Transparency update: Web framework integration progress
We're sharing a public project board to track our progress on web framework integrations for #Fedify, work commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Fund (@sovtechfund). You can follow along at:
The Sovereign Tech Fund invested in Fedify to expand its ecosystem through official integrations with popular web frameworks. This investment enables developers to add federation capabilities to their existing applications without changing their technology stack.
Notably, some of these integrations were completed between our initial application submission and the official kickoff of the #STF investment. This demonstrates both our commitment to the project and the community's active development momentum.
Current status
Already completed:
Next.js integration supporting both App Router and Pages Router (completed before STF kickoff)
Elysia integration optimized for the Bun ecosystem (completed before STF kickoff)
In progress:
Fastify integration (PR currently under review)
Upcoming:
Koa integration
Comprehensive documentation for all integrations
Why this matters
These integrations make Fedify accessible to developers across different JavaScript ecosystems and runtime environments. Each integration follows established patterns from our Express and h3 integrations, ensuring consistency and ease of adoption.
Investment details
Fedify has been awarded a service agreement by the Sovereign Tech Fund for this work, with a budget of €32,000 and completion target of November 30, 2025. The Sovereign Tech Agency supports the development, improvement, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure through investments like this.
We believe in transparent development and welcome community input and contributions.
This investment will enable us to significantly expand Fedify's capabilities and make it easier for developers to build federated applications. The commissioned work focuses on improving developer experience, adding comprehensive debugging tools, and ensuring Fedify remains at the forefront of #ActivityPub innovation.
Here are the key milestones we'll be delivering:
Web framework integrations: Official adapters for Next.js, Elysia, Fastify, and Koa, making it seamless to add federation to existing applications
ActivityPub debug & development tools: Real-time debug dashboard with WebSocket monitoring, federation lifecycle hooks, and implementation checklist CLI to make federation interactions transparent and debuggable
Storage & infrastructure enhancements: SQLiteKvStore for robust file-based storage across Node.js, Deno, and Bun, plus performance optimizations for production deployments
Comprehensive documentation & examples: Specialized tutorials for building federated blogs, social networks, and content platforms, with complete working examples and migration guides
Observability & monitoring: Full OpenTelemetry metrics, performance benchmarking tools, and federation health dashboards for production environments
Advanced features & standards: FEP-ef61 (Portable Objects) support and implementation of emerging Fediverse Enhancement Proposals to keep Fedify at the cutting edge
All developments will be open source and available for the entire #fediverse community to use, contribute to, and build upon.
Transparency update: Web framework integration progress
We're sharing a public project board to track our progress on web framework integrations for #Fedify, work commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Fund (@sovtechfund). You can follow along at:
The Sovereign Tech Fund invested in Fedify to expand its ecosystem through official integrations with popular web frameworks. This investment enables developers to add federation capabilities to their existing applications without changing their technology stack.
Notably, some of these integrations were completed between our initial application submission and the official kickoff of the #STF investment. This demonstrates both our commitment to the project and the community's active development momentum.
Current status
Already completed:
Next.js integration supporting both App Router and Pages Router (completed before STF kickoff)
Elysia integration optimized for the Bun ecosystem (completed before STF kickoff)
In progress:
Fastify integration (PR currently under review)
Upcoming:
Koa integration
Comprehensive documentation for all integrations
Why this matters
These integrations make Fedify accessible to developers across different JavaScript ecosystems and runtime environments. Each integration follows established patterns from our Express and h3 integrations, ensuring consistency and ease of adoption.
Investment details
Fedify has been awarded a service agreement by the Sovereign Tech Fund for this work, with a budget of €32,000 and completion target of November 30, 2025. The Sovereign Tech Agency supports the development, improvement, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure through investments like this.
We believe in transparent development and welcome community input and contributions.
Transparency update: Web framework integration progress
We're sharing a public project board to track our progress on web framework integrations for #Fedify, work commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Fund (@sovtechfund). You can follow along at:
The Sovereign Tech Fund invested in Fedify to expand its ecosystem through official integrations with popular web frameworks. This investment enables developers to add federation capabilities to their existing applications without changing their technology stack.
Notably, some of these integrations were completed between our initial application submission and the official kickoff of the #STF investment. This demonstrates both our commitment to the project and the community's active development momentum.
Current status
Already completed:
Next.js integration supporting both App Router and Pages Router (completed before STF kickoff)
Elysia integration optimized for the Bun ecosystem (completed before STF kickoff)
In progress:
Fastify integration (PR currently under review)
Upcoming:
Koa integration
Comprehensive documentation for all integrations
Why this matters
These integrations make Fedify accessible to developers across different JavaScript ecosystems and runtime environments. Each integration follows established patterns from our Express and h3 integrations, ensuring consistency and ease of adoption.
Investment details
Fedify has been awarded a service agreement by the Sovereign Tech Fund for this work, with a budget of €32,000 and completion target of November 30, 2025. The Sovereign Tech Agency supports the development, improvement, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure through investments like this.
We believe in transparent development and welcome community input and contributions.
Transparency update: Web framework integration progress
We're sharing a public project board to track our progress on web framework integrations for #Fedify, work commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Fund (@sovtechfund). You can follow along at:
The Sovereign Tech Fund invested in Fedify to expand its ecosystem through official integrations with popular web frameworks. This investment enables developers to add federation capabilities to their existing applications without changing their technology stack.
Notably, some of these integrations were completed between our initial application submission and the official kickoff of the #STF investment. This demonstrates both our commitment to the project and the community's active development momentum.
Current status
Already completed:
Next.js integration supporting both App Router and Pages Router (completed before STF kickoff)
Elysia integration optimized for the Bun ecosystem (completed before STF kickoff)
In progress:
Fastify integration (PR currently under review)
Upcoming:
Koa integration
Comprehensive documentation for all integrations
Why this matters
These integrations make Fedify accessible to developers across different JavaScript ecosystems and runtime environments. Each integration follows established patterns from our Express and h3 integrations, ensuring consistency and ease of adoption.
Investment details
Fedify has been awarded a service agreement by the Sovereign Tech Fund for this work, with a budget of €32,000 and completion target of November 30, 2025. The Sovereign Tech Agency supports the development, improvement, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure through investments like this.
We believe in transparent development and welcome community input and contributions.
This investment will enable us to significantly expand Fedify's capabilities and make it easier for developers to build federated applications. The commissioned work focuses on improving developer experience, adding comprehensive debugging tools, and ensuring Fedify remains at the forefront of #ActivityPub innovation.
Here are the key milestones we'll be delivering:
Web framework integrations: Official adapters for Next.js, Elysia, Fastify, and Koa, making it seamless to add federation to existing applications
ActivityPub debug & development tools: Real-time debug dashboard with WebSocket monitoring, federation lifecycle hooks, and implementation checklist CLI to make federation interactions transparent and debuggable
Storage & infrastructure enhancements: SQLiteKvStore for robust file-based storage across Node.js, Deno, and Bun, plus performance optimizations for production deployments
Comprehensive documentation & examples: Specialized tutorials for building federated blogs, social networks, and content platforms, with complete working examples and migration guides
Observability & monitoring: Full OpenTelemetry metrics, performance benchmarking tools, and federation health dashboards for production environments
Advanced features & standards: FEP-ef61 (Portable Objects) support and implementation of emerging Fediverse Enhancement Proposals to keep Fedify at the cutting edge
All developments will be open source and available for the entire #fediverse community to use, contribute to, and build upon.
This investment will enable us to significantly expand Fedify's capabilities and make it easier for developers to build federated applications. The commissioned work focuses on improving developer experience, adding comprehensive debugging tools, and ensuring Fedify remains at the forefront of #ActivityPub innovation.
Here are the key milestones we'll be delivering:
Web framework integrations: Official adapters for Next.js, Elysia, Fastify, and Koa, making it seamless to add federation to existing applications
ActivityPub debug & development tools: Real-time debug dashboard with WebSocket monitoring, federation lifecycle hooks, and implementation checklist CLI to make federation interactions transparent and debuggable
Storage & infrastructure enhancements: SQLiteKvStore for robust file-based storage across Node.js, Deno, and Bun, plus performance optimizations for production deployments
Comprehensive documentation & examples: Specialized tutorials for building federated blogs, social networks, and content platforms, with complete working examples and migration guides
Observability & monitoring: Full OpenTelemetry metrics, performance benchmarking tools, and federation health dashboards for production environments
Advanced features & standards: FEP-ef61 (Portable Objects) support and implementation of emerging Fediverse Enhancement Proposals to keep Fedify at the cutting edge
All developments will be open source and available for the entire #fediverse community to use, contribute to, and build upon.
This is amazing news! Fedify has received a substantial grant for further development, including portability for fediverse objects and enhanced dev kits for ActivityPub. 🎉🎉🎉
This is amazing news! Fedify has received a substantial grant for further development, including portability for fediverse objects and enhanced dev kits for ActivityPub. 🎉🎉🎉
This is amazing news! Fedify has received a substantial grant for further development, including portability for fediverse objects and enhanced dev kits for ActivityPub. 🎉🎉🎉
This investment will enable us to significantly expand Fedify's capabilities and make it easier for developers to build federated applications. The commissioned work focuses on improving developer experience, adding comprehensive debugging tools, and ensuring Fedify remains at the forefront of #ActivityPub innovation.
Here are the key milestones we'll be delivering:
Web framework integrations: Official adapters for Next.js, Elysia, Fastify, and Koa, making it seamless to add federation to existing applications
ActivityPub debug & development tools: Real-time debug dashboard with WebSocket monitoring, federation lifecycle hooks, and implementation checklist CLI to make federation interactions transparent and debuggable
Storage & infrastructure enhancements: SQLiteKvStore for robust file-based storage across Node.js, Deno, and Bun, plus performance optimizations for production deployments
Comprehensive documentation & examples: Specialized tutorials for building federated blogs, social networks, and content platforms, with complete working examples and migration guides
Observability & monitoring: Full OpenTelemetry metrics, performance benchmarking tools, and federation health dashboards for production environments
Advanced features & standards: FEP-ef61 (Portable Objects) support and implementation of emerging Fediverse Enhancement Proposals to keep Fedify at the cutting edge
All developments will be open source and available for the entire #fediverse community to use, contribute to, and build upon.
This investment will enable us to significantly expand Fedify's capabilities and make it easier for developers to build federated applications. The commissioned work focuses on improving developer experience, adding comprehensive debugging tools, and ensuring Fedify remains at the forefront of #ActivityPub innovation.
Here are the key milestones we'll be delivering:
Web framework integrations: Official adapters for Next.js, Elysia, Fastify, and Koa, making it seamless to add federation to existing applications
ActivityPub debug & development tools: Real-time debug dashboard with WebSocket monitoring, federation lifecycle hooks, and implementation checklist CLI to make federation interactions transparent and debuggable
Storage & infrastructure enhancements: SQLiteKvStore for robust file-based storage across Node.js, Deno, and Bun, plus performance optimizations for production deployments
Comprehensive documentation & examples: Specialized tutorials for building federated blogs, social networks, and content platforms, with complete working examples and migration guides
Observability & monitoring: Full OpenTelemetry metrics, performance benchmarking tools, and federation health dashboards for production environments
Advanced features & standards: FEP-ef61 (Portable Objects) support and implementation of emerging Fediverse Enhancement Proposals to keep Fedify at the cutting edge
All developments will be open source and available for the entire #fediverse community to use, contribute to, and build upon.
This investment will enable us to significantly expand Fedify's capabilities and make it easier for developers to build federated applications. The commissioned work focuses on improving developer experience, adding comprehensive debugging tools, and ensuring Fedify remains at the forefront of #ActivityPub innovation.
Here are the key milestones we'll be delivering:
Web framework integrations: Official adapters for Next.js, Elysia, Fastify, and Koa, making it seamless to add federation to existing applications
ActivityPub debug & development tools: Real-time debug dashboard with WebSocket monitoring, federation lifecycle hooks, and implementation checklist CLI to make federation interactions transparent and debuggable
Storage & infrastructure enhancements: SQLiteKvStore for robust file-based storage across Node.js, Deno, and Bun, plus performance optimizations for production deployments
Comprehensive documentation & examples: Specialized tutorials for building federated blogs, social networks, and content platforms, with complete working examples and migration guides
Observability & monitoring: Full OpenTelemetry metrics, performance benchmarking tools, and federation health dashboards for production environments
Advanced features & standards: FEP-ef61 (Portable Objects) support and implementation of emerging Fediverse Enhancement Proposals to keep Fedify at the cutting edge
All developments will be open source and available for the entire #fediverse community to use, contribute to, and build upon.
This investment will enable us to significantly expand Fedify's capabilities and make it easier for developers to build federated applications. The commissioned work focuses on improving developer experience, adding comprehensive debugging tools, and ensuring Fedify remains at the forefront of #ActivityPub innovation.
Here are the key milestones we'll be delivering:
Web framework integrations: Official adapters for Next.js, Elysia, Fastify, and Koa, making it seamless to add federation to existing applications
ActivityPub debug & development tools: Real-time debug dashboard with WebSocket monitoring, federation lifecycle hooks, and implementation checklist CLI to make federation interactions transparent and debuggable
Storage & infrastructure enhancements: SQLiteKvStore for robust file-based storage across Node.js, Deno, and Bun, plus performance optimizations for production deployments
Comprehensive documentation & examples: Specialized tutorials for building federated blogs, social networks, and content platforms, with complete working examples and migration guides
Observability & monitoring: Full OpenTelemetry metrics, performance benchmarking tools, and federation health dashboards for production environments
Advanced features & standards: FEP-ef61 (Portable Objects) support and implementation of emerging Fediverse Enhancement Proposals to keep Fedify at the cutting edge
All developments will be open source and available for the entire #fediverse community to use, contribute to, and build upon.
This investment will enable us to significantly expand Fedify's capabilities and make it easier for developers to build federated applications. The commissioned work focuses on improving developer experience, adding comprehensive debugging tools, and ensuring Fedify remains at the forefront of #ActivityPub innovation.
Here are the key milestones we'll be delivering:
Web framework integrations: Official adapters for Next.js, Elysia, Fastify, and Koa, making it seamless to add federation to existing applications
ActivityPub debug & development tools: Real-time debug dashboard with WebSocket monitoring, federation lifecycle hooks, and implementation checklist CLI to make federation interactions transparent and debuggable
Storage & infrastructure enhancements: SQLiteKvStore for robust file-based storage across Node.js, Deno, and Bun, plus performance optimizations for production deployments
Comprehensive documentation & examples: Specialized tutorials for building federated blogs, social networks, and content platforms, with complete working examples and migration guides
Observability & monitoring: Full OpenTelemetry metrics, performance benchmarking tools, and federation health dashboards for production environments
Advanced features & standards: FEP-ef61 (Portable Objects) support and implementation of emerging Fediverse Enhancement Proposals to keep Fedify at the cutting edge
All developments will be open source and available for the entire #fediverse community to use, contribute to, and build upon.
사실 2분기 결산에도 담고 싶은 내용은 있었는데, 알짜배기 컨텐츠는 3분기에 몰려있어서 이렇게 몰아쓰게 되었다. 1분기 결산 때 다음 분기부터 어떻게 할 것인지 계획을 나열해놓긴 했었는데, 사실 몇가지 더 중요한게 생기는 바람에 따로 챙기진 못했다. 그만큼 여러가지 굵직굵직한 이벤트가 생겼다고 보면 되는데, 어떤 일들이 있었는지 하나하나씩 나열해보고자 한다. 1분기 결산에서 계획했던 일들이 틀어졌던건 나름 이유가 있었다(라고 자기합리화를 해본다)
Timeline
4월부터 이 글을 쓰고 있는 9월까지, 2주~4주 단위로 여러가지 큼직큼직한 일들이 일어났다. 개인(혹은 업무)적인 일부터 대외적인 활동과 관련된 일까지. 내가 너무 많이 뿌려놓은 씨를 거두느라 개고생한 흔적, 다시 말해서 업보청산의 히스토리라고 볼 수도 있겠다.
2025-04-10 (수입이 들어오지 않기 시작함) : 강남에 파견근무를 가던 일이 있었다고 이전 글에서 언급한 적이 있다. 그런데, 어느 날, 임금이 미지급되고 말았다. 임금이 미지급된 건 관련해서 노무적인 협상을 시도하긴 했는데, 새로 작성한 계약서에 몇가지 찝찝한 조항이 있어서 더 이상 진행하지 않기로 하고 수입이 없는 나날이 시작되었다. 바이브코딩이 한참 뜨고 있었던 시기였어서 돈이 안되지만 일단 아이디어 가지고 일단 만들어보는 생활만 거의 3개월 했다. 결과적으론, 딱히 소득은 없었던 것 같다.
돈이 들어올 구멍이 없으면 외주라도 넣어야겠어서, 프리모아/위시켓 같은 외주플랫폼에서 돈이라도 따오자라는 제안을 했었고, 지원서 넣는 것도 내가 다 했다. 그 외에도 외주 견적서 뽑아주는 사이트도 만들고, 내 돈(법인계좌로 빌려준 돈 400만원 중 일부)으로 페이스북 마케팅비 태우기까지 했는데 딱히 큰 성과는 없었다. 2인 사업장에서 겨우 버틸 수 있으려면 한달에 최소 1,000만원은 벌어야 하는데, 그에 한참 미치지 못하는 건들도 많았다. (물론, 실무적인건 내가 주로 해왔다)
⭐ 2025-05-11 (파이콘 발표 지원) : "올해는 파이콘에서 발표 꼭 해봐야겠다"라는 생각을 하고는 있었는데, 마침 Aider로 온갖 실험을 하고 있었던 찰나였어서 "Aider와 함께하는 바이브코딩"이라는 주제로 패기롭게 CFP 자료를 제출했다. 물론.... 여기서부터가 심장이 쫄깃쫄깃해지는 나날이 시작되었다.
2025-05-24 (한국 연합우주 개발자 모임, 두번째 스프린트 밋업 주관)
한국 연합우주 개발자 모임의 첫번째 스프린트 밋업을 연지가 9개월 정도가 지나서 간만에 열었다. 모임을 여러군데 운영하다보니까 정신이 없기도 했고, '어디에서 모임을 또 열지'하고 고민만 하다가 계속 미뤄졌던 것도 컸다. 가능하면 "1달 단위로 열 수 있도록"은 해봐야겠다는 생각은 든다. 물론 내 여가시간을 희생하는건 불가피하겠지만...
물론, 이후의 모임은 뒤에서 설명할 Fedify 기여활동을 시작하게 되면서 미뤄지게 되었다......
⭐ 2025-06-19 (파이콘 발표자로 선정) : '에이, 설마 되겠어?'하고 반신반의했었는데, 파이콘 한국 2025 발표자로 선정이 되고 말았다. 이 당시까지만 해도 굉장히 자신만만했다. 그리고 어떤 일이 있었는지는..... 아래 사진과 당시 대본으로 설명을 대신하겠다.
정말…. 그… 발표를 준비하는데도 강산이 계속 변했습니다.
저는 터미널에서 Cursor 못지 않게 LLM으로 개발하기 딱 좋은 도구가 있다고 해서 Aider를 도입을 했고, 플러터 개발을 할 수 있을 정도로 기여도 하고 그랬는데요.
다른 LLM 에이전트 도구들도 계속 발전을 해왔습니다.
Claude Code도 5월 1일쯤인가 Todo List라는 기능이 들어가면서 약간은 성능이 괜찮아졌구요. 물론 이때도 Aider만큼 좋지는 않았던 것 같아요.
그래서 확신에 찬 마음으로 5월 11일 파이콘 CFP 마감하는 날에 Aider를 주제로 발표자료를 제출했구요.
그런데, 어느날 5월 16일 OpenAI에서 LLM 코딩 에이전트를 하나 출시하고, 웹에서 백그라운드로 돌아가는 제품을 또 출시 했더라구요?
그리고 5월 23일, 앤스로픽에서 Global Available 버전으로 Claude Code가 출시가 되었고, 많은 각광을 받았습니다.
6월 13일, 저도 한번 Claude Code를 본격적으로 사용하기 시작했고, Aider랑 비교할겸해서 병행해서 사용하게 되었던 것 같아요.
그리고, Claude Code와 Aider 사이에 갈등하던 중…. 6월 19일 파이콘 한국 2025 발표자로 선정이 되고 말았습니다.
네. 그래도, 뭐, Aider가 구글 쪽 좋은 모델을 갖다쓸 수 있는 장점이 있으니까.. 그래도 차별적인 장점은 존재한다고 생각하고 계속 확신은 가지고 있었어요.
그런데, 그 일주일 뒤에 Gemini CLI가 공식 발표됩니다.
이럴 수가…… 하고 또 넉놓은 사이, 또 일주일 뒤에 Cursor에서 신기능을 발표하고,
그리고 또 일주일 뒤에 Kiro 라는 개발도구가 발표되었습니다.
Spec Driven Development를 녹여낸 제품이다 뭐다하면서요.
LLM 기반의 개발도구는 따라잡기 버거울 정도로 계속 발전하고 있습니다.
⭐ 2025-07-04 (Fedify 프로젝트에 기여자로 참여) : NIPA에서 주관하는 오픈소스에 기여할 수 있는 멘토링 프로그램, 오픈소스 컨트리뷰션 아카데미(줄여서 OSSCA)에서 Fedify 팀 멘티로 선정이 되었다.
Fedify는 홍민희님이 진행하시는 오픈소스 프로젝트인데, 쉽게 말하자면 ActivityPub 프로토콜을 지원하는 웹 서비스 개발의 난이도를 낮춰주는 프레임워크다. Express/Hono/Fresh/NestJS 등 Typescript 기반의 웹프레임워크와 같이 연동해서 사용할 수 있다.
예를 들자면, 마스토돈 같은 분산형 SNS 서비스를 만들어야 한다고 가정해보자. SNS 기능을 지원하는 서비스를 만드는 것 정도는 MVP를 만드는 것 정도는 어렵지 않게 가능할 수 있다. 하지만, 각자 다른 환경에 서비스가 self hosted되어 있고, 각각의 서비스가 하나의 타임라인을 구성하는 것처럼 연합되려면 일종의 프로토콜이 필요한데, 그것이 바로 ActivityPub이다.
ActivityPub 프로토콜 스펙에 맞게 소프트웨어를 구현하려면 당연히 inbox를 구현하고, outbox를 구현하고, message queue를 구현하고, Activity를 전달하는 매커니즘을 구현해야 하고, 특정 Activity를 받았을때 어떻게 할 지에 대해서 정의하는 인터페이스가 필요한데, 자잘한 인터페이스를 정의해야하는 수고로움을 Fedify에서는 획기적으로 줄여준다. Fedify와 연동이 되어 있다면, 거기서 제공하는 인터페이스를 가져다 쓰기만 하면 된다.
Fedify는 ActivityPub 기반의 소프트웨어를 만들기 위해 어떤 고려사항이 필요한지, 그리고 어떤 구현요소가 필요한지 등등이 어지간하면 정리가 되어있고, 홍민희님이 Hollo, Hackers' Pub 등의 소프트웨어를 직접 개밥먹기하면서 개발해온 노하우가 문서에 녹아 있다.
그리고 2025-07-12 OSSCA 발대식에 참여도 했고, 팀별 발대식하면서 자발적으로 부멘토 역할을 하기로 했다. OSSCA Challenges(~08/10) 기간 동안에는 가능하면 많은 분들이 기여를 하셨으면 좋겠어서, 멘티분들이 어떤 특기를 가지고 있는지 간단하게 설문조사를 했었고, 각자의 특기에 맞게 골고루 일을 분배시키는 역할은 했던 것 같다. 일정 트래킹은 덤. 지금 진행중인 Masters는 여러가지 일정이 겹쳐서 늘어지고 있는데, 벌써 마감(11/01)이 코앞이다 (ㅋㅋ)
부멘토 역할 외에도 내가 담당하고 있는 파트는 NestJS 지원(fedify/nestjs)인데, 이 PR을 시작으로 NestJS 기반의 연합우주 소프트웨어를 개발하고 있다. 처음에는 내가 개발중인 모노리포 프로젝트의 패키지로서 정의해서 갖다쓰는 방식으로 접근했다가, Fedify의 서브패키지로서 갖다 쓰는 방식. 이 과정에서도 정말 여러가지 우여곡절이 있었다. 내가 개발중인 프로젝트는 연합우주판 SlideShare인데, 추석 연휴 중에 배포까지 끝내고, OSSCA 성과발표회때 MVP 시연하는걸 목표로 하고 있다. 실서비스를 생각하고 도메인(cosmosli.de)이랑 맥미니도 사놨다.
NestJS 자체는 CommonJS 기반의 모듈 시스템 위에서 돌아가고 있다. Fedify는 원래 ESM 기반의 모듈 시스템 위에서 돌아가는 라이브러리인데, CommonJS 지원한다고 홍민희님이 도움을 많이 주셨다... NestJS에서 지겹도록 사용하고 있는 Decorator 문법이 사실은 deno 런타임에서는 지원되지 않는다던가, Decorator 문법을 지원하기 위해서 라이브러리 빌드할때 tsconfig를 별도로 건드려줘야한다던가 등등 여러가지 사정이 있었다. 특히, js-temporal/polyfill이 mjs에서 뽑히는거랑 cjs에서 뽑히는게 다를 줄은 누가 알았겠는가.....
⭐ 2025-07-06 (vimrc 2025 준비 첫 미팅) : 누군가가 "Vim 교정 학원 안 열어주나"라고 트윗을 했던 것을 시작으로 2019년/2022년 이렇게 3년 단위로 박현우(lqez)님의 주도로 vim 사용자들의 모임이 연말마다 진행되곤 했었다. 어느 날, "올해도 과연 열릴 것인가?" 라는 의문이 들어서 현우님한테 vimrc 진행 계획을 DM으로 여쭤보았다가, vim.kr 주관으로 여는 걸로 바톤을 이어받게 되었다. 그리고 7월 6일 첫 미팅을 했고, 11월 중순에 진행하는 것으로 결정이 되었다.
vim.kr 주관으로 중간 정도 규모의 컨퍼런스 열어야지 열어야지 했다가 위에서 언급한 맥락들을 비롯한 개인적인 사정으로 계속 미뤄졌는데, 그나마 vimrc 행사라도 이어받았다. 이거라도 반드시 해내야지.
2025-07-31 (퇴사) : 사업장의 경영난으로 인해서, 월급도 3개월 이상 밀리기도 했고 더 이상 지속하기 어렵겠다는 판단이 들어서 아예 독립을 시작했다. 그 외에도 받아야 할 돈이 제법 있는데, 여러가지 면에서 문제가 많았기 때문에 누가봐도 함께하기 어렵다(그리고 함께해서는 안된다)는 명분은 충분했다. 3년 동안 정말 길면서도 짧은 세월이었다. 그리고, 여기서 하던 외주도 따로 들고 나왔다.
마무리는 어쩔 수 없이 내가 해야한다는 강박은 있었고, 사업장(그래봤자 2인이지만)에서 진행하는 것보다 내가 혼자 들고 있는 편이 낫기도 했고, 그냥 튀어버리자니 여러가지 찜찜한 구석이 있었다.
온전히 포트폴리오 쌓기/취업 준비에만 시간을 쏟아붓고 싶었지만, 하루의 절반은 외주에 시간을 써야 하는게 아쉽기만 하다. 시간을 통으로 확보할 수 있는 사람들이 한편으로는 부럽다는 생각이 든다.
2025-08-09 (개인 명함 디자인) : 하제의 도움을 받아서 피그마로 개인 명함 제작하는 레슨을 들었다. 그리고 명함 디자인 만드는건 하제가 거의 다 따줬다.
생각보다 디자인이 잘 나왔어서 커피챗을 나갈때도, 행사장을 돌아다닐때도 받는 사람들마다 평은 좋았던 것 같다.
⭐ 2025-08-10 (UbuCon Korea 2025 발표) : UbuCon Korea 2025에서는 발표를 두탕 뛰었다.
사실은 한참 전부터 Ubucon Korea 오거나이저 분들한테도 Vim 관련해서 세션을 열어달라는 제안은 있었다. 정확히는 BoF 세션을 열어보는게 어떠냐는 내용이었다. BoF가 뭔가하고 알아보긴 했는데, 간단하게 요약하자면 사회자가 어떤 주제를 가지고 화두를 던지면 사람들이 자발적으로 프리스타일로 얘기할 수 있는 자리를 가지는 세션이다. 가능하면 Vim 외에도 다른 에디터를 쓰는 사람들도 견해를 나눌 수 있으면 좋겠어서, Emacs를 잘 아시는 rangho님도 공통 진행자로 모시고, 막 전역하신 neovim 플러그인 장인 boltless님을 발표자 지인 찬스로 모셨다. 그리고, 결과는 성공적이었다.
아마 한국의 규모있는 컨퍼런스 중에서는 처음으로 연합우주(Fediverse)를 소개하는 세션일 수도 있을 것 같다. 해외에는 fosstodon.org/hachyderm.io/floss.social/infosec.exchange 등 연합우주 인스턴스에 터를 잡은 FOSS 개발자들이 많이 있는데, 국내에는 잘 안보이기도 하고 유입이 거의 없다. 국내에는 홍민희님을 중심으로 Hackers' Pub에 개발자들이 유입되고 있는데, 여기에 부스터를 달아주고자 겸사겸사 발표를 지원했다. 한국 연합우주 개발자 모임 모더레이터도 하고 있기 때문에 명분은 충분했다. 이 발표를 통해서, 국내에도 개발자 커뮤니티 전반적으로 연합우주에 대한 저변이 조금이라도 넓혀졌지는 않았을까 싶다.
사실은 맨 마지막 슬라이드의 Hackers Pub 초대장 QR 코드가 핵심 목적이었다 (ㅋㅋ)
그리고...... OSSCA Challenges 기간이 끝난 시점이었어서, 행사가 끝나자마자 광화문에서 서초로 칼같이 이동해서 Fedify팀 단체 회식도 따로 가졌다.
⭐ 2025-08-16 ~ 2025-08-17 (PyCon KR 참여) : 올해는 파이콘 한국에 커뮤니티 후원사로서도 참여하고, 발표자로서도 참여했다. 정신없는 나날을 보냈던 것 같다.
후원사로서 참여할때는 Hackers' Pub/한국 연합우주 개발자 모임/vim.kr 이렇게 커뮤니티 세군데에 걸쳐서 부스를 지켰다.
어쩌다가 커뮤니티 세군데에 걸쳐서 부스를 지키게 되었는지에 대해서 얘기하자면 길다. 올해도 커뮤니티 후원사로 참여할 생각은 있었지만, 파이콘 트위터 계정의 커뮤니티 후원사 모집 공고가 누군가의 팬클럽 디스코드에 좌표로 찍히면서 시작되었다. 요약하자면, 딱히 많지도 않은 금액으로 커뮤니티 후원사로 참여가 가능하다는 뭐 그런 내용이었다. 그렇게.... vim.kr 모더레이터인 다른 친구 한 명 더 껴서, 한 디스코드 서버에서 4개의 커뮤니티가 파이콘 한국에 후원사로 참여하게 되었다. 그냥 할 수 있으니까? 무턱대고 저질러버렸다.
양일간 한국 연합우주 개발자 모임 부스만 계속 지키고 있었다. 중간중간에 vim.kr 부스도 지키고, Hackers' Pub 부스를 지키긴 했지만 대부분의 시간은 한국 연합우주 개발자 모임 부스에만 있었다. 발표하느라 자리를 비우는 동안, 다른 세션 들으러 가는 동안, 같은 Fedify 팀 멘티인 이찬행님/권지원님 그 외에도 김무훈님, 하제도 부스를 지키는걸 도와줬다. 압도적 감사...
그리고 vim.kr 부스는 낙관적으로 생각했던 것과는 다르게 신경쓸 겨를이 너무 없었다. sliver님, 이벤트 티켓으로 선정되셨던 성지호님, 그리고 iblea님이 정말 고생을 많이 해주셨다. 다음엔 커뮤니티 부스를 여러개 세우게 된다면, 백업플랜을 많이 세우던가 해야겠다.
발표자로서 참여할때는..... 떨려왔던 것에 비해서는 생각보다 반응은 괜찮았던 것 같다. AI 도구가 너무 빠르게 발전해온 탓에 내 발표는 실시간으로 망한 컨텐츠가 되어가고 있었음에도 불구하고, 여전히 내가 전달하고 싶었던 핵심적인 메시지는 변하지 않았다. "사람 자체가 강해져야 하고, 아는 만큼 올바르게 지시내릴 수 있다"
컨퍼런스 발표는 뭐랄까... CFP 모집부터 발표자로 확정되고 발표하기까지의 사이클이 길다면 긴 편인데, 빨리 변하는 컨텐츠는 가능하면 다루지 말아야겠다는 교훈을 얻었다. 책을 출간하는 것도 마찬가지겠지...
⭐ 2025-09-14 (Hackers' Public 주최) : 한국 연합우주 개발자 모임 주관으로 해커스펍 오프라인 모임 Hackers' Public 첫번째 모임을 성공적으로 끝냈다.
Hackers' Pub에서 오프라인 모임을 열었으면 좋겠다는 수요는 꾸준히 있어왔다. 그렇다면, "어떻게 모일 것인가?"가 문제였다. 가능하면 많은 사람들이 만족할 수 있어야 하고, 너무 가볍지도 않으면서 한편으로는 지적인 호기심을 자극시키고, 네트워킹하면서도 여운이 남을 수 있는 그런 행사를 만드는게 이상적일 것이다.
사실은, 모임을 어떻게 열까에 대해서 밑바닥부터 고민해보기 보다는 이런 형태의 행사는 열어봐야겠다고 지속적으로 눈여겨보고 있던 행사는 있었다. 바로 NYC Systems Meetup인데, 적당히 소규모이면서 다양한 분야의 전문가들이 각자의 분야(컴파일러/데이터베이스/브라우저/IDE/...)에서 어떤 챌린징한 과제를 하고 있는지를 소개하는 밋업이다. 유튜브 영상도 공개되어 있다. 완전히 이런 형태의 밋업을 따라갈 수는 없겠지만, 큰 틀에서 봤을 때 내가 가장 마음에 들었던 부분은 '지적호기심을 유발하는 적당히 하드코어한 주제' 중심의 밋업이라는 점, 그리고 '특정 언어/프레임워크에 종속적이지 않다'라는 점이었다. 연사자 분들을 섭외하는데 있어서 가장 핵심적인 기준이 되었다.
내가 생각하는 이상적인 모임에 연사자로 적합하다고 생각해둔 후보가 몇명 있었다. 그 중 몇몇 후보가 dalgona님, Jake Seo님이었어서 첫번째 모임 연사자로 모시게 되었다. 그리고, 역시 예상한대로 반응은 좋았다. 다만, 네트워킹 시간이 생각보다 적게 확보되어서 아쉬웠다. 다음에 행사를 열게 된다면 4시간 확보해둘까 생각하고 있다.
2023년에 RubyKaigi를 참여했던 이후로 2년만에 일본에 들리는 셈인데, 파이썬으로 밥벌이를 하고 있지는 않지만 일본 개발자들과 네트워킹도 하고, 간만에 해외여행도 하고 싶어서 질러버렸다.
자세한 내용은..... Mastodon 사담계에서 거의 생중계했으니 여기를 참고하면 될 것 같다. 혹시나 아티클을 또 발행할게 될 수도 있을 것 같은데, 그건 확실하지는 않다.
요약하자면.....
자유의 몸이 되어서 일단은 취준 모드에 들어가있고,
PyCon KR/UbuCon KR에서 두 차례 발표를 했고,
Hackers' Pub에서 내가 열고 싶은 이상적인 형태의 밋업 첫 스타트를 끊었고,
Fedify라는 오픈소스 프로젝트에 기여자로 참여하면서 Fedify를 중심으로 한 연합우주 생태계를 넓히는 작업을 진행중이고,
그러면서 외주도 진행중이다.
맙소사, 나열해봤더니 정말 많다. 2분기는 모르겠지만, 3분기는 확실히 판은 많이 벌려놨고 하고 싶은건 다 하면서 살았다. 그리고 아직까지도 청산해야하는 것들이 많아서 11월까지는 구직을 미룰 것이다.
그래서 현재 상태는?
이것저것 나열하느라 얘기가 좀 길어지긴 했다. 어떤 것을 했고, 어떤 이벤트가 일어났고, 여러가지 사실 관계들을 나열하기만 했다. 그렇다면 지금의 내 상태는 어떤가?
일은 벌려놨지만, 딱히 수입은 없다. 그래도 만족한다.
위에서 언급했다시피 4월 이후로 수입은 거의 끊긴 상태다. 사업장 안에서 외주를 진행할때는 100/200 이렇게 중간에 들어오긴 했지만, 진행 중인 외주 마무리하고 잔금을 받으면 300은 받을 수 있다. 그 외에는 그냥 돈이 빠져나간다고 보면 된다. 혹시 몰라서 대출받아놓은게 있었는데, 거기다가 미국주식 투자한 것도 있어서 총알이 없지는 않다. 1월까지는 버틸 수 있는 금액이다.
그렇다고, 외주를 더 하기에는 내가 원하는 일자리 구할 기회도 놓치고, 괜히 잘못 계약맺었다가 발이 묶일 수도 있을 것 같아서 일부러 더 하고 있지는 않다. 지금 내가 벌려놓고 있는 일들도 올해 안에 끝장은 봐야하는데, 여기에 뭔가를 더 추가할 수는 없다. 감당할 수 있는건 지금 상태가 마지노선인 것 같다.
그래도.... 나름 하고 싶은건 다 하면서 지내고 있다.
취준은 하고 있는데, 프론트엔드 중심은 아니게 되었다.
분명, 1분기 때는 취업준비를 프론트엔드 중심으로 취업준비를 하리라고 다짐을 하긴 했건만, Fedify에 집중을 하다보니 프론트엔드 중심으로 취업준비하는 건 굉장히 비효율적이라는 판단이 들었다. 위에서 설명했듯, Fedify는 Express/Fastify/NestJS 등 백엔드 프레임워크에서 연합우주 소프트웨어를 개발하는 난이도를 낮추기 위한 라이브러리이다.
그 중에서, 나는 Fedify를 응용해서 NestJS 기반의 연합우주 소프트웨어를 개발하고 있는데, 계속 프로젝트를 진행하다보니 프로젝트는 프론트엔드 보다는 백엔드에 좀 더 전적으로 집중을 해야하는 상황이 되고 있다. 시간이라는 예산이 한정되어있기 때문에, 일자리를 알아보더라도 Node.js 백엔드 엔지니어 중심으로 일자리를 알아보거나 혹은 풀스택 엔지니어로서 일자리를 알아보는게 맞겠다는 판단이 생겼다. FastAPI/Django 쓰는 일자리도 열려있긴 하지만, 선택과 집중을 해야하는 관계로 당장은 Node.js 중심의 일자리를 알아보는 방향으로 노선을 유지하고 있다.
커피챗 갈 때마다, 특정 프레임워크에 숙련된 사람을 원하는지, 혹은 framework agnostic한 관점에서 문제 해결 능력이 뛰어난 인재를 원하는지(사실 이 기준도 어떻게 정의하느냐에 따라 다를 순 있다.) 꼭 물어보곤 하는데, 사실 어느 쪽의 입장이더라도 이해는 된다. 프레임워크에 어느 정도 숙련된 사람을 채용하는 쪽이 아무래도 전반적인 코드 품질이 보장되는 것은 물론이고, 프레임워크를 학습시키느라 드는 학습비용의 우려도 없을 수 있기 때문에 선호될 수도 있을 것이다. Rails 백그라운드이긴 하지만 Rails가 아닌 백엔드 일자리를 알아보고 있는 입장에서, 어떻게 보면 불리한 시작이라고 할 수 있다. 그렇더라도, "하나라도 잘해야 한다. 내가 지금 NestJS로 프로젝트를 진행하고 있으니, 이거라도 제대로 해내야겠다." 라는 생각으로 임하고 있다.
기술면접도 일단 간간히 준비하고는 있다. 이론도 거의 다 까먹어서 OSTEP(Operating Systems : Three Easy Pieces), HPBN(High Performance Browser Networking) 이렇게 두 개의 교재를 위주로 공부하고는 있다. 즉, OS랑 네트워크를 중심으로 공부하고 있다. 데이터메이스는 CMUDB 유튜브 강의로 공부하려고 생각은 하고 있는데, 일단 저것부터 다 끝내고 생각해보는 것으로.... 알고리즘은 감각이 퇴화되긴 했는데, 아예 죽지는 않은 것 같다.
And...?
그렇다면, 다음 분기에는 무엇을 할까? 하나 확실한 교훈은 얻었다. 다음 분기는 가능하면 내가 현재 하고 있는 것과 관련있는 것을 중심으로 좀 더 스케일업하는 계획을 먼저 세우도록 하고, 곁다리로 계획을 세운다면 충분히 바쁜 상황에서도 소화할 자신이 있는지를 먼저 생각해봐야겠다는 것.
이렇게 4분기를 앞두고 있는 시점에서, 작년에 계획했던 것들 다시 되짚어보자면
Amazon Kindle 재고 처리하기 <- 아직 청산을 하나도 못했다
자기전에 Coursera 강의 듣기 <- 취직해서 자리 잡는게 시급해서 우선순위가 뒤로 미뤄져있다
블로그 글 5개 발행하기 <- 이건 다행히 맞출 수 있을 것 같다. 다음 분기때 글 2-3개 이상만 쓰면 된다.
해외 오프라인 컨퍼런스에서 강연하기 <- 아쉽게도 타이밍을 놓쳤다
자기계발 뿐만이 아니라 다른 분야의 책 읽어보기 <- 다음 분기는 최소 책 하나라도 읽긴 해야겠다....
일본에서 열리는 VimConf 참여할 파티 구하기 <- OSSCA 성과발표회와 일정이 겹쳐서 못간다.
zig 기반의 오픈소스 프로젝트에 기여하기 <- 한 때 꽂히긴 했었는데, 지금은 엄두가 안나고 있다.
내가 좋아하는 프레임워크에 기여하기 <- 이것도 자리를 잡고나서 생각해봐야 할 것 같은데, 내년에는 시도해볼 수 있을 듯 싶다.
계획을 세워놓기만 하고 하나도 안하는건 그것도 그거대로 영 찝찝하기 때문에, 하나라도 제대로 해내야겠다는 강박은 있다. 그리고, 벌려놓은 것들은 완전히 마무리 짓는건 당연히 해내야 하고, 가능하면 크리스마스 이전에는 자리를 잡을 수 있으면 좋겠다.
Thinking about building “#Fedify Studio” (tentative name)—a web-based #ActivityPub debugging & development toolkit, like a supercharged version of ActivityPub.Academy and fedify inbox command. Imagine having a proper UI for testing activities, inspecting actors, debugging federation issues… Would this be useful for other ActivityPub developers out there?
Thinking about building “#Fedify Studio” (tentative name)—a web-based #ActivityPub debugging & development toolkit, like a supercharged version of ActivityPub.Academy and fedify inbox command. Imagine having a proper UI for testing activities, inspecting actors, debugging federation issues… Would this be useful for other ActivityPub developers out there?
Thinking about building “#Fedify Studio” (tentative name)—a web-based #ActivityPub debugging & development toolkit, like a supercharged version of ActivityPub.Academy and fedify inbox command. Imagine having a proper UI for testing activities, inspecting actors, debugging federation issues… Would this be useful for other ActivityPub developers out there?
Thinking about building “#Fedify Studio” (tentative name)—a web-based #ActivityPub debugging & development toolkit, like a supercharged version of ActivityPub.Academy and fedify inbox command. Imagine having a proper UI for testing activities, inspecting actors, debugging federation issues… Would this be useful for other ActivityPub developers out there?
Thinking about building “#Fedify Studio” (tentative name)—a web-based #ActivityPub debugging & development toolkit, like a supercharged version of ActivityPub.Academy and fedify inbox command. Imagine having a proper UI for testing activities, inspecting actors, debugging federation issues… Would this be useful for other ActivityPub developers out there?
We're excited to share an update on #Fedify's development! While we're actively working on Fedify 1.9 in the main branch, we've also begun preparations for Fedify 2.0 in the next branch.
Before you get too excited about revolutionary new features, we want to set clear expectations: Fedify 2.0 will primarily focus on cleaning up technical debt that we couldn't address due to backward compatibility constraints. This means removing deprecated APIs and making breaking changes that will ultimately result in a cleaner, more maintainable codebase. Think of it as a major housekeeping release—necessary work that will make Fedify better in the long run.
Some of the planned improvements include adding readonly modifiers throughout our types and interfaces to better enforce our immutability-by-default principle, implementing our own RFC 6570 URI Template library for symmetric expansion and pattern matching, and various CLI tool migrations to our new Optique framework for better cross-runtime support. While the majority of changes will be about refinement rather than revolution, these updates will strengthen Fedify's foundation and improve interoperability across the #fediverse. You can track all planned changes in detail by checking out the Fedify 2.0 milestone on our GitHub repository.
We're excited to share an update on #Fedify's development! While we're actively working on Fedify 1.9 in the main branch, we've also begun preparations for Fedify 2.0 in the next branch.
Before you get too excited about revolutionary new features, we want to set clear expectations: Fedify 2.0 will primarily focus on cleaning up technical debt that we couldn't address due to backward compatibility constraints. This means removing deprecated APIs and making breaking changes that will ultimately result in a cleaner, more maintainable codebase. Think of it as a major housekeeping release—necessary work that will make Fedify better in the long run.
Some of the planned improvements include adding readonly modifiers throughout our types and interfaces to better enforce our immutability-by-default principle, implementing our own RFC 6570 URI Template library for symmetric expansion and pattern matching, and various CLI tool migrations to our new Optique framework for better cross-runtime support. While the majority of changes will be about refinement rather than revolution, these updates will strengthen Fedify's foundation and improve interoperability across the #fediverse. You can track all planned changes in detail by checking out the Fedify 2.0 milestone on our GitHub repository.
We're excited to share an update on #Fedify's development! While we're actively working on Fedify 1.9 in the main branch, we've also begun preparations for Fedify 2.0 in the next branch.
Before you get too excited about revolutionary new features, we want to set clear expectations: Fedify 2.0 will primarily focus on cleaning up technical debt that we couldn't address due to backward compatibility constraints. This means removing deprecated APIs and making breaking changes that will ultimately result in a cleaner, more maintainable codebase. Think of it as a major housekeeping release—necessary work that will make Fedify better in the long run.
Some of the planned improvements include adding readonly modifiers throughout our types and interfaces to better enforce our immutability-by-default principle, implementing our own RFC 6570 URI Template library for symmetric expansion and pattern matching, and various CLI tool migrations to our new Optique framework for better cross-runtime support. While the majority of changes will be about refinement rather than revolution, these updates will strengthen Fedify's foundation and improve interoperability across the #fediverse. You can track all planned changes in detail by checking out the Fedify 2.0 milestone on our GitHub repository.
We're excited to share an update on #Fedify's development! While we're actively working on Fedify 1.9 in the main branch, we've also begun preparations for Fedify 2.0 in the next branch.
Before you get too excited about revolutionary new features, we want to set clear expectations: Fedify 2.0 will primarily focus on cleaning up technical debt that we couldn't address due to backward compatibility constraints. This means removing deprecated APIs and making breaking changes that will ultimately result in a cleaner, more maintainable codebase. Think of it as a major housekeeping release—necessary work that will make Fedify better in the long run.
Some of the planned improvements include adding readonly modifiers throughout our types and interfaces to better enforce our immutability-by-default principle, implementing our own RFC 6570 URI Template library for symmetric expansion and pattern matching, and various CLI tool migrations to our new Optique framework for better cross-runtime support. While the majority of changes will be about refinement rather than revolution, these updates will strengthen Fedify's foundation and improve interoperability across the #fediverse. You can track all planned changes in detail by checking out the Fedify 2.0 milestone on our GitHub repository.
Finished the basic tutorial for #Fedify - I can now Follow and Unfollow the "me" account. Lots of useful debugging and dev tools built in, too.
I think what's most interesting about this framework is that there are quite a few AP vocabulary activitites available to you above and beyond the Mastodon mainstream.
Would love to tinker around with Offer, Reject, Listen, Question, Read
Finished the basic tutorial for #Fedify - I can now Follow and Unfollow the "me" account. Lots of useful debugging and dev tools built in, too.
I think what's most interesting about this framework is that there are quite a few AP vocabulary activitites available to you above and beyond the Mastodon mainstream.
Would love to tinker around with Offer, Reject, Listen, Question, Read
Finished the basic tutorial for #Fedify - I can now Follow and Unfollow the "me" account. Lots of useful debugging and dev tools built in, too.
I think what's most interesting about this framework is that there are quite a few AP vocabulary activitites available to you above and beyond the Mastodon mainstream.
Would love to tinker around with Offer, Reject, Listen, Question, Read
In case you weren't aware, #Fedify has both #Discord and #Matrix communities where you can get help, discuss features, or just chat about #ActivityPub and federated social networks.
We've been working hard to make Fedify more modular and easier to integrate with your favorite tools and platforms. From the core framework to database drivers, from CLI tools to web framework integrations—we've got you covered.
Our packages now include:
Core framework and CLI tools
Web framework integrations: Express, Hono, H3, Elysia, NestJS, Next.js, SvelteKit
ALT text detailsA table showing 16 Fedify packages with three columns: Package name, registry availability (JSR and npm links), and Description. The packages include the core @fedify/fedify framework, CLI toolchain, database drivers (PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite, AMQP/RabbitMQ), web framework integrations (Express, Hono, H3, Elysia, NestJS, Next.js, SvelteKit, Cloudflare Workers), Deno KV integration, and testing utilities. Most packages are available on both JSR and npm registries, with some exceptions like @fedify/denokv (JSR only) and @fedify/elysia, @fedify/nestjs, @fedify/next (npm only).
We've been working hard to make Fedify more modular and easier to integrate with your favorite tools and platforms. From the core framework to database drivers, from CLI tools to web framework integrations—we've got you covered.
Our packages now include:
Core framework and CLI tools
Web framework integrations: Express, Hono, H3, Elysia, NestJS, Next.js, SvelteKit
ALT text detailsA table showing 16 Fedify packages with three columns: Package name, registry availability (JSR and npm links), and Description. The packages include the core @fedify/fedify framework, CLI toolchain, database drivers (PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite, AMQP/RabbitMQ), web framework integrations (Express, Hono, H3, Elysia, NestJS, Next.js, SvelteKit, Cloudflare Workers), Deno KV integration, and testing utilities. Most packages are available on both JSR and npm registries, with some exceptions like @fedify/denokv (JSR only) and @fedify/elysia, @fedify/nestjs, @fedify/next (npm only).
We've been working hard to make Fedify more modular and easier to integrate with your favorite tools and platforms. From the core framework to database drivers, from CLI tools to web framework integrations—we've got you covered.
Our packages now include:
Core framework and CLI tools
Web framework integrations: Express, Hono, H3, Elysia, NestJS, Next.js, SvelteKit
ALT text detailsA table showing 16 Fedify packages with three columns: Package name, registry availability (JSR and npm links), and Description. The packages include the core @fedify/fedify framework, CLI toolchain, database drivers (PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite, AMQP/RabbitMQ), web framework integrations (Express, Hono, H3, Elysia, NestJS, Next.js, SvelteKit, Cloudflare Workers), Deno KV integration, and testing utilities. Most packages are available on both JSR and npm registries, with some exceptions like @fedify/denokv (JSR only) and @fedify/elysia, @fedify/nestjs, @fedify/next (npm only).
We've been working hard to make Fedify more modular and easier to integrate with your favorite tools and platforms. From the core framework to database drivers, from CLI tools to web framework integrations—we've got you covered.
Our packages now include:
Core framework and CLI tools
Web framework integrations: Express, Hono, H3, Elysia, NestJS, Next.js, SvelteKit
ALT text detailsA table showing 16 Fedify packages with three columns: Package name, registry availability (JSR and npm links), and Description. The packages include the core @fedify/fedify framework, CLI toolchain, database drivers (PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite, AMQP/RabbitMQ), web framework integrations (Express, Hono, H3, Elysia, NestJS, Next.js, SvelteKit, Cloudflare Workers), Deno KV integration, and testing utilities. Most packages are available on both JSR and npm registries, with some exceptions like @fedify/denokv (JSR only) and @fedify/elysia, @fedify/nestjs, @fedify/next (npm only).
We've been working hard to make Fedify more modular and easier to integrate with your favorite tools and platforms. From the core framework to database drivers, from CLI tools to web framework integrations—we've got you covered.
Our packages now include:
Core framework and CLI tools
Web framework integrations: Express, Hono, H3, Elysia, NestJS, Next.js, SvelteKit
ALT text detailsA table showing 16 Fedify packages with three columns: Package name, registry availability (JSR and npm links), and Description. The packages include the core @fedify/fedify framework, CLI toolchain, database drivers (PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite, AMQP/RabbitMQ), web framework integrations (Express, Hono, H3, Elysia, NestJS, Next.js, SvelteKit, Cloudflare Workers), Deno KV integration, and testing utilities. Most packages are available on both JSR and npm registries, with some exceptions like @fedify/denokv (JSR only) and @fedify/elysia, @fedify/nestjs, @fedify/next (npm only).
We're excited to announce the release of BotKit 0.3.0! This release marks a significant milestone as #BotKit now supports #Node.js alongside #Deno, making it accessible to a wider audience. The minimum required Node.js version is 22.0.0. This dual-runtime support means you can now choose your preferred #JavaScript runtime while building #ActivityPub#bots with the same powerful BotKit APIs.
One of the most requested features has landed: poll support! You can now create interactive polls in your #bot messages, allowing followers to vote on questions with single or multiple-choice options. Polls are represented as ActivityPub Question objects with proper expiration times, and your bot can react to votes through the new onVote event handler. This feature enhances engagement possibilities and brings BotKit to feature parity with major #fediverse platforms like Mastodon and Misskey.
The web frontend has been enhanced with a new followers page, thanks to the contribution from Hyeonseo Kim (@gaebalgom)! The /followers route now displays a paginated list of your bot's followers, and the follower count on the main profile page is now clickable, providing better visibility into your bot's audience. This improvement makes the web interface more complete and user-friendly.
For developers looking for alternative storage backends, we've introduced the SqliteRepository through the new @fedify/botkit-sqlite package. This provides a production-ready SQLite-based storage solution with ACID compliance, write-ahead logging (WAL) for optimal performance, and proper indexing. Additionally, the new @fedify/botkit/repository module offers MemoryCachedRepository for adding an in-memory cache layer on top of any repository implementation, improving read performance for frequently accessed data.
This release also includes an important security update: we've upgraded to #Fedify 1.8.8, ensuring your bots stay secure and compatible with the latest ActivityPub standards. The repository pattern has been expanded with new interfaces and types like RepositoryGetMessagesOptions, RepositoryGetFollowersOptions, and proper support for polls storage through the KvStoreRepositoryPrefixes.polls option, providing more flexibility for custom implementations.
We're excited to announce the release of BotKit 0.3.0! This release marks a significant milestone as #BotKit now supports #Node.js alongside #Deno, making it accessible to a wider audience. The minimum required Node.js version is 22.0.0. This dual-runtime support means you can now choose your preferred #JavaScript runtime while building #ActivityPub#bots with the same powerful BotKit APIs.
One of the most requested features has landed: poll support! You can now create interactive polls in your #bot messages, allowing followers to vote on questions with single or multiple-choice options. Polls are represented as ActivityPub Question objects with proper expiration times, and your bot can react to votes through the new onVote event handler. This feature enhances engagement possibilities and brings BotKit to feature parity with major #fediverse platforms like Mastodon and Misskey.
The web frontend has been enhanced with a new followers page, thanks to the contribution from Hyeonseo Kim (@gaebalgom)! The /followers route now displays a paginated list of your bot's followers, and the follower count on the main profile page is now clickable, providing better visibility into your bot's audience. This improvement makes the web interface more complete and user-friendly.
For developers looking for alternative storage backends, we've introduced the SqliteRepository through the new @fedify/botkit-sqlite package. This provides a production-ready SQLite-based storage solution with ACID compliance, write-ahead logging (WAL) for optimal performance, and proper indexing. Additionally, the new @fedify/botkit/repository module offers MemoryCachedRepository for adding an in-memory cache layer on top of any repository implementation, improving read performance for frequently accessed data.
This release also includes an important security update: we've upgraded to #Fedify 1.8.8, ensuring your bots stay secure and compatible with the latest ActivityPub standards. The repository pattern has been expanded with new interfaces and types like RepositoryGetMessagesOptions, RepositoryGetFollowersOptions, and proper support for polls storage through the KvStoreRepositoryPrefixes.polls option, providing more flexibility for custom implementations.
We're excited to announce the release of BotKit 0.3.0! This release marks a significant milestone as #BotKit now supports #Node.js alongside #Deno, making it accessible to a wider audience. The minimum required Node.js version is 22.0.0. This dual-runtime support means you can now choose your preferred #JavaScript runtime while building #ActivityPub#bots with the same powerful BotKit APIs.
One of the most requested features has landed: poll support! You can now create interactive polls in your #bot messages, allowing followers to vote on questions with single or multiple-choice options. Polls are represented as ActivityPub Question objects with proper expiration times, and your bot can react to votes through the new onVote event handler. This feature enhances engagement possibilities and brings BotKit to feature parity with major #fediverse platforms like Mastodon and Misskey.
The web frontend has been enhanced with a new followers page, thanks to the contribution from Hyeonseo Kim (@gaebalgom)! The /followers route now displays a paginated list of your bot's followers, and the follower count on the main profile page is now clickable, providing better visibility into your bot's audience. This improvement makes the web interface more complete and user-friendly.
For developers looking for alternative storage backends, we've introduced the SqliteRepository through the new @fedify/botkit-sqlite package. This provides a production-ready SQLite-based storage solution with ACID compliance, write-ahead logging (WAL) for optimal performance, and proper indexing. Additionally, the new @fedify/botkit/repository module offers MemoryCachedRepository for adding an in-memory cache layer on top of any repository implementation, improving read performance for frequently accessed data.
This release also includes an important security update: we've upgraded to #Fedify 1.8.8, ensuring your bots stay secure and compatible with the latest ActivityPub standards. The repository pattern has been expanded with new interfaces and types like RepositoryGetMessagesOptions, RepositoryGetFollowersOptions, and proper support for polls storage through the KvStoreRepositoryPrefixes.polls option, providing more flexibility for custom implementations.
We'd like to recognize the valuable contributions from two developers who participated in Korea's #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy) program. Both contributors identified important gaps in #Fedify's functionality and documentation, providing thoughtful solutions that benefit the broader #ActivityPub ecosystem.
@gaebalgom contributed PR #365, addressing issue #353 regarding NodeInfo parser compatibility, originally reported by @andypiper. The issue arose when Fedify incorrectly rejected #NodeInfo documents from snac instances due to overly strict version string parsing that required semantic versioning compliance. Their solution improves the fallback behavior in the parseSoftware() function to handle non-SemVer version strings by parsing dot-separated numbers and defaulting to zero for missing components. The implementation includes thorough test coverage for various edge cases, including single numbers (3), two-part versions (2.81), and malformed version strings. This fix provides immediate compatibility improvements across the fediverse while maintaining backward compatibility, and will be included in Fedify 1.9. The contribution serves as an interim solution, with a more comprehensive fix planned for Fedify 2.0 (issue #366), where the NodeInfo software.version field will be changed from the SemVer type to a plain string to fully comply with the NodeInfo specification.
@z9mb1 contributed PR #364, resolving issue #337 by adding practical examples for Fedify's custom collection dispatchers feature. Custom collections were introduced in Fedify 1.8 but lacked clear documentation for developers seeking to implement them. Their contribution provides a comprehensive example demonstrating how to set up custom collections for tagged posts, including proper routing patterns, pagination handling, and counter functionality. The example includes mock data structures, shows how to configure collection dispatchers with URL patterns like /users/{userId}/tags/{tag}, and demonstrates the complete request/response cycle using federation.fetch(). This work provides developers with a clear, runnable reference that reduces the complexity of implementing custom collections in ActivityPub applications.
We appreciate these meaningful contributions that help make Fedify more accessible and robust for the entire ActivityPub community.
We'd like to recognize the valuable contributions from two developers who participated in Korea's #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy) program. Both contributors identified important gaps in #Fedify's functionality and documentation, providing thoughtful solutions that benefit the broader #ActivityPub ecosystem.
@gaebalgom contributed PR #365, addressing issue #353 regarding NodeInfo parser compatibility, originally reported by @andypiper. The issue arose when Fedify incorrectly rejected #NodeInfo documents from snac instances due to overly strict version string parsing that required semantic versioning compliance. Their solution improves the fallback behavior in the parseSoftware() function to handle non-SemVer version strings by parsing dot-separated numbers and defaulting to zero for missing components. The implementation includes thorough test coverage for various edge cases, including single numbers (3), two-part versions (2.81), and malformed version strings. This fix provides immediate compatibility improvements across the fediverse while maintaining backward compatibility, and will be included in Fedify 1.9. The contribution serves as an interim solution, with a more comprehensive fix planned for Fedify 2.0 (issue #366), where the NodeInfo software.version field will be changed from the SemVer type to a plain string to fully comply with the NodeInfo specification.
@z9mb1 contributed PR #364, resolving issue #337 by adding practical examples for Fedify's custom collection dispatchers feature. Custom collections were introduced in Fedify 1.8 but lacked clear documentation for developers seeking to implement them. Their contribution provides a comprehensive example demonstrating how to set up custom collections for tagged posts, including proper routing patterns, pagination handling, and counter functionality. The example includes mock data structures, shows how to configure collection dispatchers with URL patterns like /users/{userId}/tags/{tag}, and demonstrates the complete request/response cycle using federation.fetch(). This work provides developers with a clear, runnable reference that reduces the complexity of implementing custom collections in ActivityPub applications.
We appreciate these meaningful contributions that help make Fedify more accessible and robust for the entire ActivityPub community.
We'd like to recognize the valuable contributions from two developers who participated in Korea's #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy) program. Both contributors identified important gaps in #Fedify's functionality and documentation, providing thoughtful solutions that benefit the broader #ActivityPub ecosystem.
@gaebalgom contributed PR #365, addressing issue #353 regarding NodeInfo parser compatibility, originally reported by @andypiper. The issue arose when Fedify incorrectly rejected #NodeInfo documents from snac instances due to overly strict version string parsing that required semantic versioning compliance. Their solution improves the fallback behavior in the parseSoftware() function to handle non-SemVer version strings by parsing dot-separated numbers and defaulting to zero for missing components. The implementation includes thorough test coverage for various edge cases, including single numbers (3), two-part versions (2.81), and malformed version strings. This fix provides immediate compatibility improvements across the fediverse while maintaining backward compatibility, and will be included in Fedify 1.9. The contribution serves as an interim solution, with a more comprehensive fix planned for Fedify 2.0 (issue #366), where the NodeInfo software.version field will be changed from the SemVer type to a plain string to fully comply with the NodeInfo specification.
@z9mb1 contributed PR #364, resolving issue #337 by adding practical examples for Fedify's custom collection dispatchers feature. Custom collections were introduced in Fedify 1.8 but lacked clear documentation for developers seeking to implement them. Their contribution provides a comprehensive example demonstrating how to set up custom collections for tagged posts, including proper routing patterns, pagination handling, and counter functionality. The example includes mock data structures, shows how to configure collection dispatchers with URL patterns like /users/{userId}/tags/{tag}, and demonstrates the complete request/response cycle using federation.fetch(). This work provides developers with a clear, runnable reference that reduces the complexity of implementing custom collections in ActivityPub applications.
We appreciate these meaningful contributions that help make Fedify more accessible and robust for the entire ActivityPub community.
We'd like to recognize the valuable contributions from two developers who participated in Korea's #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy) program. Both contributors identified important gaps in #Fedify's functionality and documentation, providing thoughtful solutions that benefit the broader #ActivityPub ecosystem.
@gaebalgom contributed PR #365, addressing issue #353 regarding NodeInfo parser compatibility, originally reported by @andypiper. The issue arose when Fedify incorrectly rejected #NodeInfo documents from snac instances due to overly strict version string parsing that required semantic versioning compliance. Their solution improves the fallback behavior in the parseSoftware() function to handle non-SemVer version strings by parsing dot-separated numbers and defaulting to zero for missing components. The implementation includes thorough test coverage for various edge cases, including single numbers (3), two-part versions (2.81), and malformed version strings. This fix provides immediate compatibility improvements across the fediverse while maintaining backward compatibility, and will be included in Fedify 1.9. The contribution serves as an interim solution, with a more comprehensive fix planned for Fedify 2.0 (issue #366), where the NodeInfo software.version field will be changed from the SemVer type to a plain string to fully comply with the NodeInfo specification.
@z9mb1 contributed PR #364, resolving issue #337 by adding practical examples for Fedify's custom collection dispatchers feature. Custom collections were introduced in Fedify 1.8 but lacked clear documentation for developers seeking to implement them. Their contribution provides a comprehensive example demonstrating how to set up custom collections for tagged posts, including proper routing patterns, pagination handling, and counter functionality. The example includes mock data structures, shows how to configure collection dispatchers with URL patterns like /users/{userId}/tags/{tag}, and demonstrates the complete request/response cycle using federation.fetch(). This work provides developers with a clear, runnable reference that reduces the complexity of implementing custom collections in ActivityPub applications.
We appreciate these meaningful contributions that help make Fedify more accessible and robust for the entire ActivityPub community.
All #Fedify users must immediately update to the latest patched versions. A #critical authentication bypass #vulnerability (CVE-2025-54888) has been discovered in Fedify that allows attackers to impersonate any #ActivityPub actor by sending forged activities signed with their own keys.
This vulnerability affects all Fedify instances and enables complete actor impersonation across the federation network. Attackers can send fake posts and messages as any user, create or remove follows as any user, boost and share content as any user, and completely compromise the federation trust model. The vulnerability affects all Fedify instances but does not propagate to other ActivityPub implementations like Mastodon, which properly validate authentication before processing activities.
The following versions contain the #security fix: 1.3.20, 1.4.13, 1.5.5, 1.6.8, 1.7.9, and 1.8.5. Users should update immediately using their package manager with commands such as npm update @fedify/fedify, yarn upgrade @fedify/fedify, pnpm update @fedify/fedify, bun update @fedify/fedify, or deno update @fedify/fedify.
After updating, redeploy your application immediately and monitor recent activities for any suspicious content. Please also inform other Fedify operators about this critical update to ensure the security of the entire federation network.
The safety and security of our community depends on immediate action. Please update now and feel free to leave comments below if you have any questions.
All #Fedify users must immediately update to the latest patched versions. A #critical authentication bypass #vulnerability (CVE-2025-54888) has been discovered in Fedify that allows attackers to impersonate any #ActivityPub actor by sending forged activities signed with their own keys.
This vulnerability affects all Fedify instances and enables complete actor impersonation across the federation network. Attackers can send fake posts and messages as any user, create or remove follows as any user, boost and share content as any user, and completely compromise the federation trust model. The vulnerability affects all Fedify instances but does not propagate to other ActivityPub implementations like Mastodon, which properly validate authentication before processing activities.
The following versions contain the #security fix: 1.3.20, 1.4.13, 1.5.5, 1.6.8, 1.7.9, and 1.8.5. Users should update immediately using their package manager with commands such as npm update @fedify/fedify, yarn upgrade @fedify/fedify, pnpm update @fedify/fedify, bun update @fedify/fedify, or deno update @fedify/fedify.
After updating, redeploy your application immediately and monitor recent activities for any suspicious content. Please also inform other Fedify operators about this critical update to ensure the security of the entire federation network.
The safety and security of our community depends on immediate action. Please update now and feel free to leave comments below if you have any questions.
All #Fedify users must immediately update to the latest patched versions. A #critical authentication bypass #vulnerability (CVE-2025-54888) has been discovered in Fedify that allows attackers to impersonate any #ActivityPub actor by sending forged activities signed with their own keys.
This vulnerability affects all Fedify instances and enables complete actor impersonation across the federation network. Attackers can send fake posts and messages as any user, create or remove follows as any user, boost and share content as any user, and completely compromise the federation trust model. The vulnerability affects all Fedify instances but does not propagate to other ActivityPub implementations like Mastodon, which properly validate authentication before processing activities.
The following versions contain the #security fix: 1.3.20, 1.4.13, 1.5.5, 1.6.8, 1.7.9, and 1.8.5. Users should update immediately using their package manager with commands such as npm update @fedify/fedify, yarn upgrade @fedify/fedify, pnpm update @fedify/fedify, bun update @fedify/fedify, or deno update @fedify/fedify.
After updating, redeploy your application immediately and monitor recent activities for any suspicious content. Please also inform other Fedify operators about this critical update to ensure the security of the entire federation network.
The safety and security of our community depends on immediate action. Please update now and feel free to leave comments below if you have any questions.
We'd like to recognize some excellent contributions from our #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy) participants who have been working on #Fedify.
@gaebalgom contributed PR #339, which introduces the @fedify/elysia package to provide Elysia integration for Fedify. This work addresses issue #286 by creating a plugin that enables developers using #Bun and #Elysia to integrate Fedify's #ActivityPub capabilities into their applications. The contribution includes the core integration module, documentation, examples, and proper monorepo configuration, making Fedify accessible to the Elysia community.
@r4bb1t submitted PR #315, implementing comprehensive AbortSignal support across multiple APIs to resolve issue #51. This contribution adds request cancellation capabilities not only to lookupWebFinger() but also to lookupObject(), DocumentLoader, and the HTTP signature authentication flow (doubleKnock()), allowing developers to properly handle timeouts and abort ongoing requests throughout the entire request chain. The implementation includes extensive test coverage for cancellation scenarios across all affected components and lays the groundwork for adding --timeout options to various CLI commands like fedify lookup, fedify webfinger, and fedify nodeinfo, making federated applications more robust and responsive.
@ooheunda addressed a testing infrastructure issue with PR #350, fixing a race condition in PostgreSQL message queue tests that was causing intermittent failures (issue #346). By adding explicit initialization before concurrent message queue listeners, this fix prevents table creation conflicts that were affecting test reliability, ensuring more consistent PR testing for all contributors.
@songbirds provided two test stability improvements with PR #344 and PR #347. The first PR adds skip guards to RedisKvStore tests as a workaround for a known Bun runtime issue, keeping the test suite functional while awaiting an upstream fix. The second PR resolves a race condition in the code generation process by randomizing output filenames, preventing conflicts during parallel test execution. These contributions help maintain a stable testing environment for the project.
Thank you all for your contributions to Fedify. Your work helps make federated social networking more accessible to developers.
We're thrilled to announce Fedify 1.8.1, a mega release made possible through the incredible efforts of contributors from South Korea's #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy). This release marks a significant milestone in #Fedify's development, bringing major architectural changes, new packages, and numerous enhancements across the board.
Note: Version 1.8.0 was skipped due to a versioning error.
🎉 Major Milestone: Monorepo Architecture
Fedify has been restructured as a #monorepo, consolidating all packages into a single repository with unified versioning. This change streamlines development and ensures all packages are released together with consistent version numbers.
Consolidated Packages
All existing Fedify packages now live under one roof:
@fedify/fedify — Main library
@fedify/cli — CLI toolchain
@fedify/amqp — AMQP/RabbitMQ driver
@fedify/express — Express integration
@fedify/h3 — h3 framework integration
@fedify/postgres — PostgreSQL drivers
@fedify/redis — Redis drivers
🆕 New Packages
This release introduces four new packages to the Fedify ecosystem:
@fedify/elysia — Elysia integration for Bun-powered applications
@fedify/nestjs — NestJS integration for enterprise Node.js apps
@fedify/sqlite — SQLite driver compatible with Bun, Deno, and Node.js
@fedify/testing — Testing utilities with mock Federation and Context classes
@fedify/fedify
Custom Collection Dispatchers
A powerful new feature that allows you to create custom collections beyond the standard ActivityPub collections. This enables implementation of domain-specific collections while maintaining federation compatibility.
Added comprehensive types and interfaces for custom collection handling
New methods on Federatable interface: setCollectionDispatcher() and setOrderedCollectionDispatcher()
Added getCollectionUri() method to the Context interface
Full support for paginated custom collections
Compare-and-Swap (CAS) Support for KV Stores
Key–value stores now optionally support CAS operations for atomic updates, enabling optimistic locking and preventing lost updates in concurrent environments.
Added optional KvStore.cas() method
Implemented in MemoryKvStore and DenoKvStore
Useful for implementing distributed locks and counters
Fediverse Handle Utilities
New utility functions make working with #fediverse handles more convenient.
import { MockFederation, MockContext } from "@fedify/testing";const mockFederation = new MockFederation();const mockContext = new MockContext();// Track sent activities with full metadata// Support custom path registration// Multiple activity type listeners
🙏 Acknowledgments
This release represents an extraordinary community effort, particularly from the participants of South Korea's OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy)(Note: page in Korean). We extend our heartfelt thanks to all contributors:
Core Contributors
ChanHaeng Lee (@2chanhaeng) — Custom collections, fediverse handles, WebFinger command
Lee ByeongJun (@joonnot) — WebFinger redirections, dry-run, testing utilities
Song Hanseo (@songbirds) — Test stability improvements for Redis and code generation [#344, #347]
Kim Jonghyeon (@woaol) — CLI version management and documentation fixes [#306, #329, #330, #343]
Your contributions have made Fedify stronger and more versatile than ever. The OSSCA program's support has been instrumental in achieving this milestone release.
Migration Guide
Updating from Previous Versions
If you're using separate Fedify packages, update all packages to version 1.8.1:
All packages now share the same version number, simplifying dependency management.
Breaking Changes
There are no breaking changes in this release. All existing code should continue to work without modifications.
What's Next
With the monorepo structure in place and new integrations available, we're excited to continue improving Fedify's developer experience and expanding its capabilities. Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for being part of the Fedify community!
For detailed technical information about all changes, please refer to the full changelog.
Fedify is an open-source project that helps developers build federated server applications powered by ActivityPub. Join us on GitHub or Discord to contribute or get help!
We're thrilled to announce Fedify 1.8.1, a mega release made possible through the incredible efforts of contributors from South Korea's #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy). This release marks a significant milestone in #Fedify's development, bringing major architectural changes, new packages, and numerous enhancements across the board.
Note: Version 1.8.0 was skipped due to a versioning error.
🎉 Major Milestone: Monorepo Architecture
Fedify has been restructured as a #monorepo, consolidating all packages into a single repository with unified versioning. This change streamlines development and ensures all packages are released together with consistent version numbers.
Consolidated Packages
All existing Fedify packages now live under one roof:
@fedify/fedify — Main library
@fedify/cli — CLI toolchain
@fedify/amqp — AMQP/RabbitMQ driver
@fedify/express — Express integration
@fedify/h3 — h3 framework integration
@fedify/postgres — PostgreSQL drivers
@fedify/redis — Redis drivers
🆕 New Packages
This release introduces four new packages to the Fedify ecosystem:
@fedify/elysia — Elysia integration for Bun-powered applications
@fedify/nestjs — NestJS integration for enterprise Node.js apps
@fedify/sqlite — SQLite driver compatible with Bun, Deno, and Node.js
@fedify/testing — Testing utilities with mock Federation and Context classes
@fedify/fedify
Custom Collection Dispatchers
A powerful new feature that allows you to create custom collections beyond the standard ActivityPub collections. This enables implementation of domain-specific collections while maintaining federation compatibility.
Added comprehensive types and interfaces for custom collection handling
New methods on Federatable interface: setCollectionDispatcher() and setOrderedCollectionDispatcher()
Added getCollectionUri() method to the Context interface
Full support for paginated custom collections
Compare-and-Swap (CAS) Support for KV Stores
Key–value stores now optionally support CAS operations for atomic updates, enabling optimistic locking and preventing lost updates in concurrent environments.
Added optional KvStore.cas() method
Implemented in MemoryKvStore and DenoKvStore
Useful for implementing distributed locks and counters
Fediverse Handle Utilities
New utility functions make working with #fediverse handles more convenient.
import { MockFederation, MockContext } from "@fedify/testing";const mockFederation = new MockFederation();const mockContext = new MockContext();// Track sent activities with full metadata// Support custom path registration// Multiple activity type listeners
🙏 Acknowledgments
This release represents an extraordinary community effort, particularly from the participants of South Korea's OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy)(Note: page in Korean). We extend our heartfelt thanks to all contributors:
Core Contributors
ChanHaeng Lee (@2chanhaeng) — Custom collections, fediverse handles, WebFinger command
Lee ByeongJun (@joonnot) — WebFinger redirections, dry-run, testing utilities
Song Hanseo (@songbirds) — Test stability improvements for Redis and code generation [#344, #347]
Kim Jonghyeon (@woaol) — CLI version management and documentation fixes [#306, #329, #330, #343]
Your contributions have made Fedify stronger and more versatile than ever. The OSSCA program's support has been instrumental in achieving this milestone release.
Migration Guide
Updating from Previous Versions
If you're using separate Fedify packages, update all packages to version 1.8.1:
All packages now share the same version number, simplifying dependency management.
Breaking Changes
There are no breaking changes in this release. All existing code should continue to work without modifications.
What's Next
With the monorepo structure in place and new integrations available, we're excited to continue improving Fedify's developer experience and expanding its capabilities. Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for being part of the Fedify community!
For detailed technical information about all changes, please refer to the full changelog.
Fedify is an open-source project that helps developers build federated server applications powered by ActivityPub. Join us on GitHub or Discord to contribute or get help!
We're thrilled to announce Fedify 1.8.1, a mega release made possible through the incredible efforts of contributors from South Korea's #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy). This release marks a significant milestone in #Fedify's development, bringing major architectural changes, new packages, and numerous enhancements across the board.
Note: Version 1.8.0 was skipped due to a versioning error.
🎉 Major Milestone: Monorepo Architecture
Fedify has been restructured as a #monorepo, consolidating all packages into a single repository with unified versioning. This change streamlines development and ensures all packages are released together with consistent version numbers.
Consolidated Packages
All existing Fedify packages now live under one roof:
@fedify/fedify — Main library
@fedify/cli — CLI toolchain
@fedify/amqp — AMQP/RabbitMQ driver
@fedify/express — Express integration
@fedify/h3 — h3 framework integration
@fedify/postgres — PostgreSQL drivers
@fedify/redis — Redis drivers
🆕 New Packages
This release introduces four new packages to the Fedify ecosystem:
@fedify/elysia — Elysia integration for Bun-powered applications
@fedify/nestjs — NestJS integration for enterprise Node.js apps
@fedify/sqlite — SQLite driver compatible with Bun, Deno, and Node.js
@fedify/testing — Testing utilities with mock Federation and Context classes
@fedify/fedify
Custom Collection Dispatchers
A powerful new feature that allows you to create custom collections beyond the standard ActivityPub collections. This enables implementation of domain-specific collections while maintaining federation compatibility.
Added comprehensive types and interfaces for custom collection handling
New methods on Federatable interface: setCollectionDispatcher() and setOrderedCollectionDispatcher()
Added getCollectionUri() method to the Context interface
Full support for paginated custom collections
Compare-and-Swap (CAS) Support for KV Stores
Key–value stores now optionally support CAS operations for atomic updates, enabling optimistic locking and preventing lost updates in concurrent environments.
Added optional KvStore.cas() method
Implemented in MemoryKvStore and DenoKvStore
Useful for implementing distributed locks and counters
Fediverse Handle Utilities
New utility functions make working with #fediverse handles more convenient.
import { MockFederation, MockContext } from "@fedify/testing";const mockFederation = new MockFederation();const mockContext = new MockContext();// Track sent activities with full metadata// Support custom path registration// Multiple activity type listeners
🙏 Acknowledgments
This release represents an extraordinary community effort, particularly from the participants of South Korea's OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy)(Note: page in Korean). We extend our heartfelt thanks to all contributors:
Core Contributors
ChanHaeng Lee (@2chanhaeng) — Custom collections, fediverse handles, WebFinger command
Lee ByeongJun (@joonnot) — WebFinger redirections, dry-run, testing utilities
Song Hanseo (@songbirds) — Test stability improvements for Redis and code generation [#344, #347]
Kim Jonghyeon (@woaol) — CLI version management and documentation fixes [#306, #329, #330, #343]
Your contributions have made Fedify stronger and more versatile than ever. The OSSCA program's support has been instrumental in achieving this milestone release.
Migration Guide
Updating from Previous Versions
If you're using separate Fedify packages, update all packages to version 1.8.1:
All packages now share the same version number, simplifying dependency management.
Breaking Changes
There are no breaking changes in this release. All existing code should continue to work without modifications.
What's Next
With the monorepo structure in place and new integrations available, we're excited to continue improving Fedify's developer experience and expanding its capabilities. Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for being part of the Fedify community!
For detailed technical information about all changes, please refer to the full changelog.
Fedify is an open-source project that helps developers build federated server applications powered by ActivityPub. Join us on GitHub or Discord to contribute or get help!
We're thrilled to announce Fedify 1.8.1, a mega release made possible through the incredible efforts of contributors from South Korea's #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy). This release marks a significant milestone in #Fedify's development, bringing major architectural changes, new packages, and numerous enhancements across the board.
Note: Version 1.8.0 was skipped due to a versioning error.
🎉 Major Milestone: Monorepo Architecture
Fedify has been restructured as a #monorepo, consolidating all packages into a single repository with unified versioning. This change streamlines development and ensures all packages are released together with consistent version numbers.
Consolidated Packages
All existing Fedify packages now live under one roof:
@fedify/fedify — Main library
@fedify/cli — CLI toolchain
@fedify/amqp — AMQP/RabbitMQ driver
@fedify/express — Express integration
@fedify/h3 — h3 framework integration
@fedify/postgres — PostgreSQL drivers
@fedify/redis — Redis drivers
🆕 New Packages
This release introduces four new packages to the Fedify ecosystem:
@fedify/elysia — Elysia integration for Bun-powered applications
@fedify/nestjs — NestJS integration for enterprise Node.js apps
@fedify/sqlite — SQLite driver compatible with Bun, Deno, and Node.js
@fedify/testing — Testing utilities with mock Federation and Context classes
@fedify/fedify
Custom Collection Dispatchers
A powerful new feature that allows you to create custom collections beyond the standard ActivityPub collections. This enables implementation of domain-specific collections while maintaining federation compatibility.
Added comprehensive types and interfaces for custom collection handling
New methods on Federatable interface: setCollectionDispatcher() and setOrderedCollectionDispatcher()
Added getCollectionUri() method to the Context interface
Full support for paginated custom collections
Compare-and-Swap (CAS) Support for KV Stores
Key–value stores now optionally support CAS operations for atomic updates, enabling optimistic locking and preventing lost updates in concurrent environments.
Added optional KvStore.cas() method
Implemented in MemoryKvStore and DenoKvStore
Useful for implementing distributed locks and counters
Fediverse Handle Utilities
New utility functions make working with #fediverse handles more convenient.
import { MockFederation, MockContext } from "@fedify/testing";const mockFederation = new MockFederation();const mockContext = new MockContext();// Track sent activities with full metadata// Support custom path registration// Multiple activity type listeners
🙏 Acknowledgments
This release represents an extraordinary community effort, particularly from the participants of South Korea's OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy)(Note: page in Korean). We extend our heartfelt thanks to all contributors:
Core Contributors
ChanHaeng Lee (@2chanhaeng) — Custom collections, fediverse handles, WebFinger command
Lee ByeongJun (@joonnot) — WebFinger redirections, dry-run, testing utilities
Song Hanseo (@songbirds) — Test stability improvements for Redis and code generation [#344, #347]
Kim Jonghyeon (@woaol) — CLI version management and documentation fixes [#306, #329, #330, #343]
Your contributions have made Fedify stronger and more versatile than ever. The OSSCA program's support has been instrumental in achieving this milestone release.
Migration Guide
Updating from Previous Versions
If you're using separate Fedify packages, update all packages to version 1.8.1:
All packages now share the same version number, simplifying dependency management.
Breaking Changes
There are no breaking changes in this release. All existing code should continue to work without modifications.
What's Next
With the monorepo structure in place and new integrations available, we're excited to continue improving Fedify's developer experience and expanding its capabilities. Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for being part of the Fedify community!
For detailed technical information about all changes, please refer to the full changelog.
Fedify is an open-source project that helps developers build federated server applications powered by ActivityPub. Join us on GitHub or Discord to contribute or get help!
We're thrilled to announce Fedify 1.8.1, a mega release made possible through the incredible efforts of contributors from South Korea's #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy). This release marks a significant milestone in #Fedify's development, bringing major architectural changes, new packages, and numerous enhancements across the board.
Note: Version 1.8.0 was skipped due to a versioning error.
🎉 Major Milestone: Monorepo Architecture
Fedify has been restructured as a #monorepo, consolidating all packages into a single repository with unified versioning. This change streamlines development and ensures all packages are released together with consistent version numbers.
Consolidated Packages
All existing Fedify packages now live under one roof:
@fedify/fedify — Main library
@fedify/cli — CLI toolchain
@fedify/amqp — AMQP/RabbitMQ driver
@fedify/express — Express integration
@fedify/h3 — h3 framework integration
@fedify/postgres — PostgreSQL drivers
@fedify/redis — Redis drivers
🆕 New Packages
This release introduces four new packages to the Fedify ecosystem:
@fedify/elysia — Elysia integration for Bun-powered applications
@fedify/nestjs — NestJS integration for enterprise Node.js apps
@fedify/sqlite — SQLite driver compatible with Bun, Deno, and Node.js
@fedify/testing — Testing utilities with mock Federation and Context classes
@fedify/fedify
Custom Collection Dispatchers
A powerful new feature that allows you to create custom collections beyond the standard ActivityPub collections. This enables implementation of domain-specific collections while maintaining federation compatibility.
Added comprehensive types and interfaces for custom collection handling
New methods on Federatable interface: setCollectionDispatcher() and setOrderedCollectionDispatcher()
Added getCollectionUri() method to the Context interface
Full support for paginated custom collections
Compare-and-Swap (CAS) Support for KV Stores
Key–value stores now optionally support CAS operations for atomic updates, enabling optimistic locking and preventing lost updates in concurrent environments.
Added optional KvStore.cas() method
Implemented in MemoryKvStore and DenoKvStore
Useful for implementing distributed locks and counters
Fediverse Handle Utilities
New utility functions make working with #fediverse handles more convenient.
import { MockFederation, MockContext } from "@fedify/testing";const mockFederation = new MockFederation();const mockContext = new MockContext();// Track sent activities with full metadata// Support custom path registration// Multiple activity type listeners
🙏 Acknowledgments
This release represents an extraordinary community effort, particularly from the participants of South Korea's OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy)(Note: page in Korean). We extend our heartfelt thanks to all contributors:
Core Contributors
ChanHaeng Lee (@2chanhaeng) — Custom collections, fediverse handles, WebFinger command
Lee ByeongJun (@joonnot) — WebFinger redirections, dry-run, testing utilities
Song Hanseo (@songbirds) — Test stability improvements for Redis and code generation [#344, #347]
Kim Jonghyeon (@woaol) — CLI version management and documentation fixes [#306, #329, #330, #343]
Your contributions have made Fedify stronger and more versatile than ever. The OSSCA program's support has been instrumental in achieving this milestone release.
Migration Guide
Updating from Previous Versions
If you're using separate Fedify packages, update all packages to version 1.8.1:
All packages now share the same version number, simplifying dependency management.
Breaking Changes
There are no breaking changes in this release. All existing code should continue to work without modifications.
What's Next
With the monorepo structure in place and new integrations available, we're excited to continue improving Fedify's developer experience and expanding its capabilities. Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for being part of the Fedify community!
For detailed technical information about all changes, please refer to the full changelog.
Fedify is an open-source project that helps developers build federated server applications powered by ActivityPub. Join us on GitHub or Discord to contribute or get help!
We're thrilled to announce Fedify 1.8.1, a mega release made possible through the incredible efforts of contributors from South Korea's #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy). This release marks a significant milestone in #Fedify's development, bringing major architectural changes, new packages, and numerous enhancements across the board.
Note: Version 1.8.0 was skipped due to a versioning error.
🎉 Major Milestone: Monorepo Architecture
Fedify has been restructured as a #monorepo, consolidating all packages into a single repository with unified versioning. This change streamlines development and ensures all packages are released together with consistent version numbers.
Consolidated Packages
All existing Fedify packages now live under one roof:
@fedify/fedify — Main library
@fedify/cli — CLI toolchain
@fedify/amqp — AMQP/RabbitMQ driver
@fedify/express — Express integration
@fedify/h3 — h3 framework integration
@fedify/postgres — PostgreSQL drivers
@fedify/redis — Redis drivers
🆕 New Packages
This release introduces four new packages to the Fedify ecosystem:
@fedify/elysia — Elysia integration for Bun-powered applications
@fedify/nestjs — NestJS integration for enterprise Node.js apps
@fedify/sqlite — SQLite driver compatible with Bun, Deno, and Node.js
@fedify/testing — Testing utilities with mock Federation and Context classes
@fedify/fedify
Custom Collection Dispatchers
A powerful new feature that allows you to create custom collections beyond the standard ActivityPub collections. This enables implementation of domain-specific collections while maintaining federation compatibility.
Added comprehensive types and interfaces for custom collection handling
New methods on Federatable interface: setCollectionDispatcher() and setOrderedCollectionDispatcher()
Added getCollectionUri() method to the Context interface
Full support for paginated custom collections
Compare-and-Swap (CAS) Support for KV Stores
Key–value stores now optionally support CAS operations for atomic updates, enabling optimistic locking and preventing lost updates in concurrent environments.
Added optional KvStore.cas() method
Implemented in MemoryKvStore and DenoKvStore
Useful for implementing distributed locks and counters
Fediverse Handle Utilities
New utility functions make working with #fediverse handles more convenient.
import { MockFederation, MockContext } from "@fedify/testing";const mockFederation = new MockFederation();const mockContext = new MockContext();// Track sent activities with full metadata// Support custom path registration// Multiple activity type listeners
🙏 Acknowledgments
This release represents an extraordinary community effort, particularly from the participants of South Korea's OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy)(Note: page in Korean). We extend our heartfelt thanks to all contributors:
Core Contributors
ChanHaeng Lee (@2chanhaeng) — Custom collections, fediverse handles, WebFinger command
Lee ByeongJun (@joonnot) — WebFinger redirections, dry-run, testing utilities
Song Hanseo (@songbirds) — Test stability improvements for Redis and code generation [#344, #347]
Kim Jonghyeon (@woaol) — CLI version management and documentation fixes [#306, #329, #330, #343]
Your contributions have made Fedify stronger and more versatile than ever. The OSSCA program's support has been instrumental in achieving this milestone release.
Migration Guide
Updating from Previous Versions
If you're using separate Fedify packages, update all packages to version 1.8.1:
All packages now share the same version number, simplifying dependency management.
Breaking Changes
There are no breaking changes in this release. All existing code should continue to work without modifications.
What's Next
With the monorepo structure in place and new integrations available, we're excited to continue improving Fedify's developer experience and expanding its capabilities. Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for being part of the Fedify community!
For detailed technical information about all changes, please refer to the full changelog.
Fedify is an open-source project that helps developers build federated server applications powered by ActivityPub. Join us on GitHub or Discord to contribute or get help!
We're thrilled to announce Fedify 1.8.1, a mega release made possible through the incredible efforts of contributors from South Korea's #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy). This release marks a significant milestone in #Fedify's development, bringing major architectural changes, new packages, and numerous enhancements across the board.
Note: Version 1.8.0 was skipped due to a versioning error.
🎉 Major Milestone: Monorepo Architecture
Fedify has been restructured as a #monorepo, consolidating all packages into a single repository with unified versioning. This change streamlines development and ensures all packages are released together with consistent version numbers.
Consolidated Packages
All existing Fedify packages now live under one roof:
@fedify/fedify — Main library
@fedify/cli — CLI toolchain
@fedify/amqp — AMQP/RabbitMQ driver
@fedify/express — Express integration
@fedify/h3 — h3 framework integration
@fedify/postgres — PostgreSQL drivers
@fedify/redis — Redis drivers
🆕 New Packages
This release introduces four new packages to the Fedify ecosystem:
@fedify/elysia — Elysia integration for Bun-powered applications
@fedify/nestjs — NestJS integration for enterprise Node.js apps
@fedify/sqlite — SQLite driver compatible with Bun, Deno, and Node.js
@fedify/testing — Testing utilities with mock Federation and Context classes
@fedify/fedify
Custom Collection Dispatchers
A powerful new feature that allows you to create custom collections beyond the standard ActivityPub collections. This enables implementation of domain-specific collections while maintaining federation compatibility.
Added comprehensive types and interfaces for custom collection handling
New methods on Federatable interface: setCollectionDispatcher() and setOrderedCollectionDispatcher()
Added getCollectionUri() method to the Context interface
Full support for paginated custom collections
Compare-and-Swap (CAS) Support for KV Stores
Key–value stores now optionally support CAS operations for atomic updates, enabling optimistic locking and preventing lost updates in concurrent environments.
Added optional KvStore.cas() method
Implemented in MemoryKvStore and DenoKvStore
Useful for implementing distributed locks and counters
Fediverse Handle Utilities
New utility functions make working with #fediverse handles more convenient.
import { MockFederation, MockContext } from "@fedify/testing";const mockFederation = new MockFederation();const mockContext = new MockContext();// Track sent activities with full metadata// Support custom path registration// Multiple activity type listeners
🙏 Acknowledgments
This release represents an extraordinary community effort, particularly from the participants of South Korea's OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy)(Note: page in Korean). We extend our heartfelt thanks to all contributors:
Core Contributors
ChanHaeng Lee (@2chanhaeng) — Custom collections, fediverse handles, WebFinger command
Lee ByeongJun (@joonnot) — WebFinger redirections, dry-run, testing utilities
Song Hanseo (@songbirds) — Test stability improvements for Redis and code generation [#344, #347]
Kim Jonghyeon (@woaol) — CLI version management and documentation fixes [#306, #329, #330, #343]
Your contributions have made Fedify stronger and more versatile than ever. The OSSCA program's support has been instrumental in achieving this milestone release.
Migration Guide
Updating from Previous Versions
If you're using separate Fedify packages, update all packages to version 1.8.1:
All packages now share the same version number, simplifying dependency management.
Breaking Changes
There are no breaking changes in this release. All existing code should continue to work without modifications.
What's Next
With the monorepo structure in place and new integrations available, we're excited to continue improving Fedify's developer experience and expanding its capabilities. Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for being part of the Fedify community!
For detailed technical information about all changes, please refer to the full changelog.
Fedify is an open-source project that helps developers build federated server applications powered by ActivityPub. Join us on GitHub or Discord to contribute or get help!
We're thrilled to announce Fedify 1.8.1, a mega release made possible through the incredible efforts of contributors from South Korea's #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy). This release marks a significant milestone in #Fedify's development, bringing major architectural changes, new packages, and numerous enhancements across the board.
Note: Version 1.8.0 was skipped due to a versioning error.
🎉 Major Milestone: Monorepo Architecture
Fedify has been restructured as a #monorepo, consolidating all packages into a single repository with unified versioning. This change streamlines development and ensures all packages are released together with consistent version numbers.
Consolidated Packages
All existing Fedify packages now live under one roof:
@fedify/fedify — Main library
@fedify/cli — CLI toolchain
@fedify/amqp — AMQP/RabbitMQ driver
@fedify/express — Express integration
@fedify/h3 — h3 framework integration
@fedify/postgres — PostgreSQL drivers
@fedify/redis — Redis drivers
🆕 New Packages
This release introduces four new packages to the Fedify ecosystem:
@fedify/elysia — Elysia integration for Bun-powered applications
@fedify/nestjs — NestJS integration for enterprise Node.js apps
@fedify/sqlite — SQLite driver compatible with Bun, Deno, and Node.js
@fedify/testing — Testing utilities with mock Federation and Context classes
@fedify/fedify
Custom Collection Dispatchers
A powerful new feature that allows you to create custom collections beyond the standard ActivityPub collections. This enables implementation of domain-specific collections while maintaining federation compatibility.
Added comprehensive types and interfaces for custom collection handling
New methods on Federatable interface: setCollectionDispatcher() and setOrderedCollectionDispatcher()
Added getCollectionUri() method to the Context interface
Full support for paginated custom collections
Compare-and-Swap (CAS) Support for KV Stores
Key–value stores now optionally support CAS operations for atomic updates, enabling optimistic locking and preventing lost updates in concurrent environments.
Added optional KvStore.cas() method
Implemented in MemoryKvStore and DenoKvStore
Useful for implementing distributed locks and counters
Fediverse Handle Utilities
New utility functions make working with #fediverse handles more convenient.
import { MockFederation, MockContext } from "@fedify/testing";const mockFederation = new MockFederation();const mockContext = new MockContext();// Track sent activities with full metadata// Support custom path registration// Multiple activity type listeners
🙏 Acknowledgments
This release represents an extraordinary community effort, particularly from the participants of South Korea's OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy)(Note: page in Korean). We extend our heartfelt thanks to all contributors:
Core Contributors
ChanHaeng Lee (@2chanhaeng) — Custom collections, fediverse handles, WebFinger command
Lee ByeongJun (@joonnot) — WebFinger redirections, dry-run, testing utilities
Song Hanseo (@songbirds) — Test stability improvements for Redis and code generation [#344, #347]
Kim Jonghyeon (@woaol) — CLI version management and documentation fixes [#306, #329, #330, #343]
Your contributions have made Fedify stronger and more versatile than ever. The OSSCA program's support has been instrumental in achieving this milestone release.
Migration Guide
Updating from Previous Versions
If you're using separate Fedify packages, update all packages to version 1.8.1:
All packages now share the same version number, simplifying dependency management.
Breaking Changes
There are no breaking changes in this release. All existing code should continue to work without modifications.
What's Next
With the monorepo structure in place and new integrations available, we're excited to continue improving Fedify's developer experience and expanding its capabilities. Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for being part of the Fedify community!
For detailed technical information about all changes, please refer to the full changelog.
Fedify is an open-source project that helps developers build federated server applications powered by ActivityPub. Join us on GitHub or Discord to contribute or get help!
We'd like to recognize some excellent contributions from our #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy) participants who have been working on #Fedify.
@gaebalgom contributed PR #339, which introduces the @fedify/elysia package to provide Elysia integration for Fedify. This work addresses issue #286 by creating a plugin that enables developers using #Bun and #Elysia to integrate Fedify's #ActivityPub capabilities into their applications. The contribution includes the core integration module, documentation, examples, and proper monorepo configuration, making Fedify accessible to the Elysia community.
@r4bb1t submitted PR #315, implementing comprehensive AbortSignal support across multiple APIs to resolve issue #51. This contribution adds request cancellation capabilities not only to lookupWebFinger() but also to lookupObject(), DocumentLoader, and the HTTP signature authentication flow (doubleKnock()), allowing developers to properly handle timeouts and abort ongoing requests throughout the entire request chain. The implementation includes extensive test coverage for cancellation scenarios across all affected components and lays the groundwork for adding --timeout options to various CLI commands like fedify lookup, fedify webfinger, and fedify nodeinfo, making federated applications more robust and responsive.
@ooheunda addressed a testing infrastructure issue with PR #350, fixing a race condition in PostgreSQL message queue tests that was causing intermittent failures (issue #346). By adding explicit initialization before concurrent message queue listeners, this fix prevents table creation conflicts that were affecting test reliability, ensuring more consistent PR testing for all contributors.
@songbirds provided two test stability improvements with PR #344 and PR #347. The first PR adds skip guards to RedisKvStore tests as a workaround for a known Bun runtime issue, keeping the test suite functional while awaiting an upstream fix. The second PR resolves a race condition in the code generation process by randomizing output filenames, preventing conflicts during parallel test execution. These contributions help maintain a stable testing environment for the project.
Thank you all for your contributions to Fedify. Your work helps make federated social networking more accessible to developers.
We'd like to recognize some excellent contributions from our #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy) participants who have been working on #Fedify.
@gaebalgom contributed PR #339, which introduces the @fedify/elysia package to provide Elysia integration for Fedify. This work addresses issue #286 by creating a plugin that enables developers using #Bun and #Elysia to integrate Fedify's #ActivityPub capabilities into their applications. The contribution includes the core integration module, documentation, examples, and proper monorepo configuration, making Fedify accessible to the Elysia community.
@r4bb1t submitted PR #315, implementing comprehensive AbortSignal support across multiple APIs to resolve issue #51. This contribution adds request cancellation capabilities not only to lookupWebFinger() but also to lookupObject(), DocumentLoader, and the HTTP signature authentication flow (doubleKnock()), allowing developers to properly handle timeouts and abort ongoing requests throughout the entire request chain. The implementation includes extensive test coverage for cancellation scenarios across all affected components and lays the groundwork for adding --timeout options to various CLI commands like fedify lookup, fedify webfinger, and fedify nodeinfo, making federated applications more robust and responsive.
@ooheunda addressed a testing infrastructure issue with PR #350, fixing a race condition in PostgreSQL message queue tests that was causing intermittent failures (issue #346). By adding explicit initialization before concurrent message queue listeners, this fix prevents table creation conflicts that were affecting test reliability, ensuring more consistent PR testing for all contributors.
@songbirds provided two test stability improvements with PR #344 and PR #347. The first PR adds skip guards to RedisKvStore tests as a workaround for a known Bun runtime issue, keeping the test suite functional while awaiting an upstream fix. The second PR resolves a race condition in the code generation process by randomizing output filenames, preventing conflicts during parallel test execution. These contributions help maintain a stable testing environment for the project.
Thank you all for your contributions to Fedify. Your work helps make federated social networking more accessible to developers.
We'd like to recognize some excellent contributions from our #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy) participants who have been working on #Fedify.
@gaebalgom contributed PR #339, which introduces the @fedify/elysia package to provide Elysia integration for Fedify. This work addresses issue #286 by creating a plugin that enables developers using #Bun and #Elysia to integrate Fedify's #ActivityPub capabilities into their applications. The contribution includes the core integration module, documentation, examples, and proper monorepo configuration, making Fedify accessible to the Elysia community.
@r4bb1t submitted PR #315, implementing comprehensive AbortSignal support across multiple APIs to resolve issue #51. This contribution adds request cancellation capabilities not only to lookupWebFinger() but also to lookupObject(), DocumentLoader, and the HTTP signature authentication flow (doubleKnock()), allowing developers to properly handle timeouts and abort ongoing requests throughout the entire request chain. The implementation includes extensive test coverage for cancellation scenarios across all affected components and lays the groundwork for adding --timeout options to various CLI commands like fedify lookup, fedify webfinger, and fedify nodeinfo, making federated applications more robust and responsive.
@ooheunda addressed a testing infrastructure issue with PR #350, fixing a race condition in PostgreSQL message queue tests that was causing intermittent failures (issue #346). By adding explicit initialization before concurrent message queue listeners, this fix prevents table creation conflicts that were affecting test reliability, ensuring more consistent PR testing for all contributors.
@songbirds provided two test stability improvements with PR #344 and PR #347. The first PR adds skip guards to RedisKvStore tests as a workaround for a known Bun runtime issue, keeping the test suite functional while awaiting an upstream fix. The second PR resolves a race condition in the code generation process by randomizing output filenames, preventing conflicts during parallel test execution. These contributions help maintain a stable testing environment for the project.
Thank you all for your contributions to Fedify. Your work helps make federated social networking more accessible to developers.
We'd like to recognize some excellent contributions from our #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy) participants who have been working on #Fedify.
@gaebalgom contributed PR #339, which introduces the @fedify/elysia package to provide Elysia integration for Fedify. This work addresses issue #286 by creating a plugin that enables developers using #Bun and #Elysia to integrate Fedify's #ActivityPub capabilities into their applications. The contribution includes the core integration module, documentation, examples, and proper monorepo configuration, making Fedify accessible to the Elysia community.
@r4bb1t submitted PR #315, implementing comprehensive AbortSignal support across multiple APIs to resolve issue #51. This contribution adds request cancellation capabilities not only to lookupWebFinger() but also to lookupObject(), DocumentLoader, and the HTTP signature authentication flow (doubleKnock()), allowing developers to properly handle timeouts and abort ongoing requests throughout the entire request chain. The implementation includes extensive test coverage for cancellation scenarios across all affected components and lays the groundwork for adding --timeout options to various CLI commands like fedify lookup, fedify webfinger, and fedify nodeinfo, making federated applications more robust and responsive.
@ooheunda addressed a testing infrastructure issue with PR #350, fixing a race condition in PostgreSQL message queue tests that was causing intermittent failures (issue #346). By adding explicit initialization before concurrent message queue listeners, this fix prevents table creation conflicts that were affecting test reliability, ensuring more consistent PR testing for all contributors.
@songbirds provided two test stability improvements with PR #344 and PR #347. The first PR adds skip guards to RedisKvStore tests as a workaround for a known Bun runtime issue, keeping the test suite functional while awaiting an upstream fix. The second PR resolves a race condition in the code generation process by randomizing output filenames, preventing conflicts during parallel test execution. These contributions help maintain a stable testing environment for the project.
Thank you all for your contributions to Fedify. Your work helps make federated social networking more accessible to developers.
We'd like to recognize some excellent contributions from our #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy) participants who have been working on #Fedify.
@gaebalgom contributed PR #339, which introduces the @fedify/elysia package to provide Elysia integration for Fedify. This work addresses issue #286 by creating a plugin that enables developers using #Bun and #Elysia to integrate Fedify's #ActivityPub capabilities into their applications. The contribution includes the core integration module, documentation, examples, and proper monorepo configuration, making Fedify accessible to the Elysia community.
@r4bb1t submitted PR #315, implementing comprehensive AbortSignal support across multiple APIs to resolve issue #51. This contribution adds request cancellation capabilities not only to lookupWebFinger() but also to lookupObject(), DocumentLoader, and the HTTP signature authentication flow (doubleKnock()), allowing developers to properly handle timeouts and abort ongoing requests throughout the entire request chain. The implementation includes extensive test coverage for cancellation scenarios across all affected components and lays the groundwork for adding --timeout options to various CLI commands like fedify lookup, fedify webfinger, and fedify nodeinfo, making federated applications more robust and responsive.
@ooheunda addressed a testing infrastructure issue with PR #350, fixing a race condition in PostgreSQL message queue tests that was causing intermittent failures (issue #346). By adding explicit initialization before concurrent message queue listeners, this fix prevents table creation conflicts that were affecting test reliability, ensuring more consistent PR testing for all contributors.
@songbirds provided two test stability improvements with PR #344 and PR #347. The first PR adds skip guards to RedisKvStore tests as a workaround for a known Bun runtime issue, keeping the test suite functional while awaiting an upstream fix. The second PR resolves a race condition in the code generation process by randomizing output filenames, preventing conflicts during parallel test execution. These contributions help maintain a stable testing environment for the project.
Thank you all for your contributions to Fedify. Your work helps make federated social networking more accessible to developers.
We'd like to recognize some excellent contributions from our #OSSCA (Open Source Contribution Academy) participants who have been working on #Fedify.
@gaebalgom contributed PR #339, which introduces the @fedify/elysia package to provide Elysia integration for Fedify. This work addresses issue #286 by creating a plugin that enables developers using #Bun and #Elysia to integrate Fedify's #ActivityPub capabilities into their applications. The contribution includes the core integration module, documentation, examples, and proper monorepo configuration, making Fedify accessible to the Elysia community.
@r4bb1t submitted PR #315, implementing comprehensive AbortSignal support across multiple APIs to resolve issue #51. This contribution adds request cancellation capabilities not only to lookupWebFinger() but also to lookupObject(), DocumentLoader, and the HTTP signature authentication flow (doubleKnock()), allowing developers to properly handle timeouts and abort ongoing requests throughout the entire request chain. The implementation includes extensive test coverage for cancellation scenarios across all affected components and lays the groundwork for adding --timeout options to various CLI commands like fedify lookup, fedify webfinger, and fedify nodeinfo, making federated applications more robust and responsive.
@ooheunda addressed a testing infrastructure issue with PR #350, fixing a race condition in PostgreSQL message queue tests that was causing intermittent failures (issue #346). By adding explicit initialization before concurrent message queue listeners, this fix prevents table creation conflicts that were affecting test reliability, ensuring more consistent PR testing for all contributors.
@songbirds provided two test stability improvements with PR #344 and PR #347. The first PR adds skip guards to RedisKvStore tests as a workaround for a known Bun runtime issue, keeping the test suite functional while awaiting an upstream fix. The second PR resolves a race condition in the code generation process by randomizing output filenames, preventing conflicts during parallel test execution. These contributions help maintain a stable testing environment for the project.
Thank you all for your contributions to Fedify. Your work helps make federated social networking more accessible to developers.
We're thrilled to highlight five outstanding contributions from the Korean Open Source Contribution Academy (#OSSCA) program participants who have been working on #Fedify! Their dedication and effort have significantly enhanced our #ActivityPub server framework.
First up is @nyeong with his monumental #318 PR, implementing a SQLite-based key–value store to address #274. This contribution adds the SqliteKvStore class with full cross-runtime support for Node.js, Deno, and Bun through the new @fedify/sqlite package. His implementation includes atomic operations, TTL support, comprehensive test coverage, and careful attention to SQL injection prevention. This enables developers to use SQLite as a persistent storage backend while maintaining compatibility with Fedify's existing KvStore API—a crucial feature for production deployments!
Next, @crohasang delivered an excellent quality-of-life improvement with #341 PR, fixing #257. He enhanced the CLI to properly respect TTY status and the NO_COLOR environment variable, implementing intelligent color control across all CLI commands. The solution involved switching from @cliffy/ansi/colors to @std/fmt/colors, creating a helper function using Deno.inspect() to handle object formatting, and ensuring colors are correctly disabled when output is redirected to files. This makes the CLI much more pipe-friendly and suitable for automated workflows!
@menele contributed a thoughtful enhancement with #342 PR, addressing #191. She updated the fedify inbox command to display not just the activity type, but also the type of object contained within each activity—transforming output like "Create" into the more informative "Create(Note)" or "Undo" into "Undo(Follow)". This seemingly simple change required making the display function asynchronous to fetch the enclosed objects, significantly improving the debugging experience for developers!
@woaol tackled an important developer experience issue with #329 PR, solving #306. Previously, the fedify init command would often install outdated versions of Fedify packages like @fedify/redis because version numbers were hardcoded in the CLI. They created a getLatestVersion() function that dynamically retrieves package versions from local metadata files, ensuring that developers always get the latest versions of all Fedify packages when initializing a new project. This improvement includes comprehensive test coverage and eliminates the frustration of starting a project with outdated dependencies!
Finally, @kodingwarrior made a significant contribution with #309 PR, implementing #269—NestJS integration! They created the @fedify/nestjs package with a FedifyModule that seamlessly integrates Fedify into NestJS applications. This includes proper middleware implementation, dependency injection support through NestJS's module system, and compatibility with both CommonJS and ESM environments. This opens up Fedify to the large NestJS developer community, making it easier than ever to build ActivityPub-enabled applications with this popular enterprise framework!
These contributions showcase the incredible talent and dedication of the OSSCA participants. From core infrastructure improvements to developer experience enhancements, each contribution makes Fedify better for the entire community. Thank you all for your hard work and welcome to the Fedify contributor family! 🚀
We're looking forward to seeing more amazing contributions from the OSSCA program and the broader community. If you're interested in contributing to Fedify, check out our GitHub repository and join us in building the future of federated social web! 🌟
We're thrilled to highlight five outstanding contributions from the Korean Open Source Contribution Academy (#OSSCA) program participants who have been working on #Fedify! Their dedication and effort have significantly enhanced our #ActivityPub server framework.
First up is @nyeong with his monumental #318 PR, implementing a SQLite-based key–value store to address #274. This contribution adds the SqliteKvStore class with full cross-runtime support for Node.js, Deno, and Bun through the new @fedify/sqlite package. His implementation includes atomic operations, TTL support, comprehensive test coverage, and careful attention to SQL injection prevention. This enables developers to use SQLite as a persistent storage backend while maintaining compatibility with Fedify's existing KvStore API—a crucial feature for production deployments!
Next, @crohasang delivered an excellent quality-of-life improvement with #341 PR, fixing #257. He enhanced the CLI to properly respect TTY status and the NO_COLOR environment variable, implementing intelligent color control across all CLI commands. The solution involved switching from @cliffy/ansi/colors to @std/fmt/colors, creating a helper function using Deno.inspect() to handle object formatting, and ensuring colors are correctly disabled when output is redirected to files. This makes the CLI much more pipe-friendly and suitable for automated workflows!
@menele contributed a thoughtful enhancement with #342 PR, addressing #191. She updated the fedify inbox command to display not just the activity type, but also the type of object contained within each activity—transforming output like "Create" into the more informative "Create(Note)" or "Undo" into "Undo(Follow)". This seemingly simple change required making the display function asynchronous to fetch the enclosed objects, significantly improving the debugging experience for developers!
@woaol tackled an important developer experience issue with #329 PR, solving #306. Previously, the fedify init command would often install outdated versions of Fedify packages like @fedify/redis because version numbers were hardcoded in the CLI. They created a getLatestVersion() function that dynamically retrieves package versions from local metadata files, ensuring that developers always get the latest versions of all Fedify packages when initializing a new project. This improvement includes comprehensive test coverage and eliminates the frustration of starting a project with outdated dependencies!
Finally, @kodingwarrior made a significant contribution with #309 PR, implementing #269—NestJS integration! They created the @fedify/nestjs package with a FedifyModule that seamlessly integrates Fedify into NestJS applications. This includes proper middleware implementation, dependency injection support through NestJS's module system, and compatibility with both CommonJS and ESM environments. This opens up Fedify to the large NestJS developer community, making it easier than ever to build ActivityPub-enabled applications with this popular enterprise framework!
These contributions showcase the incredible talent and dedication of the OSSCA participants. From core infrastructure improvements to developer experience enhancements, each contribution makes Fedify better for the entire community. Thank you all for your hard work and welcome to the Fedify contributor family! 🚀
We're looking forward to seeing more amazing contributions from the OSSCA program and the broader community. If you're interested in contributing to Fedify, check out our GitHub repository and join us in building the future of federated social web! 🌟
We're thrilled to highlight five outstanding contributions from the Korean Open Source Contribution Academy (#OSSCA) program participants who have been working on #Fedify! Their dedication and effort have significantly enhanced our #ActivityPub server framework.
First up is @nyeong with his monumental #318 PR, implementing a SQLite-based key–value store to address #274. This contribution adds the SqliteKvStore class with full cross-runtime support for Node.js, Deno, and Bun through the new @fedify/sqlite package. His implementation includes atomic operations, TTL support, comprehensive test coverage, and careful attention to SQL injection prevention. This enables developers to use SQLite as a persistent storage backend while maintaining compatibility with Fedify's existing KvStore API—a crucial feature for production deployments!
Next, @crohasang delivered an excellent quality-of-life improvement with #341 PR, fixing #257. He enhanced the CLI to properly respect TTY status and the NO_COLOR environment variable, implementing intelligent color control across all CLI commands. The solution involved switching from @cliffy/ansi/colors to @std/fmt/colors, creating a helper function using Deno.inspect() to handle object formatting, and ensuring colors are correctly disabled when output is redirected to files. This makes the CLI much more pipe-friendly and suitable for automated workflows!
@menele contributed a thoughtful enhancement with #342 PR, addressing #191. She updated the fedify inbox command to display not just the activity type, but also the type of object contained within each activity—transforming output like "Create" into the more informative "Create(Note)" or "Undo" into "Undo(Follow)". This seemingly simple change required making the display function asynchronous to fetch the enclosed objects, significantly improving the debugging experience for developers!
@woaol tackled an important developer experience issue with #329 PR, solving #306. Previously, the fedify init command would often install outdated versions of Fedify packages like @fedify/redis because version numbers were hardcoded in the CLI. They created a getLatestVersion() function that dynamically retrieves package versions from local metadata files, ensuring that developers always get the latest versions of all Fedify packages when initializing a new project. This improvement includes comprehensive test coverage and eliminates the frustration of starting a project with outdated dependencies!
Finally, @kodingwarrior made a significant contribution with #309 PR, implementing #269—NestJS integration! They created the @fedify/nestjs package with a FedifyModule that seamlessly integrates Fedify into NestJS applications. This includes proper middleware implementation, dependency injection support through NestJS's module system, and compatibility with both CommonJS and ESM environments. This opens up Fedify to the large NestJS developer community, making it easier than ever to build ActivityPub-enabled applications with this popular enterprise framework!
These contributions showcase the incredible talent and dedication of the OSSCA participants. From core infrastructure improvements to developer experience enhancements, each contribution makes Fedify better for the entire community. Thank you all for your hard work and welcome to the Fedify contributor family! 🚀
We're looking forward to seeing more amazing contributions from the OSSCA program and the broader community. If you're interested in contributing to Fedify, check out our GitHub repository and join us in building the future of federated social web! 🌟
We're thrilled to highlight five outstanding contributions from the Korean Open Source Contribution Academy (#OSSCA) program participants who have been working on #Fedify! Their dedication and effort have significantly enhanced our #ActivityPub server framework.
First up is @nyeong with his monumental #318 PR, implementing a SQLite-based key–value store to address #274. This contribution adds the SqliteKvStore class with full cross-runtime support for Node.js, Deno, and Bun through the new @fedify/sqlite package. His implementation includes atomic operations, TTL support, comprehensive test coverage, and careful attention to SQL injection prevention. This enables developers to use SQLite as a persistent storage backend while maintaining compatibility with Fedify's existing KvStore API—a crucial feature for production deployments!
Next, @crohasang delivered an excellent quality-of-life improvement with #341 PR, fixing #257. He enhanced the CLI to properly respect TTY status and the NO_COLOR environment variable, implementing intelligent color control across all CLI commands. The solution involved switching from @cliffy/ansi/colors to @std/fmt/colors, creating a helper function using Deno.inspect() to handle object formatting, and ensuring colors are correctly disabled when output is redirected to files. This makes the CLI much more pipe-friendly and suitable for automated workflows!
@menele contributed a thoughtful enhancement with #342 PR, addressing #191. She updated the fedify inbox command to display not just the activity type, but also the type of object contained within each activity—transforming output like "Create" into the more informative "Create(Note)" or "Undo" into "Undo(Follow)". This seemingly simple change required making the display function asynchronous to fetch the enclosed objects, significantly improving the debugging experience for developers!
@woaol tackled an important developer experience issue with #329 PR, solving #306. Previously, the fedify init command would often install outdated versions of Fedify packages like @fedify/redis because version numbers were hardcoded in the CLI. They created a getLatestVersion() function that dynamically retrieves package versions from local metadata files, ensuring that developers always get the latest versions of all Fedify packages when initializing a new project. This improvement includes comprehensive test coverage and eliminates the frustration of starting a project with outdated dependencies!
Finally, @kodingwarrior made a significant contribution with #309 PR, implementing #269—NestJS integration! They created the @fedify/nestjs package with a FedifyModule that seamlessly integrates Fedify into NestJS applications. This includes proper middleware implementation, dependency injection support through NestJS's module system, and compatibility with both CommonJS and ESM environments. This opens up Fedify to the large NestJS developer community, making it easier than ever to build ActivityPub-enabled applications with this popular enterprise framework!
These contributions showcase the incredible talent and dedication of the OSSCA participants. From core infrastructure improvements to developer experience enhancements, each contribution makes Fedify better for the entire community. Thank you all for your hard work and welcome to the Fedify contributor family! 🚀
We're looking forward to seeing more amazing contributions from the OSSCA program and the broader community. If you're interested in contributing to Fedify, check out our GitHub repository and join us in building the future of federated social web! 🌟
🎉 Huge shoutout to @2chanhaeng for implementing custom collection dispatchers in #Fedify through the Korean #OSSCA program!
This incredible contribution adds support for creating arbitrary collections beyond the built-in ones (e.g., outbox, inbox, following, followers). Now developers can expose custom collections like user bookmarks, post categories, or any grouped content through the #ActivityPub protocol:
The implementation is technically excellent with full #TypeScript support, both Collection and OrderedCollection types, cursor-based pagination, authorization predicates, and zero breaking changes. @2chanhaeng delivered not just code but a complete feature with 313 lines of comprehensive documentation, practical examples, and thorough test coverage.
This opens up countless possibilities for ActivityPub applications built with Fedify. From user-specific collections to complex categorization systems, developers now have the flexibility to create any type of custom collection while maintaining full ActivityPub compliance.
Thank you @2chanhaeng for this outstanding contribution and to the OSSCA program for fostering such excellent open source collaboration! 🚀
🎉 Huge shoutout to @2chanhaeng for implementing custom collection dispatchers in #Fedify through the Korean #OSSCA program!
This incredible contribution adds support for creating arbitrary collections beyond the built-in ones (e.g., outbox, inbox, following, followers). Now developers can expose custom collections like user bookmarks, post categories, or any grouped content through the #ActivityPub protocol:
The implementation is technically excellent with full #TypeScript support, both Collection and OrderedCollection types, cursor-based pagination, authorization predicates, and zero breaking changes. @2chanhaeng delivered not just code but a complete feature with 313 lines of comprehensive documentation, practical examples, and thorough test coverage.
This opens up countless possibilities for ActivityPub applications built with Fedify. From user-specific collections to complex categorization systems, developers now have the flexibility to create any type of custom collection while maintaining full ActivityPub compliance.
Thank you @2chanhaeng for this outstanding contribution and to the OSSCA program for fostering such excellent open source collaboration! 🚀
🎉 Huge shoutout to @2chanhaeng for implementing custom collection dispatchers in #Fedify through the Korean #OSSCA program!
This incredible contribution adds support for creating arbitrary collections beyond the built-in ones (e.g., outbox, inbox, following, followers). Now developers can expose custom collections like user bookmarks, post categories, or any grouped content through the #ActivityPub protocol:
The implementation is technically excellent with full #TypeScript support, both Collection and OrderedCollection types, cursor-based pagination, authorization predicates, and zero breaking changes. @2chanhaeng delivered not just code but a complete feature with 313 lines of comprehensive documentation, practical examples, and thorough test coverage.
This opens up countless possibilities for ActivityPub applications built with Fedify. From user-specific collections to complex categorization systems, developers now have the flexibility to create any type of custom collection while maintaining full ActivityPub compliance.
Thank you @2chanhaeng for this outstanding contribution and to the OSSCA program for fostering such excellent open source collaboration! 🚀
🎉 Huge shoutout to @2chanhaeng for implementing custom collection dispatchers in #Fedify through the Korean #OSSCA program!
This incredible contribution adds support for creating arbitrary collections beyond the built-in ones (e.g., outbox, inbox, following, followers). Now developers can expose custom collections like user bookmarks, post categories, or any grouped content through the #ActivityPub protocol:
The implementation is technically excellent with full #TypeScript support, both Collection and OrderedCollection types, cursor-based pagination, authorization predicates, and zero breaking changes. @2chanhaeng delivered not just code but a complete feature with 313 lines of comprehensive documentation, practical examples, and thorough test coverage.
This opens up countless possibilities for ActivityPub applications built with Fedify. From user-specific collections to complex categorization systems, developers now have the flexibility to create any type of custom collection while maintaining full ActivityPub compliance.
Thank you @2chanhaeng for this outstanding contribution and to the OSSCA program for fostering such excellent open source collaboration! 🚀
🎉 Huge shoutout to @2chanhaeng for implementing custom collection dispatchers in #Fedify through the Korean #OSSCA program!
This incredible contribution adds support for creating arbitrary collections beyond the built-in ones (e.g., outbox, inbox, following, followers). Now developers can expose custom collections like user bookmarks, post categories, or any grouped content through the #ActivityPub protocol:
The implementation is technically excellent with full #TypeScript support, both Collection and OrderedCollection types, cursor-based pagination, authorization predicates, and zero breaking changes. @2chanhaeng delivered not just code but a complete feature with 313 lines of comprehensive documentation, practical examples, and thorough test coverage.
This opens up countless possibilities for ActivityPub applications built with Fedify. From user-specific collections to complex categorization systems, developers now have the flexibility to create any type of custom collection while maintaining full ActivityPub compliance.
Thank you @2chanhaeng for this outstanding contribution and to the OSSCA program for fostering such excellent open source collaboration! 🚀
🎉 Huge shoutouts to two amazing contributors from Korea's #OSSCA program who just made #Fedify even better!
First, @z9mb1 delivered PR #321, adding a handy -o/--output option to fedify lookup. Now you can save lookup results directly to files instead of just printing to terminal—a nice quality-of-life improvement for analysis and scripting workflows.
But the real showstopper is @joonnot's incredible PR #283, which introduces the brand new @fedify/testing package! This massive contribution (2,014 lines across 20 files) brings MockFederation and MockContext classes that completely transform how we test federated applications. No more complex setups or actual network requests—just clean, straightforward unit testing with activity tracking, inbox simulation, and queue-aware testing capabilities.
These contributions solve real pain points and showcase the amazing talent emerging from the OSSCA program. Both features will be available in the upcoming Fedify 1.8 release. The future of federated software development just got a lot brighter! 🚀
🎉 Huge shoutouts to two amazing contributors from Korea's #OSSCA program who just made #Fedify even better!
First, @z9mb1 delivered PR #321, adding a handy -o/--output option to fedify lookup. Now you can save lookup results directly to files instead of just printing to terminal—a nice quality-of-life improvement for analysis and scripting workflows.
But the real showstopper is @joonnot's incredible PR #283, which introduces the brand new @fedify/testing package! This massive contribution (2,014 lines across 20 files) brings MockFederation and MockContext classes that completely transform how we test federated applications. No more complex setups or actual network requests—just clean, straightforward unit testing with activity tracking, inbox simulation, and queue-aware testing capabilities.
These contributions solve real pain points and showcase the amazing talent emerging from the OSSCA program. Both features will be available in the upcoming Fedify 1.8 release. The future of federated software development just got a lot brighter! 🚀
🎉 Huge shoutouts to two amazing contributors from Korea's #OSSCA program who just made #Fedify even better!
First, @z9mb1 delivered PR #321, adding a handy -o/--output option to fedify lookup. Now you can save lookup results directly to files instead of just printing to terminal—a nice quality-of-life improvement for analysis and scripting workflows.
But the real showstopper is @joonnot's incredible PR #283, which introduces the brand new @fedify/testing package! This massive contribution (2,014 lines across 20 files) brings MockFederation and MockContext classes that completely transform how we test federated applications. No more complex setups or actual network requests—just clean, straightforward unit testing with activity tracking, inbox simulation, and queue-aware testing capabilities.
These contributions solve real pain points and showcase the amazing talent emerging from the OSSCA program. Both features will be available in the upcoming Fedify 1.8 release. The future of federated software development just got a lot brighter! 🚀
🎉 Huge shoutouts to two amazing contributors from Korea's #OSSCA program who just made #Fedify even better!
First, @z9mb1 delivered PR #321, adding a handy -o/--output option to fedify lookup. Now you can save lookup results directly to files instead of just printing to terminal—a nice quality-of-life improvement for analysis and scripting workflows.
But the real showstopper is @joonnot's incredible PR #283, which introduces the brand new @fedify/testing package! This massive contribution (2,014 lines across 20 files) brings MockFederation and MockContext classes that completely transform how we test federated applications. No more complex setups or actual network requests—just clean, straightforward unit testing with activity tracking, inbox simulation, and queue-aware testing capabilities.
These contributions solve real pain points and showcase the amazing talent emerging from the OSSCA program. Both features will be available in the upcoming Fedify 1.8 release. The future of federated software development just got a lot brighter! 🚀
Fedify is an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript & #JavaScript. It aims to eliminate the complexity and redundant boilerplate code when building a federated server app, so that you can focus on your business logic and user experience.
The key features it provides currently are:
Type-safe objects for Activity Vocabulary (including some vendor-specific extensions)
In case you weren't aware, #Fedify has both #Discord and #Matrix communities where you can get help, discuss features, or just chat about #ActivityPub and federated social networks.
We're excited to announce that we've implemented RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures) in #Fedify, complete with our double-knocking mechanism to maintain backward compatibility with the draft cavage version.
This implementation includes both signature generation and verification, meaning #RFC9421 is used when both sending and receiving activities. While we haven't merged the RFC 9421 implementation branch yet, we're currently conducting interoperability tests with development versions of Mastodon and other #ActivityPub implementations. Once these tests confirm compatibility, we'll proceed with the merge.
As noted in the attached docs, although RFC 9421 is the final and official standard for HTTP Signatures, the draft cavage version remains widely used across the #fediverse. Our double-knocking mechanism ensures maximum compatibility by trying the RFC 9421 version first, then falling back to draft cavage if needed.
Currently, we support RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures, with plans to expand to other signature types in future releases.
We look forward to contributing to a more standardized and secure fediverse!
ALT text detailsHTTP Message Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
RFC 9421, also known as HTTP Message Signatures, is the final revision of the HTTP Signatures specification. Although it is the official standard, it is not widely used in the fediverse yet. As of May 2025, major ActivityPub implementations, such as Mastodon, et al., still rely on the draft cavage version of HTTP Signatures for signing portable activities.
Fedify automatically signs activities with the sender's private key if the actor keys dispatcher is set and the actor has any RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair. If there are multiple key pairs, Fedify selects the first RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair among them.
NOTE
Although HTTP Message Signatures support other than RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5, Fedify currently supports only RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures. This limitation will be lifted in the future releases.
ALT text detailsDouble-knocking HTTP Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
As you read above, there are two revisions of HTTP Signatures: the draft cavage version and the RFC 9421 version. The draft cavage version is declared as obsolete, but it is still widely used in the fediverse, and many ActivityPub implementations still rely on it. On the other hand, the RFC 9421 version is the official standard, but it is not widely used yet.
To support both versions of HTTP Signatures, Fedify uses the double-knocking mechanism: trying one version, then falling back to another if rejected. If it's the first encounter with the recipient server, Fedify tries the RFC 9421 version first, and if it fails, it falls back to the draft cavage version. If the recipient server accepts the RFC 9421 version, Fedify remembers it and uses the RFC 9421 version for the next time. If the recipient server rejects the RFC 9421 version, Fedify falls back to the draft cavage version and remembers it for the next time.
ALT text detailsFedify's Open Collective page showing the project logo, description as “A TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards”, and five contribution tiers starting from $5/month Backer to $500/month Corporate Sponsor, with custom contribution options available.
We're excited to announce the release of #Fedify 1.6.1, which marks the beginning of the 1.6 series following the retraction of version 1.6.0. This release introduces significant new capabilities that expand Fedify's deployment options and enhance security compatibility across the #fediverse.
Fedify 1.6 introduces the FederationBuilder class and createFederationBuilder() function to support deferred federation instantiation. This pattern provides several benefits:
Deferred instantiation: Set up dispatchers and listeners before creating the federation object
Better code organization: Avoid circular dependencies and improve project structure
Cloudflare #Workers compatibility: Accommodates binding-based architectures where resources are passed as arguments rather than globals
Modular setup: Build complex federations piece by piece before instantiation
The builder pattern is particularly useful for large applications and environments like Cloudflare Workers where configuration data is only available at runtime.
Adaptive caching: The system remembers which version each server supports to optimize future requests
This approach ensures seamless communication with both modern and legacy ActivityPub implementations while positioning Fedify at the forefront of security standards.
Interoperability testing
The RFC 9421 implementation has been thoroughly tested for interoperability with existing ActivityPub implementations that support RFC 9421 signature verification:
Mastodon 4.4.0 development version: Tested RFC 9421 signature verification against Fedify's implementation (refer to Mastodon PR #34814, though Mastodon 4.4.0 has not yet been released)
These tests confirm that other ActivityPub implementations can successfully verify RFC 9421 signatures generated by Fedify, ensuring proper federation as the ecosystem gradually adopts the official specification. While these implementations currently support verification of RFC 9421 signatures, they do not yet generate RFC 9421 signatures themselves—making Fedify one of the first ActivityPub implementations to support both generation and verification of the modern standard.
🔍 WebFinger enhancements
Dedicated WebFinger lookup
The new Context.lookupWebFinger() method provides direct access to WebFinger data, offering developers more granular control over account discovery and resource resolution beyond the higher-level Context.lookupObject() method.
🛠 Context API improvements
Context data replacement
The new Context.clone() method enables dynamic context data replacement, providing greater flexibility in request processing and data flow management. This is particularly useful for middleware implementations and complex request routing scenarios.
🚀 Migration considerations
Backward compatibility
Fedify 1.6 maintains full backward compatibility with existing applications. The new HTTP Message Signatures and double-knocking mechanisms work transparently without requiring any code changes.
Node.js version requirement
Important: Fedify 1.6 requires Node.js 22.0.0 or later for Node.js environments. This change does not affect applications using Deno or Bun runtimes. If you're currently using Node.js, please ensure your environment meets this requirement before upgrading.
New deployment options
For new deployments, consider leveraging Cloudflare Workers support for:
Global edge deployment with low latency
Serverless scaling and automatic resource management
Integration with Cloudflare's ecosystem of services
🎯 Looking forward
Fedify 1.6 represents a significant expansion of deployment possibilities while maintaining the framework's commitment to broad compatibility across the fediverse. The addition of Cloudflare Workers support opens new architectural patterns for federated applications, while the RFC 9421 implementation ensures Fedify stays current with emerging ActivityPub security standards.
For detailed migration guides, API documentation, and examples, please visit the Fedify documentation. Join our community on Matrix or Discord for support and discussions.
@andypiper I'm not a server-side person, so there's really not much there - I started with the #fedify tutorial, enough to create one account, and an instance with a nodeinfo, added the mastodon api instance info that's in the screenshot, and web pages that display links and a resume from hardcoded data and embedded static json. I'm just dabbling, but I'd like to see a fediverse portfolio/resume site, like linkedin but not linkedin.
@andypiper I'm not a server-side person, so there's really not much there - I started with the #fedify tutorial, enough to create one account, and an instance with a nodeinfo, added the mastodon api instance info that's in the screenshot, and web pages that display links and a resume from hardcoded data and embedded static json. I'm just dabbling, but I'd like to see a fediverse portfolio/resume site, like linkedin but not linkedin.
@andypiper I'm not a server-side person, so there's really not much there - I started with the #fedify tutorial, enough to create one account, and an instance with a nodeinfo, added the mastodon api instance info that's in the screenshot, and web pages that display links and a resume from hardcoded data and embedded static json. I'm just dabbling, but I'd like to see a fediverse portfolio/resume site, like linkedin but not linkedin.
🎉 Huge shoutout to two amazing contributors from Korea's #OSSCA program who've made excellent contributions to #Fedify!
👏 @gaebalgom tackled a tricky terminal compatibility issue in PR #282, fixing the fedify node command's favicon display on terminal emulators without truecolor support (#168). His solution elegantly detects terminal capabilities and falls back to 256-color mode when needed—ensuring a great experience across different environments.
🌟 @joonnot enhanced Fedify's #WebFinger functionality in PR #281 by adding a configurable maxRedirection option to the lookupWebFinger() function (#248). He transformed a hardcoded limitation into a flexible, user-customizable parameter while maintaining perfect backward compatibility.
Both delivered thoughtful, well-implemented solutions that showcase the quality of contributions coming from the OSSCA program. Welcome to the Fedify community!
ALT text detailsSide-by-side comparison of `fedify node` command output showing terminal favicon display. Left side shows broken display on terminal without truecolor support with corrupted color blocks. Right side shows proper display after the fix with clean, correctly rendered favicon and NodeInfo output including mastodon.social server information and statistics.
🎉 Huge shoutout to two amazing contributors from Korea's #OSSCA program who've made excellent contributions to #Fedify!
👏 @gaebalgom tackled a tricky terminal compatibility issue in PR #282, fixing the fedify node command's favicon display on terminal emulators without truecolor support (#168). His solution elegantly detects terminal capabilities and falls back to 256-color mode when needed—ensuring a great experience across different environments.
🌟 @joonnot enhanced Fedify's #WebFinger functionality in PR #281 by adding a configurable maxRedirection option to the lookupWebFinger() function (#248). He transformed a hardcoded limitation into a flexible, user-customizable parameter while maintaining perfect backward compatibility.
Both delivered thoughtful, well-implemented solutions that showcase the quality of contributions coming from the OSSCA program. Welcome to the Fedify community!
ALT text detailsSide-by-side comparison of `fedify node` command output showing terminal favicon display. Left side shows broken display on terminal without truecolor support with corrupted color blocks. Right side shows proper display after the fix with clean, correctly rendered favicon and NodeInfo output including mastodon.social server information and statistics.
🎉 Huge shoutout to two amazing contributors from Korea's #OSSCA program who've made excellent contributions to #Fedify!
👏 @gaebalgom tackled a tricky terminal compatibility issue in PR #282, fixing the fedify node command's favicon display on terminal emulators without truecolor support (#168). His solution elegantly detects terminal capabilities and falls back to 256-color mode when needed—ensuring a great experience across different environments.
🌟 @joonnot enhanced Fedify's #WebFinger functionality in PR #281 by adding a configurable maxRedirection option to the lookupWebFinger() function (#248). He transformed a hardcoded limitation into a flexible, user-customizable parameter while maintaining perfect backward compatibility.
Both delivered thoughtful, well-implemented solutions that showcase the quality of contributions coming from the OSSCA program. Welcome to the Fedify community!
ALT text detailsSide-by-side comparison of `fedify node` command output showing terminal favicon display. Left side shows broken display on terminal without truecolor support with corrupted color blocks. Right side shows proper display after the fix with clean, correctly rendered favicon and NodeInfo output including mastodon.social server information and statistics.
🎉 Huge shoutout to two amazing contributors from Korea's #OSSCA program who've made excellent contributions to #Fedify!
👏 @gaebalgom tackled a tricky terminal compatibility issue in PR #282, fixing the fedify node command's favicon display on terminal emulators without truecolor support (#168). His solution elegantly detects terminal capabilities and falls back to 256-color mode when needed—ensuring a great experience across different environments.
🌟 @joonnot enhanced Fedify's #WebFinger functionality in PR #281 by adding a configurable maxRedirection option to the lookupWebFinger() function (#248). He transformed a hardcoded limitation into a flexible, user-customizable parameter while maintaining perfect backward compatibility.
Both delivered thoughtful, well-implemented solutions that showcase the quality of contributions coming from the OSSCA program. Welcome to the Fedify community!
ALT text detailsSide-by-side comparison of `fedify node` command output showing terminal favicon display. Left side shows broken display on terminal without truecolor support with corrupted color blocks. Right side shows proper display after the fix with clean, correctly rendered favicon and NodeInfo output including mastodon.social server information and statistics.
🎉 Huge shoutout to two amazing contributors from Korea's #OSSCA program who've made excellent contributions to #Fedify!
👏 @gaebalgom tackled a tricky terminal compatibility issue in PR #282, fixing the fedify node command's favicon display on terminal emulators without truecolor support (#168). His solution elegantly detects terminal capabilities and falls back to 256-color mode when needed—ensuring a great experience across different environments.
🌟 @joonnot enhanced Fedify's #WebFinger functionality in PR #281 by adding a configurable maxRedirection option to the lookupWebFinger() function (#248). He transformed a hardcoded limitation into a flexible, user-customizable parameter while maintaining perfect backward compatibility.
Both delivered thoughtful, well-implemented solutions that showcase the quality of contributions coming from the OSSCA program. Welcome to the Fedify community!
ALT text detailsSide-by-side comparison of `fedify node` command output showing terminal favicon display. Left side shows broken display on terminal without truecolor support with corrupted color blocks. Right side shows proper display after the fix with clean, correctly rendered favicon and NodeInfo output including mastodon.social server information and statistics.
🎉 Big thanks to @2chanhaeng for his first contribution to #Fedify! He implemented the new fedify webfinger command in PR #278, which allows isolated #WebFinger lookups for testing configurations. This addresses the need for developers to test WebFinger functionality without performing comprehensive object retrieval.
The contribution includes:
A new fedify webfinger <handle> command that accepts @user@domain format handles or URIs
Clean JSON output of WebFinger JRD results
Proper error handling for invalid handles and lookup failures
Complete #CLI integration with help text and usage examples
This was originally filed as issue #260 and marked as a good first issue—perfect for newcomers to learn the codebase structure while contributing meaningful functionality. The PR has been merged and will be included in the upcoming Fedify 1.8.0 release.
We appreciate all first-time contributors who help make Fedify better for the entire #fediverse community. Welcome aboard, ChanHaeng!
🎉 Big thanks to @2chanhaeng for his first contribution to #Fedify! He implemented the new fedify webfinger command in PR #278, which allows isolated #WebFinger lookups for testing configurations. This addresses the need for developers to test WebFinger functionality without performing comprehensive object retrieval.
The contribution includes:
A new fedify webfinger <handle> command that accepts @user@domain format handles or URIs
Clean JSON output of WebFinger JRD results
Proper error handling for invalid handles and lookup failures
Complete #CLI integration with help text and usage examples
This was originally filed as issue #260 and marked as a good first issue—perfect for newcomers to learn the codebase structure while contributing meaningful functionality. The PR has been merged and will be included in the upcoming Fedify 1.8.0 release.
We appreciate all first-time contributors who help make Fedify better for the entire #fediverse community. Welcome aboard, ChanHaeng!
🎉 Big thanks to @2chanhaeng for his first contribution to #Fedify! He implemented the new fedify webfinger command in PR #278, which allows isolated #WebFinger lookups for testing configurations. This addresses the need for developers to test WebFinger functionality without performing comprehensive object retrieval.
The contribution includes:
A new fedify webfinger <handle> command that accepts @user@domain format handles or URIs
Clean JSON output of WebFinger JRD results
Proper error handling for invalid handles and lookup failures
Complete #CLI integration with help text and usage examples
This was originally filed as issue #260 and marked as a good first issue—perfect for newcomers to learn the codebase structure while contributing meaningful functionality. The PR has been merged and will be included in the upcoming Fedify 1.8.0 release.
We appreciate all first-time contributors who help make Fedify better for the entire #fediverse community. Welcome aboard, ChanHaeng!
🎉 Big thanks to @2chanhaeng for his first contribution to #Fedify! He implemented the new fedify webfinger command in PR #278, which allows isolated #WebFinger lookups for testing configurations. This addresses the need for developers to test WebFinger functionality without performing comprehensive object retrieval.
The contribution includes:
A new fedify webfinger <handle> command that accepts @user@domain format handles or URIs
Clean JSON output of WebFinger JRD results
Proper error handling for invalid handles and lookup failures
Complete #CLI integration with help text and usage examples
This was originally filed as issue #260 and marked as a good first issue—perfect for newcomers to learn the codebase structure while contributing meaningful functionality. The PR has been merged and will be included in the upcoming Fedify 1.8.0 release.
We appreciate all first-time contributors who help make Fedify better for the entire #fediverse community. Welcome aboard, ChanHaeng!
It covers everything from setting up the #fediverse accounts and development environment to finding good first issues. While it's primarily for the OSSCA participants, anyone interested in contributing to @fedify is welcome to use it as a reference.
Ready to onboard the next wave of #ActivityPub developers!
이 문서는 기본적으로 오픈 소스 컨트리뷰션 아카데미 참여형 프로그램을 진행하게 된 멘티들을 위한 것입니다만, Fedify 프로젝트에 기여하고 싶은 분들이라면 얼마든지 활용하셔도 좋습니다.
안녕하세요. 오픈 소스 컨트리뷰션 아카데미 참여형 프로그램에서 Fedify 프로젝트를 함께 할 멘토 홍민희입니다.
Fedify 프로젝트에 참여하시게 된 것을 진심으로 환영합니다. 본 문서에서는 여러분이 앞으로 Fedify 프로젝트에 기여하기 위해서 알고 준비해야 하는 것들을 정리했습니다. 조금 긴 내용이 될 수도 있지만, 차근차근 읽어보시고 따라해야 할 과제는 따라해 주시기 바랍니다. 본 문서에 나온 과제들은 본격적인 기여를 위해 반드시 선행되어야 합니다.
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OSSCA 자체 Discord 서버에도 초대되셨을 것입니다만, 그곳에서는 행사에 관한 이야기만 주로 하게 될 겁니다. 실제 기여와 개발에 관련된 이야기는 지금부터 설명할 Fedify 프로젝트의 Discord 서버에서 이뤄지게 됩니다.
가장 먼저 해야 할 것은 Fedify 프로젝트의 Discord 서버에 입장하는 것입니다. 만약 아직 Discord 계정이 없다면 하나 만드세요. 꽤 많은 오픈 소스 프로젝트들이 Discord에서 소통을 합니다. Discord 계정을 만들어 두면 앞으로 다양한 오픈 소스 프로젝트에 기여할 때 쓸모가 많을 것입니다.
그러면 한국어를 포함해 자신이 이해할 수 있는 언어들을 선택하시면 됩니다. 그러면 여러 채널들이 보이게 되는데, 그 중에서 여러분이 주로 이용하게 될 채널은 #fedify-dev-ko 채널입니다.
본 문서를 읽고 따라하면서 중간에 어려움이 있거나 막히는 부분이 있으면 해당 채널에서 편하게 질문하시면 됩니다.
프로젝트 관련해서 궁금한 점은 사소한 것이라도 Discord 서버에서 질문 주세요. “시간이 날 때 천천히 해결해야지”보다는 일단 물어보는게 낫습니다. 특히 초반의 많은 문제는, 보통 질문을 많이 하면 빨리 해결됩니다. 시간을 정해두세요. 이를테면 30분으로 정했으면 30분 내로 해결이 안되면 일단 질문을 합시다.
과제
Discord 서버에 입장하신 뒤, #fedify-dev-ko 채널에서 간단히 자기 소개를 해 주세요. 본인의 이름과 GitHub 아이디를 꼭 알려주시기 바랍니다.
권고
원활하고 즉시적인 소통을 위해서는 모바일 앱으로 알림을 받을 수 있어야 합니다. 본인의 스마트폰에 Discord 앱을 설치하고 로그인한 뒤, 알림을 허용해 주세요. 랩톱 및 데스크톱 환경에서도 Discord 앱을 설치하고 항상 실행해 두실 것을 권합니다.
권고
가능하다면 Discord 계정의 아바타를 GitHub 계정의 프로필 사진과 통일해 주세요. 멘티가 워낙 많기 때문에 누가 누군지 기억하기 어렵기 때문입니다. 특히, 아무런 이미지도 설정해 두지 않은 분들은 아무 그림이라도 좋으니 시인성을 위해 설정을 부탁드립니다.
연합우주(fediverse)란?
안내
이미 연합우주나 ActivityPub에 대해 익숙하신 분들은 설명은 건너 뛰시고 이 섹션 마지막의 과제만 하셔도 괜찮습니다.
Fedify 프로젝트가 어떤 프로젝트인지 이해하기 위해서는, 우선 페디버스(fediverse), 즉 한국어로 연합우주에 대해 기본적인 이해를 갖출 필요가 있습니다.
종래의 중앙집권적인 SNS들은 크게 두 가지 특징이 있습니다. 첫째로, SNS에 올리는 사용자들의 모든 데이터를 특정 기업이 사유한다는 것입니다. 둘째로, 서로 다른 SNS끼리는 소통할 수 없다는 것입니다. 특히, 두번째 특징은 이메일을 생각해 보면 아주 자연스러운 것은 아니라는 것을 알 수 있습니다. 네이버 메일을 쓰는 사람이 Gmail을 쓰는 사람과 소통할 수 없을까요? 그렇지 않지요. 하지만 Instagram 사용자는 X (舊 Twitter) 사용자와 소통할 수 없습니다.
이러한 문제를 해결하고자 나온 대안 SNS들이 있습니다. Mastodon이나 Pixelfed 같은 것들이 그렇습니다. 그리고 이러한 SNS들은 누구라도 자신의 서버에 설치가 가능합니다. 실제로 홈 서버에서 돌아가는 Mastodon 서버도 꽤 많습니다. 물론, 직접 서버를 운영하고 싶지 않은 대부분의 사람들에게는 대형 서버라는 선택지도 있습니다. 이를테면, Mastodon 서버 중에서 가장 사용자가 많은 서버인 mastodon.social은 Mastodon 개발 팀이 직접 운영하는 서버입니다.
하지만 이런 의문이 드실 수 있습니다. 자신의 홈 서버에 Mastodon을 설치해봤자 혼자 쓰는 일기장이 아닌가? 사실, Mastodon 서버들은 서로 소통이 가능합니다. 마치 이메일과도 같습니다. 자신의 홈 서버에 이메일 서버를 설치하여 자신만의 이메일 주소를 만들어도, 네이버 메일이나 Gmail과 서로 메일을 주고 받을 수 있는 것처럼요. 실제로, Mastodon의 계정 이름은 이메일 주소와 비슷하게 생겼습니다:
이렇게 서로 다른 Mastodon 서버끼리 소통할 수 있도록 고안된 표준이 바로 ActivityPub 프로토콜입니다. 참고로, 이 ActivityPub 프로토콜은 Mastodon 프로젝트가 독자적으로 정한 게 아니라, W3C에서 웹 표준으로 정한 것입니다. 따라서 Mastodon 뿐만 아니라, Pixelfed 등 ActivityPub을 구현하는 다른 소프트웨어들도 서로 소통이 됩니다. Mastodon에서 Pixelfed로 댓글 다는 것도 되고, Pixelfed 사용자가 Mastodon 사용자를 팔로하는 것도 됩니다.
이렇게 서로 다른 SNS 소프트웨어, 사로 다른 서버끼리 자유롭게 소통이 가능한 구조를 연합(federation)이라고 부릅니다. 어떻게 보면, 이렇게 연합된 서로 다른 SNS들을 모두 합쳐서 하나의 SNS라고 볼 수도 있습니다. 이를 부르는 말이 바로 연합우주, 페디버스입니다.
연합우주는 현재도 꾸준히 커 가고 있습니다. 최근에는 Meta의 Threads도 ActivityPub을 구현하게 되었고, WordPress도 ActivityPub 플러그인을 공식적으로 개발했습니다. 특히, 기존의 연합우주 소프트웨어들은 각자의 서버에 직접 설치할 수 있는 오픈 소스 소프트웨어였던 것에 반해, Threads는 오픈 소스가 아님에도 ActivityPub을 구현했다는 점에서 상당히 이례적이라고 할 수 있습니다. 이런 방식의 연합도 가능하다는 것이죠.
아직 연합우주를 경험해 본 적 없다면, 계정을 하나 만들어 봅시다. 계정을 만들기 위해서는 어떤 소프트웨어를 쓸 지 먼저 정해야 합니다. Mastodon과 Misskey는 일종의 X처럼 단문을 중심으로 한 SNS입니다. Pixelfed는 Instagram처럼 사진을 중심으로 한 SNS입니다. Meta의 Threads도 있습니다. 현재 읽고 계시는 이 글이 올라온 Hackers' Pub도 사실은 연합우주의 일부로서, 소프트웨어 개발자들을 위한 SNS입니다. 이 중 어떤 것을 선택하시든 서로 소통하는 데에는 문제가 없습니다.
만약 Mastodon이나 Misskey, Pixelfed를 선택하셨다면, 서버를 고르셔야 합니다. (물론, 서버를 직접 구축하시는 것도 괜찮습니다. 아마 많은 걸 배우실 수 있을 겁니다.) 무슨 서버를 골라야 할 지 모르시겠다면, Mastodon의 경우 silicon.moe 서버를, Misskey의 경우 stella.place 서버를, Pixelfed의 경우 chueok.pics 서버를 권합니다.
만약 Threads를 고르셨다면, 서버를 고를 필요가 없습니다. Threads는 설치형 소프트웨어가 아니라 Meta에서 운영하는 상용 서비스이기 때문입니다. 다만, 설정에 가셔서 페디버스 공유 설정을 켜 주셔야 합니다.
만약 Hackers' Pub을 고르셨다면, 역시 서버를 고를 필요가 없습니다. 단 하나의 서버만 있기 때문입니다. 다만, 초대장이 필요하므로 멘토에게 초대장을 요청하시기 바랍니다.
과제
연합우주 계정이 생기셨다면, 이제 친구를 사귀어야 합니다. 다른 멘티들에게 계정 주소를 물어보고 서로 팔로를 해 보세요. 멘토도 팔로해 보세요. (멘토도 맞팔 하겠습니다.) 멘토의 연합우주 계정 주소는 @[email protected]입니다.
계정 주소로 팔로하는 방법은 소프트웨어마다 조금씩 다르지만, 대부분의 경우 검색창에 주소를 입력하면 해당 계정이 보입니다. 계정이 보인다면 팔로 버튼을 누르면 됩니다.
Fedify 프로젝트는 TypeScript로 작성되어 있습니다. TypeScript는 JavaScript에 정적 타입 검사를 추가한 언어로, 런타임에 버그를 발생시키는 잘못된 코드를 코드 작성 시에 미리 알 수 있도록 도와줍니다. TypeScript를 이해하려면 먼저 JavaScript를 이해해야 합니다.
아직 JavaScript에 익숙하지 않으신 분들은 《모던 JavaScript 튜토리얼》의 파트 1을 읽고 따라해 볼 것을 권합니다. 파트 2 이후의 내용은 Fedify 프로젝트에 기여하는 데에 크게 필요하지 않으므로 읽지 않으셔도 좋습니다.
JavaScript에는 어느 정도 익숙하지만 아직 TypeScript에 익숙하지 않으신 분들께는, 《The TypeScript Handbook》을 읽고 따라해 볼 것을 권합니다. 참고로 핸드북 페이지 우측 상단에 한국어 번역으로 가는 링크가 있습니다.
사실 오픈 소스 프로젝트에 기여하기 위해 반드시 그 프로젝트에서 쓰이는 언어를 속속들이 깊게 이해해야 하는 건 아닙니다. 기여할 때 필요한 만큼만 이해해도 좋으니, 어느 정도 언어 문법에 익숙해졌다 싶으면 실제 Fedify 코드를 읽는 것을 좀 더 추천합니다. 코드를 읽다가 이해가 안 되는 부분이 있으면 해당 언어 문법에 대해 따로 조사하는 식으로 익히시는 게 더 효율적입니다. 정 이해가 안 되는 경우에는 부담 없이 Fedify 프로젝트 Discord 서버의 #fedify-dev-ko 채널에서 질문해 주세요.
Fedify란?
여러분은 웹 서버 애플리케이션을 만들 때 HTTP를 직접 구현하시나요? 아마도 대부분은 그렇지 않을 겁니다. 그러기엔 할 게 너무 많기 때문이죠. 대신 우리는 대부분 Express나 Next.js, Django 같은 웹 프레임워크를 이용해서 개발하게 됩니다.
마찬가지로, 연합우주 SNS 소프트웨어를 구현하려고 할 경우, ActivityPub을 바닥부터 구현하기에는 너무 할 게 많습니다. 따라서 개발을 쉽게 해 줄 프레임워크가 필요한데, 그게 바로 Fedify입니다.
어떤 오픈 소스 프로젝트든 간에, 해당 프로젝트에 기여하기 위해서는 먼저 그 소프트웨어를 써보고 기본적인 기능들을 숙지해야 합니다. 써보지도 않은 소프트웨어에 기여를 하는 것은 무리입니다. 여러분도 Fedify에 기여하기에 앞서 Fedify를 써 볼 필요가 있습니다.
Fedify는 연합우주 소프트웨어를 만드는 도구이므로, Fedify를 사용한다고 하면 연합우주 소프트웨어를 만들어 본다는 뜻이 됩니다. Fedify를 사용하여 작은 ActivityPub 서버 소프트웨어를 만들어 보세요. Fedify를 써 보면서 이해가 안 가거나 중간에 막히는 게 있다면 Discord 서버의 #fedify-help-ko 채널에서 질문하세요.
과제
Fedify를 배우고 써보는 가장 쉬운 방법은 튜토리얼을 읽고 따라하는 것입니다. Fedify 공식 튜토리얼의 한국어판인 〈나만의 연합우주 마이크로블로그 만들기〉를 읽고 그대로 따라서 진행하세요. 빠르면 하루, 느긋하게 하면 사흘 정도 걸립니다. 중간에 막히는 부분이 있으면 멘토에게 부담 없이 질문하세요.
저장소 포크 및 클론
주의
Windows 환경에서 작업하실 때는 (WSL을 사용하지 않는다면) Git의 core.autocrlf 설정을 꺼 주시기 바랍니다:
git config --global core.autocrlf false
안내
Fedify 프로젝트를 Windows 환경에서 개발할 수는 있지만, Linux나 macOS에 비해 편의성이 떨어지는 것도 사실입니다. 가능하면 WSL을 세팅하시고 WSL 안에서 작업하시는 걸 추천드립니다.
Fedify의 GitHub에 저장소가 올라가 있습니다. 해당 저장소를 각자 포크(fork)하신 뒤, 포크한 저장소를 로컬에 클론하세요. 클론하신 뒤, 클론한 로컬 저장소 안에 들어가 업스트림 저장소를 리모트로 추가하시는 것을 권합니다:
Fedify의 개발 환경 설정은 일반적인 JavaScript 프로젝트들에 비해 조금 복잡한 편입니다. Node.js 이외에도 Deno와 Bun 등 여러 런타임을 지원해야 하기 때문인데요. Fedify의 개발을 위해서는 다음 소프트웨어가 시스템에 모두 설치되어 있어야 합니다:
대부분의 Linux의 경우 (또는 Windows의 WSL 안에서 작업하는 경우) 별 다른 설정을 하지 않았다면 bash를 쓰고 계실 것입니다. macOS를 쓰시고 별 다른 설정을 하지 않으셨다면 zsh을 쓰고 계실 것입니다. (WSL이 아닌) Windows의 경우에는 명령 프롬프트가 아닌 PowerShell 안에서 작업하셔야 합니다.
mise를 설치하셨다면, 로컬 저장소 안에 들어가 다음 명령어로 필요한 모든 소프트웨어를 한 번에 설치하실 수 있습니다:
mise install --yes
위 명령어를 실행하면 아래와 같이 Fedify 저장소 안에 들어있는 mise 설정 파일을 신뢰하겠냐는 프롬프트가 뜹니다. Yes를 선택해 주세요:
mise config files in ~/fedify are not trusted. Trust them? Yes No All ←/→ toggle • y/n/a/enter submit
개발 환경이 잘 설정되었는지 확인하기 위해 Fedify의 전체 테스트 스위트를 실행해 봅시다. 첫 실행 시 통상 5분 정도 소요됩니다:
deno task test-all
Git 훅도 설치합니다:
deno task hooks:install
마지막으로 실제 편집 환경을 구성해야 합니다. 본 문서에서는 Visual Studio Code를 사용하는 것을 가정하겠습니다만, 같은 Visual Studio Code 계열인 Cursor나 Windsurf에서도 과정은 대동소이합니다.
경고
Visual Studio와 Visual Studio Code는 서로 전혀 다른 별개의 제품이니 주의하세요.
안내
여러분이 Emacs나 Vim의 독실한 신자라면 Visual Studio Code를 사용하고 싶지 않을 수 있습니다. 그런 경우, Deno의 공식 환경 설정 문서를 참고하여 Deno 랭귀지 서버를 설정해 주시기 바랍니다.
우선 로컬 저장소 안에서 code 명령어를 통해 Visual Studio Code를 띄웁니다:
code . # Visual Studio Code를 사용하는 경우cursor . # Cursor를 사용하는 경우windsurf . # Windsurf를 사용하는 경우
Visual Studio Code 창이 뜨면, 화면 가운데에 다음과 같은 프롬프트 창이 뜹니다:
프롬프트에서 예, 작성자를 신뢰합니다 버튼을 선택합니다. 그러면 오른쪽 아래에 다음과 같은 작은 프롬프트 창이 뜹니다:
프롬프트에서 설치 버튼을 선택합니다. 그러면 화면 가운데에 다음과 같은 프롬프트 창이 뜹니다:
프롬프트에서 게시자 신뢰 및 설치를 선택합니다. 그러면 Visual Studio Code에 Fedify 개발에 필요한 확장들이 설치되게 됩니다.
이로써 Fedify 기여에 필요한 기본적인 개발 환경 설정이 끝났습니다.
JavaScript 런타임
Fedify는 Deno, Node.js, Bun 등 다양한 JavaScript 런타임을 지원해야 합니다. 과연 JavaScript 런타임이 뭘까요?
JavaScript는 비교적 작은 언어입니다. 여러분이 process.exit() 같은 메서드를 활용하신 적 있다면, 이는 JavaScript 자체의 기능이 아니라 Node.js라는 특정한 JavaScript 런타임이 제공하는 기능입니다. 마찬가지로, 웹 브라우저에서 제공하는 DOM API 역시 JavaScript 자체의 기능이 아니라 웹 브라우저라는 (일종의) JavaScript 런타임이 제공하는 기능이라고 볼 수 있습니다.
모듈 시스템을 제공합니다. 예를 들어, Node.js는 node_modules/ 디렉터리 기반의 모듈 시스템을 제공하는 반면, Deno에서는 임포트 맵(import map) 기반의 모듈 시스템을 제공합니다. Node.js에서는 npm이나 pnpm, Yarn 등의 패키지 관리자를 사용해야 하지만, Deno나 Bun은 자체적인 패키지 관리자를 제공합니다. 웹 브라우저나 Cloudflare Workers는 패키지 관리자를 제공하지 않기 때문에 번들링이라는 과정을 거쳐야 합니다.
앞서 설명한 모든 것을 속속들이 이해해야 할 필요는 없습니다. 중요한 것은, 같은 JavaScript라고 하더라도 어느 런타임에서 실행하냐에 따라 상당히 다른 방식으로 언어를 사용해야 한다는 점입니다.
그러면 Fedify 프로젝트는 다양한 JavaScript 런타임을 어떻게 동시에 다 지원할 수 있을까요? 크게 두 가지 방법이 있습니다:
지원해야 하는 JavaScript 런타임 모두에서 공통적으로 지원하는 API만을 사용합니다.
런타임에 따라 다른 코드를 실행하도록 코드를 여러 벌 작성합니다.
Fedify 프로젝트는 두 가지 방법 모두 사용하고 있으며, 지원하는 모든 JavaScript 런타임에서 테스트 스위트를 실행해서 Fedify의 모든 기능이 각 JavaScript 런타임에서 잘 동작하는지를 검사합니다.
Fedify 저장소의 구조
2025년 7월 현재, Fedify 프로젝트의 저장소는 다음과 같은 구조로 되어 있습니다:
fedify/ — Fedify의 핵심인 @fedify/fedify 패키지입니다. 이 패키지는 Deno, Node.js, Bun, Cloudflare Workers 환경에서 동작합니다.
cli/ — Fedify 사용자들을 위한 CLI 개발 도구인 @fedify/cli 패키지입니다. 이 패키지는 Deno로만 작성됩니다.
examples/ — 이름 그대로 Fedify를 사용하는 예제 프로젝트들이 들어 있습니다.
scripts/ — 프로젝트 관리를 위한 스크립트들이 들어 있습니다. 대부분의 경우 건드릴 일이 없을 겁니다.
여러분은 주로 fedify/ 디렉터리 및 cli/ 디렉터리에서 작업을 하게 될 것입니다.
린트와 테스트
여느 오픈 소스 프로젝트들이 그렇듯, Fedify 프로젝트도 나름의 코딩 컨벤션과 규칙들이 있습니다. 다행히 이들 대부분은 커밋하기 전에 기계적으로 검사가 가능합니다. 다음 명령어는 현재 프로젝트의 코드가 코딩 컨벤션을 잘 지키고 타입 오류가 없는지 검사합니다:
deno task check
다음 명령어는 코드를 코딩 컨벤션에 맞게 알아서 서식화합니다:
deno fmt
앞서 언급한 것처럼, 다음 명령어는 Fedify 프로젝트의 전체 테스트 스위트를 실행하고 필요한 검사를 수행합니다. 풀 리퀘스트를 올리기 전에 한 번 실행해 보십시오:
deno task test-all
@fedify/fedify 패키지를 수정했을 경우, 수정과 관련된 일부 테스트 코드만 빠르게 실행해 보고 싶을 수 있습니다. 그럴 때는 다음과 같이 -f @fedify/fedify 옵션과 --filter 옵션을 함께 활용해 보세요 (태스크 이름이 test-all이 아니라 test임에 주의하세요):
deno task -f @fedify/fedify test --filter verifyRequest
혹은 -f @fedify/fedify 옵션을 쓰는 대신 직접 fedify/ 디렉터리 안에서 deno task test 명령어를 사용하셔도 됩니다:
cd fedify/deno task test --filter verifyRequest
참고로 --filter 옵션은 테스트 케이스 이름을 부분 문자열로 검색합니다. 이를테면, 다음과 같은 테스트가 있을 경우:
test("anArbitraryTest", () => { // … 생략 …});
다음과 같은 방식으로 모두 실행이 가능합니다:
deno task -f @fedify/fedify test --filter anArbitraryTestdeno task -f @fedify/fedify test --filter Arbitrarydeno task -f @fedify/fedify test --filter Test
앞서 설명한 deno task test 명령어는 Deno 런타임에서 테스트 스위트를 실행합니다. Node.js에서도 잘 돌아가나 확인하기 위해서는 Node.js 런타임에서도 테스트 스위트를 실행해 봐야 합니다. fedify/ 디렉터리 안쪽에서pnpm test 명령어를 통해 Node.js에서 테스트 스위트를 돌려 볼 수 있습니다:
cd fedify/pnpm test
일부 테스트만 빠르게 실행해 보고 싶을 경우 --test-name-pattern 옵션을 활용하세요:
pnpm test --test-name-pattern verifyRequest
Bun에서도 잘 돌아가는지 확인하려면 fedify/ 디렉터리 안쪽에서pnpm test:bun 명령어를 사용하세요:
pnpm test:bun
일부 테스트만 빠르게 실행해 보고 싶을 경우 마찬가지로 --test-name-pattern 옵션을 활용하세요:
pnpm test:bun --test-name-pattern verifyRequest
마지막으로, Cloudflare Workers에서도 잘 돌아가는지 검사해야 합니다. 이 경우에는 pnpm test:cfworkers 명령어를 활용하세요:
pnpm test:cfworkers
일부 테스트만 빠르게 실행해 보고 싶을 경우 인자로 부분 문자열 키워드를 넘기면 됩니다:
pnpm test:cfworkers verifyRequest
사실, 앞서 설명했던 deno task test-all 명령어는 한 번에 Deno, Node.js, Bun, Cloudflare Workers 모두에서 테스트 스위트를 실행하는 명령어입니다.
안내
테스트 실행 시 실패하는 케이스가 있나요? 그것 자체가 기여할 좋은 기회입니다. 실패하는 테스트가 성공하도록 직접 코드를 고쳐서 풀 리퀘스트를 올리셔도 좋고, 이슈 트래커에 이슈를 만들기만 해도 좋은 기여가 됩니다.
@fedify/cli: Fedify CLI 도구
@fedify/cli 패키지는 Fedify를 이용하여 ActivityPub 서버를 구현하는 개발자들을 위한 CLI 편의 도구로서, 주로 ActivityPub 서버 개발을 할 때 디버그나 테스트를 위해 필요한 기능들을 제공합니다. 라이브러리 패키지인 @fedify/fedify와 다르게 @fedify/cli는 패키지는 애플리케이션이기 때문에 코드를 수정한 뒤 바로 사용해 볼 수가 있습니다. 또한, 굳이 여러 런타임을 지원할 필요가 없기 때문에 Deno 환경만 신경쓰면 됩니다.
그런 이유로, @fedify/cli 패키지는 처음 기여하기에 좋습니다. 참고로 @fedif/cli는 CLI 애플리케이션 프레임워크로 Cliffy를 사용하고 있으니, 관련해서 궁금한 게 있다면 Cliffy 문서를 참고해 주세요.
일감 찾기
중요
오픈 소스 프로젝트에서는 할 일을 자발적으로 찾아야 합니다. 직장이 아니므로, 다른 누군가가 할 일을 할당해 주지 않습니다. 사실, 오픈 소스에서 활발하게 활동하는 프로그래머들은 단순히 소프트웨어 개발 실력이 좋은 게 아니라, 적절한 할 일을 잘 찾아내는 능력이 있습니다. 이 때 “적절하다”는 것은 자신의 실력으로 해낼 수 있을 정도의 난이도면서도 프로젝트에 임팩트를 낼 수 있는 것을 뜻합니다.
대부분의 오픈 소스 프로젝트는 할 일을 이슈 트래커에서 관리합니다. Fedify 역시 GitHub에서 제공하는 이슈 트래커로 할 일들을 관리하고 있습니다. 특별한 이유가 없는 한, 이슈는 기본적으로 영어로 작성되거나, 적어도 영어가 병기되어야 합니다. 영어가 익숙치 않은 분들은 Kagi 번역 등을 활용하시면 될 것 같습니다. 언어 때문에 어려우신 분은 멘토에게 도움을 청하세요.
이슈는 크게 세 종류로 나뉩니다:
피처 (feature)
말 그대로 새로운 기능을 뜻합니다.
버그 (bug)
기존에 있던 기능의 오작동을 뜻합니다.
태스크 (task)
신기능이나 버그 이외의 작업들을 가리킵니다. 예를 들면, 문서 수정 등이 여기에 속합니다.
미분류 (no type)
아직 분류되지 않은 이슈들인데, 이슈는 어떻게든 분류되어야 하므로 보통은 없습니다.
위의 분류와는 별개로, Fedify 이슈 트래커에서는 레이블을 구조화하여 활용하고 있습니다. 대부분의 레이블은 범례/레이블 이름 형식을 따르며, 대표적으로는 다음과 같은 것들이 있습니다:
여기서 여러분이 가장 주목하셔야 할 레이블은 바로 good first issue입니다. 해당 레이블이 붙은 이슈는 처음 기여하는 사람에게 적합하기 때문에, 여러분의 첫 기여 때 할 일을 찾을 때 도움이 됩니다. 이슈들을 찬찬히 읽어보시고 해 볼 만한 일감을 고르세요. 이슈를 읽어도 이해가 안 될 경우에는 댓글로 질문을 남기거나 멘토에게 질문하세요.
기여해 볼 이슈를 찾으셨다면, 해당 이슈를 이미 다른 사람이 진행중인지 확인하세요. 아무도 진행하고 있지 않다면 진행하겠다는 댓글을 이슈에 달아주세요.
과제
처음 기여할 이슈를 찾아 이슈에 댓글을 달아주세요. 이슈를 못 찾겠다면 멘토에게 도움을 요청하세요. 멘토가 기여할 만한 일을 함께 찾아줄 수 있습니다.
안내
굳이 이슈 트래커에 이미 있는 이슈 중에서만 고를 필요는 없습니다. Fedify를 써 보면서 개선할 부분을 발견하셨다면, 그걸 이슈로 만들어서 직접 해결하셔도 좋습니다. 사실, 오픈 소스의 많은 이슈들이 이슈를 제기한 사람에 의해 해결됩니다.
추가 정보 및 질문
본 문서에서 다루지 못한 내용도 많이 있을 것입니다. 아래 문서들은 부족한 부분을 좀 더 보충해 줄 수 있습니다:
It covers everything from setting up the #fediverse accounts and development environment to finding good first issues. While it's primarily for the OSSCA participants, anyone interested in contributing to @fedify is welcome to use it as a reference.
Ready to onboard the next wave of #ActivityPub developers!
이 문서는 기본적으로 오픈 소스 컨트리뷰션 아카데미 참여형 프로그램을 진행하게 된 멘티들을 위한 것입니다만, Fedify 프로젝트에 기여하고 싶은 분들이라면 얼마든지 활용하셔도 좋습니다.
안녕하세요. 오픈 소스 컨트리뷰션 아카데미 참여형 프로그램에서 Fedify 프로젝트를 함께 할 멘토 홍민희입니다.
Fedify 프로젝트에 참여하시게 된 것을 진심으로 환영합니다. 본 문서에서는 여러분이 앞으로 Fedify 프로젝트에 기여하기 위해서 알고 준비해야 하는 것들을 정리했습니다. 조금 긴 내용이 될 수도 있지만, 차근차근 읽어보시고 따라해야 할 과제는 따라해 주시기 바랍니다. 본 문서에 나온 과제들은 본격적인 기여를 위해 반드시 선행되어야 합니다.
소통 채널
중요
OSSCA 자체 Discord 서버에도 초대되셨을 것입니다만, 그곳에서는 행사에 관한 이야기만 주로 하게 될 겁니다. 실제 기여와 개발에 관련된 이야기는 지금부터 설명할 Fedify 프로젝트의 Discord 서버에서 이뤄지게 됩니다.
가장 먼저 해야 할 것은 Fedify 프로젝트의 Discord 서버에 입장하는 것입니다. 만약 아직 Discord 계정이 없다면 하나 만드세요. 꽤 많은 오픈 소스 프로젝트들이 Discord에서 소통을 합니다. Discord 계정을 만들어 두면 앞으로 다양한 오픈 소스 프로젝트에 기여할 때 쓸모가 많을 것입니다.
그러면 한국어를 포함해 자신이 이해할 수 있는 언어들을 선택하시면 됩니다. 그러면 여러 채널들이 보이게 되는데, 그 중에서 여러분이 주로 이용하게 될 채널은 #fedify-dev-ko 채널입니다.
본 문서를 읽고 따라하면서 중간에 어려움이 있거나 막히는 부분이 있으면 해당 채널에서 편하게 질문하시면 됩니다.
프로젝트 관련해서 궁금한 점은 사소한 것이라도 Discord 서버에서 질문 주세요. “시간이 날 때 천천히 해결해야지”보다는 일단 물어보는게 낫습니다. 특히 초반의 많은 문제는, 보통 질문을 많이 하면 빨리 해결됩니다. 시간을 정해두세요. 이를테면 30분으로 정했으면 30분 내로 해결이 안되면 일단 질문을 합시다.
과제
Discord 서버에 입장하신 뒤, #fedify-dev-ko 채널에서 간단히 자기 소개를 해 주세요. 본인의 이름과 GitHub 아이디를 꼭 알려주시기 바랍니다.
권고
원활하고 즉시적인 소통을 위해서는 모바일 앱으로 알림을 받을 수 있어야 합니다. 본인의 스마트폰에 Discord 앱을 설치하고 로그인한 뒤, 알림을 허용해 주세요. 랩톱 및 데스크톱 환경에서도 Discord 앱을 설치하고 항상 실행해 두실 것을 권합니다.
권고
가능하다면 Discord 계정의 아바타를 GitHub 계정의 프로필 사진과 통일해 주세요. 멘티가 워낙 많기 때문에 누가 누군지 기억하기 어렵기 때문입니다. 특히, 아무런 이미지도 설정해 두지 않은 분들은 아무 그림이라도 좋으니 시인성을 위해 설정을 부탁드립니다.
연합우주(fediverse)란?
안내
이미 연합우주나 ActivityPub에 대해 익숙하신 분들은 설명은 건너 뛰시고 이 섹션 마지막의 과제만 하셔도 괜찮습니다.
Fedify 프로젝트가 어떤 프로젝트인지 이해하기 위해서는, 우선 페디버스(fediverse), 즉 한국어로 연합우주에 대해 기본적인 이해를 갖출 필요가 있습니다.
종래의 중앙집권적인 SNS들은 크게 두 가지 특징이 있습니다. 첫째로, SNS에 올리는 사용자들의 모든 데이터를 특정 기업이 사유한다는 것입니다. 둘째로, 서로 다른 SNS끼리는 소통할 수 없다는 것입니다. 특히, 두번째 특징은 이메일을 생각해 보면 아주 자연스러운 것은 아니라는 것을 알 수 있습니다. 네이버 메일을 쓰는 사람이 Gmail을 쓰는 사람과 소통할 수 없을까요? 그렇지 않지요. 하지만 Instagram 사용자는 X (舊 Twitter) 사용자와 소통할 수 없습니다.
이러한 문제를 해결하고자 나온 대안 SNS들이 있습니다. Mastodon이나 Pixelfed 같은 것들이 그렇습니다. 그리고 이러한 SNS들은 누구라도 자신의 서버에 설치가 가능합니다. 실제로 홈 서버에서 돌아가는 Mastodon 서버도 꽤 많습니다. 물론, 직접 서버를 운영하고 싶지 않은 대부분의 사람들에게는 대형 서버라는 선택지도 있습니다. 이를테면, Mastodon 서버 중에서 가장 사용자가 많은 서버인 mastodon.social은 Mastodon 개발 팀이 직접 운영하는 서버입니다.
하지만 이런 의문이 드실 수 있습니다. 자신의 홈 서버에 Mastodon을 설치해봤자 혼자 쓰는 일기장이 아닌가? 사실, Mastodon 서버들은 서로 소통이 가능합니다. 마치 이메일과도 같습니다. 자신의 홈 서버에 이메일 서버를 설치하여 자신만의 이메일 주소를 만들어도, 네이버 메일이나 Gmail과 서로 메일을 주고 받을 수 있는 것처럼요. 실제로, Mastodon의 계정 이름은 이메일 주소와 비슷하게 생겼습니다:
이렇게 서로 다른 Mastodon 서버끼리 소통할 수 있도록 고안된 표준이 바로 ActivityPub 프로토콜입니다. 참고로, 이 ActivityPub 프로토콜은 Mastodon 프로젝트가 독자적으로 정한 게 아니라, W3C에서 웹 표준으로 정한 것입니다. 따라서 Mastodon 뿐만 아니라, Pixelfed 등 ActivityPub을 구현하는 다른 소프트웨어들도 서로 소통이 됩니다. Mastodon에서 Pixelfed로 댓글 다는 것도 되고, Pixelfed 사용자가 Mastodon 사용자를 팔로하는 것도 됩니다.
이렇게 서로 다른 SNS 소프트웨어, 사로 다른 서버끼리 자유롭게 소통이 가능한 구조를 연합(federation)이라고 부릅니다. 어떻게 보면, 이렇게 연합된 서로 다른 SNS들을 모두 합쳐서 하나의 SNS라고 볼 수도 있습니다. 이를 부르는 말이 바로 연합우주, 페디버스입니다.
연합우주는 현재도 꾸준히 커 가고 있습니다. 최근에는 Meta의 Threads도 ActivityPub을 구현하게 되었고, WordPress도 ActivityPub 플러그인을 공식적으로 개발했습니다. 특히, 기존의 연합우주 소프트웨어들은 각자의 서버에 직접 설치할 수 있는 오픈 소스 소프트웨어였던 것에 반해, Threads는 오픈 소스가 아님에도 ActivityPub을 구현했다는 점에서 상당히 이례적이라고 할 수 있습니다. 이런 방식의 연합도 가능하다는 것이죠.
아직 연합우주를 경험해 본 적 없다면, 계정을 하나 만들어 봅시다. 계정을 만들기 위해서는 어떤 소프트웨어를 쓸 지 먼저 정해야 합니다. Mastodon과 Misskey는 일종의 X처럼 단문을 중심으로 한 SNS입니다. Pixelfed는 Instagram처럼 사진을 중심으로 한 SNS입니다. Meta의 Threads도 있습니다. 현재 읽고 계시는 이 글이 올라온 Hackers' Pub도 사실은 연합우주의 일부로서, 소프트웨어 개발자들을 위한 SNS입니다. 이 중 어떤 것을 선택하시든 서로 소통하는 데에는 문제가 없습니다.
만약 Mastodon이나 Misskey, Pixelfed를 선택하셨다면, 서버를 고르셔야 합니다. (물론, 서버를 직접 구축하시는 것도 괜찮습니다. 아마 많은 걸 배우실 수 있을 겁니다.) 무슨 서버를 골라야 할 지 모르시겠다면, Mastodon의 경우 silicon.moe 서버를, Misskey의 경우 stella.place 서버를, Pixelfed의 경우 chueok.pics 서버를 권합니다.
만약 Threads를 고르셨다면, 서버를 고를 필요가 없습니다. Threads는 설치형 소프트웨어가 아니라 Meta에서 운영하는 상용 서비스이기 때문입니다. 다만, 설정에 가셔서 페디버스 공유 설정을 켜 주셔야 합니다.
만약 Hackers' Pub을 고르셨다면, 역시 서버를 고를 필요가 없습니다. 단 하나의 서버만 있기 때문입니다. 다만, 초대장이 필요하므로 멘토에게 초대장을 요청하시기 바랍니다.
과제
연합우주 계정이 생기셨다면, 이제 친구를 사귀어야 합니다. 다른 멘티들에게 계정 주소를 물어보고 서로 팔로를 해 보세요. 멘토도 팔로해 보세요. (멘토도 맞팔 하겠습니다.) 멘토의 연합우주 계정 주소는 @[email protected]입니다.
계정 주소로 팔로하는 방법은 소프트웨어마다 조금씩 다르지만, 대부분의 경우 검색창에 주소를 입력하면 해당 계정이 보입니다. 계정이 보인다면 팔로 버튼을 누르면 됩니다.
Fedify 프로젝트는 TypeScript로 작성되어 있습니다. TypeScript는 JavaScript에 정적 타입 검사를 추가한 언어로, 런타임에 버그를 발생시키는 잘못된 코드를 코드 작성 시에 미리 알 수 있도록 도와줍니다. TypeScript를 이해하려면 먼저 JavaScript를 이해해야 합니다.
아직 JavaScript에 익숙하지 않으신 분들은 《모던 JavaScript 튜토리얼》의 파트 1을 읽고 따라해 볼 것을 권합니다. 파트 2 이후의 내용은 Fedify 프로젝트에 기여하는 데에 크게 필요하지 않으므로 읽지 않으셔도 좋습니다.
JavaScript에는 어느 정도 익숙하지만 아직 TypeScript에 익숙하지 않으신 분들께는, 《The TypeScript Handbook》을 읽고 따라해 볼 것을 권합니다. 참고로 핸드북 페이지 우측 상단에 한국어 번역으로 가는 링크가 있습니다.
사실 오픈 소스 프로젝트에 기여하기 위해 반드시 그 프로젝트에서 쓰이는 언어를 속속들이 깊게 이해해야 하는 건 아닙니다. 기여할 때 필요한 만큼만 이해해도 좋으니, 어느 정도 언어 문법에 익숙해졌다 싶으면 실제 Fedify 코드를 읽는 것을 좀 더 추천합니다. 코드를 읽다가 이해가 안 되는 부분이 있으면 해당 언어 문법에 대해 따로 조사하는 식으로 익히시는 게 더 효율적입니다. 정 이해가 안 되는 경우에는 부담 없이 Fedify 프로젝트 Discord 서버의 #fedify-dev-ko 채널에서 질문해 주세요.
Fedify란?
여러분은 웹 서버 애플리케이션을 만들 때 HTTP를 직접 구현하시나요? 아마도 대부분은 그렇지 않을 겁니다. 그러기엔 할 게 너무 많기 때문이죠. 대신 우리는 대부분 Express나 Next.js, Django 같은 웹 프레임워크를 이용해서 개발하게 됩니다.
마찬가지로, 연합우주 SNS 소프트웨어를 구현하려고 할 경우, ActivityPub을 바닥부터 구현하기에는 너무 할 게 많습니다. 따라서 개발을 쉽게 해 줄 프레임워크가 필요한데, 그게 바로 Fedify입니다.
어떤 오픈 소스 프로젝트든 간에, 해당 프로젝트에 기여하기 위해서는 먼저 그 소프트웨어를 써보고 기본적인 기능들을 숙지해야 합니다. 써보지도 않은 소프트웨어에 기여를 하는 것은 무리입니다. 여러분도 Fedify에 기여하기에 앞서 Fedify를 써 볼 필요가 있습니다.
Fedify는 연합우주 소프트웨어를 만드는 도구이므로, Fedify를 사용한다고 하면 연합우주 소프트웨어를 만들어 본다는 뜻이 됩니다. Fedify를 사용하여 작은 ActivityPub 서버 소프트웨어를 만들어 보세요. Fedify를 써 보면서 이해가 안 가거나 중간에 막히는 게 있다면 Discord 서버의 #fedify-help-ko 채널에서 질문하세요.
과제
Fedify를 배우고 써보는 가장 쉬운 방법은 튜토리얼을 읽고 따라하는 것입니다. Fedify 공식 튜토리얼의 한국어판인 〈나만의 연합우주 마이크로블로그 만들기〉를 읽고 그대로 따라서 진행하세요. 빠르면 하루, 느긋하게 하면 사흘 정도 걸립니다. 중간에 막히는 부분이 있으면 멘토에게 부담 없이 질문하세요.
저장소 포크 및 클론
주의
Windows 환경에서 작업하실 때는 (WSL을 사용하지 않는다면) Git의 core.autocrlf 설정을 꺼 주시기 바랍니다:
git config --global core.autocrlf false
안내
Fedify 프로젝트를 Windows 환경에서 개발할 수는 있지만, Linux나 macOS에 비해 편의성이 떨어지는 것도 사실입니다. 가능하면 WSL을 세팅하시고 WSL 안에서 작업하시는 걸 추천드립니다.
Fedify의 GitHub에 저장소가 올라가 있습니다. 해당 저장소를 각자 포크(fork)하신 뒤, 포크한 저장소를 로컬에 클론하세요. 클론하신 뒤, 클론한 로컬 저장소 안에 들어가 업스트림 저장소를 리모트로 추가하시는 것을 권합니다:
Fedify의 개발 환경 설정은 일반적인 JavaScript 프로젝트들에 비해 조금 복잡한 편입니다. Node.js 이외에도 Deno와 Bun 등 여러 런타임을 지원해야 하기 때문인데요. Fedify의 개발을 위해서는 다음 소프트웨어가 시스템에 모두 설치되어 있어야 합니다:
대부분의 Linux의 경우 (또는 Windows의 WSL 안에서 작업하는 경우) 별 다른 설정을 하지 않았다면 bash를 쓰고 계실 것입니다. macOS를 쓰시고 별 다른 설정을 하지 않으셨다면 zsh을 쓰고 계실 것입니다. (WSL이 아닌) Windows의 경우에는 명령 프롬프트가 아닌 PowerShell 안에서 작업하셔야 합니다.
mise를 설치하셨다면, 로컬 저장소 안에 들어가 다음 명령어로 필요한 모든 소프트웨어를 한 번에 설치하실 수 있습니다:
mise install --yes
위 명령어를 실행하면 아래와 같이 Fedify 저장소 안에 들어있는 mise 설정 파일을 신뢰하겠냐는 프롬프트가 뜹니다. Yes를 선택해 주세요:
mise config files in ~/fedify are not trusted. Trust them? Yes No All ←/→ toggle • y/n/a/enter submit
개발 환경이 잘 설정되었는지 확인하기 위해 Fedify의 전체 테스트 스위트를 실행해 봅시다. 첫 실행 시 통상 5분 정도 소요됩니다:
deno task test-all
Git 훅도 설치합니다:
deno task hooks:install
마지막으로 실제 편집 환경을 구성해야 합니다. 본 문서에서는 Visual Studio Code를 사용하는 것을 가정하겠습니다만, 같은 Visual Studio Code 계열인 Cursor나 Windsurf에서도 과정은 대동소이합니다.
경고
Visual Studio와 Visual Studio Code는 서로 전혀 다른 별개의 제품이니 주의하세요.
안내
여러분이 Emacs나 Vim의 독실한 신자라면 Visual Studio Code를 사용하고 싶지 않을 수 있습니다. 그런 경우, Deno의 공식 환경 설정 문서를 참고하여 Deno 랭귀지 서버를 설정해 주시기 바랍니다.
우선 로컬 저장소 안에서 code 명령어를 통해 Visual Studio Code를 띄웁니다:
code . # Visual Studio Code를 사용하는 경우cursor . # Cursor를 사용하는 경우windsurf . # Windsurf를 사용하는 경우
Visual Studio Code 창이 뜨면, 화면 가운데에 다음과 같은 프롬프트 창이 뜹니다:
프롬프트에서 예, 작성자를 신뢰합니다 버튼을 선택합니다. 그러면 오른쪽 아래에 다음과 같은 작은 프롬프트 창이 뜹니다:
프롬프트에서 설치 버튼을 선택합니다. 그러면 화면 가운데에 다음과 같은 프롬프트 창이 뜹니다:
프롬프트에서 게시자 신뢰 및 설치를 선택합니다. 그러면 Visual Studio Code에 Fedify 개발에 필요한 확장들이 설치되게 됩니다.
이로써 Fedify 기여에 필요한 기본적인 개발 환경 설정이 끝났습니다.
JavaScript 런타임
Fedify는 Deno, Node.js, Bun 등 다양한 JavaScript 런타임을 지원해야 합니다. 과연 JavaScript 런타임이 뭘까요?
JavaScript는 비교적 작은 언어입니다. 여러분이 process.exit() 같은 메서드를 활용하신 적 있다면, 이는 JavaScript 자체의 기능이 아니라 Node.js라는 특정한 JavaScript 런타임이 제공하는 기능입니다. 마찬가지로, 웹 브라우저에서 제공하는 DOM API 역시 JavaScript 자체의 기능이 아니라 웹 브라우저라는 (일종의) JavaScript 런타임이 제공하는 기능이라고 볼 수 있습니다.
모듈 시스템을 제공합니다. 예를 들어, Node.js는 node_modules/ 디렉터리 기반의 모듈 시스템을 제공하는 반면, Deno에서는 임포트 맵(import map) 기반의 모듈 시스템을 제공합니다. Node.js에서는 npm이나 pnpm, Yarn 등의 패키지 관리자를 사용해야 하지만, Deno나 Bun은 자체적인 패키지 관리자를 제공합니다. 웹 브라우저나 Cloudflare Workers는 패키지 관리자를 제공하지 않기 때문에 번들링이라는 과정을 거쳐야 합니다.
앞서 설명한 모든 것을 속속들이 이해해야 할 필요는 없습니다. 중요한 것은, 같은 JavaScript라고 하더라도 어느 런타임에서 실행하냐에 따라 상당히 다른 방식으로 언어를 사용해야 한다는 점입니다.
그러면 Fedify 프로젝트는 다양한 JavaScript 런타임을 어떻게 동시에 다 지원할 수 있을까요? 크게 두 가지 방법이 있습니다:
지원해야 하는 JavaScript 런타임 모두에서 공통적으로 지원하는 API만을 사용합니다.
런타임에 따라 다른 코드를 실행하도록 코드를 여러 벌 작성합니다.
Fedify 프로젝트는 두 가지 방법 모두 사용하고 있으며, 지원하는 모든 JavaScript 런타임에서 테스트 스위트를 실행해서 Fedify의 모든 기능이 각 JavaScript 런타임에서 잘 동작하는지를 검사합니다.
Fedify 저장소의 구조
2025년 7월 현재, Fedify 프로젝트의 저장소는 다음과 같은 구조로 되어 있습니다:
fedify/ — Fedify의 핵심인 @fedify/fedify 패키지입니다. 이 패키지는 Deno, Node.js, Bun, Cloudflare Workers 환경에서 동작합니다.
cli/ — Fedify 사용자들을 위한 CLI 개발 도구인 @fedify/cli 패키지입니다. 이 패키지는 Deno로만 작성됩니다.
examples/ — 이름 그대로 Fedify를 사용하는 예제 프로젝트들이 들어 있습니다.
scripts/ — 프로젝트 관리를 위한 스크립트들이 들어 있습니다. 대부분의 경우 건드릴 일이 없을 겁니다.
여러분은 주로 fedify/ 디렉터리 및 cli/ 디렉터리에서 작업을 하게 될 것입니다.
린트와 테스트
여느 오픈 소스 프로젝트들이 그렇듯, Fedify 프로젝트도 나름의 코딩 컨벤션과 규칙들이 있습니다. 다행히 이들 대부분은 커밋하기 전에 기계적으로 검사가 가능합니다. 다음 명령어는 현재 프로젝트의 코드가 코딩 컨벤션을 잘 지키고 타입 오류가 없는지 검사합니다:
deno task check
다음 명령어는 코드를 코딩 컨벤션에 맞게 알아서 서식화합니다:
deno fmt
앞서 언급한 것처럼, 다음 명령어는 Fedify 프로젝트의 전체 테스트 스위트를 실행하고 필요한 검사를 수행합니다. 풀 리퀘스트를 올리기 전에 한 번 실행해 보십시오:
deno task test-all
@fedify/fedify 패키지를 수정했을 경우, 수정과 관련된 일부 테스트 코드만 빠르게 실행해 보고 싶을 수 있습니다. 그럴 때는 다음과 같이 -f @fedify/fedify 옵션과 --filter 옵션을 함께 활용해 보세요 (태스크 이름이 test-all이 아니라 test임에 주의하세요):
deno task -f @fedify/fedify test --filter verifyRequest
혹은 -f @fedify/fedify 옵션을 쓰는 대신 직접 fedify/ 디렉터리 안에서 deno task test 명령어를 사용하셔도 됩니다:
cd fedify/deno task test --filter verifyRequest
참고로 --filter 옵션은 테스트 케이스 이름을 부분 문자열로 검색합니다. 이를테면, 다음과 같은 테스트가 있을 경우:
test("anArbitraryTest", () => { // … 생략 …});
다음과 같은 방식으로 모두 실행이 가능합니다:
deno task -f @fedify/fedify test --filter anArbitraryTestdeno task -f @fedify/fedify test --filter Arbitrarydeno task -f @fedify/fedify test --filter Test
앞서 설명한 deno task test 명령어는 Deno 런타임에서 테스트 스위트를 실행합니다. Node.js에서도 잘 돌아가나 확인하기 위해서는 Node.js 런타임에서도 테스트 스위트를 실행해 봐야 합니다. fedify/ 디렉터리 안쪽에서pnpm test 명령어를 통해 Node.js에서 테스트 스위트를 돌려 볼 수 있습니다:
cd fedify/pnpm test
일부 테스트만 빠르게 실행해 보고 싶을 경우 --test-name-pattern 옵션을 활용하세요:
pnpm test --test-name-pattern verifyRequest
Bun에서도 잘 돌아가는지 확인하려면 fedify/ 디렉터리 안쪽에서pnpm test:bun 명령어를 사용하세요:
pnpm test:bun
일부 테스트만 빠르게 실행해 보고 싶을 경우 마찬가지로 --test-name-pattern 옵션을 활용하세요:
pnpm test:bun --test-name-pattern verifyRequest
마지막으로, Cloudflare Workers에서도 잘 돌아가는지 검사해야 합니다. 이 경우에는 pnpm test:cfworkers 명령어를 활용하세요:
pnpm test:cfworkers
일부 테스트만 빠르게 실행해 보고 싶을 경우 인자로 부분 문자열 키워드를 넘기면 됩니다:
pnpm test:cfworkers verifyRequest
사실, 앞서 설명했던 deno task test-all 명령어는 한 번에 Deno, Node.js, Bun, Cloudflare Workers 모두에서 테스트 스위트를 실행하는 명령어입니다.
안내
테스트 실행 시 실패하는 케이스가 있나요? 그것 자체가 기여할 좋은 기회입니다. 실패하는 테스트가 성공하도록 직접 코드를 고쳐서 풀 리퀘스트를 올리셔도 좋고, 이슈 트래커에 이슈를 만들기만 해도 좋은 기여가 됩니다.
@fedify/cli: Fedify CLI 도구
@fedify/cli 패키지는 Fedify를 이용하여 ActivityPub 서버를 구현하는 개발자들을 위한 CLI 편의 도구로서, 주로 ActivityPub 서버 개발을 할 때 디버그나 테스트를 위해 필요한 기능들을 제공합니다. 라이브러리 패키지인 @fedify/fedify와 다르게 @fedify/cli는 패키지는 애플리케이션이기 때문에 코드를 수정한 뒤 바로 사용해 볼 수가 있습니다. 또한, 굳이 여러 런타임을 지원할 필요가 없기 때문에 Deno 환경만 신경쓰면 됩니다.
그런 이유로, @fedify/cli 패키지는 처음 기여하기에 좋습니다. 참고로 @fedif/cli는 CLI 애플리케이션 프레임워크로 Cliffy를 사용하고 있으니, 관련해서 궁금한 게 있다면 Cliffy 문서를 참고해 주세요.
일감 찾기
중요
오픈 소스 프로젝트에서는 할 일을 자발적으로 찾아야 합니다. 직장이 아니므로, 다른 누군가가 할 일을 할당해 주지 않습니다. 사실, 오픈 소스에서 활발하게 활동하는 프로그래머들은 단순히 소프트웨어 개발 실력이 좋은 게 아니라, 적절한 할 일을 잘 찾아내는 능력이 있습니다. 이 때 “적절하다”는 것은 자신의 실력으로 해낼 수 있을 정도의 난이도면서도 프로젝트에 임팩트를 낼 수 있는 것을 뜻합니다.
대부분의 오픈 소스 프로젝트는 할 일을 이슈 트래커에서 관리합니다. Fedify 역시 GitHub에서 제공하는 이슈 트래커로 할 일들을 관리하고 있습니다. 특별한 이유가 없는 한, 이슈는 기본적으로 영어로 작성되거나, 적어도 영어가 병기되어야 합니다. 영어가 익숙치 않은 분들은 Kagi 번역 등을 활용하시면 될 것 같습니다. 언어 때문에 어려우신 분은 멘토에게 도움을 청하세요.
이슈는 크게 세 종류로 나뉩니다:
피처 (feature)
말 그대로 새로운 기능을 뜻합니다.
버그 (bug)
기존에 있던 기능의 오작동을 뜻합니다.
태스크 (task)
신기능이나 버그 이외의 작업들을 가리킵니다. 예를 들면, 문서 수정 등이 여기에 속합니다.
미분류 (no type)
아직 분류되지 않은 이슈들인데, 이슈는 어떻게든 분류되어야 하므로 보통은 없습니다.
위의 분류와는 별개로, Fedify 이슈 트래커에서는 레이블을 구조화하여 활용하고 있습니다. 대부분의 레이블은 범례/레이블 이름 형식을 따르며, 대표적으로는 다음과 같은 것들이 있습니다:
여기서 여러분이 가장 주목하셔야 할 레이블은 바로 good first issue입니다. 해당 레이블이 붙은 이슈는 처음 기여하는 사람에게 적합하기 때문에, 여러분의 첫 기여 때 할 일을 찾을 때 도움이 됩니다. 이슈들을 찬찬히 읽어보시고 해 볼 만한 일감을 고르세요. 이슈를 읽어도 이해가 안 될 경우에는 댓글로 질문을 남기거나 멘토에게 질문하세요.
기여해 볼 이슈를 찾으셨다면, 해당 이슈를 이미 다른 사람이 진행중인지 확인하세요. 아무도 진행하고 있지 않다면 진행하겠다는 댓글을 이슈에 달아주세요.
과제
처음 기여할 이슈를 찾아 이슈에 댓글을 달아주세요. 이슈를 못 찾겠다면 멘토에게 도움을 요청하세요. 멘토가 기여할 만한 일을 함께 찾아줄 수 있습니다.
안내
굳이 이슈 트래커에 이미 있는 이슈 중에서만 고를 필요는 없습니다. Fedify를 써 보면서 개선할 부분을 발견하셨다면, 그걸 이슈로 만들어서 직접 해결하셔도 좋습니다. 사실, 오픈 소스의 많은 이슈들이 이슈를 제기한 사람에 의해 해결됩니다.
추가 정보 및 질문
본 문서에서 다루지 못한 내용도 많이 있을 것입니다. 아래 문서들은 부족한 부분을 좀 더 보충해 줄 수 있습니다:
#Fedify has moved to a monorepo structure with unified versioning across all packages (@fedify/fedify, @fedify/cli, database adapters & framework integrations).
All packages now release together, making dependency management much simpler!
ALT text detailsFedify monorepo structure diagram showing all packages (@fedify/fedify, @fedify/cli, database adapters, framework integrations) unified with shared versioning
#Fedify has moved to a monorepo structure with unified versioning across all packages (@fedify/fedify, @fedify/cli, database adapters & framework integrations).
All packages now release together, making dependency management much simpler!
ALT text detailsFedify monorepo structure diagram showing all packages (@fedify/fedify, @fedify/cli, database adapters, framework integrations) unified with shared versioning
#Fedify has moved to a monorepo structure with unified versioning across all packages (@fedify/fedify, @fedify/cli, database adapters & framework integrations).
All packages now release together, making dependency management much simpler!
ALT text detailsFedify monorepo structure diagram showing all packages (@fedify/fedify, @fedify/cli, database adapters, framework integrations) unified with shared versioning
#Fedify has moved to a monorepo structure with unified versioning across all packages (@fedify/fedify, @fedify/cli, database adapters & framework integrations).
All packages now release together, making dependency management much simpler!
ALT text detailsFedify monorepo structure diagram showing all packages (@fedify/fedify, @fedify/cli, database adapters, framework integrations) unified with shared versioning
ALT text detailsFedify's Open Collective page showing the project logo, description as “A TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards”, and five contribution tiers starting from $5/month Backer to $500/month Corporate Sponsor, with custom contribution options available.
ALT text detailsFedify's Open Collective page showing the project logo, description as “A TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards”, and five contribution tiers starting from $5/month Backer to $500/month Corporate Sponsor, with custom contribution options available.
Excited to share that I've joined #OSSCA (Open Source Software Contribution Academy) as a mentor for the @fedify project!
OSSCA is a national program run by South Korea's NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency) through their Open Source Software Support Center, aimed at fostering the next generation of open source contributors.
We're currently in the process of selecting around 20 mentees who will start contributing to #Fedify once the selection is complete. I've been busy preparing good first issues to help them get started on their open source journey.
Looking forward to working with these new contributors and seeing what amazing things we can build together!
Excited to share that I've joined #OSSCA (Open Source Software Contribution Academy) as a mentor for the @fedify project!
OSSCA is a national program run by South Korea's NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency) through their Open Source Software Support Center, aimed at fostering the next generation of open source contributors.
We're currently in the process of selecting around 20 mentees who will start contributing to #Fedify once the selection is complete. I've been busy preparing good first issues to help them get started on their open source journey.
Looking forward to working with these new contributors and seeing what amazing things we can build together!
Excited to share that I've joined #OSSCA (Open Source Software Contribution Academy) as a mentor for the @fedify project!
OSSCA is a national program run by South Korea's NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency) through their Open Source Software Support Center, aimed at fostering the next generation of open source contributors.
We're currently in the process of selecting around 20 mentees who will start contributing to #Fedify once the selection is complete. I've been busy preparing good first issues to help them get started on their open source journey.
Looking forward to working with these new contributors and seeing what amazing things we can build together!
@encyclia bridges academic research to the #fediverse by making #ORCID researcher profiles and publications discoverable through #ActivityPub—built with #Fedify for seamless interoperability across Mastodon and other fediverse platforms.
This demonstrates Fedify's versatility beyond traditional social networking, helping specialized domains connect to the federated web.
We're also grateful for #Encyclia's sponsorship support, which helps make Fedify's development possible.
@encyclia bridges academic research to the #fediverse by making #ORCID researcher profiles and publications discoverable through #ActivityPub—built with #Fedify for seamless interoperability across Mastodon and other fediverse platforms.
This demonstrates Fedify's versatility beyond traditional social networking, helping specialized domains connect to the federated web.
We're also grateful for #Encyclia's sponsorship support, which helps make Fedify's development possible.
@encyclia bridges academic research to the #fediverse by making #ORCID researcher profiles and publications discoverable through #ActivityPub—built with #Fedify for seamless interoperability across Mastodon and other fediverse platforms.
This demonstrates Fedify's versatility beyond traditional social networking, helping specialized domains connect to the federated web.
We're also grateful for #Encyclia's sponsorship support, which helps make Fedify's development possible.
@encyclia bridges academic research to the #fediverse by making #ORCID researcher profiles and publications discoverable through #ActivityPub—built with #Fedify for seamless interoperability across Mastodon and other fediverse platforms.
This demonstrates Fedify's versatility beyond traditional social networking, helping specialized domains connect to the federated web.
We're also grateful for #Encyclia's sponsorship support, which helps make Fedify's development possible.
We are pleased to announce the release of #Fedify 1.7.0. This release was expedited at the request of the Ghost team, who are actively using Fedify for their #ActivityPub implementation. As a result, several features originally planned for this version have been moved to Fedify 1.8.0 to ensure timely delivery of the most critical improvements.
This release focuses on enhancing message queue functionality and improving compatibility with ActivityPub servers through refined HTTP signature handling.
Native retry mechanism support
This release introduces support for native retry mechanisms in message queue backends. The new MessageQueue.nativeRetrial property allows queue implementations to indicate whether they provide built-in retry functionality, enabling Fedify to optimize its retry behavior accordingly.
When nativeRetrial is set to true, Fedify will delegate retry handling to the queue backend rather than implementing its own retry logic. This approach reduces overhead and leverages the proven retry mechanisms of established queue systems.
Current implementations with native retry support include:
DenoKvMessageQueue — utilizes Deno KV's automatic retry with exponential backoff
WorkersMessageQueue — leverages Cloudflare Queues' automatic retry and dead-letter queue features
AmqpMessageQueue — can now be configured to use AMQP broker's native retry mechanisms
Alongside Fedify 1.7.0, we have also released @fedify/amqp 0.3.0. This release adds the nativeRetrial option to AmqpMessageQueueOptions, enabling you to leverage your AMQP broker's built-in retry mechanisms. When enabled, this option allows the AMQP broker to handle message retries according to its configured policies, rather than relying on Fedify's internal retry logic.
Configurable double-knocking
The new FederationOptions.firstKnock option provides control over the HTTP Signatures specification used for the initial signature attempt when communicating with previously unknown servers.
Previously, the first knock for newly encountered servers always used RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures), falling back to draft-cavage-http-signatures-12 if needed. With this release, you can now configure which specification to use for the first knock when communicating with unknown servers, with RFC 9421 remaining the default.
Summary
This release maintains Fedify's commitment to reliability and compatibility while laying the groundwork for more efficient message processing. The native retry mechanism support will particularly benefit applications using queue backends with sophisticated retry capabilities, while the double-knocking mechanism addresses real-world compatibility challenges in the ActivityPub ecosystem.
For detailed technical information about these changes, please refer to the changelog in the repository.
We are pleased to announce the release of #Fedify 1.7.0. This release was expedited at the request of the Ghost team, who are actively using Fedify for their #ActivityPub implementation. As a result, several features originally planned for this version have been moved to Fedify 1.8.0 to ensure timely delivery of the most critical improvements.
This release focuses on enhancing message queue functionality and improving compatibility with ActivityPub servers through refined HTTP signature handling.
Native retry mechanism support
This release introduces support for native retry mechanisms in message queue backends. The new MessageQueue.nativeRetrial property allows queue implementations to indicate whether they provide built-in retry functionality, enabling Fedify to optimize its retry behavior accordingly.
When nativeRetrial is set to true, Fedify will delegate retry handling to the queue backend rather than implementing its own retry logic. This approach reduces overhead and leverages the proven retry mechanisms of established queue systems.
Current implementations with native retry support include:
DenoKvMessageQueue — utilizes Deno KV's automatic retry with exponential backoff
WorkersMessageQueue — leverages Cloudflare Queues' automatic retry and dead-letter queue features
AmqpMessageQueue — can now be configured to use AMQP broker's native retry mechanisms
Alongside Fedify 1.7.0, we have also released @fedify/amqp 0.3.0. This release adds the nativeRetrial option to AmqpMessageQueueOptions, enabling you to leverage your AMQP broker's built-in retry mechanisms. When enabled, this option allows the AMQP broker to handle message retries according to its configured policies, rather than relying on Fedify's internal retry logic.
Configurable double-knocking
The new FederationOptions.firstKnock option provides control over the HTTP Signatures specification used for the initial signature attempt when communicating with previously unknown servers.
Previously, the first knock for newly encountered servers always used RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures), falling back to draft-cavage-http-signatures-12 if needed. With this release, you can now configure which specification to use for the first knock when communicating with unknown servers, with RFC 9421 remaining the default.
Summary
This release maintains Fedify's commitment to reliability and compatibility while laying the groundwork for more efficient message processing. The native retry mechanism support will particularly benefit applications using queue backends with sophisticated retry capabilities, while the double-knocking mechanism addresses real-world compatibility challenges in the ActivityPub ecosystem.
For detailed technical information about these changes, please refer to the changelog in the repository.
We are pleased to announce the release of #Fedify 1.7.0. This release was expedited at the request of the Ghost team, who are actively using Fedify for their #ActivityPub implementation. As a result, several features originally planned for this version have been moved to Fedify 1.8.0 to ensure timely delivery of the most critical improvements.
This release focuses on enhancing message queue functionality and improving compatibility with ActivityPub servers through refined HTTP signature handling.
Native retry mechanism support
This release introduces support for native retry mechanisms in message queue backends. The new MessageQueue.nativeRetrial property allows queue implementations to indicate whether they provide built-in retry functionality, enabling Fedify to optimize its retry behavior accordingly.
When nativeRetrial is set to true, Fedify will delegate retry handling to the queue backend rather than implementing its own retry logic. This approach reduces overhead and leverages the proven retry mechanisms of established queue systems.
Current implementations with native retry support include:
DenoKvMessageQueue — utilizes Deno KV's automatic retry with exponential backoff
WorkersMessageQueue — leverages Cloudflare Queues' automatic retry and dead-letter queue features
AmqpMessageQueue — can now be configured to use AMQP broker's native retry mechanisms
Alongside Fedify 1.7.0, we have also released @fedify/amqp 0.3.0. This release adds the nativeRetrial option to AmqpMessageQueueOptions, enabling you to leverage your AMQP broker's built-in retry mechanisms. When enabled, this option allows the AMQP broker to handle message retries according to its configured policies, rather than relying on Fedify's internal retry logic.
Configurable double-knocking
The new FederationOptions.firstKnock option provides control over the HTTP Signatures specification used for the initial signature attempt when communicating with previously unknown servers.
Previously, the first knock for newly encountered servers always used RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures), falling back to draft-cavage-http-signatures-12 if needed. With this release, you can now configure which specification to use for the first knock when communicating with unknown servers, with RFC 9421 remaining the default.
Summary
This release maintains Fedify's commitment to reliability and compatibility while laying the groundwork for more efficient message processing. The native retry mechanism support will particularly benefit applications using queue backends with sophisticated retry capabilities, while the double-knocking mechanism addresses real-world compatibility challenges in the ActivityPub ecosystem.
For detailed technical information about these changes, please refer to the changelog in the repository.
We are pleased to announce the release of #Fedify 1.7.0. This release was expedited at the request of the Ghost team, who are actively using Fedify for their #ActivityPub implementation. As a result, several features originally planned for this version have been moved to Fedify 1.8.0 to ensure timely delivery of the most critical improvements.
This release focuses on enhancing message queue functionality and improving compatibility with ActivityPub servers through refined HTTP signature handling.
Native retry mechanism support
This release introduces support for native retry mechanisms in message queue backends. The new MessageQueue.nativeRetrial property allows queue implementations to indicate whether they provide built-in retry functionality, enabling Fedify to optimize its retry behavior accordingly.
When nativeRetrial is set to true, Fedify will delegate retry handling to the queue backend rather than implementing its own retry logic. This approach reduces overhead and leverages the proven retry mechanisms of established queue systems.
Current implementations with native retry support include:
DenoKvMessageQueue — utilizes Deno KV's automatic retry with exponential backoff
WorkersMessageQueue — leverages Cloudflare Queues' automatic retry and dead-letter queue features
AmqpMessageQueue — can now be configured to use AMQP broker's native retry mechanisms
Alongside Fedify 1.7.0, we have also released @fedify/amqp 0.3.0. This release adds the nativeRetrial option to AmqpMessageQueueOptions, enabling you to leverage your AMQP broker's built-in retry mechanisms. When enabled, this option allows the AMQP broker to handle message retries according to its configured policies, rather than relying on Fedify's internal retry logic.
Configurable double-knocking
The new FederationOptions.firstKnock option provides control over the HTTP Signatures specification used for the initial signature attempt when communicating with previously unknown servers.
Previously, the first knock for newly encountered servers always used RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures), falling back to draft-cavage-http-signatures-12 if needed. With this release, you can now configure which specification to use for the first knock when communicating with unknown servers, with RFC 9421 remaining the default.
Summary
This release maintains Fedify's commitment to reliability and compatibility while laying the groundwork for more efficient message processing. The native retry mechanism support will particularly benefit applications using queue backends with sophisticated retry capabilities, while the double-knocking mechanism addresses real-world compatibility challenges in the ActivityPub ecosystem.
For detailed technical information about these changes, please refer to the changelog in the repository.
We're excited to announce the release of #Fedify 1.6.1, which marks the beginning of the 1.6 series following the retraction of version 1.6.0. This release introduces significant new capabilities that expand Fedify's deployment options and enhance security compatibility across the #fediverse.
Fedify 1.6 introduces the FederationBuilder class and createFederationBuilder() function to support deferred federation instantiation. This pattern provides several benefits:
Deferred instantiation: Set up dispatchers and listeners before creating the federation object
Better code organization: Avoid circular dependencies and improve project structure
Cloudflare #Workers compatibility: Accommodates binding-based architectures where resources are passed as arguments rather than globals
Modular setup: Build complex federations piece by piece before instantiation
The builder pattern is particularly useful for large applications and environments like Cloudflare Workers where configuration data is only available at runtime.
Adaptive caching: The system remembers which version each server supports to optimize future requests
This approach ensures seamless communication with both modern and legacy ActivityPub implementations while positioning Fedify at the forefront of security standards.
Interoperability testing
The RFC 9421 implementation has been thoroughly tested for interoperability with existing ActivityPub implementations that support RFC 9421 signature verification:
Mastodon 4.4.0 development version: Tested RFC 9421 signature verification against Fedify's implementation (refer to Mastodon PR #34814, though Mastodon 4.4.0 has not yet been released)
These tests confirm that other ActivityPub implementations can successfully verify RFC 9421 signatures generated by Fedify, ensuring proper federation as the ecosystem gradually adopts the official specification. While these implementations currently support verification of RFC 9421 signatures, they do not yet generate RFC 9421 signatures themselves—making Fedify one of the first ActivityPub implementations to support both generation and verification of the modern standard.
🔍 WebFinger enhancements
Dedicated WebFinger lookup
The new Context.lookupWebFinger() method provides direct access to WebFinger data, offering developers more granular control over account discovery and resource resolution beyond the higher-level Context.lookupObject() method.
🛠 Context API improvements
Context data replacement
The new Context.clone() method enables dynamic context data replacement, providing greater flexibility in request processing and data flow management. This is particularly useful for middleware implementations and complex request routing scenarios.
🚀 Migration considerations
Backward compatibility
Fedify 1.6 maintains full backward compatibility with existing applications. The new HTTP Message Signatures and double-knocking mechanisms work transparently without requiring any code changes.
Node.js version requirement
Important: Fedify 1.6 requires Node.js 22.0.0 or later for Node.js environments. This change does not affect applications using Deno or Bun runtimes. If you're currently using Node.js, please ensure your environment meets this requirement before upgrading.
New deployment options
For new deployments, consider leveraging Cloudflare Workers support for:
Global edge deployment with low latency
Serverless scaling and automatic resource management
Integration with Cloudflare's ecosystem of services
🎯 Looking forward
Fedify 1.6 represents a significant expansion of deployment possibilities while maintaining the framework's commitment to broad compatibility across the fediverse. The addition of Cloudflare Workers support opens new architectural patterns for federated applications, while the RFC 9421 implementation ensures Fedify stays current with emerging ActivityPub security standards.
For detailed migration guides, API documentation, and examples, please visit the Fedify documentation. Join our community on Matrix or Discord for support and discussions.
We're excited to announce the release of #Fedify 1.6.1, which marks the beginning of the 1.6 series following the retraction of version 1.6.0. This release introduces significant new capabilities that expand Fedify's deployment options and enhance security compatibility across the #fediverse.
Fedify 1.6 introduces the FederationBuilder class and createFederationBuilder() function to support deferred federation instantiation. This pattern provides several benefits:
Deferred instantiation: Set up dispatchers and listeners before creating the federation object
Better code organization: Avoid circular dependencies and improve project structure
Cloudflare #Workers compatibility: Accommodates binding-based architectures where resources are passed as arguments rather than globals
Modular setup: Build complex federations piece by piece before instantiation
The builder pattern is particularly useful for large applications and environments like Cloudflare Workers where configuration data is only available at runtime.
Adaptive caching: The system remembers which version each server supports to optimize future requests
This approach ensures seamless communication with both modern and legacy ActivityPub implementations while positioning Fedify at the forefront of security standards.
Interoperability testing
The RFC 9421 implementation has been thoroughly tested for interoperability with existing ActivityPub implementations that support RFC 9421 signature verification:
Mastodon 4.4.0 development version: Tested RFC 9421 signature verification against Fedify's implementation (refer to Mastodon PR #34814, though Mastodon 4.4.0 has not yet been released)
These tests confirm that other ActivityPub implementations can successfully verify RFC 9421 signatures generated by Fedify, ensuring proper federation as the ecosystem gradually adopts the official specification. While these implementations currently support verification of RFC 9421 signatures, they do not yet generate RFC 9421 signatures themselves—making Fedify one of the first ActivityPub implementations to support both generation and verification of the modern standard.
🔍 WebFinger enhancements
Dedicated WebFinger lookup
The new Context.lookupWebFinger() method provides direct access to WebFinger data, offering developers more granular control over account discovery and resource resolution beyond the higher-level Context.lookupObject() method.
🛠 Context API improvements
Context data replacement
The new Context.clone() method enables dynamic context data replacement, providing greater flexibility in request processing and data flow management. This is particularly useful for middleware implementations and complex request routing scenarios.
🚀 Migration considerations
Backward compatibility
Fedify 1.6 maintains full backward compatibility with existing applications. The new HTTP Message Signatures and double-knocking mechanisms work transparently without requiring any code changes.
Node.js version requirement
Important: Fedify 1.6 requires Node.js 22.0.0 or later for Node.js environments. This change does not affect applications using Deno or Bun runtimes. If you're currently using Node.js, please ensure your environment meets this requirement before upgrading.
New deployment options
For new deployments, consider leveraging Cloudflare Workers support for:
Global edge deployment with low latency
Serverless scaling and automatic resource management
Integration with Cloudflare's ecosystem of services
🎯 Looking forward
Fedify 1.6 represents a significant expansion of deployment possibilities while maintaining the framework's commitment to broad compatibility across the fediverse. The addition of Cloudflare Workers support opens new architectural patterns for federated applications, while the RFC 9421 implementation ensures Fedify stays current with emerging ActivityPub security standards.
For detailed migration guides, API documentation, and examples, please visit the Fedify documentation. Join our community on Matrix or Discord for support and discussions.
We're excited to announce the release of #Fedify 1.6.1, which marks the beginning of the 1.6 series following the retraction of version 1.6.0. This release introduces significant new capabilities that expand Fedify's deployment options and enhance security compatibility across the #fediverse.
Fedify 1.6 introduces the FederationBuilder class and createFederationBuilder() function to support deferred federation instantiation. This pattern provides several benefits:
Deferred instantiation: Set up dispatchers and listeners before creating the federation object
Better code organization: Avoid circular dependencies and improve project structure
Cloudflare #Workers compatibility: Accommodates binding-based architectures where resources are passed as arguments rather than globals
Modular setup: Build complex federations piece by piece before instantiation
The builder pattern is particularly useful for large applications and environments like Cloudflare Workers where configuration data is only available at runtime.
Adaptive caching: The system remembers which version each server supports to optimize future requests
This approach ensures seamless communication with both modern and legacy ActivityPub implementations while positioning Fedify at the forefront of security standards.
Interoperability testing
The RFC 9421 implementation has been thoroughly tested for interoperability with existing ActivityPub implementations that support RFC 9421 signature verification:
Mastodon 4.4.0 development version: Tested RFC 9421 signature verification against Fedify's implementation (refer to Mastodon PR #34814, though Mastodon 4.4.0 has not yet been released)
These tests confirm that other ActivityPub implementations can successfully verify RFC 9421 signatures generated by Fedify, ensuring proper federation as the ecosystem gradually adopts the official specification. While these implementations currently support verification of RFC 9421 signatures, they do not yet generate RFC 9421 signatures themselves—making Fedify one of the first ActivityPub implementations to support both generation and verification of the modern standard.
🔍 WebFinger enhancements
Dedicated WebFinger lookup
The new Context.lookupWebFinger() method provides direct access to WebFinger data, offering developers more granular control over account discovery and resource resolution beyond the higher-level Context.lookupObject() method.
🛠 Context API improvements
Context data replacement
The new Context.clone() method enables dynamic context data replacement, providing greater flexibility in request processing and data flow management. This is particularly useful for middleware implementations and complex request routing scenarios.
🚀 Migration considerations
Backward compatibility
Fedify 1.6 maintains full backward compatibility with existing applications. The new HTTP Message Signatures and double-knocking mechanisms work transparently without requiring any code changes.
Node.js version requirement
Important: Fedify 1.6 requires Node.js 22.0.0 or later for Node.js environments. This change does not affect applications using Deno or Bun runtimes. If you're currently using Node.js, please ensure your environment meets this requirement before upgrading.
New deployment options
For new deployments, consider leveraging Cloudflare Workers support for:
Global edge deployment with low latency
Serverless scaling and automatic resource management
Integration with Cloudflare's ecosystem of services
🎯 Looking forward
Fedify 1.6 represents a significant expansion of deployment possibilities while maintaining the framework's commitment to broad compatibility across the fediverse. The addition of Cloudflare Workers support opens new architectural patterns for federated applications, while the RFC 9421 implementation ensures Fedify stays current with emerging ActivityPub security standards.
For detailed migration guides, API documentation, and examples, please visit the Fedify documentation. Join our community on Matrix or Discord for support and discussions.
We're excited to announce the release of #Fedify 1.6.1, which marks the beginning of the 1.6 series following the retraction of version 1.6.0. This release introduces significant new capabilities that expand Fedify's deployment options and enhance security compatibility across the #fediverse.
Fedify 1.6 introduces the FederationBuilder class and createFederationBuilder() function to support deferred federation instantiation. This pattern provides several benefits:
Deferred instantiation: Set up dispatchers and listeners before creating the federation object
Better code organization: Avoid circular dependencies and improve project structure
Cloudflare #Workers compatibility: Accommodates binding-based architectures where resources are passed as arguments rather than globals
Modular setup: Build complex federations piece by piece before instantiation
The builder pattern is particularly useful for large applications and environments like Cloudflare Workers where configuration data is only available at runtime.
Adaptive caching: The system remembers which version each server supports to optimize future requests
This approach ensures seamless communication with both modern and legacy ActivityPub implementations while positioning Fedify at the forefront of security standards.
Interoperability testing
The RFC 9421 implementation has been thoroughly tested for interoperability with existing ActivityPub implementations that support RFC 9421 signature verification:
Mastodon 4.4.0 development version: Tested RFC 9421 signature verification against Fedify's implementation (refer to Mastodon PR #34814, though Mastodon 4.4.0 has not yet been released)
These tests confirm that other ActivityPub implementations can successfully verify RFC 9421 signatures generated by Fedify, ensuring proper federation as the ecosystem gradually adopts the official specification. While these implementations currently support verification of RFC 9421 signatures, they do not yet generate RFC 9421 signatures themselves—making Fedify one of the first ActivityPub implementations to support both generation and verification of the modern standard.
🔍 WebFinger enhancements
Dedicated WebFinger lookup
The new Context.lookupWebFinger() method provides direct access to WebFinger data, offering developers more granular control over account discovery and resource resolution beyond the higher-level Context.lookupObject() method.
🛠 Context API improvements
Context data replacement
The new Context.clone() method enables dynamic context data replacement, providing greater flexibility in request processing and data flow management. This is particularly useful for middleware implementations and complex request routing scenarios.
🚀 Migration considerations
Backward compatibility
Fedify 1.6 maintains full backward compatibility with existing applications. The new HTTP Message Signatures and double-knocking mechanisms work transparently without requiring any code changes.
Node.js version requirement
Important: Fedify 1.6 requires Node.js 22.0.0 or later for Node.js environments. This change does not affect applications using Deno or Bun runtimes. If you're currently using Node.js, please ensure your environment meets this requirement before upgrading.
New deployment options
For new deployments, consider leveraging Cloudflare Workers support for:
Global edge deployment with low latency
Serverless scaling and automatic resource management
Integration with Cloudflare's ecosystem of services
🎯 Looking forward
Fedify 1.6 represents a significant expansion of deployment possibilities while maintaining the framework's commitment to broad compatibility across the fediverse. The addition of Cloudflare Workers support opens new architectural patterns for federated applications, while the RFC 9421 implementation ensures Fedify stays current with emerging ActivityPub security standards.
For detailed migration guides, API documentation, and examples, please visit the Fedify documentation. Join our community on Matrix or Discord for support and discussions.
#Fedify 1.6 is approaching with three major enhancements: RFC 9421 HTTP Message Signatures support with double-knocking for seamless backward compatibility, a new builder pattern for better code organization in large applications, and native #Cloudflare#Workers support for serverless deployments. These additions strengthen Fedify's standards compliance while expanding deployment flexibility across different environments. Stay tuned for the official release! 🚀
#Fedify 1.6 is approaching with three major enhancements: RFC 9421 HTTP Message Signatures support with double-knocking for seamless backward compatibility, a new builder pattern for better code organization in large applications, and native #Cloudflare#Workers support for serverless deployments. These additions strengthen Fedify's standards compliance while expanding deployment flexibility across different environments. Stay tuned for the official release! 🚀
#Fedify 1.6 is approaching with three major enhancements: RFC 9421 HTTP Message Signatures support with double-knocking for seamless backward compatibility, a new builder pattern for better code organization in large applications, and native #Cloudflare#Workers support for serverless deployments. These additions strengthen Fedify's standards compliance while expanding deployment flexibility across different environments. Stay tuned for the official release! 🚀
#Fedify 1.6 is approaching with three major enhancements: RFC 9421 HTTP Message Signatures support with double-knocking for seamless backward compatibility, a new builder pattern for better code organization in large applications, and native #Cloudflare#Workers support for serverless deployments. These additions strengthen Fedify's standards compliance while expanding deployment flexibility across different environments. Stay tuned for the official release! 🚀
If you're on the fence about which driver to choose for #Fedify's message queue, here's a benchmark that just came out. In addition to no queue, we compare 5 drivers, for a total of 11 setups:
@thisismissem Here's the benchmark, and while it contains some questionable results, the overall conclusion is as following:
• Response times are much faster with queues than without. • Overall throughput is better without queues. • However, some queue setups can achieve throughput close to that of no queue.
This benchmark assumes communication within a single node, so the effect of queues may be greater in real-world networks.
If you're on the fence about which driver to choose for #Fedify's message queue, here's a benchmark that just came out. In addition to no queue, we compare 5 drivers, for a total of 11 setups:
@thisismissem Here's the benchmark, and while it contains some questionable results, the overall conclusion is as following:
• Response times are much faster with queues than without. • Overall throughput is better without queues. • However, some queue setups can achieve throughput close to that of no queue.
This benchmark assumes communication within a single node, so the effect of queues may be greater in real-world networks.
🎉 #Cloudflare#Workers support is now complete! After implementing the test infrastructure, core module, examples, and comprehensive documentation, #Fedify can now run on Cloudflare Workers.
This will be included in the upcoming Fedify 1.6 stable release. Thank you to everyone who requested this feature and provided feedback throughout the implementation!
🎉 #Cloudflare#Workers support is now complete! After implementing the test infrastructure, core module, examples, and comprehensive documentation, #Fedify can now run on Cloudflare Workers.
This will be included in the upcoming Fedify 1.6 stable release. Thank you to everyone who requested this feature and provided feedback throughout the implementation!
🎉 #Cloudflare#Workers support is now complete! After implementing the test infrastructure, core module, examples, and comprehensive documentation, #Fedify can now run on Cloudflare Workers.
This will be included in the upcoming Fedify 1.6 stable release. Thank you to everyone who requested this feature and provided feedback throughout the implementation!
🎉 #Cloudflare#Workers support is now complete! After implementing the test infrastructure, core module, examples, and comprehensive documentation, #Fedify can now run on Cloudflare Workers.
This will be included in the upcoming Fedify 1.6 stable release. Thank you to everyone who requested this feature and provided feedback throughout the implementation!
If you're interested in building your own #ActivityPub server but don't know where to start, I recommend checking out #Fedify's #tutorialCreating your own federated microblog. It provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide that walks you through building a fully functional federated application. Perfect for developers who want to dive into the #fediverse!
If you're interested in building your own #ActivityPub server but don't know where to start, I recommend checking out #Fedify's #tutorialCreating your own federated microblog. It provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide that walks you through building a fully functional federated application. Perfect for developers who want to dive into the #fediverse!
If you're interested in building your own #ActivityPub server but don't know where to start, I recommend checking out #Fedify's #tutorialCreating your own federated microblog. It provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide that walks you through building a fully functional federated application. Perfect for developers who want to dive into the #fediverse!
If you're interested in building your own #ActivityPub server but don't know where to start, I recommend checking out #Fedify's #tutorialCreating your own federated microblog. It provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide that walks you through building a fully functional federated application. Perfect for developers who want to dive into the #fediverse!
If you're interested in building your own #ActivityPub server but don't know where to start, I recommend checking out #Fedify's #tutorialCreating your own federated microblog. It provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide that walks you through building a fully functional federated application. Perfect for developers who want to dive into the #fediverse!
If you're interested in building your own #ActivityPub server but don't know where to start, I recommend checking out #Fedify's #tutorialCreating your own federated microblog. It provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide that walks you through building a fully functional federated application. Perfect for developers who want to dive into the #fediverse!
We're planning to reorganize our #GitHub labels to better reflect #Fedify's project structure! 🏷️
Currently using GitHub's default labels, but we want something more tailored to our needs—like component-specific labels (vocab, federation, actor, etc.), runtime tags (Deno/Node/Bun), and #ActivityPub compatibility tracking.
The proposal includes hierarchical labeling with categories like:
type/ for bug, feature, documentation
component/ for different parts of Fedify
activitypub/ for interop issues with Mastodon, Misskey, etc.
We'd love your thoughts! What labels would be most helpful for contributors and maintainers?
We're planning to reorganize our #GitHub labels to better reflect #Fedify's project structure! 🏷️
Currently using GitHub's default labels, but we want something more tailored to our needs—like component-specific labels (vocab, federation, actor, etc.), runtime tags (Deno/Node/Bun), and #ActivityPub compatibility tracking.
The proposal includes hierarchical labeling with categories like:
type/ for bug, feature, documentation
component/ for different parts of Fedify
activitypub/ for interop issues with Mastodon, Misskey, etc.
We'd love your thoughts! What labels would be most helpful for contributors and maintainers?
While #Fedify's #Vocabulary API provides comprehensive support for #ActivityPub and major vendor extensions, its code-generation approach makes runtime extensions challenging. However, the project welcomes contributions to expand the supported types and properties.
Fedify accepts vocabulary contributions when they meet any of these criteria:
Documented in FEP (Fediverse Enhancement Proposals) or equivalent specification
Already adopted by widely-used #fediverse implementations like Mastodon or Pleroma
Contributing new vocabulary is straightforward. The vocabulary definitions live in YAML files within the fedify/vocab/ directory. To add a new type, create a new .yaml file. To add properties to existing types, extend the properties section in the relevant .yaml file.
This approach ensures Fedify's vocabulary coverage grows with the fediverse ecosystem while maintaining type safety and comprehensive documentation. If you're working with custom ActivityPub extensions, consider contributing them upstream to benefit the entire community.
While #Fedify's #Vocabulary API provides comprehensive support for #ActivityPub and major vendor extensions, its code-generation approach makes runtime extensions challenging. However, the project welcomes contributions to expand the supported types and properties.
Fedify accepts vocabulary contributions when they meet any of these criteria:
Documented in FEP (Fediverse Enhancement Proposals) or equivalent specification
Already adopted by widely-used #fediverse implementations like Mastodon or Pleroma
Contributing new vocabulary is straightforward. The vocabulary definitions live in YAML files within the fedify/vocab/ directory. To add a new type, create a new .yaml file. To add properties to existing types, extend the properties section in the relevant .yaml file.
This approach ensures Fedify's vocabulary coverage grows with the fediverse ecosystem while maintaining type safety and comprehensive documentation. If you're working with custom ActivityPub extensions, consider contributing them upstream to benefit the entire community.
This patch for @vite is blocking #Fedify's Cloudflare Workers support. They say it'll be included in #Vite 7, but I can't wait that long, so I'm not sure what to do… 🤔
I've been thinking about adding a debug dashboard to #Fedify that shows all #ActivityPub activities being sent and received in real-time. This would include filters by activity type, detailed inspection of JSON-LD content, signature verification details, and retry management for failed deliveries.
As a #fedidev, would you find this useful for troubleshooting federation issues? Any other features that would be helpful in such a debugging tool?
I've been thinking about adding a debug dashboard to #Fedify that shows all #ActivityPub activities being sent and received in real-time. This would include filters by activity type, detailed inspection of JSON-LD content, signature verification details, and retry management for failed deliveries.
As a #fedidev, would you find this useful for troubleshooting federation issues? Any other features that would be helpful in such a debugging tool?
I've been thinking about adding a debug dashboard to #Fedify that shows all #ActivityPub activities being sent and received in real-time. This would include filters by activity type, detailed inspection of JSON-LD content, signature verification details, and retry management for failed deliveries.
As a #fedidev, would you find this useful for troubleshooting federation issues? Any other features that would be helpful in such a debugging tool?
I've been thinking about adding a debug dashboard to #Fedify that shows all #ActivityPub activities being sent and received in real-time. This would include filters by activity type, detailed inspection of JSON-LD content, signature verification details, and retry management for failed deliveries.
As a #fedidev, would you find this useful for troubleshooting federation issues? Any other features that would be helpful in such a debugging tool?
I've been thinking about adding a debug dashboard to #Fedify that shows all #ActivityPub activities being sent and received in real-time. This would include filters by activity type, detailed inspection of JSON-LD content, signature verification details, and retry management for failed deliveries.
As a #fedidev, would you find this useful for troubleshooting federation issues? Any other features that would be helpful in such a debugging tool?
We've just submitted an #application to the Sovereign Tech Fund for the #Fedify project! Hoping to further develop and enhance the framework for a more robust federated web.
We've just submitted an #application to the Sovereign Tech Fund for the #Fedify project! Hoping to further develop and enhance the framework for a more robust federated web.
Fedify는 #ActivityPub 기반 연합형 서버 프레임워크로, 개발자들이 분산형 소셜 네트워크인 #연합우주(#fediverse)에 애플리케이션을 쉽게 통합할 수 있도록 돕습니다. 복잡한 ActivityPub 프로토콜 구현을 단순화하여 개발 시간을 크게 단축시킵니다. MIT 라이선스 하에 제공되는 오픈 소스 프로젝트입니다.
💼 Fedify를 활용하는 프로젝트들
다양한 프로젝트들이 이미 Fedify를 활용하고 있습니다:
Ghost: 수백만 사용자를 보유한 전문적인 오픈 소스(MIT 라이선스) 퍼블리싱 플랫폼으로, Fedify의 주요 후원사이자 파트너입니다.
Fedify는 #ActivityPub 기반 연합형 서버 프레임워크로, 개발자들이 분산형 소셜 네트워크인 #연합우주(#fediverse)에 애플리케이션을 쉽게 통합할 수 있도록 돕습니다. 복잡한 ActivityPub 프로토콜 구현을 단순화하여 개발 시간을 크게 단축시킵니다. MIT 라이선스 하에 제공되는 오픈 소스 프로젝트입니다.
💼 Fedify를 활용하는 프로젝트들
다양한 프로젝트들이 이미 Fedify를 활용하고 있습니다:
Ghost: 수백만 사용자를 보유한 전문적인 오픈 소스(MIT 라이선스) 퍼블리싱 플랫폼으로, Fedify의 주요 후원사이자 파트너입니다.
Fedify is looking for new partnership opportunities!
What is Fedify?
#Fedify is an #ActivityPub-based federated server framework that helps developers easily integrate their applications with the #fediverse, a decentralized social network. It simplifies the complex implementation of the ActivityPub protocol, significantly reducing development time. Fedify is an open-source project available under the MIT license.
💼 Projects using Fedify
Various projects are already leveraging Fedify:
Ghost: A professional publishing platform with millions of users, open source under MIT license, and a major sponsor and partner of Fedify.
Hollo: A lightweight microblogging platform for individual users (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Hackers' Pub: A fediverse blogging platform for software engineers (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Encyclia: A bridge service that makes ORCID academic records available via ActivityPub
🚀 Value provided by Fedify
80% development time reduction: Utilize a proven framework instead of complex ActivityPub implementation
Immediate fediverse compatibility: Instant compatibility with various fediverse services including Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Pixelfed, PeerTube, etc.
Expert technical support: Direct support from ActivityPub and Federation protocol experts
Custom development: Tailored feature development to meet your specific requirements
🤝 Potential collaboration models
Custom consulting and integration support: Professional assistance for integrating Fedify into your platform
Custom feature development: Development and implementation of specific features needed for your platform
Long-term technical partnership: Long-term collaboration for continuous development and maintenance
🌟 Benefits of collaborating with Fedify
Technical advantage: Save time and resources compared to in-house implementation
Brand image: Enhance corporate image through support of the open-source ecosystem
Entry to decentralized social networks: Easily participate in the fediverse ecosystem
Competitive edge: Strengthen product competitiveness through social features
📩 Interested?
If you're considering implementing ActivityPub or wish to collaborate with the Fedify project, please get in touch:
Fedify는 #ActivityPub 기반 연합형 서버 프레임워크로, 개발자들이 분산형 소셜 네트워크인 #연합우주(#fediverse)에 애플리케이션을 쉽게 통합할 수 있도록 돕습니다. 복잡한 ActivityPub 프로토콜 구현을 단순화하여 개발 시간을 크게 단축시킵니다. MIT 라이선스 하에 제공되는 오픈 소스 프로젝트입니다.
💼 Fedify를 활용하는 프로젝트들
다양한 프로젝트들이 이미 Fedify를 활용하고 있습니다:
Ghost: 수백만 사용자를 보유한 전문적인 오픈 소스(MIT 라이선스) 퍼블리싱 플랫폼으로, Fedify의 주요 후원사이자 파트너입니다.
Fedify is looking for new partnership opportunities!
What is Fedify?
#Fedify is an #ActivityPub-based federated server framework that helps developers easily integrate their applications with the #fediverse, a decentralized social network. It simplifies the complex implementation of the ActivityPub protocol, significantly reducing development time. Fedify is an open-source project available under the MIT license.
💼 Projects using Fedify
Various projects are already leveraging Fedify:
Ghost: A professional publishing platform with millions of users, open source under MIT license, and a major sponsor and partner of Fedify.
Hollo: A lightweight microblogging platform for individual users (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Hackers' Pub: A fediverse blogging platform for software engineers (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Encyclia: A bridge service that makes ORCID academic records available via ActivityPub
🚀 Value provided by Fedify
80% development time reduction: Utilize a proven framework instead of complex ActivityPub implementation
Immediate fediverse compatibility: Instant compatibility with various fediverse services including Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Pixelfed, PeerTube, etc.
Expert technical support: Direct support from ActivityPub and Federation protocol experts
Custom development: Tailored feature development to meet your specific requirements
🤝 Potential collaboration models
Custom consulting and integration support: Professional assistance for integrating Fedify into your platform
Custom feature development: Development and implementation of specific features needed for your platform
Long-term technical partnership: Long-term collaboration for continuous development and maintenance
🌟 Benefits of collaborating with Fedify
Technical advantage: Save time and resources compared to in-house implementation
Brand image: Enhance corporate image through support of the open-source ecosystem
Entry to decentralized social networks: Easily participate in the fediverse ecosystem
Competitive edge: Strengthen product competitiveness through social features
📩 Interested?
If you're considering implementing ActivityPub or wish to collaborate with the Fedify project, please get in touch:
Fedify is looking for new partnership opportunities!
What is Fedify?
#Fedify is an #ActivityPub-based federated server framework that helps developers easily integrate their applications with the #fediverse, a decentralized social network. It simplifies the complex implementation of the ActivityPub protocol, significantly reducing development time. Fedify is an open-source project available under the MIT license.
💼 Projects using Fedify
Various projects are already leveraging Fedify:
Ghost: A professional publishing platform with millions of users, open source under MIT license, and a major sponsor and partner of Fedify.
Hollo: A lightweight microblogging platform for individual users (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Hackers' Pub: A fediverse blogging platform for software engineers (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Encyclia: A bridge service that makes ORCID academic records available via ActivityPub
🚀 Value provided by Fedify
80% development time reduction: Utilize a proven framework instead of complex ActivityPub implementation
Immediate fediverse compatibility: Instant compatibility with various fediverse services including Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Pixelfed, PeerTube, etc.
Expert technical support: Direct support from ActivityPub and Federation protocol experts
Custom development: Tailored feature development to meet your specific requirements
🤝 Potential collaboration models
Custom consulting and integration support: Professional assistance for integrating Fedify into your platform
Custom feature development: Development and implementation of specific features needed for your platform
Long-term technical partnership: Long-term collaboration for continuous development and maintenance
🌟 Benefits of collaborating with Fedify
Technical advantage: Save time and resources compared to in-house implementation
Brand image: Enhance corporate image through support of the open-source ecosystem
Entry to decentralized social networks: Easily participate in the fediverse ecosystem
Competitive edge: Strengthen product competitiveness through social features
📩 Interested?
If you're considering implementing ActivityPub or wish to collaborate with the Fedify project, please get in touch:
Fedify는 #ActivityPub 기반 연합형 서버 프레임워크로, 개발자들이 분산형 소셜 네트워크인 #연합우주(#fediverse)에 애플리케이션을 쉽게 통합할 수 있도록 돕습니다. 복잡한 ActivityPub 프로토콜 구현을 단순화하여 개발 시간을 크게 단축시킵니다. MIT 라이선스 하에 제공되는 오픈 소스 프로젝트입니다.
💼 Fedify를 활용하는 프로젝트들
다양한 프로젝트들이 이미 Fedify를 활용하고 있습니다:
Ghost: 수백만 사용자를 보유한 전문적인 오픈 소스(MIT 라이선스) 퍼블리싱 플랫폼으로, Fedify의 주요 후원사이자 파트너입니다.
Even small contributions help sustain development and show there's interest in open source #ActivityPub tools. Thanks to our existing sponsors who've already been helping move the project forward!
The goal remains the same: make building federated applications more accessible to developers so the #fediverse can continue to grow and thrive.
Just received word that @fedify wasn't selected for @nlnet's Open Call this round. While disappointing, I understand the competition was fierce with many worthy projects seeking limited funding.
The journey continues though—#Fedify development will move forward at its own pace. Thanks to everyone who's shown interest and support for this project so far. Building tools for the #fediverse remains important work, and I'm committed to seeing it through.
If you know of other funding opportunities that might be a good fit for open source #ActivityPub tools, I'm all ears.
Even small contributions help sustain development and show there's interest in open source #ActivityPub tools. Thanks to our existing sponsors who've already been helping move the project forward!
The goal remains the same: make building federated applications more accessible to developers so the #fediverse can continue to grow and thrive.
Even small contributions help sustain development and show there's interest in open source #ActivityPub tools. Thanks to our existing sponsors who've already been helping move the project forward!
The goal remains the same: make building federated applications more accessible to developers so the #fediverse can continue to grow and thrive.
Just received word that @fedify wasn't selected for @nlnet's Open Call this round. While disappointing, I understand the competition was fierce with many worthy projects seeking limited funding.
The journey continues though—#Fedify development will move forward at its own pace. Thanks to everyone who's shown interest and support for this project so far. Building tools for the #fediverse remains important work, and I'm committed to seeing it through.
If you know of other funding opportunities that might be a good fit for open source #ActivityPub tools, I'm all ears.
Just received word that @fedify wasn't selected for @nlnet's Open Call this round. While disappointing, I understand the competition was fierce with many worthy projects seeking limited funding.
The journey continues though—#Fedify development will move forward at its own pace. Thanks to everyone who's shown interest and support for this project so far. Building tools for the #fediverse remains important work, and I'm committed to seeing it through.
If you know of other funding opportunities that might be a good fit for open source #ActivityPub tools, I'm all ears.
The effort will be tackled in phases, including compatibility assessment, core adaptations for Workers' environment, KV store and message queue implementations, and finally integration with Cloudflare's ecosystem. This will be a substantial project that we'll break down into several sub-issues.
If you're interested in contributing to any specific aspect of Workers support, please comment on the main issue to coordinate efforts.
The effort will be tackled in phases, including compatibility assessment, core adaptations for Workers' environment, KV store and message queue implementations, and finally integration with Cloudflare's ecosystem. This will be a substantial project that we'll break down into several sub-issues.
If you're interested in contributing to any specific aspect of Workers support, please comment on the main issue to coordinate efforts.
The effort will be tackled in phases, including compatibility assessment, core adaptations for Workers' environment, KV store and message queue implementations, and finally integration with Cloudflare's ecosystem. This will be a substantial project that we'll break down into several sub-issues.
If you're interested in contributing to any specific aspect of Workers support, please comment on the main issue to coordinate efforts.
As #Fedify's author, I'm contemplating its adoption beyond Ghost's #ActivityPub implementation. Finding potential users for ActivityPub tools seems challenging—perhaps I'm addressing a very niche need?
While the technical complexity of ActivityPub makes tools like Fedify valuable, I wonder about the actual market demand for federation outside specific communities.
Open, decentralized systems make sense to many developers, but businesses often prefer closed ecosystems that align with traditional models.
Still, I see potential as the #fediverse grows and digital sovereignty concerns increase. Fedify aims to lower the technical barriers to federation.
I'm curious: Which projects would benefit most from Fedify today? What would make federation compelling enough for platforms to implement?
Would appreciate perspectives from both developers and platform owners.
As #Fedify's author, I'm contemplating its adoption beyond Ghost's #ActivityPub implementation. Finding potential users for ActivityPub tools seems challenging—perhaps I'm addressing a very niche need?
While the technical complexity of ActivityPub makes tools like Fedify valuable, I wonder about the actual market demand for federation outside specific communities.
Open, decentralized systems make sense to many developers, but businesses often prefer closed ecosystems that align with traditional models.
Still, I see potential as the #fediverse grows and digital sovereignty concerns increase. Fedify aims to lower the technical barriers to federation.
I'm curious: Which projects would benefit most from Fedify today? What would make federation compelling enough for platforms to implement?
Would appreciate perspectives from both developers and platform owners.
As #Fedify's author, I'm contemplating its adoption beyond Ghost's #ActivityPub implementation. Finding potential users for ActivityPub tools seems challenging—perhaps I'm addressing a very niche need?
While the technical complexity of ActivityPub makes tools like Fedify valuable, I wonder about the actual market demand for federation outside specific communities.
Open, decentralized systems make sense to many developers, but businesses often prefer closed ecosystems that align with traditional models.
Still, I see potential as the #fediverse grows and digital sovereignty concerns increase. Fedify aims to lower the technical barriers to federation.
I'm curious: Which projects would benefit most from Fedify today? What would make federation compelling enough for platforms to implement?
Would appreciate perspectives from both developers and platform owners.
Okay, I've just deployed a bleeding edge #Fedify, which implements both RFC 9421 and double-knocking, to Hackers' Pub. If you'd like to test your implementations against a real server, please give it a try! (If you want to create an account, let me know—I can invite you.)
Okay, I've just deployed a bleeding edge #Fedify, which implements both RFC 9421 and double-knocking, to Hackers' Pub. If you'd like to test your implementations against a real server, please give it a try! (If you want to create an account, let me know—I can invite you.)
Okay, I've just deployed a bleeding edge #Fedify, which implements both RFC 9421 and double-knocking, to Hackers' Pub. If you'd like to test your implementations against a real server, please give it a try! (If you want to create an account, let me know—I can invite you.)
As mentioned in the Fedify announcement below, I've implemented RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures) and need to verify its interoperability with other ActivityPub implementations.
The challenge is that most major ActivityPub projects don't seem to have full RFC 9421 implementations in production yet. If you're working on an ActivityPub project that:
has implemented RFC 9421 (even in a development branch)
is currently implementing it
has plans to implement it soon
Please reach out! I'd love to collaborate on interoperability testing to ensure our implementations work properly with each other before merging this into #Fedify's main branch.
Any leads or connections would be greatly appreciated! 🙏
We're excited to announce that we've implemented RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures) in #Fedify, complete with our double-knocking mechanism to maintain backward compatibility with the draft cavage version.
This implementation includes both signature generation and verification, meaning #RFC9421 is used when both sending and receiving activities. While we haven't merged the RFC 9421 implementation branch yet, we're currently conducting interoperability tests with development versions of Mastodon and other #ActivityPub implementations. Once these tests confirm compatibility, we'll proceed with the merge.
As noted in the attached docs, although RFC 9421 is the final and official standard for HTTP Signatures, the draft cavage version remains widely used across the #fediverse. Our double-knocking mechanism ensures maximum compatibility by trying the RFC 9421 version first, then falling back to draft cavage if needed.
Currently, we support RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures, with plans to expand to other signature types in future releases.
We look forward to contributing to a more standardized and secure fediverse!
ALT text detailsHTTP Message Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
RFC 9421, also known as HTTP Message Signatures, is the final revision of the HTTP Signatures specification. Although it is the official standard, it is not widely used in the fediverse yet. As of May 2025, major ActivityPub implementations, such as Mastodon, et al., still rely on the draft cavage version of HTTP Signatures for signing portable activities.
Fedify automatically signs activities with the sender's private key if the actor keys dispatcher is set and the actor has any RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair. If there are multiple key pairs, Fedify selects the first RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair among them.
NOTE
Although HTTP Message Signatures support other than RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5, Fedify currently supports only RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures. This limitation will be lifted in the future releases.
ALT text detailsDouble-knocking HTTP Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
As you read above, there are two revisions of HTTP Signatures: the draft cavage version and the RFC 9421 version. The draft cavage version is declared as obsolete, but it is still widely used in the fediverse, and many ActivityPub implementations still rely on it. On the other hand, the RFC 9421 version is the official standard, but it is not widely used yet.
To support both versions of HTTP Signatures, Fedify uses the double-knocking mechanism: trying one version, then falling back to another if rejected. If it's the first encounter with the recipient server, Fedify tries the RFC 9421 version first, and if it fails, it falls back to the draft cavage version. If the recipient server accepts the RFC 9421 version, Fedify remembers it and uses the RFC 9421 version for the next time. If the recipient server rejects the RFC 9421 version, Fedify falls back to the draft cavage version and remembers it for the next time.
As mentioned in the Fedify announcement below, I've implemented RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures) and need to verify its interoperability with other ActivityPub implementations.
The challenge is that most major ActivityPub projects don't seem to have full RFC 9421 implementations in production yet. If you're working on an ActivityPub project that:
has implemented RFC 9421 (even in a development branch)
is currently implementing it
has plans to implement it soon
Please reach out! I'd love to collaborate on interoperability testing to ensure our implementations work properly with each other before merging this into #Fedify's main branch.
Any leads or connections would be greatly appreciated! 🙏
We're excited to announce that we've implemented RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures) in #Fedify, complete with our double-knocking mechanism to maintain backward compatibility with the draft cavage version.
This implementation includes both signature generation and verification, meaning #RFC9421 is used when both sending and receiving activities. While we haven't merged the RFC 9421 implementation branch yet, we're currently conducting interoperability tests with development versions of Mastodon and other #ActivityPub implementations. Once these tests confirm compatibility, we'll proceed with the merge.
As noted in the attached docs, although RFC 9421 is the final and official standard for HTTP Signatures, the draft cavage version remains widely used across the #fediverse. Our double-knocking mechanism ensures maximum compatibility by trying the RFC 9421 version first, then falling back to draft cavage if needed.
Currently, we support RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures, with plans to expand to other signature types in future releases.
We look forward to contributing to a more standardized and secure fediverse!
ALT text detailsHTTP Message Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
RFC 9421, also known as HTTP Message Signatures, is the final revision of the HTTP Signatures specification. Although it is the official standard, it is not widely used in the fediverse yet. As of May 2025, major ActivityPub implementations, such as Mastodon, et al., still rely on the draft cavage version of HTTP Signatures for signing portable activities.
Fedify automatically signs activities with the sender's private key if the actor keys dispatcher is set and the actor has any RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair. If there are multiple key pairs, Fedify selects the first RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair among them.
NOTE
Although HTTP Message Signatures support other than RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5, Fedify currently supports only RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures. This limitation will be lifted in the future releases.
ALT text detailsDouble-knocking HTTP Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
As you read above, there are two revisions of HTTP Signatures: the draft cavage version and the RFC 9421 version. The draft cavage version is declared as obsolete, but it is still widely used in the fediverse, and many ActivityPub implementations still rely on it. On the other hand, the RFC 9421 version is the official standard, but it is not widely used yet.
To support both versions of HTTP Signatures, Fedify uses the double-knocking mechanism: trying one version, then falling back to another if rejected. If it's the first encounter with the recipient server, Fedify tries the RFC 9421 version first, and if it fails, it falls back to the draft cavage version. If the recipient server accepts the RFC 9421 version, Fedify remembers it and uses the RFC 9421 version for the next time. If the recipient server rejects the RFC 9421 version, Fedify falls back to the draft cavage version and remembers it for the next time.
As mentioned in the Fedify announcement below, I've implemented RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures) and need to verify its interoperability with other ActivityPub implementations.
The challenge is that most major ActivityPub projects don't seem to have full RFC 9421 implementations in production yet. If you're working on an ActivityPub project that:
has implemented RFC 9421 (even in a development branch)
is currently implementing it
has plans to implement it soon
Please reach out! I'd love to collaborate on interoperability testing to ensure our implementations work properly with each other before merging this into #Fedify's main branch.
Any leads or connections would be greatly appreciated! 🙏
We're excited to announce that we've implemented RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures) in #Fedify, complete with our double-knocking mechanism to maintain backward compatibility with the draft cavage version.
This implementation includes both signature generation and verification, meaning #RFC9421 is used when both sending and receiving activities. While we haven't merged the RFC 9421 implementation branch yet, we're currently conducting interoperability tests with development versions of Mastodon and other #ActivityPub implementations. Once these tests confirm compatibility, we'll proceed with the merge.
As noted in the attached docs, although RFC 9421 is the final and official standard for HTTP Signatures, the draft cavage version remains widely used across the #fediverse. Our double-knocking mechanism ensures maximum compatibility by trying the RFC 9421 version first, then falling back to draft cavage if needed.
Currently, we support RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures, with plans to expand to other signature types in future releases.
We look forward to contributing to a more standardized and secure fediverse!
ALT text detailsHTTP Message Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
RFC 9421, also known as HTTP Message Signatures, is the final revision of the HTTP Signatures specification. Although it is the official standard, it is not widely used in the fediverse yet. As of May 2025, major ActivityPub implementations, such as Mastodon, et al., still rely on the draft cavage version of HTTP Signatures for signing portable activities.
Fedify automatically signs activities with the sender's private key if the actor keys dispatcher is set and the actor has any RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair. If there are multiple key pairs, Fedify selects the first RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair among them.
NOTE
Although HTTP Message Signatures support other than RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5, Fedify currently supports only RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures. This limitation will be lifted in the future releases.
ALT text detailsDouble-knocking HTTP Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
As you read above, there are two revisions of HTTP Signatures: the draft cavage version and the RFC 9421 version. The draft cavage version is declared as obsolete, but it is still widely used in the fediverse, and many ActivityPub implementations still rely on it. On the other hand, the RFC 9421 version is the official standard, but it is not widely used yet.
To support both versions of HTTP Signatures, Fedify uses the double-knocking mechanism: trying one version, then falling back to another if rejected. If it's the first encounter with the recipient server, Fedify tries the RFC 9421 version first, and if it fails, it falls back to the draft cavage version. If the recipient server accepts the RFC 9421 version, Fedify remembers it and uses the RFC 9421 version for the next time. If the recipient server rejects the RFC 9421 version, Fedify falls back to the draft cavage version and remembers it for the next time.
As mentioned in the Fedify announcement below, I've implemented RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures) and need to verify its interoperability with other ActivityPub implementations.
The challenge is that most major ActivityPub projects don't seem to have full RFC 9421 implementations in production yet. If you're working on an ActivityPub project that:
has implemented RFC 9421 (even in a development branch)
is currently implementing it
has plans to implement it soon
Please reach out! I'd love to collaborate on interoperability testing to ensure our implementations work properly with each other before merging this into #Fedify's main branch.
Any leads or connections would be greatly appreciated! 🙏
We're excited to announce that we've implemented RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures) in #Fedify, complete with our double-knocking mechanism to maintain backward compatibility with the draft cavage version.
This implementation includes both signature generation and verification, meaning #RFC9421 is used when both sending and receiving activities. While we haven't merged the RFC 9421 implementation branch yet, we're currently conducting interoperability tests with development versions of Mastodon and other #ActivityPub implementations. Once these tests confirm compatibility, we'll proceed with the merge.
As noted in the attached docs, although RFC 9421 is the final and official standard for HTTP Signatures, the draft cavage version remains widely used across the #fediverse. Our double-knocking mechanism ensures maximum compatibility by trying the RFC 9421 version first, then falling back to draft cavage if needed.
Currently, we support RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures, with plans to expand to other signature types in future releases.
We look forward to contributing to a more standardized and secure fediverse!
ALT text detailsHTTP Message Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
RFC 9421, also known as HTTP Message Signatures, is the final revision of the HTTP Signatures specification. Although it is the official standard, it is not widely used in the fediverse yet. As of May 2025, major ActivityPub implementations, such as Mastodon, et al., still rely on the draft cavage version of HTTP Signatures for signing portable activities.
Fedify automatically signs activities with the sender's private key if the actor keys dispatcher is set and the actor has any RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair. If there are multiple key pairs, Fedify selects the first RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair among them.
NOTE
Although HTTP Message Signatures support other than RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5, Fedify currently supports only RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures. This limitation will be lifted in the future releases.
ALT text detailsDouble-knocking HTTP Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
As you read above, there are two revisions of HTTP Signatures: the draft cavage version and the RFC 9421 version. The draft cavage version is declared as obsolete, but it is still widely used in the fediverse, and many ActivityPub implementations still rely on it. On the other hand, the RFC 9421 version is the official standard, but it is not widely used yet.
To support both versions of HTTP Signatures, Fedify uses the double-knocking mechanism: trying one version, then falling back to another if rejected. If it's the first encounter with the recipient server, Fedify tries the RFC 9421 version first, and if it fails, it falls back to the draft cavage version. If the recipient server accepts the RFC 9421 version, Fedify remembers it and uses the RFC 9421 version for the next time. If the recipient server rejects the RFC 9421 version, Fedify falls back to the draft cavage version and remembers it for the next time.
We're excited to announce that we've implemented RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures) in #Fedify, complete with our double-knocking mechanism to maintain backward compatibility with the draft cavage version.
This implementation includes both signature generation and verification, meaning #RFC9421 is used when both sending and receiving activities. While we haven't merged the RFC 9421 implementation branch yet, we're currently conducting interoperability tests with development versions of Mastodon and other #ActivityPub implementations. Once these tests confirm compatibility, we'll proceed with the merge.
As noted in the attached docs, although RFC 9421 is the final and official standard for HTTP Signatures, the draft cavage version remains widely used across the #fediverse. Our double-knocking mechanism ensures maximum compatibility by trying the RFC 9421 version first, then falling back to draft cavage if needed.
Currently, we support RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures, with plans to expand to other signature types in future releases.
We look forward to contributing to a more standardized and secure fediverse!
ALT text detailsHTTP Message Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
RFC 9421, also known as HTTP Message Signatures, is the final revision of the HTTP Signatures specification. Although it is the official standard, it is not widely used in the fediverse yet. As of May 2025, major ActivityPub implementations, such as Mastodon, et al., still rely on the draft cavage version of HTTP Signatures for signing portable activities.
Fedify automatically signs activities with the sender's private key if the actor keys dispatcher is set and the actor has any RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair. If there are multiple key pairs, Fedify selects the first RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair among them.
NOTE
Although HTTP Message Signatures support other than RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5, Fedify currently supports only RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures. This limitation will be lifted in the future releases.
ALT text detailsDouble-knocking HTTP Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
As you read above, there are two revisions of HTTP Signatures: the draft cavage version and the RFC 9421 version. The draft cavage version is declared as obsolete, but it is still widely used in the fediverse, and many ActivityPub implementations still rely on it. On the other hand, the RFC 9421 version is the official standard, but it is not widely used yet.
To support both versions of HTTP Signatures, Fedify uses the double-knocking mechanism: trying one version, then falling back to another if rejected. If it's the first encounter with the recipient server, Fedify tries the RFC 9421 version first, and if it fails, it falls back to the draft cavage version. If the recipient server accepts the RFC 9421 version, Fedify remembers it and uses the RFC 9421 version for the next time. If the recipient server rejects the RFC 9421 version, Fedify falls back to the draft cavage version and remembers it for the next time.
We're excited to announce that we've implemented RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures) in #Fedify, complete with our double-knocking mechanism to maintain backward compatibility with the draft cavage version.
This implementation includes both signature generation and verification, meaning #RFC9421 is used when both sending and receiving activities. While we haven't merged the RFC 9421 implementation branch yet, we're currently conducting interoperability tests with development versions of Mastodon and other #ActivityPub implementations. Once these tests confirm compatibility, we'll proceed with the merge.
As noted in the attached docs, although RFC 9421 is the final and official standard for HTTP Signatures, the draft cavage version remains widely used across the #fediverse. Our double-knocking mechanism ensures maximum compatibility by trying the RFC 9421 version first, then falling back to draft cavage if needed.
Currently, we support RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures, with plans to expand to other signature types in future releases.
We look forward to contributing to a more standardized and secure fediverse!
ALT text detailsHTTP Message Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
RFC 9421, also known as HTTP Message Signatures, is the final revision of the HTTP Signatures specification. Although it is the official standard, it is not widely used in the fediverse yet. As of May 2025, major ActivityPub implementations, such as Mastodon, et al., still rely on the draft cavage version of HTTP Signatures for signing portable activities.
Fedify automatically signs activities with the sender's private key if the actor keys dispatcher is set and the actor has any RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair. If there are multiple key pairs, Fedify selects the first RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair among them.
NOTE
Although HTTP Message Signatures support other than RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5, Fedify currently supports only RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures. This limitation will be lifted in the future releases.
ALT text detailsDouble-knocking HTTP Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
As you read above, there are two revisions of HTTP Signatures: the draft cavage version and the RFC 9421 version. The draft cavage version is declared as obsolete, but it is still widely used in the fediverse, and many ActivityPub implementations still rely on it. On the other hand, the RFC 9421 version is the official standard, but it is not widely used yet.
To support both versions of HTTP Signatures, Fedify uses the double-knocking mechanism: trying one version, then falling back to another if rejected. If it's the first encounter with the recipient server, Fedify tries the RFC 9421 version first, and if it fails, it falls back to the draft cavage version. If the recipient server accepts the RFC 9421 version, Fedify remembers it and uses the RFC 9421 version for the next time. If the recipient server rejects the RFC 9421 version, Fedify falls back to the draft cavage version and remembers it for the next time.
We're excited to announce that we've implemented RFC 9421 (HTTP Message Signatures) in #Fedify, complete with our double-knocking mechanism to maintain backward compatibility with the draft cavage version.
This implementation includes both signature generation and verification, meaning #RFC9421 is used when both sending and receiving activities. While we haven't merged the RFC 9421 implementation branch yet, we're currently conducting interoperability tests with development versions of Mastodon and other #ActivityPub implementations. Once these tests confirm compatibility, we'll proceed with the merge.
As noted in the attached docs, although RFC 9421 is the final and official standard for HTTP Signatures, the draft cavage version remains widely used across the #fediverse. Our double-knocking mechanism ensures maximum compatibility by trying the RFC 9421 version first, then falling back to draft cavage if needed.
Currently, we support RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures, with plans to expand to other signature types in future releases.
We look forward to contributing to a more standardized and secure fediverse!
ALT text detailsHTTP Message Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
RFC 9421, also known as HTTP Message Signatures, is the final revision of the HTTP Signatures specification. Although it is the official standard, it is not widely used in the fediverse yet. As of May 2025, major ActivityPub implementations, such as Mastodon, et al., still rely on the draft cavage version of HTTP Signatures for signing portable activities.
Fedify automatically signs activities with the sender's private key if the actor keys dispatcher is set and the actor has any RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair. If there are multiple key pairs, Fedify selects the first RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pair among them.
NOTE
Although HTTP Message Signatures support other than RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5, Fedify currently supports only RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5 key pairs for generating HTTP Message Signatures. This limitation will be lifted in the future releases.
ALT text detailsDouble-knocking HTTP Signatures
This API is available since Fedify 1.6.0.
As you read above, there are two revisions of HTTP Signatures: the draft cavage version and the RFC 9421 version. The draft cavage version is declared as obsolete, but it is still widely used in the fediverse, and many ActivityPub implementations still rely on it. On the other hand, the RFC 9421 version is the official standard, but it is not widely used yet.
To support both versions of HTTP Signatures, Fedify uses the double-knocking mechanism: trying one version, then falling back to another if rejected. If it's the first encounter with the recipient server, Fedify tries the RFC 9421 version first, and if it fails, it falls back to the draft cavage version. If the recipient server accepts the RFC 9421 version, Fedify remembers it and uses the RFC 9421 version for the next time. If the recipient server rejects the RFC 9421 version, Fedify falls back to the draft cavage version and remembers it for the next time.
We're pleased to announce that #Fedify has been included in the Nivenly Fediverse Security Fund program!
The @nivenly Foundation has launched a security bounty fund to support contributors who identify and help fix #security vulnerabilities in popular #fediverse software. Both Fedify and @hollo are among the selected projects that meet their responsible security disclosure requirements.
This program will run from April–September 2025, with bounties of $250–$500 USD for high and critical security vulnerabilities.
We're honored to be recognized alongside other established fediverse projects like Mastodon, Misskey, and Lemmy. This further encourages our commitment to maintaining strong security practices.
If you're interested in contributing to Fedify's security, please follow our responsible disclosure process outlined in our SECURITY.md file.
We're pleased to announce that #Fedify has been included in the Nivenly Fediverse Security Fund program!
The @nivenly Foundation has launched a security bounty fund to support contributors who identify and help fix #security vulnerabilities in popular #fediverse software. Both Fedify and @hollo are among the selected projects that meet their responsible security disclosure requirements.
This program will run from April–September 2025, with bounties of $250–$500 USD for high and critical security vulnerabilities.
We're honored to be recognized alongside other established fediverse projects like Mastodon, Misskey, and Lemmy. This further encourages our commitment to maintaining strong security practices.
If you're interested in contributing to Fedify's security, please follow our responsible disclosure process outlined in our SECURITY.md file.
We're pleased to announce that #Fedify has been included in the Nivenly Fediverse Security Fund program!
The @nivenly Foundation has launched a security bounty fund to support contributors who identify and help fix #security vulnerabilities in popular #fediverse software. Both Fedify and @hollo are among the selected projects that meet their responsible security disclosure requirements.
This program will run from April–September 2025, with bounties of $250–$500 USD for high and critical security vulnerabilities.
We're honored to be recognized alongside other established fediverse projects like Mastodon, Misskey, and Lemmy. This further encourages our commitment to maintaining strong security practices.
If you're interested in contributing to Fedify's security, please follow our responsible disclosure process outlined in our SECURITY.md file.
Hey folks! We're excited to share a preview of a new API coming in #Fedify 1.6 that should make structuring larger federated apps much cleaner: FederationBuilder.
As your Fedify applications grow, you might encounter circular dependency issues when registering dispatchers and listeners across multiple files. The new FederationBuilder pattern helps solve this by separating the configuration phase from instantiation.
Instead of this:
// federation.ts
import { createFederation } from "@fedify/fedify";
export const federation = createFederation<AppContext>({
kv: new DbKvStore(),
queue: new RedisMessageQueue(),
// Other options...
});
// Now we need to import this federation instance in other files
// to register dispatchers and listeners...
You can now do this:
// builder.ts
import { createFederationBuilder } from "@fedify/fedify";
export const builder = createFederationBuilder<AppContext>();
// other files can import and configure this builder...
// actors.ts
import { builder } from "./builder.ts";
import { Person } from "@fedify/fedify";
builder.setActorDispatcher("/users/{handle}", async (ctx, handle) => {
// Actor implementation
});
// main.ts — Only create the Federation instance at startup
import { builder } from "./builder.ts";
// Build the Federation object with actual dependencies
export const federation = await builder.build({
kv: new DbKvStore(),
queue: new RedisMessageQueue(),
// Other options...
});
This pattern helps avoid circular dependencies and makes your code more modular. Each part of your app can configure the builder without needing the actual Federation instance.
The full documentation will be available when 1.6 is released, but we wanted to share this early with our community. Looking forward to your feedback when it lands!
Want to try it right now? You can install the development version from JSR or npm:
Hey folks! We're excited to share a preview of a new API coming in #Fedify 1.6 that should make structuring larger federated apps much cleaner: FederationBuilder.
As your Fedify applications grow, you might encounter circular dependency issues when registering dispatchers and listeners across multiple files. The new FederationBuilder pattern helps solve this by separating the configuration phase from instantiation.
Instead of this:
// federation.ts
import { createFederation } from "@fedify/fedify";
export const federation = createFederation<AppContext>({
kv: new DbKvStore(),
queue: new RedisMessageQueue(),
// Other options...
});
// Now we need to import this federation instance in other files
// to register dispatchers and listeners...
You can now do this:
// builder.ts
import { createFederationBuilder } from "@fedify/fedify";
export const builder = createFederationBuilder<AppContext>();
// other files can import and configure this builder...
// actors.ts
import { builder } from "./builder.ts";
import { Person } from "@fedify/fedify";
builder.setActorDispatcher("/users/{handle}", async (ctx, handle) => {
// Actor implementation
});
// main.ts — Only create the Federation instance at startup
import { builder } from "./builder.ts";
// Build the Federation object with actual dependencies
export const federation = await builder.build({
kv: new DbKvStore(),
queue: new RedisMessageQueue(),
// Other options...
});
This pattern helps avoid circular dependencies and makes your code more modular. Each part of your app can configure the builder without needing the actual Federation instance.
The full documentation will be available when 1.6 is released, but we wanted to share this early with our community. Looking forward to your feedback when it lands!
Want to try it right now? You can install the development version from JSR or npm:
Hey folks! We're excited to share a preview of a new API coming in #Fedify 1.6 that should make structuring larger federated apps much cleaner: FederationBuilder.
As your Fedify applications grow, you might encounter circular dependency issues when registering dispatchers and listeners across multiple files. The new FederationBuilder pattern helps solve this by separating the configuration phase from instantiation.
Instead of this:
// federation.ts
import { createFederation } from "@fedify/fedify";
export const federation = createFederation<AppContext>({
kv: new DbKvStore(),
queue: new RedisMessageQueue(),
// Other options...
});
// Now we need to import this federation instance in other files
// to register dispatchers and listeners...
You can now do this:
// builder.ts
import { createFederationBuilder } from "@fedify/fedify";
export const builder = createFederationBuilder<AppContext>();
// other files can import and configure this builder...
// actors.ts
import { builder } from "./builder.ts";
import { Person } from "@fedify/fedify";
builder.setActorDispatcher("/users/{handle}", async (ctx, handle) => {
// Actor implementation
});
// main.ts — Only create the Federation instance at startup
import { builder } from "./builder.ts";
// Build the Federation object with actual dependencies
export const federation = await builder.build({
kv: new DbKvStore(),
queue: new RedisMessageQueue(),
// Other options...
});
This pattern helps avoid circular dependencies and makes your code more modular. Each part of your app can configure the builder without needing the actual Federation instance.
The full documentation will be available when 1.6 is released, but we wanted to share this early with our community. Looking forward to your feedback when it lands!
Want to try it right now? You can install the development version from JSR or npm:
Hey folks! We're excited to share a preview of a new API coming in #Fedify 1.6 that should make structuring larger federated apps much cleaner: FederationBuilder.
As your Fedify applications grow, you might encounter circular dependency issues when registering dispatchers and listeners across multiple files. The new FederationBuilder pattern helps solve this by separating the configuration phase from instantiation.
Instead of this:
// federation.ts
import { createFederation } from "@fedify/fedify";
export const federation = createFederation<AppContext>({
kv: new DbKvStore(),
queue: new RedisMessageQueue(),
// Other options...
});
// Now we need to import this federation instance in other files
// to register dispatchers and listeners...
You can now do this:
// builder.ts
import { createFederationBuilder } from "@fedify/fedify";
export const builder = createFederationBuilder<AppContext>();
// other files can import and configure this builder...
// actors.ts
import { builder } from "./builder.ts";
import { Person } from "@fedify/fedify";
builder.setActorDispatcher("/users/{handle}", async (ctx, handle) => {
// Actor implementation
});
// main.ts — Only create the Federation instance at startup
import { builder } from "./builder.ts";
// Build the Federation object with actual dependencies
export const federation = await builder.build({
kv: new DbKvStore(),
queue: new RedisMessageQueue(),
// Other options...
});
This pattern helps avoid circular dependencies and makes your code more modular. Each part of your app can configure the builder without needing the actual Federation instance.
The full documentation will be available when 1.6 is released, but we wanted to share this early with our community. Looking forward to your feedback when it lands!
Want to try it right now? You can install the development version from JSR or npm:
In case you weren't aware, #Fedify has both #Discord and #Matrix communities where you can get help, discuss features, or just chat about #ActivityPub and federated social networks.
In case you weren't aware, #Fedify has both #Discord and #Matrix communities where you can get help, discuss features, or just chat about #ActivityPub and federated social networks.
Don't build #ActivityPub from scratch! It's complex. See why using the #Fedify framework is the smarter way to develop for the fediverse in my new post:
So, you're captivated by the fediverse—the decentralized social web powered by protocols like ActivityPub. Maybe you're dreaming of building the next great federated app, a unique space connected to Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and more. The temptation to dive deep and implement ActivityPub yourself, from the ground up, is strong. Total control, right? Understanding every byte? Sounds cool!
But hold on a sec. Before you embark on that epic quest, let's talk reality. Implementing ActivityPub correctly isn't just one task; it's like juggling several complex standards while riding a unicycle… blindfolded. It’s hard.
That's where Fedify comes in. It's a TypeScript framework designed to handle the gnarliest parts of ActivityPub development, letting you focus on what makes your app special, not reinventing the federation wheel.
This post will break down the common headaches of DIY ActivityPub implementation and show how Fedify acts as the super-powered pain reliever, starting with the very foundation of how data is represented.
Challenge #1: Data Modeling—Speaking ActivityStreams & JSON-LD Fluently
At its core, ActivityPub relies on the ActivityStreams 2.0 vocabulary to describe actions and objects, and it uses JSON-LD as the syntax to encode this vocabulary. While powerful, this combination introduces significant complexity right from the start.
First, understanding and correctly using the vast ActivityStreams vocabulary itself is a hurdle. You need to model everything—posts (Note, Article), profiles (Person, Organization), actions (Create, Follow, Like, Announce)—using the precise terms and properties defined in the specification. Manual JSON construction is tedious and prone to errors.
Second, JSON-LD, the encoding layer, has specific rules that make direct JSON manipulation surprisingly tricky:
Missing vs. Empty Array: In JSON-LD, a property being absent is often semantically identical to it being present with an empty array. Your application logic needs to treat these cases equally when checking for values. For example, these two Note objects mean the same thing regarding the name property:
// No name property{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "Note", "content": "…"}
Single Value vs. Array: Similarly, a property holding a single value directly is often equivalent to it holding a single-element array containing that value. Your code must anticipate both representations for the same meaning, like for the content property here:
// Single value{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "Note", "content": "Hello"}
Object Reference vs. Embedded Object: Properties can contain either the full JSON-LD object embedded directly or just a URI string referencing that object. Your application needs to be prepared to fetch the object's data if only a URI is given (a process called dereferencing). These two Announce activities are semantically equivalent (assuming the URIs resolve correctly):
Attempting to manually handle all these vocabulary rules and JSON-LD variations consistently across your application inevitably leads to verbose, complex, and fragile code, ripe for subtle bugs that break federation.
Fedify tackles this entire data modeling challenge with its comprehensive, type-safe Activity Vocabulary API. It provides TypeScript classes for ActivityStreams types and common extensions, giving you autocompletion and compile-time safety. Crucially, these classes internally manage all the tricky JSON-LD nuances. Fedify's property accessors present a consistent interface—non-functional properties (like tags) always return arrays, functional properties (like content) always return single values or null. It handles object references versus embedded objects seamlessly through dereferencing accessors (like activity.getActor()) which automatically fetch remote objects via URI when needed—a feature known as property hydration. With Fedify, you work with a clean, predictable TypeScript API, letting the framework handle the messy details of AS vocabulary and JSON-LD encoding.
Challenge #2: Discovery & Identity—Finding Your Actors
Once you can model data, you need to make your actors discoverable. This primarily involves the WebFinger protocol (RFC 7033). You'd need to build a server endpoint at /.well-known/webfinger capable of parsing resource queries (like acct: URIs), validating the requested domain against your server, and responding with a precisely formatted JSON Resource Descriptor (JRD). This JRD must include specific links, like a self link pointing to the actor's ActivityPub ID using the correct media type. Getting any part of this wrong can make your actors invisible.
Fedify simplifies this significantly. It automatically handles WebFinger requests based on the actor information you provide through its setActorDispatcher() method. Fedify generates the correct JRD response. If you need more advanced control, like mapping user-facing handles to internal identifiers, you can easily register mapHandle() or mapAlias() callbacks. You focus on defining your actors; Fedify handles making them discoverable.
// Example: Define how to find actorsfederation.setActorDispatcher( "/users/{username}", async (ctx, username) => { /* ... */ });// Now GET /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected] just works!
Challenge #3: Core ActivityPub Mechanics—Handling Requests and Collections
Serving actor profiles requires careful content negotiation. A request for an actor's ID needs JSON-LD for machine clients (Accept: application/activity+json) but HTML for browsers (Accept: text/html). Handling incoming activities at the inbox endpoint involves validating POST requests, verifying cryptographic signatures, parsing the payload, preventing duplicates (idempotency), and routing based on activity type. Implementing collections (outbox, followers, etc.) with correct pagination adds another layer.
Fedify streamlines all of this. Its core request handler (via Federation.fetch() or framework adapters like @fedify/express) manages content negotiation. You define actors with setActorDispatcher() and web pages with your framework (Hono, Express, SvelteKit, etc.)—Fedify routes appropriately. For the inbox, setInboxListeners() lets you define handlers per activity type (e.g., .on(Follow, ...)), while Fedify automatically handles validation, signature verification, parsing, and idempotency checks using its KV Store. Collection implementation is simplified via dispatchers (e.g., setFollowersDispatcher()); you provide logic to fetch a page of data, and Fedify constructs the correct Collection or CollectionPage with pagination.
Sending an activity requires more than a simple POST. Networks fail, servers go down. You need robust failure handling and retry logic (ideally with backoff). Processing incoming activities synchronously can block your server. Efficiently broadcasting to many followers (fan-out) requires background processing and using shared inboxes where possible.
Fedify addresses reliability and scalability using its MessageQueue abstraction. When configured (highly recommended), Context.sendActivity() enqueues delivery tasks. Background workers handle sending with automatic retries based on configurable policies (like outboxRetryPolicy). Fedify supports various queue backends (Deno KV, Redis, PostgreSQL, AMQP). For high-traffic fan-out, Fedify uses an optimized two-stage mechanism to distribute the load efficiently.
// Configure Fedify with a persistent queue (e.g., Deno KV)const federation = createFederation({ queue: new DenoKvMessageQueue(/* ... */), // ...});// Sending is now reliable and non-blockingawait ctx.sendActivity({ handle: "myUser" }, recipient, someActivity);
Fedify is designed with security in mind. It automatically handles the creation and verification of HTTP Signatures, LDS, and OIP, provided you supply keys via setKeyPairsDispatcher. It includes key management utilities. Crucially, Fedify's default document loader includes built-in SSRF protection, blocking requests to private IPs unless explicitly allowed.
Challenge #6: Interoperability & Maintenance—Playing Nicely with Others
The fediverse is diverse. Different servers have quirks. Ensuring compatibility requires testing and adaptation. Standards evolve with new Federation Enhancement Proposals (FEPs). You also need protocols like NodeInfo to advertise server capabilities.
Fedify aims for broad interoperability and is actively maintained. It includes features like ActivityTransformers to smooth over implementation differences. NodeInfo support is built-in via setNodeInfoDispatcher.
Challenge #7: Developer Experience—Actually Building Your App
Beyond the protocol, building any server involves setup, testing, and debugging. With federation, debugging becomes harder—was the message malformed? Was the signature wrong? Is the remote server down? Is it a compatibility quirk? Good tooling is essential.
Fedify enhances the developer experience significantly. Being built with TypeScript, it offers excellent type safety and editor auto-completion. The fedify CLI is a powerful companion designed to streamline common development tasks.
You can quickly scaffold a new project tailored to your chosen runtime and web framework using fedify init.
For debugging interactions and verifying data, fedify lookup is invaluable. It lets you inspect how any remote actor or object appears from the outside by performing WebFinger discovery and fetching the object's data. Fedify then displays the parsed object structure and properties directly in your terminal. For example, running:
Will first show progress messages and then output the structured representation of the actor, similar to this:
// Output of fedify lookup command (shows parsed object structure)Person { id: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/users/fedify-example", name: "Fedify Example Blog", published: 2024-03-03T13:18:11.857Z, // Simplified timestamp summary: "This blog is powered by Fedify, a fediverse server framework.", url: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/", preferredUsername: "fedify-example", publicKey: CryptographicKey { id: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/users/fedify-example#main-key", owner: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/users/fedify-example", publicKey: CryptoKey { /* ... CryptoKey details ... */ } }, // ... other properties like inbox, outbox, followers, endpoints ...}
This allows you to easily check how data is structured or troubleshoot why an interaction might be failing by seeing the actual properties Fedify parsed.
Testing outgoing activities from your application during development is made much easier with fedify inbox. Running the command starts a temporary local server that acts as a publicly accessible inbox, displaying key information about the temporary actor it creates for receiving messages:
$ fedify inbox✔ The ephemeral ActivityPub server is up and running: https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/✔ Sent follow request to @<some_test_account>@activitypub.academy.╭───────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────╮│ Actor handle: │ i@<unique_id>.lhr.life │├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤│ Actor URI: │ https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/i │├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤│ Actor inbox: │ https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/i/inbox │├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤│ Shared inbox: │ https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/inbox │╰───────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────╯Web interface available at: http://localhost:8000/
You then configure your developing application to send an activity to the Actor inbox or Shared inbox URI provided. When an activity arrives, fedify inboxonly prints a summary table to your console indicating that a request was received:
Crucially, the detailed information about the received request—including the full headers (like Signature), the request body (the Activity JSON), and the signature verification status—is only available in the web interface provided by fedify inbox. This web UI allows you to thoroughly inspect incoming activities during development.
The Fedify Inbox web UI is where you view detailed activity information.
When you need to test interactions with the live fediverse from your local machine beyond just sending, fedify tunnel can securely expose your entire local development server temporarily. This suite of tools significantly eases the process of building and debugging federated applications.
Conclusion: Build Features, Not Plumbing
Implementing the ActivityPub suite of protocols from scratch is an incredibly complex and time-consuming undertaking. It involves deep dives into multiple technical specifications, cryptographic signing, security hardening, and navigating the nuances of a diverse ecosystem. While educational, it dramatically slows down the process of building the actual, unique features of your federated application.
Fedify offers a well-architected, secure, and type-safe foundation, handling the intricacies of federation for you—data modeling, discovery, core mechanics, delivery, security, and interoperability. It lets you focus on your application's unique value and user experience. Stop wrestling with low-level protocol details and start building your vision for the fediverse faster and more reliably. Give Fedify a try!
Getting started is straightforward. First, install the Fedify CLI using your preferred method. Once installed, create a new project template by running fedify init your-project-name.
Don't build #ActivityPub from scratch! It's complex. See why using the #Fedify framework is the smarter way to develop for the fediverse in my new post:
So, you're captivated by the fediverse—the decentralized social web powered by protocols like ActivityPub. Maybe you're dreaming of building the next great federated app, a unique space connected to Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and more. The temptation to dive deep and implement ActivityPub yourself, from the ground up, is strong. Total control, right? Understanding every byte? Sounds cool!
But hold on a sec. Before you embark on that epic quest, let's talk reality. Implementing ActivityPub correctly isn't just one task; it's like juggling several complex standards while riding a unicycle… blindfolded. It’s hard.
That's where Fedify comes in. It's a TypeScript framework designed to handle the gnarliest parts of ActivityPub development, letting you focus on what makes your app special, not reinventing the federation wheel.
This post will break down the common headaches of DIY ActivityPub implementation and show how Fedify acts as the super-powered pain reliever, starting with the very foundation of how data is represented.
Challenge #1: Data Modeling—Speaking ActivityStreams & JSON-LD Fluently
At its core, ActivityPub relies on the ActivityStreams 2.0 vocabulary to describe actions and objects, and it uses JSON-LD as the syntax to encode this vocabulary. While powerful, this combination introduces significant complexity right from the start.
First, understanding and correctly using the vast ActivityStreams vocabulary itself is a hurdle. You need to model everything—posts (Note, Article), profiles (Person, Organization), actions (Create, Follow, Like, Announce)—using the precise terms and properties defined in the specification. Manual JSON construction is tedious and prone to errors.
Second, JSON-LD, the encoding layer, has specific rules that make direct JSON manipulation surprisingly tricky:
Missing vs. Empty Array: In JSON-LD, a property being absent is often semantically identical to it being present with an empty array. Your application logic needs to treat these cases equally when checking for values. For example, these two Note objects mean the same thing regarding the name property:
// No name property{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "Note", "content": "…"}
Single Value vs. Array: Similarly, a property holding a single value directly is often equivalent to it holding a single-element array containing that value. Your code must anticipate both representations for the same meaning, like for the content property here:
// Single value{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "Note", "content": "Hello"}
Object Reference vs. Embedded Object: Properties can contain either the full JSON-LD object embedded directly or just a URI string referencing that object. Your application needs to be prepared to fetch the object's data if only a URI is given (a process called dereferencing). These two Announce activities are semantically equivalent (assuming the URIs resolve correctly):
Attempting to manually handle all these vocabulary rules and JSON-LD variations consistently across your application inevitably leads to verbose, complex, and fragile code, ripe for subtle bugs that break federation.
Fedify tackles this entire data modeling challenge with its comprehensive, type-safe Activity Vocabulary API. It provides TypeScript classes for ActivityStreams types and common extensions, giving you autocompletion and compile-time safety. Crucially, these classes internally manage all the tricky JSON-LD nuances. Fedify's property accessors present a consistent interface—non-functional properties (like tags) always return arrays, functional properties (like content) always return single values or null. It handles object references versus embedded objects seamlessly through dereferencing accessors (like activity.getActor()) which automatically fetch remote objects via URI when needed—a feature known as property hydration. With Fedify, you work with a clean, predictable TypeScript API, letting the framework handle the messy details of AS vocabulary and JSON-LD encoding.
Challenge #2: Discovery & Identity—Finding Your Actors
Once you can model data, you need to make your actors discoverable. This primarily involves the WebFinger protocol (RFC 7033). You'd need to build a server endpoint at /.well-known/webfinger capable of parsing resource queries (like acct: URIs), validating the requested domain against your server, and responding with a precisely formatted JSON Resource Descriptor (JRD). This JRD must include specific links, like a self link pointing to the actor's ActivityPub ID using the correct media type. Getting any part of this wrong can make your actors invisible.
Fedify simplifies this significantly. It automatically handles WebFinger requests based on the actor information you provide through its setActorDispatcher() method. Fedify generates the correct JRD response. If you need more advanced control, like mapping user-facing handles to internal identifiers, you can easily register mapHandle() or mapAlias() callbacks. You focus on defining your actors; Fedify handles making them discoverable.
// Example: Define how to find actorsfederation.setActorDispatcher( "/users/{username}", async (ctx, username) => { /* ... */ });// Now GET /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected] just works!
Challenge #3: Core ActivityPub Mechanics—Handling Requests and Collections
Serving actor profiles requires careful content negotiation. A request for an actor's ID needs JSON-LD for machine clients (Accept: application/activity+json) but HTML for browsers (Accept: text/html). Handling incoming activities at the inbox endpoint involves validating POST requests, verifying cryptographic signatures, parsing the payload, preventing duplicates (idempotency), and routing based on activity type. Implementing collections (outbox, followers, etc.) with correct pagination adds another layer.
Fedify streamlines all of this. Its core request handler (via Federation.fetch() or framework adapters like @fedify/express) manages content negotiation. You define actors with setActorDispatcher() and web pages with your framework (Hono, Express, SvelteKit, etc.)—Fedify routes appropriately. For the inbox, setInboxListeners() lets you define handlers per activity type (e.g., .on(Follow, ...)), while Fedify automatically handles validation, signature verification, parsing, and idempotency checks using its KV Store. Collection implementation is simplified via dispatchers (e.g., setFollowersDispatcher()); you provide logic to fetch a page of data, and Fedify constructs the correct Collection or CollectionPage with pagination.
Sending an activity requires more than a simple POST. Networks fail, servers go down. You need robust failure handling and retry logic (ideally with backoff). Processing incoming activities synchronously can block your server. Efficiently broadcasting to many followers (fan-out) requires background processing and using shared inboxes where possible.
Fedify addresses reliability and scalability using its MessageQueue abstraction. When configured (highly recommended), Context.sendActivity() enqueues delivery tasks. Background workers handle sending with automatic retries based on configurable policies (like outboxRetryPolicy). Fedify supports various queue backends (Deno KV, Redis, PostgreSQL, AMQP). For high-traffic fan-out, Fedify uses an optimized two-stage mechanism to distribute the load efficiently.
// Configure Fedify with a persistent queue (e.g., Deno KV)const federation = createFederation({ queue: new DenoKvMessageQueue(/* ... */), // ...});// Sending is now reliable and non-blockingawait ctx.sendActivity({ handle: "myUser" }, recipient, someActivity);
Fedify is designed with security in mind. It automatically handles the creation and verification of HTTP Signatures, LDS, and OIP, provided you supply keys via setKeyPairsDispatcher. It includes key management utilities. Crucially, Fedify's default document loader includes built-in SSRF protection, blocking requests to private IPs unless explicitly allowed.
Challenge #6: Interoperability & Maintenance—Playing Nicely with Others
The fediverse is diverse. Different servers have quirks. Ensuring compatibility requires testing and adaptation. Standards evolve with new Federation Enhancement Proposals (FEPs). You also need protocols like NodeInfo to advertise server capabilities.
Fedify aims for broad interoperability and is actively maintained. It includes features like ActivityTransformers to smooth over implementation differences. NodeInfo support is built-in via setNodeInfoDispatcher.
Challenge #7: Developer Experience—Actually Building Your App
Beyond the protocol, building any server involves setup, testing, and debugging. With federation, debugging becomes harder—was the message malformed? Was the signature wrong? Is the remote server down? Is it a compatibility quirk? Good tooling is essential.
Fedify enhances the developer experience significantly. Being built with TypeScript, it offers excellent type safety and editor auto-completion. The fedify CLI is a powerful companion designed to streamline common development tasks.
You can quickly scaffold a new project tailored to your chosen runtime and web framework using fedify init.
For debugging interactions and verifying data, fedify lookup is invaluable. It lets you inspect how any remote actor or object appears from the outside by performing WebFinger discovery and fetching the object's data. Fedify then displays the parsed object structure and properties directly in your terminal. For example, running:
Will first show progress messages and then output the structured representation of the actor, similar to this:
// Output of fedify lookup command (shows parsed object structure)Person { id: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/users/fedify-example", name: "Fedify Example Blog", published: 2024-03-03T13:18:11.857Z, // Simplified timestamp summary: "This blog is powered by Fedify, a fediverse server framework.", url: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/", preferredUsername: "fedify-example", publicKey: CryptographicKey { id: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/users/fedify-example#main-key", owner: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/users/fedify-example", publicKey: CryptoKey { /* ... CryptoKey details ... */ } }, // ... other properties like inbox, outbox, followers, endpoints ...}
This allows you to easily check how data is structured or troubleshoot why an interaction might be failing by seeing the actual properties Fedify parsed.
Testing outgoing activities from your application during development is made much easier with fedify inbox. Running the command starts a temporary local server that acts as a publicly accessible inbox, displaying key information about the temporary actor it creates for receiving messages:
$ fedify inbox✔ The ephemeral ActivityPub server is up and running: https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/✔ Sent follow request to @<some_test_account>@activitypub.academy.╭───────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────╮│ Actor handle: │ i@<unique_id>.lhr.life │├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤│ Actor URI: │ https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/i │├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤│ Actor inbox: │ https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/i/inbox │├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤│ Shared inbox: │ https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/inbox │╰───────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────╯Web interface available at: http://localhost:8000/
You then configure your developing application to send an activity to the Actor inbox or Shared inbox URI provided. When an activity arrives, fedify inboxonly prints a summary table to your console indicating that a request was received:
Crucially, the detailed information about the received request—including the full headers (like Signature), the request body (the Activity JSON), and the signature verification status—is only available in the web interface provided by fedify inbox. This web UI allows you to thoroughly inspect incoming activities during development.
The Fedify Inbox web UI is where you view detailed activity information.
When you need to test interactions with the live fediverse from your local machine beyond just sending, fedify tunnel can securely expose your entire local development server temporarily. This suite of tools significantly eases the process of building and debugging federated applications.
Conclusion: Build Features, Not Plumbing
Implementing the ActivityPub suite of protocols from scratch is an incredibly complex and time-consuming undertaking. It involves deep dives into multiple technical specifications, cryptographic signing, security hardening, and navigating the nuances of a diverse ecosystem. While educational, it dramatically slows down the process of building the actual, unique features of your federated application.
Fedify offers a well-architected, secure, and type-safe foundation, handling the intricacies of federation for you—data modeling, discovery, core mechanics, delivery, security, and interoperability. It lets you focus on your application's unique value and user experience. Stop wrestling with low-level protocol details and start building your vision for the fediverse faster and more reliably. Give Fedify a try!
Getting started is straightforward. First, install the Fedify CLI using your preferred method. Once installed, create a new project template by running fedify init your-project-name.
Don't build #ActivityPub from scratch! It's complex. See why using the #Fedify framework is the smarter way to develop for the fediverse in my new post:
So, you're captivated by the fediverse—the decentralized social web powered by protocols like ActivityPub. Maybe you're dreaming of building the next great federated app, a unique space connected to Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and more. The temptation to dive deep and implement ActivityPub yourself, from the ground up, is strong. Total control, right? Understanding every byte? Sounds cool!
But hold on a sec. Before you embark on that epic quest, let's talk reality. Implementing ActivityPub correctly isn't just one task; it's like juggling several complex standards while riding a unicycle… blindfolded. It’s hard.
That's where Fedify comes in. It's a TypeScript framework designed to handle the gnarliest parts of ActivityPub development, letting you focus on what makes your app special, not reinventing the federation wheel.
This post will break down the common headaches of DIY ActivityPub implementation and show how Fedify acts as the super-powered pain reliever, starting with the very foundation of how data is represented.
Challenge #1: Data Modeling—Speaking ActivityStreams & JSON-LD Fluently
At its core, ActivityPub relies on the ActivityStreams 2.0 vocabulary to describe actions and objects, and it uses JSON-LD as the syntax to encode this vocabulary. While powerful, this combination introduces significant complexity right from the start.
First, understanding and correctly using the vast ActivityStreams vocabulary itself is a hurdle. You need to model everything—posts (Note, Article), profiles (Person, Organization), actions (Create, Follow, Like, Announce)—using the precise terms and properties defined in the specification. Manual JSON construction is tedious and prone to errors.
Second, JSON-LD, the encoding layer, has specific rules that make direct JSON manipulation surprisingly tricky:
Missing vs. Empty Array: In JSON-LD, a property being absent is often semantically identical to it being present with an empty array. Your application logic needs to treat these cases equally when checking for values. For example, these two Note objects mean the same thing regarding the name property:
// No name property{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "Note", "content": "…"}
Single Value vs. Array: Similarly, a property holding a single value directly is often equivalent to it holding a single-element array containing that value. Your code must anticipate both representations for the same meaning, like for the content property here:
// Single value{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "Note", "content": "Hello"}
Object Reference vs. Embedded Object: Properties can contain either the full JSON-LD object embedded directly or just a URI string referencing that object. Your application needs to be prepared to fetch the object's data if only a URI is given (a process called dereferencing). These two Announce activities are semantically equivalent (assuming the URIs resolve correctly):
Attempting to manually handle all these vocabulary rules and JSON-LD variations consistently across your application inevitably leads to verbose, complex, and fragile code, ripe for subtle bugs that break federation.
Fedify tackles this entire data modeling challenge with its comprehensive, type-safe Activity Vocabulary API. It provides TypeScript classes for ActivityStreams types and common extensions, giving you autocompletion and compile-time safety. Crucially, these classes internally manage all the tricky JSON-LD nuances. Fedify's property accessors present a consistent interface—non-functional properties (like tags) always return arrays, functional properties (like content) always return single values or null. It handles object references versus embedded objects seamlessly through dereferencing accessors (like activity.getActor()) which automatically fetch remote objects via URI when needed—a feature known as property hydration. With Fedify, you work with a clean, predictable TypeScript API, letting the framework handle the messy details of AS vocabulary and JSON-LD encoding.
Challenge #2: Discovery & Identity—Finding Your Actors
Once you can model data, you need to make your actors discoverable. This primarily involves the WebFinger protocol (RFC 7033). You'd need to build a server endpoint at /.well-known/webfinger capable of parsing resource queries (like acct: URIs), validating the requested domain against your server, and responding with a precisely formatted JSON Resource Descriptor (JRD). This JRD must include specific links, like a self link pointing to the actor's ActivityPub ID using the correct media type. Getting any part of this wrong can make your actors invisible.
Fedify simplifies this significantly. It automatically handles WebFinger requests based on the actor information you provide through its setActorDispatcher() method. Fedify generates the correct JRD response. If you need more advanced control, like mapping user-facing handles to internal identifiers, you can easily register mapHandle() or mapAlias() callbacks. You focus on defining your actors; Fedify handles making them discoverable.
// Example: Define how to find actorsfederation.setActorDispatcher( "/users/{username}", async (ctx, username) => { /* ... */ });// Now GET /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected] just works!
Challenge #3: Core ActivityPub Mechanics—Handling Requests and Collections
Serving actor profiles requires careful content negotiation. A request for an actor's ID needs JSON-LD for machine clients (Accept: application/activity+json) but HTML for browsers (Accept: text/html). Handling incoming activities at the inbox endpoint involves validating POST requests, verifying cryptographic signatures, parsing the payload, preventing duplicates (idempotency), and routing based on activity type. Implementing collections (outbox, followers, etc.) with correct pagination adds another layer.
Fedify streamlines all of this. Its core request handler (via Federation.fetch() or framework adapters like @fedify/express) manages content negotiation. You define actors with setActorDispatcher() and web pages with your framework (Hono, Express, SvelteKit, etc.)—Fedify routes appropriately. For the inbox, setInboxListeners() lets you define handlers per activity type (e.g., .on(Follow, ...)), while Fedify automatically handles validation, signature verification, parsing, and idempotency checks using its KV Store. Collection implementation is simplified via dispatchers (e.g., setFollowersDispatcher()); you provide logic to fetch a page of data, and Fedify constructs the correct Collection or CollectionPage with pagination.
Sending an activity requires more than a simple POST. Networks fail, servers go down. You need robust failure handling and retry logic (ideally with backoff). Processing incoming activities synchronously can block your server. Efficiently broadcasting to many followers (fan-out) requires background processing and using shared inboxes where possible.
Fedify addresses reliability and scalability using its MessageQueue abstraction. When configured (highly recommended), Context.sendActivity() enqueues delivery tasks. Background workers handle sending with automatic retries based on configurable policies (like outboxRetryPolicy). Fedify supports various queue backends (Deno KV, Redis, PostgreSQL, AMQP). For high-traffic fan-out, Fedify uses an optimized two-stage mechanism to distribute the load efficiently.
// Configure Fedify with a persistent queue (e.g., Deno KV)const federation = createFederation({ queue: new DenoKvMessageQueue(/* ... */), // ...});// Sending is now reliable and non-blockingawait ctx.sendActivity({ handle: "myUser" }, recipient, someActivity);
Fedify is designed with security in mind. It automatically handles the creation and verification of HTTP Signatures, LDS, and OIP, provided you supply keys via setKeyPairsDispatcher. It includes key management utilities. Crucially, Fedify's default document loader includes built-in SSRF protection, blocking requests to private IPs unless explicitly allowed.
Challenge #6: Interoperability & Maintenance—Playing Nicely with Others
The fediverse is diverse. Different servers have quirks. Ensuring compatibility requires testing and adaptation. Standards evolve with new Federation Enhancement Proposals (FEPs). You also need protocols like NodeInfo to advertise server capabilities.
Fedify aims for broad interoperability and is actively maintained. It includes features like ActivityTransformers to smooth over implementation differences. NodeInfo support is built-in via setNodeInfoDispatcher.
Challenge #7: Developer Experience—Actually Building Your App
Beyond the protocol, building any server involves setup, testing, and debugging. With federation, debugging becomes harder—was the message malformed? Was the signature wrong? Is the remote server down? Is it a compatibility quirk? Good tooling is essential.
Fedify enhances the developer experience significantly. Being built with TypeScript, it offers excellent type safety and editor auto-completion. The fedify CLI is a powerful companion designed to streamline common development tasks.
You can quickly scaffold a new project tailored to your chosen runtime and web framework using fedify init.
For debugging interactions and verifying data, fedify lookup is invaluable. It lets you inspect how any remote actor or object appears from the outside by performing WebFinger discovery and fetching the object's data. Fedify then displays the parsed object structure and properties directly in your terminal. For example, running:
Will first show progress messages and then output the structured representation of the actor, similar to this:
// Output of fedify lookup command (shows parsed object structure)Person { id: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/users/fedify-example", name: "Fedify Example Blog", published: 2024-03-03T13:18:11.857Z, // Simplified timestamp summary: "This blog is powered by Fedify, a fediverse server framework.", url: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/", preferredUsername: "fedify-example", publicKey: CryptographicKey { id: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/users/fedify-example#main-key", owner: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/users/fedify-example", publicKey: CryptoKey { /* ... CryptoKey details ... */ } }, // ... other properties like inbox, outbox, followers, endpoints ...}
This allows you to easily check how data is structured or troubleshoot why an interaction might be failing by seeing the actual properties Fedify parsed.
Testing outgoing activities from your application during development is made much easier with fedify inbox. Running the command starts a temporary local server that acts as a publicly accessible inbox, displaying key information about the temporary actor it creates for receiving messages:
$ fedify inbox✔ The ephemeral ActivityPub server is up and running: https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/✔ Sent follow request to @<some_test_account>@activitypub.academy.╭───────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────╮│ Actor handle: │ i@<unique_id>.lhr.life │├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤│ Actor URI: │ https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/i │├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤│ Actor inbox: │ https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/i/inbox │├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤│ Shared inbox: │ https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/inbox │╰───────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────╯Web interface available at: http://localhost:8000/
You then configure your developing application to send an activity to the Actor inbox or Shared inbox URI provided. When an activity arrives, fedify inboxonly prints a summary table to your console indicating that a request was received:
Crucially, the detailed information about the received request—including the full headers (like Signature), the request body (the Activity JSON), and the signature verification status—is only available in the web interface provided by fedify inbox. This web UI allows you to thoroughly inspect incoming activities during development.
The Fedify Inbox web UI is where you view detailed activity information.
When you need to test interactions with the live fediverse from your local machine beyond just sending, fedify tunnel can securely expose your entire local development server temporarily. This suite of tools significantly eases the process of building and debugging federated applications.
Conclusion: Build Features, Not Plumbing
Implementing the ActivityPub suite of protocols from scratch is an incredibly complex and time-consuming undertaking. It involves deep dives into multiple technical specifications, cryptographic signing, security hardening, and navigating the nuances of a diverse ecosystem. While educational, it dramatically slows down the process of building the actual, unique features of your federated application.
Fedify offers a well-architected, secure, and type-safe foundation, handling the intricacies of federation for you—data modeling, discovery, core mechanics, delivery, security, and interoperability. It lets you focus on your application's unique value and user experience. Stop wrestling with low-level protocol details and start building your vision for the fediverse faster and more reliably. Give Fedify a try!
Getting started is straightforward. First, install the Fedify CLI using your preferred method. Once installed, create a new project template by running fedify init your-project-name.
Don't build #ActivityPub from scratch! It's complex. See why using the #Fedify framework is the smarter way to develop for the fediverse in my new post:
So, you're captivated by the fediverse—the decentralized social web powered by protocols like ActivityPub. Maybe you're dreaming of building the next great federated app, a unique space connected to Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and more. The temptation to dive deep and implement ActivityPub yourself, from the ground up, is strong. Total control, right? Understanding every byte? Sounds cool!
But hold on a sec. Before you embark on that epic quest, let's talk reality. Implementing ActivityPub correctly isn't just one task; it's like juggling several complex standards while riding a unicycle… blindfolded. It’s hard.
That's where Fedify comes in. It's a TypeScript framework designed to handle the gnarliest parts of ActivityPub development, letting you focus on what makes your app special, not reinventing the federation wheel.
This post will break down the common headaches of DIY ActivityPub implementation and show how Fedify acts as the super-powered pain reliever, starting with the very foundation of how data is represented.
Challenge #1: Data Modeling—Speaking ActivityStreams & JSON-LD Fluently
At its core, ActivityPub relies on the ActivityStreams 2.0 vocabulary to describe actions and objects, and it uses JSON-LD as the syntax to encode this vocabulary. While powerful, this combination introduces significant complexity right from the start.
First, understanding and correctly using the vast ActivityStreams vocabulary itself is a hurdle. You need to model everything—posts (Note, Article), profiles (Person, Organization), actions (Create, Follow, Like, Announce)—using the precise terms and properties defined in the specification. Manual JSON construction is tedious and prone to errors.
Second, JSON-LD, the encoding layer, has specific rules that make direct JSON manipulation surprisingly tricky:
Missing vs. Empty Array: In JSON-LD, a property being absent is often semantically identical to it being present with an empty array. Your application logic needs to treat these cases equally when checking for values. For example, these two Note objects mean the same thing regarding the name property:
// No name property{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "Note", "content": "…"}
Single Value vs. Array: Similarly, a property holding a single value directly is often equivalent to it holding a single-element array containing that value. Your code must anticipate both representations for the same meaning, like for the content property here:
// Single value{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "Note", "content": "Hello"}
Object Reference vs. Embedded Object: Properties can contain either the full JSON-LD object embedded directly or just a URI string referencing that object. Your application needs to be prepared to fetch the object's data if only a URI is given (a process called dereferencing). These two Announce activities are semantically equivalent (assuming the URIs resolve correctly):
Attempting to manually handle all these vocabulary rules and JSON-LD variations consistently across your application inevitably leads to verbose, complex, and fragile code, ripe for subtle bugs that break federation.
Fedify tackles this entire data modeling challenge with its comprehensive, type-safe Activity Vocabulary API. It provides TypeScript classes for ActivityStreams types and common extensions, giving you autocompletion and compile-time safety. Crucially, these classes internally manage all the tricky JSON-LD nuances. Fedify's property accessors present a consistent interface—non-functional properties (like tags) always return arrays, functional properties (like content) always return single values or null. It handles object references versus embedded objects seamlessly through dereferencing accessors (like activity.getActor()) which automatically fetch remote objects via URI when needed—a feature known as property hydration. With Fedify, you work with a clean, predictable TypeScript API, letting the framework handle the messy details of AS vocabulary and JSON-LD encoding.
Challenge #2: Discovery & Identity—Finding Your Actors
Once you can model data, you need to make your actors discoverable. This primarily involves the WebFinger protocol (RFC 7033). You'd need to build a server endpoint at /.well-known/webfinger capable of parsing resource queries (like acct: URIs), validating the requested domain against your server, and responding with a precisely formatted JSON Resource Descriptor (JRD). This JRD must include specific links, like a self link pointing to the actor's ActivityPub ID using the correct media type. Getting any part of this wrong can make your actors invisible.
Fedify simplifies this significantly. It automatically handles WebFinger requests based on the actor information you provide through its setActorDispatcher() method. Fedify generates the correct JRD response. If you need more advanced control, like mapping user-facing handles to internal identifiers, you can easily register mapHandle() or mapAlias() callbacks. You focus on defining your actors; Fedify handles making them discoverable.
// Example: Define how to find actorsfederation.setActorDispatcher( "/users/{username}", async (ctx, username) => { /* ... */ });// Now GET /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected] just works!
Challenge #3: Core ActivityPub Mechanics—Handling Requests and Collections
Serving actor profiles requires careful content negotiation. A request for an actor's ID needs JSON-LD for machine clients (Accept: application/activity+json) but HTML for browsers (Accept: text/html). Handling incoming activities at the inbox endpoint involves validating POST requests, verifying cryptographic signatures, parsing the payload, preventing duplicates (idempotency), and routing based on activity type. Implementing collections (outbox, followers, etc.) with correct pagination adds another layer.
Fedify streamlines all of this. Its core request handler (via Federation.fetch() or framework adapters like @fedify/express) manages content negotiation. You define actors with setActorDispatcher() and web pages with your framework (Hono, Express, SvelteKit, etc.)—Fedify routes appropriately. For the inbox, setInboxListeners() lets you define handlers per activity type (e.g., .on(Follow, ...)), while Fedify automatically handles validation, signature verification, parsing, and idempotency checks using its KV Store. Collection implementation is simplified via dispatchers (e.g., setFollowersDispatcher()); you provide logic to fetch a page of data, and Fedify constructs the correct Collection or CollectionPage with pagination.
Sending an activity requires more than a simple POST. Networks fail, servers go down. You need robust failure handling and retry logic (ideally with backoff). Processing incoming activities synchronously can block your server. Efficiently broadcasting to many followers (fan-out) requires background processing and using shared inboxes where possible.
Fedify addresses reliability and scalability using its MessageQueue abstraction. When configured (highly recommended), Context.sendActivity() enqueues delivery tasks. Background workers handle sending with automatic retries based on configurable policies (like outboxRetryPolicy). Fedify supports various queue backends (Deno KV, Redis, PostgreSQL, AMQP). For high-traffic fan-out, Fedify uses an optimized two-stage mechanism to distribute the load efficiently.
// Configure Fedify with a persistent queue (e.g., Deno KV)const federation = createFederation({ queue: new DenoKvMessageQueue(/* ... */), // ...});// Sending is now reliable and non-blockingawait ctx.sendActivity({ handle: "myUser" }, recipient, someActivity);
Fedify is designed with security in mind. It automatically handles the creation and verification of HTTP Signatures, LDS, and OIP, provided you supply keys via setKeyPairsDispatcher. It includes key management utilities. Crucially, Fedify's default document loader includes built-in SSRF protection, blocking requests to private IPs unless explicitly allowed.
Challenge #6: Interoperability & Maintenance—Playing Nicely with Others
The fediverse is diverse. Different servers have quirks. Ensuring compatibility requires testing and adaptation. Standards evolve with new Federation Enhancement Proposals (FEPs). You also need protocols like NodeInfo to advertise server capabilities.
Fedify aims for broad interoperability and is actively maintained. It includes features like ActivityTransformers to smooth over implementation differences. NodeInfo support is built-in via setNodeInfoDispatcher.
Challenge #7: Developer Experience—Actually Building Your App
Beyond the protocol, building any server involves setup, testing, and debugging. With federation, debugging becomes harder—was the message malformed? Was the signature wrong? Is the remote server down? Is it a compatibility quirk? Good tooling is essential.
Fedify enhances the developer experience significantly. Being built with TypeScript, it offers excellent type safety and editor auto-completion. The fedify CLI is a powerful companion designed to streamline common development tasks.
You can quickly scaffold a new project tailored to your chosen runtime and web framework using fedify init.
For debugging interactions and verifying data, fedify lookup is invaluable. It lets you inspect how any remote actor or object appears from the outside by performing WebFinger discovery and fetching the object's data. Fedify then displays the parsed object structure and properties directly in your terminal. For example, running:
Will first show progress messages and then output the structured representation of the actor, similar to this:
// Output of fedify lookup command (shows parsed object structure)Person { id: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/users/fedify-example", name: "Fedify Example Blog", published: 2024-03-03T13:18:11.857Z, // Simplified timestamp summary: "This blog is powered by Fedify, a fediverse server framework.", url: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/", preferredUsername: "fedify-example", publicKey: CryptographicKey { id: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/users/fedify-example#main-key", owner: URL "https://fedify-blog.deno.dev/users/fedify-example", publicKey: CryptoKey { /* ... CryptoKey details ... */ } }, // ... other properties like inbox, outbox, followers, endpoints ...}
This allows you to easily check how data is structured or troubleshoot why an interaction might be failing by seeing the actual properties Fedify parsed.
Testing outgoing activities from your application during development is made much easier with fedify inbox. Running the command starts a temporary local server that acts as a publicly accessible inbox, displaying key information about the temporary actor it creates for receiving messages:
$ fedify inbox✔ The ephemeral ActivityPub server is up and running: https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/✔ Sent follow request to @<some_test_account>@activitypub.academy.╭───────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────╮│ Actor handle: │ i@<unique_id>.lhr.life │├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤│ Actor URI: │ https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/i │├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤│ Actor inbox: │ https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/i/inbox │├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤│ Shared inbox: │ https://<unique_id>.lhr.life/inbox │╰───────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────╯Web interface available at: http://localhost:8000/
You then configure your developing application to send an activity to the Actor inbox or Shared inbox URI provided. When an activity arrives, fedify inboxonly prints a summary table to your console indicating that a request was received:
Crucially, the detailed information about the received request—including the full headers (like Signature), the request body (the Activity JSON), and the signature verification status—is only available in the web interface provided by fedify inbox. This web UI allows you to thoroughly inspect incoming activities during development.
The Fedify Inbox web UI is where you view detailed activity information.
When you need to test interactions with the live fediverse from your local machine beyond just sending, fedify tunnel can securely expose your entire local development server temporarily. This suite of tools significantly eases the process of building and debugging federated applications.
Conclusion: Build Features, Not Plumbing
Implementing the ActivityPub suite of protocols from scratch is an incredibly complex and time-consuming undertaking. It involves deep dives into multiple technical specifications, cryptographic signing, security hardening, and navigating the nuances of a diverse ecosystem. While educational, it dramatically slows down the process of building the actual, unique features of your federated application.
Fedify offers a well-architected, secure, and type-safe foundation, handling the intricacies of federation for you—data modeling, discovery, core mechanics, delivery, security, and interoperability. It lets you focus on your application's unique value and user experience. Stop wrestling with low-level protocol details and start building your vision for the fediverse faster and more reliably. Give Fedify a try!
Getting started is straightforward. First, install the Fedify CLI using your preferred method. Once installed, create a new project template by running fedify init your-project-name.
Fetching remote #ActivityPub objects or actors often involves handling #WebFinger lookups, content negotiation, and then parsing potentially untyped JSON.
With #Fedify, it's much simpler: use Context.lookupObject(). Pass it a URI (e.g., https://instance.tld/users/alice) or a handle (e.g., @[email protected]), and Fedify handles the lookup and content negotiation automatically.
The real power comes from the return value: a type-safe Activity Vocabulary object, not just raw JSON. This allows you to confidently access properties and methods directly. For example, you can safely traverse account moves using .getSuccessor() like this:
let actor = await ctx.lookupObject("@[email protected]");
while (isActor(actor)) {
const successor = await actor.getSuccessor();
if (successor == null) break;
actor = successor;
}
// actor now holds the latest account after moves
Fetching remote #ActivityPub objects or actors often involves handling #WebFinger lookups, content negotiation, and then parsing potentially untyped JSON.
With #Fedify, it's much simpler: use Context.lookupObject(). Pass it a URI (e.g., https://instance.tld/users/alice) or a handle (e.g., @[email protected]), and Fedify handles the lookup and content negotiation automatically.
The real power comes from the return value: a type-safe Activity Vocabulary object, not just raw JSON. This allows you to confidently access properties and methods directly. For example, you can safely traverse account moves using .getSuccessor() like this:
let actor = await ctx.lookupObject("@[email protected]");
while (isActor(actor)) {
const successor = await actor.getSuccessor();
if (successor == null) break;
actor = successor;
}
// actor now holds the latest account after moves
Fetching remote #ActivityPub objects or actors often involves handling #WebFinger lookups, content negotiation, and then parsing potentially untyped JSON.
With #Fedify, it's much simpler: use Context.lookupObject(). Pass it a URI (e.g., https://instance.tld/users/alice) or a handle (e.g., @[email protected]), and Fedify handles the lookup and content negotiation automatically.
The real power comes from the return value: a type-safe Activity Vocabulary object, not just raw JSON. This allows you to confidently access properties and methods directly. For example, you can safely traverse account moves using .getSuccessor() like this:
let actor = await ctx.lookupObject("@[email protected]");
while (isActor(actor)) {
const successor = await actor.getSuccessor();
if (successor == null) break;
actor = successor;
}
// actor now holds the latest account after moves
This is a significant milestone for our project, and we're deeply grateful to @johnonolan and the entire Ghost team for their support and recognition of our work in the #ActivityPub ecosystem.
Ghost's social web integration built on #Fedify is a perfect example of how open standards can connect different publishing platforms in the fediverse. Their backing over the past months has been invaluable, and this formal sponsorship will help ensure Fedify remains sustainable as we continue to develop and improve the framework.
If you're building with ActivityPub or interested in federated applications, please consider joining Ghost in supporting open source development through our Open Collective:
Every contribution, no matter the size, helps us maintain and enhance the tools that make the fediverse more accessible to developers. Thank you for being part of this journey with us! ❤️
Ghost's social web integration is built on the fantastic work of @hongminhee and the Fedify.dev framework.
We've been backing work on the project for 6 months or so, and now we're thrilled to be formal sponsor of the project on Open Collective!
If you're building with Fedify and ActivityPub, please consider joining us to keep helping to make great open source work sustainable ❤️ Every little helps
This is a significant milestone for our project, and we're deeply grateful to @johnonolan and the entire Ghost team for their support and recognition of our work in the #ActivityPub ecosystem.
Ghost's social web integration built on #Fedify is a perfect example of how open standards can connect different publishing platforms in the fediverse. Their backing over the past months has been invaluable, and this formal sponsorship will help ensure Fedify remains sustainable as we continue to develop and improve the framework.
If you're building with ActivityPub or interested in federated applications, please consider joining Ghost in supporting open source development through our Open Collective:
Every contribution, no matter the size, helps us maintain and enhance the tools that make the fediverse more accessible to developers. Thank you for being part of this journey with us! ❤️
Ghost's social web integration is built on the fantastic work of @hongminhee and the Fedify.dev framework.
We've been backing work on the project for 6 months or so, and now we're thrilled to be formal sponsor of the project on Open Collective!
If you're building with Fedify and ActivityPub, please consider joining us to keep helping to make great open source work sustainable ❤️ Every little helps
This is a significant milestone for our project, and we're deeply grateful to @johnonolan and the entire Ghost team for their support and recognition of our work in the #ActivityPub ecosystem.
Ghost's social web integration built on #Fedify is a perfect example of how open standards can connect different publishing platforms in the fediverse. Their backing over the past months has been invaluable, and this formal sponsorship will help ensure Fedify remains sustainable as we continue to develop and improve the framework.
If you're building with ActivityPub or interested in federated applications, please consider joining Ghost in supporting open source development through our Open Collective:
Every contribution, no matter the size, helps us maintain and enhance the tools that make the fediverse more accessible to developers. Thank you for being part of this journey with us! ❤️
Ghost's social web integration is built on the fantastic work of @hongminhee and the Fedify.dev framework.
We've been backing work on the project for 6 months or so, and now we're thrilled to be formal sponsor of the project on Open Collective!
If you're building with Fedify and ActivityPub, please consider joining us to keep helping to make great open source work sustainable ❤️ Every little helps
I had trouble finding good resources explaining ActivityPub, but after reading through the Fedify docs from start to finish, I feel like I've actually digested it.
This is a significant milestone for our project, and we're deeply grateful to @johnonolan and the entire Ghost team for their support and recognition of our work in the #ActivityPub ecosystem.
Ghost's social web integration built on #Fedify is a perfect example of how open standards can connect different publishing platforms in the fediverse. Their backing over the past months has been invaluable, and this formal sponsorship will help ensure Fedify remains sustainable as we continue to develop and improve the framework.
If you're building with ActivityPub or interested in federated applications, please consider joining Ghost in supporting open source development through our Open Collective:
Every contribution, no matter the size, helps us maintain and enhance the tools that make the fediverse more accessible to developers. Thank you for being part of this journey with us! ❤️
Ghost's social web integration is built on the fantastic work of @hongminhee and the Fedify.dev framework.
We've been backing work on the project for 6 months or so, and now we're thrilled to be formal sponsor of the project on Open Collective!
If you're building with Fedify and ActivityPub, please consider joining us to keep helping to make great open source work sustainable ❤️ Every little helps
This is a significant milestone for our project, and we're deeply grateful to @johnonolan and the entire Ghost team for their support and recognition of our work in the #ActivityPub ecosystem.
Ghost's social web integration built on #Fedify is a perfect example of how open standards can connect different publishing platforms in the fediverse. Their backing over the past months has been invaluable, and this formal sponsorship will help ensure Fedify remains sustainable as we continue to develop and improve the framework.
If you're building with ActivityPub or interested in federated applications, please consider joining Ghost in supporting open source development through our Open Collective:
Every contribution, no matter the size, helps us maintain and enhance the tools that make the fediverse more accessible to developers. Thank you for being part of this journey with us! ❤️
Ghost's social web integration is built on the fantastic work of @hongminhee and the Fedify.dev framework.
We've been backing work on the project for 6 months or so, and now we're thrilled to be formal sponsor of the project on Open Collective!
If you're building with Fedify and ActivityPub, please consider joining us to keep helping to make great open source work sustainable ❤️ Every little helps
This is a significant milestone for our project, and we're deeply grateful to @johnonolan and the entire Ghost team for their support and recognition of our work in the #ActivityPub ecosystem.
Ghost's social web integration built on #Fedify is a perfect example of how open standards can connect different publishing platforms in the fediverse. Their backing over the past months has been invaluable, and this formal sponsorship will help ensure Fedify remains sustainable as we continue to develop and improve the framework.
If you're building with ActivityPub or interested in federated applications, please consider joining Ghost in supporting open source development through our Open Collective:
Every contribution, no matter the size, helps us maintain and enhance the tools that make the fediverse more accessible to developers. Thank you for being part of this journey with us! ❤️
Ghost's social web integration is built on the fantastic work of @hongminhee and the Fedify.dev framework.
We've been backing work on the project for 6 months or so, and now we're thrilled to be formal sponsor of the project on Open Collective!
If you're building with Fedify and ActivityPub, please consider joining us to keep helping to make great open source work sustainable ❤️ Every little helps
This is a significant milestone for our project, and we're deeply grateful to @johnonolan and the entire Ghost team for their support and recognition of our work in the #ActivityPub ecosystem.
Ghost's social web integration built on #Fedify is a perfect example of how open standards can connect different publishing platforms in the fediverse. Their backing over the past months has been invaluable, and this formal sponsorship will help ensure Fedify remains sustainable as we continue to develop and improve the framework.
If you're building with ActivityPub or interested in federated applications, please consider joining Ghost in supporting open source development through our Open Collective:
Every contribution, no matter the size, helps us maintain and enhance the tools that make the fediverse more accessible to developers. Thank you for being part of this journey with us! ❤️
Ghost's social web integration is built on the fantastic work of @hongminhee and the Fedify.dev framework.
We've been backing work on the project for 6 months or so, and now we're thrilled to be formal sponsor of the project on Open Collective!
If you're building with Fedify and ActivityPub, please consider joining us to keep helping to make great open source work sustainable ❤️ Every little helps
This is a significant milestone for our project, and we're deeply grateful to @johnonolan and the entire Ghost team for their support and recognition of our work in the #ActivityPub ecosystem.
Ghost's social web integration built on #Fedify is a perfect example of how open standards can connect different publishing platforms in the fediverse. Their backing over the past months has been invaluable, and this formal sponsorship will help ensure Fedify remains sustainable as we continue to develop and improve the framework.
If you're building with ActivityPub or interested in federated applications, please consider joining Ghost in supporting open source development through our Open Collective:
Every contribution, no matter the size, helps us maintain and enhance the tools that make the fediverse more accessible to developers. Thank you for being part of this journey with us! ❤️
Ghost's social web integration is built on the fantastic work of @hongminhee and the Fedify.dev framework.
We've been backing work on the project for 6 months or so, and now we're thrilled to be formal sponsor of the project on Open Collective!
If you're building with Fedify and ActivityPub, please consider joining us to keep helping to make great open source work sustainable ❤️ Every little helps
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.5.0! This version brings several significant improvements to performance, configurability, and developer experience. Let's dive into what's new:
Two-Stage Fan-out Architecture for Efficient Activity Delivery
#Fedify now implements a smart fan-out mechanism for delivering activities to large audiences. This change is particularly valuable for accounts with many followers. When sending activities to many recipients, Fedify now creates a single consolidated message containing the activity payload and recipient list, which a background worker then processes to re-enqueue individual delivery tasks.
This architectural improvement delivers several benefits: Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly even with thousands of recipients, memory consumption is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication, UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly, and the system maintains reliability with independent retry logic for each delivery.
For specific requirements, we've added a new fanout option with three settings:
// Configuring fan-out behavior
await ctx.sendActivity(
{ identifier: "alice" },
recipients,
activity,
{ fanout: "auto" } // Default: automatic based on recipient count
// Other options: "skip" (never use fan-out) or "force" (always use fan-out)
);
Canonical Origin Support for Multi-Domain Setups
You can now explicitly configure a canonical origin for your server, which is especially useful for multi-domain setups. This feature allows you to set different domains for WebFinger handles and #ActivityPub URIs, configured through the new origin option in createFederation(). This enhancement prevents unexpected URL construction when requests bypass proxies and improves security by ensuring consistent domain usage.
const federation = createFederation({
// Use example.com for handles but ap.example.com for ActivityPub URIs
origin: {
handleHost: "example.com",
webOrigin: "https://ap.example.com",
},
// Other options...
});
Optional Followers Collection Synchronization
Followers collection synchronization (FEP-8fcf) is now opt-in rather than automatic. This feature must now be explicitly enabled through the syncCollection option, giving developers more control over when to include followers collection digests. This change improves network efficiency by reducing unnecessary synchronization traffic.
Key format support has been expanded for better interoperability. Fedify now accepts PEM-PKCS#1 format in addition to PEM-SPKI for RSA public keys. We've added importPkcs1() and importPem() functions for additional flexibility, which improves compatibility with a wider range of ActivityPub implementations.
Improved Key Selection Logic
The key selection process is now more intelligent. The fetchKey() function can now select the public key of an actor if keyId has no fragment and the actor has only one public key. This enhancement simplifies key handling in common scenarios and provides better compatibility with implementations that don't specify fragment identifiers.
New Authorization Options
Authorization handling has been enhanced with new options for the RequestContext.getSignedKey() and getSignedKeyOwner() methods. This provides more flexible control over authentication and authorization flows. We've deprecated older parameter-based approaches in favor of the more flexible method-based approach.
Efficient Bulk Message Queueing
Message queue performance is improved with bulk operations. We've added an optional enqueueMany() method to the MessageQueue interface, enabling efficient queueing of multiple messages in a single operation. This reduces overhead when processing batches of activities. All our message queue implementations have been updated to support this new operation:
If you're using any of these packages, make sure to update them alongside Fedify to take advantage of the more efficient bulk message queueing.
CLI Improvements
The Fedify command-line tools have been enhanced with an improved web interface for the fedify inbox command. We've added the Fedify logo with the cute dinosaur at the top of the page and made it easier to copy the fediverse handle of the ephemeral actor. We've also fixed issues with the web interface when installed via deno install from JSR.
Additional Improvements and Bug Fixes
Updated dependencies, including @js-temporal/polyfill to 0.5.0 for Node.js and Bun
Fixed bundler errors with uri-template-router on Rollup
Improved error handling and logging for document loader when KV store operations fail
Added more log messages using the LogTape library
Internalized the multibase package for better maintenance and compatibility
For the complete list of changes, please refer to the changelog.
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.5.0! This version brings several significant improvements to performance, configurability, and developer experience. Let's dive into what's new:
Two-Stage Fan-out Architecture for Efficient Activity Delivery
#Fedify now implements a smart fan-out mechanism for delivering activities to large audiences. This change is particularly valuable for accounts with many followers. When sending activities to many recipients, Fedify now creates a single consolidated message containing the activity payload and recipient list, which a background worker then processes to re-enqueue individual delivery tasks.
This architectural improvement delivers several benefits: Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly even with thousands of recipients, memory consumption is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication, UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly, and the system maintains reliability with independent retry logic for each delivery.
For specific requirements, we've added a new fanout option with three settings:
// Configuring fan-out behavior
await ctx.sendActivity(
{ identifier: "alice" },
recipients,
activity,
{ fanout: "auto" } // Default: automatic based on recipient count
// Other options: "skip" (never use fan-out) or "force" (always use fan-out)
);
Canonical Origin Support for Multi-Domain Setups
You can now explicitly configure a canonical origin for your server, which is especially useful for multi-domain setups. This feature allows you to set different domains for WebFinger handles and #ActivityPub URIs, configured through the new origin option in createFederation(). This enhancement prevents unexpected URL construction when requests bypass proxies and improves security by ensuring consistent domain usage.
const federation = createFederation({
// Use example.com for handles but ap.example.com for ActivityPub URIs
origin: {
handleHost: "example.com",
webOrigin: "https://ap.example.com",
},
// Other options...
});
Optional Followers Collection Synchronization
Followers collection synchronization (FEP-8fcf) is now opt-in rather than automatic. This feature must now be explicitly enabled through the syncCollection option, giving developers more control over when to include followers collection digests. This change improves network efficiency by reducing unnecessary synchronization traffic.
Key format support has been expanded for better interoperability. Fedify now accepts PEM-PKCS#1 format in addition to PEM-SPKI for RSA public keys. We've added importPkcs1() and importPem() functions for additional flexibility, which improves compatibility with a wider range of ActivityPub implementations.
Improved Key Selection Logic
The key selection process is now more intelligent. The fetchKey() function can now select the public key of an actor if keyId has no fragment and the actor has only one public key. This enhancement simplifies key handling in common scenarios and provides better compatibility with implementations that don't specify fragment identifiers.
New Authorization Options
Authorization handling has been enhanced with new options for the RequestContext.getSignedKey() and getSignedKeyOwner() methods. This provides more flexible control over authentication and authorization flows. We've deprecated older parameter-based approaches in favor of the more flexible method-based approach.
Efficient Bulk Message Queueing
Message queue performance is improved with bulk operations. We've added an optional enqueueMany() method to the MessageQueue interface, enabling efficient queueing of multiple messages in a single operation. This reduces overhead when processing batches of activities. All our message queue implementations have been updated to support this new operation:
If you're using any of these packages, make sure to update them alongside Fedify to take advantage of the more efficient bulk message queueing.
CLI Improvements
The Fedify command-line tools have been enhanced with an improved web interface for the fedify inbox command. We've added the Fedify logo with the cute dinosaur at the top of the page and made it easier to copy the fediverse handle of the ephemeral actor. We've also fixed issues with the web interface when installed via deno install from JSR.
Additional Improvements and Bug Fixes
Updated dependencies, including @js-temporal/polyfill to 0.5.0 for Node.js and Bun
Fixed bundler errors with uri-template-router on Rollup
Improved error handling and logging for document loader when KV store operations fail
Added more log messages using the LogTape library
Internalized the multibase package for better maintenance and compatibility
For the complete list of changes, please refer to the changelog.
I had trouble finding good resources explaining ActivityPub, but after reading through the Fedify docs from start to finish, I feel like I've actually digested it.
I had trouble finding good resources explaining ActivityPub, but after reading through the Fedify docs from start to finish, I feel like I've actually digested it.
I had trouble finding good resources explaining ActivityPub, but after reading through the Fedify docs from start to finish, I feel like I've actually digested it.
I had trouble finding good resources explaining ActivityPub, but after reading through the Fedify docs from start to finish, I feel like I've actually digested it.
I had trouble finding good resources explaining ActivityPub, but after reading through the Fedify docs from start to finish, I feel like I've actually digested it.
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.5.0! This version brings several significant improvements to performance, configurability, and developer experience. Let's dive into what's new:
Two-Stage Fan-out Architecture for Efficient Activity Delivery
#Fedify now implements a smart fan-out mechanism for delivering activities to large audiences. This change is particularly valuable for accounts with many followers. When sending activities to many recipients, Fedify now creates a single consolidated message containing the activity payload and recipient list, which a background worker then processes to re-enqueue individual delivery tasks.
This architectural improvement delivers several benefits: Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly even with thousands of recipients, memory consumption is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication, UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly, and the system maintains reliability with independent retry logic for each delivery.
For specific requirements, we've added a new fanout option with three settings:
// Configuring fan-out behavior
await ctx.sendActivity(
{ identifier: "alice" },
recipients,
activity,
{ fanout: "auto" } // Default: automatic based on recipient count
// Other options: "skip" (never use fan-out) or "force" (always use fan-out)
);
Canonical Origin Support for Multi-Domain Setups
You can now explicitly configure a canonical origin for your server, which is especially useful for multi-domain setups. This feature allows you to set different domains for WebFinger handles and #ActivityPub URIs, configured through the new origin option in createFederation(). This enhancement prevents unexpected URL construction when requests bypass proxies and improves security by ensuring consistent domain usage.
const federation = createFederation({
// Use example.com for handles but ap.example.com for ActivityPub URIs
origin: {
handleHost: "example.com",
webOrigin: "https://ap.example.com",
},
// Other options...
});
Optional Followers Collection Synchronization
Followers collection synchronization (FEP-8fcf) is now opt-in rather than automatic. This feature must now be explicitly enabled through the syncCollection option, giving developers more control over when to include followers collection digests. This change improves network efficiency by reducing unnecessary synchronization traffic.
Key format support has been expanded for better interoperability. Fedify now accepts PEM-PKCS#1 format in addition to PEM-SPKI for RSA public keys. We've added importPkcs1() and importPem() functions for additional flexibility, which improves compatibility with a wider range of ActivityPub implementations.
Improved Key Selection Logic
The key selection process is now more intelligent. The fetchKey() function can now select the public key of an actor if keyId has no fragment and the actor has only one public key. This enhancement simplifies key handling in common scenarios and provides better compatibility with implementations that don't specify fragment identifiers.
New Authorization Options
Authorization handling has been enhanced with new options for the RequestContext.getSignedKey() and getSignedKeyOwner() methods. This provides more flexible control over authentication and authorization flows. We've deprecated older parameter-based approaches in favor of the more flexible method-based approach.
Efficient Bulk Message Queueing
Message queue performance is improved with bulk operations. We've added an optional enqueueMany() method to the MessageQueue interface, enabling efficient queueing of multiple messages in a single operation. This reduces overhead when processing batches of activities. All our message queue implementations have been updated to support this new operation:
If you're using any of these packages, make sure to update them alongside Fedify to take advantage of the more efficient bulk message queueing.
CLI Improvements
The Fedify command-line tools have been enhanced with an improved web interface for the fedify inbox command. We've added the Fedify logo with the cute dinosaur at the top of the page and made it easier to copy the fediverse handle of the ephemeral actor. We've also fixed issues with the web interface when installed via deno install from JSR.
Additional Improvements and Bug Fixes
Updated dependencies, including @js-temporal/polyfill to 0.5.0 for Node.js and Bun
Fixed bundler errors with uri-template-router on Rollup
Improved error handling and logging for document loader when KV store operations fail
Added more log messages using the LogTape library
Internalized the multibase package for better maintenance and compatibility
For the complete list of changes, please refer to the changelog.
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.5.0! This version brings several significant improvements to performance, configurability, and developer experience. Let's dive into what's new:
Two-Stage Fan-out Architecture for Efficient Activity Delivery
#Fedify now implements a smart fan-out mechanism for delivering activities to large audiences. This change is particularly valuable for accounts with many followers. When sending activities to many recipients, Fedify now creates a single consolidated message containing the activity payload and recipient list, which a background worker then processes to re-enqueue individual delivery tasks.
This architectural improvement delivers several benefits: Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly even with thousands of recipients, memory consumption is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication, UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly, and the system maintains reliability with independent retry logic for each delivery.
For specific requirements, we've added a new fanout option with three settings:
// Configuring fan-out behavior
await ctx.sendActivity(
{ identifier: "alice" },
recipients,
activity,
{ fanout: "auto" } // Default: automatic based on recipient count
// Other options: "skip" (never use fan-out) or "force" (always use fan-out)
);
Canonical Origin Support for Multi-Domain Setups
You can now explicitly configure a canonical origin for your server, which is especially useful for multi-domain setups. This feature allows you to set different domains for WebFinger handles and #ActivityPub URIs, configured through the new origin option in createFederation(). This enhancement prevents unexpected URL construction when requests bypass proxies and improves security by ensuring consistent domain usage.
const federation = createFederation({
// Use example.com for handles but ap.example.com for ActivityPub URIs
origin: {
handleHost: "example.com",
webOrigin: "https://ap.example.com",
},
// Other options...
});
Optional Followers Collection Synchronization
Followers collection synchronization (FEP-8fcf) is now opt-in rather than automatic. This feature must now be explicitly enabled through the syncCollection option, giving developers more control over when to include followers collection digests. This change improves network efficiency by reducing unnecessary synchronization traffic.
Key format support has been expanded for better interoperability. Fedify now accepts PEM-PKCS#1 format in addition to PEM-SPKI for RSA public keys. We've added importPkcs1() and importPem() functions for additional flexibility, which improves compatibility with a wider range of ActivityPub implementations.
Improved Key Selection Logic
The key selection process is now more intelligent. The fetchKey() function can now select the public key of an actor if keyId has no fragment and the actor has only one public key. This enhancement simplifies key handling in common scenarios and provides better compatibility with implementations that don't specify fragment identifiers.
New Authorization Options
Authorization handling has been enhanced with new options for the RequestContext.getSignedKey() and getSignedKeyOwner() methods. This provides more flexible control over authentication and authorization flows. We've deprecated older parameter-based approaches in favor of the more flexible method-based approach.
Efficient Bulk Message Queueing
Message queue performance is improved with bulk operations. We've added an optional enqueueMany() method to the MessageQueue interface, enabling efficient queueing of multiple messages in a single operation. This reduces overhead when processing batches of activities. All our message queue implementations have been updated to support this new operation:
If you're using any of these packages, make sure to update them alongside Fedify to take advantage of the more efficient bulk message queueing.
CLI Improvements
The Fedify command-line tools have been enhanced with an improved web interface for the fedify inbox command. We've added the Fedify logo with the cute dinosaur at the top of the page and made it easier to copy the fediverse handle of the ephemeral actor. We've also fixed issues with the web interface when installed via deno install from JSR.
Additional Improvements and Bug Fixes
Updated dependencies, including @js-temporal/polyfill to 0.5.0 for Node.js and Bun
Fixed bundler errors with uri-template-router on Rollup
Improved error handling and logging for document loader when KV store operations fail
Added more log messages using the LogTape library
Internalized the multibase package for better maintenance and compatibility
For the complete list of changes, please refer to the changelog.
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.5.0! This version brings several significant improvements to performance, configurability, and developer experience. Let's dive into what's new:
Two-Stage Fan-out Architecture for Efficient Activity Delivery
#Fedify now implements a smart fan-out mechanism for delivering activities to large audiences. This change is particularly valuable for accounts with many followers. When sending activities to many recipients, Fedify now creates a single consolidated message containing the activity payload and recipient list, which a background worker then processes to re-enqueue individual delivery tasks.
This architectural improvement delivers several benefits: Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly even with thousands of recipients, memory consumption is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication, UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly, and the system maintains reliability with independent retry logic for each delivery.
For specific requirements, we've added a new fanout option with three settings:
// Configuring fan-out behavior
await ctx.sendActivity(
{ identifier: "alice" },
recipients,
activity,
{ fanout: "auto" } // Default: automatic based on recipient count
// Other options: "skip" (never use fan-out) or "force" (always use fan-out)
);
Canonical Origin Support for Multi-Domain Setups
You can now explicitly configure a canonical origin for your server, which is especially useful for multi-domain setups. This feature allows you to set different domains for WebFinger handles and #ActivityPub URIs, configured through the new origin option in createFederation(). This enhancement prevents unexpected URL construction when requests bypass proxies and improves security by ensuring consistent domain usage.
const federation = createFederation({
// Use example.com for handles but ap.example.com for ActivityPub URIs
origin: {
handleHost: "example.com",
webOrigin: "https://ap.example.com",
},
// Other options...
});
Optional Followers Collection Synchronization
Followers collection synchronization (FEP-8fcf) is now opt-in rather than automatic. This feature must now be explicitly enabled through the syncCollection option, giving developers more control over when to include followers collection digests. This change improves network efficiency by reducing unnecessary synchronization traffic.
Key format support has been expanded for better interoperability. Fedify now accepts PEM-PKCS#1 format in addition to PEM-SPKI for RSA public keys. We've added importPkcs1() and importPem() functions for additional flexibility, which improves compatibility with a wider range of ActivityPub implementations.
Improved Key Selection Logic
The key selection process is now more intelligent. The fetchKey() function can now select the public key of an actor if keyId has no fragment and the actor has only one public key. This enhancement simplifies key handling in common scenarios and provides better compatibility with implementations that don't specify fragment identifiers.
New Authorization Options
Authorization handling has been enhanced with new options for the RequestContext.getSignedKey() and getSignedKeyOwner() methods. This provides more flexible control over authentication and authorization flows. We've deprecated older parameter-based approaches in favor of the more flexible method-based approach.
Efficient Bulk Message Queueing
Message queue performance is improved with bulk operations. We've added an optional enqueueMany() method to the MessageQueue interface, enabling efficient queueing of multiple messages in a single operation. This reduces overhead when processing batches of activities. All our message queue implementations have been updated to support this new operation:
If you're using any of these packages, make sure to update them alongside Fedify to take advantage of the more efficient bulk message queueing.
CLI Improvements
The Fedify command-line tools have been enhanced with an improved web interface for the fedify inbox command. We've added the Fedify logo with the cute dinosaur at the top of the page and made it easier to copy the fediverse handle of the ephemeral actor. We've also fixed issues with the web interface when installed via deno install from JSR.
Additional Improvements and Bug Fixes
Updated dependencies, including @js-temporal/polyfill to 0.5.0 for Node.js and Bun
Fixed bundler errors with uri-template-router on Rollup
Improved error handling and logging for document loader when KV store operations fail
Added more log messages using the LogTape library
Internalized the multibase package for better maintenance and compatibility
For the complete list of changes, please refer to the changelog.
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.5.0! This version brings several significant improvements to performance, configurability, and developer experience. Let's dive into what's new:
Two-Stage Fan-out Architecture for Efficient Activity Delivery
#Fedify now implements a smart fan-out mechanism for delivering activities to large audiences. This change is particularly valuable for accounts with many followers. When sending activities to many recipients, Fedify now creates a single consolidated message containing the activity payload and recipient list, which a background worker then processes to re-enqueue individual delivery tasks.
This architectural improvement delivers several benefits: Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly even with thousands of recipients, memory consumption is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication, UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly, and the system maintains reliability with independent retry logic for each delivery.
For specific requirements, we've added a new fanout option with three settings:
// Configuring fan-out behavior
await ctx.sendActivity(
{ identifier: "alice" },
recipients,
activity,
{ fanout: "auto" } // Default: automatic based on recipient count
// Other options: "skip" (never use fan-out) or "force" (always use fan-out)
);
Canonical Origin Support for Multi-Domain Setups
You can now explicitly configure a canonical origin for your server, which is especially useful for multi-domain setups. This feature allows you to set different domains for WebFinger handles and #ActivityPub URIs, configured through the new origin option in createFederation(). This enhancement prevents unexpected URL construction when requests bypass proxies and improves security by ensuring consistent domain usage.
const federation = createFederation({
// Use example.com for handles but ap.example.com for ActivityPub URIs
origin: {
handleHost: "example.com",
webOrigin: "https://ap.example.com",
},
// Other options...
});
Optional Followers Collection Synchronization
Followers collection synchronization (FEP-8fcf) is now opt-in rather than automatic. This feature must now be explicitly enabled through the syncCollection option, giving developers more control over when to include followers collection digests. This change improves network efficiency by reducing unnecessary synchronization traffic.
Key format support has been expanded for better interoperability. Fedify now accepts PEM-PKCS#1 format in addition to PEM-SPKI for RSA public keys. We've added importPkcs1() and importPem() functions for additional flexibility, which improves compatibility with a wider range of ActivityPub implementations.
Improved Key Selection Logic
The key selection process is now more intelligent. The fetchKey() function can now select the public key of an actor if keyId has no fragment and the actor has only one public key. This enhancement simplifies key handling in common scenarios and provides better compatibility with implementations that don't specify fragment identifiers.
New Authorization Options
Authorization handling has been enhanced with new options for the RequestContext.getSignedKey() and getSignedKeyOwner() methods. This provides more flexible control over authentication and authorization flows. We've deprecated older parameter-based approaches in favor of the more flexible method-based approach.
Efficient Bulk Message Queueing
Message queue performance is improved with bulk operations. We've added an optional enqueueMany() method to the MessageQueue interface, enabling efficient queueing of multiple messages in a single operation. This reduces overhead when processing batches of activities. All our message queue implementations have been updated to support this new operation:
If you're using any of these packages, make sure to update them alongside Fedify to take advantage of the more efficient bulk message queueing.
CLI Improvements
The Fedify command-line tools have been enhanced with an improved web interface for the fedify inbox command. We've added the Fedify logo with the cute dinosaur at the top of the page and made it easier to copy the fediverse handle of the ephemeral actor. We've also fixed issues with the web interface when installed via deno install from JSR.
Additional Improvements and Bug Fixes
Updated dependencies, including @js-temporal/polyfill to 0.5.0 for Node.js and Bun
Fixed bundler errors with uri-template-router on Rollup
Improved error handling and logging for document loader when KV store operations fail
Added more log messages using the LogTape library
Internalized the multibase package for better maintenance and compatibility
For the complete list of changes, please refer to the changelog.
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.5.0! This version brings several significant improvements to performance, configurability, and developer experience. Let's dive into what's new:
Two-Stage Fan-out Architecture for Efficient Activity Delivery
#Fedify now implements a smart fan-out mechanism for delivering activities to large audiences. This change is particularly valuable for accounts with many followers. When sending activities to many recipients, Fedify now creates a single consolidated message containing the activity payload and recipient list, which a background worker then processes to re-enqueue individual delivery tasks.
This architectural improvement delivers several benefits: Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly even with thousands of recipients, memory consumption is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication, UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly, and the system maintains reliability with independent retry logic for each delivery.
For specific requirements, we've added a new fanout option with three settings:
// Configuring fan-out behavior
await ctx.sendActivity(
{ identifier: "alice" },
recipients,
activity,
{ fanout: "auto" } // Default: automatic based on recipient count
// Other options: "skip" (never use fan-out) or "force" (always use fan-out)
);
Canonical Origin Support for Multi-Domain Setups
You can now explicitly configure a canonical origin for your server, which is especially useful for multi-domain setups. This feature allows you to set different domains for WebFinger handles and #ActivityPub URIs, configured through the new origin option in createFederation(). This enhancement prevents unexpected URL construction when requests bypass proxies and improves security by ensuring consistent domain usage.
const federation = createFederation({
// Use example.com for handles but ap.example.com for ActivityPub URIs
origin: {
handleHost: "example.com",
webOrigin: "https://ap.example.com",
},
// Other options...
});
Optional Followers Collection Synchronization
Followers collection synchronization (FEP-8fcf) is now opt-in rather than automatic. This feature must now be explicitly enabled through the syncCollection option, giving developers more control over when to include followers collection digests. This change improves network efficiency by reducing unnecessary synchronization traffic.
Key format support has been expanded for better interoperability. Fedify now accepts PEM-PKCS#1 format in addition to PEM-SPKI for RSA public keys. We've added importPkcs1() and importPem() functions for additional flexibility, which improves compatibility with a wider range of ActivityPub implementations.
Improved Key Selection Logic
The key selection process is now more intelligent. The fetchKey() function can now select the public key of an actor if keyId has no fragment and the actor has only one public key. This enhancement simplifies key handling in common scenarios and provides better compatibility with implementations that don't specify fragment identifiers.
New Authorization Options
Authorization handling has been enhanced with new options for the RequestContext.getSignedKey() and getSignedKeyOwner() methods. This provides more flexible control over authentication and authorization flows. We've deprecated older parameter-based approaches in favor of the more flexible method-based approach.
Efficient Bulk Message Queueing
Message queue performance is improved with bulk operations. We've added an optional enqueueMany() method to the MessageQueue interface, enabling efficient queueing of multiple messages in a single operation. This reduces overhead when processing batches of activities. All our message queue implementations have been updated to support this new operation:
If you're using any of these packages, make sure to update them alongside Fedify to take advantage of the more efficient bulk message queueing.
CLI Improvements
The Fedify command-line tools have been enhanced with an improved web interface for the fedify inbox command. We've added the Fedify logo with the cute dinosaur at the top of the page and made it easier to copy the fediverse handle of the ephemeral actor. We've also fixed issues with the web interface when installed via deno install from JSR.
Additional Improvements and Bug Fixes
Updated dependencies, including @js-temporal/polyfill to 0.5.0 for Node.js and Bun
Fixed bundler errors with uri-template-router on Rollup
Improved error handling and logging for document loader when KV store operations fail
Added more log messages using the LogTape library
Internalized the multibase package for better maintenance and compatibility
For the complete list of changes, please refer to the changelog.
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.5.0! This version brings several significant improvements to performance, configurability, and developer experience. Let's dive into what's new:
Two-Stage Fan-out Architecture for Efficient Activity Delivery
#Fedify now implements a smart fan-out mechanism for delivering activities to large audiences. This change is particularly valuable for accounts with many followers. When sending activities to many recipients, Fedify now creates a single consolidated message containing the activity payload and recipient list, which a background worker then processes to re-enqueue individual delivery tasks.
This architectural improvement delivers several benefits: Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly even with thousands of recipients, memory consumption is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication, UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly, and the system maintains reliability with independent retry logic for each delivery.
For specific requirements, we've added a new fanout option with three settings:
// Configuring fan-out behavior
await ctx.sendActivity(
{ identifier: "alice" },
recipients,
activity,
{ fanout: "auto" } // Default: automatic based on recipient count
// Other options: "skip" (never use fan-out) or "force" (always use fan-out)
);
Canonical Origin Support for Multi-Domain Setups
You can now explicitly configure a canonical origin for your server, which is especially useful for multi-domain setups. This feature allows you to set different domains for WebFinger handles and #ActivityPub URIs, configured through the new origin option in createFederation(). This enhancement prevents unexpected URL construction when requests bypass proxies and improves security by ensuring consistent domain usage.
const federation = createFederation({
// Use example.com for handles but ap.example.com for ActivityPub URIs
origin: {
handleHost: "example.com",
webOrigin: "https://ap.example.com",
},
// Other options...
});
Optional Followers Collection Synchronization
Followers collection synchronization (FEP-8fcf) is now opt-in rather than automatic. This feature must now be explicitly enabled through the syncCollection option, giving developers more control over when to include followers collection digests. This change improves network efficiency by reducing unnecessary synchronization traffic.
Key format support has been expanded for better interoperability. Fedify now accepts PEM-PKCS#1 format in addition to PEM-SPKI for RSA public keys. We've added importPkcs1() and importPem() functions for additional flexibility, which improves compatibility with a wider range of ActivityPub implementations.
Improved Key Selection Logic
The key selection process is now more intelligent. The fetchKey() function can now select the public key of an actor if keyId has no fragment and the actor has only one public key. This enhancement simplifies key handling in common scenarios and provides better compatibility with implementations that don't specify fragment identifiers.
New Authorization Options
Authorization handling has been enhanced with new options for the RequestContext.getSignedKey() and getSignedKeyOwner() methods. This provides more flexible control over authentication and authorization flows. We've deprecated older parameter-based approaches in favor of the more flexible method-based approach.
Efficient Bulk Message Queueing
Message queue performance is improved with bulk operations. We've added an optional enqueueMany() method to the MessageQueue interface, enabling efficient queueing of multiple messages in a single operation. This reduces overhead when processing batches of activities. All our message queue implementations have been updated to support this new operation:
If you're using any of these packages, make sure to update them alongside Fedify to take advantage of the more efficient bulk message queueing.
CLI Improvements
The Fedify command-line tools have been enhanced with an improved web interface for the fedify inbox command. We've added the Fedify logo with the cute dinosaur at the top of the page and made it easier to copy the fediverse handle of the ephemeral actor. We've also fixed issues with the web interface when installed via deno install from JSR.
Additional Improvements and Bug Fixes
Updated dependencies, including @js-temporal/polyfill to 0.5.0 for Node.js and Bun
Fixed bundler errors with uri-template-router on Rollup
Improved error handling and logging for document loader when KV store operations fail
Added more log messages using the LogTape library
Internalized the multibase package for better maintenance and compatibility
For the complete list of changes, please refer to the changelog.
Turns out Mastodon implements the FEP-8fcf specification (Followers collection synchronization across servers), but it expected all followers to be in a single page collection. When followers were split across multiple pages, it would only see the first page and incorrectly remove all followers from subsequent pages!
This explains so much about the strange behavior I've been seeing with #Hollo and other #Fedify-based servers over the past few months. Some people would follow me from large instances, then mysteriously unfollow later without any action on their part.
Thankfully this fix has been marked for backporting, so it should appear in an upcoming patch release rather than waiting for the next major version. Great news for all of us building on #ActivityPub!
This is why I love open source—we can identify, understand, and fix these kinds of interoperability issues together. 😊
Turns out Mastodon implements the FEP-8fcf specification (Followers collection synchronization across servers), but it expected all followers to be in a single page collection. When followers were split across multiple pages, it would only see the first page and incorrectly remove all followers from subsequent pages!
This explains so much about the strange behavior I've been seeing with #Hollo and other #Fedify-based servers over the past few months. Some people would follow me from large instances, then mysteriously unfollow later without any action on their part.
Thankfully this fix has been marked for backporting, so it should appear in an upcoming patch release rather than waiting for the next major version. Great news for all of us building on #ActivityPub!
This is why I love open source—we can identify, understand, and fix these kinds of interoperability issues together. 😊
Turns out Mastodon implements the FEP-8fcf specification (Followers collection synchronization across servers), but it expected all followers to be in a single page collection. When followers were split across multiple pages, it would only see the first page and incorrectly remove all followers from subsequent pages!
This explains so much about the strange behavior I've been seeing with #Hollo and other #Fedify-based servers over the past few months. Some people would follow me from large instances, then mysteriously unfollow later without any action on their part.
Thankfully this fix has been marked for backporting, so it should appear in an upcoming patch release rather than waiting for the next major version. Great news for all of us building on #ActivityPub!
This is why I love open source—we can identify, understand, and fix these kinds of interoperability issues together. 😊
Turns out Mastodon implements the FEP-8fcf specification (Followers collection synchronization across servers), but it expected all followers to be in a single page collection. When followers were split across multiple pages, it would only see the first page and incorrectly remove all followers from subsequent pages!
This explains so much about the strange behavior I've been seeing with #Hollo and other #Fedify-based servers over the past few months. Some people would follow me from large instances, then mysteriously unfollow later without any action on their part.
Thankfully this fix has been marked for backporting, so it should appear in an upcoming patch release rather than waiting for the next major version. Great news for all of us building on #ActivityPub!
This is why I love open source—we can identify, understand, and fix these kinds of interoperability issues together. 😊
Turns out Mastodon implements the FEP-8fcf specification (Followers collection synchronization across servers), but it expected all followers to be in a single page collection. When followers were split across multiple pages, it would only see the first page and incorrectly remove all followers from subsequent pages!
This explains so much about the strange behavior I've been seeing with #Hollo and other #Fedify-based servers over the past few months. Some people would follow me from large instances, then mysteriously unfollow later without any action on their part.
Thankfully this fix has been marked for backporting, so it should appear in an upcoming patch release rather than waiting for the next major version. Great news for all of us building on #ActivityPub!
This is why I love open source—we can identify, understand, and fix these kinds of interoperability issues together. 😊
Turns out Mastodon implements the FEP-8fcf specification (Followers collection synchronization across servers), but it expected all followers to be in a single page collection. When followers were split across multiple pages, it would only see the first page and incorrectly remove all followers from subsequent pages!
This explains so much about the strange behavior I've been seeing with #Hollo and other #Fedify-based servers over the past few months. Some people would follow me from large instances, then mysteriously unfollow later without any action on their part.
Thankfully this fix has been marked for backporting, so it should appear in an upcoming patch release rather than waiting for the next major version. Great news for all of us building on #ActivityPub!
This is why I love open source—we can identify, understand, and fix these kinds of interoperability issues together. 😊
Turns out Mastodon implements the FEP-8fcf specification (Followers collection synchronization across servers), but it expected all followers to be in a single page collection. When followers were split across multiple pages, it would only see the first page and incorrectly remove all followers from subsequent pages!
This explains so much about the strange behavior I've been seeing with #Hollo and other #Fedify-based servers over the past few months. Some people would follow me from large instances, then mysteriously unfollow later without any action on their part.
Thankfully this fix has been marked for backporting, so it should appear in an upcoming patch release rather than waiting for the next major version. Great news for all of us building on #ActivityPub!
This is why I love open source—we can identify, understand, and fix these kinds of interoperability issues together. 😊
Excited to see the #FediLUG (#Fediverse Linux Users Group) in #Japan organizing a reading club for our Creating your own federated microblog tutorial! 🎉 Their first session is coming up, where participants will work through creating their own #ActivityPub-compatible microblog using #Fedify. Thanks for spreading the word about Fedify in Japan! 🇯🇵
Excited to see the #FediLUG (#Fediverse Linux Users Group) in #Japan organizing a reading club for our Creating your own federated microblog tutorial! 🎉 Their first session is coming up, where participants will work through creating their own #ActivityPub-compatible microblog using #Fedify. Thanks for spreading the word about Fedify in Japan! 🇯🇵
Excited to see the #FediLUG (#Fediverse Linux Users Group) in #Japan organizing a reading club for our Creating your own federated microblog tutorial! 🎉 Their first session is coming up, where participants will work through creating their own #ActivityPub-compatible microblog using #Fedify. Thanks for spreading the word about Fedify in Japan! 🇯🇵
Excited to see the #FediLUG (#Fediverse Linux Users Group) in #Japan organizing a reading club for our Creating your own federated microblog tutorial! 🎉 Their first session is coming up, where participants will work through creating their own #ActivityPub-compatible microblog using #Fedify. Thanks for spreading the word about Fedify in Japan! 🇯🇵
Excited to see the #FediLUG (#Fediverse Linux Users Group) in #Japan organizing a reading club for our Creating your own federated microblog tutorial! 🎉 Their first session is coming up, where participants will work through creating their own #ActivityPub-compatible microblog using #Fedify. Thanks for spreading the word about Fedify in Japan! 🇯🇵
Coming soon in #Fedify 1.5.0: Smart fan-out for efficient activity delivery!
After getting feedback about our queue design, we're excited to introduce a significant improvement for accounts with large follower counts.
As we discussed in our previous post, Fedify currently creates separate queue messages for each recipient. While this approach offers excellent reliability and individual retry capabilities, it causes performance issues when sending activities to thousands of followers.
Our solution? A new two-stage “fan-out” approach:
When you call Context.sendActivity(), we'll now enqueue just one consolidated message containing your activity payload and recipient list
A background worker then processes this message and re-enqueues individual delivery tasks
The benefits are substantial:
Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly, even for massive follower counts
Memory usage is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication
UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly
The same reliability for individual deliveries is maintained
For developers with specific needs, we're adding a fanout option with three settings:
"auto" (default): Uses fanout for large recipient lists, direct delivery for small ones
"skip": Bypasses fanout when you need different payload per recipient
"force": Always uses fanout even with few recipients
ALT text detailsFlowchart comparing Fedify's current approach versus the new fan-out approach for activity delivery.
The current approach shows:
1. sendActivity calls create separate messages for each recipient (marked as a response time bottleneck)
2. These individual messages are queued in outbox
3. Messages are processed independently
4. Three delivery outcomes: Recipient 1 (fast delivery), Recipient 2 (fast delivery), and Recipient 3 (slow server)
The fan-out approach shows:
1. sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients
2. This single message is queued in fan-out queue (marked as providing quick response)
3. A background worker processes the fan-out message
4. The worker re-enqueues individual messages in outbox
5. These are then processed independently
6. Three delivery outcomes: Recipient 1 (fast delivery), Recipient 2 (fast delivery), and Recipient 3 (slow server)
The diagram highlights how the fan-out approach moves the heavy processing out of the response path, providing faster API response times while maintaining the same delivery characteristics.
Got an interesting question today about #Fedify's outgoing #queue design!
Some users noticed we create separate queue messages for each recipient inbox rather than queuing a single message and handling the splitting later. There's a good reason for this approach.
In the #fediverse, server response times vary dramatically—some respond quickly, others slowly, and some might be temporarily down. If we processed deliveries in a single task, the entire batch would be held up by the slowest server in the group.
By creating individual queue items for each recipient:
Fast servers get messages delivered promptly
Slow servers don't delay delivery to others
Failed deliveries can be retried independently
Your UI remains responsive while deliveries happen in the background
It's a classic trade-off: we generate more queue messages, but gain better resilience and user experience in return.
This is particularly important in federated networks where server behavior is unpredictable and outside our control. We'd rather optimize for making sure your posts reach their destinations as quickly as possible!
What other aspects of Fedify's design would you like to hear about? Let us know!
ALT text detailsA flowchart comparing two approaches to message queue design. The top half shows “Fedify's Current Approach” where a single sendActivity call creates separate messages for each recipient, which are individually queued and processed independently. This results in fast delivery to working recipients while slow servers only affect their own delivery. The bottom half shows an “Alternative Approach” where sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients, queued as one item, and processed sequentially. This results in all recipients waiting for each delivery to complete, with slow servers blocking everyone in the queue.
Coming soon in #Fedify 1.5.0: Smart fan-out for efficient activity delivery!
After getting feedback about our queue design, we're excited to introduce a significant improvement for accounts with large follower counts.
As we discussed in our previous post, Fedify currently creates separate queue messages for each recipient. While this approach offers excellent reliability and individual retry capabilities, it causes performance issues when sending activities to thousands of followers.
Our solution? A new two-stage “fan-out” approach:
When you call Context.sendActivity(), we'll now enqueue just one consolidated message containing your activity payload and recipient list
A background worker then processes this message and re-enqueues individual delivery tasks
The benefits are substantial:
Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly, even for massive follower counts
Memory usage is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication
UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly
The same reliability for individual deliveries is maintained
For developers with specific needs, we're adding a fanout option with three settings:
"auto" (default): Uses fanout for large recipient lists, direct delivery for small ones
"skip": Bypasses fanout when you need different payload per recipient
"force": Always uses fanout even with few recipients
ALT text detailsFlowchart comparing Fedify's current approach versus the new fan-out approach for activity delivery.
The current approach shows:
1. sendActivity calls create separate messages for each recipient (marked as a response time bottleneck)
2. These individual messages are queued in outbox
3. Messages are processed independently
4. Three delivery outcomes: Recipient 1 (fast delivery), Recipient 2 (fast delivery), and Recipient 3 (slow server)
The fan-out approach shows:
1. sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients
2. This single message is queued in fan-out queue (marked as providing quick response)
3. A background worker processes the fan-out message
4. The worker re-enqueues individual messages in outbox
5. These are then processed independently
6. Three delivery outcomes: Recipient 1 (fast delivery), Recipient 2 (fast delivery), and Recipient 3 (slow server)
The diagram highlights how the fan-out approach moves the heavy processing out of the response path, providing faster API response times while maintaining the same delivery characteristics.
Got an interesting question today about #Fedify's outgoing #queue design!
Some users noticed we create separate queue messages for each recipient inbox rather than queuing a single message and handling the splitting later. There's a good reason for this approach.
In the #fediverse, server response times vary dramatically—some respond quickly, others slowly, and some might be temporarily down. If we processed deliveries in a single task, the entire batch would be held up by the slowest server in the group.
By creating individual queue items for each recipient:
Fast servers get messages delivered promptly
Slow servers don't delay delivery to others
Failed deliveries can be retried independently
Your UI remains responsive while deliveries happen in the background
It's a classic trade-off: we generate more queue messages, but gain better resilience and user experience in return.
This is particularly important in federated networks where server behavior is unpredictable and outside our control. We'd rather optimize for making sure your posts reach their destinations as quickly as possible!
What other aspects of Fedify's design would you like to hear about? Let us know!
ALT text detailsA flowchart comparing two approaches to message queue design. The top half shows “Fedify's Current Approach” where a single sendActivity call creates separate messages for each recipient, which are individually queued and processed independently. This results in fast delivery to working recipients while slow servers only affect their own delivery. The bottom half shows an “Alternative Approach” where sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients, queued as one item, and processed sequentially. This results in all recipients waiting for each delivery to complete, with slow servers blocking everyone in the queue.
Coming soon in #Fedify 1.5.0: Smart fan-out for efficient activity delivery!
After getting feedback about our queue design, we're excited to introduce a significant improvement for accounts with large follower counts.
As we discussed in our previous post, Fedify currently creates separate queue messages for each recipient. While this approach offers excellent reliability and individual retry capabilities, it causes performance issues when sending activities to thousands of followers.
Our solution? A new two-stage “fan-out” approach:
When you call Context.sendActivity(), we'll now enqueue just one consolidated message containing your activity payload and recipient list
A background worker then processes this message and re-enqueues individual delivery tasks
The benefits are substantial:
Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly, even for massive follower counts
Memory usage is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication
UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly
The same reliability for individual deliveries is maintained
For developers with specific needs, we're adding a fanout option with three settings:
"auto" (default): Uses fanout for large recipient lists, direct delivery for small ones
"skip": Bypasses fanout when you need different payload per recipient
"force": Always uses fanout even with few recipients
ALT text detailsFlowchart comparing Fedify's current approach versus the new fan-out approach for activity delivery.
The current approach shows:
1. sendActivity calls create separate messages for each recipient (marked as a response time bottleneck)
2. These individual messages are queued in outbox
3. Messages are processed independently
4. Three delivery outcomes: Recipient 1 (fast delivery), Recipient 2 (fast delivery), and Recipient 3 (slow server)
The fan-out approach shows:
1. sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients
2. This single message is queued in fan-out queue (marked as providing quick response)
3. A background worker processes the fan-out message
4. The worker re-enqueues individual messages in outbox
5. These are then processed independently
6. Three delivery outcomes: Recipient 1 (fast delivery), Recipient 2 (fast delivery), and Recipient 3 (slow server)
The diagram highlights how the fan-out approach moves the heavy processing out of the response path, providing faster API response times while maintaining the same delivery characteristics.
Got an interesting question today about #Fedify's outgoing #queue design!
Some users noticed we create separate queue messages for each recipient inbox rather than queuing a single message and handling the splitting later. There's a good reason for this approach.
In the #fediverse, server response times vary dramatically—some respond quickly, others slowly, and some might be temporarily down. If we processed deliveries in a single task, the entire batch would be held up by the slowest server in the group.
By creating individual queue items for each recipient:
Fast servers get messages delivered promptly
Slow servers don't delay delivery to others
Failed deliveries can be retried independently
Your UI remains responsive while deliveries happen in the background
It's a classic trade-off: we generate more queue messages, but gain better resilience and user experience in return.
This is particularly important in federated networks where server behavior is unpredictable and outside our control. We'd rather optimize for making sure your posts reach their destinations as quickly as possible!
What other aspects of Fedify's design would you like to hear about? Let us know!
ALT text detailsA flowchart comparing two approaches to message queue design. The top half shows “Fedify's Current Approach” where a single sendActivity call creates separate messages for each recipient, which are individually queued and processed independently. This results in fast delivery to working recipients while slow servers only affect their own delivery. The bottom half shows an “Alternative Approach” where sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients, queued as one item, and processed sequentially. This results in all recipients waiting for each delivery to complete, with slow servers blocking everyone in the queue.
Coming soon in #Fedify 1.5.0: Smart fan-out for efficient activity delivery!
After getting feedback about our queue design, we're excited to introduce a significant improvement for accounts with large follower counts.
As we discussed in our previous post, Fedify currently creates separate queue messages for each recipient. While this approach offers excellent reliability and individual retry capabilities, it causes performance issues when sending activities to thousands of followers.
Our solution? A new two-stage “fan-out” approach:
When you call Context.sendActivity(), we'll now enqueue just one consolidated message containing your activity payload and recipient list
A background worker then processes this message and re-enqueues individual delivery tasks
The benefits are substantial:
Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly, even for massive follower counts
Memory usage is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication
UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly
The same reliability for individual deliveries is maintained
For developers with specific needs, we're adding a fanout option with three settings:
"auto" (default): Uses fanout for large recipient lists, direct delivery for small ones
"skip": Bypasses fanout when you need different payload per recipient
"force": Always uses fanout even with few recipients
ALT text detailsFlowchart comparing Fedify's current approach versus the new fan-out approach for activity delivery.
The current approach shows:
1. sendActivity calls create separate messages for each recipient (marked as a response time bottleneck)
2. These individual messages are queued in outbox
3. Messages are processed independently
4. Three delivery outcomes: Recipient 1 (fast delivery), Recipient 2 (fast delivery), and Recipient 3 (slow server)
The fan-out approach shows:
1. sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients
2. This single message is queued in fan-out queue (marked as providing quick response)
3. A background worker processes the fan-out message
4. The worker re-enqueues individual messages in outbox
5. These are then processed independently
6. Three delivery outcomes: Recipient 1 (fast delivery), Recipient 2 (fast delivery), and Recipient 3 (slow server)
The diagram highlights how the fan-out approach moves the heavy processing out of the response path, providing faster API response times while maintaining the same delivery characteristics.
Got an interesting question today about #Fedify's outgoing #queue design!
Some users noticed we create separate queue messages for each recipient inbox rather than queuing a single message and handling the splitting later. There's a good reason for this approach.
In the #fediverse, server response times vary dramatically—some respond quickly, others slowly, and some might be temporarily down. If we processed deliveries in a single task, the entire batch would be held up by the slowest server in the group.
By creating individual queue items for each recipient:
Fast servers get messages delivered promptly
Slow servers don't delay delivery to others
Failed deliveries can be retried independently
Your UI remains responsive while deliveries happen in the background
It's a classic trade-off: we generate more queue messages, but gain better resilience and user experience in return.
This is particularly important in federated networks where server behavior is unpredictable and outside our control. We'd rather optimize for making sure your posts reach their destinations as quickly as possible!
What other aspects of Fedify's design would you like to hear about? Let us know!
ALT text detailsA flowchart comparing two approaches to message queue design. The top half shows “Fedify's Current Approach” where a single sendActivity call creates separate messages for each recipient, which are individually queued and processed independently. This results in fast delivery to working recipients while slow servers only affect their own delivery. The bottom half shows an “Alternative Approach” where sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients, queued as one item, and processed sequentially. This results in all recipients waiting for each delivery to complete, with slow servers blocking everyone in the queue.
Coming soon in #Fedify 1.5.0: Smart fan-out for efficient activity delivery!
After getting feedback about our queue design, we're excited to introduce a significant improvement for accounts with large follower counts.
As we discussed in our previous post, Fedify currently creates separate queue messages for each recipient. While this approach offers excellent reliability and individual retry capabilities, it causes performance issues when sending activities to thousands of followers.
Our solution? A new two-stage “fan-out” approach:
When you call Context.sendActivity(), we'll now enqueue just one consolidated message containing your activity payload and recipient list
A background worker then processes this message and re-enqueues individual delivery tasks
The benefits are substantial:
Context.sendActivity() returns almost instantly, even for massive follower counts
Memory usage is dramatically reduced by avoiding payload duplication
UI responsiveness improves since web requests complete quickly
The same reliability for individual deliveries is maintained
For developers with specific needs, we're adding a fanout option with three settings:
"auto" (default): Uses fanout for large recipient lists, direct delivery for small ones
"skip": Bypasses fanout when you need different payload per recipient
"force": Always uses fanout even with few recipients
ALT text detailsFlowchart comparing Fedify's current approach versus the new fan-out approach for activity delivery.
The current approach shows:
1. sendActivity calls create separate messages for each recipient (marked as a response time bottleneck)
2. These individual messages are queued in outbox
3. Messages are processed independently
4. Three delivery outcomes: Recipient 1 (fast delivery), Recipient 2 (fast delivery), and Recipient 3 (slow server)
The fan-out approach shows:
1. sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients
2. This single message is queued in fan-out queue (marked as providing quick response)
3. A background worker processes the fan-out message
4. The worker re-enqueues individual messages in outbox
5. These are then processed independently
6. Three delivery outcomes: Recipient 1 (fast delivery), Recipient 2 (fast delivery), and Recipient 3 (slow server)
The diagram highlights how the fan-out approach moves the heavy processing out of the response path, providing faster API response times while maintaining the same delivery characteristics.
Got an interesting question today about #Fedify's outgoing #queue design!
Some users noticed we create separate queue messages for each recipient inbox rather than queuing a single message and handling the splitting later. There's a good reason for this approach.
In the #fediverse, server response times vary dramatically—some respond quickly, others slowly, and some might be temporarily down. If we processed deliveries in a single task, the entire batch would be held up by the slowest server in the group.
By creating individual queue items for each recipient:
Fast servers get messages delivered promptly
Slow servers don't delay delivery to others
Failed deliveries can be retried independently
Your UI remains responsive while deliveries happen in the background
It's a classic trade-off: we generate more queue messages, but gain better resilience and user experience in return.
This is particularly important in federated networks where server behavior is unpredictable and outside our control. We'd rather optimize for making sure your posts reach their destinations as quickly as possible!
What other aspects of Fedify's design would you like to hear about? Let us know!
ALT text detailsA flowchart comparing two approaches to message queue design. The top half shows “Fedify's Current Approach” where a single sendActivity call creates separate messages for each recipient, which are individually queued and processed independently. This results in fast delivery to working recipients while slow servers only affect their own delivery. The bottom half shows an “Alternative Approach” where sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients, queued as one item, and processed sequentially. This results in all recipients waiting for each delivery to complete, with slow servers blocking everyone in the queue.
Got an interesting question today about #Fedify's outgoing #queue design!
Some users noticed we create separate queue messages for each recipient inbox rather than queuing a single message and handling the splitting later. There's a good reason for this approach.
In the #fediverse, server response times vary dramatically—some respond quickly, others slowly, and some might be temporarily down. If we processed deliveries in a single task, the entire batch would be held up by the slowest server in the group.
By creating individual queue items for each recipient:
Fast servers get messages delivered promptly
Slow servers don't delay delivery to others
Failed deliveries can be retried independently
Your UI remains responsive while deliveries happen in the background
It's a classic trade-off: we generate more queue messages, but gain better resilience and user experience in return.
This is particularly important in federated networks where server behavior is unpredictable and outside our control. We'd rather optimize for making sure your posts reach their destinations as quickly as possible!
What other aspects of Fedify's design would you like to hear about? Let us know!
ALT text detailsA flowchart comparing two approaches to message queue design. The top half shows “Fedify's Current Approach” where a single sendActivity call creates separate messages for each recipient, which are individually queued and processed independently. This results in fast delivery to working recipients while slow servers only affect their own delivery. The bottom half shows an “Alternative Approach” where sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients, queued as one item, and processed sequentially. This results in all recipients waiting for each delivery to complete, with slow servers blocking everyone in the queue.
Fedify는 #ActivityPub 기반 연합형 서버 프레임워크로, 개발자들이 분산형 소셜 네트워크인 #연합우주(#fediverse)에 애플리케이션을 쉽게 통합할 수 있도록 돕습니다. 복잡한 ActivityPub 프로토콜 구현을 단순화하여 개발 시간을 크게 단축시킵니다. MIT 라이선스 하에 제공되는 오픈 소스 프로젝트입니다.
💼 Fedify를 활용하는 프로젝트들
다양한 프로젝트들이 이미 Fedify를 활용하고 있습니다:
Ghost: 수백만 사용자를 보유한 전문적인 오픈 소스(MIT 라이선스) 퍼블리싱 플랫폼으로, Fedify의 주요 후원사이자 파트너입니다.
Is the world in need of a federated Craigslist/Kleinanzeigen platform? I am currently thinking about a project to dig into #fediverse development and learning #golang or stay with #deno and using #fedify.
Is the world in need of a federated Craigslist/Kleinanzeigen platform? I am currently thinking about a project to dig into #fediverse development and learning #golang or stay with #deno and using #fedify.
Fedify (@fedify) is a #TypeScript library for building federated server applications powered by ActivityPub and other #fediverse standards. It provides type-safe objects for Activity Vocabulary, WebFinger client/server, HTTP Signatures, and more—eliminating boilerplate code so you can focus on your application logic.
Hollo (@hollo) is a single-user microblogging server powered by Fedify. While designed for individual users, it's fully federated through ActivityPub, allowing interaction with users across the fediverse. #Hollo implements Mastodon-compatible APIs, making it compatible with most Mastodon clients without needing its own web interface.
Hollo also serves as our testing ground for bleeding-edge Fedify features before they're officially released.
BotKit (@botkit) is our newest family member—a framework specifically designed for creating ActivityPub bots. Unlike traditional Mastodon bots, #BotKit creates standalone ActivityPub servers that aren't constrained by platform-specific limitations (like character counts).
BotKit's API is intentionally simple—you can create a complete bot in a single TypeScript file!
All three projects are open source and hosted under the @fedify-dev GitHub organization. While they serve different purposes, they share common goals: making ActivityPub development more accessible and expanding the fediverse ecosystem.
If you're interested in trying any of these projects or contributing to their development, check out:
Hollo(@hollo)는 Fedify로 구동되는 1인 사용자용 마이크로블로깅 서버입니다. 1인 사용자를 위해 설계되었지만, ActivityPub를 통해 완전히 연합되어 연합우주 전체의 사용자들과 상호작용할 수 있습니다. Hollo는 Mastodon 호환 API를 구현하여 자체 웹 인터페이스 없이도 대부분의 Mastodon 클라이언트와 호환됩니다.
Hollo는 또한 정식 출시 전에 최신 Fedify 기능을 테스트하는 실험장으로도 활용되고 있습니다.
BotKit(@botkit)은 저희의 가장 새로운 구성원으로, ActivityPub 봇을 만들기 위해 특별히 설계된 프레임워크입니다. 전통적인 Mastodon 봇과 달리, BotKit은 플랫폼별 제한(글자 수 제한 등)에 구애받지 않는 독립적인 ActivityPub 서버를 만듭니다.
BotKit의 API는 의도적으로 단순하게 설계되어 단일 TypeScript 파일로 완전한 봇을 만들 수 있습니다!
세 프로젝트 모두 @fedify-dev GitHub 조직에서 오픈 소스로 공개되어 있습니다. 각기 다른 목적을 가지고 있지만, ActivityPub 개발을 더 접근하기 쉽게 만들고 연합우주 생태계를 확장한다는 공통된 목표를 공유합니다.
이러한 프로젝트를 사용해보거나 개발에 기여하는 데 관심이 있으시다면, 다음을 확인해보세요:
Hollo(@hollo)는 Fedify로 구동되는 1인 사용자용 마이크로블로깅 서버입니다. 1인 사용자를 위해 설계되었지만, ActivityPub를 통해 완전히 연합되어 연합우주 전체의 사용자들과 상호작용할 수 있습니다. Hollo는 Mastodon 호환 API를 구현하여 자체 웹 인터페이스 없이도 대부분의 Mastodon 클라이언트와 호환됩니다.
Hollo는 또한 정식 출시 전에 최신 Fedify 기능을 테스트하는 실험장으로도 활용되고 있습니다.
BotKit(@botkit)은 저희의 가장 새로운 구성원으로, ActivityPub 봇을 만들기 위해 특별히 설계된 프레임워크입니다. 전통적인 Mastodon 봇과 달리, BotKit은 플랫폼별 제한(글자 수 제한 등)에 구애받지 않는 독립적인 ActivityPub 서버를 만듭니다.
BotKit의 API는 의도적으로 단순하게 설계되어 단일 TypeScript 파일로 완전한 봇을 만들 수 있습니다!
세 프로젝트 모두 @fedify-dev GitHub 조직에서 오픈 소스로 공개되어 있습니다. 각기 다른 목적을 가지고 있지만, ActivityPub 개발을 더 접근하기 쉽게 만들고 연합우주 생태계를 확장한다는 공통된 목표를 공유합니다.
이러한 프로젝트를 사용해보거나 개발에 기여하는 데 관심이 있으시다면, 다음을 확인해보세요:
Fedify (@fedify) is a #TypeScript library for building federated server applications powered by ActivityPub and other #fediverse standards. It provides type-safe objects for Activity Vocabulary, WebFinger client/server, HTTP Signatures, and more—eliminating boilerplate code so you can focus on your application logic.
Hollo (@hollo) is a single-user microblogging server powered by Fedify. While designed for individual users, it's fully federated through ActivityPub, allowing interaction with users across the fediverse. #Hollo implements Mastodon-compatible APIs, making it compatible with most Mastodon clients without needing its own web interface.
Hollo also serves as our testing ground for bleeding-edge Fedify features before they're officially released.
BotKit (@botkit) is our newest family member—a framework specifically designed for creating ActivityPub bots. Unlike traditional Mastodon bots, #BotKit creates standalone ActivityPub servers that aren't constrained by platform-specific limitations (like character counts).
BotKit's API is intentionally simple—you can create a complete bot in a single TypeScript file!
All three projects are open source and hosted under the @fedify-dev GitHub organization. While they serve different purposes, they share common goals: making ActivityPub development more accessible and expanding the fediverse ecosystem.
If you're interested in trying any of these projects or contributing to their development, check out:
Getting back to #Fedify development today! Working on optimizing the outgoing activity queue to improve response times. Currently focusing on reducing latency when sending posts to large follower counts—should make the whole publishing experience feel much snappier.
Getting back to #Fedify development today! Working on optimizing the outgoing activity queue to improve response times. Currently focusing on reducing latency when sending posts to large follower counts—should make the whole publishing experience feel much snappier.
We've been working on adding custom background task support to #Fedify as planned for version 1.5.0. After diving deeper into implementation, we've realized this is a more substantial undertaking than initially anticipated.
The feature would require significant API changes that would be too disruptive for a minor version update. Therefore, we've decided to postpone this feature to Fedify 2.0.0.
This allows us to:
Design a more robust and flexible worker architecture
Ensure better integration with existing task queue systems
Properly document the new APIs without rushing
We believe this decision will result in a more stable and well-designed feature that better serves your needs. However, some smaller improvements from our work that don't require API changes will still be included in Fedify 1.5.0 or subsequent minor updates.
We appreciate your understanding and continued support.
If you have specific use cases or requirements for background task support, please share them in our GitHub issue. Your input will help shape this feature for 2.0.0.
We've been working on adding custom background task support to #Fedify as planned for version 1.5.0. After diving deeper into implementation, we've realized this is a more substantial undertaking than initially anticipated.
The feature would require significant API changes that would be too disruptive for a minor version update. Therefore, we've decided to postpone this feature to Fedify 2.0.0.
This allows us to:
Design a more robust and flexible worker architecture
Ensure better integration with existing task queue systems
Properly document the new APIs without rushing
We believe this decision will result in a more stable and well-designed feature that better serves your needs. However, some smaller improvements from our work that don't require API changes will still be included in Fedify 1.5.0 or subsequent minor updates.
We appreciate your understanding and continued support.
If you have specific use cases or requirements for background task support, please share them in our GitHub issue. Your input will help shape this feature for 2.0.0.
We've been working on adding custom background task support to #Fedify as planned for version 1.5.0. After diving deeper into implementation, we've realized this is a more substantial undertaking than initially anticipated.
The feature would require significant API changes that would be too disruptive for a minor version update. Therefore, we've decided to postpone this feature to Fedify 2.0.0.
This allows us to:
Design a more robust and flexible worker architecture
Ensure better integration with existing task queue systems
Properly document the new APIs without rushing
We believe this decision will result in a more stable and well-designed feature that better serves your needs. However, some smaller improvements from our work that don't require API changes will still be included in Fedify 1.5.0 or subsequent minor updates.
We appreciate your understanding and continued support.
If you have specific use cases or requirements for background task support, please share them in our GitHub issue. Your input will help shape this feature for 2.0.0.
Patch releases for #Fedify versions 1.0.21, 1.1.18, 1.2.18, 1.3.14, and 1.4.7 are now available. These updates address two important bugs across all supported release lines:
Fixed a WebFinger handler bug that prevented matching acct: URIs with port numbers in the host. Thanks to @revathskumar for reporting and debugging the bug!
Resolved server errors that occurred when invalid URLs were passed to the base-url parameter of followers collections.
We recommend all users upgrade to these latest patch versions for improved stability and federation compatibility.
Patch releases for #Fedify versions 1.0.21, 1.1.18, 1.2.18, 1.3.14, and 1.4.7 are now available. These updates address two important bugs across all supported release lines:
Fixed a WebFinger handler bug that prevented matching acct: URIs with port numbers in the host. Thanks to @revathskumar for reporting and debugging the bug!
Resolved server errors that occurred when invalid URLs were passed to the base-url parameter of followers collections.
We recommend all users upgrade to these latest patch versions for improved stability and federation compatibility.
Patch releases for #Fedify versions 1.0.21, 1.1.18, 1.2.18, 1.3.14, and 1.4.7 are now available. These updates address two important bugs across all supported release lines:
Fixed a WebFinger handler bug that prevented matching acct: URIs with port numbers in the host. Thanks to @revathskumar for reporting and debugging the bug!
Resolved server errors that occurred when invalid URLs were passed to the base-url parameter of followers collections.
We recommend all users upgrade to these latest patch versions for improved stability and federation compatibility.
Is the world in need of a federated Craigslist/Kleinanzeigen platform? I am currently thinking about a project to dig into #fediverse development and learning #golang or stay with #deno and using #fedify.
Got an interesting question today about #Fedify's outgoing #queue design!
Some users noticed we create separate queue messages for each recipient inbox rather than queuing a single message and handling the splitting later. There's a good reason for this approach.
In the #fediverse, server response times vary dramatically—some respond quickly, others slowly, and some might be temporarily down. If we processed deliveries in a single task, the entire batch would be held up by the slowest server in the group.
By creating individual queue items for each recipient:
Fast servers get messages delivered promptly
Slow servers don't delay delivery to others
Failed deliveries can be retried independently
Your UI remains responsive while deliveries happen in the background
It's a classic trade-off: we generate more queue messages, but gain better resilience and user experience in return.
This is particularly important in federated networks where server behavior is unpredictable and outside our control. We'd rather optimize for making sure your posts reach their destinations as quickly as possible!
What other aspects of Fedify's design would you like to hear about? Let us know!
ALT text detailsA flowchart comparing two approaches to message queue design. The top half shows “Fedify's Current Approach” where a single sendActivity call creates separate messages for each recipient, which are individually queued and processed independently. This results in fast delivery to working recipients while slow servers only affect their own delivery. The bottom half shows an “Alternative Approach” where sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients, queued as one item, and processed sequentially. This results in all recipients waiting for each delivery to complete, with slow servers blocking everyone in the queue.
Got an interesting question today about #Fedify's outgoing #queue design!
Some users noticed we create separate queue messages for each recipient inbox rather than queuing a single message and handling the splitting later. There's a good reason for this approach.
In the #fediverse, server response times vary dramatically—some respond quickly, others slowly, and some might be temporarily down. If we processed deliveries in a single task, the entire batch would be held up by the slowest server in the group.
By creating individual queue items for each recipient:
Fast servers get messages delivered promptly
Slow servers don't delay delivery to others
Failed deliveries can be retried independently
Your UI remains responsive while deliveries happen in the background
It's a classic trade-off: we generate more queue messages, but gain better resilience and user experience in return.
This is particularly important in federated networks where server behavior is unpredictable and outside our control. We'd rather optimize for making sure your posts reach their destinations as quickly as possible!
What other aspects of Fedify's design would you like to hear about? Let us know!
ALT text detailsA flowchart comparing two approaches to message queue design. The top half shows “Fedify's Current Approach” where a single sendActivity call creates separate messages for each recipient, which are individually queued and processed independently. This results in fast delivery to working recipients while slow servers only affect their own delivery. The bottom half shows an “Alternative Approach” where sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients, queued as one item, and processed sequentially. This results in all recipients waiting for each delivery to complete, with slow servers blocking everyone in the queue.
Got an interesting question today about #Fedify's outgoing #queue design!
Some users noticed we create separate queue messages for each recipient inbox rather than queuing a single message and handling the splitting later. There's a good reason for this approach.
In the #fediverse, server response times vary dramatically—some respond quickly, others slowly, and some might be temporarily down. If we processed deliveries in a single task, the entire batch would be held up by the slowest server in the group.
By creating individual queue items for each recipient:
Fast servers get messages delivered promptly
Slow servers don't delay delivery to others
Failed deliveries can be retried independently
Your UI remains responsive while deliveries happen in the background
It's a classic trade-off: we generate more queue messages, but gain better resilience and user experience in return.
This is particularly important in federated networks where server behavior is unpredictable and outside our control. We'd rather optimize for making sure your posts reach their destinations as quickly as possible!
What other aspects of Fedify's design would you like to hear about? Let us know!
ALT text detailsA flowchart comparing two approaches to message queue design. The top half shows “Fedify's Current Approach” where a single sendActivity call creates separate messages for each recipient, which are individually queued and processed independently. This results in fast delivery to working recipients while slow servers only affect their own delivery. The bottom half shows an “Alternative Approach” where sendActivity creates a single message with multiple recipients, queued as one item, and processed sequentially. This results in all recipients waiting for each delivery to complete, with slow servers blocking everyone in the queue.
Simple ActivityPub bot framework. A framework for creating your fediverse bots. Using @botkit, you can create standalone ActivityPub bots rather than Mastodon/Misskey bots. Hence, you are free from the constraints of the existing platforms. BotKit is powered by @fedify, a lower-level rock-solid ActivityPub framework.
Simple ActivityPub bot framework. A framework for creating your fediverse bots. Using @botkit, you can create standalone ActivityPub bots rather than Mastodon/Misskey bots. Hence, you are free from the constraints of the existing platforms. BotKit is powered by @fedify, a lower-level rock-solid ActivityPub framework.
Fedify is looking for new partnership opportunities!
What is Fedify?
#Fedify is an #ActivityPub-based federated server framework that helps developers easily integrate their applications with the #fediverse, a decentralized social network. It simplifies the complex implementation of the ActivityPub protocol, significantly reducing development time. Fedify is an open-source project available under the MIT license.
💼 Projects using Fedify
Various projects are already leveraging Fedify:
Ghost: A professional publishing platform with millions of users, open source under MIT license, and a major sponsor and partner of Fedify.
Hollo: A lightweight microblogging platform for individual users (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Hackers' Pub: A fediverse blogging platform for software engineers (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Encyclia: A bridge service that makes ORCID academic records available via ActivityPub
🚀 Value provided by Fedify
80% development time reduction: Utilize a proven framework instead of complex ActivityPub implementation
Immediate fediverse compatibility: Instant compatibility with various fediverse services including Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Pixelfed, PeerTube, etc.
Expert technical support: Direct support from ActivityPub and Federation protocol experts
Custom development: Tailored feature development to meet your specific requirements
🤝 Potential collaboration models
Custom consulting and integration support: Professional assistance for integrating Fedify into your platform
Custom feature development: Development and implementation of specific features needed for your platform
Long-term technical partnership: Long-term collaboration for continuous development and maintenance
🌟 Benefits of collaborating with Fedify
Technical advantage: Save time and resources compared to in-house implementation
Brand image: Enhance corporate image through support of the open-source ecosystem
Entry to decentralized social networks: Easily participate in the fediverse ecosystem
Competitive edge: Strengthen product competitiveness through social features
📩 Interested?
If you're considering implementing ActivityPub or wish to collaborate with the Fedify project, please get in touch:
Fedify is looking for new partnership opportunities!
What is Fedify?
#Fedify is an #ActivityPub-based federated server framework that helps developers easily integrate their applications with the #fediverse, a decentralized social network. It simplifies the complex implementation of the ActivityPub protocol, significantly reducing development time. Fedify is an open-source project available under the MIT license.
💼 Projects using Fedify
Various projects are already leveraging Fedify:
Ghost: A professional publishing platform with millions of users, open source under MIT license, and a major sponsor and partner of Fedify.
Hollo: A lightweight microblogging platform for individual users (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Hackers' Pub: A fediverse blogging platform for software engineers (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Encyclia: A bridge service that makes ORCID academic records available via ActivityPub
🚀 Value provided by Fedify
80% development time reduction: Utilize a proven framework instead of complex ActivityPub implementation
Immediate fediverse compatibility: Instant compatibility with various fediverse services including Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Pixelfed, PeerTube, etc.
Expert technical support: Direct support from ActivityPub and Federation protocol experts
Custom development: Tailored feature development to meet your specific requirements
🤝 Potential collaboration models
Custom consulting and integration support: Professional assistance for integrating Fedify into your platform
Custom feature development: Development and implementation of specific features needed for your platform
Long-term technical partnership: Long-term collaboration for continuous development and maintenance
🌟 Benefits of collaborating with Fedify
Technical advantage: Save time and resources compared to in-house implementation
Brand image: Enhance corporate image through support of the open-source ecosystem
Entry to decentralized social networks: Easily participate in the fediverse ecosystem
Competitive edge: Strengthen product competitiveness through social features
📩 Interested?
If you're considering implementing ActivityPub or wish to collaborate with the Fedify project, please get in touch:
Fedify는 #ActivityPub 기반 연합형 서버 프레임워크로, 개발자들이 분산형 소셜 네트워크인 #연합우주(#fediverse)에 애플리케이션을 쉽게 통합할 수 있도록 돕습니다. 복잡한 ActivityPub 프로토콜 구현을 단순화하여 개발 시간을 크게 단축시킵니다. MIT 라이선스 하에 제공되는 오픈 소스 프로젝트입니다.
💼 Fedify를 활용하는 프로젝트들
다양한 프로젝트들이 이미 Fedify를 활용하고 있습니다:
Ghost: 수백만 사용자를 보유한 전문적인 오픈 소스(MIT 라이선스) 퍼블리싱 플랫폼으로, Fedify의 주요 후원사이자 파트너입니다.
Fedify is looking for new partnership opportunities!
What is Fedify?
#Fedify is an #ActivityPub-based federated server framework that helps developers easily integrate their applications with the #fediverse, a decentralized social network. It simplifies the complex implementation of the ActivityPub protocol, significantly reducing development time. Fedify is an open-source project available under the MIT license.
💼 Projects using Fedify
Various projects are already leveraging Fedify:
Ghost: A professional publishing platform with millions of users, open source under MIT license, and a major sponsor and partner of Fedify.
Hollo: A lightweight microblogging platform for individual users (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Hackers' Pub: A fediverse blogging platform for software engineers (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Encyclia: A bridge service that makes ORCID academic records available via ActivityPub
🚀 Value provided by Fedify
80% development time reduction: Utilize a proven framework instead of complex ActivityPub implementation
Immediate fediverse compatibility: Instant compatibility with various fediverse services including Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Pixelfed, PeerTube, etc.
Expert technical support: Direct support from ActivityPub and Federation protocol experts
Custom development: Tailored feature development to meet your specific requirements
🤝 Potential collaboration models
Custom consulting and integration support: Professional assistance for integrating Fedify into your platform
Custom feature development: Development and implementation of specific features needed for your platform
Long-term technical partnership: Long-term collaboration for continuous development and maintenance
🌟 Benefits of collaborating with Fedify
Technical advantage: Save time and resources compared to in-house implementation
Brand image: Enhance corporate image through support of the open-source ecosystem
Entry to decentralized social networks: Easily participate in the fediverse ecosystem
Competitive edge: Strengthen product competitiveness through social features
📩 Interested?
If you're considering implementing ActivityPub or wish to collaborate with the Fedify project, please get in touch:
Fedify는 #ActivityPub 기반 연합형 서버 프레임워크로, 개발자들이 분산형 소셜 네트워크인 #연합우주(#fediverse)에 애플리케이션을 쉽게 통합할 수 있도록 돕습니다. 복잡한 ActivityPub 프로토콜 구현을 단순화하여 개발 시간을 크게 단축시킵니다. MIT 라이선스 하에 제공되는 오픈 소스 프로젝트입니다.
💼 Fedify를 활용하는 프로젝트들
다양한 프로젝트들이 이미 Fedify를 활용하고 있습니다:
Ghost: 수백만 사용자를 보유한 전문적인 오픈 소스(MIT 라이선스) 퍼블리싱 플랫폼으로, Fedify의 주요 후원사이자 파트너입니다.
Fedify is looking for new partnership opportunities!
What is Fedify?
#Fedify is an #ActivityPub-based federated server framework that helps developers easily integrate their applications with the #fediverse, a decentralized social network. It simplifies the complex implementation of the ActivityPub protocol, significantly reducing development time. Fedify is an open-source project available under the MIT license.
💼 Projects using Fedify
Various projects are already leveraging Fedify:
Ghost: A professional publishing platform with millions of users, open source under MIT license, and a major sponsor and partner of Fedify.
Hollo: A lightweight microblogging platform for individual users (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Hackers' Pub: A fediverse blogging platform for software engineers (open source, AGPL-3.0)
Encyclia: A bridge service that makes ORCID academic records available via ActivityPub
🚀 Value provided by Fedify
80% development time reduction: Utilize a proven framework instead of complex ActivityPub implementation
Immediate fediverse compatibility: Instant compatibility with various fediverse services including Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Pixelfed, PeerTube, etc.
Expert technical support: Direct support from ActivityPub and Federation protocol experts
Custom development: Tailored feature development to meet your specific requirements
🤝 Potential collaboration models
Custom consulting and integration support: Professional assistance for integrating Fedify into your platform
Custom feature development: Development and implementation of specific features needed for your platform
Long-term technical partnership: Long-term collaboration for continuous development and maintenance
🌟 Benefits of collaborating with Fedify
Technical advantage: Save time and resources compared to in-house implementation
Brand image: Enhance corporate image through support of the open-source ecosystem
Entry to decentralized social networks: Easily participate in the fediverse ecosystem
Competitive edge: Strengthen product competitiveness through social features
📩 Interested?
If you're considering implementing ActivityPub or wish to collaborate with the Fedify project, please get in touch:
I talked about #ActivityPub and #Fedify on @guu's wonderful podcast, Software Sessions. I'm embarrassed by my poor English, but if you're interested, please listen!
I talked about #ActivityPub and #Fedify on @guu's wonderful podcast, Software Sessions. I'm embarrassed by my poor English, but if you're interested, please listen!
I talked about #ActivityPub and #Fedify on @guu's wonderful podcast, Software Sessions. I'm embarrassed by my poor English, but if you're interested, please listen!
Love building federated apps with #Fedify? Consider supporting its development! We have tiers starting from just $5/month, and every contribution helps keep the project sustainable.
Excited to share that Fedify CLI is now available on Scoop for #Windows users! You can easily install it with scoop install fedify. One more way to get started with #ActivityPub development!
Fedify (@fedify) is a #TypeScript library for building federated server applications powered by ActivityPub and other #fediverse standards. It provides type-safe objects for Activity Vocabulary, WebFinger client/server, HTTP Signatures, and more—eliminating boilerplate code so you can focus on your application logic.
Hollo (@hollo) is a single-user microblogging server powered by Fedify. While designed for individual users, it's fully federated through ActivityPub, allowing interaction with users across the fediverse. #Hollo implements Mastodon-compatible APIs, making it compatible with most Mastodon clients without needing its own web interface.
Hollo also serves as our testing ground for bleeding-edge Fedify features before they're officially released.
BotKit (@botkit) is our newest family member—a framework specifically designed for creating ActivityPub bots. Unlike traditional Mastodon bots, #BotKit creates standalone ActivityPub servers that aren't constrained by platform-specific limitations (like character counts).
BotKit's API is intentionally simple—you can create a complete bot in a single TypeScript file!
All three projects are open source and hosted under the @fedify-dev GitHub organization. While they serve different purposes, they share common goals: making ActivityPub development more accessible and expanding the fediverse ecosystem.
If you're interested in trying any of these projects or contributing to their development, check out:
Hollo(@hollo)는 Fedify로 구동되는 1인 사용자용 마이크로블로깅 서버입니다. 1인 사용자를 위해 설계되었지만, ActivityPub를 통해 완전히 연합되어 연합우주 전체의 사용자들과 상호작용할 수 있습니다. Hollo는 Mastodon 호환 API를 구현하여 자체 웹 인터페이스 없이도 대부분의 Mastodon 클라이언트와 호환됩니다.
Hollo는 또한 정식 출시 전에 최신 Fedify 기능을 테스트하는 실험장으로도 활용되고 있습니다.
BotKit(@botkit)은 저희의 가장 새로운 구성원으로, ActivityPub 봇을 만들기 위해 특별히 설계된 프레임워크입니다. 전통적인 Mastodon 봇과 달리, BotKit은 플랫폼별 제한(글자 수 제한 등)에 구애받지 않는 독립적인 ActivityPub 서버를 만듭니다.
BotKit의 API는 의도적으로 단순하게 설계되어 단일 TypeScript 파일로 완전한 봇을 만들 수 있습니다!
세 프로젝트 모두 @fedify-dev GitHub 조직에서 오픈 소스로 공개되어 있습니다. 각기 다른 목적을 가지고 있지만, ActivityPub 개발을 더 접근하기 쉽게 만들고 연합우주 생태계를 확장한다는 공통된 목표를 공유합니다.
이러한 프로젝트를 사용해보거나 개발에 기여하는 데 관심이 있으시다면, 다음을 확인해보세요:
Fedify (@fedify) is a #TypeScript library for building federated server applications powered by ActivityPub and other #fediverse standards. It provides type-safe objects for Activity Vocabulary, WebFinger client/server, HTTP Signatures, and more—eliminating boilerplate code so you can focus on your application logic.
Hollo (@hollo) is a single-user microblogging server powered by Fedify. While designed for individual users, it's fully federated through ActivityPub, allowing interaction with users across the fediverse. #Hollo implements Mastodon-compatible APIs, making it compatible with most Mastodon clients without needing its own web interface.
Hollo also serves as our testing ground for bleeding-edge Fedify features before they're officially released.
BotKit (@botkit) is our newest family member—a framework specifically designed for creating ActivityPub bots. Unlike traditional Mastodon bots, #BotKit creates standalone ActivityPub servers that aren't constrained by platform-specific limitations (like character counts).
BotKit's API is intentionally simple—you can create a complete bot in a single TypeScript file!
All three projects are open source and hosted under the @fedify-dev GitHub organization. While they serve different purposes, they share common goals: making ActivityPub development more accessible and expanding the fediverse ecosystem.
If you're interested in trying any of these projects or contributing to their development, check out:
Hollo(@hollo)는 Fedify로 구동되는 1인 사용자용 마이크로블로깅 서버입니다. 1인 사용자를 위해 설계되었지만, ActivityPub를 통해 완전히 연합되어 연합우주 전체의 사용자들과 상호작용할 수 있습니다. Hollo는 Mastodon 호환 API를 구현하여 자체 웹 인터페이스 없이도 대부분의 Mastodon 클라이언트와 호환됩니다.
Hollo는 또한 정식 출시 전에 최신 Fedify 기능을 테스트하는 실험장으로도 활용되고 있습니다.
BotKit(@botkit)은 저희의 가장 새로운 구성원으로, ActivityPub 봇을 만들기 위해 특별히 설계된 프레임워크입니다. 전통적인 Mastodon 봇과 달리, BotKit은 플랫폼별 제한(글자 수 제한 등)에 구애받지 않는 독립적인 ActivityPub 서버를 만듭니다.
BotKit의 API는 의도적으로 단순하게 설계되어 단일 TypeScript 파일로 완전한 봇을 만들 수 있습니다!
세 프로젝트 모두 @fedify-dev GitHub 조직에서 오픈 소스로 공개되어 있습니다. 각기 다른 목적을 가지고 있지만, ActivityPub 개발을 더 접근하기 쉽게 만들고 연합우주 생태계를 확장한다는 공통된 목표를 공유합니다.
이러한 프로젝트를 사용해보거나 개발에 기여하는 데 관심이 있으시다면, 다음을 확인해보세요:
Hollo(@hollo)는 Fedify로 구동되는 1인 사용자용 마이크로블로깅 서버입니다. 1인 사용자를 위해 설계되었지만, ActivityPub를 통해 완전히 연합되어 연합우주 전체의 사용자들과 상호작용할 수 있습니다. Hollo는 Mastodon 호환 API를 구현하여 자체 웹 인터페이스 없이도 대부분의 Mastodon 클라이언트와 호환됩니다.
Hollo는 또한 정식 출시 전에 최신 Fedify 기능을 테스트하는 실험장으로도 활용되고 있습니다.
BotKit(@botkit)은 저희의 가장 새로운 구성원으로, ActivityPub 봇을 만들기 위해 특별히 설계된 프레임워크입니다. 전통적인 Mastodon 봇과 달리, BotKit은 플랫폼별 제한(글자 수 제한 등)에 구애받지 않는 독립적인 ActivityPub 서버를 만듭니다.
BotKit의 API는 의도적으로 단순하게 설계되어 단일 TypeScript 파일로 완전한 봇을 만들 수 있습니다!
세 프로젝트 모두 @fedify-dev GitHub 조직에서 오픈 소스로 공개되어 있습니다. 각기 다른 목적을 가지고 있지만, ActivityPub 개발을 더 접근하기 쉽게 만들고 연합우주 생태계를 확장한다는 공통된 목표를 공유합니다.
이러한 프로젝트를 사용해보거나 개발에 기여하는 데 관심이 있으시다면, 다음을 확인해보세요:
Fedify (@fedify) is a #TypeScript library for building federated server applications powered by ActivityPub and other #fediverse standards. It provides type-safe objects for Activity Vocabulary, WebFinger client/server, HTTP Signatures, and more—eliminating boilerplate code so you can focus on your application logic.
Hollo (@hollo) is a single-user microblogging server powered by Fedify. While designed for individual users, it's fully federated through ActivityPub, allowing interaction with users across the fediverse. #Hollo implements Mastodon-compatible APIs, making it compatible with most Mastodon clients without needing its own web interface.
Hollo also serves as our testing ground for bleeding-edge Fedify features before they're officially released.
BotKit (@botkit) is our newest family member—a framework specifically designed for creating ActivityPub bots. Unlike traditional Mastodon bots, #BotKit creates standalone ActivityPub servers that aren't constrained by platform-specific limitations (like character counts).
BotKit's API is intentionally simple—you can create a complete bot in a single TypeScript file!
All three projects are open source and hosted under the @fedify-dev GitHub organization. While they serve different purposes, they share common goals: making ActivityPub development more accessible and expanding the fediverse ecosystem.
If you're interested in trying any of these projects or contributing to their development, check out:
Want different domains for your WebFinger handles and server URIs? Fedify 1.5.0 will let you use domains like @[email protected] as fediverse handles while serving content from https://ap.example.com. This gives you more flexibility in how you structure your federated services.
Need to ensure consistent URLs across your infrastructure? The new canonical origin support lets you explicitly set your server's authoritative domain. This is particularly useful when running behind reverse proxies or load balancers—no more unexpected URLs generated from internal hostnames.
These features represent our ongoing commitment to making Fedify more flexible and production-ready.
Can't wait to try these features? You can experiment with them today using our unstable release v1.5.0-dev.680+562e3dc0 (JSR & npm). Keep in mind that this is an unstable release intended for testing—use it in production at your own risk.
Otherwise, stay tuned for the stable Fedify 1.5.0 release!
ALT text detailsSeparating WebFinger host from the server origin
This API is available since Fedify 1.5.0.
Sometimes you may want to use different domain names for WebFinger handles (i.e., fediverse handles) and the server origin. For example, you may want to use https://ap.example.com/actors/alice as an actor URI but want to use @[email protected] as its fediverse handle.
In such cases, you can set the handleHost different from the webOrigin in the origin option. The handleHost is used to construct the WebFinger handles, and the webOrigin is used to construct the URLs in the Context object:
const federation = createFederation({
origin: {
handleHost: "example.com",
webOrigin: "https://ap.example.com",
},
});
NOTE
Even if you set the handleHost different from the webOrigin, the other fediverse handle with the same domain name as the webOrigin will still be recognized.
In the above example, two fediverse handles are recognized as the same:
• @[email protected]
• @[email protected]
ALT text detailsExplicitly setting the canonical origin
This API is available since Fedify 1.5.0.
Or you can explicitly set the canonical origin of the server by passing the origin option to the createFederation() function. The origin option is either a string or a FederationOrigin object, which consists of two fields: handleHost and webOrigin.
For example, if you want to set the canonical origin to https://example.com, you can pass the string:
const federation = createFederation({
origin: "https://example.com",
});
NOTE
The origin option has to include the leading https:// or http:// scheme.
Such a configuration leads the constructed URLs using Context to use the canonical origin instead of the origin from the incoming HTTP requests, which avoids constructing unexpected URLs when a request bypasses a reverse proxy or a load balancer.
CAUTION
For example, suppose that your federated server (upstream) is accessible at the http://1.2.3.4:8000 and your load balancer (downstream) is accessible at the https://example.com and forwards the requests to the upstream server. In this case, you should set the canonical origin to https://example.com to construct the correct URLs. Otherwise, when some malicious actor directly sends a request to the upstream server, the constructed URLs will start with http://1.2.3.4:8000 instead of https://example.com, which can lead to security issues.
Want different domains for your WebFinger handles and server URIs? Fedify 1.5.0 will let you use domains like @[email protected] as fediverse handles while serving content from https://ap.example.com. This gives you more flexibility in how you structure your federated services.
Need to ensure consistent URLs across your infrastructure? The new canonical origin support lets you explicitly set your server's authoritative domain. This is particularly useful when running behind reverse proxies or load balancers—no more unexpected URLs generated from internal hostnames.
These features represent our ongoing commitment to making Fedify more flexible and production-ready.
Can't wait to try these features? You can experiment with them today using our unstable release v1.5.0-dev.680+562e3dc0 (JSR & npm). Keep in mind that this is an unstable release intended for testing—use it in production at your own risk.
Otherwise, stay tuned for the stable Fedify 1.5.0 release!
ALT text detailsSeparating WebFinger host from the server origin
This API is available since Fedify 1.5.0.
Sometimes you may want to use different domain names for WebFinger handles (i.e., fediverse handles) and the server origin. For example, you may want to use https://ap.example.com/actors/alice as an actor URI but want to use @[email protected] as its fediverse handle.
In such cases, you can set the handleHost different from the webOrigin in the origin option. The handleHost is used to construct the WebFinger handles, and the webOrigin is used to construct the URLs in the Context object:
const federation = createFederation({
origin: {
handleHost: "example.com",
webOrigin: "https://ap.example.com",
},
});
NOTE
Even if you set the handleHost different from the webOrigin, the other fediverse handle with the same domain name as the webOrigin will still be recognized.
In the above example, two fediverse handles are recognized as the same:
• @[email protected]
• @[email protected]
ALT text detailsExplicitly setting the canonical origin
This API is available since Fedify 1.5.0.
Or you can explicitly set the canonical origin of the server by passing the origin option to the createFederation() function. The origin option is either a string or a FederationOrigin object, which consists of two fields: handleHost and webOrigin.
For example, if you want to set the canonical origin to https://example.com, you can pass the string:
const federation = createFederation({
origin: "https://example.com",
});
NOTE
The origin option has to include the leading https:// or http:// scheme.
Such a configuration leads the constructed URLs using Context to use the canonical origin instead of the origin from the incoming HTTP requests, which avoids constructing unexpected URLs when a request bypasses a reverse proxy or a load balancer.
CAUTION
For example, suppose that your federated server (upstream) is accessible at the http://1.2.3.4:8000 and your load balancer (downstream) is accessible at the https://example.com and forwards the requests to the upstream server. In this case, you should set the canonical origin to https://example.com to construct the correct URLs. Otherwise, when some malicious actor directly sends a request to the upstream server, the constructed URLs will start with http://1.2.3.4:8000 instead of https://example.com, which can lead to security issues.
Want different domains for your WebFinger handles and server URIs? Fedify 1.5.0 will let you use domains like @[email protected] as fediverse handles while serving content from https://ap.example.com. This gives you more flexibility in how you structure your federated services.
Need to ensure consistent URLs across your infrastructure? The new canonical origin support lets you explicitly set your server's authoritative domain. This is particularly useful when running behind reverse proxies or load balancers—no more unexpected URLs generated from internal hostnames.
These features represent our ongoing commitment to making Fedify more flexible and production-ready.
Can't wait to try these features? You can experiment with them today using our unstable release v1.5.0-dev.680+562e3dc0 (JSR & npm). Keep in mind that this is an unstable release intended for testing—use it in production at your own risk.
Otherwise, stay tuned for the stable Fedify 1.5.0 release!
ALT text detailsSeparating WebFinger host from the server origin
This API is available since Fedify 1.5.0.
Sometimes you may want to use different domain names for WebFinger handles (i.e., fediverse handles) and the server origin. For example, you may want to use https://ap.example.com/actors/alice as an actor URI but want to use @[email protected] as its fediverse handle.
In such cases, you can set the handleHost different from the webOrigin in the origin option. The handleHost is used to construct the WebFinger handles, and the webOrigin is used to construct the URLs in the Context object:
const federation = createFederation({
origin: {
handleHost: "example.com",
webOrigin: "https://ap.example.com",
},
});
NOTE
Even if you set the handleHost different from the webOrigin, the other fediverse handle with the same domain name as the webOrigin will still be recognized.
In the above example, two fediverse handles are recognized as the same:
• @[email protected]
• @[email protected]
ALT text detailsExplicitly setting the canonical origin
This API is available since Fedify 1.5.0.
Or you can explicitly set the canonical origin of the server by passing the origin option to the createFederation() function. The origin option is either a string or a FederationOrigin object, which consists of two fields: handleHost and webOrigin.
For example, if you want to set the canonical origin to https://example.com, you can pass the string:
const federation = createFederation({
origin: "https://example.com",
});
NOTE
The origin option has to include the leading https:// or http:// scheme.
Such a configuration leads the constructed URLs using Context to use the canonical origin instead of the origin from the incoming HTTP requests, which avoids constructing unexpected URLs when a request bypasses a reverse proxy or a load balancer.
CAUTION
For example, suppose that your federated server (upstream) is accessible at the http://1.2.3.4:8000 and your load balancer (downstream) is accessible at the https://example.com and forwards the requests to the upstream server. In this case, you should set the canonical origin to https://example.com to construct the correct URLs. Otherwise, when some malicious actor directly sends a request to the upstream server, the constructed URLs will start with http://1.2.3.4:8000 instead of https://example.com, which can lead to security issues.
Although the vast majority of ActivityPub software encodes RSA public keys in PEM-SPKI format, some software encodes RSA public keys in PEM-PKCS#1 format (see: https://github.com/fedify-dev/hollo/pull/109#issuecomment-2662591619). Fedify currently only accepts PEM-SPKI format, so it needs to accept PEM-PKCS#1 format as well for better interoperability.
Although the vast majority of ActivityPub software encodes RSA public keys in PEM-SPKI format, some software encodes RSA public keys in PEM-PKCS#1 format (see: https://github.com/fedify-dev/hollo/pull/109#issuecomment-2662591619). Fedify currently only accepts PEM-SPKI format, so it needs to accept PEM-PKCS#1 format as well for better interoperability.
Fedify is a #TypeScript framework that simplifies #ActivityPub implementation. Want to build a federated server without the complexity? Fedify has got you covered!
Fedify is a #TypeScript framework that simplifies #ActivityPub implementation. Want to build a federated server without the complexity? Fedify has got you covered!
Fedify is a #TypeScript framework that simplifies #ActivityPub implementation. Want to build a federated server without the complexity? Fedify has got you covered!
Excited to share that Fedify CLI is now available on Scoop for #Windows users! You can easily install it with scoop install fedify. One more way to get started with #ActivityPub development!
Excited to share that Fedify CLI is now available on Scoop for #Windows users! You can easily install it with scoop install fedify. One more way to get started with #ActivityPub development!
Just integrated #Deno's new workspaces feature into the #Fedify repository! This means we can now manage the main package, CLI tool, and examples all in one place. The best part? No more custom import map generators—everything's simpler and more intuitive for new contributors. Loving how Deno 2.0's workspace support makes managing monorepos so much cleaner.
Love building federated apps with #Fedify? Consider supporting its development! We have tiers starting from just $5/month, and every contribution helps keep the project sustainable.
Love building federated apps with #Fedify? Consider supporting its development! We have tiers starting from just $5/month, and every contribution helps keep the project sustainable.
We're considering adding custom background task support to #Fedify 1.5.0. Got thoughts on whether Fedify should support user-defined background tasks alongside ActivityPub operations? Check out the proposal and share your feedback: https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/206.
We're considering adding custom background task support to #Fedify 1.5.0.
Want to use Fedify's worker system for your own background tasks? We're exploring ways to let you register and process custom tasks alongside #ActivityPub jobs.
@reiver@andypiper@rwg@andresmh Re: which networks, I haven't personally done any academic research about social platforms. Pondering questions, yes, written anything down, no.
I have a project cooking that I think you'll like, for which I'm hoping to run a semi-public alpha test within the next few months. Join the @fedify Matrix room at #fedify-users:matrix.org to witness my implementation struggles. 👍
A milestone worth celebrating—#Fedify just hit 100+ releases! From day one, we've been committed to building a robust #ActivityPub framework, and each release has brought us closer to that goal. Here's to many more releases as we continue growing the #fediverse together! #fedidev
ALT text detailsScreenshot shows release stats for Fedify: latest version 1.4.1 was released 6 minutes ago, with a green tag showing “Latest.” Total release count shows “+ 100 releases.” A green icon resembling a tag appears next to the Fedify name.
A milestone worth celebrating—#Fedify just hit 100+ releases! From day one, we've been committed to building a robust #ActivityPub framework, and each release has brought us closer to that goal. Here's to many more releases as we continue growing the #fediverse together! #fedidev
ALT text detailsScreenshot shows release stats for Fedify: latest version 1.4.1 was released 6 minutes ago, with a green tag showing “Latest.” Total release count shows “+ 100 releases.” A green icon resembling a tag appears next to the Fedify name.
A milestone worth celebrating—#Fedify just hit 100+ releases! From day one, we've been committed to building a robust #ActivityPub framework, and each release has brought us closer to that goal. Here's to many more releases as we continue growing the #fediverse together! #fedidev
ALT text detailsScreenshot shows release stats for Fedify: latest version 1.4.1 was released 6 minutes ago, with a green tag showing “Latest.” Total release count shows “+ 100 releases.” A green icon resembling a tag appears next to the Fedify name.
We're considering adding custom background task support to #Fedify 1.5.0.
Want to use Fedify's worker system for your own background tasks? We're exploring ways to let you register and process custom tasks alongside #ActivityPub jobs.
We're considering adding custom background task support to #Fedify 1.5.0. Got thoughts on whether Fedify should support user-defined background tasks alongside ActivityPub operations? Check out the proposal and share your feedback: https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/issues/206.
We're considering adding custom background task support to #Fedify 1.5.0.
Want to use Fedify's worker system for your own background tasks? We're exploring ways to let you register and process custom tasks alongside #ActivityPub jobs.
We're considering adding custom background task support to #Fedify 1.5.0.
Want to use Fedify's worker system for your own background tasks? We're exploring ways to let you register and process custom tasks alongside #ActivityPub jobs.
We're considering adding custom background task support to #Fedify 1.5.0.
Want to use Fedify's worker system for your own background tasks? We're exploring ways to let you register and process custom tasks alongside #ActivityPub jobs.
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.4.0! This release brings significant improvements to enhance compatibility and flexibility in #ActivityPub federation.
Introduced a new system to adjust outgoing activities for better compatibility with various ActivityPub implementations. This includes automatic ID assignment for activities and actor dehydration to satisfy implementation quirks (looking at you, Threads!).
WebFinger customization
Added the ability to customize WebFinger responses through the new mapAlias() API, giving you more control over how your actors are discovered.
New interaction collections
Added support for shares, likes, and emojiReactions properties to the Object class, making it easier to access and traverse these interaction collections.
More flexible document/context loader
Document loader and context loader are now configurable through factory functions, giving you more control over how your application handles JSON-LD documents.
CLI improvements
The fedify lookup command now supports two new options:
Improved error handling in collection traversal and JSON-LD processing
Added support for private network access control in WebFinger lookups
User-Agent headers now automatically include your instance URL, making it easier for other servers to identify your instance
For the complete list of changes and bugfixes, please visit our changelog.
Whether you're building a new federated application or maintaining an existing one, #Fedify 1.4.0 provides the tools you need for robust ActivityPub federation.
Supporting us
We're grateful to all our sponsors who make this project possible. Check out our new sponsors showcase page to see the amazing individuals and organizations supporting Fedify's development. If you'd like to support Fedify's development, please consider becoming a sponsor!
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You can install Fedify 1.4.0 from JSR or npm. Upgrade today and let us know what you think!
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.4.0! This release brings significant improvements to enhance compatibility and flexibility in #ActivityPub federation.
Introduced a new system to adjust outgoing activities for better compatibility with various ActivityPub implementations. This includes automatic ID assignment for activities and actor dehydration to satisfy implementation quirks (looking at you, Threads!).
WebFinger customization
Added the ability to customize WebFinger responses through the new mapAlias() API, giving you more control over how your actors are discovered.
New interaction collections
Added support for shares, likes, and emojiReactions properties to the Object class, making it easier to access and traverse these interaction collections.
More flexible document/context loader
Document loader and context loader are now configurable through factory functions, giving you more control over how your application handles JSON-LD documents.
CLI improvements
The fedify lookup command now supports two new options:
Improved error handling in collection traversal and JSON-LD processing
Added support for private network access control in WebFinger lookups
User-Agent headers now automatically include your instance URL, making it easier for other servers to identify your instance
For the complete list of changes and bugfixes, please visit our changelog.
Whether you're building a new federated application or maintaining an existing one, #Fedify 1.4.0 provides the tools you need for robust ActivityPub federation.
Supporting us
We're grateful to all our sponsors who make this project possible. Check out our new sponsors showcase page to see the amazing individuals and organizations supporting Fedify's development. If you'd like to support Fedify's development, please consider becoming a sponsor!
Upgrade now
You can install Fedify 1.4.0 from JSR or npm. Upgrade today and let us know what you think!
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.4.0! This release brings significant improvements to enhance compatibility and flexibility in #ActivityPub federation.
Introduced a new system to adjust outgoing activities for better compatibility with various ActivityPub implementations. This includes automatic ID assignment for activities and actor dehydration to satisfy implementation quirks (looking at you, Threads!).
WebFinger customization
Added the ability to customize WebFinger responses through the new mapAlias() API, giving you more control over how your actors are discovered.
New interaction collections
Added support for shares, likes, and emojiReactions properties to the Object class, making it easier to access and traverse these interaction collections.
More flexible document/context loader
Document loader and context loader are now configurable through factory functions, giving you more control over how your application handles JSON-LD documents.
CLI improvements
The fedify lookup command now supports two new options:
Improved error handling in collection traversal and JSON-LD processing
Added support for private network access control in WebFinger lookups
User-Agent headers now automatically include your instance URL, making it easier for other servers to identify your instance
For the complete list of changes and bugfixes, please visit our changelog.
Whether you're building a new federated application or maintaining an existing one, #Fedify 1.4.0 provides the tools you need for robust ActivityPub federation.
Supporting us
We're grateful to all our sponsors who make this project possible. Check out our new sponsors showcase page to see the amazing individuals and organizations supporting Fedify's development. If you'd like to support Fedify's development, please consider becoming a sponsor!
Upgrade now
You can install Fedify 1.4.0 from JSR or npm. Upgrade today and let us know what you think!
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.4.0! This release brings significant improvements to enhance compatibility and flexibility in #ActivityPub federation.
Introduced a new system to adjust outgoing activities for better compatibility with various ActivityPub implementations. This includes automatic ID assignment for activities and actor dehydration to satisfy implementation quirks (looking at you, Threads!).
WebFinger customization
Added the ability to customize WebFinger responses through the new mapAlias() API, giving you more control over how your actors are discovered.
New interaction collections
Added support for shares, likes, and emojiReactions properties to the Object class, making it easier to access and traverse these interaction collections.
More flexible document/context loader
Document loader and context loader are now configurable through factory functions, giving you more control over how your application handles JSON-LD documents.
CLI improvements
The fedify lookup command now supports two new options:
Improved error handling in collection traversal and JSON-LD processing
Added support for private network access control in WebFinger lookups
User-Agent headers now automatically include your instance URL, making it easier for other servers to identify your instance
For the complete list of changes and bugfixes, please visit our changelog.
Whether you're building a new federated application or maintaining an existing one, #Fedify 1.4.0 provides the tools you need for robust ActivityPub federation.
Supporting us
We're grateful to all our sponsors who make this project possible. Check out our new sponsors showcase page to see the amazing individuals and organizations supporting Fedify's development. If you'd like to support Fedify's development, please consider becoming a sponsor!
Upgrade now
You can install Fedify 1.4.0 from JSR or npm. Upgrade today and let us know what you think!
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.4.0! This release brings significant improvements to enhance compatibility and flexibility in #ActivityPub federation.
Introduced a new system to adjust outgoing activities for better compatibility with various ActivityPub implementations. This includes automatic ID assignment for activities and actor dehydration to satisfy implementation quirks (looking at you, Threads!).
WebFinger customization
Added the ability to customize WebFinger responses through the new mapAlias() API, giving you more control over how your actors are discovered.
New interaction collections
Added support for shares, likes, and emojiReactions properties to the Object class, making it easier to access and traverse these interaction collections.
More flexible document/context loader
Document loader and context loader are now configurable through factory functions, giving you more control over how your application handles JSON-LD documents.
CLI improvements
The fedify lookup command now supports two new options:
Improved error handling in collection traversal and JSON-LD processing
Added support for private network access control in WebFinger lookups
User-Agent headers now automatically include your instance URL, making it easier for other servers to identify your instance
For the complete list of changes and bugfixes, please visit our changelog.
Whether you're building a new federated application or maintaining an existing one, #Fedify 1.4.0 provides the tools you need for robust ActivityPub federation.
Supporting us
We're grateful to all our sponsors who make this project possible. Check out our new sponsors showcase page to see the amazing individuals and organizations supporting Fedify's development. If you'd like to support Fedify's development, please consider becoming a sponsor!
Upgrade now
You can install Fedify 1.4.0 from JSR or npm. Upgrade today and let us know what you think!
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.4.0! This release brings significant improvements to enhance compatibility and flexibility in #ActivityPub federation.
Introduced a new system to adjust outgoing activities for better compatibility with various ActivityPub implementations. This includes automatic ID assignment for activities and actor dehydration to satisfy implementation quirks (looking at you, Threads!).
WebFinger customization
Added the ability to customize WebFinger responses through the new mapAlias() API, giving you more control over how your actors are discovered.
New interaction collections
Added support for shares, likes, and emojiReactions properties to the Object class, making it easier to access and traverse these interaction collections.
More flexible document/context loader
Document loader and context loader are now configurable through factory functions, giving you more control over how your application handles JSON-LD documents.
CLI improvements
The fedify lookup command now supports two new options:
Improved error handling in collection traversal and JSON-LD processing
Added support for private network access control in WebFinger lookups
User-Agent headers now automatically include your instance URL, making it easier for other servers to identify your instance
For the complete list of changes and bugfixes, please visit our changelog.
Whether you're building a new federated application or maintaining an existing one, #Fedify 1.4.0 provides the tools you need for robust ActivityPub federation.
Supporting us
We're grateful to all our sponsors who make this project possible. Check out our new sponsors showcase page to see the amazing individuals and organizations supporting Fedify's development. If you'd like to support Fedify's development, please consider becoming a sponsor!
Upgrade now
You can install Fedify 1.4.0 from JSR or npm. Upgrade today and let us know what you think!
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.4.0! This release brings significant improvements to enhance compatibility and flexibility in #ActivityPub federation.
Introduced a new system to adjust outgoing activities for better compatibility with various ActivityPub implementations. This includes automatic ID assignment for activities and actor dehydration to satisfy implementation quirks (looking at you, Threads!).
WebFinger customization
Added the ability to customize WebFinger responses through the new mapAlias() API, giving you more control over how your actors are discovered.
New interaction collections
Added support for shares, likes, and emojiReactions properties to the Object class, making it easier to access and traverse these interaction collections.
More flexible document/context loader
Document loader and context loader are now configurable through factory functions, giving you more control over how your application handles JSON-LD documents.
CLI improvements
The fedify lookup command now supports two new options:
Improved error handling in collection traversal and JSON-LD processing
Added support for private network access control in WebFinger lookups
User-Agent headers now automatically include your instance URL, making it easier for other servers to identify your instance
For the complete list of changes and bugfixes, please visit our changelog.
Whether you're building a new federated application or maintaining an existing one, #Fedify 1.4.0 provides the tools you need for robust ActivityPub federation.
Supporting us
We're grateful to all our sponsors who make this project possible. Check out our new sponsors showcase page to see the amazing individuals and organizations supporting Fedify's development. If you'd like to support Fedify's development, please consider becoming a sponsor!
Upgrade now
You can install Fedify 1.4.0 from JSR or npm. Upgrade today and let us know what you think!
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.4.0! This release brings significant improvements to enhance compatibility and flexibility in #ActivityPub federation.
Introduced a new system to adjust outgoing activities for better compatibility with various ActivityPub implementations. This includes automatic ID assignment for activities and actor dehydration to satisfy implementation quirks (looking at you, Threads!).
WebFinger customization
Added the ability to customize WebFinger responses through the new mapAlias() API, giving you more control over how your actors are discovered.
New interaction collections
Added support for shares, likes, and emojiReactions properties to the Object class, making it easier to access and traverse these interaction collections.
More flexible document/context loader
Document loader and context loader are now configurable through factory functions, giving you more control over how your application handles JSON-LD documents.
CLI improvements
The fedify lookup command now supports two new options:
Improved error handling in collection traversal and JSON-LD processing
Added support for private network access control in WebFinger lookups
User-Agent headers now automatically include your instance URL, making it easier for other servers to identify your instance
For the complete list of changes and bugfixes, please visit our changelog.
Whether you're building a new federated application or maintaining an existing one, #Fedify 1.4.0 provides the tools you need for robust ActivityPub federation.
Supporting us
We're grateful to all our sponsors who make this project possible. Check out our new sponsors showcase page to see the amazing individuals and organizations supporting Fedify's development. If you'd like to support Fedify's development, please consider becoming a sponsor!
Upgrade now
You can install Fedify 1.4.0 from JSR or npm. Upgrade today and let us know what you think!
We're excited to announce the release of Fedify 1.4.0! This release brings significant improvements to enhance compatibility and flexibility in #ActivityPub federation.
Introduced a new system to adjust outgoing activities for better compatibility with various ActivityPub implementations. This includes automatic ID assignment for activities and actor dehydration to satisfy implementation quirks (looking at you, Threads!).
WebFinger customization
Added the ability to customize WebFinger responses through the new mapAlias() API, giving you more control over how your actors are discovered.
New interaction collections
Added support for shares, likes, and emojiReactions properties to the Object class, making it easier to access and traverse these interaction collections.
More flexible document/context loader
Document loader and context loader are now configurable through factory functions, giving you more control over how your application handles JSON-LD documents.
CLI improvements
The fedify lookup command now supports two new options:
Improved error handling in collection traversal and JSON-LD processing
Added support for private network access control in WebFinger lookups
User-Agent headers now automatically include your instance URL, making it easier for other servers to identify your instance
For the complete list of changes and bugfixes, please visit our changelog.
Whether you're building a new federated application or maintaining an existing one, #Fedify 1.4.0 provides the tools you need for robust ActivityPub federation.
Supporting us
We're grateful to all our sponsors who make this project possible. Check out our new sponsors showcase page to see the amazing individuals and organizations supporting Fedify's development. If you'd like to support Fedify's development, please consider becoming a sponsor!
Upgrade now
You can install Fedify 1.4.0 from JSR or npm. Upgrade today and let us know what you think!
Made a little bit of progress on my #Fedify project yesterday. Spun my wheels testing a few #TypeScript ORMs and running into compatibility problems with each of them. By the time I went to bed, the preferences page was capable of storing and loading account-local form data for the first time. 🥳
For this project, when progress looks slow from the outside, it's because I'm learning the ecosystem pretty much from scratch. Not letting myself get discouraged. 🙂
Made a little bit of progress on my #Fedify project yesterday. Spun my wheels testing a few #TypeScript ORMs and running into compatibility problems with each of them. By the time I went to bed, the preferences page was capable of storing and loading account-local form data for the first time. 🥳
For this project, when progress looks slow from the outside, it's because I'm learning the ecosystem pretty much from scratch. Not letting myself get discouraged. 🙂
ALT text detailsFedify's Open Collective page showing the project logo, description as “A TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards”, and five contribution tiers starting from $5/month Backer to $500/month Corporate Sponsor, with custom contribution options available.
ALT text detailsFedify's Open Collective page showing the project logo, description as “A TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards”, and five contribution tiers starting from $5/month Backer to $500/month Corporate Sponsor, with custom contribution options available.
ALT text detailsFedify's Open Collective page showing the project logo, description as “A TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards”, and five contribution tiers starting from $5/month Backer to $500/month Corporate Sponsor, with custom contribution options available.
ALT text detailsFedify's Open Collective page showing the project logo, description as “A TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards”, and five contribution tiers starting from $5/month Backer to $500/month Corporate Sponsor, with custom contribution options available.
I want to automatically list the names of people who have sponsored #Fedify with Open Collective in README.md. Is there a good way to do this? (I think I can use GitHub Actions or Open Collective's webhooks, but it's a bit of a hassle to create it myself.)
ALT text detailsFedify's Open Collective page showing the project logo, description as “A TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards”, and five contribution tiers starting from $5/month Backer to $500/month Corporate Sponsor, with custom contribution options available.
ALT text detailsFedify's Open Collective page showing the project logo, description as “A TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards”, and five contribution tiers starting from $5/month Backer to $500/month Corporate Sponsor, with custom contribution options available.
ALT text detailsFedify's Open Collective page showing the project logo, description as “A TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards”, and five contribution tiers starting from $5/month Backer to $500/month Corporate Sponsor, with custom contribution options available.
ALT text detailsFedify's Open Collective page showing the project logo, description as “A TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards”, and five contribution tiers starting from $5/month Backer to $500/month Corporate Sponsor, with custom contribution options available.
ALT text detailsFedify's Open Collective page showing the project logo, description as “A TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards”, and five contribution tiers starting from $5/month Backer to $500/month Corporate Sponsor, with custom contribution options available.
All repositories have been transferred and GitHub's automatic redirects are in place, so existing links will continue to work. Also, the project's core functionality and development process remain unchanged.
Thanks to everyone who participated in our naming poll. Looking forward to Fedify's continued growth under its new organizational home!
All repositories have been transferred and GitHub's automatic redirects are in place, so existing links will continue to work. Also, the project's core functionality and development process remain unchanged.
Thanks to everyone who participated in our naming poll. Looking forward to Fedify's continued growth under its new organizational home!
All repositories have been transferred and GitHub's automatic redirects are in place, so existing links will continue to work. Also, the project's core functionality and development process remain unchanged.
Thanks to everyone who participated in our naming poll. Looking forward to Fedify's continued growth under its new organizational home!
All repositories have been transferred and GitHub's automatic redirects are in place, so existing links will continue to work. Also, the project's core functionality and development process remain unchanged.
Thanks to everyone who participated in our naming poll. Looking forward to Fedify's continued growth under its new organizational home!
All repositories have been transferred and GitHub's automatic redirects are in place, so existing links will continue to work. Also, the project's core functionality and development process remain unchanged.
Thanks to everyone who participated in our naming poll. Looking forward to Fedify's continued growth under its new organizational home!
All repositories have been transferred and GitHub's automatic redirects are in place, so existing links will continue to work. Also, the project's core functionality and development process remain unchanged.
Thanks to everyone who participated in our naming poll. Looking forward to Fedify's continued growth under its new organizational home!
All repositories have been transferred and GitHub's automatic redirects are in place, so existing links will continue to work. Also, the project's core functionality and development process remain unchanged.
Thanks to everyone who participated in our naming poll. Looking forward to Fedify's continued growth under its new organizational home!
All repositories have been transferred and GitHub's automatic redirects are in place, so existing links will continue to work. Also, the project's core functionality and development process remain unchanged.
Thanks to everyone who participated in our naming poll. Looking forward to Fedify's continued growth under its new organizational home!
All repositories have been transferred and GitHub's automatic redirects are in place, so existing links will continue to work. Also, the project's core functionality and development process remain unchanged.
Thanks to everyone who participated in our naming poll. Looking forward to Fedify's continued growth under its new organizational home!
Unlike traditional Mastodon bots, BotKit lets you build fully independent #fediverse bots that aren't constrained by platform limits. Create your entire bot in a single TypeScript file using our simple, expressive API.
Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.
ALT text detailsimport {
createBot,
InProcessMessageQueue,
MemoryKvStore,
mention,
text,
} from "@fedify/botkit";
// Create a bot instance:
const bot = createBot<void>({
// The bot will have fediverse handle "@greetbot@mydomain":
username: "greetbot",
// Set the display name:
name: "Greet Bot",
// Set the profile icon (avatar):
icon: new URL("https://mydomain/icon.png"),
// Set the bio:
summary: text`Hi, there! I'm a simple fediverse bot created by ${
mention("@[email protected]")}.`,
// Store data in memory (for development):
kv: new MemoryKvStore(),
// Use in-process message queue (for development):
queue: new InProcessMessageQueue(),
});
// A bot can respond to a mention:
bot.onMention = async (session, message) => {
await message.reply(text`Hi, ${message.actor}!`);
};
// Or, a bot also can actively publish a post:
const session = bot.getSession("https://mydomain/");
setInterval(async () => {
await session.publish(text`Hi, forks! It's an hourly greeting.`);
}, 1000 * 60 * 60);
export default bot;
Key Points: ➡️ BotKit enables the creation of standalone ActivityPub bots, free from platform constraints. ➡️ It is user-friendly and written in TypeScript, ensuring type safety. ➡️ BotKit is easy to deploy with minimal dependencies on various virtual servers. ➡️ Powered by #Fedify, a robust #ActivityPub framework.
Key Points: ➡️ BotKit enables the creation of standalone ActivityPub bots, free from platform constraints. ➡️ It is user-friendly and written in TypeScript, ensuring type safety. ➡️ BotKit is easy to deploy with minimal dependencies on various virtual servers. ➡️ Powered by #Fedify, a robust #ActivityPub framework.
Unlike traditional Mastodon bots, BotKit lets you build fully independent #fediverse bots that aren't constrained by platform limits. Create your entire bot in a single TypeScript file using our simple, expressive API.
Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.
ALT text detailsimport {
createBot,
InProcessMessageQueue,
MemoryKvStore,
mention,
text,
} from "@fedify/botkit";
// Create a bot instance:
const bot = createBot<void>({
// The bot will have fediverse handle "@greetbot@mydomain":
username: "greetbot",
// Set the display name:
name: "Greet Bot",
// Set the profile icon (avatar):
icon: new URL("https://mydomain/icon.png"),
// Set the bio:
summary: text`Hi, there! I'm a simple fediverse bot created by ${
mention("@[email protected]")}.`,
// Store data in memory (for development):
kv: new MemoryKvStore(),
// Use in-process message queue (for development):
queue: new InProcessMessageQueue(),
});
// A bot can respond to a mention:
bot.onMention = async (session, message) => {
await message.reply(text`Hi, ${message.actor}!`);
};
// Or, a bot also can actively publish a post:
const session = bot.getSession("https://mydomain/");
setInterval(async () => {
await session.publish(text`Hi, forks! It's an hourly greeting.`);
}, 1000 * 60 * 60);
export default bot;
Unlike traditional Mastodon bots, BotKit lets you build fully independent #fediverse bots that aren't constrained by platform limits. Create your entire bot in a single TypeScript file using our simple, expressive API.
Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.
ALT text detailsimport {
createBot,
InProcessMessageQueue,
MemoryKvStore,
mention,
text,
} from "@fedify/botkit";
// Create a bot instance:
const bot = createBot<void>({
// The bot will have fediverse handle "@greetbot@mydomain":
username: "greetbot",
// Set the display name:
name: "Greet Bot",
// Set the profile icon (avatar):
icon: new URL("https://mydomain/icon.png"),
// Set the bio:
summary: text`Hi, there! I'm a simple fediverse bot created by ${
mention("@[email protected]")}.`,
// Store data in memory (for development):
kv: new MemoryKvStore(),
// Use in-process message queue (for development):
queue: new InProcessMessageQueue(),
});
// A bot can respond to a mention:
bot.onMention = async (session, message) => {
await message.reply(text`Hi, ${message.actor}!`);
};
// Or, a bot also can actively publish a post:
const session = bot.getSession("https://mydomain/");
setInterval(async () => {
await session.publish(text`Hi, forks! It's an hourly greeting.`);
}, 1000 * 60 * 60);
export default bot;
Unlike traditional Mastodon bots, BotKit lets you build fully independent #fediverse bots that aren't constrained by platform limits. Create your entire bot in a single TypeScript file using our simple, expressive API.
Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust #Fedify foundation.
ALT text detailsimport {
createBot,
InProcessMessageQueue,
MemoryKvStore,
mention,
text,
} from "@fedify/botkit";
// Create a bot instance:
const bot = createBot<void>({
// The bot will have fediverse handle "@greetbot@mydomain":
username: "greetbot",
// Set the display name:
name: "Greet Bot",
// Set the profile icon (avatar):
icon: new URL("https://mydomain/icon.png"),
// Set the bio:
summary: text`Hi, there! I'm a simple fediverse bot created by ${
mention("@[email protected]")}.`,
// Store data in memory (for development):
kv: new MemoryKvStore(),
// Use in-process message queue (for development):
queue: new InProcessMessageQueue(),
});
// A bot can respond to a mention:
bot.onMention = async (session, message) => {
await message.reply(text`Hi, ${message.actor}!`);
};
// Or, a bot also can actively publish a post:
const session = bot.getSession("https://mydomain/");
setInterval(async () => {
await session.publish(text`Hi, forks! It's an hourly greeting.`);
}, 1000 * 60 * 60);
export default bot;
Even though it's built on #Fedify, its API looks completely different from Fedify's one. I intended to make it resembles more Discord/Telegram bot frameworks than Fedify. I think it's close to my intention.
The last "big" code thing I need to get done before the alpha test of my current @fedify project is the task queue - make sure routine data updates happen, consider individual importance and urgency, respect external API rate limits, etc.
But that's super intimidating so I'm currently procrastinating by making it a cute lil home page instead. 🙃
The last "big" code thing I need to get done before the alpha test of my current @fedify project is the task queue - make sure routine data updates happen, consider individual importance and urgency, respect external API rate limits, etc.
But that's super intimidating so I'm currently procrastinating by making it a cute lil home page instead. 🙃
The last "big" code thing I need to get done before the alpha test of my current @fedify project is the task queue - make sure routine data updates happen, consider individual importance and urgency, respect external API rate limits, etc.
But that's super intimidating so I'm currently procrastinating by making it a cute lil home page instead. 🙃
Added an experimental feature flag TIMELINE_INBOXES to store all posts visible to your timeline in the database, rather than filtering them in real-time as they are displayed. This is useful for relatively larger instances with many incoming posts, but as of now it may have several bugs. It is expected to be the default behavior in the future after it is stabilized.
Now you can import and export your data from the administration dashboard in CSV format: follows, lists, accounts you muted, accounts you blocked, and bookmarks.
#Hollo is currently testing #Node.js instead of #Bun. (In fact, the hollo.social server is already running on Node.js!) If this test is successful, starting with the next release, Hollo will be powered by Node.js instead of Bun.
The main reason for switching to Node.js is to optimize memory usage. As you can see in the graph image below, Node.js uses significantly less memory than Bun. With this switch, Hollo is expected to be even more lightweight than before!
ALT text detailsHollo's memory usage graph. When I was running on Bun, it used about 4GB of memory, but after switching to Node.js, it uses about 0.5GB of memory.
I'm currently brainstorming a framework for creating fediverse bots called #BotKit, based on #Fedify. It's less flexible than Fedify, but the goal is to make it possible to create simple fediverse bots with much less code. What do you think?
ALT text detailsimport { createBot, mention, text } from "@fedify/botkit";
import { RedisKvStore } from "@fedify/redis";
import { Redis } from "ioredis";
// Create a bot instance:
const bot = createBot({
// The bot will have fediverse handle "@greetbot@mydomain":
username: "greetbot",
// Set the profile icon (avatar):
icon: new URL("https://mydomain/icon.png"),
// Set the bio:
bio: text`Hi, there! I'm a simple fediverse bot created by ${
mention("@[email protected]").}`,
// Use Redis as a key-value store:
kv: new RedisKvStore(new Redis()),
// Use Redis as a message queue:
queue: new RedisMessageQueue(() => new Redis()),
});
// A bot can respond to a mention:
bot.on(/hi|hello|what'?s\s+up/i, (ctx) => {
return ctx.reply(text`Hi, ${ctx.actor}!`);
});
// Or, a bot also can actively publish a post:
setInterval(async () => {
await bot.publish(text`Hi, forks! It's an hourly greeting.`);
}, 1000 * 60 * 60);
export default bot;
I'm currently brainstorming a framework for creating fediverse bots called #BotKit, based on #Fedify. It's less flexible than Fedify, but the goal is to make it possible to create simple fediverse bots with much less code. What do you think?
ALT text detailsimport { createBot, mention, text } from "@fedify/botkit";
import { RedisKvStore } from "@fedify/redis";
import { Redis } from "ioredis";
// Create a bot instance:
const bot = createBot({
// The bot will have fediverse handle "@greetbot@mydomain":
username: "greetbot",
// Set the profile icon (avatar):
icon: new URL("https://mydomain/icon.png"),
// Set the bio:
bio: text`Hi, there! I'm a simple fediverse bot created by ${
mention("@[email protected]").}`,
// Use Redis as a key-value store:
kv: new RedisKvStore(new Redis()),
// Use Redis as a message queue:
queue: new RedisMessageQueue(() => new Redis()),
});
// A bot can respond to a mention:
bot.on(/hi|hello|what'?s\s+up/i, (ctx) => {
return ctx.reply(text`Hi, ${ctx.actor}!`);
});
// Or, a bot also can actively publish a post:
setInterval(async () => {
await bot.publish(text`Hi, forks! It's an hourly greeting.`);
}, 1000 * 60 * 60);
export default bot;
I'd like to translate #Fedify's docs into multiple languages, at least into Korean and Japanese, which are languages I speak, but I'm not sure how useful it would be compared to the cost. Fedify's docs are already pretty extensive, so translating them would be difficult, plus the cost of updating them would be quite high. 🤔
Since #Fedify 1.4.0, our next release, the fedify lookup command will have the -t/--traverse option! It takes a URL of the collection, and traverse its items from the beginning to the end. Here's a demo:
ALT text detailsThe demo session of the -t/--traverse option which will be introduced to the fedify lookup command since Fedify 1.4.0.
I was learning #Fedify and I wanted to make a minimal Next.js example of a "read-only" app that was for consuming the Fediverse and didn't mess with interactions. It started as a boilerplate to benefit other devs, but the act of making it forced me to learn a lot more about Fedify and ActivityPub. #WebDev#Demo
ALT text detailsA screenshot showing 2 browser windows, one in landscape format, one in portrait format, to represent desktop and mobile viewports. The design is very yellow and sepia-ish showing a toot and an image next to it. A lot of brush and marker strokes are incorporated into the design. Otherwise the design is minimal.
I was looking at the properties on the Person #ActivityPub object implemented by #fedify, and wasn't expecting this one, haha!
I'm presuming this is #Misskey related? The quirks of having to implement many different versions of a spec!
ALT text detailsA screenshot of a code editor showing a TypeScript class Person with a property get cat(): boolean | null. The accompanying comment explains that the property is "used on actors to indicate that they in some way identify as a cat, expressed as a boolean value. If this property is set to true, displaying the actor or their notes will have some special effects attached in some clients."
#WIP - I'm learning ActivityPub for a larger project, but taking a moment to #design and code a minimal fediverse reader.
I found it tricky learning to make a read-only app with #Fedify, so wanted to make this example Next.js project available. Got a little carried away with the design.
Mockup in #Inkscape, it's a better prototyping tool than one might expect.
Hopefully @tamami doesn't mind me using her nice post in my mockup .
ALT text detailsA design mockup of a minimalistic "Fediverse Reader" app created in Inkscape, showcasing layouts for desktop and mobile screens. The designs include variations of a homepage and post view with text and images. The interface uses light yellow tones and emphasizes simplicity with modern, clean lines.
Thanks to @joschi, Hollo now support local filesystem storage for media files. You can configure DRIVE_DISK=fs and FS_ASSET_PATH to store media files in the local filesystem. For users who've used S3, no further action is required—but, it's recommended to configure DRIVE_DISK=s3 as DRIVE_DISK will be required in the future releases.
Added support for Sentry. If you want to see error reports and instrumented traces in Sentry, please configure SENTRY_DSN.
Added pagination to the profile page.
Minor performance improvements and bug fixes due to upgrading Fedify to 1.3.0.
You can upgrade to Hollo 0.3.0 using the following ways:
I would like to translate #Fedify's docs into Korean and Japanese, the languages I can speak, but the amount of the docs is quite much, so I can't even think of doing it. The maintenance costs for updating the docs also cannot be ignored.
ALT text detailsInstrumented spans
Fedify automatically instruments the following operations with OpenTelemetry spans:
Operation Span type Description
Federation.fetch() Server Serves the incoming HTTP request.
lookupObject() Client Looks up the Activity Streams object.
lookupWebFinger() Client Looks up the WebFinger resource.
handleWebFinger() Server Handles the WebFinger request.
More operations will be instrumented in the future releases.
ALT text detailsSemantic attributes for ActivityPub
The OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions currently do not have a specification for ActivityPub. However, Fedify provides a set of semantic attributes for ActivityPub. The following table shows the semantic attributes for ActivityPub:
Attribute Type Description Examples
activitypub.activity.id string The IRI of the activity object. "https://example.com/activity/1"
activitypub.activity.type string[] The qualified IRI(s) of the activity type(s). ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Create"]
activitypub.activity.to string[] The IRI(s) of the recipient collections/actors of the activity. ["https://example.com/1/followers/2"]
activitypub.activity.cc string[] The IRI(s) of the carbon-copied recipient collections/actors of the activity. ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"]
activitypub.activity.resend_count int The ordinal number of activity resending attempt (if and only if it's retried). 3
activitypub.actor.id string The IRI of the actor object. "https://example.com/actor/1"
activitypub.actor.type string[] The qualified IRI(s) of the actor type(s). ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Person"]
activitypub.object.id string The IRI of the object or the object enclosed by the activity. "https://example.com/object/1"
activitypub.object.type string[] The qualified IRI(s) of the object type(s). ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Note"]
activitypub.object.in_reply_to string[] The IRI(s) of the orig
ALT text detailsSvelteKit
This API is available since Fedify 1.3.0.
SvelteKit is a framework for building web applications with Svelte. Fedify has the @fedify/fedify/x/sveltekit module that provides a hook handler to integrate Fedify with SvelteKit. Put the following code in your hooks.server.ts file:
import { createFederation } from "@fedify/fedify";
import { fedifyHook } from "@fedify/fedify/x/sveltekit";
const federation = createFederation<string>({
// Omitted for brevity; see the related section for details.
});
// This is the entry point to the Fedify hook from the SvelteKit framework:
export const handle = fedifyHook(federation, (req) => "context data");
• Smart object lookup with content negotiation • Interactive inbox testing with a web UI • NodeInfo visualization • Local development tunneling • And more!
내일 서울 서초구 오픈업 플레이그라운드에서 이뤄지는 Open Contribution Jam 2024에 #Fedify 메인테이너(@hongminhee)가 참여합니다. Fedify에 기여해보고 싶은 분들은 와주시면 메인테이너가 성심껏 도와드리겠습니다! 자세한 행사 정보는 아래 링크를 참고하시면 됩니다.
ALT text detailsUsing different message queues for different tasks
This API is available since Fedify 1.3.0.
In some cases, you may want to use different message queues for different tasks, such as using a faster-but-less-persistent queue for outgoing activities and a slower-but-more-persistent queue for incoming activities. To achieve this, you can pass FederationQueueOptions to the CreateFederationOptions.queue option.
For example, the following code shows how to use a PostgresMessageQueue for the inbox and a RedisMessageQueue for the outbox:
const federation = createFederation<void>({
queue: {
inbox: new PostgresMessageQueue(
postgres("postgresql://user:pass@localhost/db")
),
outbox: new RedisMessageQueue(() => new Redis()),
},
// ... other options
});
Or, you can provide a message queue for only the inbox or outbox by omitting the other:
const federation = createFederation<void>({
queue: {
inbox: new PostgresMessageQueue(
postgres("postgresql://user:pass@localhost/db")
),
// outbox is not provided; outgoing activities will not be queued
},
// ... other options
});
If you're on the fence about which driver to choose for #Fedify's message queue, here's a benchmark that just came out. In addition to no queue, we compare 5 drivers, for a total of 11 setups:
@thisismissem Here's the benchmark, and while it contains some questionable results, the overall conclusion is as following:
• Response times are much faster with queues than without. • Overall throughput is better without queues. • However, some queue setups can achieve throughput close to that of no queue.
This benchmark assumes communication within a single node, so the effect of queues may be greater in real-world networks.
In the next version of #Fedify, the Article, ChatMessage, Note, and Question classes will have a quoteUrl property. This property corresponds to the following three JSON-LD properties all at once:
Fedify is an #ActivityPub server framework in #TypeScript & #JavaScript. It aims to eliminate the complexity and redundant boilerplate code when building a federated server app, so that you can focus on your business logic and user experience.
The key features it provides currently are:
Type-safe objects for Activity Vocabulary (including some vendor-specific extensions)
Introducing #Hollo. Hollo is an #ActivityPub-enabled single-user microblogging software. Although it's for a single user, it also supports creating and running multiple accounts for different topics.
It's headless, meaning you can use existing #Mastodon client apps instead, with its Mastodon-compatible APIs. It has most feature parity with Mastodon. Two big differences with Mastodon is that you can use #Markdown in the content of your posts and you can quote another post.
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![Semantic attributes for ActivityPub
The OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions currently do not have a specification for ActivityPub. However, Fedify provides a set of semantic attributes for ActivityPub. The following table shows the semantic attributes for ActivityPub:
Attribute Type Description Examples
activitypub.activity.id string The IRI of the activity object. "https://example.com/activity/1"
activitypub.activity.type string[] The qualified IRI(s) of the activity type(s). ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Create"]
activitypub.activity.to string[] The IRI(s) of the recipient collections/actors of the activity. ["https://example.com/1/followers/2"]
activitypub.activity.cc string[] The IRI(s) of the carbon-copied recipient collections/actors of the activity. ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"]
activitypub.activity.resend_count int The ordinal number of activity resending attempt (if and only if it's retried). 3
activitypub.actor.id string The IRI of the actor object. "https://example.com/actor/1"
activitypub.actor.type string[] The qualified IRI(s) of the actor type(s). ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Person"]
activitypub.object.id string The IRI of the object or the object enclosed by the activity. "https://example.com/object/1"
activitypub.object.type string[] The qualified IRI(s) of the object type(s). ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Note"]
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