Yet another week of Fedibook discovery. The main focus this week has been getting federation between Fedibook servers working properly. For Fedibook to be a true alternative to Big Social — with a community of Fedibook servers — the experience has to be transparent for users across servers. Group admin features federated
Yet another great Fedibook week! This week has been all about federation — making Fedibook instances talk to each other more reliably — and polishing small but annoying rough edges. I never got the time to establish the improved dev and test environment I was planning for. It will come. Thank you
On March 19th, I started The Fedibook Project as an experiment — Can I show a concept of a "Friends First" social network for the Fediverse that I would like to have myself? Looking at the feedback from the initial users I very humbly dare to say yes! I
I'm back from a week of network installation work in Germany — doing my day job as a network engineer. Not much time left for Fedibook, but rest assured: I've been listening, and I'm back. I'm genuinely humbled by the attention and the
Yet another great Fedibook week! There are now 39 curious users on fedibook.net, and feedback is flooding in as Issues on Codeberg and lots of great feedback in the About Fedibook group. Thank you so much. I am on my way for a week of installation work in Germany
Welcome to the second Fedibook newsletter. I decided to change the week numbering from the calendar week to the week in the life of the Fedibook project. So here is the latest news from the 5th week of Fedibook. Fedibook this week It has been yet another great week, with
Hi Fedifriends, In January 2025 I began entering the Fediverse for real and leaving Big Tech behind. After a few weeks I found a friendly new network on Mastodon, a much-less-toxic photo sharing community on Pixelfed, and I later built myself a PeerTube server for hosting the occasional video. I
I have worked through parts of the findings in code review 1. Here is a follow up report.
I have enabled an "App Light" feature in Fedibook that enables to save the webapp to the phone start screen. An icon was needed - so here it is! The Fedibook logo is a typographic tribute to the Fediverse. The letter "F" is constructed entirely from
Two weeks of creative freedom — trying things, changing direction, letting the AI run — and the technical debt quietly piled up in the background. It's time for a code review. And yes, it found what I'd expect to find. The good news first: the overall architecture holds.
Fedibook is an attempt to build the missing link in the fediverse to connect with friends and community. With a strong focus on making a welcoming fealing to someone about to jump from Facebook. In it's current stage Fedibook works with three element, Friends, Follow and groups. Let&
After a coupe of long nights I think groups are working as I intended. Here is how