Julian Fietkau

Human-computer interaction #HCI, computer science & programming, home server & self-hosting, games and other fun stuff.

Fediverse tool builder: Encyclia (npub120s…0fq8), WebFinger Split-Domain Canary (npub122f…9tl4), FediRoster, Pinhole, ... see https://fietkau.software/tag/fediverse for more. I also help out with Fedidevs (npub1c23…7hg6). If you do HCI-related research, check out https://directory.hci.social.

He/him. Posting mostly in English, but you might see the occasional German boost.

Website: https://fietkau.me
Employer: https://www.unibw.de/julian.fietkau
Matrix: https://matrix.fietkau.social/to/#/@julian:fietkau.social
ORCID: https://encyclia.pub/0000-0001-7264-8496

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julian_at_fietkau.social@momostr.pink

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2026-05-02 02:37:40 UTC

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There is a longstanding PR to remove replies by blocked users from a post's context: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/18468
Reading the conversation in there leaves me with several questions, but also feeling unsure which ones of them to ask out loud.

2026-04-06 18:42:47 UTC

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As I understand the migration path, it's like
1. Able to receive RFC 9421 in addition to draft-cavage
2. Able to send RFC 9421 in addition to draft-cavage
3. Send RFC 9421 by default, but be able to fall back to draft-cavage if needed
So by “can't handle” I meant step 1. 🙂 Although the unspoken step 4 is to remove draft-cavage support once everyone else has taken step 1, I'm ultimately also wondering when we'll get there.

2026-04-06 18:04:16 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116359048796181736
Could be potentially nice for fediverse server testing, as more implementations make the jump to final RFC 9421 HTTP signatures.
On the flip side, ever more complex curl invocations (here: Accept header plus signature fields plus key file, presumably) suggest use of more specialized CLI tools, such as provided by @npub1tlf…wz08, or at least scripts/aliases.
Speaking of RFC 9421, which notable fediverse implementations can't handle it yet? Anyone keeping track?
#ActivityPub #FediDev #RFC9421
#note17fk…j0hr

2026-04-01 21:08:05 UTC

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I'm looking at the person's screenshot which shows your Bluesky posts bridged to the fediverse. Most of them are quote posts. Your own text in them is bridged fine, it's only the quoted posts that are shown as links instead of embeds. Mastodon quote posts need a consent flag that Bridgy Fed doesn't yet provide.
Notably, even if Bridgy Fed adds the feature, it will only show quoted posts of accounts who have also opted in. This is all a bit complicated!
@npub1zzy…9edy @npub1764…nuj0 @npub13rs…s8u8

2026-04-01 20:54:58 UTC

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Nothing on your end, sorry! We just gotta wait until Bridgy Fed can support Mastodon-style verified quotes.
The GitHub link I posted is where its programmers are discussing if and when that can happen. (There is currently no timeline and, again, nothing for us to really influence.)
@npub1zzy…9edy @npub1764…nuj0 @npub13rs…s8u8

2026-04-01 18:57:00 UTC

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The GitHub issue for getting bridged quote posts visible on Mastodon is https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1956, some good discussion in there early on. (Sorry for basically taking it over with my FEP-044f ecosystem monitoring.)
The implementation is nontrivial, since unlike most ActivityPub platforms Bridgy Fed probably won't want to issue a blanket quoting permission, but instead bridge quote post permissions from each Bluesky user and post.
@npub1764…nuj0 @npub16el…n8vf @npub13rs…s8u8

2026-03-26 21:01:45 UTC

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Probably very unlikely as long as the vocabulary isn't in Fedify: https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/452 But now that the interaction policy vocab is in, it might not take too much longer.

2026-03-26 14:42:37 UTC

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I saw this post when it was new, and two days later I am remembering to come back and tell you that MDN is at @npub1azl…tw5z. 😃 Or did you know that and there's a layer of meaning to your post that's going over my head?

2026-03-16 01:26:52 UTC

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Alright, now I have to actually remember who runs PeerTube servers. 😄
@npub1fnn…q8zp runs https://tubefree.org, a sizable instance for personal and community content.
@npub1zj7…lc9y / [@sean](https://deadsuperhero.com/ ) runs https://spectra.video, a server with lots of users.
@npub1ggl…kevu runs https://peertube.doesstuff.social, a personal server.
@npub1evt…xdke runs https://bonn.video, which one might call an institutional server I suppose.
Any of the tagged people have PeerTube hosting advice for @npub1grn…mcsm?

2026-03-15 21:24:42 UTC

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I feel compelled to try to help, but I have no experience with PeerTube hosting. 😕 The only maybe helpful thing I can say is that object storage is 5€/TB/month at Hetzner, and it's vastly cheaper than their block storage.
Want me to tag PeerTube hosters in my circles, or rather keep people you might not know out of the thread?

2026-03-15 21:10:33 UTC

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I wonder if the intent is still current? We've seen a few lightweight Python implementations of FEP-044f since the issue was raised. As always, I'd be happy to advise.

2026-03-15 00:53:05 UTC

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No experience with group actors, sorry! I don't see any obvious issues with the JSON, which makes sense since it loads on Mastodon.

2026-03-14 15:13:11 UTC

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That one's a microformat mismatch, Mastodon looks for the class "mention" to skip the link preview and open the profile locally. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/microformats/#mastodon

2026-03-12 19:51:36 UTC

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Hold on – Open Collective and Open Source Collective are two different institutions, right? But they are both currently integrating Persona? Am I getting this right?

2026-03-11 11:46:22 UTC

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New quote test, wooo!
https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/article/Madblog-federated-blogging-from-markdown
Edit: Yep, looks to be working! 😀
#note1rcm…nqw5

2026-03-10 15:29:59 UTC

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Oh excellent! Please let me know when the new version is live on your blog and I'll test again. 🙂

2026-03-10 15:23:46 UTC

Seems as good a day as any to thank @npub1upg…9n89 and team for the exemplary work on @npub1tlf…wz08. Following Fedify's big 2.0 release, my two largest interoperability pain points in @npub120s…0fq8 can be fixed. 🙂
https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/473 means that people using @npub1hpu…lxp9 will finally be able to follow @npub120s…0fq8 accounts soon (whenever I finish the upgrade).
https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/472 will let me (and others) handle more account resolution edge cases and reduce failure mode traffic after Fedify 2.1 is out.

2026-03-10 14:57:18 UTC

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Right, and my server seems to have gotten the corresponding `Accept`. 👍 But if you look at https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/116205306320048221 and scroll down, you see that @npub1xse…lgk3 can't see the quote in my reply (and neither can people on any other server looking at this thread). This is because the `QuoteAuthorization` needs to be publicly resolvable: https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/044f/#verifying-third-party-quote-posts

2026-03-10 14:31:03 UTC

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Alas, the PR has been merged, so it'll be a long while until I bother Claire again. 🙂
But I'll keep updating my own list. I see in the code where the interaction policy is declared, but not where individual quotes are authorized. If I quote this post here, let's test if both of us will see the quote.
https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/article/Madblog-federated-blogging-from-markdown
#note1rcm…nqw5

2026-03-04 13:36:49 UTC

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Unsolicited debugging assistance:
It's working on mastodon.social, presumably because your server got sent the `Accept` directly. Other servers are supposed to validate it by checking the `quoteAuthorization` on the post, which is currently a URI that 404s (https://loops.video/ap/users/205466280291398051/quote_authorizations/255857808111048628), so no one besides m.s can see the quote post right now.
@npub1xse…lgk3

2026-03-02 20:29:42 UTC

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The aftermarket availability of clone cartridge housings for Gameboy games is very good these days, to my knowledge. If you want to put your game into a replacement cartridge, it's like $4 + shipping + making sure you have the right screwdriver.
https://www.retromodding.com/collections/game-boy/products/game-pak-game-boy-game-cartridge?variant=34814923833500

2026-02-13 19:58:27 UTC

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As experienced client devs, I assume you have the infrastructure for OAuth already in place? I'd rather go to your website and authenticate my Mastodon account there than have a hashtag in my bio... the Tootfinder hashtag kinda annoys me every time I see it. 😐
That aside, I believe Mastodon is going to introduce some kind of profile signal for willingness to appear in starter packs, might be worth additionally keeping an eye on whatever happens there. https://github.com/mastodon/featured_collections

2026-02-11 21:03:43 UTC

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They did that thing where they implemented the interaction policy, but not the approval process, leaving them with an implementation that declares that it can do Mastodon quote posts, but actually cannot. I think Sharkey had that issue on a minor version for a little bit.

2026-02-04 18:34:30 UTC

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I think @npub14rp…za3l's groups proposal (https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-community-matters-groups-as-the-next-step-for-the-fediverse/) covers the topic pretty thoroughly. Not sure if they've already done any spec work, but if anyone is building something like this I'd recommend coordinating with them.

2026-02-04 17:38:12 UTC

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Speaking for PieFed (less familiar with the others), the private communities it just introduced are limited to members of one server.
What I think @npub1xse…lgk3 is getting at is ActivityPub groups that you can join and leave and post "into" from any server, such that any member can see everything in the group, and non-members can see none of the contents.
Can Friendica do that? It wouldn't surprise me, but I haven't tried it.

2026-01-31 14:23:29 UTC

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I've been fantasizing about a snippet library for validating and canonicalizing a fediverse (AP+WebFinger) handle. Drop in a handle/profile link/AP ID, receive full handle + web link if the input is resolvable.
Target audience would be sites that don't have full fediverse integration, but want to give people a way to link to their fediverse profile. I've seen handle vs. username vs. ID vs. URL cause confusion.
Should be <50 LOC in most languages. And let's make it CC-0.

2026-01-31 13:57:19 UTC

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Having a small world moment recognizing @npub1wlg…r7qn from my time in Hamburg, where we had some overlapping years at the university's computer science campus and apparently exchanged a couple of emails. Not sure if we ever met face to face. Cool project! 🙂

2026-01-28 13:23:00 UTC

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Nice, great progress!
@npub1kqg…a7t4 Is this on your radar?

2026-01-15 21:47:22 UTC

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Yeah, you can access a list of packs containing your account after you log in! 🙂
@npub1kqc…7wgd [@b_cavello](https://mastodon.publicinterest.town/@b_cavello )

2025-10-19 12:44:37 UTC

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That's the current plan. @npub120s…0fq8 is in alpha testing and I have a list of issues that need to be fixed, but assuming everything goes well, I'm hoping that you'll be able to follow any ORCID record before the end of the year. See https://encyclia.pub for details. 🙂

2025-10-16 17:47:30 UTC

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Yeah, that's pretty much how I'm trying to approach this. Right now we have two independent implementations here with developers eager to interoperate, we can do posts and links but not yet citations, let's figure out how we add them while reinventing as few wheels as possible.
@npub1lzd…urpr @npub18zh…4x0k @npub12sq…6w0r

2025-10-16 17:35:02 UTC

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FWIW, Encyclia currently fetches plain JSON from ORCID and re-emits as human-readable ActivityPub Notes. ORCID's own types, which are used in (non-LD) JSON payloads, are listed in the second column here: https://info.orcid.org/ufaqs/what-work-types-does-orcid-support/ Dunno if those map cleanly to schema.org types but the palettes are small enough that we can figure it out.
@npub18zh…4x0k @npub1ljm…w8tm @npub12sq…6w0r

2025-10-16 16:51:18 UTC

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A bit, yeah. I'm sure each one has pros and cons for the purpose, but I'm in favor of picking something that's ready for use with linked data. We might be able to avoid defining a new JSON-LD context that way.
schema.org's CreativeWork is a supertype of ScholarlyArticle. Curious why ORCID doesn't use the subtypes even though they have the type information in their own data. (Their JSON schema is altogether different from their JSON-LD I think.)
@npub18zh…4x0k @npub1ljm…w8tm @npub12sq…6w0r

2025-10-15 20:24:36 UTC

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This is all spitballing, but I think letting people tag academic publications in posts just like they currently tag accounts could be kinda neat. Shouldn't even need to break compatibility with current software either.

2025-10-15 20:21:58 UTC

Hey @npub1lzd…urpr @npub18zh…4x0k and crew, if you ever feel like putting a spec down to attach academic citations to #ActivityPub objects for your Open Science Network, ping me.
I have ideas for building something out of https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle, https://schema.org/citation and dashes of https://w3c.github.io/scholarly-html/ for @npub120s…0fq8. Could enable e.g. “this post discusses this article”, “find posts related to this publication”, or long-form articles with declarative references.
Maybe @npub1ljm…w8tm has thoughts too?
@npub1nk8…u9f7

2025-10-09 16:25:33 UTC

If you're wondering how I spent my afternoon: https://github.com/anze3db/fedidevs/issues/208
It's on how we get @npub1c23…7hg6, an established host of Mastodon starter packs, to work with the new schema just proposed by Mastodon: github.com/mastodon/featured_collections/pull/1
It's going to be a journey 😓, but hopefully the result will be worth it since a lot of the changes are very beneficial.

2025-10-06 12:19:43 UTC

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I had that problem with https://fietkau.media/up_in_the_air and worked around it by creating the three.js audio object that plays all the game sound & music after the first click on one of the title screen buttons: https://fietkau.software/Up-in-the-Air.git/blob/ffba7c824eaf5dfaa9cebb7fac43eb6f5d85dd5c/main.js?hb=HEAD#l2115
It just means the loading bar and title screens can't have sound. 😇
Vanilla JS audio objects might behave slightly differently from three.js ones, I don't know. But I think the idea that the direct interaction event gives you permission to play sound is the same.

2025-10-01 11:18:57 UTC

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Not a hard confirmation but probably AGPL. It's not a library and it doesn't lend itself to direct software integration, so I see mainly downsides in MIT etc. for the project. I'm open to persuasive arguments.

2025-09-27 16:07:59 UTC

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It does not (and conceptually cannot) work with an existing Bluesky account. You can give your Bridgy Fed Bluesky account a custom domain, but you can't “merge” it with an existing account.
Alternatively, you could leave the bridge aside and program a little watchdog that monitors your Mastodon account and auto-posts them to your Bluesky account through its API, but I haven't heard of anyone having done that.

2025-09-27 15:03:01 UTC

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Yes. The flow is (1) you declare a canQuote policy, (2) accounts who fit that policy get their quote post buttons unlocked, (3) if one of them clicks it, your server gets a QuoteRequest from that actor, (4) you respond with a bespoke QuoteAuthorization, which you need to host indefinitely – its presence allows third parties to verify that that specific quote was permitted by you.
The current spec is here: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/044f/fep-044f.md#QuoteAuthorization (technically still a draft)

2025-09-27 14:56:08 UTC

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My understanding of (the current version of) FEP-044f is that you cannot make something quotable without issuing individual approval stamps upon request. ActivityPub development frameworks may make this easier in the future, but for the time being it's a hassle for bot developers.
I'm advocating for a simple and static way to declare quotability here: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/pre-fep-quote-posts-quote-policies-and-quote-controls/5031/73 but it'll take platform implementer buy-in and, following that, at least one Mastodon version bump.

2025-09-25 16:02:45 UTC

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I respect it! 🙂 Were you able to get the outline from the official logo? The one on the website is an SVG, so I hope it was an easy job without any tracing.

2025-09-25 15:13:37 UTC

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Wheee, I was going to submit Encyclia after the start of the ActivityPub alpha test, but seeing it added early is also cool! 😄
I had some time this week to hack away at the postgres integration, there is still stuff to debug but I'm hoping we'll get to a public alpha test with followable accounts within a month if I don't get too swamped by the day job in October.

2025-09-16 15:14:10 UTC

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Ryan is a bit easier to reach via the issue tracker than here. There is a thread about Pixelfed over there: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/39

2025-08-22 14:48:49 UTC

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Pseudo-randomly based on a hash of the tag name: https://fietkau.software/FediRoster.git/blob/d19a67018f984d670d21dcc7febdcd2a5bab8d78/main.py?hb=HEAD#l394 I use the HSL space, which makes it pretty easy to assign ranges that avoid white/black/gray and keep the text contrast readable enough.

2025-08-22 14:42:42 UTC

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Kind of: I show tags as pill buttons in FediRoster (see https://directory.hci.social for an example). I meant to play around with adding profile hashtags there automatically, but worried there'd be too many irrelevant ones.

2025-08-12 21:28:08 UTC

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Am I the only one (jk I know I'm not 🙃) taking Meta's self-reported usage numbers with a boulder of salt? I'd encourage anyone drawing conclusions about platform popularity to remember “pivot to video” and consider how many of those 400 million people are actually reading or posting on Threads vs. accidentally hovered over the “cross-post to Threads” button on Instagram one time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_to_video#Facebook_metrics_controversy

2025-08-12 19:52:42 UTC

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Oops, I should have tagged you about my recent starter pack work with https://fedidevs.com. Fedidevs is I think the biggest repository of starter packs of ActivityPub accounts, and these starter packs are now themselves available in ActivityPub format. They can already be imported by the latest dev versions of the WordPress plugin: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/2047
I talked to the Mastodon peeps a bit about their plans and we see no obstacles for future compatibility.

2025-08-11 10:53:39 UTC

I have recently been helping @npub15wd…rte4 with the backend code for starter packs curated on fedidevs.com, specifically with splash images. In the future, you should be seeing the new splash images in the link preview if you share a starter pack on here. Example: https://fedidevs.com/s/NDYw/ (by @npub1xse…lgk3)
This was a side effect of my work on interoperable ActivityPub starter packs. The goal is that https://fedidevs.com starter packs will be compatible with Mastodon's (https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/08/trunk-tidbits-july-2025/).

2025-08-07 14:20:47 UTC

So last year I organized a small fediverse meetup during break time at @npub1dnm…nnxw and we ended up with a handful of people exchanging tips, hopes, ideas, and contact details.
Should we try that again this year in #Chemnitz? Who here is going to @npub1dnm…nnxw? 🙂
#MuC2025 #MCI #HCI

2025-08-04 18:05:35 UTC

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I think that would be in scope of [@thisismissem](https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem )'s FIRES project: https://github.com/fedimod/fires But yeah, if you want something that Mastodon can understand and render ~today, a bot reply would probably be the pragmatic option.

2025-08-01 22:00:21 UTC

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Looks pretty identical to me too.
It's complete guesswork, but the reason may not necessarily have anything to do with the HTML code. It could be some infrastructure difference between the sites, like if one is using some proxy (Cloudflare or similar) that the other isn't, or a short-term flood of requests triggered a bot detection somewhere and blocked the crawler's IP. I've had that happen with a site that was unintentionally blocking Googlebot after it hit a firewall heuristic.

2025-07-26 15:30:16 UTC

A cool #Mastodon 4.4 feature that I have seen zero fanfare about is the new like/boost count federation. Another @npub1ljm…w8tm win if I remember right.
Maybe most people are on large enough servers that they haven't noticed the difference, but on my single-user server it's neat to see.
https://fietkau.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/920/241/302/400/754/original/696d0c6101f7513e.png

2025-06-05 11:07:25 UTC

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I was thinking about letting people pick one color and having the FEP provide wiggle room and guidance for platforms on what to do with it, like e.g. nudging very light or very dark colors for different backgrounds. I think Twitch does something like that for custom name colors.
It'd be up to the theme creators to decide how to incorporate it while preserving contrasts, or which colors can't work at all.
Gonna keep thinking it over.

2025-06-05 08:18:52 UTC

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Congratulations!
I'm still kind of obsessed with the idea of turning the profile color into a federatable actor property and creating an FEP to let server platforms (and ultimately clients) display people's profiles with visual accents in their chosen color.
It's not MySpace level of customization, but giving people a sense of ownership of "their" space is nice.
Would that be a waste of time or would any other platform want to buy in? @npub1uq5…z8a5 @npub1xsv…q6he @npub1zu5…pytj @npub1vwf…95aa

2025-03-04 20:27:17 UTC

I'm finally unveiling the #ActivityPub project that has been consuming my weekends: Encyclia, an #ORCID bridge that will make ORCID records followable and interactable on the fediverse. 🙂
It's early-stage and the ORCID following function is not publicly available yet. We're seeking community feedback on functionality and safety aspects. Read more at https://encyclia.pub or follow @npub120s…0fq8 for news!
#fediverse #fedidev #scicomm #wisskomm #academicchatter

2025-03-03 01:55:01 UTC

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Cool stuff! 🙂 I made something similar once, where I decided to build a version of tic tac toe as a tiny web game and encoded the full thing as a QR code holding a data URI: https://fietkau.plus/#game_in_qr
Sadly it didn't run via any QR code scanner I tried. But it is small enough to fit!

2025-02-27 20:38:31 UTC

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Discussion here: https://github.com/pixelfed/starter-kits/issues/1 implementation AFAIK not live anywhere yet.
I'll pick my ideas from there back up some day if no one else does, but I'm super busy with other projects currently.

2025-02-08 17:46:55 UTC

A cursed #ActivityPub idea.
Problem: Remote profiles sometimes look empty on Mastodon because only the stickied posts are synchronized on profile update.
Observation: Neither the ActivityPub nor Mastodon specs limit the number of sticky posts on a profile. Nothing says you can't have 100 000 sticky posts.
Solution: an ActivityPub server implementation that auto-stickies every single post you write.
The things I come up with thinking about @npub1tlf…wz08 while in the shower.

2025-02-08 10:02:00 UTC

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Same for Letterbook, have you taken a look at it before? https://letterbook.com There isn't much literally to see yet, but from what I hear it's progressing well.
Oh yeah, and the Iceshrimp team lead is also a woman. Same for the glitch-soc fork of Mastodon.

2025-02-06 00:02:14 UTC

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Tell me if I'm being unreasonably nitpicky about semantics, but no, Mastodon still doesn't display Markdown in posts and has never done so either. It has expanded the set of allowable HTML tags for Mastodon 4.2. The second link in my reply has the full before and after lists.
So the chain is, Akkoma supports Markdown input, renders it to HTML locally and sends that to other servers via ActivityPub. Mastodon then sanitizes the received HTML and provides it to the client. 🙂

2025-02-05 23:48:13 UTC

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Ben would be correct in this case. ActivityPub objects can in principle contain whatever types of content, but the default as per ActivityStreams is HTML and I've never seen anything else used in practice for the exchange of text content. Spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-content
Mastodon simply has a pretty restrictive HTML sanitizer: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#sanitization With the project's effort to improve the display of long-form articles, we'll see if that's going to change.

2025-02-04 01:50:22 UTC

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He'll probably clarify this himself, but just to head it off a bit: @npub1zdf…6u9l didn't build a search engine or a database, but an ephemeral browser-based display of the public timeline. Bit of a difference in scope (and privacy).

2025-01-16 19:33:33 UTC

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The best help I can offer is to tag a few people who might know. 😔 Like @npub1pty…e8yx or @npub1qe8…xfmz. Do you know where someone could be pointed? https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/113838218708110283

2025-01-12 23:33:44 UTC

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Back when that discussion was everywhere, I also got the impression that there was an underrated cultural component buried in the question of what it means to "encounter a bear".
In the US, they mainly have American black bears that are almost more like badgers than grizzlies. Some American kids are literally taught to scare away bears by yelling at them.
I'm European and nowhere near wild bears, but my conception of wild bear encounters is closer to this: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/olga-moskalyova_n_930464

2024-12-11 20:42:40 UTC

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This is an important point that I would love to see more people acknowledge: how little overlap there is between AP developers / platform builders and what I have been calling "the peanut gallery" - i.e. people with strong opinions ("the fediverse should have a high barrier to entry", "we don't want companies here", "you're wrong for wanting this feature") but no involvement in anything constructive. I know how vocal they are, but I think their opinions receive outsized attention.

2024-11-22 10:19:24 UTC

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I haven't tried this, but I believe other server software will for the most part not acknowledge the new account if the cryptographic signing keys are different. If you manage to migrate those as well, and use a server software that lets you reuse not just your handle but also the same ActivityPub ID, you should be able to achieve account continuity.

2024-11-02 12:55:12 UTC

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Ryan just blogged about Bridgy Fed's long-term view yesterday, if that's relevant to your considerations: https://snarfed.org/2024-11-01_53932
I'm generally a fan of the self-hosting landscape, especially if it's as simple as your server implementation. But spiritual successors to botsin.space are also already popping up for those who don't want to touch any server administration.

2024-10-30 15:12:56 UTC

I am publishing a small #ActivityPub / #fediverse project: https://fietkau.software/webfinger_canary and @npub122f…9tl4 🙂
It is a tiny bot showcasing a split-domain WebFinger setup, where the handle domain is different from the ActivityPub server domain. This is supported by Mastodon and some other ActivityPub implementations, but not all of them.
So this project, aimed at devs and power users, is part test case, part feature recommendation/advocacy. The bot's website at https://correct.webfinger-canary.fietkau.software/ has all the details.

2024-10-16 22:48:16 UTC

The little #FediJam browser game I directed and coded, “Up in the Air”, has just been updated to version 1.0. It's playable in these two places:
:fietkau_media: https://fietkau.media/up_in_the_air
🌐 https://jfietkau.itch.io/up-in-the-air
Compared to the game jam version from last month, there have been some UI and convenience updates, there is an optional HUD, and a bunch of little easter eggs and cheat codes are included. 🙂 And I'm ready to consider this project finished. That was fun! 👍
#indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

2024-10-07 13:59:05 UTC

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I'd like to add that @npub1pqr…2sck exists, which I use for my account and encourage others to use who like to be connected across protocols. I follow a number of Bluesky users from this Mastodon account who have opted in from the other side, https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy. Availability may vary for people who are on Mastodon servers that moderate bridges aggressively.

2024-09-25 19:03:09 UTC

With #FediJam nearing its deadline, I've been working on customization and accessibility options for my game. 🙂
Yes, it's a game jam, and this is one area of many where jam games typically cut quality corners to save dev time. But accessibility has kinda become part of my personal brand, so I don't want to skimp here.
It's a dexterity game, which won't appeal to everyone. But the goal is that anyone can at least try it.
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #programming #accessibility #a11y
https://fietkau.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/199/719/001/926/571/original/c8c1f01517d61825.png
https://fietkau.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/199/719/322/149/830/original/8c9a9f3fefd67018.png

2024-09-19 15:24:13 UTC

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Things I like about Mastodon:
1. I can take responsibility for my profile and connections, no billionaire can cut me off.
2. People don't need an account to look at the things I post. So I can send someone a link and they can look at it. It's become surprisingly rare for social platforms. Also Mastodon posts can be cited.
3. People can converge around interests using hashtags, lists, and (in the future) groups.

2024-09-15 21:08:43 UTC

Unveiling the core gameplay loop of my #FediJam entry. 😀 Think you can do better than me? You're probably right! Prove it next month!
Note: still placeholder graphics, have not even started on presentation except basic animation. I wanted to get the movement nailed down early since it's so core to the experience. This feels about right.
(Gonna be marking these as sensitive in case people want to avoid spoilers.)
#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #gamejam #programming #javascript #threejs
https://fietkau.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/143/588/744/220/307/original/eb4eb07963ccfd5b.mp4

2024-09-14 18:07:20 UTC

Finally starting on my #FediJam project today. 😀 Because is it a real deadline if you don't start on the thing halfway through? 😇
This is after an hour or two of getting warmed up again in #threejs. Hand-fudged physics, no graphics yet, but you can guess at the basic gameplay concept. I'm having fun so far!
If you missed this ongoing game jam up until now: https://itch.io/jam/fedi-jam and [@fedi_jam](https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@fedi_jam ) 👏
#gamedev #indiegame #gamejam #javascript
https://fietkau.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/137/211/072/805/006/original/484f2f7e3aad2421.mp4

2024-09-12 17:05:10 UTC

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I pushed a feature update for :fietkau_software: https://fietkau.software/qr today. 🙂
It has two fun new shape styles, a bunch of added logos (👋 @npub1gq5…qcul @npub1tuu…mx44 @npub1fh7…ee83 @npub12r3…zz58 and more), some advanced options for turbo nerds, and irregularly shaped logos now get better cutouts.
I think this covers most of the feature requests I've received. 😀
#qr #qrcode #webdev #javascript

2024-08-31 08:46:21 UTC

I finished another #webdev side project and built the QR code generator of my dreams: :fietkau_software: https://fietkau.software/qr
* It's instant, purely client-side, and has no ads or upsells.
* It has a variety of color, shape, and logo embedding options.
* There's PNG and SVG export.
The included logo selection is, let's say, "opinionated" and features lots of familiar faces if you enjoy federated social platforms. 😄
Here are a few example QR codes that all lead back to my Mastodon profile.
https://fietkau.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/055/701/707/941/082/original/1050521eed4f7d6e.png
https://fietkau.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/055/702/004/534/614/original/d06b57ebe0356ada.png
https://fietkau.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/055/702/539/381/601/original/d9fdb1951305618b.png

2024-08-28 18:05:16 UTC

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Latest info AFAIK: https://oisaur.com/@renchap/112299860209222424

2024-08-18 20:16:57 UTC

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Yeah sorry, I misunderstood what you meant. It's possible to run ActivityPub on shared hosting, but I'm not aware of any mature projects. @npub1x59…gect has a barebones demo server that proves the concept: https://gitlab.com/edent/activitypub-single-php-file

2024-08-18 11:46:38 UTC

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GoToSocial has support for environments with limited hardware resources as one of its goals. There's also snac which is another order of magnitude tinier.

2024-08-07 16:19:46 UTC

Who else will be at Mensch und Computer 2024? #MuC2024 @npub1dnm…nnxw
I have decided to organize a small meetup for Mastodon (+ adjacent) users on Tuesday, Sep 3rd at 3:30 pm. 😀 Come by and say hi!
Details: https://muc2024meetup.hci-workshop.com
Follow @npub1had…dp7e if you'd like to join us there. Your account will be listed on the website as a participant. 🙂
#HCI #CSCW #conference #academicChatter

2024-07-30 21:19:06 UTC

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Do they? https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29748

2024-06-10 14:45:49 UTC

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Found some discussion on the Discord, see attached. (I hope this is okay to share @npub1zu5…pytj)
The safe assumption is the bottleneck is engineering capacity. Incidentally @npub1zu5…pytj is probably the right person to talk to if you want to offer your skills, but I worry progress would be limited by available developers more than by UX design.
https://fietkau.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/592/844/985/631/452/original/8664f8e4ab6df9a6.png