is anyone working on updating Hometown to Mastodon 4.6?
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/

It is an honour to have been interviewed on behalf of the @drfed team for @APC's Building a Free Internet of the Future series.

https://www.apc.org/en/news/drfed-reducing-complexity-and-enabling-more-people-shape-fediverse

@thefulcrum add you to what?

From the website of the company that’s destroying books to feed them into the ravenous AI maw.

“A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information. Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an AI model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated. The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one.” https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/ai-labs-buy-scan-shred-millions-of-rare-books/news-story/0c3b45a67093ab462a587a0348538ce9

@max_power it was perfectly berlin

@froos thank you for sharing this rundown. I didn't know anything about error camp but was following many people who kept mentioning it. Now it's on my radar for next year it sounds like the sort of event I would love

I look out the window while drinking my first coffee of the day and there's someone walking their pitbull in the rain wearing only white boxers and flipflops

Vintage Max patches revived: free downloads, gallery and examples, and a conversation between @Leafcutterjohn and Suren Seneviratne aka My Panda Shall Fly.

Wonderful to see this media archaeology project, expanding on the vast treasure trove that is Suren's Missing Music.

https://cdm.link/vintage-max-patches-revived/

Spanish Enclaves in Northern Africa

Trump seeks to extradite Palestine solidarity funder James "Fergie" Chambers from Spain on "material support for terrorism" charges. Lawmakers and rights groups call it political persecution amid a broader crackdown on the U.S. left.

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/trump-seeks-the-extradition-of-pro-palestine-activist-and-donor-james-fergie-chambers-amid-a-widening-crackdown-on-the-u-s-left/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza

@oggydyer beautiful

Our talk with @tbernard and @adz from Local First Conf 2026 in Berlin is online now!

📺 Watch it here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uKCwvo7pgXg

#localfirstconf #localfirst

@mikael oh are you doing an html day? We are doing one here in Berlin at @offline

Private groups

Lately, I've been seeing various people claiming that fediverse doesn't have private groups. They often point to some task force at w3c that is supposedly working to fill the gap.

However, fediverse has had private groups for a very long time:

- Hubzilla channels. This project probably had private groups before ActivityPub. The implementation was later adapted for ActivityPub and refined in subsequent forks, Streams and Forte. It is now partially documented in FEP-171b: Conversation Containers.
- Smithereen groups. This implementation is documented in FEP-400e: Publicly-appendable ActivityPub collections (published in 2021) and FEP-db0e: Authentication mechanism for non-public groups.
- Lemmy communities. Private groups were proposed in Lemmy RFC 0005 and have been implemented in the development version. There is a test instance running this version (Lemmy v1.0b) at https://voyager.lemmy.ml/

There are probably other implementations that I am not aware of.

#Hubzilla #Smithereen #Lemmy

@benbrown I used to go to their meetups at a cute indie bookshop in Soho and got to hang out with david a few times and got to commiserate over being homeschooled kids together

@sozialwelten :ouroboros:

@benbrown old school pre sell out tumblr swag given to me by david karp

@fell the tools that @neauoire and @rek make are pretty lovely for this sort of thing, Noodle is the drawing app (https://100r.co/site/noodle.html) and I forget the name of the presentation one they were making

@djoerd @murena this is in the default keyboard in E OS?