Mastodawn

[email protected]6d ago

@Alain

Brilliant development. Huge thank you! AWESOME! 💙🐬🖖

#Socialhome #development #WOW! #Thanks

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Socialhome HQ Apr 2

Socialhome v0.23.0 released

Work continues towards a full replacement of the UI layer! @[email protected] has been hard at work again, working on both the UI layer, but also the backend and the federation library. Massive kudos <3

This is the last release where it will be possible to use the old UI. The next release is expected to completely remove the old UI, which will be a much welcome clean-up of the code base.

When updating, please note the instructions for running Socialhome with the new UI. The old setting to enable the new UI is gone, instead you will need to route to it using your reverse proxy. In the next release this will become mandatory as the old UI will disappear from the Socialhome backend container.

While things are in flux, unfortunately there aren't very good example ways to run the Socialhome backend and the new frontend. We're hoping to improve on this with the next release, when the old UI will be fully removed. Please pop in our chat room if you have issues attempting to run Socialhome.

Please note due to build issues with the old UI, arm images are not available for this release. If you need them, please ask in the chat room and we will figure something out.

This is not all! The release of v0.23.0 also contains a bunch of other changes and fixes. See the full changelog. Additionally, the federation library has received a ton of changes and fixes which can be found here.

Installing and updating

We recommend using the Docker images.

Notes on how to use the Docker images can be found in the docs.

What is Socialhome?

Socialhome is best described as a federated personal profile with social networking functionality. Users can create rich content using Markdown. All content can be pinned to the user profile and all content will federate to contacts in the federated social web. Federation happens using the ActivityPub and Diaspora protocols.

Please check the official site for more information about features. Naturally, the official site is a Socialhome profile itself.

Try Socialhome?

If you want to try Socialhome first before trying to install it, register at https://socialhome.network and then ping us with a comment on the user name chosen to get the account approved. You can also request account approval in the chat room. This unfortunately approval step is due to spammers.

Contribute

Do you want to work on a Django and VueJS powered social network server? Join in the fun! We have easy to follow development environment setup documentation and a friendly chat room for questions.

#socialhome #federation #fediverse #activitypub #diaspora #django #vuejs

Matthias Mar 24

#Socialhome hat ein neues Outfit bekommen. Das sieht sehr charmant aus. Ein Blick darauf lohnt. Das ist, neben #Diaspora und #Friendica, eines der ältesten Projekte im Fediverse.

Socialhome HQ Feb 20

socialhome.network maintenance

The https://socialhome.network instance is going to have a few rounds of maintenance within the next few days. First, within the next few hours likely, a database migration to another better server. Then afterwards we've got a big Socialhome version upgrade which involves lots of database migrations. All in all these will cause a few hours of downtime at minimum each.

We're sorry for the inconvenience caused.

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Profile of Socialhome HQ.

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Rik Viergever Jan 30

2 great federated and open source LinkedIn alternatives:
1. https://nolto.social
2. https://socialhome.network

Here are my profiles:
1. https://nolto.social/profile/rik
2. https://socialhome.network/u/rik

#opensource #fediverse #federation #mastodon #digital #DigitalSovereignty #nolto #socialhome #LinkedIn @murena @e_mydata @nolto @hq

The first on even offers LinkedIn data import:

Pete Bleackley Oct 30

I've finally got an account on #SocialHome @[email protected] , where I'll be collecting interesting links.

Pete Bleackley Oct 22

I used to use del.icio.us before it was claimed by the Grim Reaper of the Internet (Yahoo). I'd like to have a #curation site like that again. Is there something like it on the #fediverse? I've tried to set up an account on #SocialHome, but their signup process doesn't seem to work and they haven't been resposive. Is there anything else I could try?

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Jupiter Rowland Oct 11, 2025

@Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ I would also be in favor of Fediblock for instances where this behavior is rampant.
Alt-text on images is only a thing on Mastodon and amongst Pixelfed users who are also on Mastodon.

Fediblocking entire servers for a too low quota of sufficiently accurate, sufficiently detailed, rule-conforming alt-text would end up defederating Mastodon from most of the rest of the Fediverse. It would end up in the Fediblocking of entire Fediverse server application types. Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Calckey, Firefish, Iceshrimp-JS, Iceshrimp.NET, CherryPick, Sharkey, Catodon, Smithereen, snac, GoToSocial, Mitra, Socialhome, Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), Forte, Lemmy, /kbin, Mbin, PieFed, nodeBB, WordPress, Ghost, Flipboard, Plume and a whole lot of others would end up being defederated from Mastodon in their entirety because they don't have alt-text (and everyone upping their game in alt-text style, accuracy and level of detail) as an integral part of their culture.

Basically, from Mastodon's point of view, the Fediverse would end up actually being only Mastodon because Mastodon would have defederated with everything else, server by server.

I think I'm the only one on Hubzilla who actually describes their images. I'm definitely the only one amongst the few dozen (streams) users who does. But even if I put more time and effort into describing images than just about anyone else in the Fediverse, I think that wouldn't be enough to save either server application from being defederated from Mastodon in their entirety as long as not everyone else adds sufficiently accurate, sufficiently detailed, rule-conforming alt-texts to every last one of their images, as cumbersome as that may be on Hubzilla.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Calckey #Firefish #Iceshrimp #Iceshrimp-JS #Iceshrimp.NET #CherryPick #Sharkey #Catodon #Smithereen #snac #GoToSocial #Mitra #Socialhome #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Lemmy #/kbin #Mbin #PieFed #nodeBB #WordPress #Ghost #Flipboard #Plume #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta

Netzgemeinde/Hubzilla

Socialhome HQ Jul 19, 2025

Socialhome v0.22.0 released, with a completely new UI!

This is a massive milestone for the #Socialhome project, one that could not have been possible without the hard work of @[email protected]. If you have followed the Socialhome project, you'll know that Alain has been responsible for most of the development of project in the recent years. This includes rewriting the #federation library to ensure #ActivityPub support is first class. More recently Alain has taken the challenge of rewriting the frontend, which has fallen into a rather poor state over the years.

The new UI work is actually a coordination of two people working many years apart. Way back years ago @[email protected] made some UI designs for a new Socialhome UI (thank you! <3). While the designs were not implemented for years, they were not forgotten. In 2023 Alain jumped to the challenge and started the full UI rewrite of the Socialhome frontend. This UI has now matured into a state that it is good for daily usage - which is the main focus of this release!

Currently, a Socialhome installation will still default to the old UI. If you do want to try out the new UI for example on socialhome.network, go to the account settings and toggle the "New UI" flag. Going back is also easy, should the new UI cause unforeseen issues (please do report!).

If you are a server admin, see the new UI installation instructions for how to add the new UI to your instance.

This is not all! The releases of v0.21.0 and v0.22.0 also contain a bunch of other changes and fixes. Most notably;

ActivityPub profiles are now richer, including bio and a larger picture, in addition to an avatar.
Many new API's to support the new UI, including session authentication, search, media upload, content fetching over uuid, profile organize and profile settings.
Whoosh has been replaced with Xapian as a search index backend.

See the full changelogs. Additionally, the federation library has received a ton of changes and fixes which can be found here.

Also, last but not least, we moved from GitLab to Codeberg. Check out the new repositories.