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I am on my last flight to get to FOSDEM 2026 — for the Social Web track.

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  • julian@activitypub.spaceundefined
    julian@activitypub.space

    @aimee@mastodon.nz great suggestions, thanks! Science magazines would be great reading material :)

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  • aimee@mastodon.nzundefined
    aimee@mastodon.nz

    @julian Aeon? New Scientist? As for books - SO MANY (mostly sci-fi) :P Read Transmetropolitan? Or Afrian Tchaikovsky's work? Also, the Discworld novels :)

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  • julian@activitypub.spaceundefined
    julian@activitypub.space

    Jonathan Haidt's been doing a media tour to promote his and Catherine Price's new book, The Amazing Generation.

    After watching the duo's segment on The Daily Show, it's inspired my wife and I to try a digital sabbath on Saturdays again.

    Part of why it failed in the past (multiple times, I'm sad to say) was that we didn't have anything physical to read. We'd start making small concessions ("I'm reading a Kindle, it's ok"), leading to more concessions ("I'm only using my phone to look something up"), and pretty soon we'd be back on our phones again.

    So, fedi, any suggestions for book series' and (print) magazines to subscribe to?

    We're probably going to subscribe to Macleans, but it's monthly now, so we need more suggestions!

    Bonus if it's Canadian content, but not a hard requirement.

    We'll probably do Chirp for the kids, too.

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  • julian@activitypub.spaceundefined
    julian@activitypub.space

    So NodeBB tests have been failing for the past few days because coveralls.io is down.

    Coveralls is a code coverage bot that is free for open source projects. We integrated it into our workflow years ago and it's been trucking along fine all these years.

    While coveralls being down technically prevents us from running our tool to launch a new version, we could always just do it manually.

    Their outage page is here: https://status.coveralls.io/

    They are on day 3 of the outage and have absolutely no idea when things will come back up.

    This paragraph is worded curiously:

    > We want to be transparent with you: after two full days of working directly with our hosting provider’s account team, we still do not have an ETA for service restoration. Despite having internal sponsorship within our provider’s organization, we have been unable to get the traction needed to resolve what appears to have been an automated action, one that no one on their side has taken ownership of causing or fixing.

    (Emphasis mine.)

    Perhaps I have been reading too many AI-doomer articles. This sounds like an AI agent went in and started deleting shit.

    The post mortem is going to be very very very interesting.

    cc @mariusor@metalhead.club, because he started an HN thread about it

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  • julian@activitypub.spaceundefined
    julian@activitypub.space

    @gabboman sorry for the delay, it has been approved now.

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  • gabboman@activitypub.spaceundefined
    gabboman@activitypub.space

    this is just a test post because i need to test stuff on this software with wafrn

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  • julian@activitypub.spaceundefined
    julian@activitypub.space

    @reiver@mastodon.social I would've! Unfortunately we booked a family vacation for this week, before FOSDEM dates had been announced 😅

    Send save the dates for FediCon! 😝

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  • reiver@mastodon.socialundefined
    reiver@mastodon.social

    @julian

    I assumed you were coming again.

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  • blog@shkspr.mobiundefined

    Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!

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    Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/now-witness-the-power-of-this-fully-operational-fediverse/How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog from each site. It is an imperfect measure - and a vain one - but lets me know where I should be spending my time. No point posting on a network which is just bots talking to each other, right?Earlier this year I built a stats-counter for my blog. Every time someone clicks from a website which links to my blog, it records that visit in a database. I get to see which blog posts are doing numbers, and where those numbers came from.Until fairly recently, the Mastodon social network didn't send referer details. I thought that reduced the visibility of the network and lobbied for it to change. As various Mastodon servers upgrade, and admins opt-in, it is becoming more apparent just how much traffic originates from the Fediverse.Over the last few weeks, here's how many people have clicked from BlueSky and Mastodon to one of my blog posts.TotalSource1,607bsky.app752mastodon.socialAt first glance, it doesn't look good for our elephantine friends, does it? The butterfly sends over twice the traffic. Game over!But, of course, while Mastodon.social is the biggest instance - it is far from the only one. What happens if we slide down the long tail? Here's all the Mastodon-ish instances which sent me over 10 clicks.TotalSource193phanpy.social120 android-app://org.joinmastodon.android/106infosec.exchange62mas.to59mstdn.social55social.vivaldi.net49wandering.shop48fosstodon.org33mathstodon.xyz27mastodon.online26mastodon.scot24app.wafrn.net19indieweb.social18social.lol17tech.lgbt17toot.wales16en.osm.town16feditrends.com14mstdn.ca14piefed.social12wetdry.world11c.im11mastodon.nl51 Sites sending < 10 clicksAh! Add them all up and you get a grand total of 1,773 visitors from Mastodon-powered sites. That's more than BlueSky.Now, there are some obvious caveats to the data:I have a smaller follower count on BlueSky than I do on Mastodon.My posts may appeal more to one demographic than another.People may have strict privacy controls which suppress the true volume of visitors.There's no way to measure how long someone spends reading my posts.RSS and newsletter visitors aren't counted.Clicks from apps may not always show a referer.Some people may be on multiple services.Fediverse users can follow the post directly, so don't need to visit the site to read it.And yet… no matter how you slice it, Fediverse servers are sending as much traffic as BlueSky!I think this is brilliant. Web services should be able to scale from small to big - and each ActivityPub-powered site helps power the open Internet.Just for completeness, this is how Reddit, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Lemmy do over the same period:TotalSource1,158reddit.com585 android-app://com.reddit.frontpage/76facebook.com76https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/56https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/52youtube.com41t.co38https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nsw7f4/til_in_mongolia_instead_of_a_street_address_a/31linkedin.com27 android-app://io.syncapps.lemmy_sync/27https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nsw7f4/til_in_mongolia_instead_of_a_street_address_a/22https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1n96ftn/40_years_later_are_bentleys_programming_pearls/22lemmy.ca17 android-app://com.linkedin.android/16lemmy.dbzer0.com14feddit.org11https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1n96ftn/40_years_later_are_bentleys_programming_pearls/10discuss.tchncs.de10l.instagram.com8lemmy.blahaj.zone6https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1m2l84b/considering_making_the_switch_does_google_pay/6reddthat.comIf you add up all the Lemmy instances, they send about as much traffic as Facebook and LinkedIn combined. That's not a huge surprise - those platforms hate anyone clicking away to the wider web.Twitter is basically the Dead Internet. I'm no longer on there, but I do occasionally search it to see who is sharing my posts. The popular posts I write get shared a lot - sometimes by accounts with huge followers - yet there are no comments or retweets and barely and clicks.I don't do Instagram or Threads, and that might be reflected in their low numbers. But I'm not active on YouTube either - yet people there occasionally link back to me.Final ThoughtsFirstly, my stats only represent my site. Your site might be very different.Secondly, I've ignored search engine traffic, big blogs, newsletters, and other sources.Thirdly, and most importantly, this isn't a competition! The desire for a "winner-takes-all" service is dangerous and disturbing. An ecosystem is at its most vibrant when there are multiple participants each thriving in their own niche.I want a thousand sites, running a hundred different software stacks, some of which only serve a dozen people, or even a lone participant.Diversity is strength.#activitypub #bluesky #fediverse #mastodon #statistics
  • admin@mastodon.raddemo.hostundefined

    How to Install #Pixelfed on #Ubuntu VPS (8 Step Quick-Start Guide)

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    How to Install #Pixelfed on #Ubuntu VPS (8 Step Quick-Start Guide) This article provides a guide for how to install Pixelfed on Ubuntu VPS.What is Pixelfed?PixelFed is a decentralized, open-source photo-sharing platform similar to Instagram but built on the #Fediverse (federated social networks using the #ActivityPub protocol). It allows users to host their own instances and interact with users across ...Continued 👉 https://blog.radwebhosting.com/how-to-install-pixelfed-on-ubuntu-vps/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon.raddemo.host #installguide #selfhosting #vpsguide #selfhosted
  • nora_mira@hear-me.socialundefined

    Bluesky is suspending accounts that are outside their site.

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    nora_mira@hear-me.socialundefined
    Bluesky is suspending accounts that are outside their site. Also, CEO of Bluesky got caught following a transphobic personInstead of taking accountability, they banned the person who called the CEO out.I don't know if Bluesky is going to Twitter again?#fediverse #bluesky #Mastodon
  • danyal@fosstodon.orgundefined

    Hello the #fediverseI had an account at SDF but it was pseudoanonymous &amp; mostly barren so thought I'd invite myself here (thanks for having me!)

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    danyal@fosstodon.orgundefined
    @adamsdesk Thank you Adam!