Pixelfed is not for sale. It never was.
I've turned down 6 and 7 figure offers, and I'd do it again tomorrow. Some things matter more than a beach and a Peach Bellini.
We're building something generational here. Something that outlives us if we get it right.
100M+ people. Ethically sustainable. Admins and creators get paid.
You deserve better, and we're going to build it together.
Fediverse Software Distribution (from fedidb.com)
I finally created a #FEP for using #CreativeCommons licenses (and other licenses) in #ActivityPub.
codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulβ¦
An explicit copyright license on ActivityPub content objects makes it easier to re-use and re-distribute content.Codeberg.org
Can someone explain to me why was Pixelfed, Loops, and Dansup being singled out for AI use?
There's no shortage of Fediverse software that are either built with AI assistance (including vibe coding), or welcomes AI contribution, but I'm not seeing the same level of outrage.
Did Pixelfed, Loops, and Dansup specifically promise to be AI-free?
Blocks on the fediverse have a consistency problem.
When a Block or Undo Block gets lost between servers, the two sides quietly disagree about who blocked whom. Sometimes that means a blocked account can still reach you.
Our fix, FEP-070c: Block synchronization across servers, is now accepted as a draft. Pixelfed is the first implementation, merged and shipping in our next release.
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/pβ¦
#pixelfed #blockSync #fep #activityPub
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 hereGitHub
wow is that really your position @dansup ? I thought this thread would make you think a little, but it does not look like it.
Are you really that big idiot people says you are ?
Laravel + PHP gains a batteries included package for ActivityPub support, with both draft-cavage and RFC 9421 HTTP Sig support and the ability to extend every aspect, with before() and after() hooks for easy custom processing.
It's quite amazing.
I'll be tagging a new release this week.
#laravel #php #activitypub #pixelfed #loops
Okay, laravel-activitypub is near ready to ship!
I'll be testing it with shutter, a single user activitypub server for image sharing.
laravel-activitypub, a batteries included ActivityPub package for laravel.
Soon will power @pixelfed and @joinloops
Shoutout to @FediverseSymbol
github.com/dansup/laravel-actiβ¦
#laravelActivitypub #laravel #activitypub #pixelfed #loops
a batteries included ActivityPub package for Laravel - dansup/laravel-activitypubGitHub
Making real progress on laravel-activitypub, a batteries included ActivityPub package for laravel.
This will replace federation logic in @pixelfed and @joinloops and make it really easy to implement AP in your own laravel apps!
I swore not to speak about #FediHood any more, but what #Pixelfed is doing is great news for #ActivityPub.
Pixelfed already sends the location as a Place object with latitude and longitude, so FediHood can read it and put markers on a map.
Local timelines used to mean one instance. Now they can mean people actually around you.
Places, a unique Pixelfed feature that allows you to add an optional location to your posts to make them discoverable by place!We are working to support custom places too!
π blog! βActivityBot is the recipient of an NLnet grant!β
Back in February, I applied for NLnet's Next Generation Zero grant. They were looking for Fediverse projects to help rewild the social media landscape. Or, as they describe it:
Reclaim the public nature of the internet
Small and medium-sized R&D grants between 5.000 and 50.000 euro,β¦
π Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/activβ¦
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#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #fediverse #NLnet
Name another photo app that will happily send you to a competitor.
If Pixelfed isn't for you, there are many amazing alternatives like:
- @frequency
- @gotosocial
- @admin
- @vernissage
All of them let you share images. All of them talk to Pixelfed. Leaving isn't a punishment here, because you never lose the network.
When you put people first, you build doors instead of cages.
If Pixelfed isn't for you, maybe one of these are:
- @frequency
- @gotosocial
- @admin
- @vernissage
Every one of these can share images, and every one of them federates with Pixelfed. Your followers, your posts, your reach: they come with you.
ActivityPub means no one has to be trapped anywhere. That's the magic.
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Somewhere else, this is a patent fight. Here it's a GitHub issue.
github.com/pixelfed/starter-kiβ¦
Almost 2 years ago I started planning federated Starter Kits. @Mastodon took the idea, turned it into a FEP, and built it with my feedback rather than around it.
It shipped in @loops this year. Mastodon shipped Featured Collections months later.
Compatible. Collaborative. Consent-driven π
blog.joinloops.org/introducingβ¦
blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/β¦
#StarterKits #FeaturedCollections #ActivityPub #Collaboration
StarterKit Extension Documentation Specification Base Structure { "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "Collection", "id": "https://example.org/recommendations/category-name...dansup (GitHub)
I know the Pixelfed codebase is messy, but I'm a far better Laravel dev than when I started it, and @phpstan has been keeping Loops rock solid at every level.
This week: preparing the new mobile app, fixing comment threading so you never miss a reply, and laying the foundation for the next-gen APIs that will power the new webUI and mobile app.
Tests are coming to lock in stability too. Pixelfed is getting the Loops treatment π π
I will admit, I did get a bit carried away with @pixelfed features over the years.
Collections, DMs, Ephemeral Stories, Filters, Groups and Portfolios were all started with good intentions, but without the continued focus and stability they deserve.
Once I get caught up with bug fixes and making the core features more solid, they are up next!
No new features will be added until the platform is as rock solid as Loops is π
Going to TPAC 2026 as part of the @sovtechfund Standards cohort!
#FediHood now supports #ActivityPub events, which means it is compatible with software such as #Mobilizon. You can create and receive events in the area you selected.
Joining and leaving events is not implemented yet.
Being able to migrate your 
posts along with followers to other Pixelfed servers is something we need to do, and will be a priority after I ship the new release, and mobile app later this month.
I say to other Pixelfed servers, because I'm not aware of any other software that would support this, but I do plan to write a FEP so we can support full account migration between software!
WarpBubble π«§
ActivityPub s2s entangled real time transport.
FEP coming soon π
Loops has developed it's own optimized server to server communication to support near real-time federation of latency sensitive activities, like Live stream chat messages.
I'm working on the draft FEP, and will share more details soon!
Announcing it here publicly for the first time!
I've been building a general purpose activitypub pwa.
Follow @nuages for official updates!
Hello World
Coucou! This is just a first post announcing Nuages to the world.Nuages is an ActivityPub app, connecting to your favourite servers that support the Client to Server API.
Follow us to get our latest updates, weβll be officially launching the app in the coming weeks π
#ActivityPub #c2s #ActivityPubAPI #Fediverse
Nuages β MediaFormat
Do you yearn for a user powered social network? A social space free from constant Ads, Sponsored and AI generated slop? The Fediverse 1 is an open social networNuages (MediaFormat)
Coucou! This is just a first post announcing Nuages to the world.
Nuages is an ActivityPub app, connecting to your favourite servers that support the Client to Server API.
Follow us to get our latest updates, weβll be officially launching the app in the coming weeks π
#ActivityPub #c2s #ActivityPubAPI #Fediverse
Do you yearn for a user powered social network? A social space free from constant Ads, Sponsored and AI generated slop? The Fediverse 1 is an open social networNuages (MediaFormat)
In 1968 Dijkstra declared GOTO statements harmful.
In 2021 someone built them an entire social network anyway.
GotoSocial is a lightweight #ActivityPub server that can run on a potato, blocks scrapers by default, and with privacy defaults that would get a product manager fired at any real company.
Now it's one of the fastest growing on the fediverse.
Built by @dumpsterqueer under the name Super Serious Business, which is the most honest branding in tech right now.
Happy to announce that federation bit is complete! Next step is purchasing a domain and spinning up a flagship instance which should happen in upcoming days :)
The network effect is crucial to every social platform, and what differentiates them is how they are able to match IRL connections with online ones, and we can do this, but it needs to be done carefully and in a way that preserves privacy and user autonomy across platforms and services.
No single software should have the ability to wall off access, or we become the thing we worked so hard to replace.
More details soon π
It's a strange feeling, building something with no one to answer to but the people using it.
No walls to raise. No data to harvest. No quarter to hit.
Just a network of communities that actually belong to the people in them.
The thing about the fediverse is that when one of us wins, we all win.
I couldn't be more proud to work alongside so many talented people who share the same belief: together we're stronger, and there's so much more we can build.
The corporate platforms had a decade and billions of dollars on us. They still can't build the one thing we did: a network nobody owns, nobody can sell, and nobody can take away.
A social home for the people. By the people.
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Today is announcement day π₯
Bonfire is shifting its centre of gravity: from social features to community tools. Four things ship today, and the whole story is here: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bo...
1. Bonfire for communities
Groups and topics, community rules, decision-making (from quick polls through structured consensus to weighted score voting, where an objection can count for more than an approval), events, shared organisation profiles, announcements.
A ready-to-use space you can then take apart: add what's missing, fork what almost fits, switch off what you don't need.
2. Our first Mosaic case study
Six months with Jacobin's German edition, building jacobin.social from the ground up: a home for 3,000+ readers, wired into their Ghost publication, in their language and their look and feel. Their readers crowdfunded the project, which included a reboot of the magazine and a new community space. Now every publisher can benefit. What one community funds, every community inherits. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
3. A deep Ghost integration
Keep publishing exactly as you do now, and Bonfire can become the home for everything that happens around the work: your archive imported, new articles followed, members and tiers synced, sign-in through Ghost, federated discussion under every piece. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/ghost/
4. The Telling
One script tag turns any web page into a federated conversation. Readers reply with an account they already have, on Bonfire, Mastodon, anywhere. The thread lives on your server, and you can take it with you. Details: bonfirenetworks.org/telling/
Being straight with you: this is a 1.0 beta. Groups work within a server and don't federate yet. We're designing that in the open with the W3C groups task force, because we'd rather it work across the whole fediverse than ship a dialect only Bonfire speaks.
Want to poke at it? Groups are live on the campground, our open test instance. Make an account and try it out: campground.bonfire.cafe
Finally, we've rebuilt the website to reflect the new direction: bonfirenetworks.org/
Now back to following up with crowdfunding backers to organise install parties, co-design workshops, and other rewards. Thank you for your patience π#fediverse #ActivityPub
How Jacobin's German edition connected Ghost to Bonfire to give 3,000+ readers a federated community space they own. The result is a reusable foundation other publishers can adopt.bonfirenetworks.org
Honored to be one of ten maintainers in the first @sovtechfund standards cohort.
I'll be representing #ActivityPub and the #fediverse at the w3c, bringing eight years of running Pixelfed and Loops at scale into the room where the spec gets written.
We are so proud of @dansup for being the only #ActivityPub developer to be accepted into the Sovereign Tech Standards cohort.
You've seen what he's done with Pixelfed, Loops, Fediverse.info and FediDB.
Just imagine what he can do for #ActivityPub standards work, having two major platforms that can steward and solve problems at scale and in the real world π₯
If there are any other #fediverse developers working on a TikTok like platform for the fediverse:
Maybe we can join forces and work together with Loops, and if not, lets keep in touch so we can work on #activitypub compatibility?
I'm already working closely with @stux on #Goldfish, which is shaping up to be a serious fedi TikTok contender!
Good morning Fedi friends,
I have been feeling a rising anxiety over the state of the open web and the fediverse - after seeing efforts by politicians all over the world (in Europe too!) to introduce age verification laws for social media.
My way of coping?
Teaching people how to self-host their own Fediverse profile (using the superb #GoToSocial) via #YunoHost.
Chapter 1 in this series is available here:
π : blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbieβ¦
#resist #blog #ActivityPub #selfhosting
A step-by-step visual tutorial for newbies about installing and setting up the federated microblogging service GoToSocialElena Rossini
