I just learned about Honk, a barebones #ActivityPub microblogging implementation. It's super lightweight, doesn't support likes, and reminds me of the old internet in a very charming and silly way.

The creator @tedu has a "flagship instance" at honkasaurus.world. It looks like it will let you sign up, but I couldn't figure out how.

Anyway, just thought that was a fun little thing to share

When I was building #honk I surmised that a "one year ago" feature would be interesting. Now that it's here, I can say it's actually been really rewarding. Every day I post some random nonsense, but looking back a year later I'm so glad there's a little personal record of it.

#honk 1.4.0 pink peppercorn

The big change here is moving attachment storage to the filesystem. This simplifies cleanup operations substantially. It's on by default, but honk will mostly automatically fallback to the blobdb as needed. If you have a custom backup script, you may need some changes, but otherwise should be pretty transparent.

There's also TOTP and C2S because why not, but also, why?

• Another tune up for thread sort.
• Rework setup and admin screens.
• Add some compat for forgefed activities.
• TOTP for those who live dangerously.
• Switch to storing attachments in the file system.
• Some styling changes.
• Experimental support for C2S activities.
• Try harder to retrieve threads from the database.