fediverse

The EU's tech sovereignty plan prioritizes semiconductors, cloud, AI, and data centers while underfunding open source and decentralized social media, revealing a misunderstanding of social infrastructure as core infrastructure.

The author describes using HAProxy caching to reduce unnecessary load on snac threads in the FediMeteo service, following previous similar optimizations with nginx. The approach aims to keep the lightweight ActivityPub server efficient by having the reverse proxy absorb repeated public requests.

Spritely Institute releases Mandy, a prototype implementing ActivityPub on top of the Goblins actor model framework, making ActivityPub actors available over HTTP.