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I make things for #Fediverse #smallNet Talk about #ActivityPub #FediDev #FediverseUX #P2P #Privacy #SpreadFediverse I post #SciFiArt Vlog at #AllYourBases […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@reiver, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h
It seems as if Meta/Facebook is going to merge accounts across Facebook, Instagram, etc. Threads wasn't explicitly mentioned, so wonder if that will come along with Instagram. I wonder if this will affect identity at all. #facebook #instagram
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@card hi
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
#blacksky
Joined the Blacksky Algorithms organization on Oct 13

Blacksky Algorithms

Scalable, decentralized infrastructure for community-governed social spaces.
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
#blacksky
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@pixelfed/117234465… I found a clever and efficient way to handle translations offline, with 59 supported languages and built in language detection. We also cache translated text using Tanstack Query, and use your device language to check only visible […]
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
I wrote a custom Expo module for the Google MLKit translation feature. The Pixelfed translate feature uses the same models as Google Translate, but I want to stress that it's entirely handled on-device, no text/data gets transmitted to any remote server (see the docs linked below for proof). I […]
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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
I have a need to know how many text posts, images, and videos this Mastodon server gets in a month, local and remote (separately). Or, from anyone else who has such data, what that looks like such that I can extrapolate a likely volume of all three stratified by local vs remote per e.g 1,000 […]
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Toni Schneider @toni.bsky.team · 05/10/2026
A little scoop before Oct 7, when ICANN publishes 1,000+ applications for new top-level domains: one of them is .bsky! It's a long road (18 to 24 months), but if it goes through, handles like alice.bsky become possible.
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Chee Aun 🤔 @cheeaun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
🐛 Another version with a bug fix just released github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/releases/… Possibly affecting users on iOS 26.5/27 onwards; attaching media via the menu in composer wasn't working (attaching via button works).
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Release 2026.10.06.bb8c326 · cheeaun/phanpy
Full Changelog: 2026.10.05.37be10b...2026.10.06.bb8c326
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lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux
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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Fedify had security updates for two vulnerabilities. Please update your Fedify to 2.0.30, 2.1.26, 2.2.15, 2.3.10, or 2.4.0 now! hackers.pub/@fedify/2026/GHSA-97w4-…
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
1/ I think Pixelfed Albums and Instagram Carousels create a compelling user-experience. You tell a story or express a message as a series of images. These images can, of course, include text (in the image). But, they also include visual elements. The […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
A Chinese developer, @21018365486, wrote about adding ActivityPub to her blog using Fedify. Thank you for using Fedify! blog.yunyi.beiyan.us/posts/migrateT…
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Mastodon Engineering @mastodonengineering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
We just released Mastodon v4.7.3, v4.6.9, v4.5.19 and v4.4.26. They contain many bugfixes in addition to updating some of our dependencies to fix security issues in those. We recommend administrators to update when they can. Full release notes and update instructions are available on the […]
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
The new Pixelfed mobile app features 41 image filters! #pixelfed #pixelfedApp
New Pixelfed Mobile app
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
[iPhone privacy] www.404media.co/cops-can-bypass-iph… #privacy
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
[goole] This COULD be interesting. But, it could also just be legal maneuvering. "Google rolls out pay-per-value AI licensing program to publishers" digiday.com/media/google-rolls-out-… #google #GoogleGemini
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
OMF!G Has Slashdot be Slashdotted? #slashdot
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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Fedify 2.4.0 is out. The main addition is support for FEP-ef61 portable objects. A Fedify server can now host actors whose identity is a DID instead of a domain, serve their signed objects through `/.well-known/apgateway/`, and verify the portable objects of other servers. I tested it against […]
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FediForum Connect @fediforumconnect.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Next week at #FediForum, we are planning to run a session on FediForum Connect: what we've got, what it is for, what our plans are, and most of all, we'd love to hear how it could (better) help you and your community.
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
I'm almost done implementing Block Synchronization in @pixelfed 🥳 We're about ready to tag a new release soon too! github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/7…
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Add Block Sync + Incoming & Outgoing Block Activities (FEP-070c) by dansup · Pull Request #7583 · pixelfed/pixelfed
This PR adds support for incoming and outgoing Block activities, and a mechanism to sync blocks across supported servers, based on the Follower Sync FEP. Review FEP-070c here
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Reddit is removing its RSS web feeds. And, removing its public APIs. techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is… #reddit
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
I haven't logged into Twitter for a while — probably months. (Sometimes people DM me there still, so I check from time to time.) I was just greeted with this popup (in the attached screen-shot). #Twitter
Unlock more on X
To make X great for everyone, we want to be sure there’s a human behind this account. Help us learn by spending time engaging with your timeline and connecting with others. When we’re confident, you can do the following: Be seen by more people
Your content will be more discoverable. And you’ll appear in search results and trends. Connect directly with others
Send Direct Messages to people, who don’t follow you, without your message being automatically filtered.
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Wrote and submitted my first FEP! FEP-070c: Block synchronization across servers Just wrapping up the implementation in Pixelfed as we speak. github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/7… #pixelfed #blockSync #fep #activityPub
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Add Block Sync + Incoming & Outgoing Block Activities (FEP-070c) by dansup · Pull Request #7583 · pixelfed/pixelfed
This PR adds support for incoming and outgoing Block activities, and a mechanism to sync blocks across supported servers, based on the Follower Sync FEP. Review FEP-070c here
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 28/09/2026
Hello World from the PLC organization (plcred.org)! The org was soft-announced back in March at AtmosphereConf. We've been working through logistics step by step and now have a public web presence we can point to.
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First steps of the PLC organization
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 21/09/2026
In my free time, I've been building and testing an experience that moves away from the emotional roulette of feeds and the suck-you-in nature of infinite scroll. It puts your people front and center, always, before anything else. If you're interested in testing in the coming weeks, let me know.
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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Not understanding the code in the codebase is a form of technical debt.
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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
RE: techhub.social/@manlycoffee/1173449… I decided to donate €527.04 to GoToSocial (€509.66 is going to GoToSocial, and €17.38 in processing fees), lump sum. #Fediverse #ActivityPub #GoToSocial
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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Holy shit. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/own…
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 28/09/2026
"We have built a plugin registry that is secure, but not controlled by a central authority. To do this we built it on top of AT Protocol (atproto) [...] We provide a default plugin store, but anybody else can create one that is compatible and can provide all the plugins in the network" Hell yeah 🌀🔥
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
1/ Enabling people to make a living from the Open Social Web is important for the long term health and sustainability of the Open Social Web. There are different things that come into play with this. Payments (including native payments) is one — but not the only thing. I think it is useful to […]
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Hollo :hollo: @hollo.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
### Hollo security updates: 0.8.12 and 0.9.19 If you run Hollo, update to a patched release now. Fedify has disclosed three vulnerabilities that affect Hollo: CVE-2026-96625, a critical actor impersonation vulnerability; CVE-2026-96623, a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability in remote […]
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
I want the #Fediverse to grow. But out of curiosity, how well would the Fediverse scale? What would happen if the current user base increased by a factor of 10, 100, or 1000? And if the answer is "bad things", what would need to be done to make the Fediverse cope with such an expanded user […]
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
it.slashdot.org/story/26/09/24/1652… #BlindSignatures #cryptography
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There's a New Way to Break RSA Encryption - Slashdot
"Signature forgery." It's a new way to break RSA keys — and it doesn't require factoring. Ars Technica reports on new research using classical computing to "reduce the current RSA security level to an unacceptably low threshold" and lower the required computing resources by orders of magnitu...
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Jeul-geoun Chuseok bonaeseyo. 즐거운 추석 보내세요
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Classic Web @classicweb.site · 21/09/2026
Ancestry.com in 1999 web.archive.org/web/19990423032337i…
Screenshot of Ancestry.com in 1999
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ozoned @ozoned.btfree.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
@andypiper@macaw.social does Matrix Live happen #live ? If so, where can one watch it live? If not, where can one petition them to do it live? Maybe talk with chat while discussing Matrix?
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Loops QuotePost test loops.video/v/hYuOTnMUzr
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@dansup/11729719655… Many fediverse stats services just trust stats, but FediDB uses some not so clever algorithms to determine if a server is reporting suspicious data, and just rejects it until a human can manage it (with discord notifs)
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
You can now link to specific software versions on FediDB ✨ fedidb.com/software/mastodon/versio…
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
PSA for Pixelfed Admins: Update ASAP! github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/releas… cc: @stux
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Release v0.14.1 · pixelfed/pixelfed
What's Changed: This release fixes federation issues with local url dns resolution, we now skip validation on local urls by default. CHANGES: Update Helpers::validateUrl(), skip validation for app...
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Mastodon Engineering @mastodonengineering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
We just released Mastodon v4.7.2, v4.6.8, v4.5.18 and v4.4.25. In addition to several bugfixes, they disable HEIF processing to avoid a known critical security issues. We encourage server administrators to update as soon as possible. Full release notes and update instructions are available on […]
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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
We're in an era where we're prompting AI with questions like "What's better: training a simulated fruitfly brain to do something, or vibe coding a computer vision software?" What a time to be alive.
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Being able to see reposts from accounts, even text ones, is just one small improvement among many in the new app. I can't wait to ship this to early adopters this week, LFG 🚀 #pixelfed
New pixelfed mobile app profile viewNew pixelfed mobile app profile viewNew pixelfed mobile app profile view
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@pixelfed/117269628… Please boost for awareness, if you run or know someone that runs a Pixelfed server, please tell them to update!
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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Google released the full map of a fruit fly brain and central nervous system. So I downloaded it, and used it for some seriously cutting-edge research: having it play Google Chrome's Dinosaur Game (when the Chrome fails to connect to the Internet). Check it […] [Original post on techhub.social]
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
I got a new phone. (Last one broke.) Time to install some apps. #loops #loopsvideo
Install this app?

Loops

[x] Allow Network permission
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