Week in Fediverse 2025-11-28

Next up: unlock the stretch goal to co‑design federated groups: community‑owned spaces to organise across the fediverse, with no server or platform lock‑in.

Read about why this matters and how it can empower communities: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-community-matters-groups-as-the-next-step-for-the-fediverse/

Support the campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=tBIbwXI4dU25KvW4HBM0hQ

#Fediverse #FederatedGroups #CommunitySpaces #ActivityPub

Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse

Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They'll live next to your personal feed, but each group having a specific purpose: a study circle, a lab team, an activist collective, a local mutual aid crew, a project team. Inside you’ll find posts, conversations, calendars, shared resources, and more. Crucially, groups will be portable and interoperable.

Bonfire: building blocks for communities on the open social web by Bonfire - Indiegogo

From platforms to communities: a federated social web with shared foundations and co‑created spaces for gathering, care, connection, and stewardship.

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BadgeFed

@[email protected] · 5 hours ago

First 100: BadgeFed Explorer

The verified Badge was issued to @MIchael S. Manley

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 20:45:42
Accepted On: 04/11/2025 22:32:22

Verify the Badge here.

#badgefed #fediverse #activitypub #mastodon #IssuedByBadgeFed #_BadgeDrop

BadgeFed

@[email protected] · 5 hours ago

First 100: BadgeFed Explorer

The verified Badge was issued to @MIchael S. Manley

Verify the Badge here.

#badgefed #fediverse #activitypub #mastodon #IssuedByBadgeFed #_BadgeDrop

Bonfire

@[email protected] · 6 hours ago

Good news everyone! We hit our first milestone: maintenance is 100% funded. Thank you all ❤️

Next up: unlock the stretch goal to co‑design federated groups: community‑owned spaces to organise across the fediverse, with no server or platform lock‑in.

Read about why this matters and how it can empower communities: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-community-matters-groups-as-the-next-step-for-the-fediverse/

Support the campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=tBIbwXI4dU25KvW4HBM0hQ

#Fediverse #FederatedGroups #CommunitySpaces #ActivityPub

Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse

Bonfire: building blocks for communities on the open social web by Bonfire - Indiegogo

From platforms to communities: a federated social web with shared foundations and co‑created spaces for gathering, care, connection, and stewardship.

Fediverse Report

@[email protected] · 8 hours ago

Fediverse Report #145 - this week's #fediverse news:

- @holos is a project currently in development that allows you to run an #activitypub server on your phone
- More on Threads' user statistics, which do indicate the platform's popularity in Asia

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-145/

Fediverse Development and 1 other boosted

Newsmast Foundation

@[email protected] · 9 hours ago

Want to support a brilliant Social Web project before the end of the year?

🔥 @bonfire are so close to achieving their funding goal as they look to crowdfund the next phase of development in their democratic, thoughtful, and open, web of interoperable services.

If you're able, we're certain they would love your support.

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

#Bonfire #Fundraising #SocialWeb #Mastodon #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #Tech #Suppport

Newsmast Foundation

@[email protected] · 9 hours ago

Want to support a brilliant Social Web project before the end of the year?

🔥 @bonfire are so close to achieving their funding goal as they look to crowdfund the next phase of development in their democratic, thoughtful, and open, web of interoperable services.

If you're able, we're certain they would love your support.

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

#Bonfire #Fundraising #SocialWeb #Mastodon #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #Tech #Suppport

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Matthias Pfefferle

@[email protected] · 15 hours ago

5 months ago

Peer:

Unknown type of activity/object

RE: https://activitypub.blog/2025/11/25/join-us-for-office-hours-dec-1-5/

The last chance to talk with @obenland and me about the plugin, your problems, new ideas, the future, new features, ...

#fediverse #activitypub #wordpress

Matthias Pfefferle

@[email protected] · 15 hours ago

5 months ago

Peer:

Unknown type of activity/object

RE: https://activitypub.blog/2025/11/25/join-us-for-office-hours-dec-1-5/

The last chance to talk with @obenland and me about the plugin, your problems, new ideas, the future, new features, ...

#fediverse #activitypub #wordpress

Carlos Solís

@[email protected] · yesterday

One of the few yearly recaps I wholeheartedly love, #FediDB 's Year In Review 2025: fedidb.org/year-in-review/2025 #Fediverse #ActivityPub
#OurFedi2025

FediDB, Fediverse Network Statistics

FediDB is a cutting-edge service providing detailed statistics and insights into the Fediverse network.

#OurFedi2025

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The Real Grunfink

@[email protected] · yesterday

I've just published version 2.85 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

Quoted posts are now shown.

Added metadata to remote users in the people page (contributed by dandelions).

Fixed memory leak (contributed by dandelions).

Fixed user matching (contributed by rakoo).

Rendering visibility conditionally, with lesser reach if needed (contributed by byte).

Added a button next to a follow notification to follow back.

Fixed typo in man page (contributed by spky).

Updated Czech and German translations (contributed by pmjv and zen).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

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Author of the snac ActivityPub instance server and other pieces of singular software. Not a real Grünfink.

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snac2

A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C

The Real Grunfink

@[email protected] · yesterday

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Author of the snac ActivityPub instance server and other pieces of singular software. Not a real Grünfink.

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snac2

A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C

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Todd Sundsted

@[email protected] · 2 days ago

Todd Sundsted

@[email protected] · last week

Experimenting with x-ray mode for ktistec.

#ktistec #activitypub

⁂ Article

Release v3.2.2 of Ktistec

The big feature in release v3.2.2 of Ktistec is pinned posts with support for the Mastodon Featured Posts collection. Federation works both ways—pin a post on Ktistec and it will show up as a pinned post on Mastodon and vice versa. When you refresh an actor profile, Ktistec also fetches and updates the actor's pinned posts. This is another small step in the direction of supporting all features that Mastodon-compatible client applications expect to access via the API. It's also useful in its own right.

The other major feature, which I posted a short video demonstrating here, is X-Ray Mode. X-Ray Mode is a developer and power-user tool for inspecting ActivityPub JSON-LD representations of actors, objects, and other content. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+X on any page displays the data behind the page—like an x-ray. You can:

Cached Version: View the local JSON-LD representation stored in the Ktistec database
Remote Version: Fetch and view the original JSON-LD representation from the source server
Navigation: Click on any ActivityPub IRI to navigate to that object
History: Use Alt+Left and Alt+Right to navigate through your viewing history

This feature is useful for debugging federation issues, understanding ActivityPub structures, and verifying how content is stored and represented.

Here's the full changelog for the release:

Added

Support for pinned posts and the Mastodon "featured posts" collection.
X-Ray Mode for viewing and navigating JSON-LD resource (actor, object, etc.) representations.
Back links on thread pages for easier navigation. (fixes #1)
License page for LibreJS compliance. (fixes #127)
Highlighting of recently fetched hashtagged posts.

Changed

Improved presentation of audio and video media.
Refactored theming/styling implementation.

The next release will focus on smaller features and bug fixes.

Enjoy!

#ktistec #crystallang #activitypub #fediverse

GitHub

Comparing ab57a3c7...74f7666e · toddsundsted/ktistec

Single user ActivityPub (https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/) server. - Comparing ab57a3c7...74f7666e · toddsundsted/ktistec

Todd Sundsted

@[email protected] · 2 days ago

Todd Sundsted

@[email protected] · last week

Experimenting with x-ray mode for ktistec.

#ktistec #activitypub

⁂ Article

Release v3.2.2 of Ktistec

Cached Version: View the local JSON-LD representation stored in the Ktistec database
Remote Version: Fetch and view the original JSON-LD representation from the source server
Navigation: Click on any ActivityPub IRI to navigate to that object
History: Use Alt+Left and Alt+Right to navigate through your viewing history

This feature is useful for debugging federation issues, understanding ActivityPub structures, and verifying how content is stored and represented.

Here's the full changelog for the release:

Added

Support for pinned posts and the Mastodon "featured posts" collection.
X-Ray Mode for viewing and navigating JSON-LD resource (actor, object, etc.) representations.
Back links on thread pages for easier navigation. (fixes #1)
License page for LibreJS compliance. (fixes #127)
Highlighting of recently fetched hashtagged posts.

Changed

Improved presentation of audio and video media.
Refactored theming/styling implementation.

The next release will focus on smaller features and bug fixes.

Enjoy!

#ktistec #crystallang #activitypub #fediverse

GitHub

Comparing ab57a3c7...74f7666e · toddsundsted/ktistec

Single user ActivityPub (https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/) server. - Comparing ab57a3c7...74f7666e · toddsundsted/ktistec

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Niklas Korz

@[email protected] · 3 days ago

#Eventbrite to be acquired by #BendingSpoons, following their acquisition of #Meetup.com which caused many users to migrate to Eventbrite in the first place. I think at this point it becomes very obvious that the #Fediverse is the best place to coordinate your meetups, and you have many options to choose from: #Mobilizon, #Gancio and even #Wordpress with the #ActivityPub Event Bridge plugin. Everyone knows Bending Spoon's playbook, enshittification is inevitable.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251202408560/en/Eventbrite-Enters-into-Definitive-Agreement-to-Be-Acquired-by-Bending-Spoons-for-Roughly-%24500-Million-to-Accelerate-Eventbrites-Next-Phase-of-Growth

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