The annual Social Web Operations Survey from IFTAS is open! With 50,000 active nodes federating we want the community's voice to be heard. Whether you're running a personal node, a relay, or a larger community, your feedback directly shapes the tools, resources and advocacy IFTAS takes on. The survey takes less than ten minutes to complete: https://tally.so/r/81MW6k @jaz@mastodon.iftas.org is looking for feedback especially from NodeBB instance admins, so if you have a NodeBB forum, he'd love to hear from you!

Release v3.2.3 of Ktistec includes two big features:FEP-1b12 Group federationImproved federation with Lemmy and other forum-type servers. Ktistec supports community and thread follow/unfollow, as well as up-vote/like (down-vote/dislike is supported but there is no visual affordance for that yet).FEP-9098 Custom emojisSupport for viewing custom emoji in posts and on actor profiles. Ktistec does not yet support custom emoji creation and management.The full changelog:AddedSupport for viewing custom emoji in posts and on actor profiles.Actor type (Person, Group, etc.) overlay badges on actor panels.Colored fallback avatars for actors without icons.Support for robots.txt.FixedFederation with Lemmy and other servers that support FEP-1b12.Shared inbox support for local actors.Serialization of Undo includes the undone activity.Serialization of Like and Dislike does not.Notify only once for an object's first received activity.ChangedAccumulate metrics by hour for finer granularity.Clean up presentation of public followers/following pages.The next release will include support for Mastodon polls (FEP-9967).#ktistec #crystallang #activitypub #fediverse

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 databaseRemote Version: Fetch and view the original JSON-LD representation from the source serverNavigation: Click on any ActivityPub IRI to navigate to that objectHistory: Use Alt+Left and Alt+Right to navigate through your viewing historyThis 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:AddedSupport 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.ChangedImproved 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

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Thanks Lexicaleigh! evan@cosocial.ca jdp23@neuromatch.social would be interested in your thoughts.