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

Is there anyone from Mastodon? Do you see the quote? (I'm testing stateless mastodon quote approvals) RE: https://mitra.social/objects/01a04a26-eede-72b0-a5e9-f244c3ff2142

# In case you missed it: Social Web Foundation (SWF) Annual Report 2025 https://socialwebfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/SWF-Annual-Report-2025.pdf I thought that "baked by Meta" is a figure of speech. But no - Meta is actually a major contributor […] [Original post on mitra.social]

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

Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸@evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

@silverpill If you think there's a link that should be on activitypub.rocks, you can open a ticket here: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub.rocks/issues I'm glad to hear that you don't think of AP-next as a fork!

#APx v0.27.0 https://docs.rs/apx_sdk/0.27.0/apx_sdk/index.html 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 […]

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

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: https://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 […]

Updating **FEP-5219: Groups and permissions** : https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/916/files 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 […]

The ap-next developer guide was removed from the https://activitypub.rocks website: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub.rocks/issues/63 (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 […]

# Say goodbye to Linked Data Signatures https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/mastodon-4.7/ > 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 […]

Mitra has `arrayref` in its dependency tree but it is pinned to an old version. RE: https://social.rust-lang.org/users/rust/statuses/117127366248165334

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" […]

Mastodon@mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3w ago

After publishing the results of Discovery Week, we can now give you a first sneak peak at Mastodon 5.0, our next big version. It will bring a new visual look to your screens, a refreshed and calmer layout, as well as a new composer […]

Updating **FEP-5219: Groups and permissions** : https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/908 I added two flags that indicate whether a group is private, semi-private or public: `canFollow` and `canParticipate`. These flags are similar to ones used in `interactionPolicy` pattern but I think […]

Mastodon 4.7 beta supports FEP-521a: Representing actor's public keys and FEP-8b32: Object Integrity Proofs (inbound only for now) I also see FEP-8967: Generating link previews for attached links in the changelog. It looks like FEP process is actually working?

Mastodon Engineering@mastodonengineering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4w ago

We released the first beta for Mastodon 4.7 today. It contains very few user-facing changes, but contains significant reworks of the backend code to improve security and support new protocol features. This update includes substantial database migrations that might take up to a couple of hours […]

The biggest problem for peer to peer ActivityPub is the fact that ActivityPub is primarily a "pull" protocol. You need to fetch a remote actor before interacting with it. This is not feasible in the environment where nodes are intermittently online. What if we used a special activity to request […]

I added a list of recommended libraries to the ActivityPub developer guide: https://codeberg.org/ap-next/ap-next/src/branch/main/guide.md#libraries - activity (Go, used in GoToSocial) - Fedify (JavaScript, used in Hollo and Ghost) - Fedipub (Ruby, used in Manyfold) - activitypub_federation […]

I've updated the section describing the authentication of embedded objects in FEP-fe34 (Origin-based security model): https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/commit/9ad3767987dae7e51d647768b655e93b82881343/fep/fe34/fep-fe34.md#embedding It now covers the case where a signed embedded object is […]

**FEP-5219: Groups and permissions** has been updated: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/895/files - The items in the `affiliations` collection are now required to be full `Relationship` objects with `id`, `attributedTo` and `object` properties. I think these objects should be […]

It is an honour to have been interviewed on behalf of the @drfed team for @APC's _Building a Free Internet of the Future_ series. https://www.apc.org/en/news/drfed-reducing-complexity-and-enabling-more-people-shape-fediverse

DrFed on reducing complexity and enabling more people to shape the Fediverse

DrFed is a web-based platform for developing and debugging implementations of ActivityPub – an open standard and protocol for decentralised networking. A team of four people from East Asia is developing DrFed. We interviewed one of them, Hong Minhee, regarding openness, tech, technical specs, the Fediverse’s strengths and limits, language barriers to decentralisation, and far more.

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# Private groups Lately, I've been seeing various people claiming that fediverse doesn't have private groups. They often point to some task force at w3c that is supposedly working to fill the gap. However, fediverse has had private groups for a very long time: - Hubzilla channels. This […]

**FEP-0806: Simple client-side encryption** https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/0806/fep-0806.md The FEP now includes the recommended algorithms parameters. I consider it finished but I don't plan to continue working on my implementation or publishing to the main FEP […]

Setting up a Forgejo instance: https://code.mitra.social/silverpill/mitra It will be mirroring repositories related to the #Mitra project. I don't plan to migrate from Codeberg right now, but it wouldn't hurt to have a self-hosted instance in case they decide to enforce the new anti-crypto […]

Proposal: Replace `gateways` query parameter in 'ap' URIs with `@gateway`, which can be used multiple times https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/890 Before: ?gateways=https%3A%2F%2Fserver1.example,https%3A%2F%2Fserver2.example After: ?@gateway=https%3A%2F%2Fserver1 […]

Codeberg is banning "cryptocurrency projects": https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254#issuecomment-19820413 I don't know if Mitra qualifies as such, but I guess it is time to move to a self-hosted forge.

I finally got around to trying #iroh It nicely complements FEP-ef61, because it allows you to connect to another actor by its `did:key`. In theory, we can completely replace the federation of HTTP servers with a federation of iroh nodes. However, I'm not convinced that iroh is the best […]

The NomadPub intro page now includes a "Research" section: https://codeberg.org/ap-next/ap-next/src/branch/main/nomadpub.md#research I listed the most important open research problems there: key management (alt-DIDs), alternative transports, E2EE and generic servers. #NomadicIdentity

I managed to send an encrypted message from one Mitra Mini account to another. The gateway should run the latest development version of Mitra. Spec: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/feps/src/branch/main/0806/fep-0806.md

Fediverse.info is proud to onboard another trusted admin: @silverpill His work with FEPs and Mitra is groundbreaking, and has improved the fediverse in more ways than almost every other developer ❤️ The fediverse is lucky to have such a dedicated and impactful steward like him […]

Updating **FEP-ef61: Portable Objects** : https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/883 I added a section about key management. This part of nomadic identity was often misunderstood - some people thought that secret keys need to be managed by servers, and that servers could impersonate users […]

Finally implemented FEP-0806: Simple client-side encryption in Mitra Mini. Right now it only does encryption-decryption. No delivery yet - because gateways don't support `EncryptedActivity` activities. The scheme was changed to HPKE (RFC 9180 Hybrid Public Key Encryption). #fep_0806