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In the Fediverse track at SFSCon, Mayel de Borniol and Ivan Minutillo spoke about:Bonfire: Public Interest Social Networkshttps://fediforum.org/2025-11-sfscon/#fediforum #sfscon #fediverse #socialweb #bonfire

Destroying Autocracy – December 04, 2025Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.The Programmer’s Fulcrum is the future (and smaller) home for a fusion of Symfony Station and Battalion. Its tagline is Devs Defending Democracy, Developing the OMN.You can sign up now and for 2025 get an email with links to each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with their featured articles. And you’ll be set with TPF after the fusing in January.We are posting on the Fediverse now at @thefulcrum @thefulcrum.dev and original website content will start next month.Featured Item(s)Hamish Campbell writes:ActivityPub is a shared vocabulary, a public language for moving meaning and connection across the open web. It gives you nouns and verbs, and the community defines the grammar through lived use.This is why the OMN works with ActivityPub, a metadata and meaning layer, not a platform, flows, not silos. ActivityPub is the widely deployed 4 Opens protocol that treats publishing as a flow, a conversation.Unlike the more vertical stacks (ATProto is a good example), ActivityPub doesn’t force a worldview. It doesn’t tell you, “this is how your network must be structured.” It doesn’t enforce hierarchy or lock you into one interpretation of identity, authority, or workflow. It’s a KISS path – here’s a shared language, verbs for publishing and receiving, express objects, updates, relationships. The rest is up to the commons.This flexibility is exactly why the OMN can become a part of this flow.Why the OMN works with ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to p2pWe start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggeryDDEV has:Power Through Blackouts: How DDEV Community Helped Me in UkraineTechPolicy Press shares:How to Test New York’s Algorithmic Pricing LawThe EU’s Digital Omnibus Must Be Rejected by Lawmakers. Here is Why.Singapore announced an:Issuance of Implementation Directives to Apple and Google Under the Online Criminal Harms ActThe MIT Press Reader has:The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for PrivacyThe Guardian reports:Irish authorities asked to investigate Microsoft over alleged unlawful data processing by IDFNeutralTechPolicy Press reports:What the European Commission and Civil Society Both Get Wrong on the Digital OmnibusWhy Platforms Don’t Catch Climate Misinformation — and How to Change ThatEuroNews asks:Which European countries are building their own sovereign AI to compete in the tech race?Numerama reports:Mistral AI dévoile Mistral 3 et Ministral : des modèles qui replacent la France sur la scène open sourceTechCrunch reports:Mistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small modelsWired reports:The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the states. Activists Are Fighting Back.The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes BackThe Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re DoingEDRi has:Promises unkept: The EU-US Data Privacy Framework under fire404 Media reports:Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AIPariah StatesDarkReading reports:Tomiris Unleashes ‘Havoc’ With New Tools, TacticsDPRK’s ‘Contagious Interview’ Spawns Malicious Npm Package FactoryStudent Sells Gov’t, University Sites to Chinese ActorsTechPolicy Press reports:The Gulf’s AI Rise and the Risk of Entrenching AuthoritarianismThe Register reports:Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spywareChina using AI as ‘precision instrument’ of censorship and repression, at home and abroadBig MediaAxios reports:Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom toolsBig surprise.Big TechThe Guardian reports:How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’More than 1,000 Amazon workers warn rapid AI rollout threatens jobs and climateAnti-immigrant material among AI-generated content getting billions of views on TikTokBleepingComputer reports:Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll outBig surprise here. But, if you’re amoral enough to use it, you deserve all the privacy invading ads you get.Google deletes X post after getting caught using a ‘stolen’ AI recipe infographicNature reports:Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AIWow.The Guardian reports:The question isn’t whether the AI bubble will burst – but what the fallout will beNational Review reports:Meta Researchers Privately Compared Instagram to Addictive Drug, Bombshell Court Filing ShowsWanna-be Big TechOMG Unbuntu has:Mozilla’s ‘Rewiring’ to AI – Saving the Web or Saving Itself?Cybersecurity/PrivacyTechCrunch reports:European cops shut down crypto mixing website that helped launder 1.3B eurosDarkReading reports:New Raptor Framework Uses Agentic Workflows to Create PatchesBleeping Computer reports:Fake Calendly invites spoof top brands to hijack ad manager accountsThe Register reports:Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuseFediverseCoywolf has:Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverseBen Werdmuller shares:Introducing RoundaboutSean Coates explores:The Fediverse and Content Creation: MonetizationGreat and important stuff.Ploum asks:Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?Wouldn’t the fix to this would be to show a larger version of a user’s profile image with text posts?RSSPlanet Codigo has:Mi solución RSS con software libre y autogestionadoSlightly Decentralized Social MediaTBDCTAs (aka show us some free love)That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.Follow me on the Fediverse. Or this site via the button in the footer. Or via RSS. Or even our future home in 2026, if you want a head start.Keep fighting!Ringleader, BattalionReuben Walker Follow me on the Fediverse#ActivityPub #AI #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Roundabout #RSS #StopChina #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #SupportUkraine #TechnoAnarchism #TechnoFeudalism #Threadshttps://battalion.mobileatom.net/?p=4147

Right on the heels of WordPress 6.9 we released a new version of the ActivityPub plugin, making quote comments visible in the Reactions block and bringing you new ways of customizing your author pages.Quotes Join the Reactions PartyWhen someone quotes your post on Mastodon or other Fediverse platforms, you’ll now see it right alongside your likes and reposts. Quotes get their own row in the Fediverse Reactions display, making it easy to see at a glance who’s building on your ideas and adding their own commentary.Behind the scenes, we improved how we’re detecting quotes. Different platforms have their own ways of handling quote posts, and not all of them speak the same language. The plugin now understands these variations better, so whether someone quotes you from Mastodon, Misskey, or elsewhere, it just works.This means your engagement stats tell a fuller story. A quote isn’t just a repost—it’s someone adding their voice to yours, and now WordPress can recognize and display that distinction.Show Off Your Fediverse IdentityIf you’ve set up extra fields on your Fediverse profile—things like your website, pronouns, location, or links to other accounts—you can now display them directly on your WordPress site with the new Extra Fields block.Drop it onto any page, post, or your author archive template, pick a style that fits your theme, and your profile details appear right where your visitors can see them. Choose from a clean table layout, a stacked list, or styled cards. You can also control how many fields to show and customize colors to match your site.ChangelogAddedAdd documentation guide for using ActivityPub blocks in classic themes with Block Template PartsAdded a new Fediverse Extra Fields block to display ActivityPub extra fields, featuring compact, stacked, and card layouts with flexible user selection options.Added support for quote comments, improving detection and handling of quoted replies and links in post interactions.Add notifications for boosts, likes, and new followers in Mastodon apps via the Enable Mastodon Apps pluginAdds support for turning tags, categories, and custom taxonomies into federated collections in the Reader view so you can browse and follow topics more seamlessly.Prevent email notifications for comments on ActivityPub custom post types.Send a Reject activity when a quote comment is deleted, revoking previous quote permissions and ensuring consistent inbox handling.Store and retrieve webfinger acct for remote actors to improve identification and reduce lookupsChangedImprove gallery and image block markup for ap_posts with better alt text and optimized layouts.Improve support for media attachments by handling Audio, Document, and Video object types in addition to Images.Maintain consistent return values in Create handler.Remove trailing hashtags from incoming posts to prevent duplication with taxonomy tags.Store comments and reactions from followed actors on reader posts, and keep them separate from your site’s comments in wp-admin.Update compatibility testing for PHP 8.5 and WordPress 6.9Use tag name instead of slug for hashtag display.FixedAlways includes id, first, and last links in collection responses, ensuring followers and following lists display correctly in Mastodon.Automatically approves reactions on ActivityPub posts in the Reader view for a smoother, more seamless interaction experience.Deliver public activities to followers only.Disable REST API endpoints for internal post types.False mention email notifications for users in CC field without actual mention tags.Fix “Filename too long” errors when downloading attachments from URLs with query parameters (e.g., Instagram CDN URLs).Fix make_clickable corrupting existing anchor tags in ActivityPub contentFix PHP 8.5 deprecation warnings for ReflectionProperty::setAccessible() and ReflectionMethod::setAccessible()Improved handling of unusual activity data to avoid errors when activities contain unexpected formats.Preserve original ActivityPub activity timestamps when creating posts and comments instead of using current time.Prevented duplicate email notifications when ActivityPub instances re-send Follow activities for already-following actors.Prevents unwanted comment types—like pingbacks, trackbacks, notes and custom system comments, from being federated, ensuring only real user comments are shared with the fediverse.Removed a redundant instruction from the custom post content settings to simplify the UI.Reply block now shows fallback link when oEmbed fails instead of empty div.Simplified reply links by removing special handling for federated comments, making replies work the same for all comments where replying is allowed.Undefined array key warning in Scheduler::async_batch when called without arguments.DownloadsWordPress.org: activitypub.7.7.0.zipGitHub: tag/7.7.0Thank You!As always, a huge thanks to everyone who contributed code, reported bugs, tested early builds, and shared ideas. Every bit of feedback helps make ActivityPub for WordPress better for the whole community.Version 7.7.0 is available now—update and let us know what you think!

When someone quote-boosts one of my Mastodon toots why do I get two identical notifications? One for the quote and the other for the boost? I use the web client of an instance that runs Mastodon Glitch Edition.#mastodon #fediverse

In the Fediverse track at SFSCon, Tommi Marmo spoke about:What is the Fediverse? Defining Values and Key Challenges.https://fediforum.org/2025-11-sfscon/#fediforum #sfscon #fediverse #socialweb

@_elena @morloi @niccolove 🔥🔥🔥

Hey everyone,@joynewacc, @aseelfromgz, and I had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.They are:• Ameen.Gaza (@ameengaza)Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their account, and donate to their fundraiser if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):https://gaza-verified.org/donate/Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.💕#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

I think I have identified a fairly significant flaw in how the #Fediverse currently operates. Hear me out.The Fediverse currently consists of all sorts of different systems - #Mastodon, #Friendica , #Pixelfed , #PeerTube, #BookWyrm , and so forth. And while they are all connected via the #ActivityPub protocol, they all have different functionalities and different ways of presenting themselves. Which is as it should be, because Diversity Is Our Strength(TM).However, it is here that the ActivityPub-based interactivity hits its limits - for usually, you can either experience the relevant system as it was intended, or you can interact with it, but not both - _unless_ you have an account on the same system (though not necessarily on the same instance).Let's say that you are a Mastodon user who looks at another person's BookWyrm page. You scroll through their books, posts, and comments. Then you see some comment you want to comment on yourself, but can you do so?Not directly. You need to figure out the URL of their comment, and then copy and paste that comment into the search bar of your Mastodon instance. Then it will show up in the same format as a Mastodon post, and you can interact with it - boost it, like it, comment on it.Sure, it works, but it's a whole lot of tedious effort.Or you can search for the user account in Mastodon and scroll through all their posts and comments as if they were a Mastodon user - and thus, you will miss out on all the unique user interface features of BookWyrm.So what is missing?Well, Mastodon already has an "Open original page" feature when looking at someone's post. What we need is an "Open original page AND AUTHENTICATE" feature. This way, the target instance (whatever software they are using) could acknowledge the viewer as an external user who could nevertheless fully interact with the local user interface, including the ability to boost, like, and make comments.This is something that should be theoretically possible to implement, right? #FediHelp

@si_irini I would do what I do for work, except not exactly thatwrite software I enjoy rather than software that is useful for some companycontribute to Debian and/or other Free Software projectsand then all of the other crafts I already do in my free time (including documenting what I do and publishing it under free licenses)

Alaskan.Social is an independent Mastodon server created, moderated and owned by Alaskans. https://alaskan.socialYou can find out more at https://alaskan.social/about or contact the admin account @moderators #FeaturedServer #Alaska #Alaskan #Anchorage #Juneau #USA #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

@jamesmarshall 4PM Brazil, which is 2PM ET and 11AM PT.

@ozoned Stefano, Elena, ElenaItaly is stealing the show !

Thanks for the comments! It's interesting to see people's experiences and how there seem to be regional and cultural differences in what people think of this.Here's a video of a chicken cosplaying as a duck. Full disclosure: no cows were hurt in the making of this video. No-one sat on the chicken.https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/115054684910511303

@teddythepreacher @_elena @niccolove @morloi Musk to me is like an old boss out of a Donald E. Westlake Parker novel. He's bad for everyone's business directly and indirectly. As he runs a long con-artist game. Along with feeling an unnecessary goal to inflate his and Trump's ego as well.

It's our birthday today. 🎉Two years ago today, we filed the paperwork for Mirlo to officially become a legal entity. We're so grateful and humbled by everyone who has contributed to the experiment since then. Here's to many more years making music together on the internet! 🐦‍⬛🐸🎺 #Music #Musicians #OpenSource #Mirlo #Fediverse #FediMusic #Birthday

I've gone live!Fireside Fedi - Episode 62 - Prince Lucija - Computer sound noise music#owncast #streaming #interview #fediverse #fedi #people #show #firesidefedi #FsFhttps://stream.firesidefedi.live

各位香油主要是用什么客户端访问Mastodon（fediverse系）的呢？ APP一览https://joinmastodon.org/apps#mastodon #fediverse #activitypub #poll@poll @worldboard @board

Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediversehttps://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/#fediverse #mastodon #activitypub

Un server ActivityPub in un singolo file PHP? Ecco come fare... Il post di @tofeo Qualsiasi programma per computer può essere progettato per essere eseguito da un singolo file, se la progettazione è abbastanza sbagliata! 🤣Volevo creare il server #Fediverse più semplice possibile, che potesse essere utilizzato come strumento didattico per mostrare come funziona ActivityPub / Mastodon.shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/activ…@fediversoRE: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/activ…