social.pollux.casa

#SmolFedi has a new filter system for notifications

What's new in #SmolFedi v1.0.11 the html/css/no-js fediverse #smolweb client :

• Register/Unregister to new posts on profile page
• Manage follow requests
• Add Favourites, Local and Federated timelines
• Manage post moderation : mute/unmute thread / report post
• Manage user moderation : mute/unmute block/unblock report
• Allow hr tag in html post (thx daj)
• Add poll posting
• Define session handler (compatibility)
• Add info 'follows you' in profile info page
• Permit post edition
• Manage word filters
• Simplify page width system
• Permit to mark media as sensitive
• Add search form

Source code of smolfedi

Demo instance

This poll is published on #SmolFedi

Does it work?

#SmolFedi v1.0.10 brings some improvements

• Correct tag parsing in post
• Change background color of posts, according to post visibility (Public/Unlisted/Direct)
• Possibility to delete a list in prefs page
• Confirm deletion of List anand Post
• Position page in the thread
• Better message if data directory is not writable
• Manage pinned posts
• Better nav menu (easier to click)
• Add links [ ^ ] to original instances of posts and profiles
• Add button to clear all notifications
• Adjust style for checkbox/radio in polls
• Cleaner post format selection in prefs
• Adjust post sanitization to render more basic html tags

https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client

I love the Fediverse. I have been on it for years, and it remains the only social network where I actually enjoy spending time. No algorithmic feed pushing outrage, no dark patterns, no surveillance capitalism. Just people talking to each other over an open protocol.

But every time I wanted to recommend it to someone, I ran into the same wall: the clients are heavy. Mastodon's web interface ships megabytes of JavaScript. Elk, Phanpy, Ivory, beautiful apps, but they require a modern browser, a fast connection, and a device manufactured in the last five years ...

New blog post :

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/the-fediverse-deserves-a-dumb-graphical-client.md

Edit: try #SmolFedi :

https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/

Yeah! #SmolFedi v1.0.9 has new features !

• Add a prefs page
• Add font size preference
• Manage multiple formats for posts (plain, markdown...) according to the instance capabilities
• Possibility to pin/unpin tag to the menu
• Manage Content warning and Sensitive media
• Correct hashtag link detection/rewrite
• Video max width
• Delete post button in red

Source code Demo instance

#SmolFedi 1.0.7 manages user defined Lists of profiles. A new entry in the menu for each list. And possibility to add/remove a profile in lists.

(at the moment, you can only use existing lists, nothing to create or delete one)

I think #SmolFedi will be my preferred #Fediverse client on my smartphone and my old tablet. Very lightweight, fast, useful. I wonder why I should use something else.

Let me know which missing feature would be a must have.

(if it had poll editor, I’d propose some :-D )

Source/download : https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

Demo instance : https://smolfedi.pollux.casa

Added some features to #SmolFedi v1.0.5 :

Bookmarks list

Direct messages list

Followers/Following list for a profile

Removed too recent emojis, not compatible with #dillo

https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

Sorry @dillo I just want to know if this patch is active in dillo 3.2.0 (on archlinux)

https://git.dillo-browser.org/dillo/commit/?id=6a58684566f4d61bae7e3974023bc0989c3f2eb2

because I encounter oauth registration with smolfedi

https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

New version of #SmolFedi, a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse client written in PHP. It respects #smolweb specs.

It works fine with all basic browser such as #netsurf So you can access Fediverse on #retro computer have a basic browser (need cookies feature).

You can install it on a simple web server with php8.x / pdo_sqlite / php_curl

https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

Test it on https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/ and log to all your fediverse instances (tested on #gotosocial and #mastodon). You can connect to multiple account and switch between them easily.

#smallweb #fediverse

Test of toot with images using #SmolFedi

I try a new Fediverse client using only HTML and basic CSS (no JS). It is written in PHP

Web eco-design

Best practice guidelines

Our digital uses already represent 40% of our annual sustainable budget, both in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the depletion of the last reserves of non-renewable resources (abiotic resources). That's 10 times too much!

Eco-designing digital services allows us to better control and limit their environmental and health impacts...

https://rweb.greenit.fr/en

#smolweb #ecodesign #smallweb

The future of UX is green: On the Web Sustainability Guidelines | 2026 | Talks | Events | W3C

A look at what the W3C’s new Web Sustainability Guideline are and how to apply them in practice.

https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2026/the-future-of-ux-is-green-on-the-web-sustainability-guidelines/

#sustainability #smallweb #smolweb

We're all walking contradictions, and that's okay.

I champion Free Software, self-host everything, and preach digital sovereignty... and I carry an #iPhone in my pocket 🤷‍♀️ No shame.

(Still no Windows though. Some lines you just don't cross. 😅)

Your values don't have to be a perfect system. They just have to be yours.

All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot!

It always starts the same way. The client pulls out their phone mid-meeting, navigates to a competitor's website, and holds the screen up like evidence.

"You see? They have one of those."

A little bubble. Bottom right corner. Blinking...

Read more :
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-carousel-now-it-s-an-ai-chatbot.md

#ai #webdev #smolweb #experience

Do you know of any movement promoting minimal, utilitarian writing, stripping everything down to what the recipient actually needs?

Asking because I see many people writing a rough draft, asking an AI to polish it, bloat it, and the recipient uses another AI to summarize it. Two humans, zero actual communication.

There's #plainlanguage and #Crocker 's Rules, but nothing focused specifically on cutting the fluff from everyday writing.

Could #smolwrite (or another name) be a thing?

#language #ai #writing #communication

New blog post

Building your first smolweb page

A simple news article that takes ten seconds to load and eats 50 MB of data. You've seen that. We all have. Mountains of JavaScript, giant CSS frameworks, third-party trackers, custom fonts pulled from remote servers... all of that to display a few paragraphs of text.

The smolweb pushes back against that...

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/building-your-first-smolweb-page.md

#smolweb #smallweb #html #howto

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pollux.casa = your home in the Gemini constellation.

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You can get:
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The whole thing runs on a small Intel NUC in my home:
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