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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
349 notes, 1 following, 1 followers
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-07-18 22:07:23)
RE: https://macaw.social/@andypiper/116941037974688000
What an absolute legend, after moving on from @Mastodon, he still spreads awareness and donates stickers!
@andypiper you may have moved on to another role, but your kindness and impact will always be remembered here on the fediverse ❤️
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@writefreely@writing.exchange (2026-07-19 00:22:00)
After yesterday's critical 0.17 release, there was a bug with the Export page not rendering that came up (https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/issues/1702). I'm fixing that now.
I'm also building a way to quickly clear out spam accounts that might've been created while the account-creation vulnerability was out there.
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@grunfink@comam.es (2026-07-19 01:15:03)
Hi. After some incorrect user / password tries from a given IP, #snac bans it for a (configurable) amount of time. This is probably what has happened to you on your mobile.
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@mczachurski@mastodon.social (2026-07-18 19:54:36)
More improvements landed in #Vernissage today! 🎉
The web app now shows a red dot when there are new news to read, while the iOS app displays a panel when you reach photos you’ve already seen.
I also made a few more fixes related to the Angular upgrade and standalone components. If no new bugs appear, version 1.41.0 should be released in the next few days. Thanks for all your feedback! ☺️
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fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@writefreely@writing.exchange (2026-07-18 08:47:33)
RE: https://writing.exchange/@writefreely/116937920745292055
Most importantly, this fixes an issue where malicious actors can create accounts on closed-registration #WriteFreely instances running the previous v0.16 or below.
We've heard reports of this ACTIVELY being exploited today across many WriteFreely instances -- multi- and single-user.
We advise ALL WriteFreely admins to upgrade immediately. You may also notice many unwanted accounts on your instance that need to be manually cleaned up. We'll be adding admin tools to make this quicker soon.
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@weekinfediverse@mitra.social (2026-07-18 05:24:17)
Week in Fediverse 2026-07-17
Servers
- flohmarkt v0.20.0
- Vernissage Server v1.40.0
- FitPub v1.2.0
- Wafrn v2026.07.02
- TinyAP v0.1.11
- NeoDB v0.16.5.0
- PieFed v1.7.6
- Catodon v26.7.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, June 2026 (Mastodon)
- matrix-appservice-activitypub: Turns your Matrix server into a fully functioning ActivityPub server
- Discord–Fediverse Bridge: A self-hosted bridge between Discord forum channels and ActivityPub community actors
- ~petersanchez/honk: Fork of honk
Clients
- PeerTube Mobile v2.2.0
- Photon v2.4.0
- Tesseract v1.5.5
- Aria v1.5.8
- Mitra Mini v0.5.0
Tools and Plugins
- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.6.1 (WordPress plugin)
- Polls for ActivityPub v1.0.9 (WordPress plugin)
- Telegram ↔️ Mastodon Bridge Bot: A Python bot that forwards text messages, photos, and albums from a Telegram chat to your Mastodon account
For developers
- @shootpub/activitypub-types: ActivityPub types package with support for FEP-2277 Activitypub core types (duck typing)
Articles
- The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019f4de5-e808-73f3-96d7-1c4948c2a47a
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@FediFollows@social.growyourown.services (2026-07-18 08:29:03)
Massachusetts USA accounts to follow (continued):
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
@boscc - Boston Code Camp programming conference
@owaspboston - Boston branch of OWASP software security project
@Boston_PM - Boston Perl & Raku group
@bostonts - TypeScript & JavaScript Boston meetups
@cocoaboston - Boston Mac & iOS dev meetups
MAKERSPACES & HACKERSPACES
@millforge - Large community makerspace in southeastern Massachusetts
RADIO
@wmbr - Radio station in basement of Walker Memorial at MIT
3/6
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@writefreely@writing.exchange (2026-07-18 08:31:06)
WriteFreely v0.17 is out now!
⚠️ We recommend *all* admins upgrade as soon as possible, as this release includes some critical security fixes.
Read more in our release notes: https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/releases/tag/v0.17.0
#WriteFreely #fedidev
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@indiewebadmin@indieweb.social (2026-07-18 05:57:54)
We've closed signups on indieweb.social for the weekend after a huge increase in attempted spam sign ups.
We aren't the only instance going through this. Please show your support to the amazing moderators across the Fediverse! 💙 ☁️
#FediAdmin #SpamWave #Moderation #Admin #Indieweb #FediMod #MastoAdmin
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@apps@toot.fedilab.app (2026-07-18 06:57:49)
Summer is the worst season for animals. As the holidays get closer, shelters fill with pets left behind.
My cat and dog came from there. Haru (the cat) waited two years in a shelter, and our dog (Tanos) is one a relative could no longer keep. A black cat and a malinois, now sharing the same stairs.
Out of conviction, I built https://pawfed.org/how-it-works, a service working with #ActivityPub and #OSM.
It is not the perfect solution, but if you can help your local shelter, please do.
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fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl (2026-07-18 06:04:47)
i’m releasing 2.0 as soon as this gets fixed but i don’t even know if it’s just one bug or a bunch of bugs related to saving settings
RT: https://pl.fediverse.pl/objects/670f5528-0691-42fc-9332-87c696ac2687
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe (2026-07-18 03:53:56)
there’s room for improvement but this is better than displaying http 401 unauthorized
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fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social (2026-07-18 02:34:26)
#HolosSocial should not take too much space on your device. First, it has automatic cleaning features that you can tailor to your needs. It also uses bloom filters that automatically remove unwanted activities from the relay. On my own server, almost 14k posts take only 225 MB, less than a few photos.
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fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@silverpill@mitra.social (2026-07-18 03:41:21)
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
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services (2026-07-18 03:11:20)
RM Transit (aka Reece Martin) makes in-depth videos about public transport all around the world. They've been away for a while but have now started posting again. You can follow at:
➡️ @reece@video.canadiancivil.com
(Don't worry if it looks blank, that just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow and the videos will gradually start showing up on your server too.)
You can also follow Reece's non-video account at @reece@canadiancivil.com
#FeaturedPeerTube #Transport #PublicTransport #Transit #PeerTube
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@silverpill@mitra.social (2026-07-18 01:50:42)
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
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@aaa (2026-07-18 01:45:29)
TinyAP v0.1.11, including vulnerability fixes thanks to @lain@lain.com
https://github.com/izkluxcvy/tinyap/releases/tag/v0.1.11
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social (2026-07-18 00:52:30)
📬 Trunk & Tidbits for June 2026 is now live!
Our monthly blog post series is there to showcase what we worked on last month.
In this edition, we are also discussing our official Helm Chart for Mastodon, for those of you who deploy Mastodon on Kubernetes. We released a brand new version of the chart in a new place, deprecating the existing one.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/07/trunk-tidbits-june-2026/
#mastodev #mastoadmin #TrunkAndTidbits
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@cheeaun@mastodon.social (2026-07-17 20:48:53)
RE: https://mastodon.demo2.jp/@d/116737206065643385
👀 new 3rd-party Mastodon/fediverse client
🤔 can't find the English translation. Even the browser's built-in translator is failing maybe due to its usage of Flutter.
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online (2026-07-17 21:01:39)
Hey fediverse, happy Friday, and happy #WorldEmojiDay!
Resharing, again :
Find top emoji from your fediverse posts:
https://data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fediverse-emoji
A look at custom emoji across the fediverse:
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/custom-fediverse-emoji/
#emoji #EmojiDay
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fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-07-16 13:37:00)
Preparing a new Loops release, possibly related to my upcoming FediCon talk!
I can't stop smiling. 😁
#Loops #FediCon #ActivityPub #W3C
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@linos@graz.social (2026-07-17 23:10:20)
There now is a poll plugin for #WordPress that has full #Fediverse support.
Since a few minutes it is finally officially available on WordPress.org.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/polls-for-activitypub/
Thanks to @nlnet and @NGIZero for support the initial development of this piece of software. And thanks to @pfefferle for his ongoing work on the WordPress ActivityPub plugin @activitypub.blog !
I am happy to receive reviews and am ready to fix stuff in case issues should arise!
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl (2026-07-17 08:55:59)
i need help reproducing bugs in nicolium related to saving settings because i haven’t encountered one for a long time but apparently they're stilla thing
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk (2026-07-17 07:05:10)
I should also say, there's a whole load of this work being done as groundwork to be able to offer a solid UK sovereign managed hosting platform which eventually I want to then move the two Mastodon instances, the GTS instance to and then be able to start expanding into having a PeerTube and other fedi sites up and running. I'm keen that we have all the good stuff like S3 and DNS working properly and in a good state and we've proven we can migrate the existing instances over though and a lot of that starts with things like these IPv6 VPS's being supported, eventually IPv4 VPS's being supported and proving out that more of the complex foundational infrastructure is going to do what I need / want it to do!
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online (2026-07-17 05:29:52)
Huh, interesting. Bluesky the company trademarked the name of "AT Protocol" as "primarily a defensive measure" against abuse.
Going forward, "most everyday use cases [won't] require a license".
https://atproto.com/blog/at-protocol-trademark
#news #technology #ATProto #bluesky #trademark
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de (2026-07-17 04:12:35)
We have deployed Forgejo v16, read more about the new features that come with this release in their news article: https://forgejo.org/2026-07-release-v16-0/
Report any new bugs or regressions to https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@codebergstatus@social.anoxinon.de (2026-07-17 04:04:21)
We're starting with the upgrade.
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu (2026-07-16 23:52:52)
@Patrick Leavy A whole lot. Sorry, but this will be very very very long again.
I don't know if you've read my previous (very long) commentary. But just implementing one or two FEPs won't get you the same full-blown nomadic identity (https://joinfediverse.wiki/Nomadic_identity) that Hubzilla (what I'm writing from right now; https://hubzilla.org; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubzilla; https://joinfediverse.wiki/Hubzilla) has had since 2012. And having this level of nomadic identity has to be the goal.
What has to be done is:
Take something like Mastodon.
Non-nomadic.
Where your account, your login, equals your identity.
Make your identity cloneable
Now, before you can make identities nomadic, you have to uncouple them from the login, from the account.
Mastodon has to introduce a sort of container for your identity, like the channels that Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte have always had (https://joinfediverse.wiki/Channels_(Hubzilla_&_(streams))). This is necessary so that a future nomadic Mastodon will know what to clone and what not to clone. For example, cloning your password is dangerous nonsense.
So, everything that makes up your account except for your login credentials will have to be moved into this container.
your short nameyour long nameyour profile images, including alt-textsyour profileyour followersyour followedyour toots, including stats like faves, boosts etc.copies of the conversation trees of all your toots, including stats like faves, boosts etc. as well as attached files for each messageall files you've ever attached to tootsyour settingsyour filtersyour mutesyour blocksyour server blocksetc.Essentially, everything except for your login credentials will have to be moved from directly residing on your account into that box.
Change your login
Also, your login will have to change from short name + passphrase to e-mail + passphrase. Your short name is part of your identity, it's in the container, it will be cloned, so it can't be used to log you
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk (2026-07-16 19:33:47)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116929144390213579
For folks on #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon - I'd love your input on if you'd like me to enable this functionality.
Our costs per e-mail is pretty small so I'm not super concerned currently about the cost of enabling this.
fedicat@fedicat@pc.cafe boosted:
@peertube@framapiaf.org (2026-07-16 20:45:53)
⚠️ Just a quick reminder that version 8.2.2 of #PeerTube has been released two weeks ago. This version fixes a critical security vulnerability, among other things.
Please update your platform as soon as possible.
Vulnerabilities details now available: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v8.2.2
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