The fediverse belongs to everyone, you cannot "steal" users from a fellow fedi project, as that whole concept of owning users belongs to the corporate silos we aim to replace.

People will pick the platform they like. Period.

#fediverse#peoplePoweredPlatforms

Today in the #powRSS feed:

Filmmaker and activist Elena Rossini @_elena shares all versions of the Fedi promo video that is helping introduce the fediverse to a wider audience.

A reminder that the beauty and strength of the #Indieweb and the #fediverse comes from its community.

https://news.elenarossini.com/a-video-celebrating-the-fediverse-available-in-english-francais-italiano/

New instance, new #introduction !

Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

And many thanks to @sebinthestars for running our former instance!

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

https://fyr.io/scrap/2025-06-27

We're heavy on the fedi...verse this week, with congratulations to @xandra for hitting v1 on Riverton, a bunch of fediverse merch curated by @box464, @readbeanicecream shares an *amazing* quote, and a whole bunch more.

Ghost’s @johnonolan and WordPress’s @pfefferle want to help blogs and long content thrive on the open social web. Meet “the longformers,” who chatted to @mike for the latest edition of Dot Social.

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/john-onolan-and-matthias-pfefferle/

#DotSocial#Ghost#WordPress#Fediverse#FederatedMedia#ActivityPub#Federation

Week in Fediverse 2025-06-27

Servers

- PieFed v1.0.0
- Manyfold v0.115.0
- Mitra v4.5.1
- tootik v0.17.0
- Gancio v1.27.0
- Gush! v0.0.20
- Vernissage Server v1.17.0
- wanderer: A decentralized, self-hosted trail database

Clients

- Smither v3.6
- Thunder v0.7.3
- Blorp v1.8.1
- Aria v1.2.4

Tools and Plugins

- FIRES Server v0.3.0

For developers

- Fedify v1.7.0
- Fedialgo v0.78.0

Protocol

- FEP-b06c: ActivityPoll
- FEP-b2b8: Long-form Text (Final comments)

Articles

- Verified Media Accounts in the Fediverse
- The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins Part 2: The Road To Redemption
- Mitigating the "7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins"
- Friendica: the Swiss Army knife of the Fediverse
- Fediverse Report – #122

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01978f30-5295-cb5b-38cc-a151f08fd9f1

Many people are waiting for a competent TikTok alternative. One that is free from corporate control, privacy concerns, blatant censorship or excessive ads.

This is where Loops comes in. Version 1.0 is coming soon. It’s federated & self-hostable.

I plan on making a video about it once v1.0 drops. Thanks to @dansup for his excellent work!

#Loops #selfhosting #fediverse

There was an interesting follow up discussion happening around account portability and identity this week: https://j12t.social/@j12t/114705580486516177 . There's some super interesting links on that thread too for you to read more.

If you have thoughts or ideas, go continue the discussion this #FediForumFriday

#FediForum#Fediverse
https://j12t.social/@j12t/114705580486516177

In exciting #FediForumFriday news that technically was last Friday but it was so close to the wire I'm sharing anyway, @fediforum got their keynotes and demos uploaded along with the notes from June's #FediForum so you can go and check out all the amazing things that happened there for free: https://fediforum.org/2025-06/ .

#Fediverse
https://fediforum.org/2025-06/

I also had a wonderful social check-in with @tommi who among other things is a fellow member of the advisory panel for #fediforum - great so talk about shared values and inspirations #FediforumFriday#Fediverse

On #FediforumFriday we share interesting news, projects, and fedi things of note.

This week I was in Brussels for a panel about empowering digital democracy for citizens where I spoke about the #Fediverse - which connects up to two of the sessions we had at the last Fediforum, around civic institutions and the fediverse (particularly in Europe).

Tell us about a fedi-related project you checked in on this week!