Week in Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2026-02-20

Servers

- snac v2.90
- @Castopod@podlibre.social
- Ktistec v3.3.0
- tootik v0.21.1
- Badgefed v0.1.1
- Gush! v0.0.30
- Wanderer v0.18.5
- PieFed v1.6.6
- Our technical direction (Mastodon)

Clients

- Sengi v1.8.0
- tooi v0.21.2
- Summit v1.77.0
- Aria v1.4.3
- Pixelix v4.3.2

Tools and Plugins

- feed2fedi v3.5.0
- PeerTube Browser: A video discovery project for the federated PeerTube network

Protocol

- FEP-34c1: Collection Filtering using TREE Hypermedia Vocabulary

Articles

- Where Does Community Live?
- Why MAEPs? What should they look like?
- how to not regret c2s
- Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy
- FR#154 – Search and Community

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Week in Fediverse 2026-02-13

Servers

- @stegodon@stegodon.social
- Hollo v0.7.2
- Manyfold v0.132.1
- Mbin v1.9.1
- tootik v0.21.0
- Mitra v4.18.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.9.1
- flohmarkt v0.14.4
- PieFed v1.6.4
- Trunk & Tidbits, January 2026 (Mastodon)
- OpenSimulator ActivityPub Bridge

Clients

- Fedilab v3.36.1
- toot v0.51.1
- tooi v0.21.0
- Jerboa v0.0.85
- Interstellar v0.11.2
- Pixelix v4.3.0
- Fedi Reader: A link-focused Mastodon news reader for iOS and macOS

Tools and Plugins

- ap-thread-reader: ActivityPub-compatible Thread Reader (not only for Mastodon)

For developers

- Progress Report - February 2026 (GoActivityPub)

Articles

- On fediverse content warnings and filters
- Trusting Trust in the Fediverse
- Adding Fediverse Comments to a Pelican Blog

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Week in Fediverse 2026-02-06

Servers

- Gush v0.0.29
- PieFed v1.6.0
- Bookwyrm v0.8.4
- Mastodon v4.5.6
- Mitra v4.17.0
- @stegodon@stegodon.social
- Hollo v0.7.1
- Wafrn v2026.02.01
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.9.0
- Castopod v1.14.1
- Ktistec v3.2.9
- Wanderer v0.18.4
- Forgejo monthly report - January 2026
- Fedisky: ActivityPub extension for Bluesky PDS

Clients

- @Tusky@mastodon.social
- Fedilab v3.36.0
- Mangane 1.19.3
- Aria v1.4.2
- @cheeaun@mastodon.social
- Coho: A fast, offline-first Mastodon client

Tools and Plugins

- Fedimap: An independent map for the Fediverse

Articles

- The best Mastodon client now has an iOS version!
- PkgFed: ActivityPub for Package Releases
- Statistics for Lemmy Instances and Communities

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Week in Fediverse 2026-01-30

Servers

- Betula v1.6.0
- @stegodon@stegodon.social
- flohmarkt v0.14.3
- Friendica v2026.01
- @peertube@framapiaf.org
- @manyfold@3dp.chat
- Hubzilla v11.0
- Ktistec v3.2.8
- Castopod v1.14.0
- NodeBB v4.8.1
- shops v0.2.1
- PieFed v1.5.4
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.9

Clients

- @pachli@mastodon.social
- tooi v0.20.0
- PeerTube-GTK: Native desktop PeerTube client

Tools and Plugins

- Poduptime v6.2.0
- FediBoost: Automatically boost WordPress posts on connected Mastodon accounts

For developers

- APx v0.21.0

Articles

- A Crowdsourced Photo Gallery from the Fediverse – the Open Social Web in action
- Community, Fedi-style

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Week in Fediverse 2026-01-23

Servers

- @stegodon@stegodon.social
- Wafrn v2026.01.04
- Gush v0.0.28
- Bonfire v1.0.1
- @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social
- BadgeFed v0.0.2
- snac v2.89
- @gotosocial@gts.superseriousbusiness.org
- Vernissage Server v1.29.0
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.8
- PieFed v1.5.3

Clients

- Kimis v1.22.184
- Aria v1.4.1
- Blorp v1.10.2
- Loops Mobile App v1.0.1.21

Tools and Plugins

- ActivityPub Web Application Firewall

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Week in Fediverse 2026-01-16

Servers

- Mobilizon v5.2.2
- Owncast v0.2.4
- Epicyon v1.7.0
- Wafrn v2026.01.03
- PieFed v1.5.0
- snac v2.88
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.8.3
- Sharkey v2025.4.5
- NodeBB v4.8.0
- NeoDB v0.12.8
- Trunk & Tidbits, December 2025 (Mastodon)
- WordPress Federation: Recap of 2025

Clients

- PleromaFE v2.10.1
- Mastodon for iOS v2026.1
- TangerineUI for Mastodon v2.5.3
- Aria v1.4.0
- Voyager v2.43.2

Tools and Plugins

- Fediway: Recommendation engine for Mastodon

Protocol

- FEP-f15d: Context Relocation and Removal
- FEP-ee3a: Exif metadata support

Articles

- The Forkiverse Experiment and Why Instance Choice Matters
- List of RSS feeds distributed by each software on Fediverse
- Fediverse Report – #149 – On Protocol Governance
- Mastodon for ActivityPub development

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Week in Fediverse 2026-01-09

Servers

- Wafrn v2026.01.02
- snac v2.86
- Ktistec v3.2.7
- Mitra v4.16.1
- Mastodon v4.5.4
- Bookwyrm v0.8.3
- PieFed v1.4.5
- shops v0.2.0
- Cross-posting is coming to NodeBB!
- Lemmy Development Update December 2025

Clients

- IceCubesApp v2.12.2
- tooi v0.17.0
- Thunder v0.8.4
- NeoDB You v1.0.6
- @cheeaun@mastodon.social

Tools and Plugins

- Poduptime v6.1.0

Articles

- Mandy: ActivityPub on Goblins

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Week in Fediverse 2026-01-02

Servers

- @vernissage@mastodon.social
- Ktistec v3.2.6
- Pleroma v2.10.0
- Wafrn v2026.01.01
- NeoDB v0.12.7
- PieFed v1.4.1
- shops v0.1.9
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.7
- Mitra v4.16.0
- Agora: A distributed knowledge graph
- December 2025: hooo boy! (Bandwagon)

Clients

- @pachli@mastodon.social
- IceCubesApp v2.1.1
- Loops Mobile App v1.0.1.19
- Voyager v2.43.1
- P2Play v0.10.0
- tooi: A text-based user interface for Mastodon, Pleroma and friends

Tools and Plugins

- Mastodon to Bluesky v1.5.0
- Altbot v2.5

For developers

- funfedi.dev schemas v0.1.0
- apsig v0.6.0
- apkit v0.3.7

Articles

- A case for organisations running their own ActivityPub servers
- Fediverse predictions

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Week in Fediverse 2025-12-26

Servers

- @hollo@hollo.social
- Iceshrimp.NET v2025.1-beta5.patch3.security4
- Mitra v4.15.0
- Manyfold v0.130.2
- stegodon v1.3.0
- PieFed v1.4.0
- Lemmy v0.19.15
- Ktistec v3.2.5
- Misskey v2025.12.2
- Castopod v1.13.8
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.8.2
- NeoDB v0.12.6
- NodeBB v4.7.2
- SquidCity: A tiny ActivityPub (Fediverse) server, written in NodeJS/Typescript

Clients

- Tusker v2025.4
- Photon v2.2.2
- Thunder v0.8.3
- Holos: A Fediverse client that turns your smartphone into a complete ActivityPub server

For developers

- @botkit@hollo.social
- @fedify@hollo.social
- apkit v0.3.5
- FEP MCP: An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides access to Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

Protocol

- FEP-0151: NodeInfo in Fediverse Software (2025 edition) (Final comments)

Articles

- My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions

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Week in Fediverse 2025-12-19

Servers

- Mbin v1.9.0
- @stegodon@stegodon.social
- PeerTube v8.0.1
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.8.0
- Ktistec v3.2.4
- Manyfold v0.130.0
- Wafrn v2025.12.03
- Misskey v2025.12.1
- Gancio v1.28.2
- appy v0.4.0
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.6
- PieFed v1.3.8
- NodeBB v4.7.1
- Enigmatick ActivityPub C2S
- A year in Hubzilla development
- Photografedi: An ActivityPub powered photo sharing website! Inspired by Flickr and Pixelfed

Clients

- PeerTube Mobile v2.0
- Voyager v2.42.0
- Blorp v1.10.1
- Interstellar v0.11.1

Tools and Plugins

- feed2fedi v3.4.1

Articles

- Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse
- Adding a NSFW filter to Images on Writefreely
- Ghost's ActivityPub Integration Feels Half-Baked
- holos.social - How It Works
- Implementing Encrypted Messaging over ActivityPub
- Fediverse Report - #147

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Week in Fediverse 2025-12-12

Servers

- Wafrn v2025.11.02
- Gush! v0.0.27
- @stegodon@stegodon.social
- Akkoma v2025.12
- Mastodon v4.5.3
- PeerTube v8.0
- Lemmy v0.19.14
- Ktistec v3.2.3
- Misskey v2025.12.0
- NeoDB v0.12.5
- @vernissage@mastodon.social
- flohmarkt v0.14.0
- shops v0.1.8
- Trunk & Tidbits, November 2025 (Mastodon)

Clients

- Pachli v3.2.4
- Mastodon for iOS v2025.09
- Interstellar v0.11.0
- @chihu@mastodon.social

Tools and Plugins

- PeerTube livechat plugin v14.0.2
- FediFetcher v7.1.17
- Poduptime v5.6.2

For developers

- Library progress report #3 (GoActivityPub)

Articles

- Why don't recommend to implement ActivityPub from scratch
- Fediverse Report – #146

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Week in Fediverse 2025-12-05 Servers - stegodon v1.3.0 - Ktistec v3.2.2 - ActivityPub for WordPress v7.7.0 - snac v2.85 - tootik v0.20.3 - shops v0.1.6 - PieFed v1.3.6 - Forgejo monthly report - November 2025 - Lemmy Development Update November 2025 Clients - Pachli v3.2.0 - Mastodon for iOS v2025.08 - Tusker v2025.3 - Voyager v2.41.0 Tools and Plugins - Poduptime v5.6.1 - FIRES Server v0.8.0 Articles - Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse - Why the #OMN works with #ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to #p2p - The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization - Alt Text Health Check image accessibility report #3 - Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? - #OurFedi2025 - Fediverse Year in Review - A review of Exit coolness I overlooked from the world of ActivityPub - Fediverse Report – #145 ----- #WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019acbca-9a56-6825-a6da-5469fd8a40fd

Week in Fediverse 2025-11-28

Servers

- tootik v0.20.0
- Ktistec v3.2.1
- NodeBB v4.7.0
- Wafrn v2025.11.01
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.5
- Mitra v4.14.0
- Misskey v2025.11.1
- Omnom v0.8.0
- PieFed v1.3.5
- stegodon: An SSH-first federated blogging platform
- linkblocks: A federated network to bookmark, share and discuss good web pages with your friends

Clients

- @chihu@mastodon.social
- @cheeaun@mastodon.social

Tools and Plugins

- feed2fedi v3.4.0
- FIRES Server v0.7.0
- OwncastLive Panel: A GNOME Shell extension that monitors your favorite Owncast instances and notifies you when they go live

Articles

- Git as Federation Transport — Rethinking How Small Social Networks Talk to Each Other
- Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!
- Fediverse onboarding resources
- Owncast Newsletter November 2025
- Fediverse Report – #144

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Week in Fediverse 2025-11-21

Servers

- Bookwyrm v0.8.2
- @gotosocial@gts.superseriousbusiness.org
- Manyfold v0.129.2
- Mitra v4.13.1
- Mastodon v4.5.2
- Hubzilla v10.6.1
- Misskey v2025.11.0
- tootik v0.19.11
- NodeBB v4.6.2
- PieFed v1.3.3

Clients

- Elk v0.17.0
- Photon v2.2.0
- Voyager v2.40.4
- Blorp v1.10.0
- Fread v1.7.21

For developers

- roboherd v0.1.14
- fediverse-pasture-inputs v0.3.5

Articles

- Fediverse Report – #143

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Week in Fediverse 2025-11-14

Servers

- PieFed v1.3.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.6.0
- Ktistec v3.2.0
- Mastodon v4.5.1
- Mitra v4.13.0
- tootik v0.19.9
- Merp Relay v0.4.0
- shops v0.1.4
- Trunk & Tidbits, October 2025 (Mastodon)

Clients

- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.5.2
- Voyager v2.40.3
- @cheeaun@mastodon.social
- NeoComment: NeoDB Client

Tools and Plugins

- Event Bridge for ActivityPub v1.2.0 (WordPress plugin)
- FIRES Server v0.5.0

For developers

- Schemas one can use to validate objects used in the Fediverse

Protocol

- FEP-22b6: Linking an ActivityPub Object to a HTML page and back

Articles

- Fediverse Report – #142

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Week in Fediverse 2025-10-31

Servers

- Mitra v4.12.0
- Manyfold v0.127.0
- snac v2.84
- Ktistec v3.1.2
- Misskey v2025.10.2
- Mastodon 4.5 for Developers
- Atlas: A social mapping app that lets you post geolocated notes on the Fediverse

Clients

- @pachli@mastodon.social
- Mastodon for iOS v2025.07
- NeoDB You v1.0.5
- Thunder v0.8.0

Tools and Plugins

- feed2fedi v3.3.0
- Poduptime v5.5.6

For developers

- NGI0 Progress report #0 (GoActivityPub)

Articles

- Fediverse instances on weird hardware, networks and operating systems
- There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Pickleball Courts.
- A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different
- How *you* (librarians and those working in publishing, law, and government) should use ActivityPub and Why
- Fediverse Report – #141

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Week in Fediverse 2025-10-24

Servers

- Betula v1.5.0
- Vernissage Server v1.25.0
- Mastodon v4.4.8
- Ktistec v3.1.1
- Wafrn v2025.10.01
- Mobilizon v5.2.0
- Misskey v2025.10.1
- NeoDB v0.12.4
- Merp Relay v0.3.0
- comments: Server component for comment tracking systems

Clients

- IceCubesApp v2.0.8
- Mangane v1.18.1
- Photon v2.1.1
- Blorp v1.9.26

Tools and Plugins

- Poduptime v5.5.4
- Fediverse follows quiz
- Vulpes Porto: Bot to post remotely or locally hosted photos daily at set times

For developers

- Fedialgo v1.2.23
- apkit v0.3.3
- roboherd v0.1.12

Protocol

- Server-Sent Events For the ActivityPub API

Articles

- Understanding Decentralized Social Feed Curation on Mastodon
- Fediverse Report #139

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Week in Fediverse 2025-10-17

Servers

- Mastodon v4.4.6
- Gush! v0.0.25
- Akkoma v2025.10
- Bookwyrm v0.8.0
- Forgejo v13.0
- Manyfold v0.126.0
- @gotosocial@gts.superseriousbusiness.org
- tootik v0.19.7
- kmyblue v20.4
- NodeBB v4.6.1
- Vernissage Server v1.24.0
- Loops Joins the Fediverse
- appy: A headless ActivityPub server written with Python and fastAPI

Clients

- toot v0.51.0
- IceCubesApp v2.0.7
- Photon v2.1.0

Tools and Plugins

- Altbot: Accessibility bot designed to enhance the Fediverse by generating alt-text descriptions for images, video, and audio

For developers

- @fedify@hollo.social
- ActivityPhp v0.8.0

Protocol

- FEP-1580: Move Actor Objects with a migration Collection

Articles

- Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy
- Who do you trust with your social media data when no one (or everyone) is in charge?
- Fediverse Report – #138

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