#open-protocols — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #open-protocols, aggregated by home.social.
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" #RSS is one of the best examples we have of the #openweb, where we can design and customize how we experience the internet, not the other way around. RSS has come in and out of fashion, been declared dead, and has come back, every time. Open systems are the best way forward to a free, equitable internet, and the resilience and continued reinvention of RSS has shown just how creative the web community can be with #openprotocols."
#Xemele
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algorithm-rss-one-tools-youve-been-looking -
" #RSS is one of the best examples we have of the #openweb, where we can design and customize how we experience the internet, not the other way around. RSS has come in and out of fashion, been declared dead, and has come back, every time. Open systems are the best way forward to a free, equitable internet, and the resilience and continued reinvention of RSS has shown just how creative the web community can be with #openprotocols."
#Xemele
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#ATProtocol #Bluesky #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Interoperability #Selfhosted #FediverseDev #OpenProtocols #BridgyFed
Looking for something that probably doesn't exist yet, but maybe someone here knows better.
I self-host both a Mastodon instance and a Bluesky PDS and I'd love to actually connect the two rather than just run them in parallel. Not a cross-poster. I mean real bridging: cross-protocol replies, likes, timelines, notifications, where an interaction on one side actually shows up as a native interaction on the other.
Is there anything out there that gets close to this for a self-hosted setup? I know Bridgy Fed exists, but from what I can tell it doesn't cover the full interaction surface and isn't really designed around self-hosted PDS + self-hosted Mastodon as the starting point.
Happy to hear about anything, experimental, WIP, half-broken. Just curious what the landscape looks like right now.
Boosts appreciated 🙏
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Der gesamte Blogpost von @ix ist aber sehr lesenswert:
🔗 https://wirres.net/articles/ich-will-keine-apps-ich-will-apis -
Der gesamte Blogpost von @ix ist aber sehr lesenswert:
🔗 https://wirres.net/articles/ich-will-keine-apps-ich-will-apis -
"I want to tell you a thing that I think is true, and that I think will make you feel better.
The internet is not dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is dying.
The layer where every human activity became a venture-backed destination, every destination became a feed, every feed became ad inventory, and every ad market became a machine for producing more things to interrupt you with.
Underneath that layer is another internet: older, slower, less polished, harder to monetize, and much harder to kill.
It is not utopia. It is full of spam, abandoned servers, broken clients, hostile nodes, strange old commands, half-maintained software, and people arguing in plain text about things no normal person should care about.
But it has one enormous advantage over the platforms that replaced it in your imagination.
No one owns it."
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"I want to tell you a thing that I think is true, and that I think will make you feel better.
The internet is not dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is dying.
The layer where every human activity became a venture-backed destination, every destination became a feed, every feed became ad inventory, and every ad market became a machine for producing more things to interrupt you with.
Underneath that layer is another internet: older, slower, less polished, harder to monetize, and much harder to kill.
It is not utopia. It is full of spam, abandoned servers, broken clients, hostile nodes, strange old commands, half-maintained software, and people arguing in plain text about things no normal person should care about.
But it has one enormous advantage over the platforms that replaced it in your imagination.
No one owns it."
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"Every day there are more creative new ideas showing up. The one thing I’m looking forward to most is when we start to break out of the “rebuilding this centralized service on open protocols” and finally get to the point where we get entirely new things that are only possible because of open protocols. This is how these things have always worked. A new medium first gets used to rebuild familiar things — almost as a way of learning how the underlying system operates. Then come the breakthroughs that are only possible because of that new medium. If I had one complaint about the entries this year, it’s that too many of them felt like rebuilding the old things, just on a protocol.
We’re already starting to see small examples, though, of what it looks like when we go to the next stage, and it’s not just “this service, but without centralized control” to “we can function entirely differently without centralized control.” That’s just starting to happen, but I expect we’ll see many more examples in the near future."
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/10/beneath-the-enshittification-something-amazing-is-growing/
#OpenWeb #OpenSocial #ATProto #BlueSky #OpenProtocols #ActivityPub #Decentralization
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"Every day there are more creative new ideas showing up. The one thing I’m looking forward to most is when we start to break out of the “rebuilding this centralized service on open protocols” and finally get to the point where we get entirely new things that are only possible because of open protocols. This is how these things have always worked. A new medium first gets used to rebuild familiar things — almost as a way of learning how the underlying system operates. Then come the breakthroughs that are only possible because of that new medium. If I had one complaint about the entries this year, it’s that too many of them felt like rebuilding the old things, just on a protocol.
We’re already starting to see small examples, though, of what it looks like when we go to the next stage, and it’s not just “this service, but without centralized control” to “we can function entirely differently without centralized control.” That’s just starting to happen, but I expect we’ll see many more examples in the near future."
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/10/beneath-the-enshittification-something-amazing-is-growing/
#OpenWeb #OpenSocial #ATProto #BlueSky #OpenProtocols #ActivityPub #Decentralization
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AT Protocol Overview
Learn what AT Protocol is, how Bluesky uses it, and why it matters for identity, portability, moderation, and the open social web. -
ActivityPub Federation Guide
Learn what ActivityPub is, how federation works, and why this open social protocol matters for privacy, publishing, and digital sovereignty. -
Nostr: Decentralised Social Protocol
Learn what Nostr is, how relays and public keys work, why it matters for free speech, and where it fits in the decentralised web.https://beitmenotyou.online/nostr-decentralised-social-protocol/
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@marcuwekling wünscht sich auf dem #2mr mehr Brücken zwischen offenen Netzwerken. #Interoperabilität zwischen #openprotocols
mit @fed.brid.gy von @anewsocial oder @fedisky sind diese Brücken möglich
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@marcuwekling wünscht sich auf dem #2mr mehr Brücken zwischen offenen Netzwerken. #Interoperabilität zwischen #openprotocols
mit @fed.brid.gy von @anewsocial oder @fedisky sind diese Brücken möglich
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Help! I've been thinking so much about decentralized platforms and open protocols lately that my brain has become completely decentralized itself. 🙃
Time to go touch some grass.#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #FediDevs #OpenProtocols #DecentralizedPlatforms
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Help! I've been thinking so much about decentralized platforms and open protocols lately that my brain has become completely decentralized itself. 🙃
Time to go touch some grass.#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #FediDevs #OpenProtocols #DecentralizedPlatforms
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"On #openprotocols, individual providers may address threats within their own systems, but lack the network-wide capacity to address coordinated activity across infrastructures or protocols. This is a gap that commercial actors have little incentive to address…
This points to the safety and integrity of the #publicsquare being coordinated as a critical #publicfunction, backed by #publicfunding. The practical implication is a core of publicly provisioned infrastructure."
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"On #openprotocols, individual providers may address threats within their own systems, but lack the network-wide capacity to address coordinated activity across infrastructures or protocols. This is a gap that commercial actors have little incentive to address…
This points to the safety and integrity of the #publicsquare being coordinated as a critical #publicfunction, backed by #publicfunding. The practical implication is a core of publicly provisioned infrastructure."
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#MustRead: "Stronger #communities could be built on traditional #socialmedia platforms, too. But those have proven themselves to be unreliable partners: remember that referrals are down, links are being suppressed, and trusting a tech company means letting tech happen to you, like an asteroid. #Openprotocols are permissionless; building on them means building real ownership, as long as the #protocols are built with #publishers in mind."
@ben
#journalism
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#MustRead: "Stronger #communities could be built on traditional #socialmedia platforms, too. But those have proven themselves to be unreliable partners: remember that referrals are down, links are being suppressed, and trusting a tech company means letting tech happen to you, like an asteroid. #Openprotocols are permissionless; building on them means building real ownership, as long as the #protocols are built with #publishers in mind."
@ben
#journalism
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I am exploring an idea for a Sovereign Social Protocol. A way to rethink social media around user ownership, decentralised Identity, and freedom from algorithmic control and surveillance. This is about rebuilding social spaces with autonomy and trust at the core.
Learn more here: https://sovereign-social-protocol-kp7pi9bx.sites.blink.new/
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Infrastruktur ist nie Hintergrund. Sie ist der erste Einschlag ins Bewusstsein. Bevor ein Wort Bedeutung bekommt, hat die Technik bereits entschieden, wie Nähe, Zeit, Sichtbarkeit und Resonanz möglich sind.
Mit der zweiten Ergänzung zu Kapitel 12 öffnet sich der Codex weiter in Richtung Medienökologie, Protokollanthropologie und Resonanztheorie: Eine Grammatik der Einschläge, von der materiellen Latenz bis zur sozialen Norm.
Was dabei sichtbar wird: Glättung ist keine Freundlichkeit – sie ist Entzug von Welt. Reibung ist kein Fehler – sie ist Wahrnehmung.
Der RISS im Zentrum der Matrix bleibt die Einladung: Dort, wo Infrastruktur nicht funktioniert wie gedacht, beginnt Verstehen.
🔗 Volltext: https://www.nimmermehr.rip/posts/kapitel12_infrastruktur
#hashtags #Infologie #Dorfzwockel #Infrastruktur #Medienökologie #Protokollanthropologie #Resonanztheorie #Einschlagmatrix #Informationsethik #DigitaleKultur #Fediverse #OpenProtocols #Medienforschung #TechPhilosophy #nimmermehrrip
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In the long run Open Source is all which remains ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
All closed source, usually commercial, software comes with a hidden sell-by-date. For whatever reason — a merger, a hostile takeover, a new management paradigm, incompatible OS update, a bad financial year — someone you will never know can pull a rug and —puff— it's gone.
#FLOSS #FreeLibreAndOpenSource #OpenProtocols #OpenFileFormats #RightToRepair #RightToSalvage #RightToExtend
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In the long run Open Source is all which remains ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
All closed source, usually commercial, software comes with a hidden sell-by-date. For whatever reason — a merger, a hostile takeover, a new management paradigm, incompatible OS update, a bad financial year — someone you will never know can pull a rug and —puff— it's gone.
#FLOSS #FreeLibreAndOpenSource #OpenProtocols #OpenFileFormats #RightToRepair #RightToSalvage #RightToExtend
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#TIL that you can use #Libravatar instead of Gravatar with a community-hosted GitLab service;
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#TIL that you can use #Libravatar instead of Gravatar with a community-hosted GitLab service;
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Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/social-web-foundation-is-betting-big-on-client-to-server-api/ #OpenProtocols, #SocialWebFoundation
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Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/social-web-foundation-is-betting-big-on-client-to-server-api/ #OpenProtocols, #SocialWebFoundation
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Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API
From the outside looking in, it can sometimes feel unclear as to what steps the Social Web Foundation is taking to achieve its goals. The non-profit organization's About Page states lofty ambitions, such as bringing together implementers to build tools, policies, and protocols to advance the Fediverse. The Projects Page includes End-to-End Encryption, a Fediverse Starter Page, GDPR Compliance, and Long-Form Text. However, the SWF has been working on several interesting projects outside of […]https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/social-web-foundation-is-betting-big-on-client-to-server-api/
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A open protocol is an agreement between services, about how to interoperate. It's the technical equivalent of diplomatic protocols, agreements worked out between countries about how to peacefully interact with each other.
(1/?)
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A open protocol is an agreement between services, about how to interoperate. It's the technical equivalent of diplomatic protocols, agreements worked out between countries about how to peacefully interact with each other.
(1/?)
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Currently @betaworks.com in NYC ahead of #ProtocolsForPublishers. Tomorrow night a BUNCH of cool people will be in here to talk about how we can ensure both the distribution AND the app layer of the web can remain open using #openProtocols for #ai and #opensocial
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Currently @betaworks.com in NYC ahead of #ProtocolsForPublishers. Tomorrow night a BUNCH of cool people will be in here to talk about how we can ensure both the distribution AND the app layer of the web can remain open using #openProtocols for #ai and #opensocial
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Michiel Leenaars ( @michiel ) on fire 🔥 about Mario Dhragi, "This is the second time he is trying to screw the EU". 🇪🇺
Criticizing him for trying to build EU capitalist "unicorns"💰🦄 instead of opensource and open protocols. :opensource: :fedi:#PubConf2025 #opensource #OpenProtocols #DigitalSouvereignTech
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Day 2 #FediForum 👋
Enjoying @cwebber keynote on #openprotocols
Watching from @cbase Berlin, Germany, 🇪🇺
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Day 2 #FediForum 👋
Enjoying @cwebber keynote on #openprotocols
Watching from @cbase Berlin, Germany, 🇪🇺
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#Fediforum: "Talk of #feeds was everywhere. I made a note to myself throughout the conference.
It's amazing how big the feeds theme is. Feed ownership, customization, and sharing. All powered by #openprotocols."https://www.luisquintanilla.me/posts/fediforum-day-1-jun-2025?utm_medium=feed
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#Fediforum: "Talk of #feeds was everywhere. I made a note to myself throughout the conference.
It's amazing how big the feeds theme is. Feed ownership, customization, and sharing. All powered by #openprotocols."https://www.luisquintanilla.me/posts/fediforum-day-1-jun-2025?utm_medium=feed
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The team behind Bridgy Fed is building an innovative new tool that helps you automatically move from one network to another.
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Jetzt meet up mit Renate Nikolay, stellvertretende Generaldirektorin der DG Connect zur #EU #Digitalpolitik
Ob Digitale Souveränität, KI- und #Plattformregulierung Wettbewerb im Internet, bei Breitband- und Mobilfunk oder beim Grundrechtsschutz: EU-Kommission, Rat und Parlament haben in den vergangenen Jahren einen Großteil des Rechtsrahmens modernisiert oder sind noch dabei.
#opensource und #openprotocols sind bisher leider keine Themen.
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Jetzt meet up mit Renate Nikolay, stellvertretende Generaldirektorin der DG Connect zur #EU #Digitalpolitik
Ob Digitale Souveränität, KI- und #Plattformregulierung Wettbewerb im Internet, bei Breitband- und Mobilfunk oder beim Grundrechtsschutz: EU-Kommission, Rat und Parlament haben in den vergangenen Jahren einen Großteil des Rechtsrahmens modernisiert oder sind noch dabei.
#opensource und #openprotocols sind bisher leider keine Themen.
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I was discussing #openProtocols earlier, musing on how to explain them to lay people. This came out of my mouth at some point and I though it was funny but apt.
If you were an investor which would you rather invest in:
a road
-- or --
a road that only works for 1998 Mazda Protege
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On the way to #fosdem #fosdem25 now.
See you anyway :)Tomorrow, I'm in the Legal and Policy Room and then about #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenProtocols #SocialWeb :
Social Web Dev Room
UA2.118 (Henriot)
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/social-web/and
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/04/social-web-after-hours-at-fosdem-2025/
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On the way to #fosdem #fosdem25 now.
See you anyway :)Tomorrow, I'm in the Legal and Policy Room and then about #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenProtocols #SocialWeb :
Social Web Dev Room
UA2.118 (Henriot)
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/social-web/and
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/04/social-web-after-hours-at-fosdem-2025/
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Esteemed #Fediverse
in these dark times, meeting the community physically feels more needed than ever.
Since we organized the official @apconf #ActivityPub Conf all the ActivityPub Events were always officially fun.
#FOSDEM is near
Sat
The Policy Group starts with a waffles breakfast and I'd like to recommend theLegal and Policy Dev Room
H.1301 (Cornil) starting 10:30
by wonderful @tmarblethen (yay)
Social Web Dev Room
UA2.118 (Henriot)
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/social-web/and
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/04/social-web-after-hours-at-fosdem-2025/
#fosdem25 #OpenProtocols #SocialWeb #Federation #Policy #Legal 💖
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Esteemed #Fediverse
in these dark times, meeting the community physically feels more needed than ever.
Since we organized the official @apconf #ActivityPub Conf all the ActivityPub Events were always officially fun.
#FOSDEM is near
Sat
The Policy Group starts with a waffles breakfast and I'd like to recommend theLegal and Policy Dev Room
H.1301 (Cornil) starting 10:30
by wonderful @tmarblethen (yay)
Social Web Dev Room
UA2.118 (Henriot)
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/social-web/and
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/04/social-web-after-hours-at-fosdem-2025/
#fosdem25 #OpenProtocols #SocialWeb #Federation #Policy #Legal 💖
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It does not matter so much if it is #SOLID or #ActivityPub or both or any.
But the Vision matters most in these dark times
„The Vision of a new World“ by @timbl
„That said, there is clearly a massive revolution taking place, and a huge amount of value being created. That value is primarily for individuals who are have obstacles of today;s world they may have taken for granted being removed, and new power to granted. But then immediately individuals use that power to make and work in communities oof all scales, from pairs through groups to nation-sized movements.“
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It does not matter so much if it is #SOLID or #ActivityPub or both or any.
But the Vision matters most in these dark times
„The Vision of a new World“ by @timbl
„That said, there is clearly a massive revolution taking place, and a huge amount of value being created. That value is primarily for individuals who are have obstacles of today;s world they may have taken for granted being removed, and new power to granted. But then immediately individuals use that power to make and work in communities oof all scales, from pairs through groups to nation-sized movements.“
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Watching with interest:
A New Social
https://www.anew.social/hello-social-web/"We're A New Social, a new #nonprofit organization focused on building cross-protocol tools and services for the #OpenSocial web…We need to have…The Last #NetworkEffect, where users are on a combined network using platforms embracing #OpenProtocols. This enables people to choose platforms based on their needs rather than how many users are active on them."
#ActivityPub #ATprotocol #Bluesky #BridgyFed #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenProtocols #SocialMedia
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Watching with interest:
A New Social
https://www.anew.social/hello-social-web/"We're A New Social, a new #nonprofit organization focused on building cross-protocol tools and services for the #OpenSocial web…We need to have…The Last #NetworkEffect, where users are on a combined network using platforms embracing #OpenProtocols. This enables people to choose platforms based on their needs rather than how many users are active on them."
#ActivityPub #ATprotocol #Bluesky #BridgyFed #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenProtocols #SocialMedia
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#AudreyTang : "#Prosocial media also addresses the centralization of #socialmedia platforms and the resulting unhealthy concentration of curation power in the hands of a few tech giants.
#Decentralization holds the promise of a more democratic internet, where people have greater control over their data and online experiences, leading to a proliferation of local communities, all interconnected through #openprotocols."