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The official account for the Fedicat fediverse iOS client available on TestFlight. I try to include other fediverse stuff to keep it interesting.
the website: https://fedicat.com/
daily builds on tesflight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/b6GatWTY
some code on codeberg: https://codeberg.org/technicat/fedicat
me, myself, and I: https://technicat.com/
Joined: 2026-04-16 05:05:56
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fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@apps@toot.fedilab.app (2026-05-14 04:29:27)
#Holos is a new social network working with #ActivityPub. This is not an app where you can connect your Mastodon, Pixelfed or PeerTube account.
There is no web version and no API because the ActivityPub server runs on the device itself. That's the whole challenge behind this project.
If there is more engagement, I plan to build a desktop version and even sync between different devices.
The official account for all announcements is @HolosSocial
More: https://holos.social/how-it-works
#HolosSocial
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@impressia@mastodon.social (2026-05-14 04:17:43)
Today a new version of #Impressia has been released! 🎉
All of the changes in this release were implemented by @pylapp - huge thanks for the amazing work and contribution. 🤩
Alongside a number of accessibility improvements and fixes, this version also introduces a new option to switch between single-column and two-column layouts on timelines, making the reading experience much more flexible.
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@homegrown@social.growyourown.services (2026-05-14 03:24:11)
There are a LOT of Fediverse projects out there!
If you're a techy person interested in self-hosting Fediverse platforms, you might like to check out the "Delightful Fediverse" list which tries to feature every Fediverse project available:
🌱 https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience
(It's worth noting the meaning of the emoji next to project names, as the status of different projects varies.)
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #SelfHosting #FOSS
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe (2026-05-14 03:35:36)
got post replyToId (which returns a post ID) and replyToAccountId fields confused, tonight's task will be SDK cleanup
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@ozoned@btfree.social (2026-05-14 02:46:32)
Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
Special Guest: @samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @FedicaHQ, Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 05/22/26 at 15:30 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥
📺 Live: @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live (#livestream)
🎬 VOD: @ozoned@tubefree.org (#Peertube #VOD)
🔔 Alerts: @when@freestreamers.btfree.org (new shows!)
Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social (2026-05-14 02:06:44)
#Holos 1.5.6 is available.
This release focuses on UI polish. On #iOS, the pull to refresh spinner is now visible in timelines, and compose menus no longer render behind the modal. On #Android, the emoji picker stays above the keyboard.
It also fixes posts not showing up on the web while online.
Release notes: https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/releases/tag/1.5.6
#HolosSocial
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online (2026-05-14 00:30:06)
I have recently created two tools for promoting your favorite fediverse communities. (And you can even use them together!)
The first one lets you create a customizable invitation page with your favorite apps and starter packs (collections will be supported soon!): https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-invitation/
And also the Join the Fediverse zine, with the last page allowing you to link to your custom invitation.
https://jointhefediverse.net/zine
Hope you will all find these useful!
#fediverse #community #zine #FediverseZine #JoinTheFediverse #JoinTheFediverseZine #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@grunfink@comam.es (2026-05-13 16:54:14)
I've just published version 2.92 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Changed default: for newly created instances, disable_inbox_collection is set to true (see snac(8) for more information). The reason is because it seems to be used for harrasing people.
Changed default: for newly created instances, disable_history is set to true (see snac(8) for more information). The reason is because archived history files don't reflect reality after posts are deleted or modified (they always have been an ugly kludge).
Changed default: in previous versions, posts with a scope of unlisted were shown in public pages and RSS feeds. Now, they are no longer shown. If you want to get back to previous behaviour, use a new toggle in the User Settings section (see snac(1) for more information).
New admin configuration option: if the purge_static value is set to true in server.json, each user's static directory is explored and those files there that are no longer attached to any post or referenced anywhere are deleted. See snac(8) for more information about those cases where you may not want to enable this option.
Allow serving files from subdirectories of the static/ subdirectory (contributed by la_ninpre).
Minor tweak to webfinger code to handle Hubzilla's peculiarities.
Fixed a search case where URLs to GotoSocial statuses were misidentified as accounts.
Accounts that follow you are now marked with a thumb-up emoji, because followers are adorable people.
Fixed some account export errors.
Fixed an incorrect hash in post links.
Show an account's location link in the people page, if they have one.
Mastodon API: Fixed hashtags loosing the link after editing a post, minor tweak in access token processing (contributed by trondd555).
Drop usage of PATH_MAX (contributed by sergiodj).
New Polish translation (contributed by kpm).
Updated German and Czech translations (contributed by zen and pmjv).
https:/
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@elefeed@mastodon.social (2026-05-02 03:00:27)
@elefeed
#Elefeed features:
• Mute & block support
• Bookmarks + full search (posts, users, hashtags)
• Full notifications + native device alerts
• Zen mode for distraction-free browsing
• 15 customizable color themes (light & dark)
• Scroll time tracking
• Sync across devices
• Multiple accounts
• Zero tracking (your token stays in browser)
• PWA install (iOS/Android)
• Giphy support
(3/3)
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@hoboshrimps@mastodon.social (2026-05-12 07:31:54)
#plushtodon
Look at this magnificent boy
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fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@FediFollows@social.growyourown.services (2026-05-13 08:08:36)
#Pennsylvania USA accounts to follow:
@SpotlightPA - Independent investigative news site for Philadelphia
@PennLivedotcom - Pennsylvania local news
@index@cameroncountyecho.com - Cameron County local community news service
@index@kensingtonvoice.com - Kensington, Fairhill, Harrowgate, Norris Square & Port Richmond local news
@iffybooks - Philadelphia bookshop/workshop focused on hacking, free culture, gardening, zines
@philly2600 - Philadelphia hackers' meetup group
@defcon570 - Northeast Pennsylvania Hackers' meetup group
🧵 1/3
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@apps@toot.fedilab.app (2026-05-13 05:31:59)
I am really more efficient at fixing issues and bringing improvements to #Fedilab thanks to @HurricaneWeasel. If you think Fedilab has become more active these past months, it is obviously thanks to his precious help in managing issues. If you use #Codeberg, you might know him :)
A big thank you to you Fluffy <3
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@apps@toot.fedilab.app (2026-05-13 04:56:57)
I'll be taking a short break for two days (Thursday and Friday). First, I'll fix the immediate side effects of #Fedilab 3.40, then I'll move on to #HolosSocial fixes and improvements.
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@polykit@chaos.social (2026-05-13 04:19:00)
The PeerTube search index is getting more and more features 🚀 You can try it out yourself at
🔎 https://peerseek.video
I added
* personalized home feed
* search query modifiers like - and " "
* FAQ section
#peertube #search #index #visibility #video #peerseek #fediverse #ranking
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@homegrown@social.growyourown.services (2026-05-13 03:18:03)
Do you want to create your own Wiki? You might want to try some of these options:
(All of these are free and open source)
🌱 @mediawiki - The software used by Wikipedia
🌱 @TiddlyWiki - Personal wiki stored in a single HTML file
🌱 @FeatherWiki - Lightweight software for making wikis, notebooks, databases in a single file
🌱 @bookstack - Easy-to-use simple wiki & documentation software
🌱 @xwikiorg - Wiki software aimed at businesses, libre alternative to Confluence
#SelfHosting #Wiki #FOSS
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe (2026-05-13 03:47:03)
this looks interesting
https://github.com/atomine-elektrine/elektrine
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@FediGarden@social.growyourown.services (2026-05-13 02:46:13)
Masto.fediverse.games is a friendly inclusive Glitch Mastodon server for those who love games, including video games, board games, tabletop or card games.
This server has a post size of up to 2048 characters and up to 10 poll options.
:Fediverse: https://masto.fediverse.games
You can find out more at https://masto.fediverse.games/about or contact the admin account @BobDendry
#FeaturedServer #Gaming #VideoGames #RPG #BoardGames #CardGames #Tabletop #GlitchMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services (2026-05-13 00:03:41)
Oh The Urbanity! make videos about city planning, urbanism, public transport, cycling, housing and related topics. They are based in Canada, but they cover cities in other countries too. You can follow their account at:
➡️ @ohtheurbanity
They've already published over 200 videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://video.canadiancivil.com/a/ohtheurbanity/videos
#FeaturedPeerTube #Cities #Urbanism #CityPlanning #PublicTransport #Cycling #Housing #Canada #PeerTube
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@mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl (2026-05-12 21:55:17)
and you'll be able to see the most recent post from a 'pinned' account in the sidebar
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fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@apps@toot.fedilab.app (2026-05-13 01:13:35)
#Fedilab 3.40.0 is available.
What's new:
- Allow bookmarks to be pinned as timeline tab
- Add custom emoji independent size setting with tap to preview
- Add emoji autocomplete in CW and poll fields
- Add reverse sort order for bookmarks and favourites
- Auto-hide bubble timeline when instance doesn't support it
Several enhancements and fixes. See the full release notes: https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab/releases/tag/3.40.0
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@soapboxsoftware@mastodon.social (2026-05-12 23:00:04)
If you want more details, there’s a lot more in our announcement blog post here: https://benricemccarthy.ghost.io/indigo/
And for the design geeks, Ben put together a deeper dive on how Indigo’s UI has evolved since we started work on it, here: https://benricemccarthy.ghost.io/indigos-design-evolution/
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@soapboxsoftware@mastodon.social (2026-05-13 00:32:09)
@andypiper it’s always tough to compete as a paid app when the default is free. But we’re just two humans trying to build nice things that people enjoy, and NOT raise VC money so we can eventually show you ads or sell your data 😮💨
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@toddsundsted@epiktistes.com (2026-05-12 20:27:45)
This release continues my focus on security instead of new features. As I wrote earlier this week, I rebuilt the template framework Ktistec uses with type safety as a central principle. What does that mean?
Imagine that you have an instance of a String that holds federated data. Where can you safely render that in a browser, and what operations (sanitization, escaping, etc.) do you need to do first?
The only way to answer that is to look carefully at the lineage of that data: where it came from, how it was stored, how it was transformed, and where it's rendered. A name holds text; an href or src attribute holds a URL. If you want to render a name inside an HTML element you should HTML escape it. You should escape href and src, too, but the escaping rules for URLs are slightly different from the HTML rules. It's easy to make mistakes.
Ktistec uses four "safe" types to express the contracts:
SafeHTML: A String wrapper marking HTML markup safe to emit raw into HTML data slots (text content, between tags).
SafeAttrValue: A String wrapper marking a value safe to emit raw inside a double-quoted HTML attribute (attr="..."), other than URL or event-handler slots.
SafeURI: A String wrapper marking a URL safe to emit raw into a URL attribute slot (href, src, action, etc.).
SafeJSON: A String wrapper marking JSON output safe to emit raw into the body of a <script type="application/json"> block.
Using the wrong type at a call site is either a compile-time error, or it triggers automatic sanitization of the underlying string value.
Here's the full changelog:
Added
String safety framework with typed "safe" strings.
New Slang template engine with compile-time safety checks.
Vendored WebFinger and HostMeta client shards.
Fixed
Prevent delivery to unknown IRIs.
Narrow Like/Dislike addressing to the liked object's author.
I have at least one more cleanup pass to do, and then I'll turn my attention back to the Mastodon-compatible API and a few features I've been looking fo
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@jessebot@social.smallhack.org (2026-05-12 04:22:51)
Really appreciating GoToSocial's reply and boost requests feature, especially when discussing code of conducts.
I'm able to reject replies and boosts on this instance and it makes me much more confident about posting things. Sure, other instances may not respect those things, but it doesn't matter to me because they can't bother me here. I love the fediverse, and I especially love GoToSocial's approach to it :gotosocial: :heart_cyber:
#gotosocial
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe (2026-05-12 12:54:30)
tap on a mastodon collection title or description for a list view
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@mookie@weredreaming.com (2026-05-12 11:27:54)
After three months and 1.6k posts later on snac, I'm super happy. Main things that I like about running snac for my Fediverse presence:
Light on resources. I can run this on a potato if I wanted and it would run great (I'm not, but I could.)Backups are easy. Tar up the directory. Done.Migrations are easy. Install nginx, build snac, untar backup. Done.Quirky web interface. It takes a little to get used to it, but it is very functional and it's got character. I thought I would use Phanpy with it more, but I'm not. I enjoy the snac web interface.Works (mostly) with Mastodon clients.No crazy caching of photos, avatars and other media. This is a really big deal because my disk usage is so much lower than when I ran Mastodon.No database. NO DATABASE. So good.Fast. snac is really fast doing everything. It's nice.@grunfink@comam.es is awesome. Friendly and responsive.#fediverse #snac #snac2 #snacadmin #mastodon #phanpysocial #selfhost #selfhosted
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@FediFollows@social.growyourown.services (2026-05-12 03:03:09)
🔭 #Observatories & #Telescopes to follow:
@esoastronomy - European Southern Observatory
@astro_jcm - Astronomer & media officer at ESO
@ehtelescope - Global radio telescope network
@ORB_KSB - Royal Observatory of Belgium (in English, Dutch, French)
@WestportObservatory - Community observatory in Connecticut USA
@StellaLunaObs - Private observatory in Ohio USA
@BGO - Automated observatory in Nova Scotia, Canada
@spacelizard - Instrument scientist at Australian Astronomical Observatory in Sydney
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@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk (2026-05-12 05:37:08)
I was thinking earlier, that sitting here on Fedi when I get home, with my reasonably curated feeds, is very much like sitting in a nice coffee house or perhaps a lovely quiet bar. We just chat, and now and again someone will go "ooo, that reminds me..." and we all go off on a tangent for a while. At some point various people will wander off to a couch or whatever, but a couple of new people will wander in and join us.
I LIKE it here. Really. It's exactly as I recall the old BBS days, and early Usenet (before the "September That Never Ended" in 1993, of course).
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@_elena@mastodon.social (2026-05-08 14:41:02)
Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?
Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.
You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
#OpenWashing
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@evacide@hachyderm.io (2026-05-12 06:15:27)
If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over.
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