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🫧 Social coding commons @smallcircles@social.coop · Jul 21, 2026

Replying to @dmathieu@fosstodon.org

@dmathieu@fosstodon.org NodeInfo isn't part of #ActivityPub and neither is it required to be implemented by fedi software. What #fediverse is and isn't is an interesting question. Does following between actors make the software on both ends part of the fediverse? Should a fediverse app support #microblogging? Be compatible with Mastodon? Perhaps being part of fediverse means if 2 independent 3rd-parties are able to interoperate with each other? Does that require sending Follow msgs? If someone has a federated Product catalogue that federates with itself and a 3rd-party Order delivery service, is it part of the fediverse? Even when no Follow is sent? It is undefined what being part of the fediverse means. There used to be a Federated Network Association (Feneas) as a major dev community besides #SocialHub, which defined fediverse as any software that implemented AP, #XMPP, or #Matrix protocol. @steve@social.technoetic.com even wrote that nothing even truly implements AP, and I tend to agree. https://www.stevebate.net/nothin-implements-activitypub/

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🫧 Social coding commons @smallcircles@social.coop · Jul 16, 2026

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

#Fediverse is a social network, right? About being different from corporate anti-social media. Has ambitions to be more diverse, inclusive, cohesive. To provide inter-community social networking where people with similar interests find each other and interact.

Like the #ActivityPub developer community, for instance. The group of people who make all this possible in the first place. Together they uphold the fediverse technology ecosystem and are collectively responsible for evolving it. They chose fediverse as their communication medium, dogfooding their creations, even though this comes with its disadvantages. #Microblogging is ephemeral and fleety and discussions are dispersed and fragmented. There are clear points of improvements for the #fedi, frequently discussed.

What's very odd is that most AP devs hardly:

Engage with other AP devs posts.
Boost each other's msgs for visibility.
Use hashtags for discoverability.

Low-hanging fruit for improvement?

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@rl_dane@polymaths.social · Jul 12, 2026

Hey #tooters, is there a simple, easy-to-compile grammar checker that can run from the command line, sort of like aspell? :D #AskFedi — #microblogging #MicroToot: 133 characters

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🫧 Social coding commons @smallcircles@social.coop · Jul 15, 2026

"Post has 9 boosts" Clicks to see who boosted.. "No one has boosted this post yet. When someone does, they will show up here." *sigh* #Mastodon #fediverse #microblogging

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@rl_dane@polymaths.social · Jun 30, 2026

Ok, get your pitchforks and torches at the ready, but the whole #Commodore #Callback thing is growing on me. 😆 (text input review when?) — #microblogging #MicroToot: 140 characters

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Alexander Müller @alex@libori.social · May 26, 2026

Interessanter Trend, den @netzbegruenung@gruene.social hier dokumentiert. 💬 "Die Annahme, X sei weiterhin unangefochtener Marktführer bei den Kurznachrichtendiensten in Deutschland, ist überholt. Einen messbaren Bluesky-Hype gibt es in den aktuellen Zahlen weder global noch in Bezug auf Deutschland. Mastodon ist stattdessen der klare Outperformer in Deutschland." 👉 https://netzbegruenung.de/blog/das-ende-der-dominanz-microblogging-wandel-in-deutschland-in-zahlen #Mastodon #Fediverse #bluesky #microblogging

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@rl_dane@polymaths.social · Apr 21, 2026

Boosted by

Kevin Karhan @kkarhan@jorts.horse

https://copy.sh/v86/ is one hell of a playground — #microblogging #MicroToot: 48 characters

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