ActivityPub

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1073988

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tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server — it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/939395

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42828264

I've recently made some updates to the ActivityPub Relay I maintain. This includes a regularly updated list of connected instances for monitoring their status and having an easy way to refer to instances for inquiry. I've also added a relay policy which states instances will be banned for featuring bigoted content or having poor admin/uptime.

I definitely have room for some more Mastodon, Misskey, and Pleroma instances.

The relay server itself is located in the east coast of the United States, but open to all regions.

ActivityPub Relay, US East: https://circlewithadot.net/services/aprelay.html

Follow on Mastodon for relay status updates and info: https://mastodon.circlewithadot.net/@cwad

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/905728

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/863575

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Not a fork and not a 1-1 port. My plan is to leverage my work on Django ActivityPub Toolkit to create a server that can be used by both Lemmy or Mastodon clients.

cross-posted from: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/fac2f182-7ba5-4f25-a6db-7d8222ecc4c0

Elgg joined the Fediverse.

Which happened on March 7, 2025 with the release of a plugin. Almost no one noticed. But it’s kind of monumental.

Because Elgg isn’t new. It’s not some trendy project that showed up last week and slapped on federation as a proof of concept.

No, Elgg has been around since 2004. That’s older than Facebook, older than Twitter, older than Reddit. And unlike those platforms, Elgg was always open source.

It was originally designed for e-learning. But it quickly became something more—a full-blown social network engine that you could host yourself.

Profiles, groups, blogs, activity feeds, photo galleries, file uploads, granular permissions—you name it. It had everything Facebook had in its earlier years. And in some ways, more.

Now, with the ActivityPub plugin released for version 6.1, Elgg is federated. Which means Elgg instances can follow and be followed. They can share posts to Mastodon, Akkoma, Friendica, you name it. They can receive comments from Lemmy or PeerTube or Firefish. The plugin supports inboxes, outboxes, WebFinger, even group federation. You can block domains too. It’s not a toy. It’s real.

And yeah, almost nobody’s talking about it. Which is wild, because this is the kind of thing that should be huge. Elgg isn’t some flash-in-the-pan experiment. It’s a mature codebase with a long history, and now it can talk to the rest of the Fediverse. That’s not just important—it’s rare for something this mature to federate.

Most federated platforms lean minimalist. They’re great at one thing—microblogging, video, link aggregation. But Elgg gives you the kitchen sink. It feels like a complete social network. Honestly, if you miss how Facebook used to be, this is probably the closest you’re going to get.

So yeah. Elgg joined the Fediverse. And if people really want alternatives to Big Social, maybe it’s time to give this old horse a look.

https://elgg.org/plugins/3330966

@fediversenews@piefed.social