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Loops Studio is built for creators, allowing you to upload new content, review and manage your posts, comments and interactions as well as view analytics!

It just one aspect of the platform that will soon launch with federation support and easy self-hosting.

Follow @loops for updates, or join loops.video to be one of the first to experience this 🚀

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@housepanther @ai6yr

It seems online to me, but I would block both domain names:

arell.ai and areal.ai

The spelling is off by 1 letter. I cannot say if they're associated, but it is something I have seen corporations do before.

Here is the current IP and record of both domains:

arell.ai

search.censys.io/search?resour

areal.ai

search.censys.io/search?resour

Socialhome v0.22.0 released, with a completely new UI!

This is a massive milestone for the #Socialhome project, one that could not have been possible without the hard work of @alain@jase.social. If you have followed the Socialhome project, you'll know that Alain has been responsible for most of the development of project in the recent years. This includes rewriting the #federation library to ensure #ActivityPub support is first class. More recently Alain has taken the challenge of rewriting the frontend, which has fallen into a rather poor state over the years.

The new UI work is actually a coordination of two people working many years apart. Way back years ago @lightone@mastodon.xyz made some UI designs for a new Socialhome UI (thank you! <3). While the designs were not implemented for years, they were not forgotten. In 2023 Alain jumped to the challenge and started the full UI rewrite of the Socialhome frontend. This UI has now matured into a state that it is good for daily usage - which is the main focus of this release!

Currently, a Socialhome installation will still default to the old UI. If you do want to try out the new UI for example on socialhome.network, go to the account settings and toggle the "New UI" flag. Going back is also easy, should the new UI cause unforeseen issues (please do report!).

If you are a server admin, see the new UI installation instructions for how to add the new UI to your instance.

This is not all! The releases of v0.21.0 and v0.22.0 also contain a bunch of other changes and fixes. Most notably;

  • ActivityPub profiles are now richer, including bio and a larger picture, in addition to an avatar.
  • Many new API's to support the new UI, including session authentication, search, media upload, content fetching over uuid, profile organize and profile settings.
  • Whoosh has been replaced with Xapian as a search index backend.

See the full changelogs. Additionally, the federation library has received a ton of changes and fixes which can be found here.

Also, last but not least, we moved from GitLab to Codeberg. Check out the new repositories.

Installing and updating

We recommend using the Docker images (amd64/arm64).

Notes on how to use the Docker images can be found in the docs.

What is Socialhome?

Socialhome is best described as a federated personal profile with social networking functionality. Users can create rich content using Markdown. All content can be pinned to the user profile and all content will federate to contacts in the federated social web. Federation happens using the ActivityPub and Diaspora protocols.

Please check the official site for more information about features. Naturally, the official site is a Socialhome profile itself.

Try Socialhome?

If you want to try Socialhome first before trying to install it, register at https://socialhome.network and then ping us with a comment on the user name chosen to get the account approved. You can also request account approval in the chat room. This unfortunately approval step is due to spammers.

Contribute

Do you want to work on a Django and VueJS powered social network server? Join in the fun! We have easy to follow development environment setup documentation and a friendly chat room for questions.

!! VERY EARLY PREVIEW !!

KFediViewer (Preliminary name): An application for KDE Plasma, to view the personal data export of a Mastodon profile in a timeline-like manner.

Usefor if someone has exported the personal data as a .zip file from a Mastodon instance and want to view it locally.

Will be published sometimes 2025 on Codeberg under a free (FOSS) license 🙂

As we're getting more into hikes around our new home – and I record tracks of them to also improve #openstreetmap – I've made a #wanderer profile at @gedankenstuecke@trails.tchncs.de to share some nice trails.

It's an open source trail/track sharing platform that's federated thanks to #ActivityPub, so if you can read this post, you can follow my profile there too!*

* that is except you read this through the bridge to BlueSky, then you're out of luck and should give the actual Fediverse another try 😉

Loops is built for the people, but we haven't forgot the admins.

We've added some pretty innovative features, like Pages that allow you to add/edit/publish rich pages and optionally add them to the main sidebar nav or footer and limit visibility to guests, users or both.

I appreciate your patience while we prepare Loops for you, and you'll soon see, it was worth the wait 🚀

The #fediverse-we-have is predominantly #AppCentric, and that rigid perspective is limiting the promise and potential of the #ActivityPub #SocialWeb protocol.

What would it mean to offer #services on the fediverse, that people can discover, obtain and compose into solutions that satisfy their #social networking needs?

By focusing more on the #ServiceOriented message exchange #architecture, the future fediverse can be one of versatile and interoperable Apps & Services.

More #Geosocial coming..

delightful.coding.social/delig

@bonfire request feedback on #UX designs for #Bonfire Geosocial.

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/

The designs may also be inspiring to other devs working on #Geo functionality for the #fediverse and there's opportunity to align approaches for max #interoperability.

People are highly encouraged to start related more general discussion topics on improving protocol support for geosocial-enabled #ActivityPub platforms in the federated forum categories.

delightful.coding.socialdelightful fediverse experienceDelightful curated lists of free software, open science and information sources.

After implementing partial support for Mastodon's FEP-044f quote post authorization in #Smithereen, I realized that this flow with sending a "*Request" activity and receiving a corresponding Accept{*Request} is nothing but an RPC mechanism.

So now Smithereen also uses TopicCreationRequest and TopicRenameRequest for discussion boards in groups, which are almost finished, btw.

You can export all your Data from Mastodon in the settings "Export" function (it's *your* data after all). I was genuinely surprised, that my archive is already 597 MB and that I have have 3235 posts here already :)

I'm currently working on a desktop app, to display the contents of a Mastodon export (KDE-Frameworks based) to have a neat little viewer for it. Not sure ojn the name (yet)

I'll soon enable auto-delete for my data, so it's removed after 90 days.

#servicetweet #mastodon #fediverse #activitypub @tux #kde