"As it turns out, the current plan to tie Tumblr into the open social web will come about by way of the site’s planned move to the WordPress infrastructure.

Automattic confirmed to TechCrunch that when the migration is complete, every Tumblr user will be able to federate their blog via ActivityPub, just as every WordPress.com user can today."

#SarahPerez, 2025

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/tumblr-to-join-the-fediverse-after-wordpress-migration-completes/

Link at end but I love this article for it's shocked tone. I love how the more tech of the Fediverse can't possibly comprehend that there are people that honestly just want to be left the fuck alone. This whole article was written like the writer was astonished such a thing could exist and my sides are splitting from them realizing not everybody wants to talk to you. https://wedistribute.org/2025/03/website-league-island-networks/ #Fediverse #ActivityPub #privacy

New: Fediverse Report #108

This week's news:
- Ghost's (@index) connection to the #fediverse is now availabe in public beta for Ghost Pro users, with both an #ActivityPub connection to send long-form posts into the fediverse, and a reader app to read/comment/interact with the fediverse
- @anewsocial , the organisation that manages the bridge between the fediverse and #bluesky shared their upcoming plans

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-108/

Can't find any reference about what I have to return on a Create Note (comment) activity.
- Is status code 200 enough?
- should I return an Accept Activity with the Request in it?

ping @pfefferle maybe?

#fediverse #feditips #activitypub

Hi all! I'm a concert organiser and musician and I'm planning to organise within the community a series of discussion events on the fediverse as a concrete alternative to fascist soc media. But, at the same time, to be able to meaningfully answer the questions many might have, I'm trying to wrap my head around how the ActivityPub works, in particular regarding cross-servers visibility, and how inherent certain beviours are. Any pointer is really welcome! <3

If anyone has enable this, how do I find you? I’d like to try following your blog on here. The social web beta is here https://activitypub.ghost.org/social-web-beta/ #Ghost #ActivityPub #Fediverse

How to protect mastodon servers from being shutdown by third parties? How to distribute them further? How to use tools like veilid or cwtch to continue exchange the files in case of third Party disruption of URLs used by activitypub at CDN/DNS level? How to make the new free social network resilient to any dictature controlling the internet communications (DNS, CDN,...)?

Congratulations to the #Ghost team – their #ActivityPub-powered social web beta launched today!

https://activitypub.ghost.org/social-web-beta/

#TIL about @betula;

"... a free federated self-hosted single-user bookmarking software for the independent web. Use it to organize bookmarks or maintain a linklog."

https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/

I'm having fun testing out Ghost's Social Web beta. You can follow, like, reply, repost and interact with my blog directly with this handle:

@index

Exciting times on thr Fedi! Ghost has just switched on access to ActivityPub support on their hosted service. It's in Beta now, but presumably will be open to everyone when it comes out of beta.

The future is federated!

https://activitypub.ghost.org/social-web-beta/

Well, it’s a lucky day . Our latest update contains a pot o’ gold for the Bluesky community especially. Take a look at what’s in this release, including linking your Bluesky account to Surf, a new Home Timeline that unifies your Bluesky and Mastodon, and Bluesky notifications in our app.

Ghost has made ActivityPub available to all of its Pro subscribers.

Interesting how they name and describe it:

"Social Web - y/n
Federate your site with ActivityPub to join the world's largest open network"

https://activitypub.ghost.org/content/images/size/w1600/2025/03/activitypub-beta-1.png

Who are the finest community builders in the #activitypub ecosystem, in your opinion?

The UK Online Safety Act comes into effect today.

Its onerous duties may cause many small sites, blogs and fedi instances to shut down or geoblock UK users when faced with potential fines and penalties.

This won't keep children safe. It'll benefit large platforms like Facebook and X that are laying waste to content moderation.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/online_safety_act/

The Venn diagram of the protocol wars between #activitypub and #atproto and thinking of a day that #Twitter will stop being the benchmark of success for decentralized social media platforms.