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The Programmer's Fulcrum 23 October, 2026

Reuben Walker, Jr. — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 08:24:41 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum.

It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), Open Social, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy.

The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.

If you want some recommended tools see our LESS stack.

We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.

There's good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.

Or you can jump straight to your favorite section.

Sites/Blogs/CMSs
Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools
OMN Programming
ActivityPub
Fediverse
More

FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.

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Follow or contact us on the Fediverse

Just copy and paste @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev into your platform/client's search field and hit follow.

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Or in the Atmosphere

Again, just copy and paste @thefulcrum.eurosky.social into your Atmosphere app's search field and hit follow.

Featured Item(s)

Open Media Network has this timely item:

In the Open Media Network (#OMN), the commons represents both the foundation and the destination of the native open web. Rather than relying on closed web corporate dotcons or top-down state power, it re-frames the commons as a practical, lived alternative. You might call it a “quiet” form of collective ownership and mutual aid grown into daily social infrastructure.

A reminder, what is the OMN

For example:

I finally got around to customizing our Bear (cross-posting) blog:

The Fulcrum on Bear

I am seriously considering practicing what I preach with LESS, and moving this site to Bear (or an equivalent) next year. I've had it with convoluted, increasingly AI ensloppified, and heading towards enshittified CMSs like Drupal, WordPress, Ghost, etc. They are no longer fit for purpose with small sites. Jamstack sites are just as bad.

Sticking to markdown, HTML, and CSS is a constraint that breeds creativity, resists techno feudalism, and refuses fascist artifacts like AI.

I would move our Fediverse account to self-hosted serving with Starling. And kill the newsletter.

CMSs

Offprint News announces:

A new editor, block by block

Publii has a new theme:

Blogmere: a magazine theme for lifestyle and culture journals

Silex announces:

Silex 3.10.0-canary.4 is out, a prerelease for testing

Typemill announces:

[https://typemill.net/news/typemill-2-28-0-soloprint-is-free-and-deeper-git-integration]

WordPress

Roddie Ouijital explores:

WordPress parent's problematic plans for .php (pending primary-string payoff)

Blind Access Journal shares:

An Open Letter to Matt Mullenweg on Accessibility in WordPress

I doubt they will get any satisfaction from WP’s increasing deranged, techcunt founder.

I ran across this new federated blog project this week:

Omnicron: Write freely. Share universally.

This could be a promising Bear alternative.

IndieWeb

Joe Crawford has:

Be IndieWeb Enough

Ilyess shares:

My Quest for IndieWeb Citizenship

Small Web

Nat's Space is:

Challenging myself to make for the web

I'm not quite here yet. But, see my Bear note above.

Ghost

Ghost announces:

Stripe Checkout customization

As usual, this is for the Pro plan or self-hosted versions.

Magic Pages shows us how to integrate:

Emoji reactions for your posts, without tracking

Tools

The NLNet Foundation has:

NLnet Labs as an open-source software steward under the CRA

NLnet Publishes More Stringent Generative AI Policy

Small Web

Long Live the Web shares:

Not a manifesto

Let's hope this is true.

Chat / Team Chat

About Signal reports:

Signal registration without a phone number now available on Android

Xoron examines:

The Signal Protocol in Rust

Anything is better than NodeJS.

Browsers

Servo shares:

August in Servo: CSS Grid, text selection, and more!

Better a late update post than none. ;)

Webkit announces:

Blocking Identity Resolution Infrastructure

Cloud

Nextcloud takes a look at the techcunts at Microsoft:

Your Data. Their Rules. – Sovereignty washing at its finest

Writing

The Document Foundation documents:

The history of the standardisation process of the proprietary OOXML format

Creative

9to5Linux reports:

Calibre 9.17 E-Book Manager Adds JPEG XL Support and Performance Improvements

Linux / Open Android

And:

Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 Rolls Out with Support for Volla Tablet, Various Updates

Nura announces:

Improvements in internationalization and localization

F-Droid announces:

F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 2.0.1 and 2.0.2

And iode announces:

Find My Device: find your phone, keep your privacy

Alternatives numériques has an:

Interview croisée d'Agnes Crepet (Fairphone) et Gaël Duval (Murena et /e/OS)

This week's featured OMN tool

Hyper8

Hyper8 is a static site generator for video publishing.

Hyper8

Programming

Tech Policy Press reports:

EU’s Digital Sovereignty Push Runs Up Against Budget Cuts for Civil Society

Whenever you think things can't get worse with governments, you're wrong. And other than the U.S. (ironically) it's about to be a bad election season for democracy. As anarchists have said for years, you can't count on governments for funding anything other than repression. So, it's up to us to support and donate to TAM software tools.

TetraLogical looks at:

WCAG 3: a different future for accessibility

Eric Bailey says:

The Accessibility Compat Data project has a homepage now, and you should support the project

And Rob Ricci says:

What a Terrible Day to Have a Computer

This is so tiring.

The PHP Foundation (the gods bless them) explain:

Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security

Fortunately, as Elias Taylor notes:

There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability

And The Atlantic has this click bait headlined (but important) related article:

‘If Anything Happens to This Guy … Everyone Is Screwed’

Git

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras explores:

Using Codeberg's git-pages deployment with git lfs

Markdown

I ran across the ATProto markdown tool, Reams this week:

Welcome to Reams

Michael Hanscom shares a:

Wishlist: Truly Semantic Plain Text Markup

CSS

Piccalilli examines:

Native masonry layouts with CSS grid lanes

CSS god, Josh Comeau looks at:

The Future of CSS

AI

404 Media reports:

AI Is Changing Everything About Hacking. No One Knows What Happens Next.

Other

OpenProject has:

Passion Project: Discover what's new in OpenProject

This week's featured programming tool

HTML

Structure your site.

HTML

ActivityPub

Lorenz Diener explores:

New Features in Mastodon.py 2.3

This week's featured ActivityPub featured tool

FediDB

FediDB indexes 41,097 servers across 522 software projects, checks every one of them each day, and publishes all of it through a free public API.

FediDB

Permanent aside here (unfortunately)

This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren't able to comprehend ⬇️:

The Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, formal, informal, or otherwise)
and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise).
and corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional techcunts.

So, recognize their natures and don't ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.

Fediverse

Steffen Voß says:

Das Fediverse ist viel mehr als nur ein weiterer Social-Media-Kanal

FediDB heralds:

A New Era

Phoenix Paulina Schmid looks at:

Threads and the Fediverse: The Threat that Wasn’t

Let's hope it stays this way.

Mastodon announces:

5.0: A closer look

Everyone is celebrating the competent UI.

Catodon has:

Catodon recently implemented Mobilizon/Gancio events

HolosSocial announces:

HolosSocial is not abandoned

My mistake was making it easy to run the server on your device, but not to get your own identity.

A New Social shares its thoughts on:

On Nostr, Farcaster, and other protocols

Tech Policy Press says:

End the Algorithm

A great new project, SocialSpec has:

Introducing SocialSpec.org

App Spotlight: Micro.blog

App Spotlight: WordPress (Plugins)

I got this rolling on the backup Fulcrum Too (WordPress) site. You have to import your RSS following list via a plugin as well. Here's our list if you want to bulk follow it. Which you should. ;)

David Gardiner examines:

WebSub notifications when my blog has new content

TechDirt opines:

Accident Or Not, The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn’t Rent Your Megaphone From Zuck

True, but his boys at Bluesky are on a path to catch up with Failbook level enshittification in the next few years.

ATProto

ATProto announces:

An Intro to Atmospheric Groups

Again, this is one of the main developments for why we pivoted with our Manade project.

We just cut another spaces alpha release

Tynan Is Typing claims to be:

Rating all the things

JolaDev shares a clickbait headlined, but good article:

The time Bluesky tried to kill my server

This is why you shouldn’t self-host your PDS, yet.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere Money is:

Introducing Atmosphere Money

Skyreader has a:

Skyreader update - Saved searches, PDFs and books, Semble Connections, and more

Cosmik Labs explores moving:

From Personal Knowledge Management to Collective Knowledge Gardening

W Don't Have Time reports:

Just 18 unverified VIP accounts produce more than half of all W Social content

P2P

LoRes Mesh examines:

Offline websites with Kiwix, but P2P

Worm Blossom looks at its:

New WTP Specification

RSS

Buttondown says:

Google Reader was building the wrong future

Dropping Reader and pimping Google+ was definitely the moment the enshittification of Google gained steam.

I found this super solid RSS tools resource:

RSS isn't dead. It's the resistance.

Incognito Cat has:

Privacy Tool Spotlight: FreshRSS

XMPP

Aetherius Eldritch explores:

Un clásico del software libre para platicar con los amigos: así funciona Pidgin y el protocolo XMPP

Movim announces:

Movim 0.35.2 bug fixes and improvements

CTAs

That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer's Fulcrum.
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Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto!
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The Programmer's Fulcrum 16 October, 2026

Reuben Walker, Jr. — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:34:48 +0000

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum.

It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.

If you want some recommended tools see our LESS stack.

We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.

There's good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.

Or you can jump straight to your favorite section.

Sites/Blogs/CMSs
Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools
OMN Programming
ActivityPub
Fediverse
More

FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.

Featured Item(s)

Misha Things writes:

Given what is at stake, it is surprising that so few people seem to be aware of, and engaged with this struggle over our digital world. Much like many of the boomers and generation X (what’s in a name) could not be bothered to think through the geopolitical and economic implications of letting the Americans build our digital world, a big part of the younger generations seems to have thrown in the digital towel, accepting their lives as digital serfs.

Escaping TechnoFeudalism

On a related note, we have an important pivot development with Manade:

Corporate surveillance, techno feudalist tech sucks and people want to leave it. But, some people have trouble with selecting individual tools that work well together. LESS is our very opinionated selection of a coherent stack. We want to make it easy for you to tell big tech to sod off.

Our Manade project will pivot into supporting and promoting this decentralized democratic tech stack.

With the new focus we aim to reduce decision paralysis and KISS for end users of tech. We want to help you escape the increasingly fascist techshit we are all stuck with.

The name is obviously inspired by KISS, the philosophy that "less is more", and the ideals of the country where we live, France. Long live liberty, equality, and solidarity.

Announcing LESS - the Liberté, Egalité, Solidarité Stack

Pivot to AI writes:

Linux kernel maintainers are complaining they’re drowning in slop. Torvalds’ answer is: less people, more chatbots!

Torvalds said he is not trying to push non-chatbot users out of the project. But there’s already so much slop code and so many slop procedures that his actions don’t match these words.

I suggest the social action: shame. Shame these people. Their actions are shameful. AI bros hate being shamed and they try to make rules against shaming — because shame works.

None of these people doing shameful things deserve a place in polite company. They should be shamed for their shameful choices.

Linux kernel goes full AI slop code, hides chatbot commits

Linus has always been a libertarian but as he ages he's becoming more of a techcunt. Discouraging. I guess it's time to start checking out FreeBSD if you're technical enough.

CMSs

pckt shares:

Okay, so... A lot has happened on pckt

You can now "import a blog from: Substack, Ghost, Tumblr, Buttondown, Pika, WhiteWind, or from anywhere that exports as Markdown."

Jay Perry explores:

A room full of new friends

Manton Reece has announcements for Micro Blog:

New feature: Blog Audit

Social Spec

On a journalistic note, Current Affairs explains:

Why We’re Banning AI

WordPress

Haurand Webdesign has:

Zustände in WordPress 7.1.x bei Buttons

Good stuff.

Small Web

Tim's Blog shares:

My take on the SmolWeb

Ghost

Spectral Web Services announces:

Multi-channel announcements

Magic Pages lets you:

Choose what your site sends to the social web

Tools

Fast Wonder reviews:

Open Source Summit Prague: Sovereignty, Metrics, and Burnout

Matrix envisions:

What will it take to build an open source Europe and how the Digital Commons EDIC can help

Open Productivity announces:

Open Productivity: Six Open Source Vendors Form Joint Venture for openDesk

Gut. This is a solid option for medium-sized operations and up.

The Document Foundation peruses:

The Politics of Standards

Goodtech examines:

Souveraineté numérique : le rapport accablant qui pointe les lacunes de l’Europe

Tuta announces:

Building a private internet together: Tuta & (photo storage app) zeitkapsl partnership

Browsers

9to5Linux reports:

Mozilla Firefox 158 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Remember to use forks of Firefox like Zen, Waterfox, or Librewolf.

Speaking of, Waterfox announces:

6.7.6 — Feed controls and browser fixes

Cloud

Nextcloud reports:

Armira Growth teams up with Nextcloud: Frank Karlitschek on what it means for the community

They need to do this in order to take business away from Microslop, Gaggle, and Sapple. If you have a problem with it, check out Framaspace.

Writing

The Document Foundation announces:

The Document Foundation (now) has its own visual identity

LibreOffice comes to the rescue of Microsoft Publisher users

Creative

Vaibhav Haldia explains how:

A Patent Troll Almost Killed GIF

The Worldwide Web Consortium announces:

Updated Candidate Recommendation: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2

Kdenlive asks:

Help us test Kdenlive

Linux / Open Android

Amos Batto asks:

Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

This is an incredible (and long) post on the challenges Linux phones face. You might want to start at the end. ;)

LineageOS announces:

24.0: Slick Seventeen, Awesome Applications, Universal USB Tools

The Free Software Foundation Europe has a:

GrapheneOS review

9to5 Linux reports:

Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” Slated for Release on Christmas, Based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Matthias Kirschner demonstrates:

The Power of fdroidcl

This week's featured OMN tool

Scribus

Scribus is the go-to Libre Desktop Publishing Application.

Scribus

Programming

Terence Eden says:

I paid people to try and follow my README

Kruno Golubić looks at:

The 2026 round of new domain endings

Markdown

Writing Slowly longs for:

Built-in support for the ‘Web of Markdown’?

HTML

Master.dev lists:

5 Good Choices for HTML Containers

Great stuff.

Scott Jehl explores:

Standards In Progress: Making Video Posters Accessible, Responsive, and an Element

Ahmad Alfy examines:

Iframes that finally fit their content

A quick HTML and accessibility tip: if you put your headline in the header image you still need to add it as an H1 in your text or via your CMS's title field.

CSS

Cyd Stumpel shares:

My picks for interop 2027

And Eric Meyer shares:

My Interop 2027 Rankings

Web Components

Aaron Gustafson looks at:

Tabbed Interface: The Web Component

AI

deadSimpleTech says:

There's little that's "inevitable" about AI

And Iris is 100% correct.

Other

OpenProject shares:

The open source alternative to Jira

This week's featured programming tool

Codeberg

A community-led effort that provides Git hosting for free/open source projects.

Codeberg

ActivityPub

Projets Libres shares:

#76 – (Fediverse) WordPress, ta maison dans le web social décentralisé

Note the last avatar on the reposts in the “Reactions to a post on Jeremy's blog” image. ;)

Dr. Fed announces:

DrFed 0.1.0: Our first release

The Real Grunfink announces:

I've just published version 2.96 of snac, the simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance server written in C

Terence Eden has:

Some quick thoughts on Unit Testing ActivityPub

PieFed demonstrates:

Reducing PieFed RAM usage

This week's featured ActivityPub featured tool

LittleFedi

A lightweight, efficient and Mastodon-compatible home for the Fediverse. Your server. Your community. Your Fediverse.

LittleFedi

Permanent aside here (unfortunately)

This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren't able to comprehend ⬇️:

The Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, formal, informal, or otherwise)
and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise).
and corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional techcunts.

So, recognize their natures and don't ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.

Fediverse

Lowkey Party explores The Forkiverse fiasco:

10k users... and how many Moderators?

Speaking as a journalist, journalists are just as stupid as any other humans. And even more tech illiterate. So, they probably shouldn't spin up Fediverse instances.

Heisse reports on:

Age verification in the Fediverse: How the KIDS Act challenges Mastodon

The University of Innsbruck introduces:

Social Media: Mastodon für alle Studierenden

Matthias Pfefferle launches:

a landing page on WordPress.com and video series with that explains the Fediverse

I was not aware of the Federated Reply WP block which is a useful one for interacting with the wider Fediverse. And this all works via the ActivityPub plugin if you self-host WP, which you should.

Platform for Social Apps announces:

There is an ActivityPub integration available for your Elgg instances

Bonfire

Public Spaces reports:

Mentaal.nl test Bonfire voor community’s in de ggz

IFTAS releases the:

2026 Social Web Annual Survey & Needs Assessment Report Now Available

Truffle Culture opines:

Culture Is Abandoning the Public Feed

Great stuff and why our original mission for Manade was important.

European Trends has:

The Great Unfollow: How Europe is Rewriting the Social Contract

This is a bit optimistic for now, but let's hope it blossoms.

Brennen Day shares:

Oldnets and Altnets: A Guide to Building a Low-Spec Daily Internet Out of Gemini, Gopher, and Terminal Tools

Old but vital.

ATProto

ATProto explores:

Developer Experience Goals for Atproto Spaces

at:// pizza thoughts examines:

Spatial Analysis

Jola.dev has:

Making your own atproto backlink index

Thoughts on standard.site

Boris Mann Tech Blog connects:

LaSuite Apps + Atmosphere Accounts

Tres cool.

Atmosphere

Tierney Cyren shares:

What is the Atmosphere: An Untech Introduction

Skyreader announces:

Skyreader update - Newsletters and Search

Aiueo has:

“European public voices choosing W” — But are they?

W Don't Have Time asks:

Have you been Wned?

On a related note, MeTacheles has:

W Social: Verifiziert heisst veroeffentlicht

Elena Rossini covers the douchebaggery in detail:

Public by Design: How W Social Makes Their Verified Users’ Personal Details Visible on the Open Web

Matthew's Newsletter covers:

How not to build trust

If you don't know by now, W Social is a corporate grift targeting gullible marks. It's a shady organization that's a stain on the Atmosphere. At least (almost as shitty) Bluesky is honest about their commercial intentions and the very public nature of any information you provide them.

Meanwhile, Eurosky announces:

The Eurosky Identity Platform is now a Digital Public Good

P2P

Meshtastic says:

Let's talk about 2.8

RSS

Robert Alexander looks at:

Misconceptions about RSS

Matrix

Tesseract announces:

Tesseract is now in beta!

CTAs

That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer's Fulcrum.
Follow us on Surf or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse or at @thefulcrum.eurosky.social on the Atmosphere for daily coverage.
Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto!
Escape techshit with the LESS Stack.

And please build something for a community! We're promoting the LESS stack via our Manade project.

Share on Open Social Media

Copy and paste:

Explore this week's "The Programmer's Fulcrum". https://www.thefulcrum.dev/the-programmers-fulcrum-16-october-2026/ #ActivityPub #ATProto #WebDev #Programming

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Announcing LESS - the Liberté, Equalité, Solidarité Stack

Reuben Walker, Jr. — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:33:05 +0000

This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum

Announcing the Liberté, Equalité, Solidarité Stack

Our Manade project will transition into supporting and promoting this decentralized democratic tech stack. As stated here, I think Manade is going to fail to reach its original objective and better choices have become available for the masses. So we are pivoting on its fulcrum. 😉

With the new focus we aim to reduce decision paralysis and KISS for end users of tech. We want to help you escape the increasingly fascist techshit we are all stuck with. If you are interested in all the details, read our Techno Anarchist Manifesto.

The LESS stack can provide everything you need to function in today's overly complicated and enshittifying techspace. It's also friendly with alternatives to the more frivolous things we are addicted to like doom scrolling, streaming, and gaming apps. Using LESS has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism. And it exists today using tech that has been around for years.

The name is obviously inspired by KISS, the philosophy that "less is more", and the ideals of the country where we live, France. Long live liberty, equality, and solidarity.

LESS Requirements

As much as possible our suggestions will comply with the following requirements. We will make exceptions for simplicity.

Opensource - (mostly) free from corporations
European - free from fascism (for now)
Plays well with others (interoperable and extendable)
Techno Anarchic (hence democratic)
Minimal AI taint (preferably none)
KISS-friendly

So, let's explore what will be the ever evolving and changing composition of our opinionated stack. Keeping the tech simple is the aim of this admittedly complex strategy. I will bold what I personally use.

Desktop

Linux is a fully competitive alternative to Chrome, Windows, and Mac so there is no excuse for using anything but it for your computers. All of the applications below have Linux options or work in the browser.

Linux Operating System

These distributions are the simplest and easiest to use for non-Linux savvy people.

Linux Hardware

Fortunately, almost any computer you now own can be converted to a Linux-based one.

But that is not always simple to do yourself, so the easiest option is to buy a new or refurbished Linux computer (if you can afford it).

Reputable European vendors include:

MNT Reform Next
Tuxedo Computers
Slimbook
Ubuntushop.biz
Entroware
Laptop with Linux
Framework (also US and Singapore)
Star Labs (UK)
ArkPC (Australia)

If you have a tight budget, search out a local organization to help you convert your existing computer to a Linux operating system. This is an unfortunate friction.

Mobile

We hope in the future that Linux phones will be an option for the masses. But, they face many challenges and especially on the technical front. They are slowly improving while loosing market share.

Until this changes the best option is a surveillance-free, de-googled Android device. And it would be awesome if Android was forked. Google is doing its best to enshittify it.

De-googled Android

e/OS from Murena
Graphene OS - if you are a tech competent spy or revolutionary this is a more secure option.

Linux

If you are adventurous, tech savvy, and can settle for a simpler mobile experience and mediocre camera, Linux options are available.

Chat

Matrix

If you are good at convincing personal acquaintances to make ethical choices, convince them to join you on Matrix.

DeltaChat - individual oriented
Element - group oriented

Signal

If you want to interact with the mainstream, Signal is your option even if its not XMPP-based.

Cloud

Nextcloud

I use Nextcloud to store personal photos and all the assets for The Fulcrum and Manade. Obviously, you should also back up everything locally (once on a computer and once on a separate hard drive.)

Framaspace

I should use Framaspace as I a semi-fluent in French.

Murena

If you have a Murena de-googled phone, Murena has their version of G-Suite. Which can also be used on any de-googled phone.

Office Suite

Libreoffice

If I have to edit a document I did not create, I prefer Libreoffice.

Joplin

Since I write everything in Markdown, I use Joplin. And you should too. It's the simplest option.

Murena

Again, if you have a Murena de-googled phone, Murena has their version of G-Suite apps.

Browser

Firefox clones

Tor

If you need extreme privacy, Tor is the way to go.

Eventually Servo

The most vital internet work going on at the moment is developing the browser engine, Servo. Let's hope there is a browser not based on Webkit or Chromium available soon.

Ad / Tracking Blocker

It is also highly advisable to use an ad / tracker blocker.

Ublock Origin
Privacy Badger

Search Engine

I alternate between these because none of them are perfect at providing results. But, they are all better than the AI slop you get from mainstream browsers.

eMail

Self-hosted Roundcube
Tuta
Murena - if you have a Murena de-googled phone, this is part of their office suite.

Open Social

Non-Mastodon Fediverse

Holos.Social
Go to Social
Bonfire - if you can find an open community
Self-hosted (Stirling) - if you are semi-tech savvy

If you want some capability for privacy, join the Fediverse.

Non-Bluesky Atmosphere

If you are ok with all your data being public, join the Atmosphere.

Website

The Open Media Network is an important bulwark against authoritarianism. Plus, you should share your voice with family, friends, and the rest of the world on an online home that you own. So, you should have a simple website. It doesn't matter what's on it. Just put your ideas out there. The more the better.

As Hamish Campbell notes:

“There is nothing magical or entirely new about the ideas behind the OMN.

Plumbing networks move water. Electrical grids distribute power. Neurons connect brain signals. Each works through connected parts, local relationships and flows.

We can learn from these existing patterns instead of pretending every social problem needs a revolutionary new technology.

The challenge is not inventing everything again. It is applying simple ideas to build better social connections. KISS.

KISS (though not necessarily opensource) website builder options include:

If you are tech savvy, database-less, flat file options include:

If none of these float your boat, more are listed about 40% down on our Tools and Resources page.

RSS Reader

Your website should have an RSS feed. And you should follow your allies’ websites via an RSS reader.

Nextcloud - If you use Nextcloud for your cloud storage, use their reader.
FeedFlow - desktop
Feeder - Android
Miniflux - self-hosted or paid hosting

Ok, it’s time to wrap this recommendation up.

The Current Recommended (very opinionated) LESS Stack

Use a computer with Zorin OS's Linux distribution.
Pair it with a Murena de-googled phone.
Store your files on Nextcloud and access them via both of the above.
Chat with your acquaintances by Signal.
Use Joplin to write documents.
Enjoy Open Social Media via Holos.Social and Eurosky.
Use Tuta for email.
Browse the web with Waterfox.
Participate in the Open Media Network with a Bear website.
Follow other sites via Nextcloud News or the FeedFlow RSS app.

Obviously you don't have to use all of these options. But, the more you use, the more you will be free from surveillance capitalism and techno feudalism.

For experimentation purposes, I would recommend having backup options for each of these. You can always move to a new first choice and relegate the previous selection to be your backup.

And if you have the resources for a second mobile device, please get a Linux phone. It is a market that needs to happen.

Also, please use the pro versions of these apps or make financial contributions to opensource options. Their providers need money just like you do.

So, free yourself from today's techshit and corporate surveillance. Adopt and use the LESS stack to avoid being a techno serf.

And if you are really inspired by your newly won freedom you can even read and live the Techno Anarchist Manifesto. 😈

Cheers and KISS with LESS!

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The Programmer's Fulcrum 09 October, 2026

Reuben Walker, Jr. — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:41:36 +0000

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum.

It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.

We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.

There's good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.

Or you can jump straight to your favorite section.

Sites/Blogs/CMSs
Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools
OMN Programming
ActivityPub
Fediverse
More

FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.

Featured Item(s)

Hamish Campbell writes:

There is a third path: community self-hosting. And this is actually how much of the Fediverse has worked for the last decade. A local group, cooperative, union, neighbourhood, or affinity group can share the cost, skills and responsibility of running services.

This is a way of taking the original “self-hosting” idea further, from individual self-hosting → community hosting → federation → native P2P.

The answer to the dotcons isn’t everyone becoming a sysadmin

But, the more of us that do, the better it is for the rest of us. Self-hosting skills are vital. Someone has to run community hosting.

Dead Simple Tech writes:

Using my experience in the tech world along with my exposure to humanist modes of analysis, then, I've tried to have a look as to how enshittification works from the inside: what beliefs, what attitudes and what mentalities lead to enshittifiers coming to be and reproducing themselves?

Poor enshittified souls

More (detailed) explanation of why techbros and developers are clueless shits and what to do about it.

Molily writes:

Many independent educators who used to earn a living from web development training and developer relations have reported that GenAI has ruined their business.

The death of web development education

All of you fucks who use GenAI are ruining your own career and everyone else's. No to mention the thievery and environment destroying. So, fuck you!

CMSs

Faircamp announces:

The first Faircamp 2 sites are coming online after the release

From Anna is:

Making a quick and easy website!

Publii introduces:

Isabella: a website theme for working photographers

Thomas Kräftner shares his experience at KirbyKon:

Community

Pika announces:

Focus & Typewriter Modes

WordPress

Souverain explores:

De WordPress au site statique : remettre le Web à plat avec Silex

While creating a Silex site is simple, connecting it to a WordPress backend is not.

IndieWeb

O Hello Ana examines moving:

Towards a personal online third-space

Nice site design, Ana.

Ghost

Ghost shares:

Automation analytics

Build Awesome / 11ty

Richard Djarbeng demonstrates:

Building a Modern Blog with Eleventy 3.x (Liquid Edition)

Leaflet

Sygnyn shows us how to:

Use your own domain name in Leaflet

Tools

Chat / Team Chat

About Signal reports on:

Signal Desktop Releases

Signal Android Releases

Cloud

OpenTech(AUC) is:

Self-hosting with CoopCloud

Nextcloud has:

Introducing Nextcloud Academy: Free online courses for Nextcloud contributors

Nextcloud app development beginner’s guide: What you should know before building your first app

Writing

And:

Nextcloud Write: the open source Microsoft Word and Google Docs alternative for collaborative document editing

Creative

Lou Lüeder shares:

Notre pipeline de production des PDFs imprimeur est 100% libre

Linux / Open Android

PostmarketOS (now Nura) looks at:

The road to daily-drivable mainline phones

9to5Linux reports:

Ubuntu Summit for Ubuntu 26.10 Takes Place on November 12-13, 2026

Hosting / Serving

Selfh.st opens the:

2026 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions

Programming

Sheets.work reveals:

The people holding up the internet

David Bushnell wants a:

A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over

On a similar note, Deciphering Glyph correctly states:

Programming isn't Special

Base 31 shows us:

Fighting Link Rot: How to Build Websites That Last

Steve Fenton explores:

Migrating from WEBP to AVIF

Vadim Makeev shares:

One SVG, nine posters: CSS linked parameters

Git

Linux Web News has:

Looking forward to Git 2.56 — and 3.0

Markdown

Nextcloud announces:

Nextcloud Text adds comments in Markdown files

HTML

Open Surveys opens the:

State of HTML 2026 Survey

Calibre App examines:

Lazy Loading Images and Media: How Far Ahead Browsers Fetch

Dave Rupert

Recursion is DEAD and HTML killed it

CSS

Master.dev looks at:

Fallbacks for CSS progress()

A Beautiful Site explores:

Named Breakpoints Without Sass

Amber Weinberg explains:

Optimizing CSS with Modern Selectors

JavaScript

Master.dev

Testing an iframe’s postMessage Handler

AI

Jacobin explores:

The Bosses’ Oldest Dream

David Bushell examines:

Leaving them behind

Other

OpenProject has:

OpenProject and bitcrowd join forces to strengthen open source project management and Jira migrations

News from the Product Desk: Project-specific workflows and forms for work package types and their variants

XWiki announces:

Release Notes for XWiki 18.4.6

ActivityPub

The Social Web Foundation is working on:

Internationalized Webfinger Handles in ActivityPub

Call for Proposals: Fediverse Multimedia Grants

Fedify announces:

Fedify 2.4.0: FEP-ef61 portable objects, background tasks, media uploads, and inbox request reports

Fabio Manganiello announces:

Songhive

Grow Your Own Services covers:

A new very lightweight Fediverse platform that's just been released called littleFedi

And LittleFedi has all the details:

The Little Computer People Present littleFedi: Our First Public Release

This is going to be similar to Stirling.

ActivityPub for WordPress announces:

9.3.0 — Modern Signatures and a Summer of Security Reports

And Journey of the Wolf and Raven announces:

Activity Relay 3.1.0 and Activity Relay Directory 1.3.0 are released!

Permanent aside here (unfortunately)

This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren't able to comprehend ⬇️:

The Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, formal, informal, or otherwise)
and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise).
and corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional techcunts.

So, recognize their natures and don't ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.

Fediverse

Hamish Campbell covers:

Composting the Last Five Years of the Fediverse

The Fediverse's tech is decentralized. The power over it is not. And it will slowly be enshittified if this doesn't change.

Connected Places has:

Fediverse News – Summer 2026

I discovered Epsilon.Social from the article above:

The European social network, sovereign and built to respect you

It will be very interesting to see where this goes. Here are its TOS with details on the founder.

Bonfire

Apache (the Dutch media version) reports:

Mediahuis gebruikt én kopieert big tech

Linux Magazine reports:

How the Fediverse Found Parts for Its Platforms

WAFRN shows us:

How to update

ATProto

The Public Ledger of Credentials shares the:

First steps of the PLC organization

Jola is:

Building an atproto link aggregator

Building [at] Habitat shares:

Habitat's road to release: 08 search

Atmosphere

The Modal Foundation is:

Incubating Aster

Skyreader shares a:

Skyreader update - From your follows, Bluesky posting, and more

And Cosmik shares:

Cosmik Updates: September 2026

P2P

P2Panda has:

Recordings from DWeb Camp

XMPP

Tubercule shares:

Avoir un compte de messagerie XMPP

Element announces:

Smoother collaboration with integrations

Matrix

Computer Weekly reports:

French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging

Democracy Tech

Blacksky has:

What Happens When You Have a Choice? : A Breakdown of The People’s Assembly and Blacksky’s Vision for Democratic Tooling

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The Programmer's Fulcrum 25 September, 2026

Reuben Walker, Jr. — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:17:10 +0000

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum.

It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.

We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.

There's good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.

Or you can jump straight to your favorite section.

Sites/Blogs/CMSs
Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools
OMN Programming
ActivityPub
Fediverse
More

FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.

We will be on vacation with friends for the next few weeks so there will not be any The Programmer's Fulcrums. But, we will be doing some curation on open social. See the CTAs section below for links.

Featured Item(s)

We are tooting our own horn this week with two items.

The first is too short for an article and too long for an open social post, so it's going here.

A review of WordCamp Bretagne

Even though I am all in on the flat file CMS train now (they aren't as overlycomplicated, insecure, and susceptible to ensloppification) I attended WordCamp Bretagne last week.

And I am glad I did if only for the opportunity to scout the wonderfully scenic city of Rennes for a summer home. It has an incredible variety of architecture. And it's like Paris, except less crowded and you can easily get around in it.

But, I also enjoyed the camp. These days I only use WordPress as a backup for the Ghost-based "The Fulcrum". My client work days are over. But there were several sessions with generic topics still relevent to our work here.

The Gutenberg, Playwright, and accessibility presentations were informative (even with my half-ass French skills). I also saw a oven mitt as swag for the first time. This is France after all. You don't want to burn your hand when taking your Le Creuset roasting pan out of the oven.

The camp was in a fantastic location in the Convent du Jacobins in Rennes' centre. It's very photogenic and has nice furnishings. And there was plenty of caffeine available which is vital at a tech conference.

My favorite presentation was "WordPress est un logiciel politise" as it was a good overview of WordPress' political mission. Which is still vital in spite of its founder devolving into a bit of a techcunt and the trend of trying to enterprisize the software.

The community is strong and more importantly decentralised and global. It's still commited to making publishing more democratic even if it's no longer the standout choice available to site owners.

Some observations (which match my experience at DrupalCamp Grenoble earlier this year):

French camps are not as commercialised as U.S. ones (not surprising)
They are not as beginner-friendly or non-developer-friendly
The attendees are more varied in age. It's good to see young people at a PHP-focused event. I noted the same at SymfonyCon 2024. Open standards and mastering them are still important.
Attendees are there to learn rather than to network. They pay attention to the presentations and ask questions. I think it's because they have job security as compared to the U.S. where you can be thrown out on your ass in a split second.
There are still long morning, lunch, and afternoon breaks (again this is France) where you can network if you want.
WordPress' community is more AI-sceptical as compared to Drupal.

Unfortunately, Drupal's founder is all in on it. WordPress' founder is too busy being a lunatic, so that works to its advatage in this one instance.

My only criticism is that WC Bretagne could up their sign game a little. Expecially their exterior signs.

But, overall it's an experience I recommend.

We also have a new Bonfire article exploring the account migration process.

Migration Expectations: Coming Home to Bonfire

Sabot Media created a fantastic resource:

Autistici/Inventati's shutdown is the historical catalyst for this manual, but the lesson is larger than any one project.

Movements and community organizations need to understand the systems they depend on well enough to map them, maintain them, back them up, move them, preserve what matters, and pass that knowledge on.

Become the Thousand Servers

CMSs

Alex Hoyau is:

Merging a big PR into Silex

Sounds great.

Typemill announces:

Typemill 2.27.0: Soloprint Theme

And Faircamp announces:

Faircamp 2

The Guardian reports:

These journalists share vital reporting with thousands of US immigrants – all by text and WhatsApp

Brilliant strategy, but they are flying under the radar on these corporate platforms. And their access could be cut off in a technofascist second. They should have an active open social alternative(s) in place for when that happens.

Juha-Matti Santala shows us how to:

Make your website printable - a short guide

Good stuff.

WordPress

Matthias Pfefferle announces a blog roll plugin:

[Blog role](https://notiz.blog/2026/09/23/blogrolle

Matthias is the genius behind the WordPress ActivityPub and Atmosphere plugins.

IndieWeb

Dead Parrot BBS explores:

Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back

Ghost

Synaps Media has:

Give integrations only what they need: Introducing Protected API Keys

I would assume this is for paid plans.

Build Awesome / 11ty

Simon Cox examines:

Filtered Topic Supplementary Posts

A good HTML lesson.

Tools

Holo Ventures examines:

Decent Infrastructure in an Authoritarian World

Great stuff.

Igalia celebrates:

Twenty-Five Years Upstream

Congratulations to the most impactful, important, and innovative opensource organization there is.

Chat / Team Chat

Daniel Gultsch is:

Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

Browsers

Gianni Rosato makes:

The case against JPEG XL (in browsers)

9to5Linux reports:

Mozilla Firefox 156.0.1 Is Now Available for Download with Various Bug Fixes

Remember to use one of the Firefox forks: Zen, LibreWolf, or Waterfox.

Waterfox announces version:

6.7.4 — RSS returns and AI search controls

Cloud

Nextcloud shares:

Nextcloud Hub 26 Summer: collaboration bringing Euro-Office to the desktop

If you are an individual (as opposed to a team member), LibreOffice is still the better option.

Writing

LibreOffice has:

LibreOffice at FrOSCon 2026

Software Freedom Day 2026: What Freedoms Does Libreoffice Offer

Creative

Aria Salvatrice says:

Let's stop debating the Gnu Imp
Manipulation Program

Linux / Open Android

F-Droid announces:

F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom

I missed this last month, but Furi Labs announces:

Face Unlock Arrives on FuriOS for the FLX Range

And Jolla details:

A planning day that turned into a hackday

Maemo Leste announces its:

2026 Excalibur release

Rust in Peace shares:

The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want

Witty blog name. ;)

Hosting / Serving

Keith reports:

DigitalOcean has $3 million for DHH (fascist linux) and nothing for CSS-Tricks

This week's featured OMN tool

Normal Tools

Open a tool, do the thing, leave. No account, no download, and nothing between you and the answer.

Normal Tools

Programming

Patrick Brosset has:

My favorite Interop 2027 proposals

Blurry before beautiful: image previews for the web

Ideally, you will have minimized your use of images, optimized them, and have a fast website; so this is not necessary.

Git

Mark Phillip is:

Mirroring the JUnit repository to Codeberg

HTML

Manuel Matuzovic shares:

19½ things you didn’t know about accessibility in HTML and CSS

And Alec Lomas shares:

My Interop 2027 Picks

Terence Eden has:

Some thoughts on HTML's proposed previewsrc attribute

CSS

Martin Michálek has a good review:

CSS selectors: a complete guide to selectors and combinators

Geoff Graham shares his thanks:

The Front-End Community is Still Alive and Beautiful

Piccalilli shows us how to:

Stop buttons triggering zoom when they’re double tapped

Useful.

Matuzo Vic says:

Your Grid Lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3

Interesting, but should be a very rare use case.

Web Components

Burton Smith looks at:

CSS-Only Custom Elements

AI

Tech Policy Press shares:

What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

Lionel Dricot aka Ploum has:

Oh yeah, still, we're here!

David Bushell explains:

I said no and Apple said yes

This is why you should not buy Apple hardware. Use a de-googled Android phone or tablet for now (Linux options are almost there) or a Linux computer.

Here’s how to deshittify this part of your Apple experience.

And for desktop.

This week's featured programming tool

Markdown

Write for your website.

Markdown

ActivityPub

Oscar details the:

Mastodon BOFHers update to 4.7.2

This is what updating a Mastodon instance entails.

This week's featured ActivityPub featured tool

Social Docs

Docs for ActivityPub.

Social Docs

Permanent aside here (unfortunately)

This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren't able to comprehend ⬇️:

The Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, formal, informal, or otherwise)
and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise).
and corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional techcunts.

So, recognize their natures and don't ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.

Fediverse

The Social Web Community Group announces:

LOLA Portability for ActivityPub (0.3)

Toots.io is:

Introducing Waterhole: an open-source collaborative moderation tool built specifically for Mastodon

Great idea.

MakerTube announces:

MakerTube got upgraded to PeerTube version 8.3.0

And xWiki announces:

ActivityPub Extension 1.7.12 Released

Bonfire

Bonfire reposts:

Making Community Governance Legible: A Semester with Bonfire

Flotisserie explores:

Old playbook, new eyes

Connected Places explains:

The Algorithm, Apparently Chronological

ATProto

Meri's Missives details:

(Re)building Roomy in 6 months

I think Roomy is going to be another nail in the coffin of my vision for the Manade project. But, that's OK.

Plus, Blacksky announces:

Acorn is officially open

50 Shades of Protocol presents:

Atmosphere in a Box - All your sandbox needs

David Bushell is:

Removing the fancy button

Boris Mann examines:

LaSuite Apps + Atmosphere Accounts

Tres cool.

Charlotte Som looks at:

Designing a storage engine for AT Protocol backlinks

Atmosphere

Blacksky is:

Building a Culture of (Digital) Safety

ATProto announces:

MySky: Open, Controllable Feed Infrastructure for the Atmosphere

P2P

Worm-Blossum announces:

Sneakerweb 1.2.0

The Random Consortium has:

"My Data, My Business Avengers" — The Privacy Suite that Fights Back

I don't know if this is revolutionary or batshit crazy. :)

Webrings

Zachery Huang says:

I Love Webrings

We are members of the two Webrings in our footer.

Webmentions

Matthew Weier O'Phinney looks at:

Webmention support

Konstantin explores:

Webmentions: the nice things we have

XMPP

Daniel Gultsch asks:

Jabber/XMPP: How Do We Gain Traction?

Movim shares:

Movim 0.35.1, time to upgrade!

Matrix

Matrix answers:

Is Presence Fixed Yet?

Element reports:

Element partners with Arawa to bring sovereign, open-standard federated communications to French local authorities

Tres bon.

Sky’s (whoever the fuck they are) Blog shares:

A Thousand Newlines: Matrix Spam, #3 — We are so back!

Peeps, on your site please explain who you are. Websites aren't anonymous.

Democracy Tech

Slow News shares:

The Good Ideas of Solidarity Tech

If you can, attend:

Decidim Fest 2026

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Migration Expectations: Coming Home to Bonfire

Reuben Walker, Jr. — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:11:21 +0000

This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

One of the foundational aspects of the Fediverse is that you are able to move your account to another home aka instance. And that you can take the majority of your data with you.

This interoperability capability shared between ActivityPub platforms is a fantastic benefit for you and open social in general.

There are many reasons for moving you account to a new home:

you may have discovered another instance that better matches your interests or maybe a new one was just created.
you may find the moderation policies of your home have changed and you don't agree with them now.
your instance's admin(s) may have devolved into a techbro, technofascist, or AI slop merchant.
or as unfortunately happens now and then, your home may be shutting down due to admin burnout or lack of financial resources.
or maybe you don't like having multiple accounts on a variety of Fediverse platforms and are looking to consolidate.

In any event, if you are looking to move, Bonfire opens new opportunities for community-driven, boundary-respecting social networking. I think it can be the everything app of the Fediverse. It's a great choice for a new home for your identity and data.

However, a move has the potential to be irreversible so you need to be sure about your decision. And Bonfire has unique features like Circles, Groups, and Boundaries that may not exist on you current platform. So read some of the linked articles here to get an idea of what your new experience will entail.

Note that while we are one of the few publications covering Bonfire, I am not an expert so most of this information is pulled (by handwritten notes) from the Bonfire documentation.

Like developing software for the Fediverse itself, migrating is not simple but it is possible with a little work and concentration.

Here are the processes we will go through:

Export Your Current Data
Start a Fire
Importing Your Data
Move Your Followers
Clean Up Your Old Account
Hey, This Didn't Work as Advertised
Let's Rock Bonfire

If you just want to create a new Bonfire account, read our notice Setting up your account on a Bonfire / Manade instance.

Note That Not Everything Migrates

Migratable:

followers
manual imports
- following lists
- block lists (with Bonfire you can block, silence, or ghost)
- bookmarks (if your instance can export them)
- likes and boosts
- custom lists (these will become Bonfire Circles)
- complete posts history (if your instance exports a JSON archive of you outbox)

Not migratable:

private conversations
media files (though references can be preserved)
any instance specific feature

Export Your Current Data

Your current data has to be migrated.

The Bonfire docs cover moving from a variety of platforms including other Bonfire instances. But, we are going to look at the most common possibilities here.

The Fediverse's 800 pound Gorilla aka Mastodon

Moving from the extinct pachyderm would be the most common migration path.

From the user interface of your current home the steps are:

Go to Settings > Import and Export Data > Data Export
Download your follow, blocks, mutes, bookmarks, and lists to CSV files
Request a full archive of your posts and media

Misskey and friends

With Misskey and its forks there is a similar process with these steps:

Go to Setttings > Import / Export
Export your following list, blocked users, muted users, bookmarks, lists
Some lists may need to be manually created

Akkoma

For this innovative Misskey-influenced fork of Pleroma:

Go to Settings > Data export
Export follows, blocks, mutes, bookmarks
Export your lists as they are available

You should be able to migrate from any Fediverse platform with similar steps. Your current home's admin might even help you, especially if the instance is shutting down.

Start a Fire

The first step to creating a new Bonfire account is to choose an instance. And this is the most challenging step in my opinion.

Because, there aren't many pubic instances of Bonfire available. So be diligent in reviewing the communities and their rules for the few choices you have.

Note that this is why we are working on Manade. There needs to be an easier way to stand up a new Bonfire community.

Bonfire itself has an experimental instance so you can experience how it works. But it's not a permanent home for you on the Fediverse.

Also, make sure the Bonfire community you want to migrate to will federate with your current platform's instance.

Sign on the dotted line

You might want to read our article, Grab a seat at our Bonfire: the revolutionary community platform before continuing.

And you might want to choose an instance based on the flavor of Bonfire it uses.

On the signup page of your final choice:

Use the same username (hopefully available)
Set up your profile with a display name and bio
Upload your profile and header images

Note that with Bonfire you can have up to four profiles on each account. This is assuming your new community permits them. You could have a personal and professional profiles. And maybe one for intimate friends and family or a group-based profile.

Fortunately, you don't have to do this a signup and have time to plan your profiles strategy. I would recommend waiting.

If you want to at this point, you can also create custom Circles for sharing and organizing your feeds. You can set up Boundaries and your privacy settings. And you can explore Bonfire's user interface.

Of course, you don't have to select all your settings immediately. You might want to read about Circles, Boundaries, and Groups first. Then customize your settings after the migration is finished.

Set up your Aliases

You need to create alias(es) on the instance you are leaving.

The same steps are required for leaving a Mastodon, Akkoma, or even Pixelfed instance:

Go to Settings > Account
Find "Moving from another account" or "Account Aliases"
Add your new Bonfire account handle -> @yournewusername@yournewbonfireinstance.social etc.

With Misskey aliasing may not be supported so you will have to manually notify your followers ahead of executing the move. Publicize a moving date and time in your header and send multiple posts while preparing to move to Bonfire.

Now, in Bonfire go the Settings > Import and scroll down to the bottom. In the "Account Aliases" section add your previous Fediverse handle -> @youroldusername@youroldinstancename.social etc. Finally, save the alias.

Make Sure It Works

To make sure everything is good to go:

Follow your new handle from your old home
Follow your old handle your old handle from your new Bonfire instance
Share a post from each account
Make sure federation is working in both directions via boosting, liking, replying, etc.
Both accounts should show the other as a verified alias

You're all set Clark Kent.

Importing Your Current Data

The next process is importing your data.

Like everything else with Bonfire, it's import system is flexible and secure.

You will import these files:

Relationship and activity data CSV files
Your "outbox" consisting of complete post history and activities JSON files

OK, let's import them.

Here's how it works:

Upload a file in Settings > Import
Large import jobs are queued and processed in the background so you can keep using Bonfire
Bonfire features Smart Handling so it automatically skips duplicates and handles errors. Invalid data is ignored.
You can track you import's progress in Settings > Import History

What You Can Import

As you might guess by now, you can import:

Following lists
Block lists
Bookmarks
Likes and Boosts
Lists as Circles
Complete post history (if you old platform has this export capability)

Preserving Data is Important during Imports

Bonfire carefully preserves your content's original identity when importing your posts and other content.

So:

Posts keep their original timestamps and canonical links
Replies from different instances remain linked to their parent posts
Like and boost counts are retained
Your timeline remains chronologically accurate

This works by:

Imported posts being boosted to make them visible on your new profile's timeline
However, note they are not pushed to your followers' feeds or notifications
So, your old content is synced to your new profile without flooding everyone with old posts

It benefits you by:

Providing an accurate and complete posting history
Being available for interaction with your historical posts
However, if you old posts are interacted with you will not be notified
Having conversations (public) and reply threads remain intact
No worrying about annoying your followers with old content

Importing More Data into Bonfire

You also need to import the accounts you are following.

So:

Go to Settings > Import
Upload your following CSV files
Accounts will automatically be refollowed. Again, you can check the progress via Import History
Import you blocks, silences, ghost, etc by uploading your CSV file(s)
Import your bookmarks via uploading those CSV files (if available)
Do the same for your likes and boosts
And for lists (as conversion to Circles) if applicable
Upload your "outbox" JSON export file to restore your posts, replies, and other content

Move Your Followers

It's now time to move your followers. Note that this is irreversible. So make sure you 100% committed to the move.

You have to start the move on your old home by:

Going to account settings
Search for "move to a different account" or something similar
Enter your new Bonfire handle
Read all the warnings
Enter your old password to confirm the move

What Happens Now

Here's what should now occur:

Your old account is marked as moved. A moved notice may automatically appear or you may need to edit your old bio
Your followers will receive a notification about your new account
Followers running compatible software will automatically refollow your new Bonfire profile
Your old account may now be restricted

If your old instance does not support moves, what should you do?

Manually announce your move in a final post. Then pin that announcement post to the top of your old profile. Ask your existing followers to follow your new Bonfire profile.

Clean Up Your Old Account

You will need to clean up your old account. Note that you have the option to keep your old account and redirect it to Bonfire rather than closing and deleting it.

The other option is the deletion route. Maybe you're pissed off at your old instance and want to have nothing to do with legitimizing it's newly exposed technofascist admin who has gone all in on the AI Slop train. ;) Tech routinely gets enshittified and Fediverse instances are no different. But, fortunately you have moved to Bonfire.

So:

Wait a week to let all your followers migrate
Follow the account deletion process of your old instance
Again, this is permanent and irreversible
Also note, your old username may be available for a new account to take

This did not work as advertised

You may need to do some troubleshooting (though probably not).

If your followers didn't transfer:

Wait 48 - 72 hours for slow Federation to finish
Your old home may not support moves so you will have to use the manual technique covered above

If you import failed on Bonfire:

Check the progress in Settings > Import > Import History
Make sure you CSV files are properly formatted
Large files may need to be split into smaller ones
Some old instance-specific data may not be importable

If you can't set up aliases:

Ensure both instances can federate with each other
Double-check that you got the handle addresses correct
Your old home may not support aliasing

If a move option say it's not available:

Make sure the old and new accounts have each other as aliases
Make sure you cooldown period has expired (if applicable)
As a last resort check with you old admin

Let's Rock Bonfire

It's time to rock and roll with Bonfire.

If you haven't already, read our Grab a seat at our Bonfire: the revolutionary community platform and Bonfire: A Social Platform Apart articles.

You will notice your lists have become Circles with new settings. Bonfire's privacy model and settings are different from those of your old home.

And new interaction options are now available to you as well. So get started and take advantage of them.

Wrapping it Up

As you have seen, migrating to Bonfire is doable but not simple. It's like Activity Pub software development itself. But, the important part is that it is possible. And it's not super difficult.

Interoperability, agency, and freedom are key tenants of the Fediverse. They are well worth any patience and effort required to benefit from them.

Your reward is upcoming hours of enjoying the most innovative and customizable Fediverse platform, Bonfire.

Grab your seat and revel in the warmth of ActivityPub's most secure, stable, and safe community tool.

Cheers!

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The Programmer's Fulcrum 18 September, 2026

Reuben Walker, Jr. — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:53:48 +0000

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum.

It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.

We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.

There's good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.

Or you can jump straight to your favorite section.

Sites/Blogs/CMSs
Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools
OMN Programming
ActivityPub
Fediverse
More

FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.

Two notes for this week:

1. I'm attending WordCamp Bretagne this week so coverage of some of Friday's happenings will slip to next week.

2. We switched and customized our theme to make our home page a little more accessible.

Featured Item(s)

Smashing Frames writes:

Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab.

(It) is part of the new fascism. But it's also a good case study about how little political resilience is built into FLOSS. The libertarian roots have not only made the whole movement ready for the taking by corporations but also by fascists.

And sadly many influential organizations in that space are not up to the task of putting their foot down.

Power Grab

They also write:

There has been this shift towards equating “progress” with “technological innovation and development”: society is moving forward if tech produces more shit. You might have picked up on me mentioning that today’s vision of the future is just a thinner iPad every few months.

But if “progress” – which is a political term about values that one aims to manifest or express or expand in the world – is just replaced with following PR messages about whatever tech wants to sell next, that does not only make the space of possible futures paperthin, it also puts massive amounts of power into tech’s hands.

And I don’t just mean economic and political power (which is also true and needs to change massively, rapidly and aggressively). In this context I mean narrative power.

Rediscovering The Spark

CMSs

Patrick Brosset says:

I'm worried about the web

This is why the Servo project is so important.

404 Media reports:

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

Meanwhile Tech Policy Press reports:

Millions of Volunteers Are Keeping the Internet Human. For Now.

The first thing the author needs to do is get the fuck off Reddit.

Terence Eden shows us:

How to get a DOI for your blog posts

For you researchers out there.

Candost opines:

Magazines are superior products to newsletters

They are certainly more enjoyable.

Alex Hoyau has an update on:

My work on Silex Desktop to make it forge-agnostic

I will be attending Alex's presentation at Le Capitole du Libre. It about de-clusterfuckifying WordPress by using Silex as a decoupled frontend.

WordPress

TechCrunch reports:

Sources say Automattic’s board is out after failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg

On a more joyous note, WordCamp Bretagne shares:

Découvrez Gwen, le Wapuu officiel du WordCamp Bretagne 2026

Yes, WordPress is a clusterfuck. But at least it's cute.

On a non-cute note, Internet Exchange explains:

What It Means to Lose Autistici/Inventati and NoBlogs

Tools

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras has a great book review:

On building Digital Solidarity

The day it’s available in English or French, I’m buying.

About Signal reports:

Signal registration without a phone number now available in Android beta

Browsers

Servo has:

Servo had a busy end of August and start to September

Your Donations at Work: One Year of Sponsored Servo Development

Waterfox announces:

6.7.3 — Auto-hide vertical tabs and appearance fixes

Where Waterfox stands on AI and LLMs

I think most "anti-AI" positions are really anti-GenAI slop positions. As the author notes machine learning etc. has been around for decades. Still, modern "AI" is intentionally labor weakening fascist techshit based on theft and created by and for techbros. But perfection is not possible and this shit is unavoidable, so keep it as local and open source as possible and minimize your use of LLMs. Avoid LLM-built tools as best you can. The environment is already fucked.

Writing

LibreOffice has:

LibreOffice 26.8 and the languages for which nobody is paid

New “LibreOffice Expert 2026/2027” magazines available for schools and local communities

If you want a personal copy, you can buy one from the publisher.

LibreOffice 26.8 and interoperability: preserving what cannot yet be read

Nextcloud announces:

Collabora: Landlock adds a third, tougher sandbox tier

Nextcloud Hub 26 Summer: Autonomy for Teams, Office on desktop, a fresh take on Photos

There are some good Markdown improvements in Nextcloud Text.

Cryptpad reveals its:

Summer 2026 status

They are doing good work in the government tech sphere.

Scribus has:

Added a Scribus 1.6.x quick tour on the main menu

Joplin announces:

Your notes and AI: privacy first

If you have to use AI (and you shouldn't) this is the way to do it. At least you can use an open model and keep it local with only your data and the individual tools you select.

Creative

The Counterforce shows us:

Punk A.I. Artists are on the Rise: How to Suffocate the Slop in Your Scene

9to5Linux reports:

Shotwell 0.33 Open-Source Image Viewer for GNOME Is Here with GTK4 Port

Linux / Open Android

9to5Linux reports:

Linux Mint Devs Introduce New EPUB Reader and Calendar Apps

Jolla announces:

Change on Jolla Phone memory configurations going forward

LINux on Mobile explores:

MCF20: Flatpak support, sorta, kinda

It's important for Linux Phones to become a thing. More so than with desktops.

F-Droid has its weekly update:

Routing you to FLOSS

Gina Plat notes:

European governments are starting to support alternative mobile app stores

Digital sovereignty is good. Digital solidarity and Techno Anarchism are better.

Hosting / Serving

The Association for Progressive Communications reports:

GreenNet celebrates 40 years: A pioneering internet service provider still building digital communications for everyone, everywhere

This week's featured OMN tool

OmniTools' PDF Tools

Boost your productivity with OmniTools, the ultimate toolkit for getting things done quickly!

PDF Tools

Programming

NLnet Labs explores:

Maintaining the love for coding in the time of AI

If your proposed contribution to an opensource project was mainly developed with AI, you may think you're a developer. But, you're not. You're a cunt.

David O'Brien says:

Users of assistive technologies need to know the names of interactive elements on the web

The Open Media Network explains how:

The deathcult is selling the future as techshit

Andy Bell has a rake on the CSS situation:

You’ll miss publishers when they’re gone

Git

Gina Plat also notes:

Sweden is choosing Forgejo for their digitally sovereign government code platform

Markdown

Random Thoughts on Leadership and Technology shares:

Markdown - All the Way Down

HTML

Fractal Interests examines:

HTML Template For

CSS

Always Twisted has:

... And That's My Rank! 2027 Edition

Master.dev says:

It’s All About The Permissions Recovery

Vale notes:

CSS-TRICKS in Limbo

It was doomed the day Digital Ocean acquired it. And it’s been dying a slow death since.

In effect the Master.dev blog has taken the CSS-Tricks role.

The Jacobin asks:

Is There a Way Out of AI Doomerism?

Taggart Tech says:

Everone Is Lying To You For Money

And Connected Places says:

AI watermarking has a decentralisation problem

Other

OpenProject is:

Training the next generation of IT specialists: Using OpenProject at the Gutjahr Vocational School

XWiki announces:

XWiki 18.8.0RC1 has been release!

This week's featured programming tool

XWiki

XWiki innovates with "Structured Wiki" and delivers high knowledge features.

XWiki

XWiki is a little much for us. But, I did manage to get DocuWiki added to our Manade project this week. ;)

ActivityPub

Terence Eden shows us:

How to send an updated user profile to Mastodon and the Fediverse

IFTAS shares a fix for:

“Boom Protocol” Spam

The GoActivityPub Library is working on:

The vocabulary/lexicon generation

Vlac Log shares:

A couple quick notes on ActivityPub

This week's featured ActivityPub featured tool

Fedify

Fedify is a Typescript framework that lets you build for the Fediverse but skip the boilerplate.

Fedify

Permanent aside here (unfortunately)

This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren't able to comprehend ⬇️:

The Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, formal, informal, or otherwise)
and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise).
and corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional cunts.

So, recognize their natures and don't ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.

Fediverse

Roel Roscam Abbing has:

Nobody's fault, everyone's problem?

If you run a public instance, you have a responsibility to your users and the wider Fediverse. Provide robust moderation. At least against spam.

Fedilab Apps shares the:

Experience of building FediHood

Magic Pages explains:

Why your Ghost site's old posts don't show up on Mastodon

Also, your main Fediverse account should not be Ghost-based as their implementation is mediocre at best. Self-hosted or Go To Social are better bets. Maybe even a Mastodon account. 😱

PeerTube announces:

PeerTube 8.3 is out!

Framablog has:

reseauCulture.fr : le monde de la culture s’organise sur le fediverse

ATProto

ATProto France shows us:

Comment utiliser une app Atproto en sécurité

Building [at] Habitat shares:

Habitat's road to release: 06 commenting

Graham Marlow looks at:

Decentralized identity and ATProto

Atmosphere

Discord alternative, Roomy announces:

Roomy Pro

Roomy Docs

Skyreader has:

Skyreader update - Reading Rooms

Jacky Alciné shares:

'There's More Black People Over There': False Equivalences in Platform Distribution and Gimmicks of Platform Capitalism

Great stuff.

RSS

Two Waves and a Dot opines:

RSS has a business problem, not a technical one

XMPP

XMPP shares its:

The XMPP Newsletter August 2026

Matrix

AdullAct reports:

Local governments are regaining control over their digital communications with Matrix (image pdf)

En francais text

Democracy Tech

I began reading the book, Decidm, a Techno Political Network for Participatory Democracy: Philosophy, Practice, and Autonomy of a Collective Platform in the Age of Digital Intelligence, this week.

Decidm is a quasi implementation of both the Open Media Network and Techno Anarchism but from a more formal governing practice. It is a democratic tool for participatory democracies like a city, NGO, or a collective.

You can learn more about Decidm here.

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The Programmer's Fulcrum 11 September, 2026

Reuben Walker, Jr. — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:57:18 +0000

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum.

It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.

We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.

There's good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.

Or you can jump straight to your favorite section.

Sites/Blogs/CMSs
Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools
OMN Programming
ActivityPub
Fediverse
More

FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.

This week marks the beginning of the earliest incarnation of this site, Symfony Station. It also began our cross-posting to Dev.to. That was five years ago when mass enshittification and AI menacingly loomed just over the horizon. The reason I had gone to web development bootcamp was that I knew they were coming and needed some skills to fight them.

Personally, I'm in a better place now. But, unfortunately tech isn’t despite our efforts here. So, let's kick it up a notch.

Featured Item(s)

Sabot Media writes:

For twenty-five years, Autistici / Inventati showed what it could mean for movements to build and control their own communications infrastructure. Its loss should not send everyone searching for the next single service to replace it.

It should send us looking in a hundred directions.

A/I may be ending. The story is nowhere near over.

This is what we preach weekly.

Brennan Day writes:

We can create a more human web right now. The world is in dire straits …

There are those who see the act of webmastery as "only" a hobby and pastime—and I say this is not mutually exclusive to world-saving. The personal is political. Our ability to maintain our joy and ourselves is, itself, resistance.

Start as you are, with what you have, while you still have time to do so.

Exercise your innate human right to create.

Be a developer. Be a designer. Be a writer. Be a systems administrator. Be a philosopher. Be a Webmaster.

It is the most punk rock, anti-establishment, liberating thing you can do in the 21st century. And yeah, it is fucking awesome.

WEBMASTER@ a manifesto for everyone

We also preach this weekly.

Simon Tisdall writes:

It’s no surprise some analysts say we are already in the midst of the third world war, but ordinary people have more power than we think.

The world is being driven to the brink by thugs and dictators, but there is a route to a brighter future

Wow, this is depressing up till the last 2 paragraphs. But, we have to keep fighting in order to preserve our sanity.

So, read from here till the end of the TAM and do your part to unfuck the world.

CMSs

Soulcruzer says:

Take back the web. Make it weird again

Bob Sassone's site's 30th Anniversary inspired their article.

And it's truly inspiring. Great to see.

Unfortunately, Cavalette shows us:

How to to back up your data (currently) on A/I services

The type of post you never hope to see. Fuck all the Trump clowns and cunts.

There’s a new ATProto competitor for Ghost and Substack:

Writizzy

Non-opensource and similar to Offprint. But, non-AI and European.

WordPress

I will be at WordCamp Bretagne next week (mainly to scout Renne as a summer home) so say bonjour si vous sont cette-la. Sessions that I will definitely attend include the Gutenberg, Web Spaghetti, and Integrations ones.

It will be interesting to see what everyone thinks of Matt getting thrown out of AutoMattic on his ass.

Ghost

Spectral Web Services explores:

Avoiding duplicates on complicated homepages

Tools

Framablog has a book review:

Publication : Alternatives & Struggles

Chat / Team Chat

About Signal reports:

Signal now lets you record much longer videos in the app

Movim announces:

Movim 0.35 "Thiele" is out!

Browsers

Waterfox announces:

6.7.2 — Improvements to tree tabs and the vertical sidebar

There are similar improvements in its Android app.

Search

Xamanismo Coletivo shares:

One guy in Sweden built a search engine to fight Google, and it works

Cloud

Nextcloud shows us:

How to set up UnifiedPush on Android for Nextcloud Talk: push notifications without Google Play Services

Tuta examines:

Tuta Mail, Tuta Calendar, & Tuta Drive: Development steps

Writing

Joplin explains:

What's new in Joplin 3.7

You can publish a notebook as a website now.

On a related note, Glyphack has:

Share Obsidian Notes To A Blog

Creative

Libre shares:

Announcing Plasma Studio

GIMP announces:

GIMP 3.2.6 Released

Linux / Open Android

Fedilab Apps says:

Choose F-Droid

Fuck Google.

Alternative To reports:

GrapheneOS plans to overhaul the bundled AOSP apps, including messaging with RCS support

This week's featured OMN tool

BentoPDF

The PDF Toolkit built for privacy is now opensource.

BentoPDF

Programming

Sage Journals published:

‘Digital Public Infrastructure’: Cultural hegemony and states’ technological dependence

As this and the A / I situation demonstrate, we need to build our own infrastructure. So, pay attention to our More section each week.

Fedilab Apps shares:

So Google refuses to delete my dev account

Terence Eden says:

The purpose of DNS is to spread scams

Ah, our online companions: techno feudalists, techno fascists, AI and Crypto Bros, and (the most honest) criminals.

On a related note, Erlend Sogge Heggen says:

Making software hurts now

That's because unregulated capitalism will @$$-fuck up any and everything.

David Bushell exposes:

CodePen: exposed!

Tongue-in-cheek. ;)

Henri Bergius goes EUPL:

I changed my license

Git

Justin Wernick is:

Saying Goodbye To My Git Server's CGit Frontend

HTML

Jens Oliver Meiert reports:

2026: 2 of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML

Since most "developers" are tech and AI bros, this tracks. Unfortunately.

CSS

Lea Verou says:

The best dark mode toggle is probably none

And the best dark mode is light mode.

Web Awesome thinks:

Your Design System Should Style Your Words, Too

Web Components

Master.dev explores:

Custom Scrollbar Component In 2026

JavaScript

And:

React Now Rusted All The Way Out

It speeds up React builds. What speeds things up even more is not using the horseshit at all.

Other

Benjamin Eberlei examines:

PHP to get the job done in 2026

Interesting and the most important point is this:

A second major benefit of PHP is its completly open governance model, its truly free software without corporate interests in control. As my friend Sebastian recently wrote: Digital Sovereignty is written in PHP.

In regards to ethical AI use in PHP, I wrote this article about it.

Sourcehut has:

Changes to SourceHut's terms of service regarding LLMs

Fantastic!

Forgejo announces:

Forgejo Runner v13.1.0 is available

Forgejo 16.0.4 and 15.0.8 were just released

XWiki has:

July and August Pro Apps updates

Release Notes for XWiki 17.10.13

OpenProject announces:

OpenProject integration app for Nextcloud released in versions 3.2.0 and 2.12.0

This week's featured programming tool

Twig

Twig is the fast, flexible, and secure modern template engine for PHP.

Twig

ActivityPub

The Social Web Incubator Community Group (SWICG) works on ActivityPub standards:

Current SWICG Task Forces and their deliverables

It's slow as fuck. But, at least its moving forward now. The end to end encryption, groups, and forums efforts are vital.

Matthias Pfefferle notes:

FEP-d1cb: Same-origin actor re-identification

Matthias does the most impactful work in the AP community IMHO. We need 200 more of him.

Terence Eden asks:

ActivityPub - Is it worth defending against replay attacks and message/signature time skew?

Spielleitung shares how to block a registration bot:

Prevent “BoomProtocolProbe” from registering

This week's featured ActivityPub featured tool

Starling

Starling is an ActivityPub server that can actually exchange posts, follows, profiles, replies, likes, and boosts across the Fediverse with Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, GoToSocial, PixelFed, and other ActivityPub-compatible platforms.

Starling

Permanent aside here (unfortunately)

This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren't able to comprehend ⬇️:

The Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, formal, informal, or otherwise)
and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise).
and corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional cunts.

So, recognize their natures and don't ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.

Fediverse

IFTAS has:

Updates to IFTAS Denylists and Access Options

Bonfire

Bonfire presents:

Sovereignty Is More Than a Server: Public Digital Commons with Bonfire

ATProto

Jola.dev looks at:

Migrating your Bluesky account the hard way

Building AT Habitat shares:

Habitat's road to release: 05 adopting opensocial

This appears to be a promising Atmosphere alternative to my Manade project.

Speaking of, atproto-spaces-alpha-updates has an update:

Breaking Changes around the simplespace API

Erlend Sogge Heggen explores:

Atmospheric events commons

Atmosphere

Aaron Ross Powell examines:

Social Media and Anti-Social Pluralism

Which is why we need more private autonomous online communities. That's what I'm exploring with Manade.

MeTacheles has:

W Social Netzwerk: Fake-Zahlen, Rassismus und Totenstille!

Plus there's this kind of horseshit:

You can’t currently move from/to W without help from a dev

You may have to be logged into the Atmosphere to see this. Anyway, if you are a mark that got grifted into W, just delete you account. Hopefully, no one will ever find out you signed up. Except every company they will share your information with.

Atmosphere Conference News announces:

AtmosphereConf 2027 Organizing is Underway

Happening somewhere in Europe. ???

RSS

Bunnies in PCKT says:

RSS is still my preferred feed format

Mon aussi.

FreshRSS announces:

FreshRSS 1.30.0

Democracy Tech

Internet Exchange looks at:

Building Online Communities We Can Keep

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The Programmer's Fulcrum 4 September, 2026

Reuben Walker, Jr. — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:14:14 +0000

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum.

It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.

We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.

There's good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.

Or you can jump straight to your favorite section.

Sites/Blogs/CMSs
Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools
OMN Programming
ActivityPub
Fediverse
More

FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.

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Featured Item(s)

Iris Meredith writes:

So, when I hear a tech person say that something's "just a tool", I can't help but read it as an unwillingness to take responsibility, as an industry, for what we put into the world and for what we do to ourselves. Tools, unfortunately, simply cannot be the neutral, separate thing that so much of the tech world would like them to be, and pretending otherwise, let alone telling people affected by the tools that they're simply using them wrong, is an abdication of our moral duty to avoid, inasmuch as is possible, doing harm. We really ought to do better.

There's no such thing as Just a Tool

There is such a thing as TechBros, unfortunately. And their cuntier cousins, AIBros. And apolitical is a synonym for fascism-friendly. At least straight-up Nazis aren't hypocrites.

Social Coding Commons writes:

... in modern society, generally speaking, we give too much credence to the technosphere. We take the idea that innovation equates to societal progress as a given, to which we must subsequently adapt ourselves. We tend to turn things around, where “digital transformation” suddenly means how humans must adapt their lives to new technology that comes to disrupt it. And not the other way round.

The Fediverse has evolved purely as a technosphere (unfortunately).

Paradigm shift to the Prosocial web

A fan-fucking-tastic piece.

On a relate note, Hamish Campbell has thoughts on Open Governance Bodies / Building:

Power stays with the people doing the work

This is a good explanation of how digital communities and projects can govern themselves.

And we published an article this week, where I write:

The premise of this article is that developing or using ActivityPub tools, participating in the Fediverse, publishing to the Indie Web / Open Media Network, and adopting the arsenal of the Techno Anarchist Manifesto are the new punk.

ActivityPub, the Fediverse, the IndieWeb/Open Media Network, and Techno Anarchism = Punk Rock

CMSs

Jan Miksovsky explores

Origami Projector: a Glitch-like app for site editing

A great idea. Although only available on newer Macs unfortunately.

I also ran across AnyPub, an editor for Standard.Site publications.

CSS Tricks explores the:

WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration

Good news for those migrating legacy sites. And avoiding the shit known as React, at least some of the time.

Why Do I Write This? writes:

Neocities is for nostalgic masochists

Seems about right.

Scraps! expounds:

On Atmospheric Stacks…

Mark W.Rites says:

Alt Text is the Ocean You Thought Was a Pond

Faircamp announces:

Faircamp 2.0

And Vidnight has:

I disagree with the take that the internet is dead

Enjoy the open web peeps. It helps keep me sane. And I am happy to see this from a 20 year old. :)

Ghost

Spectral Web Services has:

I accidentally built an image library for Ghost

This should be in Ghost core. It sucks that it isn’t.

Their competitor, Magic Pages has:

A press of your "own"

Good stuff.

Tools

Tuta has:

Digital Sovereignty Study: EU IT leaders are quitting U.S. Big Tech

U.S. Sanctions against Autistici / Inventati are the next wake-up call for digital sovereignty

KDE examines:

KDE For Digital Sovereignty

NLNet urges:

Apply for funding before November 3rd 2026

They are going the correct direction with AI use, which is to severely restrict it.

Organic Maps has:

Multi-selection for bookmarks and tracks, a CarPlay dashboard, hiding tracks on the map, and readable share links in the August 2026 update

Threat Model shows us:

How to migrate from 1Password

VPNs

Mullvad is:

Shutting down our public encrypted DNS servers and sponsoring Quad9 instead

Chat / Team Chat

FluffyChat shows us:

How to use end-to-end encryption in FluffyChat

About Signal reports:

Signal introduces new notification settings for Android and Desktop

Browsers

Servo shares:

July in Servo: more platforms, faster canvas, web fonts in SVG, and more!

9to5Linux reports:

Mozilla Firefox 155 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Remember to use Firefox forks like Zen, Waterfox, or Librewolf.

Webkit has:

Submit your ideas for Interop 2027

Fixing Top-Level Await in Safari

Remember not to use Safari for anything you want kept private. And preferably not at all.

Cloud

Nextcloud shows us:

How to set up UnifiedPush on Android for Nextcloud Talk: push notifications without Google Play Services

Fuck Google!

Writing

Joplin shares:

What's new in Joplin 3.7

The new table editor in the Markdown editor is awesome. The addition of AI features sucks. At least they are optional you can use a local model.

LibreOffice announces:

Yes, no AI is now a feature

Bon. AI should almost never be used, but if it is (translation), it should be as an optional extension.

Creative

Kdenlive announces:

Kdenlive 26.08 is out!

9to5Linux reports:

OpenShot 4.0 Open-Source Video Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Audacity 4.0 Open-Source Audio Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Linux / Open Android

And:

Debian Project Formalizes Responsible Use of Generative AI

Like Linux core, Debian chooses to slowly ensloppify and likely enshittify.

F-Droid has its weekly summary:

Searching complexity and Taler update

This week's featured OMN tool

Dokieli

Write, publish, and annotate articles from your web browser. Your content stays yours.

Dokeli

Programming

Typemill expounds:

On the way to automate user manuals and knowledge bases

This is a legitimate use of local AI. It's the second most legit use after translation.

Git

The Linux Foundation has a useful course for KISS developers (rare for them):

Share Smarter GPU Resources and Master Git
from First Commit to Merge Conflict

Their learning platform subscription is not cheap, but this might be worth a one month one while you finish the course.

HTML

Vasilis van Gemert explores:

What are we not talking about anymore?

Master.dev examines:

New Things You Should Know About HTML Here in Mid 2026

Great stuff.

Vale says:

initial-scale is dead!

As in unnecessary.

JavaScript

Ollie Williams explores:

Highlighting a range of text inside an input or textarea

A rarely needed though legitimate use of JavaScript.

AI

So AI is now fucking over tech conferences as well:

Lettre ouverte pour la survie des événements techniques en France

And freelancers:

Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’

One of the main purposes of AI is to drive down the cost of labor (it’s a fascist artifact). And these are the consequences when you use it.

Other

OakChris1955 looks at:

Migrating from Cloudflare Pages to Codeberg Pages wasn't that difficult, actually

I have used Codeberg to deploy a test Publii site. And it worked great. But, you were limited to one site at that point.

This week's featured programming tool

Markdown

Write for your website and documentation. And not for AI.

Markdown

ActivityPub

ActivityPub for WordPress shares:

9.3.0 — Modern Signatures and a Summer of Security Reports

This is a perfect example of what an update announcement should be. ;)

Social Coding Commons opines:

I argue that ForgeFed and ActivityPub should support multi-types as specified in Activity Streams

They are correct and this provides an insight into why AP development is so slow and convoluted. And to why there is much less innovation in the Fediverse as compared to the Atmosphere with ATProto. ActivityPub is just more anarchic.

Not that its a bad thing, as I point out in my featured article. Plus, it's definitely more enshittification-resistant.

Plus, core ATProto has much more money and developers behind it than ActivityPub does.

Terence Eden has:

A reasonably practical guide to validating RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures for ActivityPub in PHP

ActivityBot is the recipient of an NLnet grant!

In effect he’s creating something similar to Starling for bots. And it's for use as a developer learning tool.

A review of the ActivityPub book.

Andros Fenollosa explores:

Building a decentralized bulletin board (and accidentally reinventing Nostr)

Abuuba announces:

abuuba 1.0 is out

Interesting.

Mobilizon needs you:

Version 5.2.5 is coming

This week's featured ActivityPub featured tool

ForgeFed

ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem.

ForgeFed

Permanent aside here (unfortunately)

This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren't able to comprehend ⬇️:

The Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, formal, informal, or otherwise)
and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise).
and corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional cunts.

So, recognize their natures and don't ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.

Fediverse

TootSDK announces:

A new release of TootSDK - 23.3.0

Owncast announces:

Owncast v0.3.0 has been released!

Fedilab Apps has:

FediHood now lets you sign up and log in with your Mastodon account

FediHood now supports Lemmy

This definitely makes it more useful.

Mastodon announces:

We just released Mastodon v4.7.1, v4.6.7, v4.5.17 and v4.4.24

And the Real Grunfink announces:

I've just published version 2.95 of Snac

Bonfire

Bonfire has:

Bonfire 1.0.7: what's new and what's next

Great stuff.

Building shared infrastructure for the Fediverse

Very important because -> see my comments about the Social Coding Commons piece above.

Andros Fenollosa notes:

There is no such thing as full decentralization

A great overview and explanation.

Open Risk Management goes down an empirical rabbit hole:

Towards a Graph Calculus for Decentralized Social Networks

マリウス shares:

Hyperuplink: Discuss like it’s 1998

Cool.

ATProto

Venoom examines:

Decentralizing social media using ATProto and Matrix (venoom)

Eventuallycoding has:

Le piège de la transparence par défaut sur Bluesky et le protocole ATProto

Skyreader shares the:

Skyreader Vision

Atmosphere

Structural Integrity explains:

W Social is a textbook case for everything wrong with digital sovereignty

Roomy looks at:

Federating friendly spaces

P2P

Worm-Blossum shares its:

Week 35 (2026)

Webrings

Ross Floate has:

I built a new website. It’s happiest when you leave.

Very cool. I am going to try to replicate this on one of my sites.

XMPP

The Association for Progressive Communications has an interview:

Libervia on building an all-in-one communication platform grounded in the right to privacy

Daniel Gultsch celebrates:

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

Matrix

Matrix has:

Neo Nominated for Open Source Competition

Is presence fixed yet?

This Week in Matrix 2026-09-04

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ActivityPub, the Fediverse, the IndieWeb/Open Media Network, and Techno Anarchism = Punk Rock

Reuben Walker, Jr. — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:42:06 +0000

This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

You may not know it, but if you are reading this, you are a punk. Probably. If you are a frequent reader of our site, you definitely are. 🤘🏽

‘Ready, Steady, Go’

I am currently enjoying Matthew Worley's remastered for Punk’s 50th anniversary, No Future: Punk, Politics, and British Youth Culture, 1976 - 1984. And reading the introduction (Teenage Warning) motivated me to finally write this article. I have been considering it for a while.

FYI, punk rock lyric quotes are in block quotes like the sub-heading above. 🎤

So to start, let's examine some quotes from this enlightening book.

Matthew writes:

"... punk served to open up a cultural space in which to fuse musical styles; to inject new sounds and lyrical content into popular music; to explore new ways of expressing emotions and, given punk's negative impulse dark (emotions).

... it evolved in different ways. ... But it was also a product (with a) DIY message inspiring local scenes to develop around venues, shops, fanzines, squats, labels, and bands. (This provided) ... a loose network of contacts that proved able to sustain and inform punk as a fractured-but-distinctive subculture …

... punk's adoption of political signifiers and tendency to social commentary invited divergent interpretation and expression.

Punk, in its music, language, and aesthetic, deliberately set out to provoke, disrupt, and subvert. ... dissent was often focused on a media and cultural industry that competed to define, appropriate, and channel youth's innovations.

(It) ... actively documented itself from the bottom up. Fanzines such as Sniffin' Glue were designed to provide an alternative to a (commercial) weekly musical press deemed far away from the kids.

... punk was quick to splinter into multiple subsects that often conflicted with each other, but continuity existed in at least four ways: a stated opposition to a perceived status quo; a disregard for symbols of authority and established hierarchies; claims to provide a voice for the marginalised or disaffected; and an emphasis of self-sufficiency and overcoming obstacles that prevented access, expression, or autonomy.

And this part is key.

Punk, therefore may best be understood as a cultural process of critical engagement rather than a specific musical or satorical style."

Matthew writes about the London scene but similar development's occurred first in New York and slightly later in Los Angeles.

On a personal note, I came into my adulthood at the tail end of this period and have been a punk as I define it for 42 years. And defining yourself is the essence of punk. I also had the incredible good fortune to participate (as a rare quasi-punk) in the golden age of Athens, Georgia’s ‘southern gothic’ music scene. This was one of the best scenes of all times. It was almost on par with the New York, London, and Los Angeles’s punk explosions. Although it was not punk musically or aesthetically (it was more varied), it was philosophically and artistically "punk", well within its nebulousity. Athens is an academic town with few rough edges. Like Oxford or Cambridge, it could never have birthed punk rock. The majority of its scene members were students and townies. Still, the events in the book resonate with me and bring back fond memories. 🎸

Anyway, if you are a recurring visitor of this site, you will notice some familiar words: subculture, network, subvert, dissent, explore, autonomy, DIY, voices, expression, alternative publications, etc.

Another familiar word is anarchy. Anarchy in the UK is the definitive punk song after all.

They are the new “venues, shops, fanzines, squats, labels, and bands”.

And they are on today's equivalent of local, low-wattage radio stations.

Sorry, but ATProto and the Atmosphere are New Wave and that's a separate article. Except for Blacksky, which is Rap and I’m not qualified to write about it.

Obviously, the original punkness and open media / open social participation are not exact equivalents. But, they are pretty fucking similar.

So, let’s see if my premise is full of it.

The Sucky 70s are back

'Everything sucks today'

Thank the gods, most of you did not have to live through the 1970s. Curse the gods, you are alive today. Unfortunately, they are incredibly similar (and both suck, although the later less so). I know because they are the bookends of my life.

The corrupt, incompetent, moribund, soft-fascism of the seventies has reanimated its rotten corpse in the 2020s.

It’s the same ‘everything sucks’ cultural miasma. History always repeats itself. The horseshit timeline we are living in today is similar to the one that birthed punk rock. Your experience will vary by country.

Now, is this why the Fediverse exists? Maybe. Similar bullshit composts into similar soil ripe for new growth. The Open Media Network and Fediverse are informal, messy, and slightly chaotic, as was early punkdom. Both phenomenon were unintentional, unplanned, and unorganized reactive combustions ignited by the shittification of mainstream culture and media.

So for this article, here is the mental framework: musical culture equals the web. Rock and Roll’s origins equal Web 1.0. It’s 1970s enshittification as appropriated, homogenized, white, top-40 garbage equals the corporate siloed Web 2.0. ActivityPub, the Fediverse, the IndieWeb / Open Media Network, and the TAM equal early punk rock rebelling against that.

KISS

The basis of punk rock music is three chords and an attitude, competence be damned. That’s as "keep it simple stupid" as it gets.

Hence the equivalence of self-publishing via:

the IndieWeb, Open Media Network, and simple personal websites
RSS
and the Fediverse

If you are a follower of this site, no further explanation is required. Those are your three chords.

DIY

The central premise of punk music is that anyone can make, record, and share it. Virtuosity be damned.

Hence the equivalence of self-hosting and creating websites via:

Opensource languages
SSH, FTP, VPN access to hosting servers
with RSS feeds
and Fediverse integration

And developing KISS tools with the 4Rs.

Self-hosting code you write (without AI) is true punkness. 😈

The Scene / Network

The original punk network was your local scene. There were few national touring acts to see (in the U.S.), much less international ones. If you lived in a large city or college town, you might get to hear them on the radio.

Today, your open social / open web scene is based upon the FOSS world with a few limits. It’s wherever you find your tribe on the Fediverse.

Making Noise

Opensource software has no equivalent in musical equipment, at least at the birth of the punk era.

When punk was spawning, equipment was all used, salvaged, stolen, borrowed, or whatever you could lay your hands on. And you (legally) acquired it organically as supported by your local scene. Pawnshops, the classified sections of local newspapers, and borrowing from fellow scenesters were the sources.

That constraint inspired creativity. As does having the moral fortitude to limit yourself to ethical tech tools.

In the equivalent of opensource development, you practiced in basements and storage units. You wrote in physical notebooks, alphaed via cassette decks, and betaed on two, four, and at best eight track magnetic tape recording technology. You recored in independent, small studios belonging to DIY engineers. You exported and distributed via reel-to-reel tape and carts. That was your production.

If you were good, lucky, or connected you got played on college radio.

In a rare improvement on past tech, this is now easier for music and the open web. Much easier!

And of course readers / followers were your fellow scenesters and a few fans. They were the equivalent of micro-communities on the Fediverse. Virality was / is a common unknown in both scenarios.

It is still a challenge to have your voice heard. But, the vital point is to share it. Do the punk thing. Make some noise. There is still a world of horseshit to say no to. And there is something better to say yes to.

The Techno Anarchist Manifesto

‘I am an antichrist, I am an anarchist’

You can do more than just say no to the suck. You can mitigate it by building and using alternatives. Just like 70s punkdom was a deliberately created and chosen alternative lifestyle. We can choose to do better.

As you read in our introduction, punk is not an ideology, or for most punks not even a philosophy. It’s an attitude or an ethos. In my opinion, living our TAM is the equivalent of the punk ethos.

Both are loose philosophies, coping mechanisms, lifestyle choices, modes of self-expression, and autonomy-seeking, anarchic resistance / rebellion. Etc, etc.

And with both (as an individual) you adopt what you want / can to carve out some autonomy and sanity for yourself in today’s society. And with this adoption you're telling those in power to fuck off.

If you explore our manifesto, you will see it's more strategic, detailed, and politically opinionated than punk rock’s initial nebulism. But it's not hide-bound. You can do you however you want.

For background you can start here in The Techno Anarchist Manifesto and continue reading up to the Tactics section. Obviously, I hope you will read it in its entirety later. Access or download it here in your format of choice.

To practice techno anarchism you must own your communications, own your data, own your digital identity, own your digital devices, and own your online real estate. Use opensource technology. Use opensource hardware.

And then use the weapons in Techno Anarchism’s arsenal to defeat today’s techshit.

If you're a regular reader, this is nothing new to you.

Avoid this trap

Unfortunately, in later years most “punk rock music” became depoliticized, commodified, and sanitized (like New York and London). This watered-down version was served up at malls to posers and the naive who adopted the aesthetics of punk but not the anarchy. Capitalism and time can fuck any good thing up.

This co-option is what we have to avoid with open social and the open media. We have to preserve the anarchic and truly punk aspects of our efforts. Using OMN terms, let’s stay spiky and avoid the fluffy. Let's remain a means of agency and platform for improving our world, rather than performatively bitching about it.

Authenticity is valuable, even crucial. Real punk is not dead and neither is techno anarchism. Real bands can destroy AI music. Being your true self can protect your integrity against poser influencers. And ethical KISS, DIY, community-focused tech can destroy AI slopdom and techshit in general. Fuck it. 😡

Here's the encore

'If the kids are united, then we’ll never be divided!'

While punk lost much of its pop cultural relevance, it did not die or lose its nebulous social and political relevance.

Matthew notes:

"... avowedly punk-informed scenes dug in to forge subterranean networks - both local and global - that maintain into the twenty-first century. Existing beyond the spectacle and no longer pertaining to be a poision inside the machine, punk continued - and continues - to provide a means of agency and a platform even as its cultural traces are archived, appropriated, and historicised.

At root, punk signified a negation that enabled agency and empowerment, demystifying processes of cultural production in order to do it your-self.

Not only did punk engender creativity, but its inspiration also helped forge cultures that challenged prevailing social and (socio-economic) norms ...

... punk both reflected lives being lived and uncovered portals to other worlds and ideas ...

There was an awarenes of the routines of media manipulation, commercial co-option and cultural appropriation that infused punk's practice and aesthetic.

To understand punk's politics is not to find philosophical clarity or the basis of a movement. Rather, the politics of punk resided in its refusal and its practice ..."

blind acceptance is a sign of stupid fools who stand in line.

Leaving the stage

Finally, I hope I have provided some food for thought in this article and exposed you to one of history's great explosions. I think the open web and open social really are equivalent to early punk. And I hope they will have even more long-term influence.

Let's engender creativity, forge cultures, avoid co-option and appropriation, and empower ourselves and others.

So, continue doing the open social, self-publishing, self-hosting, RSS, open web, true punk rock thing peeps. 🤘🏽

Seriously, it’s very important, whether you identify as a punk or not. The world needs to hear your authentic voice. Be your true, independent self in your chosen communities.

‘Hey ho, let’s go!’

BTW, the quoted lyrics in this article are from:

Generation X
The Descendents
The Sex Pistols
Sham 69
The Sex Pistols
and The Ramones

Oi, punks,

Punkrock History, @historyofpunkrock@sfba.social (though largely California focused) is a great Fediverse account to follow. As is Fedi.Punk.Guide,
@FediPunkGuide@mastodon.social. ⁂

Skastodon is a punk-friendly Fediverse instance. ⁂

Punkstodon is a German-language one. Punk Photos is a PixelFed instance. Punktube is their PeerTube instance. Punx.social is their website ⁂

The Counterforce is the Fediverse punk rock website of choice as well as an instance. 💀

Are you in a punk rock band and need an opensource web tool to share your music? Check out Faircamp. It's made for independent musicians. 🎵

Discover and purchase punk music on Bandcamp. 🎵

Explore my punk playlist via my better-half’s Deezer account, Provoke, Disrupt, Subvert: Old School Punk. Definitely play it on random. 😈

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The Programmer's Fulcrum 28 August, 2026

Reuben Walker, Jr. — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:07:43 +0000

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum.

It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.

We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.

There's good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.

Or you can jump straight to your favorite section.

Sites/Blogs/CMSs
Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools
OMN Programming
ActivityPub
Fediverse
More

FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.

Featured Item(s)

Hamish Campbell writes:

The original Web 2.0 was built on a powerful lie, one many progressive people wanted to believe, that privately owned platforms could become public infrastructure.

There are familiar voices resurfacing in today’s debates about the future of the web, measured, reflective, earnest, often grey-bearded and with funding. These are the people who were there in the Web 2.0 era. The early platform designers, the conference speakers who once talked about “community”, “social objects”, and “public infrastructure”. Many of them now occupy foundations, NGOs, advisory boards, and policy circles.

And they are doing something dangerous, as their thinking is too trapped inside capitalism, and they are selling the openweb reboot for a second time.

The greybeards and the second sell-out of the openweb

1,000% spot on.

He also has:

Trust and the trustless mess

Dilip writes:

What's actually hard to fake, and what most of what I read (and write) is missing, is the source: the history, the reasoning, the "why" behind a piece of code or a life's work, not just the diff. That's what this essay is actually about, so show me the source felt more honest than show me the code.

Talk is Cheap. Code is Cheap. Show me the Source.

This pertains to why most software and too many programmers suck today.

CMSs

Kristof Zerbe shares:

AuguStory - The story of my blog

After a five month break starting in January Grav CMS's blog started publishing again. If you read the articles below the reason for the gap is obvious. Although, they should have announced what they were doing. Unfortunately, I did not have them in my RSS feed and rarely update my sunset site, Symfony Station, so I wasn't aware. But as I think they are the best flat-file site builder out there, here are some of the highlights since May:

The State of Grav: Where We Are and Where We're Going

Grav 2.0 Release Candidate Released

Migrating to Grav 2.0: The Side-by-Side Staged Install

Admin Next: A Modern Admin Experience

Grav 2.0: Markdown Enhancements

The Grav API: The Foundation of 2.0

Grav 2.0: Twig in Content and the New Security Sandbox

Grav 2.0 Released!

I migrated Symfony Station successfully but it you visit it, there are some CSS customizations that are now a little wonky. I may or may not fix them on this sunset site. Although I do miss working with Grav, my all-time favorite site builder.

Schemescape explores:

Uncommon but useful static site generator features

Karl Voit shows us how to:

Add Comments to Your (Static) Blog Using Fediverse Hashtags

Great KISS and DIY idea. I set it up for our Manade site's notices. I am still tweaking it so it will work with my Bonfire test instance.

I also ran across Menitions United which I will have to explore in more detail:

Mentions United

Daniel Lombrana has a great DIY case study:

My simple social network

Publii compares:

Publii vs WordPress

I have a site on both and this mostly tracks.

Offprint says:

Death to Substack

Pay attention Ghost.

Daniel Ritzenthaler writes:

What an interesting, unusual, unfortunate, and ridiculous way to learn about: noblogs.org

Indeed. We live in an absurd timeline. And my increasing fascist homeland is becoming the most ridiculous country in the history of humanity. Absolute fucking clowns. And cunts.

IndieWeb

Jim Mitchell is:

Announcing the new Indieweb is Punk Manifesto

This is literally The Fulcrum's ethos.

Bear

Robynbird Blog shares:

What does my Bearblog Mean - A reflection

This is what a classic ‘blog’ is supposed to be. So, please start one yourself.

Leaflet

Leaflet shares its:

Leaflet FAQ

Tools

Current Affairs asks:

Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?

VPN

Mullvad announces:

Introducing Multihop modes

Browsers

Waterfox has an update:

6.7.1 — Fine Tuning

It's one of the trio of Firefox forks I use daily, including Zen and Librewolf. You should check them out if you want to browse ethically.

Search

8 Ball Ramblings is:

Announcing Project Glass 2.0

Crazy Steve’s Blog explains:

Why I use this paid search engine (Uruky)

You should also check out xPrivo Classique.

I found this gem on it. Pay attention to the preface, points 42, and 61 - 80. ;)

Cloud

Nextcloud shares:

Nextcloud Hub: The European alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace

This is what I use for my 'professional' work. I use e/OS for personal tasks.

Tuta is moving in this direction as well:

Tuta Calendar now supports time zones for events!

Improved search in your encrypted mailbox (And that’s not all!)

Writing

Daniel Prindii shows us:

How to keep track of authorship with Obsidian in GenAI times

LibreOffice announces:

LibreOffice 26.8 brings professional typography, deeper support for the world’s writing systems, and no artificial intelligence

Why ODF is the only document format compatible with digital sovereignty

Creative

9to5Linux reports:

Darktable 5.6.1 RAW Image Editor Improves UI Performance and Fixes More Bugs

Linux / Open Android

Modal announces:

Announcing Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak

Stefan Koopmanschap reviews:

Elementary OS

Along with Mint and Zorin this seems like one of the more user-friendly Linux options. Which are desperately needed if we are to kill off the techno-feudalist triopoly.

Ok, it's phone review time.

FurryLabs has a:

Guest Blog Post: A phone for the non-tech enthusiast

This is looking more and more like a holiday present for myself. ;)

Thoe shares a:

Jolla Phone review

And on a related Free Android note, Gael Duval has:

One month with my new Murena GS6 Pro: finally a Murena phone that checks all my boxes

Plus, The Guardian reviews:

Fairphone 6+ review: the most repairable, ethical phone gets faster

Larvitz Blog explores:

bhyve Inside a Jail: The FreeBSD Feature Nobody Uses

This week's featured OMN tool

Zettlr

From idea to publication: Zettlr supports your writing process at every stage.

Zettlr

Programming

Jonathan Hollin says:

I Love Open Source Software Development

Good for him.

Josh Collinsworth writes:

In defense of two-state theme toggles

Fantastic site design, Josh.

I ran across this solid typography resource this week:

Open Foundry

Ars Technica has:

Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash

CSS

Patrick Brosset interprets the:

State of CSS 2026

So, use what’s new to get rid of JavaScript. But still keep it simple. Planning is important. There is no need to use everything CSS offers.

Web Components

Dave Rupert examines:

Shadow-piercing local component variables

JavaScript

Master.dev looks at:

Keyboard Shortcuts That Display The Correct Modifier Key per OS

CSS Tricks explores:

Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API

AI

The Free Software Foundation Europe asks:

Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license “vibe code” into Free Software?

Save yourself some legal trouble and don’t use it.

Euractiv reports:

EXCLUSIVE: EU orders leading AI labs to detail security practices

Other

OpenProject explains:

Why OpenProject is better than Jira

This week's featured programming tool

deploybase

deploybase builds, previews, and ships your static sites on European infrastructure. Push to Git and we take it from there. Your agent can drive too.

European static hosting

And you can keep it simple with a static HTML site. No horseshit framework necessary.

ActivityPub

Event Federation has:

Process on FEPs

Hollo announces:

Hollo security updates: 0.8.11 and 0.9.14

Alex Leroy demonstrates:

Archiving my posts from toot.community

I found an interesting AP effort and resource in this post. Here’s the effort:

Nomadic ActivityPub

This needs to happen.

MOMOI announces itself:

NOMOI is an open protocol for verifiable delegation of authority

This week's featured ActivityPub featured tool

And here’s the resource:

ActivityPub for developers

A companion resource for the ActivityPub Book featured on this site's Tools page.

Permanent aside here (unfortunately)

This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren't able to comprehend ⬇️:

The Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, formal, informal, or otherwise)
and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise).
and corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional cunts.

So, recognize their natures and don't ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.

Fediverse

RadWebHosting shows us:

How to Deploy Funkwhale on Debian VPS

Courtney Rosenthal shares:

My Mastodon wishlist, making it even more awesome

I came across a great community tool for events this week:

Gathio

I added it to our Tools page. BTW, you can self host it as well.

Bonfire

Jeff Sikes shares:

Latest Bonfire Social build shows a nifty diagram of users that are part of a post thread and how engaged they are

Bonfire has a:

Crowdfunding update - your art is on the way. Plus a few prints left if you'd like one

A tiny Bonfire feature we've grown quite fond of

ATProto

Daniel's Leaflets is:

Reintroducing Spaces

AKA Permissioned Data.

Developer use details are here:

The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live

Rob Ricci shares:

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About AT Protocol and Bluesky

Ducky explores:

did:web 101

Jola.dev is:

Migrating to the new Tangled knot2

Hugo Lassiège asks:

Social networks: what if we had the solution to escape US Big tech?

50 Shades of Protocol examines:

Building the Social Graph with Hubble and Jetstream

Scott's Thoughts say:

No Fork Required

Atmosphere

Roomy announces:

Roomy joins Modal incubator

Custom social feeds app, Graze announces:

Open Social is an invitation to rebuild the attention economy. We're joining Flipboard to take our biggest swing yet at it.

Skyreader has an:

Update - Linkblog on external publications & Improved sharing

Atmosphere Community says:

Find a (somewhat) local Atmosphere community to join

Pick one and join up.

Mu.Social also has a starter pack list:

Local atproto communities all around the world

More inept nonsense from W Social (don't join it):

Just a reminder with AT Protocol Handler you can filter out basic handles from other services (also in reverse). Just requires using **desktop or mobile browser* that supports extensions instead of the apps.*

P2P

Worm Blossom announces:

Pillow is a new collaboration between p2panda and worm-blossom

Webrings

Clayton Errington is:

Improving the webring links, one build at a time

RSS

Ideias de Chirico has:

Offpunk: baixando a internet

A different way to access RSS.

XMPP

Movim announces:

We're approaching the final steps of the Wide Conferences (SFU) feature with the introduction of screen-sharing!

IlSoftware shares:

XMPP ha 25 anni: perché la messaggistica aperta non è mai davvero morta

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The Programmer's Fulcrum 21 August, 2026

Reuben Walker, Jr. — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:24:36 +0000

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum.

It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.

We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.

There's good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.

Or you can jump straight to your favorite section.

Sites/Blogs/CMSs
Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools
OMN Programming
ActivityPub
Fediverse
More

FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.

Sometimes, I just want to share something and that is the case today.

In my working life, my hobby project was Symfony Station. As part of that I subscribed to and learned from SymfonyCasts. And it is the best learning product/site I have ever used.

This week, I got an email that my yearly subscription is renewing. I no longer need it, so I canceled the subscription. Before it ends, I am enjoying one last tutorial on Vue JS (which might be useful for me one day, though hopefully not). Viewing it reminds me just how much I miss the truly awesome (and sadly late) Ryan Weaver.

So, @symfonycasts@phpc.social please keep up the fantastic work for the PHP community and thanks for the wonderful memories. And in Ryan’s memory please get the fuck off Twitter and Facebook. And list your Mastodon handle on your website. :)

Featured Item(s)

Michelle Barker writes:

Building a website feels old-fashioned these days. How many more websites do I have left in me before the old fire flickers and dies? Is snuffed out. Before making websites is no longer a viable way to earn a living? The web will change drastically within my lifetime, maybe someday soon, indeed it already has. Maybe it really will fizzle out, a graveyard haunted only by bots and crawlers. But I have a hunch that there will be a long tail.

Little Websites Everywhere

Please use the 4Rs and join the Open Media Network.

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras writes:

We do not need to create large structures that just run the risk of becoming yet another single-point-of-failure and at the same time require approaches to decenter community.

Instead, what we might want is many, ‘reasonably’-sized alternatives that can interact, exchange and cross-communicate. Jacobs did not think about ‘federation’ on a technical protocol level, but I think the Fediverse – with all its problems – shows that there is a real opportunity. And the folks working on making federated code forges work might just pull the same thing off for that domain.

On 'scaling up' and being the right size

CMSs

Make WordPress announces:

WordPress Contributor Toolkit 1.0: A smoother workflow for your first Core contribution

Useful.

Uncenter announces:

My new Learn Eleventy course

Helpful.

Hammer Tech Blog explores:

Putting a Bunny.net CDN in Front of My Static Blog

Typemill announces:

Typemill 2.26.0: PHP 8.5 and GitSync Plugin

After this disappointing announcement and I would expect some backlash, Publii announces:

AI Crawler Blocker

Tools

Heart Soul Machine (correctly) opines:

The Network Should Be Ours

The Guardian reports on:

Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape

As developers let's unfuck this.

Browsers

Waterfox announces:

6.7.0 — Supernova

Cullum Smith shows us how to:

Browser De-Slop

Quite useful.

Cloud

Obiente has a resource:

Your Nextcloud deserves a real app

Nextcloud has:

Academy of Civic Organizations Foundation builds a secure digital workspace with Nextcloud

Nextcloud earns ANSSI CSPN and BSI IT-Grundschutz certifications

Writing

LibreOffice explains:

Why Digital Sovereignty Requires an Open Document Platform — and What That Actually Means

There Is No “Best” Interface, Only the Right Fit

Creative

GIMP has an update:

GIMP 3.4 Promises New Project File Format, PSD Support Improvements, and More

Linux / Open Android

TechPolicy Press reports:

Google Android Antitrust Ruling Shows the Next Battle is Over Who Controls Trust

Hosting / Serving

Johanna Larson examines:

Self-hosting your PDS

This week's featured OMN tool

Framatoolbox

Using Framatoolbox is the first step on the road to your digital autonomy.

Framatoolbox

Programming

Always Twisted says:

The Recipe Isn't The Bake - What Design Systems Need Beyond Documentation

Ryan Cheley asks:

What if Maintainer Burnout Isn't Burnout

David Bushell shares his:

Ruminations on notifications

Git

Mathias Endler opines:

GitHub Was Never About The Source Code

Mathias, my man, check out Codeberg or Tangled.

HTML

Vic Matuzo shares:

My HTML boilerplate in 2026

Very helpful. Especially as I am extremely tempted to go back to coding sites by hand. ;)

Piccalilli takes:

A look at the geolocation HTML element and how it works

CSS

That HTML Blog has:

So Many Ways to Design Systematize a Component

Ion Prodan looks at:

CSS contrast-color()

CSS Tricks explores:

CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days

When this settles in, it will be another great way to get rid of some JavaScript. :)

AI

1Password explains:

Off-by-1 Labs: Why AI-generated vulnerability patches still require expert human review

AKA they’re horseshit.

Other

OpenProject reports:

Atlassian's AI Data Policy Takes Effect on August 17: Discover OpenProject as a Jira Cloud Alternative

This week's featured programming tool

SymfonyCasts

In honor of my final weeks with Ryan's tutoring.

SymfonyCast's JavaScript Courses

SymfonyCast's JavaScript Framework Courses

SymfonyCast's PHP Courses

ActivityPub

Hamish Campbell shares:

OMN: Activity, culture and why Soviet experiments matter

I started reading the ActivityPub book while on vacation last week and this ties into AP's history in an unique way.

Shom Dev has:

Big hopes for littleFedi

I missed this last week.

Starling is a nice simple server I use for the Manade project's official communications. And it actually works with Fediverse clients. Unlike my accounts on holos.social, fedihood.social, and Ghost.

The Social Web Incubator Community Group is trying to tame some of the chaos from Mastodon's implementation of ActivityPub (and everyone else copying them):

ActivityPub Miscellaneous Terms

This week's featured ActivityPub featured tool

ActivityPub Book

This is the ActivityPub handbook that every social software hacker needs.

ActivityPub Book

Permanent aside here (unfortunately)

This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren't able to comprehend ⬇️:

The Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, formal, informal, or otherwise)
and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise).
and corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional cunts.

So, recognize their natures and don't ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.

Fediverse

PixelFed announces:

We're building an official Pixelfed relay service

ActivityPub Space is:

Tracking RFC 9421 Adoption

Fedilab Apps announces:

We are now more than 300 users on FediHood. The project is stable enough for me to invite you to try it.

We started an account to test it out. Follow us at @walkers@fedihood.social if you can.

Mastodon previews:

5.0: Laying the foundation

Good UI improvements.

Owncast has:

Owncast Newsletter August 2026

The Social Web Incubator Community Group is trying to tame some of the chaos from Mastodon's implementation of ActitivyPub (and everyone copying theirs):

ActivityPub Miscellaneous Terms

Bonfire

Bonfire asks:

What should digital infrastructure for open science look like, and more importantly, who should shape it?

Asta von Schröder has thoughts:

Science Communication in the Fediverse – Mastodon and Open Science Network

As promised last week, we're going to explore the many challenges of achieving our vision of an easily installed, safe, surveillance-resistant home for vulnerable online communities.

Is my Manade project viable?

Hamish Campbell says:

In tech, the unit of measure is important

He makes a great point: ...what would the balancing of communal-first tech look like? Well, much like the current mod process of good grassroots Mastodon instances. Malatesta was right: anarchism is not the absence of “paths”, it’s paths we make for ourselves.

Local First

Tyler's Blog examines:

A Local-First Task Planner On ATProto

ATProto

ATProto announces:

The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live

This is the name they settled on for permissioned data.

Nick Gerakines continues a series:

Permissioned Data: Space Access

As does Daniel’s Leaflets:

Permissioned Data Diary 7: Off the Record

Chris’s Corner looks at:

The disconnect between web pages and the social filesystem

Johanna Larson has:

Taking control of your atproto account

Latch - an Elixir atproto OAuth library

Atmosphere

And this interesting tool:

Annot

We will see if it works for this site. But, I don't think it will for basic Ghost. Pro or self-hosted might work.

Diego Vicente shares:

Getting into ATProto: My 2026 Field Guide to the ATmosphere

A good list of apps, including a few non-horseshit ones.

Ewan's Blog has:

2,558 Is Not a Number of People

Interesting if you care exactly who and what your followers are. Nothing personal, but I don't.

We Can Just Do Things reports:

W Social is TruthSocial with a European accent

They are definitely a pack of poser grifting cunts, whose few real users are bamboozled, clueless marks at best.

XMPP

Slidge announces:

Slidge got a security audit

Matrix

Matrix explores:

Local-first Matrix

Hey Matrix, keep up the good work but please walk the talk and get the fuck off YouTube and onto PeerTube. At least for your embedded videos.

Adullact reports:

Matrix pour les collectivités : vers une messagerie instantanée souveraine et fédérée

CTAs

That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer's Fulcrum.
Follow us on Surf or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse or at @thefulcrum.eurosky.social on the Atmosphere for daily coverage.
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