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Developer of ActivityPub-based micro-blogging and content subscription platform Mitra. I help maintain the FEP repository and write my own FEPs too. Currently […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mitra.social/users/silverpill, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I said before that `Accept` should never be used outside of `Follow` interactions. Want to "accept" something? Introduce a new activity type, `AcceptSomething`. But now I am fairly certain that `Add` and `Remove` should be avoided too, for similar reasons. They all look the same. To figure out […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@light Isn't it a feature of all Discourse forums?

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

_User not found: Validation Error: forgefed.NodeInfo: Field node.SoftwareName contains the value mitra, which is not in allowed subset [forgejo gitea mastodon gotosocial]_ @forgejo we can do this the easy way or the hard way

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@SueNeu Huh? ActivityPub already supports private groups

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Renaud Chaput @renchap.oisaur.com · 09/10/2026

So RIP Deno… They are stopping work on the runtime over the next 12 months. I was hoping that we could some day have a Node.js alternative with a more modern interface/tooling, but with this and Bun now being part of Anthropic and vibe-(re)coded to the extreme, it does not seem it will happen […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Updating **FEP-5219: Groups and permissions** : codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/94… I've introduced a new property, `audiences`, which lets you define collections containing actors with a specific role / privilege / affiliation: { "id": "social.example/group" […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-the-end-of… > Projects maintained by Shipyard will no longer have dedicated maintainers responsible for new features, bug fixes, releases, or long-term stewardship. These include: Kubo, Helia, Boxo, Rainbow, IPFS Desktop, IPFS Companion, Someguy […]

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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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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@light Back to the original question: I can implement the thing. How much would it cost is hard to tell atm; not enough information.

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@light > All hashes and public keys are cached by the client[s] The cache of a hosted web client can easily be manipulated by an instance admin. But if clients are independent, this might be a good solution (depends on your security requirements). > public auditing Bluesky's did:plc is a […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@light So, what kind of forum do you imagine? If there is a single instance, then there would be no peers who replicate the hashchain and do the verification. This means an admin can rewrite history

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@light > (A delete or an edit is a visible break in the hash chain) I didn't notice that yesterday. A traditional hash chain can't have breaks, e.g. you can't remove a commit from git history without changing all subsequent commit hashes.

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

This is a shocking disclosure from #Radicle > Network traffic between nodes is not encrypted and not authenticated. > > We recommend to stop using private repositories until a fix is released. > > Due to a lack of version negotiation features, combined with the fix being incompatible on the […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@light Mitra now can host federated groups - in the same way Lemmy, PieFed, NodeBB and other forums do. The mechanism we all use is compatible with my nomadic identity proposals. However, nomadic identity doesn't use hashchains, it relies solely on signatures. I considered content-addressing […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

FEP-171b has been updated: codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/931 The document now mentions `canReply` property which is used in reference implementations (Streams and Forte). { "type": "Note", "canReply": ["alice.example/followers"], ... } #fep_171b […]

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洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I've been working on a FEP draft for the past few days: FEP-22cd Attributing translations. Hackers' Pub already machine-translates articles, but I want authors to be able to publish their own translations too, and let organizations split the work across members. Once you do that, Activity […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

We've introduced a new metadata field for FEPs: `tags` codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/885 Tags are free-form and should be specified as a YAML array: tags: ["groups", "permissions"] #fep

Meta: Define `tags` metadata attribute

Discussion: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-tracker-tool/8806/3 Resolves https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/issues/520

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

@liaizon -> @dave @pfefferle @rimu @iftas

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@liaizon But only .onion and .i2p are truly unstoppable.

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@liaizon The most censored sites use .cc and .st

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

> Autistici/Inventati’s Press Release, 5 September 2026 > **Banca etica shuts down A/I funds** -- keepitfree.ai/announcements/banca-e… This is not surprising. Sanctions make you toxic - nobody wants to be accused of terrorism financing or money laudnering. Your […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Is there anyone from Mastodon? Do you see the quote? (I'm testing stateless mastodon quote approvals) RE: mitra.social/objects/01a04a26-eede-…

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Your instance currently responds with 400 Bad Request to any `Like` or `EmojiReact` activity.

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@benpate @sovtechfund But if you want to help and your grant covers that, fine. Feel free to open a PR

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@benpate @sovtechfund It's not real because nobody can use it. And no, I am not interested in implementing that. E2EE was written by people who don't understand cryptography. LOLA was written by someone who never built an ActivityPub application. These specs are literally garbage, an LLM would […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

# In case you missed it: Social Web Foundation (SWF) Annual Report 2025 socialwebfoundation.org/wp-content/… I thought that "baked by Meta" is a figure of speech. But no - Meta is actually a major contributor […] [Original post on mitra.social]

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@liaizon Thank you It might be better to just leave it as is, though. The link was originally added to the site in January: github.com/swicg/activitypub.rocks/…. No procedure was necessary - @j12t himself suggested that it could be added (on fedi). Later, Evan discovered the […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

SWICG in a nutshell: open a ticket, sign an agreement, join a meeting It is essentially an email job. Imagine coming to fediverse and doing this

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

@evan There link was there before you removed it. And I have better things to do than opening tickets

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

#APx v0.27.0 docs.rs/apx_sdk/0.27.0/apx_sdk/inde… Starting with this version, all DID methods are allowed in the authority component of an 'ap' URI. This change was made to enable experiments with DID methods other than `did:key`. Full changelog […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

(the original diagram is here: codeberg.org/ap-next/ap-next/src/br…)

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Have you ever wondered how FEP-ef61: Portable Objects and related FEPs fit together? I drew a technology tree.

NomadPub tech tree

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I started working on private groups in Mitra. Beginning with version 5.10.0, you can follow private communities on Lemmy 1.0 beta (test instance: voyager.lemmy.ml), post to them and leave comments on posts. Local private groups are not supported yet, but I hope to finish this part soon […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Updating **FEP-5219: Groups and permissions** : codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/91… The biggest change here is the replacement of "follow" and "participate" privileges with "view" and "create". `Follow` and `Join` are now described separately in the context of […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@dusoft It is OK to prune but I think the period of 7 days is too short. The server admin might be on a vacation.

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

The ap-next developer guide was removed from the activitypub.rocks website: github.com/swicg/activitypub.rocks/… (by _the father of the Fediverse_ , no less). The reason: > It's a fork outside the SocialCG. This is utter nonsense. The guide refers to the original […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

@fastfinge > There is currently no way to link to a thread that will open in the users fediverse instance. Maybe FEP-3b86: Activity Intents will solve this problem?

One pushInsteadOf strings match a given subsection. You.

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

@liaizon @sun What's the purpose of those base64 strings in your profile fields?

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

# Say goodbye to Linked Data Signatures blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/masto… > We now support verifying FEP-8b32 Object Integrity Proofs using either eddsa-jcs-2022 or mldsa44-jcs-2024. The latest version of Mastodon can verify FEP-8b32 integrity proofs, which replace outdated […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@light Because being a node operator is not an easy job. This is true for any complex network, and social networks are probably the most complex. My point, however, is that you don't need a new protocol if you want to run your own node. It's already possible with ActivityPub.

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@light I thought it's all about friend to friend and webs of trust.

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@light This simply means that everyone is an admin. Sounds good in theory but doesn't work at scale.

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@light Friend-to-friend networks can be built on ActivityPub too.

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@light >Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for apps that no company controls. In general, I think the world doesn't need more protocols. Everything can be built on top of ActivityPub.

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@light I remember Freenet from the 2000s, it was an interesting project. I tried it once but didn't keep using it. This Freenet looks like a vibe-rewrite in Rust, even whitepaper is vibe-slopped: github.com/freenet/paper-1/commits/…. Apparently, the project maintainer went […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Mitra has `arrayref` in its dependency tree but it is pinned to an old version. RE: social.rust-lang.org/users/rust/sta…

social.rust-lang.org

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I think Mastodon's new UI design is good. It appears to be evolving in the same direction as #Mitra. For example, our "Lists" are already called "Custom feeds" and there is a hidden "Explore" page which will soon be added to the sidebar, replacing "Local", "Federated" and "Profile directory" […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

@evan Mitra can verify signatures on incoming requests (FEP-844e is used to advertise this capability), but it doesn't use RFC-9421 when it signs outgoing requests.

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

@dansup Sounds interesting!

silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

@julian The use of Github is not the main problem for me but it is also not a small one