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Look, just fucking use Mastodon already

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:14:16 +0000

See, what makes Mastodon less worse than something like Twitter or Bluesky or, god forbid, fucking Threads, is that it has escape hatches. You may not like being told “go find another instance,” but you can go find another instance, and that is fucking spectacular. Twitter started going into the shitter even before Elon Seig Heil Musk painted a big “X” on it with his dick, but did you all just say “sucks, man,” and fuck off to another Twitter instance? No! Why not? Because there were no other fucking Twitter instances!

Tags: #activitypub #atproto #bluesky #bsky #mastodon #social

evanp/onepage.pub: A one-page ActivityPub server

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:19:45 +0000

This project has multiple goals. First, it's a demonstration of how to build an ActivityPub server, with most of the important parts implemented. It should be useful for implementers who want to know how ActivityPub works in the real world. Second, it's a platform for testing and experimentation with new client apps and new server features.

Tags: #activitypub #fediverse #social

README.md - illuminant - ActivityPub server with NNTP interface

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:51:28 +0000

An ActivityPub server with an NNTP interface.

Tags: #activitypub #fediverse #nntp #usenet

Bridges & scruples

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:38:40 +0000

So the fediverse is technically open and culturally anxious about it.

Tags: #activitypub #fediverse #mastodon #social

Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:37:15 +0000

I think Bluesky is doing about as good a job as a group of people can do with the design they have and are trying to preserve. But I don't think the global context-collapse firehose works, and I'm not sure it's what users want it either, and if they do, they really seem to want both strong central control to meet their needs but also to not have strong central control be a thing that exists when it doesn't.

Tags: #activitypub #atproto #bluesky #bsky #social

in which social media can be put in your own hands - Technomancy

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:52:45 +0000

So what's it like to set up your own GotoSocial server? Well, I can walk you thru what I used for my setup. Yours might be different; that's OK! I made these up-front choices to simplify the operational overhead because I didn't want this to be a hassle and I don't need the extra engineering that comes from trying for nine nines of uptime:

Tags: #activitypub #diy #fediverse #gotosocial #mastodon #selfhosting #social

How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:51:07 +0000

Bluesky is built by good people who care, and it is providing something that people desperately want and need. If you are looking for a Twitter replacement, you can find it in Bluesky today. However, I stand by my assertions that Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralized and that it is certainly not federated according to any technical definition of federation we have had in a decentralized social network context previously. To claim that Bluesky is decentralized or federated in its current form moves the goalposts of both of those terms, which I find unacceptable. However, "credible exit" is a reasonable term to describe what Bluesky is aiming for. It is Bluesky's term, and I think Bluesky should embrace that term fully in all contexts and work that they can.

Tags: #activitypub #atprotocol #bluesky #bsky #mastodon #social

revealing the fediverse's gifts

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:55:22 +0000

If they’re motivated, tooled up, and plugged into communities of support fediverse server teams can provide context-sensitive, high-touch local moderation for their members—while also connecting to a broad landscape of other well-governed servers. But can new fediverse members find them?

Tags: #activitypub #fediverse #mastodon

how to buy shoes in the fediverse

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:09:10 +0000

The reason I think these problems are worth solving is because one of most valuable gifts of the fediverse as it currently exists is the ability to experience the fediverse from within a home server that is good for you—that cares about your experience, that moderates (locally and remotely) in ways that meet your needs and protect you from the things you actually want protection from, that is built to last.

Tags: #activitypub #fediverse #social

Welcome to Hollo | Hollo

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 02:30:17 +0000

A federated microblogging software for single-users. ActivityPub-enabled, Mastodon-compatible API, supports CommonMark and Misskey-style quotes.

Tags: #activitypub #fediverse #webdev

dahlia/fedify: ActivityPub server framework in TypeScript

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 20:24:23 +0000

ActivityPub server framework in TypeScript. Contribute to dahlia/fedify development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tags: #activitypub #fediverse #javascript #typescript #webdev

Beyond microblogging with ActivityPub [LWN.net]

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 04:55:06 +0000

ActivityPub-enabled microblogs are gaining popularity as a replacement for Twitter, but ActivityPub is for more than just microblogging

Tags: #activitypub #fediverse #imported:pinboard #network #webdev

Beyond microblogging with ActivityPub [LWN.net]

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 04:55:06 +0000

ActivityPub-enabled microblogs are gaining popularity as a replacement for Twitter, but ActivityPub is for more than just microblogging

Tags: #activitypub #fediverse #network #webdev

ActivityPub Beta on Xibalba BBS

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:01:20 +0000

Simply hop on Xibalba BBS and let me (NuSkooler) know you’d like to join in. You’ll get an @YourName@Xibalba.l33t.codes Fediverse address with the ability to both post and read public and private messages.

Tags: #activitypub #bbs #fediverse #imported:pinboard #oldschool #retro

ActivityPub Beta on Xibalba BBS

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:01:20 +0000

Tags: #activitypub #bbs #fediverse #oldschool #retro