Fairplayer is sort of like a federated Bandcamp...

"Fairplayer plays music from a decentralized ecosystem. Artists and communities publish their music on their own websites and link them to a player where the user can listen to them all."

https://fairplayer.band/

#music #web

8.0.0 — Smash That Like Button

https://activitypub.blog/2026/03/05/8-0-0-smash-that-like-button/

🎉 Applications for the Sovereign Tech Fellowship are officially open!

What’s new? For the first time, community managers, and technical writers can apply alongside open source maintainers until April 6, 2026, to become Fellows.

The #SovereignTechFellowship invests directly in the people behind the code, supporting key experts whose work underpins the health and stability of critical components in the #opensource ecosystem.

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Fedify 2.0.0 is here!

This is the biggest release in Fedify's history. Here are the highlights:

• Modular architecture — The monolithic @fedify/fedify package has been broken up into focused, independent packages: @fedify/vocab, @fedify/vocab-runtime, @fedify/vocab-tools, @fedify/webfinger, and more. Smaller bundles, cleaner imports, and the ability to extend ActivityPub with custom vocabulary types.
• Real-time debug dashboard — The new @fedify/debugger package gives you a live dashboard at /__debug__/ showing all your federation traffic: traces, activity details, signature verification, and correlated logs. Just wrap your Federation object and you're done.
• ActivityPub relay support — First-class relay support via @fedify/relay and the fedify relay CLI command. Supports both Mastodon-style and LitePub-style relay protocols (FEP-ae0c).
• Ordered message delivery — The new orderingKey option solves the “zombie post” problem where a Delete arrives before its Create. Activities sharing the same key are guaranteed to be delivered in FIFO order.
• Permanent failure handling — setOutboxPermanentFailureHandler() lets you react when a remote inbox returns 404 or 410, so you can clean up unreachable followers instead of retrying forever.

Other changes include content negotiation at the middleware level, @fedify/lint for shared linting rules, @fedify/create for quick project scaffolding, CLI config files, native Node.js/Bun CLI support, and many bug fixes.

This release includes significant contributions from Korea's OSSCA participants. Huge thanks to everyone involved!

This is a major release with breaking changes—please check the migration guide before upgrading.

Full release notes: https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/discussions/580

#Fedify #ActivityPub #fediverse #fedidev #TypeScript

In the Fediverse track at SFSCon, André Menrath spoke about:

Interoperability of Events in the Fediverse: Status Quo and Vision

https://fediforum.org/2025-11-sfscon/

#fediforum #sfscon #fediverse #socialweb

Feditext beta users: version 1.7.2 (build 142) fixes the autocomplete bug in the post composer on iOS 18+ (iOS 15–17 are not affected).

it also switches to an account-specific search API method for looking up accounts based on username and display name only. for Mastodon users, this may result in slightly faster autocomplete lookups and fewer false positives. GTS users should not see a difference. please report any issues with other servers.

#Feditext #Metatext

I have a question for #ActivityPub fanatics. For the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2026, we've reached out to over 50 different Fediverse projects to make sure they know about the event. Is there anyone else we need to reach? If you know someone working on Fediverse software development OR organisational and social issues, please share this call-for-proposals link. Our deadline is Dec 1, 2025 and we don't want to miss any part of this movement.

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/10/31/fosdem-2026-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/