A few months back, we posted about the new Fediverse instance called "the Forkiverse". This is a Mastodon instance started by the hosts of the Search Engine podcast and the Hard Fork podcast. The site has picked up tens of thousands of users, with a distinctive local culture, and is a nice part […]

LOL. I think we’re looking for “content that’s not short text”, and “multimedia” was the best term we had.

Today, with the help of our partner the Interledger Foundation, we are announcing a new program of grants for multimedia software and creators. In this program, we are asking software developers and publishers to partner to make new and better content on the Fediverse. Multimedia, such as audio […]

ActivityPub software usually (but not always!) uses a handle format defined by RFC 7033, Webfinger, which looks like [email protected]. There's a ActivityPub and Webfinger report from the Social Web Community Group that details how this interaction works. All parts of this handle format […]

About 14 years ago, I created a webfinger package for NodeJS. At the time, NodeJS was only a few years old. I had created pump.io as a new social networking engine and the successor to StatusNet. I needed a client for webfinger lookup -- the process of converting a [email protected] handle to a […]

One of the requests I (Evan) have heard often over the years about ActivityPub is to make publishing on the Fediverse as easy as publishing with RSS. To make an RSS feed for a person or a site, a publisher provides, dynamically or even statically, a single file, with a simple format, and makes […]