#JackDorsey has invested $10 million in a #nonprofit called #andOtherStuff to fund #opensource #socialmedia projects.

The team, including Dorsey, is focused on creating technologies like Nostr-based #socialapps and #developertools.

They aim to build a social media #BillofRights to ensure #useraccountability and are working on various projects, including Shakespeare, heynow, Cashu, and White Noise.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/jack-dorsey-backs-nonprofit-and-other-stuff-experimenting-with-open-social-tools-like-nostr/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

With social and search traffic declining, publishers need new ways to connect with readers.

In this #DotSocial episode, @mike talks with @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler and @ProPublica's @ben about the benefits of decentralization.

"I think what's really missing is the human-to-human connection and the human curation ... Our informal tagline is 'by humans for humans.' We really just want someone to look at our stuff and send it to their friends in a group text or talk about it out loud or add it to a stream on the fediverse," Jason says.

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/

I've been following ATProto's development from the sidelines since 2022, but I somehow missed this great take by @eloquence on Bluesky interoperability with Mastodon and ActivityPub: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1716

"We currently have two emerging alternatives to X that deserve to be taken seriously: the fediverse and BlueSky. The fediverse tends to attract folks who highly value open source in principle and practice; BlueSky tends to attract folks who are looking for a drop-in Twitter replacement.

In this context, I would argue that a clear commitment from the key parties (that includes @Gargron's Mastodon gGmbH and Bluesky the company) towards an interoperable social web is essential. We should be able to follow each other no matter where we decide to make our social media home. Even Mark Zuckerberg's Threads has at least made a commitment towards interoperability."

It's a good read. Year after year, it feels like ATProto and ActivityPub, Bluesky and Mastodon, couldn't be further apart. Even Nostr and WordPress support ActivityPub. We're seeing more servers and clients in the Fediverse adopting ActivityPub. As far as I know, 99% of ATProto is still powered by Bluesky's main server, which makes it not very decentralized. I wonder why anyone would want to set up a server for ATProto when ActivityPub is so much more widely used.

I see Bluesky and ATProto's future as just another private company, like the rest. It's easy to pretend decentralization and open source just for marketing.

Hier ist noch der Link zu Slides von den Vorträgen am Montag. Es waren beides seActivityPub #ResponsiveDesign Dank an @pixel und Raphael Thanner für ihre Zeit!

https://www.mtug.de/treffen/veranstaltungen-2025/juli.html#c1029

Why most radical tech is pointless, and why #indymediaback isn’t

Almost everything built in today’s alt-radical tech scene is, bluntly, pointless. Despite good intentions, most of it ends up feeding the endless cycle of #fashernista churn, flashy new platforms, bleeding-edge protocols, or encrypted communication tools nobody uses, built by isolated teams disconnected from real-world needs or history. This is the #geekproblem: a culture where novelty is fetishized, and social usefulness is an afterthought, if it appears at all.

Examples:

Secure […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/why-most-radical-tech-is-pointless-and-why-indymediaback-isnt/

Wondering if @pfefferle or someone else could help me on this, to avoid misunderstandings. This instruction on ActivityPub plugin: "If you’re moving from another account to this one, you’ll need to create an alias here first before transferring your followers. This step is safe, reversible, and doesn’t affect anything on its own. The migration itself is initiated from your old account.

Enter one URL per line.".
Should I write my old mastodon account's URL? #WordPress #activitypub #AskFedi

There are so many enigmas in #ActivityPub! If you are writing code to filter an outbox based on view authorization (not well-defined in the spec), how would you handle a public activity referencing a non-public object (or vice versa)?

It's unclear to me how edits propagate across the #fediverse. It seems to me that many users don't see them right away (maybe ever?). It's pretty clear that edits to old posts do not update search indexes for those posts. #activityPub is full of gaps like this; features that don't work across instances and implementations. Sometimes it feels like we'll never get to functional parity with Twitter from 2010.

My activitypub enabled blog enables me to respond to comments made by those on the fediverse. However, the link says 'Reply with federation', and I keep thinking that I need permission from @georgetakei before I can do that.

After a mental health break, release v2.4.7 of Ktistec is out. The biggest improvement is the addition of a command line switch/option to run garbage collection on startup. Garbage collection, in this context, trims down your database by deleting old ActivityPub objects that are not connected to your user through:

• Attribution: Objects attributed to you or actors you follow
• Activities: Objects referenced by your activities or activities of actors you follow
• Collections: Objects in your timeline, notifications, or outbox
• Content: Objects with hashtags, mentions, or in threads you follow

It reduced the size of my database ~24%. Details on usage, warnings, etc. are in the README.

Other changes:

Fixed

• Use single quotes for string literals in SQLite queries.
• Fix WITH RECURSIVE queries.
• Fix broken CI workflow.

Changed

• Present local internal URLs as external URLs in posts.
• Limit pagination size for unauthenticated users.
• Better convey actor/object deleted/blocked status on index pages.
• Improve presentation of inline code and code blocks.
• Clip alt text on thumbnail images.

Other

• Update cached copy of Lemmy's JSON-LD context.

Big update for the ActivityPub for Wordpress plugin. They are laying the groundwork for following support in Wordpress. That's awesome!

7.0.0 – I will follow you! https://activitypub.blog/2025/07/09/7-0-0-i-will-follow-you/ #ActivityPub, #Fediverse, #Followers, #Following, #Signatures, #WordPress

ActivityPub plugin for WordPress hits 7.0.0 — with full support for following other fediverse accounts from your blog. WordPress just got a lot more social!
7.0.0 – I will follow you!

https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/testing/

Please don’t mind me, I’m just testing if I broke the ActivityPub federation of this site (or not). If you’re reading this and didn’t get my previous post from today, it’s here:

My adventures in self-hosting: day 210 (viva FOSS!)

cheers!

Seeking interop testing for geosocial ActivityPub client

Hey, all! I’m seeking some help testing an application I whipped up for the Geosocial task force of the W3C Social Web Community Group. It’s called https://checkin.swf.pub/ , and it’s a barebones checkin service, similar to Swarm, but implemented as a pure Web client. You can watch the application in action.

https://videopress.com/v/zCMu0OeZ?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true

It logs into your account on an ActivityPub server using OAuth 2.0. It […]

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/07/14/seeking-interop-testing-for-geosocial-activitypub-client/

Wasn't there some kinda work being done on some kinda login thing like OAuth for ActivityPub at some point?

I may be mistaken, but I thought I remembered seeing that somewhere.

If so, anyone know what's up with it?

Für die Teilnehmer der @t3muc, hier die Slides für die Präsentation "Content ausspielen mit TYPO3 und ActivityPub"

https://pixelde.su/talks/typo3-activitypub-de/