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FediSuite: Open Source Fediverse Social Media Management Platform

FediSuite is an open source Fediverse social media management platform for Mastodon, Pixelfed, Vernissage, PeerTube, Misskey, and more. Schedule posts, split long posts into threads, manage notifications, and self-host with Docker.

Paths & Patches

Connected community spaces

This week the Newsmast team is heading to Amsterdam for Public Spaces, where the theme is Technology for Democracy. Here are three talking points - and one call to action - for the conference, the Open Social Awards, and all the conversations in between. We're stuck. Let's change the rules

Tip: Use DuckDuckGo NoAI as your browsers default search engine

How to set up DuckDuckGo NoAI as your browsers default search engine to have less ai bullshit in your life

DuckDuckGo’s No AI search tool reports huge traffic growth as Google pushes AI results

DuckDuckGo has reported exponential growth for its “No AI search” tool following Google Search’s AI-focused updates. The dedicated page removes all AI elements from search results, with new dedicated extensions for Chrome and Firefox

When Bluesky goes down, we go down. That needs to change. - Chunky Guys blog

What happened this week, why it affected Chunky Guys, and what we're building so it doesn't happen again.

hollo.social

Hollo 0.9.0 is out. https://gi…

Hollo 0.9.0 is out. https://github.com/fedify-dev/hollo/discussions/496 The biggest change this release is a complete redesign of every server-rendered page. Pico CSS is replaced by a new design system built on UnoCSS, and your chosen theme color now tints your profile and dashboard pages throughout. Other highlights: - Passkey (WebAuthn) authentication: sign in with a biometric or PIN gesture, which counts as MFA so there's no separate TOTP step - Full FEP-044f quote authorization: `QuoteReq

jpoesen | 🇪🇺 | 🏳️‍🌈 (@jpoesen@drupal.community)

The relentless AI focus and tone-deafness of the Drupal Association continuing to organize Drupalcon North America in the US - and in Florida of all states - have broken something inside me. I love the tech. I loved the scene. I looked up to the leadership. But we've grown so much apart in so many ways I'm not sure this village is for me anymore. I never was a prolific contributor and I wouldn't be missed, but I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one drifting away. 💔

European Commission

Commission boosts open and interoperable digital ecosystems for public administrations

As part of the European Technological Sovereignty Package, the Commission adopted a new Open Source Strategy, reaffirming its commitment to work towards an open, collaborative and resilient digital environment.

standard.horse

standard.horse

An editor for standard.site publications and posts, over atproto.

Kinsta®

How to build PHP-only Gutenberg blocks

Ditch JS, React, and complex build steps. Master Gutenberg blocks with pure PHP and deploy custom blocks to WordPress in minutes.

dripyard.com

The Final Countdown: Dripyard Webinar in 7 Days! | Dripyard

Dripyard’s product launch webinar is coming up in less 7 days 😅!

TDF Community Blog

A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty - TDF Community Blog

When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is reasonable: an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support. Standards exist precisely so that nobody is locked to a single supplier. OOXML — ISO/IEC 29500, the format behind Microsoft’s docx, xlsx and pptx files — does not work this way. The standard is split into two conformance classes. Strict is the clean version: a moder

SovereignS3nc: Building a Decentralized Network Without a Backend

How far can you go with just S3 and zero hosted compute? Pushing the limits of sovereign networks with SovereignS3nc.

DEV Community

Don't just git worktree

I saw with the 2026 update of Jetbrains PHPStorm they are in on the git worktree hype. I understand...

Bear gallery upload plugin

A Bear Blog dashboard plugin for uploading, arranging, and captioning photos as a gallery — straight from the post editor.

Hubzilla 11.2 Released!

Hubzilla 11.2 delivers improvements to maintainability and performance, along with the usual set of bug fixes. It also introduces the following two additions by @Harald Eilertsen, which were sponsored by @NGI Zero open source funding: Superblock version 3 An almost complete rewrite of the...

abadidea (@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image Writers: here are ten free and easy ways to add a dash of visual interest to your blog posts without resorting to AI imagery (which signals to readers that your blog post is probably also AI and there’s no need to bother reading it): 1) A thoughtful photo you’ve taken yourself — a nice sunrise you saw, a cool angle spotted on vacation, your pet curled up on the couch, flowers. Play with your phone photo app’s filter settings to nail the tone. It doesn’t need to be particularl

Anuj Ahooja (@quillmatiq@mastodon.social)

"The fediverse does not need more servers, it needs reasons for them to act like they owe each other something. The atmosphere does not need better tools, it has those, it needs the autonomy those tools enable to actually be taken up." "The protocol world has been trying to solve the problem of how to leave, and the next step is working on how we can stay together." No notes. This is the piece you should read today if you want to understand what needs to happen next in the open social web.

Safeguarding Democratic Debate

Contentful and the limits of "Buy European"

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

rachelandrew.co.uk

Joining the atmosphere | Rachel Andrew

vmx.cx

Floats on ATProto | vmx - the blllog.

Element Blog

Sweden goes live with Matrix-based federation!

Sweden's public sector just went live with Matrix-based federation!

What Makes Civic Data So Hard to Structure

Why local government information is so difficult to organize well, and what I have learned from turning messy agendas, meetings, committees, and local issues into usable product surfaces at The Common News.

Joost.blog

Ask Joost: AI-powered answers from my blog · Joost.blog

I built an AI-powered Q&A feature that lets you ask questions about anything I

Why I don’t like utility class CSS frameworks - Sam Hermes

jeremycherfas.net

A Server for a Purpose | Jeremy Cherfas

A personal website that tries to be IndieWeb