wakest likes your bugs ⁂First talk today at the Social Web Devroom we have @pfefferle talking about the state of WordPress's fediverse integration
#FOSDEM #ActivityPub #fedidev
#FOSDEM #ActivityPub #fedidev
Excited to see WordPress still using the @FediverseSymbol throughout the interface
@andypiper: "mastodon is part of a movement" "it is part of the fediverse"
@haubles just dropped the massive news that Mastodon is going to be changing the default signup flow on mobile apps to choose an instance thats geographically close to you instead of choosing mastodon.social by default!
UPDATE: their official announcement here: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989801184595302
the internet went down and then I went to get a coffee with @douginamug! Just got back and caught the end of @bjoernsta's talk about https://savesocial.eu
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@evanprodromou is up next talking about Tags.pub #HashTagsAreGreat
And now @cypherhippie has a lightning talk about bringing #DIDs to the fediverse
A slide of @snarfed.org agreeing with the premise of bringing DIDs to the fediverse
Core Assumptions
1) "Communities must be in control"
2) "Nobody shall be locked-in"
3) "There is NO FREE marketplace of ideas."
1) "Communities must be in control"
2) "Nobody shall be locked-in"
3) "There is NO FREE marketplace of ideas."
Next we have @django presenting some ideas about moving the ActivityPub API C2S forward
Oh hell yeah looks like @django used my https://iconography.fediverse.info for their slides!
After a short break we have @raffomania is presenting a new federated bookmark sharing software called 'ties'
https://github.com/raffomania/ties
https://github.com/raffomania/ties
Oh @raffomania wants to do full text search of an archived version of websites from 'ties'
all the orgs that signed the "open networks and democratic public spheres" alience
Oh cool and also @raccoonforfriendicaapp and #Flohra are also under their umbrella
@tsyesika is talking about issues with naming and fishing and has a slide up with a fake @Gargron account
They are talking about what the fediverse would look like if we were using more generic servers
@FediVariety up next about getting public agencies to use the fediverse
Taking a tiny break to get some fresh air and then ruin the freshness with a cigarette and then back to my regularly scheduled programming. @andypiper has awarded me "official love blog status" so now my duty has peerpressure!
Had a longer break then I meant to opps!
Wow Jacobin.de is gonna be using Bonfire and Lauti with a white-labeled mobile app by Newsmast
Just shouted out some important things to come like working with @anewsocial and @bsky.brid.gy and with @swf on encryption
I sadly had to step out so I missed @tobias's presentation about the amazing Friendica but there should be a recording of it
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DNS7Z8-friendica_-_hidden_in_plain_sight_since_2025/
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DNS7Z8-friendica_-_hidden_in_plain_sight_since_2025/
Jonathan Frederickson
Kevin Marks@KevinMarks @tsyesika that doesn't help in this case unless that information is used and visualized in places like name autocomplete and weighting of search results. Also it requires everyone to have a website or place that they own which is only the case for tech and larger personalities
Uriel Fanelli@liaizon I can see an open source solution already exist for each issue, why groups don't talk each other's?
@uriel there isnt an implementation of any protocol that has all these properties, which is one reason why Christine has been working on Spritely Goblins this whole time
@liaizon There are—and more than one. Never heard of RetroShare? Instead of declarative sentences like "there is no," why not say "I am not aware of any"?
Yet you've answered my question: you don't exchange knowledge because you think you know everything.
@uriel this is a talk about these properties *for* the fediverse. Retroshare is not being made for global public communication or many of the things that we use the fediverse for. I don't think Retroshare would want people to try to shoehorn the project into use for the sorts of things that Spritely is being built for
Not quite.
ActivityPub doesn’t prescribe a specific transport layer for delivering its activities. In practice, most deployments use HTTPS today, but in principle the transport could be swapped for something else—anything from SIP to SMTP to libp2p.
So there would be no inherent obstacle if an implementation chose to use Bitmessage (the protocol behind retroshare) as its transport.
You’re not seeing many alternatives largely because you’re assuming that what you haven’t encountered simply doesn’t exist.
Lucy@liaizon as I posted already publicly I'm bothered by the fact they went for AI slop rather than pulling the actual memes, in a community where this is very frowned upon 
@lucent yeah I noticed that in their slides too :(
Oblomov@liaizon yeah they're the brandjacking champions of the Fediverse, and they censor and block anyone mentioning this.
Relevant links:
https://qua.name/diorama/software-identity-predatory-strategies-fediverse
https://qua.name/diorama/astroturfing-the-italophone-fediverse
https://qua.name/diorama/accusations-by-mastodonuno-will-not-stop-freedom-of-information
Fedimedia Italia APS ⁂@liaizon Not all of them are instances; we actually have “only” 18 instances.
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