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pfefferle

@pfefferle@mastodon.social

web worker, blogger, podcaster, #openweb advocate and citizen of the #indieweb and the #fediverse.

Open Web Wrangler @ #Automattic

I am currently working on the #ActivityPub plugin and several #IndieWeb (mainly #Webmentions) plugins for #WordPress! Besides of that, I maintain some other small Open Web plugins and try to help out on the #pluginkollektiv.

Follow my blog on the fediverse: "@pfefferle"

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docpop, (edited ) to random
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OMG, @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy works!

I saw a Bluesky post in my Mastodon feed, so I replied from Mastodon, and that reply showed up on Mastodon AND Bluesky!!!

The post is boring, so I'm not going to link it, but I will encourage my Mastodon friends to enable cross platform sharing. More info here https://fed.brid.gy/docs#fediverse-get-started @snarfed.org@snarfed.org for building this tool. I have a few friends on Bsky that I miss following, hopefully I can get them to opt-in.

matthiasott, to random
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Issue 14 of is out. 🥳

Webmentions.

With links to posts and tools by @maggie, @GIFmodel, @sia, @mariafarrell, @robin, @fonts, @mxbck, @nhoizey, @aaronpk, @pfefferle, @mauricerenck, @sebastiangreger, @belldotbz, @Aaron, @rem and many more! 🎉

✨Personal site of the (every other) week by @Robb ✨

https://buttondown.email/ownyourweb/archive/issue-14/

pixelfed, to Pixelfed
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✨ Hello v0.12.0!

Now available

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/releases/tag/v0.12.0

julian, to random
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There have been some scattered discussions I've seen over the past year that mention that @pfefferle's WordPress ActivityPub plugin federates their blog posts out as an as:Note, and that the only reason this is done is because Mastodon only treats as:Note (and as:Question) as a first-class object and relegates anything else to a fallback handler that takes a short snippet of the content, and shows a link back to the original source, thus losing any in-app benefits (boosts, replies, etc.)

Whether this is actually true or not, I do not know. So that's why I'd like to ask Mattias — or anybody else with some context — here.

For reference:

  • as:Article: Represents any kind of multi-paragraph written work.
  • as:Note: Represents a short written work typically less than a single paragraph in length.
  • as:Page: Represents a Web Page.

I have also noticed that Lemmy, perhaps out of principle, sends out an as:Page for new generated content, and only the replies federate out as as:Note. It has unfortunately led to some assertions that Lemmy's federation is "broken", even though it is arguably not the case.

@nutomic, care to weigh in?

I don't even blame Mattias for opting to send everything out as as:Note.

End of the day right now it doesn't matter how Mattias or Nutomic represent their higher-level collection of data, because Mastodon is the largest implementor and neither they — nor anyone else I know of, for that matter — treat anything that's not as:Note or as:Question specially.

But that ought to change. The question is how, but this WG is not at the point where we start throwing around decrees and making up standards.

What's important to me right now is what the landscape looks like right now, and why that is the case.

N.B. The discussion here will eventually make its way to online real-time discussion at one of the future WG meetings.

darnell, to fediverse
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I am half way through watching the interview of @pfefferle by @deadsuperhero & it is really good!

📹 S1 Episode 8: WordPress-ActivityPub with Matthias Pfefferle https://spectra.video/w/nVQAzfWyC64DUfqGQcnCfp

I thought it was interesting that when @photomatt was focued on bringing to , Pfefferle advocated introducing to the en mass.

julian, to random
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Had a chance to listen to @pfefferle on WeDistribute's Decentered podcast. Surprisingly informative, and eye opening just how locked down shared hosting providers are.

Things we take for granted like the ability to mount routes on /.well-known (they could be blocked!)... or that you can't always assume cron is available.

https://wedistribute.org/podcast/wordpress-matthias-pfefferle/

Having used a VPS for years, I would never go back to shared hosting, but you definitely cannot argue with the convenience, ease of use (CPanel, et al.), and most of all, value for money. However, those three come with significant trade-offs in terms of flexibility and power.

Kudos to you Mattias for having the patience to try to get those shared hosting providers to change. If I were in your shoes I'd just tell them to hop on over to a different provider!

pfefferle, (edited ) to random German
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ActivityPub – The evolution of RSS

Dave Winer (@davew) stellt (sich) auf seinem Blog und auf Mastodon die Frage:

What does ActivityPub does that RSS doesn’t?

und nimmt vorweg:

Off the top of my head, it’s not the ability to syndicate, RSS already does that. I can follow anyone on any server.

Es macht natürlich Sinn, erstmal zu klären was RSS ist und kann, um auf die Vorteile von ActivityPub einzugehen!

Also RSS steht für „Really Simple Syndication“ und ist eine Art „Digitale Einbahnstraße“, so zu sagen der Newsletter oder Podcast für Texte auf Webseiten. Und weil es dem Podcast so ähnlich ist (und eigentlich auch dessen technische Basis) nennt es Dave Winer auch neuerdings „Textcasting„, was ich großartig finde!

Applying the philosophy of podcasting to text.

Und technisch gesehen ist das auch der große Unterschied zu ActivityPub. Während ich bei Textcasting, Texte nur abonnieren kann, habe ich durch ActivityPub auch einen Rückkanal, der mir ermöglicht, die Texte auch zu liken, mit meinen Freunden Followern zu teilen und zu kommentieren!

In den Kommentaren zu Daves Mastodon Post wird auch fast ausschließlich über diese technischen Aspekte diskutiert. Es geht um Push vs. Pull und immer wieder darum, dass RSS ja eigentlich vollkommen ausreichend und viel simpler ist.

@manton fasst es ganz gut zusammen:

I think RSS + Webmention (for sending replies) gets you 90% of the way there. ActivityPub does provide a comprehensive framework for the rest, though, and perhaps follows modern social network conventions more closely, e.g. liking posts, approving follows.

https://micro.blog/manton/34864514

Aber ist die Technik das, was hier wirklich den Unterschied macht?

Die Diskussion erinnert mich sehr an den RSS vs. Atom „War“, von dem @tantek.com@tantek.com in einem IndieWeb Vortrag spricht.

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I saw the best minds of my time waste our time arguing about syndication formats, arguing about plumbing, user don’t care about plumbing but for some reason we thought that that mattered, we thought that actually really mattered which XML tags to use in RSS versus Atom. […] So we focused on the wrong things we argued about plumbing instead of user experience.

Tantek Çelik – The once and future IndieWeb

Vielleicht kommt man mit RSS, WebSub und Webmentions auf ein relativ ähnliches Ergebnis und es ist technisch gesehen wahrscheinlich auch etwas einfacher umzusetzen… Aber sind RSS und ActivityPub wirklich so weit auseinander?

Für mich ist ActivityPub einfach nur die logische Weiterentwicklung, oder auch die nächste Generation von RSS. Wer sich die erste Version von ActivityStreams (das Format, welches ActivityPub benutzt um Aktivitäten auszuzeichnen) etwas genauer ansieht, erkennt vielleicht ein alt bekanntes Format.

<span><code class="hljs language-xml"><span class="hljs-tag"><<span class="hljs-name">entry</span> <span class="hljs-attr">xmlns</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"</span>       <span class="hljs-attr">xmlns:activity</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/"</span>></span>  <span class="hljs-tag"><<span class="hljs-name">id</span>></span>tag:photopanic.example.com,2009:photo/4352<span class="hljs-tag"></<span class="hljs-name">id</span>></span>  <span class="hljs-tag"><<span class="hljs-name">title</span>></span>My Cat<span class="hljs-tag"></<span class="hljs-name">title</span>></span>  <span class="hljs-tag"><<span class="hljs-name">published</span>></span>2010-11-02T15:29:00Z<span class="hljs-tag"></<span class="hljs-name">published</span>></span>  <span class="hljs-tag"><<span class="hljs-name">link</span> <span class="hljs-attr">rel</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"alternate"</span> <span class="hljs-attr">type</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"text/html"</span> <span class="hljs-attr">href</span>=<span class="hljs-string">"..."</span> /></span>  <span class="hljs-tag"><<span class="hljs-name">activity:object-type</span>></span>photo<span class="hljs-tag"></<span class="hljs-name">activity:object-type</span>></span>  <span class="hljs-tag"><<span class="hljs-name">activity:verb</span>></span>post<span class="hljs-tag"></<span class="hljs-name">activity:verb</span>></span><span class="hljs-tag"></<span class="hljs-name">entry</span>></span></code></span><small class="shcb-language" id="shcb-language-1"><span class="shcb-language__label">Code-Sprache:</span> <span class="shcb-language__name">HTML, XML</span> <span class="shcb-language__paren">(</span><span class="shcb-language__slug">xml</span><span class="shcb-language__paren">)</span></small>

ActivityStreams wurden 2011 als Namespace für Atom definiert um RSS/Atom Feeds mit Informationen anzureichern, die man aus den sozialen Netzwerken kennt. Das ist hauptsächlich der object-type um neben Texten auch Bilder oder Videos auszuzeichnen, und verb um klar zu machen um was für eine Aktion es sich genau handelt.

OStatus, der Vorgänger von ActivityPub, benutzte übrigens genau dieses Format um Aktivitäten auszuzeichnen!

Erst 6 Jahre später wurde die Version 2.0 als reines JSON Format veröffentlicht, was aber auch Sinn macht, da JSON das Format ist, welches moderne APIs eben sprechen.

Das heißt ActivityStreams ist im Prinzip eine moderne Form von RSS und ActivityPub ist einfach „nur“ ein PubSub System welches drumherum gebaut wurde.

Aber zurück zur Usability!

Die Frage ist für mich nicht RSS oder ActivityPub… Die wesentlich interessantere Frage ist: Feed-Reader oder Mastodon?

Die RSS oder IndieWeb Community (und ich zähle mich zu beiden, es geht hier nicht um Blaming) hat bisher leider kein massentaugliches Tool etabliert, welches mit der Usability und Reichweite von Mastodon (und Mastodon ist hier nur exemplarisch für eine Fediverse Platform… Pixelfed, Misskey und andere machen einen ähnlich guten Job) mithalten kann. Mastodon ermöglicht das dezentrale folgen, abonnieren, kommentieren, liken und sharen in einer simplen Oberfläche. Kein RSS-Reader, den man zum Kommentieren verlassen muss und kein IndieWeb-Reader, der eine eigene Webseite mit diversen Login- und Ping-Mechanismen voraussetzt!

Mastodon zeigt außerdem sehr deutlich dass Technik austauschbar ist, immerhin ging die Plattform 2016 mit OStatus an den Start und schwenkte erst zwei Jahre später auf ActivityPub!

Ich beschäftige mich jetzt seit ungefähr +/-15 Jahren mit dem Thema, welches man heute als Fediverse oder IndieWeb zusammen fassen würde, und habe auch ein gutes Jahrzehnt an Arbeit in diverse IndieWeb Projekte gesteckt, aber Mastodon und ActivityPub sind in ihren Auswirkungen bisher konkurrenzlos!

Dank Mastodon und ActivityPub habe ich wieder bis zu 50 Kommentare auf einen einzigen Blog-Post (Likes und Boosts nicht mit gezählt) während über RSS (gemessen an Kommentaren über das WordPress Formular) und Webmentions vielleicht eine Reaktion im Monat kommt.

Gargron, to ghost
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The blogging platform #Ghost is working on adding #ActivityPub integration. That means, among other things, being able to follow Ghost-powered blogs and comment on articles right from your Mastodon account. The website they made to explain their plans is really nice! This is what momentum looks like.

https://activitypub.ghost.org/

atomicpoet, to wordpress
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    quillmatiq, to fediverse
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    Some personal news: I'm now a contributor at @news! I'm so excited to work with the team over there reporting everything happening in the world of distributed social media.

    For my first post, I wrote about Ghost joining the 🙏🏼

    What's exciting about this is that it isn't just an ActivityPub plugin - it's a top-down re-thinking about what Ghost is as a service. This is ActivityPub for publishers done right.

    Congrats to @johnonolan and team!

    https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/ghost-implements-activitypub/

    coffeegeek, to fediverse
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    I need some help,

    We need to better incorporate our Mastodon feed into the CoffeeGeek.com website.

    Part of the problem is, in the platform we use (Wordpress / Elementor), there's almost zero support for Mastodon in our share, follow, and embed tools. So either we have to write something from scratch and make it work with our existing share tools, or... well if there is an Elementor / WP friendly share plugin out there that actively supports mastodon, I want to know about it.

    Any thoughts? Ideas? Guides? Step by step to make it happen? The research I've done so far shows it's tricky to have a proper share popup for Masto like you can have for Facebook, for eg (second screen cap below) because of the decentralized nature of mastodon.

    For instance, I want to have a Mastodon share button in this cluster, which is created via a convenient widget in Elementor:

    Share Popup for Facebook

    tallship,

    @coffeegeek

    Hi Mark,

    I've got a follow up here for you :)

    A few items, but for the tl;dr please scroll down towards the end. The first few appear to be precisely what you asked for, the third is my rather enthusiastic recommendation.

    I believe this first one is the plugin I mentioned, and was found to be quite lacking, further, frustrating to most - This showcases the glaring problem associated with conflating mastodon with that of the - most things break, early and often, over and over again.

    • A simple share button that breaks about a fourth of share attempts:

    Here's Terrence Eden's article on the Share on Mastodon plugin. I thought a link to this article best, as it leaves you lots of breadcrumbs to pick up along the way to the plugins page at WordPress. Including Jan's blog article. I believe this was the one with the least utility, that caused the most problems with people, which is quite a bit more than frustrating for a lot of people, angering many. masto isn't even the big man on campus anymore - those days have passed, and are in the past; it's just one of many increasingly popular platforms that people use in the ActivityPub portion of the Fediverse.

    I believe Jan is incorrect on the number of images that masto can accommodate - yes it used to be four, but lately, when authoring articles in the Fediverse with platforms that accommodate inline media in the posts, I've noticed that masto actually will include 5 images, the rest it summarily discards, making for an even more confusing event for those on masto (NGI Zero funding has just been secured BTW, to at least bring masto into the 21st century with Quote Posts - like pretty much everyone else has had for a long time, some for a decade now).

    Perhaps in time this will improve, or you can get into it with the aid of some of the others below, or just move past all that and install the plugin at the end of it all which performs famously ;)

    • Conflating mastopub with the Fediverse is a Bad thing:

    I've heard a few good testimonies of how well the Fediverse share button performs. Note that no where in the description or documentation is the word mastodon used; no one is mislead to believe that there is such a thing as a mastodon network - because there isn't.

    • People should be offered the opportunity to share interesting content into (and throughout) the Fediverse, not some small slice of the available platform choices existing there:

    This next option was heavily inspired by the old AddToAny plugin back when a kazillion different silos were popular and extant. I remember using that plugin to support sharing across upwards of 30 or so various social networking, bookmarking, link aggregation, and other types of obscure sites in far flung places of the world. I've also heard some good things about this solution too - please take note of all the certified platforms that it supports, and yes, mastopub is one of those ;)

    If you do choose this method, do please join us in the Fediverse-City Matrix room to offer a review / evaluation as to how well Fediverse Share works for you. Several project leads there are always interested in viable solutions that are inclusive and accommodate the wider community at large without any marginalization through misleading brand recognition.

    I do like the colorful buttons too in the demo here. I also like the non-traditional "Lorem ipsum" example prose too. I find it refreshing :)

    • Either through simple naivety or conscious exclusionary arrogance, here's some other masto branded share options, at least one, IIRC, was much less than satisfactory, but I typically don't traffic mastodon branded things anymore when the insinuation is that the product represents the Fediverse. You may find, however, that one of these is just what you need, and that with a little bit of tweaking will fit nicely into your website's business processes. A little branding can go a long way, but sometimes a solution depends on, for example, a "share API endpoint", not strictly compliant with the W3C's published specifications, that serves to marginalize all other platforms by excluding them (that's commonly regarded as EEE). I'll just post the links w/o commentary:
    • mastodon share button
    • Share on mastodon button
    • MastodonShare
    • Toot Proxy
    • Yet another mastodon share button
      *Share to mastodon

    There's another utility by Nikita Karamov (creator of the Toot Proxy above) that doesn't embrace the predatory branding of a diluted trademark:

    • Share₂Fedi - Share₂Fedi isn't a button, exactly, but the functionality is there and it is inclusive of the larger diaspora of the ActivityPub powered portions of the Fediverse, avoiding any sort of marginalization as a result of marketing through leveraging overt, and predatory branding campaigns.

    Alright, I know you're interested in getting to the good part. Yes, I'm guilty of that same sort of mindset that makes you scroll down to the bottom of the ToS before you can click on the submit button. But before we get to the tl;dr:, we have one more which in spirit at the very least, is promising, I encourage you to read it:

    • Honorable mention goes to shareOnFediverse, which works even with GNU Social, Diaspora, PixelFed, Hubzilla, Lemmy, Friendica, Kbin, Misskey, Pleroma, Etc.

    tl;dr:

    That bit of markdown above (the H1) may not show up on your platform, depending. Regardless, you've arrived. Here's the solution that I personally recommend, a very fine solution that not only allows one to share their content into the Fediverse by providing links back to their website, but providing the gateway for people in the Fediverse, , if you will, to engage the authors of news and blog and lifestyle and cookbook style tutorial and HowTo sites, directly, with two way commenting and sharing of dialog in true open and participatory fashion:

    First, (and it has indeed come a long way since the post of this article), a page on how exceedingly simple it is to install and configure this, the WordPress ActivityPub Plugin:

    Bear in mind that the plugin was in beta at the time, so never mind the sourpusses in the comments who wanted it, and yet couldn't have it because they weren't self-hosting . I must reiterate that development has come a long way, the plugin is in general production release and available for any WordPress site, managed, self-hosted, or otherwise, and it's got a powerful feature set.

    Posting links back to clear-net websites on the open Internet is fine, it's not like clicking a share to Faceplant or InstaSPAM button when you share an article that you like into the Fediverse, After all, it's every blogger's mission to drive traffic to their own site (not Faceplant or InstaSPAM), but then your visitors are limited to offering comment replies in the manner of a form submission on the site that really only allows you to subscribe your email for subsequent comment notifications for the article or thread that your commenters spawned.

    What the plugin enables for those who engage with you, is to provide an instant audience of several million MAU (monthly active users) throughout the Fediverse who will be able to directly participate and engage in the conversation from their own native Fediverse platforms, receiving replies as well.

    I've called this, A Game Changer, before. A few times, actually. @matthias @pfefferle and his small team of developers created and curated this plugin that enables this hitherto (mostly) inaccessible feature set for the masses. Literally anyone in the ActivityPub portion of the Fediverse can now comment and reply to the comments of others on WordPress sites, which is pretty much like 40% of the entire word wide web nowadays, and you can check this out for yourself right now by visiting his blog at https://notiz.blog/ in the comment section of any one of his articles.

    There were some issues, which could be attributed to the predatory marketing practices by Mastodon gGmbH, whereby a lot of what is actually ActivityPub or Fediverse centric was being referred to, and worse, attributed to mastodon in one sense or another, further diluting their trademark which places it in jeopardy of losing its registration (the first item in mastodon's general guidelines states, "Only use the Mastodon marks to accurately identify those goods or services that are built using the Mastodon software." - but the defense of trademarks themselves is another matter entirely, although the discussion has come up many times with the responsible parties, often, in very heated, public, forums.

    Anyway, Mattias and his team have become incrementally more mindful of placing emphasis upon , the brand, instead of masto, the brand, and that's a good thing because it goes a long way toward correcting the existing confusion that exists due to the abuse certain marketing personalities have, and continue to pursue. Indeed, the plugin itself is named ActivityPub, which is appropriate - and it certainly is not an exclusive tool for mastopub.

    You can download the latest and greatest version of the WordPress ActivityPub Plugin HERE, which was released just 3 days ago, and I know because I was on the periphery of an issue that was resolved, making this an even more relevant and quickly becoming (IMO) essential tool for and Fediverse aware bloggers, journalists, chefs, and anyone else that knows they can benefit from deploying their own WordPress site for business or personal use in communicating with the world beyond the walls of the deprecated, proprietary, privacy mining monolithic silos.

    In wrapping things up here, it goes without saying that one of the very most powerful aspects of the isn't actually that people can respond to your published articles from the comfort of myriad clients such as , , , or the native web or desktop interface for their Fediverse instance, but the reality that they can simply follow you, on your blog, and receive your blog or news or HowTo articles in their streams whenever you publish a new item. From there, they can boost (more exposure for your published works), reply (of course), and even offer a bit of narrative introducing your work with a . It's like a butterfly affect, or concentric circles emanating from one little plop of a pebble into a pond.

    Oh, one more thing, there's nothing preventing you from including one of the pretty little Fediverse Share buttons either, in conjunction with the ActivityPub plugin. After all, some folks like to comment and let you know their thoughts, while others prefer to simply share it with others who will also tell two friends or themselves offer comments to your articles - it's a win win for everyone on both sides of the line that divides the Fediverse from those so-called Big Tech institutions comprising the walled gardens of subjugation by the .

    I hope you've found this helpful, I didn't want to send you on an errand of discovery without making sure that there's been some decent coverage of several different alternatives currently available for you.

    All the best!

    , @pfefferle

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    dansup, to fediverse
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    I had an interesting idea for PubKit, I do want to open source the code but I'd also like to get some funding/donations while keeping the service free.

    The idea is to set a goal, say $15,000 of donations to reach before the source code is published, basically incentivizing the release by a set monetary goal.

    Wdyt?

    nathan, to random
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    I'm going to be doing a LIVE webinar with Matthias Pfefferle on Weds 24th April at 3pm (UK time). It's all about WordPress and the Fediverse (think Mastodon) and how to turn your website into a member of this growing social network. It'll be at wpbuilds.com/live.

    pfefferle, to fediverse
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    We released version 2.3.0 of the plugin for .

    Some new features:

    • Support for alt-attributes
    • Prioritize attachments based on the post format (article => all, audio => audio, video => video, ...)
    • Improve JS widgets
    • A better default content handling based on the Object Type
    • You can now add/remove the capability to use ActivityPub for each User

    Full changelog: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#230---2024-04-16

    Download: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/2.3.0

    teezeh,
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    @pfefferle I already updated the German translation yesterday ;-)

    pubkit, to fediverse

    Hello World ✨

    You can now register for the beta, https://pubkit.net

    about.iftas.org, to space

    https://about.iftas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSA-Guide-Decentralised-Servers.pdf

    IFTAS is happy to announce the public availability of our DSA Guide for Decentralized Services – a practical guide for small and micro services that are subject to the EU’s Digital Services Act.

    Developed in collaboration with the great people at Tremau, our DSA Guide is designed to help independent social media service providers navigate these complex regulations and achieve compliance with these new rules without compromising the unique qualities of federated, open social networks.

    As part of our Needs Assessment activities, we’ve heard a repeated need for help understanding the complex regulatory landscape that decentralized services need to consider, and this DSA Guide is the first of many in our plan to provide clear, actionable guidance to a range of regulations for the community.

    As of February 2024, all online services and digital platforms that offer services in the European Union are required to be fully compliant with the DSA. If your server has member accounts in the EU, or is publicly viewable in the EU, your service is most likely impacted by this regulation.

    However, various portions of the DSA are not applicable to “small and micro” services, and this guide will show you clearly which parts apply and which do not.

    For administrators of platforms like Mastodon, PeerTube, and Pixelfed, the DSA Guide can help demystify the requirements and offer practical advice on achieving compliance for the over 27,000 independent operators of these and other decentralized social media services who otherwise may not be able to obtain the guidance and advice that larger operations can afford to invest in.

    Download the DSA Guide for Decentralized Fediverse Services.

    To join the discussion, visit our community chat service at https://matrix.to/#/#space:matrix.iftas.org or stay tuned to join our community portal in the coming weeks!

    https://about.iftas.org/2024/04/09/dsa-guide-for-the-fediverse/

    davew, to random
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    Understanding AP and RSS

    I've been trying to figure out what ActivityPub does that RSS doesn't.

    Off the top of my head, it's not the ability to syndicate, RSS already does that. I can follow anyone on any server.

    I think it's the timeline? And the ability to delete posts. Keeping all that in sync is a lot of work, and presumably a lot of traffic?

    Also replies. If I reply to a post when viewing it on another server, the reply should show up under any other view of that post.

    What else??

    matthiasott, to random
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    Issue 12 of is out. 🥳

    Finding Your Rhythm.

    With links to posts and podcasts by @michelle, @shoptalkshow, @jkottke, @shadeed9, @thisissethsblog, @adactio, and many more! 🎉

    Personal site of the (every other) week by @cassidoo 🎧⌨️

    https://buttondown.email/ownyourweb/archive/issue-12/

    ricmac, to fediverse
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    At this week, we saw that the encompasses many more applications than just Mastodon (and soon, Threads). In this article for @TheNewStack, I review the event and discuss a few of the more promising apps/services that were demo'ed. I also look at @fedidevs, a new network of enthusiastic fediverse . https://thenewstack.io/fediforum-showcases-new-fediverse-apps-and-developer-network/

    fediforum, to threads
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    Engadget also has a piece about the demo at today, this one comes with a link to our website. Nice!

    https://www.engadget.com/meta-previews-fediverse-sharing-for-threads-001632698.html

    marcelweiss, to random German
    @marcelweiss@mastodon.social avatar

    Wen es interessiert, @pfefferle und ich haben im Podcast Anfang des Jahres durchgespielt, wie sich die ActivityPub-Anbindung von Threads als Opt-In wohl entwickeln wird:

    https://neunetz.fm/neunetzcast-99-nieder-mit-dem-fediverse-hoch-lebe-das-social-web/

    Ich gehe etwa von einer starken Bedeutung der Kreativen aus, die damit den Zugang zu ihrem Publikum stärken können.

    Es wird vergleichbare Aufrufe für ActivityPub geben wie die Abo-/Glockenaufrufe auf YouTube zB…

    From: @fediforum
    https://mastodon.social/@fediforum/112125988631129311

    evan, (edited ) to random
    @evan@cosocial.ca avatar

    Does anyone know who owns fediverse.org? It used to be a registry for GNU Social implementations, and then it went dark in 2019. It seems to have been a placeholder since mid-2020. I'd love to talk to the owner about taking it over.

    Update: I'm this guy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Prodromou

    notes, to random
    @notes@kraut.press avatar

    Hackathon Project: Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress and its Plugins

    Matthias Pfefferle (@pfefferle), Automattic’s Open Web Lead, explained his Project “Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress and its Plugins” for the CloudFest Hackathon.

    Transcript (auto generated)

    Simon:
    What’s your project called and what is it all about?

    Matthias:
    The project is called Enable Mastodon Apps. And the idea is to bring the Mastodon API to WordPress.
    And the bigger idea behind all of that is WordPress is not known for its possibilities to have social interaction and to haveeasy ways to publish posts in a modern way.
    Kind of like microblogging, short content, some images, focus on images, no titles, hashtags.
    So we thought it might be a good idea to have a possibility to reuse some of the more modern publishing apps.
    And the most open and most used app in decentralized communication movement is Mastodon.
    So we decided to start with that to profit from the big app community so far.

    Simon:
    I know that you’re working on the ActivityPop integration for WordPress.
    Is this something you can only use in combination with that?
    Or could I also use Mastodon apps to publish posts on my WordPress site without federating the blog?

    Matthias:
    The idea was to decouple both plugins.
    They work work nicely together but you could use either or so if you simply install the plugin you see all your posts in themainstream and you can publish new content you can also search and view by hashtags to see older posts or find olderposts of you you could also comment that if that makes sense yeah if you have a bigger blog with some of some of yourfriends and or your family it’s kind kind of small social social network, you could have an easy access with the with theplugin.
    And one of the biggest goals of the hackathon project was to make it as extensible as possible so that also other pluginscould hook into the EnableMathodonApps plugin and provide their information or hook into some actions from the app.

    Simon:
    What’s the final result you want to leave the hackathon with?

    Matthias:
    The final result would be to make the current implementation solid and working and fixing some of the latest bugs.
    And in the best case, we would try to have some example implementation of other plugins, like, for example, a big RSS reader to have the RSS feed as kind of a timeline, social network replacement thing.
    So that you could see your subscriptions from WordPress in the Messelein app, for example.
    Like similar to if you follow someone on the fediverse um yeah.

    Simon:
    I’m very much looking forward to that i guess i will be user number one after this hackathon for the very site this this interview is going to be published at i think that about covers it right so yeah i would say so thank you for taking the time thanks.

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