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Hello Fediverse If everything works out according to plan, when I hit publish on this post it will show up in the #Fediverse. After a year of on-and-off attempts, to implement #ActivityPub on this website, with no success, I have hopefully cracked it! Well, when I say “I have hopefully cracked it,” what I mean is @pfefferle@mastodon.social and the #WordPress “open office hours” program, have cracked it. It turns out; if you have a problem with the WordPress ActivityPub plugin, the best thing to do is disable other plugins and, though a process of elimination, see if one of them is the issue. So big thanks to Mathias and WordPress for your help on this.Now this is working and I am broadcasting out into the Fediverse, I feel like I should modify my content a little to appeal to all of you woke, leftists, godless, communists 🙂 out there. For a while I was far too smitten with the every little #Sustainability initiative, every little carbon reduction program, and every other bit of  #GreenWashing that was put out there by brands. Full confession I actually believed that ElonMusk wanted to save the planet! Yeh I know, I was naive…While I do continue to applaud any actions that a corporation takes, that materially helps either people or planet, it’s clear that problems are systemic. We need corporations to shift from Shareholder Primacy to Stakeholder Capitalism, valuing environmental and social impact alongside profit. Or try someting completely different. Right now, if there is a more sustainable or ethical brand choice to be had, we should always take it, but we must understand, that we are not “saving the planet” with those choices, just minimising our impact. Nebula TV channel, Our Changing Climate,  has this excellent video on the subject of Ethical Consumerism.It turns out, that whoever first pointed out “Corporations are Psychopaths” was mostly correct – How a corporation is designed to function, putting shareholders before people and planet, is psychopathic behaviour. (Psychopathic behaviour includes a lack of empathy and remorse, superficial charm, manipulation, and a disregard for social norms and the rights of others.) The only solution is to rewrite corporate charters and incorporation acts and include specific legal provisions that mandate environmental and social responsibility, shifting the core purpose of business beyond mere profit maximisation. Ultimately Corporations and their leaders are never going to fully act in the best interests of people and planet, because that’s not what they were created to do.So the plan, for 2026, is to be posting more content here that challenges both brands and the whole system. To shine a light on the negative impacts to people and planet that brands are having. And to share more content about organisations and companies working on regeneration and decarbonisation.Please follow and share your thoughts and ideas below. #ActivityPub #Branding #Corporations #Fediverse #Sustaiability #Sustainability #WordPress

Week in Fediverse 2025-12-05Servers- stegodon v1.3.0- Ktistec v3.2.2- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.7.0- snac v2.85- tootik v0.20.3- shops v0.1.6- PieFed v1.3.6- Forgejo monthly report - November 2025- Lemmy Development Update November 2025Clients- Pachli v3.2.0- Mastodon for iOS v2025.08- Tusker v2025.3- Voyager v2.41.0Tools and Plugins- Poduptime v5.6.1- FIRES Server v0.8.0Articles- Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse- Why the #OMN works with #ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to #p2p- The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization- Alt Text Health Check image accessibility report #3- Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?- #OurFedi2025 - Fediverse Year in Review- A review of Exit coolness I overlooked from the world of ActivityPub- Fediverse Report – #145-----#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPubPrevious edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019acbca-9a56-6825-a6da-5469fd8a40fd

In the Fediverse track at SFSCon, Tobias Diekershoff spoke about:Fediverse: Beyond text in the stream: An expedition into the Fediverse to discover uncharted serviceshttps://fediforum.org/2025-11-sfscon/#fediforum #sfscon #fediverse #socialweb

Have a happy Friday and a great weekend, #BSDCafe and #Fediverse!

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

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

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…