Small fedi badge update: the service has moved to a new domain. Please update your badges to use fedi-badge.minhee.org instead of fedi-badge.deno.dev. The old domain will stop working in July.

I also shipped a couple of related changes. Badges can now show the logo of the software an instance is running, like Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, and a few others, detected via NodeInfo. If the software isn't recognized, it falls back to the generic fediverse logo.

The service also moved from Deno Deploy Classic, which is sunsetting, to Cloudflare Workers.

VoidZero is joining Cloudflare

The world's first Fedify book, Practical Fedify: Introduction to ActivityPub Microblog Development (実践Fedify——ActivityPubマイクロブログ開発入門), has been published in Japan. This is also the first book I have ever published, and it feels quite surreal that my first book is in Japanese rather than my native language, Korean. This book is an expanded version based on the official English Fedify tutorial, Creating your own federated microblog, with various additions. Yumetsuki Mama (ゆめつきママ) worked on the cute book cover illustration, which features the Fedify dinosaur mascot, Misskey's mascot Ai-chan, and the Mastodon mascot together. It is scheduled to be published in both e-book and print formats on the 22nd by Impress NextPublishing. See also the Amazon Japan.

Hollo 0.8.0 shipped less than a month ago, and 0.9.0 is already shaping up to be a bigger release than I expected. New frontend design, Passkey support, WebFinger domain separation, a media proxy, full FEP-044f (Mastodon-style quote posts) compliance, and Traditional Chinese docs. More details when it's out.

If you'd like to preview the #tutorial I'm writing on building a small federated image sharing service, similar to @nprofile1q..., with @Fedify: ActivityPub server framework and @nprofile1q..., here it is:

https://pr-731-0.fedify.pages.dev/tutorial/content-sharing

If you'd like to give feedback after reading it, please leave a comment on the following PR:

https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/pull/731

#Fedify #fedidev #ActivityPub #Nuxt #Pixelfed

Writing a #Fedify tutorial on creating #threadiverse software…

BOJ (Baekjoon Online Judge), a big competitive programming site in Korea, says it's shutting down on April 28. It has been around since 2010 and, as far as I know, has mostly been one person's work the whole time. The notice doesn't say why. The rumor is that the server bills finally got too high.

What caught my eye is that some people in the Korean #fediverse, including @nprofile1q..., are already talking about whether a federated replacement could work, with #ActivityPub coordinating things and volunteer nodes doing the judging. I have no idea if that can really work, since timing differences between machines are a serious problem in competitive programming, and I'm not the right person to help with it. Still, I like that the first reaction was to try building something.

The hashtag problem in CJK languages

I keep thinking about how fediverse hashtag advice assumes English.

In English, you can drop #coffee into a sentence and it still reads fine. The spacing already does most of the work.

In Korean, Japanese, or Chinese, that feels much less natural. Chinese and Japanese have no spaces between words. Korean does, but particles and endings stick to the word, so putting a hashtag mid-sentence often just looks awkward or breaks the flow.

So people tend to dump hashtags at the end, or skip them.

That changes the usual “follow hashtags to find your community” advice. If people tag less, there's just less there to find. And the fediverse's discovery is already shaky enough without that.

Not sure whether it's a UI problem or just hashtags fitting space-delimited languages better. But it seems like one of those small frictions that makes the fediverse harder to get into for CJK users.