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ActivityPub integration by julianlam · Pull Request #11580 · NodeBB/NodeBB · GitHub
NodeBB has moved its ActivityPub integration to the testing phase. Or so I would assume. Up until now it was being developed in a special ActivityPub branch and it's just been moved into the develop branch.
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Sorry, I hate to be that guy, but since you’re dismissing the opinion of one of the people that designed the first decentralised social media protocol, I’m going to assume it’s because you’re better qualified to make the assessment. Can I ask, what are your qualifications?


Christine Lemmer-Webber, co-author of ActivityPub, on BlueSky
> “Bluesky is called a decentralized network and uses the term federation. The problem is that their technology, from the point of view of power dynamics, is not decentralized at all,” emphasizes Christine Lemmer-Webber, an expert on decentralized social protocols. “The use of some decentralisation techniques, but the decentralized service itself is not today. There is one big company that controls the flow of information, and without which this network cannot operate at the moment.” > > This does not mean that moving from X/Twitter to Bluesky is a bad idea. “I appreciate that Bluesky wants to build a service that can quickly fully replace Twitter. But I don’t think they should claim that this service is decentralized and instead focus on the date of a “trustworthy way”. Source: https://oko.press/ucieczka-z-twittera-przyszlosc-mediow-spolecznosciowych
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As a side note, it’s kinda interesting how that fediverse.info tries to pretend that Lemmy isn’t a thing, all while treating WordPress like it’s the second biggest Fediverse service and not currently trying to fuck over a bunch of users and long-term contributors.


Threadiverse was used prior to Meta’s joining of the Fediverse.


It took them a minute, but I’m glad they have a direction.


Deleted posts and member bans inconsistent with the rules and without explanation.


I can’t find anything regarding self-hosting this



I ended up watching a few videos and now I understand. Danke!



Sorry to bother you again, I was starting to look into Hubzilla and my brain started hurting, because I can’t understand how you federate contacts, calendar and file hosting. That said, I started looking into the contacts and calendar thing and this came up

Hubzilla and Nextcloud both offer features for managing contacts and calendars, but they cater to different needs:

  • Hubzilla focuses on social networking and doesn’t have built-in calendar or contact management features. However, some Hubzilla servers offer integrations with third-party calendar and contact apps.
  • Nextcloud excels at personal cloud storage, including contacts and calendars. You can store your contact information and calendar events on your own server, giving you complete control and privacy over your data.

Is this correct?



It’s a real shame about Plume. I actually saw that notice on the Plume website, but thought as long as I can get it up and running, it can’t be so bad.

I’ve spent the best part of this week trying to get WriteFreely up and running locally as I just want to host a couple blogs without having to agree to let LLMs harvest my musings, but alas, WriteFreely doesn’t work with Docker and the community is MIA.

Ghost was something I was excited about but it only allows one blog per instance, so it’s not even worth getting excited about the upcoming federation implementation.

WordPress as a company are happy to get into bed with LLMs, so I’m holding them at arms length.

As for Lemmy, it’s far too cumbersome and not adept at blogging. But it’s an amazing link aggregator.


Does Hubzilla have CardDAV and CalDAV support? I’m using NextCloud for calendar and contacts primarily, would be interesting to try Hubzilla as a replacement if it’s feasible.


I hear all this talk about WordPress, but at the same time, they’re selling users’ content to AI, so I don’t want to continue to use them.


No worries. I appreciate the thought. Thanks for trying to help.


Okay, I guess my next big question is, what is hubzilla at its core? Is it a NextCloud alternative?


I’m a big fan of tools made for purpose. Lemmy has some fantastic features and continues to improve, but it was never designed as a blogging platform. Even when I duplicate self text posts, it doesn’t merge. In the timeline. I like Lemmy and want to see it succeed. Though that’s not easy with the ML administration team going rogue or the overt centralization fostered on world, but neither of those are software issues.


What is it or why am I looking for an alternative?


Thanks, this made me actually take the time to look into hubzilla finally and its my first time hearing about Streams.


Federated Blogging Platforms
Just trying to check and make sure I never missed any. Is it just *writefreely* and *plume* right **now**?
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dansup: "I don't want to run FediDB, Loops, Sup, Pixelfed,…" - Mastodon
> I don't want to run FediDB, Loops, Sup, Pixelfed, PubKit myself long term, my goal is to establish a solid foundation for these projects and find the right home to allow them to thrive. > > This could perhaps be through a non-profit organization I could start, or one that is trusted by the community > > Regardless, I don't want to be "in charge" of all these fediverse services, I love building but it's a lot of work to run them and I don't like the notoriety tbh, it's a lot to deal with
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Building ActivityPub
Looks like it's really happening!
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