Michael Foster

Fediverse Report 138 - this week's #fediverse news

- a closer look at the Tumblr-like platform Wafrn, which connects to both #activitypub and #atproto. Their latest update allows people to migrate their #bluesky account to wafrn, joining the fediverse while staying connected to their bluesky […]

Last week I was delighted to give a keynote talk to open #FediForum, the conference about building the open social web. It's about the real threats we're facing, why open alternatives matter so much right now - and the questions we can ask ourselves to make our work really matter […]

How about a simple, but radical plan?

1️⃣ Unite movements harmed by the press

2️⃣ Collaborate with independent media & regulators

3️⃣ Coordinate resistance — together, globally

It’s happening on Media Liberation Day - 5th November.

26 days to go. #MediaRevolution

On social media and on the streets, a lot will be happening on Wednesday, November 5 - Media Liberation Day.

Join our final open call.

You can find out more, including how to prepare with placards, “cover stories,” and local actions.

📆 Monday 20th Oct
⏰ 19:00 - 20:00 BST

Just under 1 week till #nokings protest. Here’s the plan:
1. Share / boost this post to grow account - help us grow to largest social reach by 18th ✅ 2. Amp and boost all Nokings posts leading up to 18th. We will, too. ✅ 3. On protest day take pics and share […]

[Original post on channel.org]

Renewed Resistance (@renewedresistance@channel.org) Attached: 1 image Just under 1 week till #nokings protest. Here’s the plan: 1. Share / boost this post to grow account - help us grow to largest social reach by 18th ✅ 2. Amp and boost all Nokings posts leading up to 18th. We will, too. ✅ 3. On protest day take pics and share posts from you local protest w/ #nokings tag… join us in boosting every single one! Lets go build community show up in numbers never seen before, and organize the open social web to fight for democracy!

This is so important and organizing on the open social web may be the most vital, free, and billionaire-proof places left to do digital organizing. #nokings
https://channel.org/@renewedresistance/115361577846291040

An image of a man (Freddie) in a yellow shirt presenting in front of giant screen. On the screen it reads "The Bristol Cable App" with four screenshots from The Bristol Cable app.

Yesterday, we attended The Bristol Cable’s AGM to announce our exciting new partnership and demo our Cable news app 👀

We’re helping the Cable understand the importance of digital community by building them a social app 📲

The Bristol Cable is a co-op, 100% […]

[Original post on newsmast.social]

Map of APAC Fediverse services

@tchambers @phillycodehound @j12t @reiver @andypiper would you consider APAC in general?

@tchambers 💯

Fediforum by Tim Chambers on Surf Surf - Top #fediforum leaders, organizers, featured speakers and developers spotlighted at each all Fediforum events. Including both ATProto and ActivityPub voices there.

As #fediforum starts tomorrow, this is a good time to note the updated @surf is live here: https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jvprse7ptd6b9gccy3m9g547 #Surffeeds

import status dashboard in bonfire, showing details of a migration from another instance

export view in bonfire, it shows the full list of data a user can export from their bonfire instance

🔥 More Anti-enshittification features now live in Bonfire

✨ Complete data portability: Export/import now supports circles/lists, bookmarks, likes, and boosts alongside follows, blocks, and posts.

✨ Transparency by design: A dedicated real-time dashboard to […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]

@josemurilo @newsmast Brilliant! Let’s talk!

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

@RonSupportsYou Glad to see this successfully boosted now - the team found the bug.

@fedihost @qlub Félicitations!

Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your […]

FediForum is coming up. It's an unconference, so the agenda is set by the attendees, but we do know that it will be unmissable, featuring a keynote from @ben and sessions from people like @quillmatiq, @j12t, @johannab and more. Here's the schedule, plus some of what's on the cards […]

I'm curious what the W3C means by "re-engage" and "new audiences" here: "We have refreshed our logo to reflect the new type of organization we have become — an organization that wants to re-engage with our community, and reach new audiences."

I *hope* they mean engage on truly open, web-loving […]

With my FediForum attendee hat on, rather than the organizer hat on, here are some things I want to discuss with you all:

Upcoming legal requirements for social media interop (utah, other us states, eu dma revision etc) – how does this impact our community?

From millions to billions – what is […]

@RonSupportsYou @tchambers hi there, Newsmast looks after this boost channel. It’s out of action, we will reboot it and get it going. The tech team are in Asia so they’ll look at it first thing tomorrow their time. We’re sorry about this - will get it fixed.

@renewedresistance

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/pete-hegseth-generals-speech-veterans-react

"Where the social connection for a Facebook Group is the Meta walled garden, our community apps connect through to the open social web, on the Fediverse, and, across the bridge, Bluesky."

@michael on the Newsmast Foundation and everything we're up to at the moment […]

Things are coming together at @newsmast. Here’s the big idea we’re working on:

What if every community could have their own early-Twitter, driven by an own-branded mobile app, as easy to build as Facebook Groups?

#Fediverse #SocialMedia #Community […]

We're sad to see that IFTAS Connect has begun the process of shutting down.

We, like many other server admins, often found advice and help from the community there.

We hope that by preserving the 'Connect' news feed with Channel.org tech we can give back to the community.

Thank you for the […]

How many non-fiction female authors have you listened to? I was in the queue for the excellent Taiga ride at Linnanmäki while at the Mydata conference. While in the long queue, as there was no single rider queue (but I did get called a head a couple of time as single rider). I heard a podcast called the deep dive on the subject of the male crisis. Something I have been interested in for ages and fits within some work I’d like to do more of under cubicgarden.ltd. There is a lot of great things in the conversation but this got me really thinking (about 36:50, I couldn’t get the link to timestamp working). Sorya Chemaly uses a personal experience of talking with 2 men with teenage children at a party who also have a book club book group. They find out she is a writer/author, then ask her if she likes writing non-fiction? Soraya mentions she likes writing it but is frustrated because men generally only read non-fiction by men not women. So as a woman, she loses half the audience straight away. The men have a discussion between themselves in the open asking if they ever had a female written book in their book club. Turns out no they had not ever, and start to openly wonder why. Soraya, puts it clear what the problem in the podcast. This got me thinking how many non-fiction books have I read which are written by a woman? As I read a lot of non-fiction, I looked though my bookwrym to see. So far in 2025 I have read 20 books. The ones which are written by a female are. Unprocssed, Supremacy, Empire of AI, Careless people, Data a love story, Mood Machine, Refusing compulsory sexuality and Limitarianism. 8/20 is better than I thought it would be, I am currently reading a few book including Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown for example, which is very thoughtful. In 2024 I read 24 books and the ones which were written by a female were the Shock doctorine, Extremely online, Doppelganger, Extremely hardcore, Radical intimacy, Lets talk about loneliness, The tech coup, Automating Inequality and Together. 9/24, less good but happy I am improving in 2025. For companion, 2023 was pretty bad with only 3 women, Silicon Values, The big con and The will to change. However the discussion doesn’t stop there, because how many of the women I read are women of colour? From a brief look. Karen Hao, and Sherronda J.Brown from this year and Simone Heng and Sophie K. Rosa from 2024. Although Bell Hooks from 2023 which is a important writer on this exact subject. Soraya makes the important point that if you are not aware of this all, nothing will change. My eyes are wide open now. Thanks!

How many non-fiction female authors have you listened to?

Asks the deep dive while looking beyond the male crisis.

https://cubicgarden.com/2025/09/28/how-many-non-fiction-female-authors-have-you-listened-to/

The Colosseum in Rome is shown at sunset, with tall stone columns in the foreground and a clear blue sky above.

#SilentSunday #Photography #Rome

Tomorrow is #WorldNewsDay.

World News Day is a global initiative to draw public attention to the role that journalists play in providing trustworthy information that serves citizens and democracy.

World News Day takes place annually on September 28.

🌐 worldnewsday.org