The following is a copypaste from a Mastodon post by @frida@camp.smolnet.org that I've linked above.

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. This is our cue to provide feedback and input to the strategy!

If you are involved in the Open Source community in any way, if you benefit (or could benefit) in any way from Open Source, or if you're simply interested in questions about digital sovereignty, please visit https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en for details on how to contribute.

For example, for me, here are some things I wish to see (or would implement in my design) :

• design around ease of self-hosting. A non technical user must be able to self host easily and at a very low cost.
• Embrace content sorting and filtering algorithms, but on the client side, with optional control by the user.
• Standardize tags on all content. So many of the different ways different platforms classify or organize content can be implemented as tags, which increases interoperability between them.
• Abandon obsession with real-time-first implementations for use cases that don't explicitly need it.
• Transferable user identity (between instances)
• User identity and authentication as separate service from social network instance

Would love to hear yours!

Account is less than 24 hrs old.

Is posting from #Mastodon to a #Lemmy community a good idea or will this just confuse everyone?

Comments on Mastodon tag the users in the thread while comments in Lemmy somehow work without this. Comments on Lemmy are for everyone while replies on Mastodon are only shown to followers of the OP.

@fediverse #Fediverse

What culture workers are in the fediverse, and what are their handles? I want to make a list and a starter pack with authors, filmmakers, musicians, etc! I've only found myself, so far! 😆

Great update: MedMastodon is back online and its users should be able to access their data.

@fediverse

Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.

I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.

Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!

mastodonapp.uk/users/wild1145/…

Unfortunately, the popular MedMastodon server, dedicated to doctors and medicine, unexpectedly shut down at the end of 2025.

@fediverse

The speed with which it happened prevented users from accessing their data, highlighting the risks of decentralized social media without backups. Its administrator ceased operations, causing confusion and data loss for many healthcare professionals who had signed up as an alternative to Twitter.

This event serves as a reminder: Wherever you are on Mastodon, back up your data!

WARNING: To help Med-mastodon users who have returned to the Fediverse, the Poliverso staff has created the Friendica group @medmastodon

If you follow this group, you can:

1. Follow it and mention it in your messages, and it will reshare all your public posts addressed to it (this only applies to an initial message, not a reply to another message).
2. Follow it only to read all the messages from fellow doctors who send messages through it.

#MedMastodon

I'm looking to move to a new Mastodon instance, away from Mastodon.social. I don't have any problems with .social, but I kinda want to keep things decentralized in the Fediverse, and I want to start fresh with a new account regardless.

So, what small-to-medium size Mastodon instances do you recommend? I'm looking for something fairly general-purpose, but also keeps up to date on the latest software fairly quickly (if possible).

Hi! I would like to create an interactive calendar through Lemmy that allows users to post events. Is there a platform that lets me imbed such a thing? Or does anyone have experience using Gancio? Thanks!

If I subscribe 2 or 3 large coms, all the more quiet coms that I want to hear from get wiped out from the first pages of the feed...is there a way to recover them, by having like an upvote (increase weight by +1) subscribe button in an already subscribed com (upsubscribe, lol)...or maybe a multi? What do you use in these cases?

A fantasy world, in which social web, semantic web, agentic web and world wide web all co-exist, with competing factions for each web paradigm (Fedi Tribes - Decentral social networks, Inference Nomads - Semantic Web Technology/Declarative Programming, Fungi Nation - Machine Learning and Marble Kingdom - Incremental Programming/Web Technology).

As stated, a fedi software that conects with bsky too. its opt in and not all instances have it

cross-posted from: https://communick.news/post/5086919

Not a fork and not a 1-1 port. My plan is to leverage my work on Django ActivityPub Toolkit to create a server that can be used by both Lemmy or Mastodon clients.

What's the etiquette for posting #mastodon or other federated posts on some of the other reddit-analogues? From what I see you can just mention a #piefed or #lemmy group in a post and it will create a post in that group.
But is that actually something the users of those platforms want?

@fediverse@lemmy.world @fediverse@kbin.social
#fediverse

Hello all :) I have spent most of today trying to reply to my own comment by making my own AP implementation using node.js.

This is the Note I am trying to reply to: https://social.bvoigtlaender.de/@bjarne/statuses/01KDP1FQNJTTZGB3Q3BMD1JRMX

For that I am sending a POST to my Gts instance over at https://social.bvoigtlaender.de/users/bjarne/inbox with the following body:

{  
    "@context": [  
        "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"  
    ],  
    "actor": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/users/marty_mcfly34",  
    "cc": [  
        "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public",  
        "https://social.bvoigtlaender.de/users/bjarne"  
    ],  
    "id": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/posts/33135fdf-2fd6-4977-94e8-051ce44199fe/activity#Create",  
    "type": "Create",  
    "published": "2025-12-29T22:02:13.423Z",  
    "to": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/users/marty_mcfly34/followers",  
    "object": {  
        "attachment": [],  
        "id": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/posts/33135fdf-2fd6-4977-94e8-051ce44199fe",  
        "actor": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/users/marty_mcfly34",  
        "type": "Note",  
        "cc": [  
            "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public",  
            "https://social.bvoigtlaender.de/users/bjarne"  
        ],  
        "published": "2025-12-29T22:02:13.423Z",  
        "url": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/posts/33135fdf-2fd6-4977-94e8-051ce44199fe",  
        "attributedTo": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/users/marty_mcfly34",  
        "inReplyTo": "https://social.bvoigtlaender.de/users/bjarne/statuses/01KDP1FQNJTTZGB3Q3BMD1JRMX",  
        "content": "<p>Hello from FediBB</p>",  
        "to": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/users/marty_mcfly34/followers"  
    }  
}  

The signature works and GtS is not reporting any errors. Instead it fetches /followers /following /outbox and creates the user on its local db. However the reply will not be created and it only shows up after I fetch it manually using its id. Then it also gets linked the original post correctly. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

What AP implementations do you normally test against?

I started working on a script that will take top post from subreddits to post then to corresponding c/ on lemmy with various accounts to give the impression of minimal activity.

The idea comes from a lemmy user etting saying they would never want to support reddit with lemmy content (or in general), and instead just taking the content from there and putting it on lemmy.

It feels like I'm just kinda sewing lemmy into the human centipede that is content filler. I can see why content does get reposted it's entertaining and engaging and they propagate.

It does feel like a Pandora's jar like I'm laying a foundation for a bot army even though I only plan to be small scale

I guess this is a me trying to figure out how to grow lemmy or fediverse in general. Just getting frustrated and want to do something constructive and put idea out and have idea come in.

In me head I head this line of "will you after engagement grows will you improve a project or will you improve a project to encourage engage" to me the answer settled on keep doing what you can to improve project and kinda hope it increases engagement.

For lemmy it seems as though the technical side is solid it's just building lemmy communities. Right now I'm thinking of building a Florida c/ but it would come off as a hard endeavor because idk what I'd do with it. Would I post random new stories in Florida would it be politics. Plus I've been told that posting links "clutters the Internet" and people would get confused as to where to find original links. Then there's getting people to a Florida c/, do I just go into discords and tell people about a fledging group

I do want geographical based c/ since they are more personal to people and would increase engagement on lemmy but that small steps that need to be worked out.

I do wonder if it would be worth it do sneak content from reddit to relevant c/. I know they do it for NSFW subreddits, but it might be worth it for hyper specific subreddits just to have that content to engage with, but that could be viewed as an IP infringement

So I stumbled upon this by accident and I'm a noob about how Lemmy works, so sorry if it's a well-known thing.

I opened lemmy.ml (dont have an account there) and one of the posts was from their Linux community about Asahi running on an m2 macbook. I then tried to look it up on my phone on Jerboa and to my surprise - couldn't find it. I then went to lemmy.world and from there go to the community and - I couldn't find it there either. I thought maybe it's a synchronization issue and it will show up eventually. But since then, several posts were made and all showed up immediately. Only that post was skipped. What's going on?

Here's the post in question: https://lemmy.ml/post/40800257

I read an old thread documenting the opinions of Lemmy maintainers an the .ml instance. The issue of funding a project with people openly expressing opinions many find distasteful and it being the biggest reddit alternative on the fediverse came up, so here's a topic to discuss it.

What should we do? What are the options?

Answer: No fork necessary, there are Piefed and Mbin.

I tried signing up for a pixelfed account. I picked pixelfed.global. the last step of registering is they send you an email. You click the confirm, and your account becomes active.

Except I never got the email. I thought "Maybe I typed the wrong email?"

But no. My email and username was free to register the first time, but now it says that email and username aren't available.

So I'm registered, but can't log in because that username doesn't exist. I can't register that name, because it's now taken.

So I'm in limbo of registration process....but now I can't even figure out how to email the admins.

What do I do now?