@untrusem will be giving a talk on his contribtions to @prav at #LucknowFOSS
"In this Lighting talk, I will share my little journey on contributing to #Prav, which is a free software. This talk will mostly be centered toward students. I will tell how I contributed to the project as a Non-Cs Student and How can they too regardless of their Background.
This Talk will also inform attendees about #XMPP and #federation."
The fact that some hosting services don't support #ActivityPub for federating a #WordPress (.org) blog is a bit of a disappointment for those of us who believe #federation is a solution to the problem of centralized networks. Web hosting services should be independent of the project they host. At least, that's what I thought it should be until now.
Article in Spanish:
https://acambronero.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/la-federacion-no-funciona-en-todos-los-servidores/
The XMPP Software Foundation has published an open letter to Meta, asking them to support true messaging interoperability using the XMPP protocol.
Meta had previously integrated this protocol, and WhatsApp is actually built on XMPP for its message routing system.
We support this initiative as it represents the best approach for genuine interoperability. Federation is the way to go !
Learn more by reading the open letter: https://xmpp.org/announcements/open-letter-meta-dma/
Anybody know of a good alternative to #matrix for #e2ee #decentralized chat?
Consieering #xmpp again. Have tried #jami
#matrix is pretty good but maintaining it is more hassle than I'd like, and my local users don't really benefit from the #federation aspect much.
Just shopping I guess
@gvwilson I would go a step beyond #federation and suggest that the solution for hosting the world’s #OpenSource should be a #peerToPeer one.
#p2p means even individuals can “seed” content they want to maintain on the network, so when institutions get shut down, individuals - in their numbers - can take action.
But then again, I work on @radicle , so I’m clearly biased! ;)
Spring has reached the open social web 
With a wave of momentum and publicity hitting the open social web, now is the time for us to really put our eggs in one basket (pun intended) and get serious about working together to grow better social media.
See my thoughts on my latest blog post here: https://forbetter.ghost.io/spring-on-the-social-web/
Thanks to the brains at Ghost, you can now follow my blog directly from the Fediverse 
@index
In My Opinion Bluesky Will Never Federate And That’s Concerning
What are we doing here folks? We all flocked to Bluesky because it resembled what we used love — Twitter from the 2010s, but with the hope that it would in the end be different.
The Bluesky team has promised to federate/decentralize for a while now, with nothing coming of it. Only empty promises (so far).
So many people have flocked to Bluesky because it’s familiar, but they don’t realize that it’s still centralized and can be taken advantage of like the other centralized platforms.
People constantly are telling me that Mastodon and the Fediverse is too hard to wrap their heads around, yet they all use email. It’s really not any different.
Admittedly I’m on Bluesky and participate from time to time. But what concerns me is that people will get so tied into it that they won’t leave if it goes south and we’ll be back to where we are with Twitter/X.
That being said, it doesn’t have to be this way. It can move beyond the centralized server. Hopefully people like Mark Cuban and other influential users will help push it in that direction.
What do you think?
The #Fediverse is growing and we're welcoming more and more new single user instances but #federation can become challenging.
With #Relay instances, single user and smaller instances can quickly become federated and grow which is supported by many Fediverse applications like #snac #snac2 #Mastodon #Pleroma etc.
More information at:
https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com
"That’s the fun part about the fediverse — it’s a lot of old ideas about the web being open and interoperable, but there’s still a lot of new things yet to be invented on top of that foundation. At this point I’m not sure any social platform that launches without an eye towards federation stands a chance, really."
#NilayPatel, April 2024
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/22/24137296/ghost-newsletter-activitypub-fediverse-support
Hearing Felix mention that Mastodon doesn't have an AI slop issue on the EFF chat, but only a few hours ago I had to suspend federation to an AI slop instance... 
Mastodon without @iftas is already struggling!
#putin said that he needed to get rid of the underlying reason to the #UkraineWar before he could consider a #ceasefire in #Ukraine
#Zelensky commented that he would look forward for putin's abdication as the #dictator of #nazi #russian #federation and hoped the #election of the next #president would be a democratic and fair election.
