This week in the fediverse, Oct 14 to Oct 20

Servers 41,463 (−1,566) · Accounts 14.15M (−263,855) · Monthly active 1.31M (−74,804)

Releases: Pixelfed 0.15.1, Hometown 4.6.9+hometown-1.3.1, Piefed 1.8.6, Iceshrimp 2026.5.2, Hollo 0.9.24 and 5 more
New software: Iceshrimp.NET, Littlefedi, Sutty Distributed Press, Holos, Snapsmack and 331 more
New apps: SocialHub, play:Sub, Substreamer, Ultrasonic, DSub and 76 more
Listings: 169 edits to 112 software and app listings
On the blog: A New Era, This blog is on the fediverse and There’s a bot for that

Everything from the week: fedidb.com/news

Good morning, Malmö! I’m excited to hang out with and learn from people building messaging and social experiences on the open, decentralized Matrix protocol. 😊

And if you have any questions about @roost, our open source trust & safety tools Coop & Osprey, or T&S in general, I’d love to chat!

#MatrixConf #MatrixConf26 #Matrix #TrustAndSafety #OpenSource #ROOST

There is a release song again 😍

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#80

#OpenBSD #80hype

New app on FediDB: Mastodon

The official mobile client for Mastodon, offering a polished, easy-to-use interface on Android and iOS.

For Android and iOS · Free

fedidb.com/apps/mastodon

Security release: Hollo 0.8.16 is out

Security fixes

Released on October 17, 2026. Fixed a security vulnerability where any authenticated user with the write:statuses scope could delete another local account's post or a cached remote post by its UUID and receive the deleted post's contents. Status deletion now requires the post…

38 Hollo servers can upgrade.

Release notes: github.com/fedify-dev/hollo/releases/tag/0.8.16

fedidb.com/software/hollo/versions

PM Carney's statement on tonight's vote:

#ableg #abpoli #canpoli #cdnpoli #alberta #canada #abreferendum

From the #OpenBSD 8.0 changelog:
...

- VMM/VMD improvements:
o Added MP support for up to 64 VCPUs per guest VM.
o Redesigned to use files to manage VM ownership.
o Added x2apic mode support for guest virtual machines.
o Fix for when vmd(8) does not detect kernel on startup.
o Provide faulting GPA to vmd(8) for MMIO exits from vmm(4).
o Refactored vmm(4) exit handling and correct RIP adjustment.
o Added support for variable length instructions in VMX paths to
vmm(4).
o Prevent OOB reads by vmd(8) in 32 and 64-bit elf(5) loaders with
malformed elf(5) files.
o Implemented missing lapic/ioapic modes to fix vmd(8) support for
32-bit linux guests.
o Added checksum offload for vmd(8) guests.
o MSI/MSI-X virtio device interrupt support added.
o Support actually split split-virtqueues in vmd(8).
o Added i82093aa ioapic and i82489dx-compatible lapic emulation to
vmd(8).
o Improved qcow handling.

This is a game changer!

@chrism Maybe. Or maybe it was related to the OpenBSD 8.0 release process, that will change a lot of interesting things

@chrism @rqm And FreeBSD 15.1? :-)

@Chloe@catwithaclari.net

A fog canon for the car

@Edent Yeah, you got rel and type mixed up, look at https://pixelfed.social/.well-known/nodeinfo

I'm going to update my crawler to handle this though

@django it’s not that complicated, is it?

Lack of support, both monetary & emotional.

The causes might be different, but it’s all kind of the same.

More than single operators to share the load, diverse set of skills to support an instance, and my personal take is that having a formal entity is important for anything bigger than “me & my friends”

@alexia@app.wafrn.net

Update your dev branch heheh

The polls

WIP redesign for the Wafrn post editor on the web. please let me know your thoughts!

minor things like exact alignment are moreso a bug than intended feature
#wafrn #wafrnDev

カフェイン絶ちが必要

やばい！