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Ben Pate 🤘🏻@benpate@mastodon.social
Howdy! I'm the nerd who's building #Emissary - an ActivityPub server for building custom social applications on the Fediverse.
My first app on this platform is a music sharing server for indie bands, called #Bandwagon. And now I'm also working on #Atlas, a social mapping server for adding Federated annotations to places in the real world.
If you'd like to talk about any of my projects, feel free to DM me here, or on Signal (@benpate.5280)
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Emissary: https://emissary.dev
Bandwagon.fm: https://bandwagon.fm
Atlas: https://atlasmaps.org
GitHub: https://github.com/benpate
Joined: 2026-04-15 00:32:06
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Reply to @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
Ben Pate 🤘🏻@benpate@mastodon.social (2026-04-15 14:32:58)
Sure, it’s a pretty standard process. I’m happy to talk about how to do it, but it probably wouldn’t be a FEP.
There’s not much about the ActivityPub protocol involved.. just making a server with a switch in front to choose which database you’re reading from.
@strypey @takahe
Reply to @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
Ben Pate 🤘🏻@benpate@mastodon.social (2026-04-15 12:38:32)
@strypey @takahe
😁😁
Yes, Emissary already serves multiple domains from the same server cluster.
Right now, Bandwagon.fm is two web servers and three databases (way more than I need, but fun to test on). It’s the same cluster that serves fixe or six domains.
So yes, it’s ready to host a bunch more domains, then let people bounce from one server over to the next (on my cluster or elsewhere)
Reply to @silverpill@mitra.social
Ben Pate 🤘🏻@benpate@mastodon.social (2026-04-15 02:45:47)
@silverpill @phnt@fluffytail.org @feld@friedcheese.us
Fun fact: both E2EE clients in development right now support the “content” field in likes.
I was just demoing emoji reactions this morning.
We’re going to try to include it as a MAY or SHOULD in the spec, with fallbacks for regular Likes.
Reply to @silverpill@mitra.social
Ben Pate 🤘🏻@benpate@mastodon.social (2026-04-15 00:46:34)
@silverpill SWF built the original spec that we're building to. They did a TON of research and groundwork ahead of time.
I'll just have to graffiti Wikipedia myself.
Reply to @benpate@mastodon.social
Ben Pate 🤘🏻@benpate@mastodon.social (2026-04-14 23:38:31)
Whenever they write the Wikipedia article about E2EE, I just want a footnote in there...
#Mastodon was the artillery, the big guns that made the difference. #Bonfire and #Emissary were the special forces recon teams that made it possible.
Ben Pate 🤘🏻@benpate@mastodon.social (2026-04-14 21:25:36)
Have you seen this news?
#Mastodon just got funding to add end to end encryption into their software.
So, some time next year, you’ll be able to send truly private messages to the vast majority of the #Fediverse
Im so excited about this.
Because it’s an open spec, this opens the doors for every Fediverse app to join the party.
Yesterday, this project was a proof of concept. Today, Mastodon has turned it into a stampede.
#E2EE
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/