romanzolotarev.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.

This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.

Site description
/pub
Admin account
@hi@romanzolotarev.com

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[?]AJ Sadauskas » 🌐
@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au

Recently, there was a question by @taylorlorenz about how you explain the Fediverse to someone who doesn't use it.

And usually, what we tend to do is we talk about servers and decentralisation and federation and ActivityPub and all these highly technical concepts.

I've been thinking about it, and all that technical stuff is really impressive work by people far more clever than I'll ever be.

But for me, that technology is a facilitating thing. It's like trying to describe how a bicycle works, rather than why you ride it.

Instead, what the Fediverse is, is a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way.

Which is increasingly a rare thing online.

Almost the entirety of the internet, from SEO on the web to YouTube to TikTok to Spotify to Instagram and X and Facebook, has been turned into a race to game an algorithm designed to sell ads.

What makes the Fedi unique is that it's not that.

And I suspect if you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or GtS, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining it as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a decentralised protocol.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

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    [?]Ben Pate 🤘🏻 » 🌐
    @benpate@mastodon.social

    There's a lot of energy on the right now to discuss/find a alternative to using .

    @strypey suggested that I put this out there to anyone who's thinking about it. We could probably rebuild most of Discord's features as an inbox without doing a lot of back end code.

    I'm too swamped to start on this right now. But if you're a great HTML+CSS designer, I'm able to give some time to a team who wants to take this on.

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      [?]Week in Fediverse :fediverse_light: » 🌐
      @weekinfediverse@mitra.social

      Week in Fediverse 2026-02-13

      Servers

      - Stegodon v1.7.1
      - 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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      #WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

      Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019c3449-e714-29e9-b9f6-03cc6804b4aa

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        [?]gyptazy » 🌐
        @gyptazy@gyptazy.com

        Running a single user or small user instance in the ? A relay instance can help you to find more interesting content and to broadcast to other instances!

        https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com is a tech related relay instance that connects over 100 instances, focussing on things like , , , , , and many other things! You can easily add a really when using / , , and many other ones!


        Overview of the fedi-relay gyptazy instance for the Fediverse

        Alt...Overview of the fedi-relay gyptazy instance for the Fediverse

          [?]Nordnick 🐘 » 🌐
          @nick@hhmx.de

          @NebulaTide@mastodon.bsd.cafe

          Besides , there still exist (founded as ), based in . But this is also a commercial platform, that isn't federated.

          An enabled approach would be nice.

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            [?]Doerk [he/him] » 🌐
            @NebulaTide@mastodon.bsd.cafe

            This morning I promoted nolto.social, a platform that was made - at least I thought so, to be a Fediverse based alternative to LinkedIn. As I'm getting more and more annoyed by LinkedIn and all the useless posts over there, I was happy to find an independent alternative.

            nolto.social still worked this morning, but when I came back later; i found the project deleted and at least when you are viewing the website from your smartphone, you see a message from the developer of nolto.social where he states that this project was never meant to grow. Obviously this was just a one person project who became overwhelmed by the success of the platform and by the fact, that companies started creating profiles and nearly 1000 people joined within a short time period. But now it seems that this project ran out of control and the maintainer decided to pull the emergency break. He is also talking about negative feedback he received for the platform and even personal harrassment.

            It is sad that a promising project like this had been terminated, but I can understand what made the maintainer doing so. Managing a business platform can become a fulltime job quite fast and it also requires technical ressources and money to run these resources.

            I firmly believe that we need an alternative to LinkedIn. I believe that people don't want all this bullshit posts just created to please the algorithm and to generate likes and feedback. And I believe that people would like a business network which is nothing else than a business network - no space for bursting egos and self promotion, but a space for connection and serious discussion.

            Fediverse would be the ideal space for this. But as we know, if business networks are successful, they require more and more attention, more ressources, more money. And at this is the problem. When you need money to run your social network, it's tempting to ask yourself how you could generate money by using the ressources you already have, which are user data...

            I don't see a solution for this now, just sharing some thoughts.

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              [?]Waidler :mastodon: » 🌐
              @waidler@bayerwald.social

              Der Ghost Blog BLOG.BAYERWALD.SOCIAL hat inzwischen auch sein Fediverse Handle bekommen.

              @index

              und ist damit als Instanz vollständig ins Fediverse eingebunden.


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                [?]Ricardo Ferrer Rivero🇪🇺 » 🌐
                @ricferrer@mastodon.social

                It’s really surprising to me that the hasn’t agreed on a standardized way to open cross-instance objects and instead relies on links that open in the browser.

                I found this proposal and what’s thinking… codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src Which one would be your favorite?

                (If anyone has updates on the progress, feel free to point me in the right direction)

                web+ap::6
                ap::10
                activitypub::8
                fedi::4

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                  [?]marius » 🌐
                  @mariusor@metalhead.club

                  @andycarolan did it again and now , the generic server, has a fresh of the press logo. :) Thank you Andy! 🥳

                  mariusor.srht.site/fedbox/

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                    [?]xz » 🌐
                    @xz@ebadf.port0.org

                    Really enjoying running on a low end server so far. Thanks a lot @grunfink@comam.es for this great piece of software!

                    I would even host it at home, but it seems like huge parts of the Fediverse are IPv4-only, and behind Dual-Stack Lite doesn't sound like fun.

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                      [?]Larvitz :fedora: :redhat: » 🌐
                      @Larvitz@burningboard.net

                      New blog post: I added Fediverse-based comments to my Pelican blog.

                      No Disqus, no database, just the Mastodon API and a bit of JavaScript.

                      Replies to this post will show up as comments on the article.

                      Inspired by the blog of @jwildeboer - I ported it to Pelican's Jinja2 templates.

                      blog.hofstede.it/adding-fedive

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                        [?]Khürt Williams » 🌐
                        @khurtwilliams@islandinthenet.com

                        Public Discourse

                        I thought about why accepting blog comments via email does not work for me. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                        I’ve been thinking about email lately, and not in a good way. Reading Coyote’s post The Case For Comments set off a chain of thoughts about why I’ve configured my blog the way I have—and specifically, why the thought of accepting comments via email fills me with dread.

                        Coyote has set up their blog to accept engagement through multiple channels: native comments, email, and Webmentions. That works for them and their community. But it wouldn’t work for me, and I’ve been trying to work out why.

                        Email as Work Intake

                        I’ve been using email professionally since it was new to the workforce—before college email addresses existed, back when Lotus Notes was the way most corporations communicated. Somewhere along the way, I developed what I think of as the “looking for the ask” reflex. When I open an email, I’m unconsciously scanning for what someone wants from me: information, approval, action, a task handed off. Email became a work intake mechanism, and over several decades I’ve been trained to process it that way.

                        This has made me loathe most email. I don’t mind email exchanges with friends and family—I actually prefer it over messaging (SMS, WhatsApp, Signal, etc). But when it comes to everything else? I look at that inbox and want to just select all and delete. Every message creates a feeling of accumulating debt. Things I should have responded to, conversations I’ve accidentally ghosted, asks I’ve failed to address. The inbox becomes a guilt repository. We’ve all received those “did you get my last email” follow-ups, and they only compound the anxiety about what I’ve missed or ignored.

                        Email makes me feel like I am losing my control over when I engage. Messages sink to the bottom of the inbox, buried under other emails, creating this nagging sense of obligation I can never quite clear.

                        Why Not Email Comments

                        So when Coyote described a blogging tradition where people “express a preference for comments over email”, my reaction was: I would hate it if my blog accepted comments via email.

                        There are a few reasons for this. The first is that email comments are private. They don’t exist as part of the public discourse on the blog. If someone emails me a thoughtful response to something I’ve written, that insight benefits exactly two people: me and them. It doesn’t contribute to the broader conversation, it can’t be discovered by future readers, and it doesn’t build community. Email comments are a dead end for knowledge sharing.

                        The second reason is practical: spam. Publishing an email address for comments means exposing an intake mechanism contaminated with rubbish (spam) I have to filter. I read that spam emails make up over 45% of all email sent globally with over 150 billion spam emails sent daily. Yikes! It’s all the overhead of email—the debt, the obligation, the sinking inbox—plus the additional labour of separating signal from noise.

                        But there’s a third reason that feels more important. Email creates asymmetry—one person exposed, the other hidden. People can lob criticism, make demands, or say things they’d never put their name to publicly, all whilst maintaining plausible deniability or avoiding accountability. My blog posts are public. I want the discourse to be public as well.

                        How I’ve Set Things Up

                        I have native WordPress comments enabled on my blog, as well as Webmentions and ActivityPub. I prefer Webmentions and ActivityPub comments, but I acknowledge that not everyone has a website or participates in social media, so native comments are enabled.

                        Webmentions and ActivityPub create a certain distance that feels more comfortable to me. They’re not landing in my inbox demanding immediate attention. When I see a Webmention or an ActivityPub reply, I can let it sit for a while. I don’t feel the immediacy of the “what’s the ask?” reflex. I can respond when I feel like it.

                        I’ve essentially made engagement opt-in and asynchronous on my schedule, not anyone else’s. The discourse is public, timestamped, and visible to anyone who wants to see it. But I engage with it when I choose to.

                        Different Choices

                        The fact that Coyote and I can make completely different choices is rather the whole point of having our own websites. We’re each designing the experience we want to have in our own space.

                        And that autonomy—the ability to choose how engagement works on my own platform—is something I may not get on centralised social media. Here, I get to decide: comments or no comments, email or no comments, Webmentions, ActivityPub, whatever combination serves my purposes.

                        Reading Coyote’s post caused me to think about why my choices are what they are. Worth thinking through.

                        #indienews

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                        [?]Liquidator » 🌐
                        @Liquidator@gamerstavern.online

                        Happy to read about Roomy project that is open source alternative to discord and supports Activity Pub.

                        itsfoss.com/roomy-discord-alte

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                          [?]Giacomo Tesio » 🌐
                          @giacomo@snac.tesio.it

                          @jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place

                          And you should also note how (nly a fraction of boosts that traverse the get actually notified to and/or collected by the original server due to the distributed and eterogeneous nature of the network.

                          In some cases, following the boosts over the network (eg opening with a browser the boosted post on the boosting account) I've noticed a factor of 3-5 between the number of boosts my server recorded and the actual boosts occurred.

                          For example take this post that got notified for 120 boosts

                          Following some of them I see that it got at least:

                          And note that these are just ones because they are easier to track back from , but the post got boosted on other platforms too.

                          So ultimately, the reach is much bigger than the one centalized platforms like or the various playgrounds, where some messages in particular are silently censored.

                          @lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place

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                            [?]Demokritus Jorik :v_gay: » 🌐
                            @serigala_tropis@lgbtqia.space

                            @dansup @pixelfed also, please, for heaven's sake, Pixelfed needs a trivial security feature to be able to revoke sessions.

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                              [?]Demokritus Jorik :v_gay: » 🌐
                              @serigala_tropis@lgbtqia.space

                              @dansup Can I request a @pixelfed feature to be able to pin a post?

                                [?]everton137 » 🌐
                                @everton137@social.vivaldi.net

                                Will Mastodon, the platform that keeps the alive, miss a strategic opportunity to bring official institutions on board at scale?

                                By watching how is being marketed compared to , it certainly seems that way.

                                I wish the folks at Mastodon would invest in more professional marketing, similar to what we're seeing from its rival, Bluesky.

                                There was a major meeting in the EU Parliament focused on this topic, yet there was no announcement or microblog post from Mastodon. Zero engagement.

                                Compare these two approaches:

                                fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

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                                  [?]Web Intents » 🌐
                                  @webintents@mastodon.social

                                  Our official website is now live!

                                  webintents.net

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                                    [?]everton137 » 🌐
                                    @everton137@social.vivaldi.net

                                    If decentralization is the future of social media, where millions or even billions of people share knowledge, then we can learn a lot from how the Open Knowledge Foundation (@okfn) and the Wikimedia Foundation (@wikimediafoundation) built cross-border, international movements with clear missions.

                                    These two organizations are just two examples, but they demonstrate an important point: decentralization worked because communities were intentionally nurtured, not just because the technology was open.

                                    The Fediverse, powered by the ActivityPub protocol, already has the technical capacity to thrive (UI tweaks aside).

                                    What we still lack is the decentralization of communities, including shared ownership, coordination, and a mission that extends beyond individual instances.

                                    Cc @eloquence @bjoernsta @_elena

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                                      [?]roman » 🌐
                                      @hi@romanzolotarev.com

                                      do you run your own instance?

                                      yes, for myself and other people:12
                                      yes, just for myself:32
                                      no, but maybe in the future:38
                                      no:38

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                                        [?]roman » 🌐
                                        @hi@romanzolotarev.com

                                        if you prefer over , then you can subscribe to accounts by adding .rss to their urls. for example:

                                        https://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi

                                        becomes

                                        https://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi.rss

                                        how cool is that? 😎

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                                          [?]roman » 🌐
                                          @hi@romanzolotarev.com

                                          minimal setup in just two days...
                                          • 12 posts
                                          • 60 following
                                          • over 9000 files (sic!)
                                          $ du -hd0 /var/snac && find /var/snac | wc -l
                                          61.8M	/var/snac
                                              9532
                                          $
                                          meanwhile feed is just 9999 bytes
                                          https://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi.rss

                                          $ curl -s https://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi.rss | wc -c
                                              9999
                                          thanks for great defaults and working perfectly out of the box ❤️

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