I will be at the NGI Forum in Brussels next week! On Thursday I will participate in the NGI Impact Stories panel to explain how @npub17jlv...c3ef is helping Mastodon, and on Friday on a another panel to discuss tech sovereignty and what can bring in Europe with @npub1knja...m37n You can still register to attend online:

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Next Generation Internet Forum 2025 | Next Generation Internet

If you also attend, please come say hi! I will have some Mastodon stickers to distribute and will be happy to discuss anything Mastodon / Fediverse related #ngiforum

I am very happy that today we merged the pull request switching the Mastodon frontend build chain from the very old (and outdated) Webpack 4 to @npub19e3u...mcy2 ⚡️ It is not visible to end-users but it will greatly improve the developer experience with working on the Mastodon frontend and opens the door for many good things. I started the initial work 2 years ago, then @npub19td6...g68x took over and got it over the finish line 🚀

GitHub

Convert from Webpack to Vite by ChaosExAnima · Pull Request #34450 · mastodon/mastodon

This is a PR based on #24981 that will merge into #34454. It also contains #34469 and #34485.

#mastodev

Our team is growing, and I am very excited that there are now 2 developers focused on the Mastodon web interface, with a designer joining in a few weeks. Brace yourselves for a lot of interface improvements in Mastodon this year 💅

Mastodon

Mastodon Engineering (@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social)

Very happy to welcome our second front-end developer to the core team - hey there @diondiondion@indieweb.social 🥳 We've got plenty of improvem...

We are implementing the final version of RFC9421 (HTTP Signatures) in Mastodon, and would like to test this with other ActivityPub implementations. Do you know of any AP implementations supporting both incoming (verification) and outgoing (signing) RFC9421 signatures, and if possible with support for the double-knocking mechanism as described in

ActivityPub and HTTP Signatures

(section 3.5)? #activitypub

Quick poll for Mastodon server administrators : what is your biggest pain point between those two? You can add a bit more detail in a reply, and I am not interested in other areas. #mastoadmin

Parlons un peu politique française, et comment en pratique vous pourriez changer des choses. Les élections municipales arrivent (dans moins d’un an), et si vous vous intéressez à la vie locale, c’est le moment idéal pour vous de mettre un pied dans la "politique". Ces élections sont les plus décorrélées de la logique des grands partis et des structures nationales (sauf exceptions locales bien sûr), et l’échelon local est un endroit ou chacun·e peut avoir un impact concret et visible.

C'est un peu en dernière minute, mais je participerais à une table ronde sur les réseaux sociaux et leur avenir ce soir à Sciences Po Paris, à partir de 19h. Inscription sur leur site !

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The Sciences Po médialab (@medialab_scpo@mastodon.social)

Le 19 mars, le Centre Internet et Société du @cnrs@social.numerique.gouv.fr et le médialab de Sciences Po vous invitent à la conférence “Que...

Promouvoir Mastodon, ça se fait aussi (et surtout ?) sur le terrain. Ça fait plaisir de voir que petit à petit, il y a une vraie prise de conscience sur les sujets de souveraineté numérique et les problèmes posés par les réseaux sociaux centralisés (et leur transformation en arme anti-démocratique)