🦣 Stegodon v1.8.2 brings configurable SSH idle timeouts and migrates to wish v2 for a smoother terminal experience! More control and cleaner code. #stegodon #fediverse #golang #ssh

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @rileytestut@mastodon.social from @altstore@fosstodon.org

Building emulators and app stores for iPhone with shanegill.io

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 19 March 2026 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree.org/@firesidefedi #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance #altStore #iOS #iPhone #appStores #phone #smartPhone

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

The #livestream will be on: stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @rileytestut@mastodon.social from @altstore@fosstodon.org

Building emulators and app stores for iPhone with shanegill.io

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 19 March 2026 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:

#PeerTube ( #VOD ): tubefree.org/@firesidefedi #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance #altStore #iOS #iPhone #appStores #phone #smartPhone

RE: https://social.publicspaces.net/@publicspaces/116216759839655883

Happy to share the good news of another @publicspaces conference happening this year!

Join us on June 4, 5 and 6th in Amsterdam.

Looking forward to work on this once again 😄

#Tech #Fediverse #BigTech #TechPolicy #PublicSpaces #PubConf2026 #OpenSource #Ethics #AI #ATProto #SocialMedia #Democracy #SocialWeb #EU #NL #Conference

RE: https://social.publicspaces.net/@publicspaces/116216759839655883

Happy to share the good news of another @publicspaces conference happening this year!

Join us on June 4, 5 and 6th in Amsterdam.

Looking forward to work on this once again 😄

#Tech #Fediverse #BigTech #TechPolicy #PublicSpaces #PubConf2026 #OpenSource #Ethics #AI #ATProto #SocialMedia #Democracy #SocialWeb #EU #NL #Conference

RE: https://social.publicspaces.net/@publicspaces/116216759839655883

Happy to share the good news of another @publicspaces conference happening this year!

Join us on June 4, 5 and 6th in Amsterdam.

Looking forward to work on this once again 😄

#Tech #Fediverse #BigTech #TechPolicy #PublicSpaces #PubConf2026 #OpenSource #Ethics #AI #ATProto #SocialMedia #Democracy #SocialWeb #EU #NL #Conference

Hello Mastodon users, I'm working on migrating to a new instance since Med-Mastodon is shutting down.

When I go to Account > Account Settings > Move to a Different Account, I enter my new Mastodon handle (with an "@" in front of it) and old account password, I'm getting error messages in the new handle and the password fields.

I've tried resetting my password. I've tried a few times. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. I need to go to bed, but hope to receive ideas.

#migration #Fediverse

Commercial social media is one of the biggest sources of data exploitation. By staying active there, we continue to indirectly support this invasion of privacy.

🌱 Learn more on how you can minimize your presence and slowly build better social networks.

🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Improve Your Social Media: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-improve-your-social-media-and-build-resilient-communities/

#PrivacyGuides #Activism #PrivacyActivistToolbox #Privacy #Mastodon #Fediverse

Commercial social media is one of the biggest sources of data exploitation. By staying active there, we continue to indirectly support this invasion of privacy.

🌱 Learn more on how you can minimize your presence and slowly build better social networks.

🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Improve Your Social Media: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-improve-your-social-media-and-build-resilient-communities/

#PrivacyGuides #Activism #PrivacyActivistToolbox #Privacy #Mastodon #Fediverse

🦣 Stegodon v1.8.2 brings configurable SSH idle timeouts and migrates to wish v2 for a smoother terminal experience! More control and cleaner code. #stegodon #fediverse #golang #ssh

A bit spammy, maybe, but not intended to be:

In Germany, a company that makes brooms and other cleaning utensils called Andreas Bürsten @buersten is very active on the #Fediverse. During the many discussions here, they listened to the wishes of our weird and wonderful community. May I present: The "Regenbogen". Clean your house and patio in style. With a statement of inclusion 😊 (They only ship to Germany and no, I am not getting paid. I just *love* their approach)

https://buersten.de/Saalbesen-400-mm-Regenbogen-PET-Farbmix-Universalstielhalter-mit-Ueberwurfmutter-O-24-mm

#ActivityPub support in #Madblog

https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/article/Madblog-federated-blogging-from-markdown

I am glad to announce that Madblog has now officially joined the #Fediverse family.

If you want to test it out, search for this URL on your Fediverse client.

Madblog has already supported #Webmentions for the past couple of weeks, allowing your blog posts to be mentioned by other sites with Webmentions support (WordPress, Lemmy, HackerNews…) and get those mentions directly rendered on your page.

It now adds ActivityPub support too, using #Pubby, another little Python library that I’ve put together myself (just like Webmentions) as a mean to quickly plug ActivityPub support to any Python Web app.

Webmentions and Pubby follow similar principles and implement a similar API, and you can easily use them to add federation support to your existing Web applications - a single bind_webmentions or bind_activitypub call to your existing Flask/FastAPI/Tornado application should suffice for most of the cases.

Madblog may have now become the easiest way to publish a federated blog - and perhaps the only way that doesn’t require a database, everything is based on plain Markdown files.

If you have a registered domain and a certificate, then hosting your federated blog is now just a matter of:

mkdir -p ~/madblog/markdown
cat <<EOF > ~/madblog/markdown/hello-world.md
# My first post

This is my first post on [Madblog](https://git.fabiomanganiello.com/madblog)!
EOF

docker run -it \
-p 8000:8000 \
-v "$HOME/madblog:/data" \
quay.io/blacklight/madblog

And Markdown files can be hosted wherever you like - a Git folder, an Obsidian Vault, a Nextcloud Notes installation, a folder on your phone synchronized over SyncThing…

Federation support is also at a quite advanced state compared to e.g. #WriteFreely. It currently supports:

• Interactions rendered on the articles: if you like, boost, quote or reply to an article, all interactions are rendered directly at the bottom of the article (interactions with WriteFreely through federated accounts were kind of lost in the void instead)

• Guestbook support (optional): mentions to the federated Madblog handle that are not in response to articles are now rendered on a separate /guestbook route

• Email notifications: all interactions can have email notifications

• Support for quotes, also on Mastodon

• Support for mentions, just drop a @joe@example.com in your Markdown file and Joe will get a notification

• Support for hashtag federation

• Support for split-domain configurations, you can host your blog on blog.example.com but have a Fediverse handle like @blog@example.com. Search by direct post URL on Mastodon will work with both cases

• Support for custom profile fields, all rendered on Mastodon, with verification support

• Support for moderation, either through blocklist or allowlist, with support for rules on handles/usernames, URLs, domains or regular expressions

• A partial (but comprehensive for the provided features) implementation of the Mastodon API

If you want you can follow both the profiles of my blogs - they are now both federated:

• My personal blog: @fabio (it used to run WriteFreely before, so if you followed it you may need to unfollow it and re-follow it)

• The #Platypush blog: @blog

A bit spammy, maybe, but not intended to be:

In Germany, a company that makes brooms and other cleaning utensils called Andreas Bürsten @buersten is very active on the #Fediverse. During the many discussions here, they listened to the wishes of our weird and wonderful community. May I present: The "Regenbogen". Clean your house and patio in style. With a statement of inclusion 😊 (They only ship to Germany and no, I am not getting paid. I just *love* their approach)

https://buersten.de/Saalbesen-400-mm-Regenbogen-PET-Farbmix-Universalstielhalter-mit-Ueberwurfmutter-O-24-mm

Did you know that you can follow all Fireside Fedi #podcast episodes directly from where you're reading this post? Just follow @firesidefedi@tubefree.org like you would any other user and you never have to leave your platform of choice! #fedi #fediverse #peopleOverPlatforms #vodcast #fedicast #FsFd #FiresideFedi #chat #peertube #mastodon #vods

Did you know that you can follow all Fireside Fedi #podcast episodes directly from where you're reading this post? Just follow @firesidefedi@tubefree.org like you would any other user and you never have to leave your platform of choice! #fedi #fediverse #peopleOverPlatforms #vodcast #fedicast #FsFd #FiresideFedi #chat #peertube #mastodon #vods

"Multi-time Trunk & Tidbits featured contributor Stefan Bohacek"

It's true!

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/trunk-tidbits-mastodon-blog/

Time spent advocating and building for the fediverse is time well-spent.

#fediverse #humblebrag

And a huge thanks to the @MastodonEngineering team for including my new project!

"[...] a new tool for sending Fediverse Invitations to friends, where you can include recommended apps and other information of your choice"

https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-invitation/

#fediverse #JoinTheFediverse #FediverseInvitation

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116204764577950180

Some really great updates in Mastodon's latest Trunk & Tidbits blog post, including, from the W3C Social Web working group notes, a note on LOLA, a "proposal for live online account portability between two ActivityPub servers".

https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola
https://fediforum.org/2024-09/session/3-a/

#mastodon #fediverse #TrunkAndTidbits #LOLA #AccountPortability

#ActivityPub support in #Madblog

https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/article/Madblog-federated-blogging-from-markdown

I am glad to announce that Madblog has now officially joined the #Fediverse family.

If you want to test it out, search for this URL on your Fediverse client.

Madblog has already supported #Webmentions for the past couple of weeks, allowing your blog posts to be mentioned by other sites with Webmentions support (WordPress, Lemmy, HackerNews…) and get those mentions directly rendered on your page.

It now adds ActivityPub support too, using #Pubby, another little Python library that I’ve put together myself (just like Webmentions) as a mean to quickly plug ActivityPub support to any Python Web app.

Webmentions and Pubby follow similar principles and implement a similar API, and you can easily use them to add federation support to your existing Web applications - a single bind_webmentions or bind_activitypub call to your existing Flask/FastAPI/Tornado application should suffice for most of the cases.

Madblog may have now become the easiest way to publish a federated blog - and perhaps the only way that doesn’t require a database, everything is based on plain Markdown files.

If you have a registered domain and a certificate, then hosting your federated blog is now just a matter of:

mkdir -p ~/madblog/markdown
cat <<EOF > ~/madblog/markdown/hello-world.md
# My first post

This is my first post on [Madblog](https://git.fabiomanganiello.com/madblog)!
EOF

docker run -it \
-p 8000:8000 \
-v "$HOME/madblog:/data" \
quay.io/blacklight/madblog

And Markdown files can be hosted wherever you like - a Git folder, an Obsidian Vault, a Nextcloud Notes installation, a folder on your phone synchronized over SyncThing…

Federation support is also at a quite advanced state compared to e.g. #WriteFreely. It currently supports:

• Interactions rendered on the articles: if you like, boost, quote or reply to an article, all interactions are rendered directly at the bottom of the article (interactions with WriteFreely through federated accounts were kind of lost in the void instead)

• Guestbook support (optional): mentions to the federated Madblog handle that are not in response to articles are now rendered on a separate /guestbook route

• Email notifications: all interactions can have email notifications

• Support for quotes, also on Mastodon

• Support for mentions, just drop a @joe@example.com in your Markdown file and Joe will get a notification

• Support for hashtag federation

• Support for split-domain configurations, you can host your blog on blog.example.com but have a Fediverse handle like @blog@example.com. Search by direct post URL on Mastodon will work with both cases

• Support for custom profile fields, all rendered on Mastodon, with verification support

• Support for moderation, either through blocklist or allowlist, with support for rules on handles/usernames, URLs, domains or regular expressions

• A partial (but comprehensive for the provided features) implementation of the Mastodon API

If you want you can follow both the profiles of my blogs - they are now both federated:

• My personal blog: @fabio (it used to run WriteFreely before, so if you followed it you may need to unfollow it and re-follow it)

• The #Platypush blog: @blog

@_elena I've followed the #Fediverse -> #Mesh #Meshtastic arc as well 🙌 Seems like the way to ultimately enjoy an unencumbered internet