Wandering Adventure Party

I think I have identified a fairly significant flaw in how the #Fediverse currently operates. Hear me out.The Fediverse currently consists of all sorts of different systems - #Mastodon, #Friendica , #Pixelfed , #PeerTube, #BookWyrm , and so forth. And while they are all connected via the #ActivityPub protocol, they all have different functionalities and different ways of presenting themselves. Which is as it should be, because Diversity Is Our Strength(TM).However, it is here that the ActivityPub-based interactivity hits its limits - for usually, you can either experience the relevant system as it was intended, or you can interact with it, but not both - _unless_ you have an account on the same system (though not necessarily on the same instance).Let's say that you are a Mastodon user who looks at another person's BookWyrm page. You scroll through their books, posts, and comments. Then you see some comment you want to comment on yourself, but can you do so?Not directly. You need to figure out the URL of their comment, and then copy and paste that comment into the search bar of your Mastodon instance. Then it will show up in the same format as a Mastodon post, and you can interact with it - boost it, like it, comment on it.Sure, it works, but it's a whole lot of tedious effort.Or you can search for the user account in Mastodon and scroll through all their posts and comments as if they were a Mastodon user - and thus, you will miss out on all the unique user interface features of BookWyrm.So what is missing?Well, Mastodon already has an "Open original page" feature when looking at someone's post. What we need is an "Open original page AND AUTHENTICATE" feature. This way, the target instance (whatever software they are using) could acknowledge the viewer as an external user who could nevertheless fully interact with the local user interface, including the ability to boost, like, and make comments.This is something that should be theoretically possible to implement, right? #FediHelp

Hope everybody is having a great autumn — with temperatures slated to drop next week, I suppose it’s almost time for winter 🥶 (and yes, I use em dashes. No LLM was used to write this travesty of a release post.) We’ve just dropped NodeBB v4.7.0 with some nice QoL improvements for sites federating via ActivityPub. Security Fixes Just a note that v4.6.3 contained a dependency upgrade to the validator package that fixes CVE-2025-56200. v4.7.0 contains this fix as well. New setting to control whether uploaded media is displayed as a topic thumbnail ️ Early changes to better handle ActivityPub content meant that uploaded post content was shown in the topic thumbnails set. This is now a configurable option in Settings > Uploads. Removal of the “federated description” We had a small postscript added by default when categories federated outward, and it even came with some default text about mentioning the category to create a topic. It didn’t quite work out like we planned, and just looked plain weird when viewed through other threadiverse software (you don’t mention a community to create a post in it). For now I’ve removed that feature. A link back to remote categories ️ Remote categories now have a button that allows you to navigate directly to the community itself — be it a Lemmy or Piefed community, Peertube channel, etc. Category boost fixes When a topic is moved between categories, the related categories will share (or “Announce” in AP parlance) OP. Likewise, it will be unshared by the other category is no longer belongs to. N.B. For devs — categories will also federate out Move and Remove activities for the appropriate contexts, which is going to be part of an upcoming FEP the ForumWG is working on. Improved handling of remote content in chats When receiving non-public content from remote sources (shown as a chat message), embedded images are now included. When sending chat messages outside of NodeBB, emoji are now included.

Out of curiosity, what #FediVerse applications _other_ than Mastodon have you used?In my case, it's:- #BookWyrm- #PixelFed- #Lemmy - #NeoDB - #WordPress #ActivityPub plugin

@SDF I'm currently traveling, so I can't do any kind of in-depth analysis. But this particular request seems to have stopped two hours ago or so.

Hey #Fediverse! I'm building a Sound Library for Loops, my #ActivityPub video project, to let users add free audio to their videos.I'm already looking into integrations with #FunkWhale and Bandwagon.What other sources for free, libre, or public domain (CC-BY, CC0, etc.) music and sound effects should I check out?#AskFedi #Loops #FreeMusic

Meet Loops — a new, federated TikTok alternative that’s open-source and self-hosted.Every movement begins with a spark. Loops is that spark — breaking down the walls built around creativity and replacing them with doors anyone can open, explore, and build upon.Join us and spread the word!https://joinloops.org#loops #tikTok #activityPub

@Tim_Eagon How it went on Bluesky: Few ATProto boosters yelling PHP is garbage, just use an existing PDS, just run a separate server for it, and super trivial to write the sockets and REST for PHP, Ben and Matthias and all them are lying/don't know what they're talking about. FTR, I had one cover ALL those bases + then some. Final post before I blocked them all: Oh how stupid you're being. You don't need root/server access to set things up! Here's a screenshot of me using Docker on a VPS.

@hiphopheaven @Linux_Is_Best No, it wasn't. I haven't seen more than a handful of Nazi posts on the Fediverse in the years that I moved here, and I think the ability to defederate plays a major part in that.

@rauschma Mastodon fully displays Markdown. And if your post is over a certain character count, they snip it and add a “Read more…” so that those who are interested in reading lots of text can.

Bluesky was never an alternative. I don't say it isn't better than Twitter; it is. However, the only genuine alternative, as of now, remains the Fediverse and Mastodon. And most people won't admit it because they're too lazy to go through the "server browser" procedure, which is literally two clicks.We put no effort into things and expect better/different results? That's silly.Excellent article: https://azhdarchid.com/delusions-of-a-protocol/#Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky #ATProto #ActivityPub #Tech

We have just released v4.6.0 of NodeBB, containing fixes to our ActivityPub integration, minor fixes with SCSS, and some new functionality with topic templating. ActivityPub Fixes WordPress blogs can be properly pulled into NodeBB (via their URL) now Fixed an error when moving a remote topic to another category This also fixed the issue where moved topics didn’t update topic/post counters Fixed bug where NodeBB could not properly process Link headers when it contained the standalone crossorigin directive Notifications for replies to topics made in remote categories now show the appropriate user Fixed bug where remote users were not able to post to a local category if registered-users privilege was removed (now checks fediverse pseudo-user) Nested remote categories can now be removed from the ACP Remote categories can be renamed for de-duplication purposes Improved title generation for quote-posts Core fixes Persona theme now shows hidden (zero-character) links in post content _variables.scss page in ACP > Appearance can now override Bootstrap variables A template can be provided in a category’s settings. This template is auto-populated in the composer when a new topic is being authored.

While others build walled gardens, we're preparing to tear down walls.As TikTok creates separate US and global apps, we're putting the finishing touches on ActivityPub integration in Loops. Soon you'll share your loops across the entire fediverse - no borders, no corporate silos.The future is federated. https://joinloops.org#Loops #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Hi everyone! I’m trying to upgrade from v4.4.6 to v4.5.2 and after connecting to Redis, it just stucks and I don’t know where yet. There is no error. The HTTP server doesn’t start. Our forum has a lot of users, uploads, posts. We had several issues in the past. I will try to figure out what’s wrong, but if anyone have an idea what might be the problem in v4.5.x, it would help me. Thanks, Tomas

If you have a #blog , does it have #ActivityPub integration - either natively or via an appropriate plugin (such as the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress)?If so, share its account name here - so that people can follow them and comment on them with their regular #FediVerse account!I think this functionality is one of the most underappreciated aspects of the Fediverse. It's not quite an #RSS feed, but it's awesome in its own right.

It’s interesting—I primarily use the #Fediverse for blogging, not microblogging. People used to complain about that. But after two years, I haven’t received a single complaint. Which means people have got used to the notion that #ActivityPub does not need to be Twitter-like. #FedIcon

Okay, really interesting that rich text and out-of-band hashtags are supported in #ATProtocol but not the #Bluesky client. Haha. I guess it’s not so different from #ActivityPub in some aspects. #Fedicon

Thrilled to see so many engaged and passionate women at #FediCon who are thinking about the future of #ActivityPub and the #Fediverse.

What resources would you recommend for getting into #activitypub Basic theory, hello world ... implementationDon't hold back, flood me

@Flipboard @johnonolan @pfefferle @mike I love and use all these FOSS projects ️

You’ve grafted ActivityPub onto an already established, mature product, and done so as a core feature. You’re not the only one trying this, but you might be the first one out the door with it. There’s a lot to learn from that experience. You’ve also brought a traditional, small-social-media modal into a space that is dominated by platforms emulating new-social experiences. Again, not the only one, but nodeBB and Discourse are pretty severe minorities in this respect. You guys are going to have some unique perspectives on the Fediverse as an experiment. Plus, there’s the backfill drum you keep beating. I think you have a lot to speak to. On top of that, the Fediverse has been wrestling with its distributed nature for a few years now – maybe longer, but I showed up a few months before the big waves from Twitter and Reddit – and the current prevailing wisdom is that people want systems that obfuscate that distribution, or work around it entirely. There’s not enough people to support niche communities, they say, or people get confused and frustrated when there are multiple active communities of the same name and topic. But personally, I see the way forward for the Fediverse as a network of local-first social media sites, and nothing out there right now quite communicates or is making steps to realize that vision like federated forums do. Not only does a bulletin board not look like centralized mega-sites like Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit, but it also doesn’t behave like one. It centres the local website, its core topics of discussion, and its local users, rather than the constant content stream of modern, corporate social media, while still giving free access to other people and forums. And I think that’s what’s healthy for the Internet, and should be boosted as much as possible.