Besides Custom feeds (Misskey’s “Antennas”), Catodon is the first Misskey fork that implements native hashtag following, like Mastodon. This has been one of the most requested features in the Firefish days, and I’m very happy that it is finally available.

With the recent additions of native Mastodon API support, Mastodon-compatible quotes and following hashtags, I think that the name choice for Catodon becomes clearer: I am actively trying to bridge the gap between Misskey and Mastodon, keeping/implementing the best features of both platforms - but also going beyond that, with unique features like the RSS feed, Custom timelines and of course the Lemmy-compatible Forums! After almost half a year of working on this pretty much daily, I feel that it’s finally starting to take shape and show its own character, moving far beyond being just a Sharkey fork.

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/15168448

Canvas 2026 has concluded!

Thank you all for participating, it’s been a blast as always! 💜

Canvas 2026 ran from July 18th @ 4am UTC - July 20th @ 4am UTC

Feedback & Future Events

Hope you enjoyed the event as much as I and the moderators did! If you have any feedback, feature requests, or really anything, drop it in this thread (include any fun event ideas you have as well!)

Canvas Prints ✨

Bringing the Canvas prints back this year, but only for like 2 weeks. Once August 1st rolls around, the shop will close again. (You’ll also be able to buy any previous year’s prints)

https://sc07.shop/

International shipping is a pain, so this year the shop will only let you checkout with an address in the United States. But! if you are wanting to get a print, but are not in the US, fill out this form and I’ll see what I can do :)

Source

Just as always, Canvas is an open source project! If you want to take a peek at the code, report and issue directly to the tracker, or even contribute yourself, the source is available on sc07.dev

You can register either with your Fediverse account, or with an email and password. Unfortunately due to a lot of casino bots, registration is behind an approval queue. Send an email to hello@sc07.com if you’d like to ensure I see it

Timelapses

Not yet available, but they will be posted in the !canvas@toast.ooo Lemmy community, on the @canvas@fediverse.events Mastodon, and of course on sc07.tv PeerTube

First 24 hours: https://sc07.tv/w/nxUWzijtXn8B6yLB5sNrqr Full Timelapse: https://sc07.tv/w/u9EjVHfEkHhDA7EUiQMpag

Data

Not yet available, but it will be available soon (I will update this post when it is available)

Tools

Check out Monte’s CanvasStats.com to explore the world of data and numbers for all of the years (he’s also added achievements this year!)

Special Thanks

Thank you to all of the moderators that helped out this year!

• Sugar
• Ategon (https://ategon.dev/)
• Bigcheese
• Mykey
• TheWaffleLord

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As always, thank you so much for participating! Every contribution makes the Canvas what it is 💜💜💜 - grant (https://grants.cafe/@grant / @grant@toast.ooo)

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Had an amazing time? https://tips.sc07.com/ (credit/debit) or Venmo @sc07_

cross-posted from: https://sc07.tv/videos/watch/e3f573ba-beca-4f61-9ba1-df8351f05dfd

Canvas 2026 has concluded!

July 18th @ 4am UTC - July 20th @ 4am UTC

It was a blast as always, thank you all for participating 💜

Leave a tip for the moderators! https://tips.sc07.com/

Thank you post: https://toast.ooo/post/15168448
Raw file: https://cdn.sc07.company/canvas/2026/timelapse.mp4

https://canvas.fediverse.events/
https://toast.ooo/c/canvas
https://social.fediverse.events/@canvas

Contribute to the Canvas! https://canvas.fediverse.events/

Find artworks to contribute to here: https://toast.ooo/post/15150031

If this is the first time seeing this, Canvas is a collaborative pixel canvas that runs every year, just for 48 hours. Anyone in the Fediverse is welcome to join!

Socials

• !canvas@toast.ooo
• @canvas@fediverse.events
• #canvas:fediverse.ooo
• Discord (bridged)

This plugin works as an addon to the WordPress ActivityPub plugin. It brings lightweight polls to your WordPress site that reach the Fediverse. The polls are fully interoperable with platforms like Mastodon.

Fediverse compatible polls. The development of this plugin was funded by the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet.

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/15112115

Canvas 2026 starts tomorrow!

tomorrow! it’s tomorrow! in almost 24 hours we begin!

if you haven’t heard of this before– Canvas is a yearly event grant’s been running since 2023, and it’s a real-time collaborative pixel canvas that runs for 48 hours, just for the Fediverse!

How do I join?

On the website you’ll be able to login using fediverse-auth (it works similar to “sign in with google”)

if your app supports it, you can also login directly with it ✨

You can also test the login process directly on the site (click the emojis!)

Changelog (vs last week)

Contributions welcome! sc07.dev/sc07/canvas

• [fbebffc] Allow color picking the void or empty space (Ategon)
• [c5a17eb] Add a pixel available chime offset setting (Ategon)
• [7bef4c8] Prevent the settings sidebar from resizing (Ategon)
• [c04c9e1] Make admin and mod buttons compactable (Ategon)
• [5ec44d6] Allow scrolling through keybindings (Ategon)
• [e0fbffa] Show initial canvas coordinates properly (Ategon)
• [8473cd5] chore: update all dependencies (Grant)
• [f42798b] Fix extra color pick on primary when selecting with secondary (Ategon)
• [7e4d906] docs: add AI policy (Grant)
• [fe62158] Add Cursors of other Users & fix eslint checks (Ategon, Grant)
• [01bf450] Add keybindings for zoom (Ategon)
• [c60b152] Add a custom bottom mobile bar with a different color picker (Ategon)
• [22ea4dc] Add panning using keyboard (Ategon)
• [0d3e249] Makes the palette ignore dark reader converting (Ategon)
• [4d6b217] Add the pixel count to the favicon (Ategon)
• [9b7a7ea] ci: remove unused variables (Grant)
• [a6be389] ci: move image build (Grant)

Socials

• !canvas@toast.ooo
• @canvas@fediverse.events
• #canvas:fediverse.ooo
• Discord (bridged)
• Appearance on FiresideFedi!

Piefed chat • Fediverse wiki
• Guide and tutorial

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca • !newcommunities@lemmy.world • !fedigrow@lemmy.zip • !newcomers@piefed.zip

Hi ! I hope you are well ! Here is our weekly thread 😎

The fediverse is big ! Let’s share our small gold nugget found in the fediverse. :)

It could be :

• A new peertube channel
• An interesting mastodon account to follow
• Your new community ! Yes ! Why not ?
• An cool gallery of picture from pixelfed
• A playlist from funkwhale
• A text that moved you

Let’s dig together ! 😁

cross-posted from: https://community.nodebb.org/post/107551 | !nodebb-development@community.nodebb.org

With temperatures reaching well into the 30s (in celsius of course :sunglasses:) in the Toronto area, we’re all firmly in summer mode :swimmer: :beach_with_umbrella: , but that won’t stop us from forging on ahead with new features and fixes for NodeBB!

There are improvements across ActivityPub federation, administrative tooling, and security hardening. Our ActivityPub integration receives bug fixes including duplicate handling, configurable rate limiting, and better error reporting, alongside new hooks for remote user lifecycle events. The registration queue and invitations are reorganized into a dedicated UI with a new “Reject All” bulk action and improved notification handling. Security reports have been coming in consistently throughout the month with valid security reports (though almost all AI discovered and generated). This led to stricter privilege checks on post diffs, crossposts, and GDPR exports, plus protection against username enumeration. The NodeBB team strongly encourages upgrading to v4.14.0 for the latest security fixes and federation improvements. The release also includes a new tx() translation helper, Benchpress escaping improvements, and a first-run categories onboarding modal for fresh installations.

Here are the high level changes you can expect to see when you upgrade from v4.13.0 to v4.14.0…

:globe_with_meridians: Federation Regression Fixes!

Around v4.12.0 or so, a number of regressions were unintentionally introduced as part of security fixes that severely hampered federation — especially with Lemmy-based instances and relays. We’ve resolved those regressions and Relay/Lemmy federation should resume within 24 hours after upgrading.

The public key fetch rate limiter logic was simplified and updated (due to it being faulty and not really working in the first place), streamlined some duplicate logic with Like/Dislike activities, improved the AP Errors reporting page in the ACP, added a parent traversal depth guard, fixed an issue where updates to scheduled topics were accidentally being federated out, and about a hundred other smaller bugs :)

:ballot_box_with_check: Registration Queue updates

The registration queue was moved out of the ACP, and invitations are also managed in this page now. A “reject all” button was added to allow admins to quickly reject every queued registrant in one fell swoop.

🔒 Privilege & Security Fixes

• Post diff access — Check topics:read privilege when loading post diffs
• Crossposts — Added source category privilege check to crossposts
• GDPR export — Prevented global moderators from performing GDPR data exports
• Nids ownership — Don’t mark nids as read/unread that you don’t own
• Upload privileges — Prevent uploading thumbnails without upload:image privilege; replaced extension-based MIME validation with content
  sniffing
• Username enumeration — Use dummy lockout key for non-existent users to prevent enumeration
• Category disabled flag — Check category disabled flag on getRaw

:interrobang: Benchpress Improvements

We use Benchpress as our templating engine. We updated our integration for security and performance. [@baris put together a thorough write-up for that one here](https://community.nodebb.org/topic/19364/upcoming-breaking-changes-for-4.14.0).

Miscellaneous

• First-run modal — New categories onboarding modal for fresh installations
• Dashboard warnings — Added localhost and URL mismatch warnings to admin dashboard notices
• Push notifications should work on Safari/iOS devices now (via the web-push plugin)

Out of the 37,000 people who voted for posts or comments in the last month, the 10 most prolific voters (0.02% of us) cast as many votes as the bottom 59%. Here’s how that looks, visually:

As you can see, a lot of people didn’t cast many votes. Someone cast 23k votes, with a group of 13 each casting at least 10k votes.

“But of course most people aren’t really engaged, most of those 37k people are just NPCs who don’t really matter” you say, “Rimu you’re just including them to make it seem worse than it is”, you might say. Ok, cool, let’s pretend the bottom 85% of us don’t matter and just look at the top 5000 voters. Here’s how the distribution looks among them:

Still super unbalanced. Let’s analyze this a bit.

Among those 5000, the top 147 (2.94%) cast as many votes as all the others (4853 people) combined. Among those 5000, the average number of votes cast in a month is 1142. Among the top 147, the average number of votes cast in a month is 6868.

How do you feel about a tiny group having this much influence over what news you receive?

Note (25-10-02)

Hi ! I advanced a lot on PieFed’s wiki and i hope i can start soon other wiki as Mbin, Iceshrimp. I improved wiki navigation via a navbox. The fediverse roadmap is also added here. You will also find bunch of communities to start your journey :)

Only mods and admins can edit wiki pages. We could open wiki editing to members of this community but i’m kinda scared of possible edit war. :)

Roadmap

• Fediverse Roadmap

Wiki

• How to present forumverse to redditors (under rewritting)
• PieFed overview

Later, once PieFed’s wiki is fairly complète :

• [Mbin overview]
• [Iceshrimp]
• [Mobilizon]

Ressources

• Wiki join the fediverse
• technical info on ActivityPub
• What is the fediverse ?

Playground

Communities

• !newcomers@piefed.zip : for meeting each other and say hello. You can also ask questions
• !newcommunities@lemmy.world : for inviting news people to your new community
• !fedigrow@lemmy.ca
• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca