial.ca.

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@patriottakes.bsky.social please follow @ap.brid.gy so that people on #mastodon and other #ActivityPub services can communicate with you. also, if everybody was bridged, the costs to move become negligible, pressuring #bluesky to never “go evil” in the first place. fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky...

Bridgy Fed

@davidcorn.bsky.social please follow @ap.brid.gy so that people on #mastodon and other #ActivityPub services can communicate with you. also, if everybody was bridged, the costs to move become negligible, pressuring #bluesky to never “go evil” in the first place. fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky...

Bridgy Fed

@asharangappa.bsky.social please follow @ap.brid.gy so that people on #mastodon and other #ActivityPub services can communicate with you. also, if everybody was bridged, the costs to move become negligible, pressuring #bluesky to never “go evil” in the first place. fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky...

Bridgy Fed

Friendly reminder that Bluesky is subject to the same pitfalls as Twitter.

If you truly want digital freedom in your social media, here are some decentralized alternatives:

Twitter Mastodon
Instagram Pixelfed
Reddit Lemmy
Facebook Diaspora
TikTok Loops (by Pixelfed)

First 100: BadgeFed Explorer

The verified Recognition was issued to @𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌

You ventured into uncharted territory and helped shape the BadgeFed project from the start. As one of the first 100 testers, your curiosity, feedback, and bug-finding instincts helped stabilize the platform. The fediverse will always remember your role in getting us off the ground—one crash, typo, and glorious bug report at a time.

Earning Criteria: Awarded to the first 100 individuals who actively participated in the early testing phase of BadgeFed. This includes exploring the platform, submitting feedback or bug reports, and generally poking around where things probably weren’t ready yet. These badges are limited—no retroactive claims, no reruns, no exceptions. You were here. You mattered..
Issued on: 04/11/2025 18:01:32
Accepted On: 04/12/2025 07:54:59

Verify the Recognition here.

First 100: BadgeFed Explorer

The verified Recognition was issued to @Suzanne Aldrich

You ventured into uncharted territory and helped shape the BadgeFed project from the start. As one of the first 100 testers, your curiosity, feedback, and bug-finding instincts helped stabilize the platform. The fediverse will always remember your role in getting us off the ground—one crash, typo, and glorious bug report at a time.

Earning Criteria: Awarded to the first 100 individuals who actively participated in the early testing phase of BadgeFed. This includes exploring the platform, submitting feedback or bug reports, and generally poking around where things probably weren’t ready yet. These badges are limited—no retroactive claims, no reruns, no exceptions. You were here. You mattered..
Issued on: 04/12/2025 05:07:53
Accepted On: 04/12/2025 06:30:41

Verify the Recognition here.

The first 16 badges based in activitypub from @badgefed@vocalcat.com were issued! I am planning to issue another 10 tonight.

Follow @badgefed@badges.vocalcat.com for check how the testing is going!

I earned the Early Explorer badge from @badgefed - an new federated badging platform.

https://badges.vocalcat.com/view/grant/badgesvocalcatcom_10_9_a87d3860481368983e687d69d033c6f9

ActivityPub 5.7.0 for WordPress is out now!

Among other things, this release brings more helpful details to Site Health and upgrades the Reply block—it now embeds the referenced post, even if oEmbed isn’t supported!

#WordPress #ActivityPub

Full changelog: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/#developers

I'm looking for some insight on why it's NOT a good idea to build next #decentralized project on #ATproto (#BlueSky) and stick to #ActivityPub?

By quickly glancing through the ATP docs, it seems like a much more pleasant experience to work with over AP but there's probably more to it than just the technical part.

Can anyone #help me understand any atproto downsides?

Been busy this evening, with a chain-reaction of events.

I got my #3DPrinter working again - nozzle was blocked, and I couldn't get it unblocked, so I ordered some replacement ones, which arrived nearly a week ago. For multiple reasons, I haven't had the opportunity and/or energy to fit it, until tonight. Got a great test print run off, first try with the new nozzle, so tomorrow I'll be able to set off the ~15 hour print I was trying to do when it blocked.

Also been thinking about a re-spin of the #MakerSpace concept that hopefully won't be so fkn horrible to run. I've been ruminating on this for the last couple of years - especially since I rage-quit running my local makerspace in the summer of 2023, when I had an #AutisticMeltdown due to having to leave our premises because the landlord was a rogue. Tonight I was able to actually get some good ideas down, some basic principles: virtual; non-hierarchical; no committee/board; distributed inventory; premise-less; nomadic - meeting in various venues around the area; organised online (pref using something federated); self-organising; plus a bunch of other things.

As a result of *that*, I ended up looking at #ActivityPub based applications, looking for things that might help with the "virtual makerspace" idea. Found three that I feel I need to check out: Hubzilla, Mobilizon, and NodeBB.

Looking at those three, NodeBB stuck out as it actually mentions FreeBSD as a supported platform, so *that* made me update my #FreeBSD-based mini-NAS, so I could test it. So I've just got it back up to scratch, because it WAS running FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p5 GENERIC, but after running freebsd-update, I found it's now no longer supported. While I've been typing this, it's just finished installing 14.2-RELEASE-p3.

Oh, and also been talking with my wife about how her #AutismAssessment went this evening.

And posting about British Chips and Mushy Peas.

I wonder if the new version of Digg will consider federation with the fediverse.

https://reboot.digg.com/

Will it be possible to get the same reach with the #ActivityPub #Wordpress Plugin? (Or Bluesky Bridge)

I am asking because for example one can not opt into Full Text Search am I correct? https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-opt-into-or-out-of-full-text-search-on-mastodon/

I'm working on an equivalent to #BookWyrm but for films (an alternative to #IMDB, #TMDB, #Letterboxd, etc.). I already have a very simple but usable code.

Anyone want to help me with the #ActivityPub stuff?

Imagine a federated network of physical spaces where people can exchange knowledge, skills, tools, and dreams...

Imagine gathering spaces designed to foster local communities, local projects, and new innovative economic arrangements...

Imagine spaces for care, protection, and engagement with our neighbors as a citizen fellowship...

Imagine, as a result, a workforce of talented people dedicated to transforming their local realities...

Exciting news! Fedify CLI is now available via Homebrew!

If you're using #Homebrew on macOS or #Linuxbrew on Linux, you can now install our CLI toolchain with a simple command:

brew install fedify

This makes it even easier to get started with building your federated server app. Try it out and let us know what you think!