@tchambers@indieweb.social
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May 07, 2026
Tim Chambers
@tchambers@indieweb.social
Technologist, writer, who is fascinated by how new politics impacts technology and vice versa. #fedi22 #indieweb #fediverse
indieweb.social
So Fediverse app #HolosSocial just added support for this in their latest iOS beta:
"Holos Social 1.5.5 (34)
Support for web+ap:// links (fedilinks): to open profiles and posts directly in Holos."
This is a big milestone for a key fix myself and Sean wrote about here, to help make remote fediverse content more seemlessly available. EVERY Fediverse mobile app should support this and follow their lead. 🧵 1/2 cc: @HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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May 05, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
A new version of #Holos has been released (1.5.5).
It introduces support for "web+ap://" links (fedilinks), so profiles and posts can now be opened directly in Holos. The sync experience is also smoother with less UI freezing, and post deletion is more reliable: posts are kept locally until all remote instances confirm removal, with automatic retry on failure.
Release notes:
https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/releases/tag/1.5.5
#HolosSocial
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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May 02, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
#Holos 1.5.4 is available.
Activity delivery now goes through the relay proxy, which fixes boost and like failures on #iOS. Sync performance is also improved.
It also brings several fixes: images disappearing after posting, the iOS "No valid public key" error during setup, and the custom relay tunnel URL being ignored.
https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/releases/tag/1.5.4
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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Apr 28, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
#Holos 1.5.2 is available.
New: follow requests screen for locked accounts, delivery error details in pending actions.
It also brings several fixes, full release notes at https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/releases/tag/1.5.2
Available on #FDroid, #AltStore, and soon on TestFlight.
#HolosSocial
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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Apr 24, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
RE: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/116460942782444645
If some #iOS users are interested in joining a #Fediverse server that runs on your device, you can join the #HolosSocial project through #AltStore or drop an email at hello@fedilab.app to join TestFlight beta testers.
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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Apr 25, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
#HolosSocial 1.5.1 is available on #AltStore. The #iOS TestFlight build is uploaded and waiting for Apple's beta review.
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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Apr 25, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
To TestFlight/F-Droid users for feedback, please open issues on #Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/issues (signup is possible with a GitHub or GitLab account). It allows replies, follow-up and avoids duplicates. Give as many details as possible. Thanks.
#HolosSocial
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@apps@toot.fedilab.app
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Apr 25, 2026
Fedilab Apps
@apps@toot.fedilab.app
This account is dedicated for news about FOSS apps: Fedilab, TubeLab, UntrackMe, OpenMultiMaps
toot.fedilab.app
On #Holos, the user decides where media lives. Cached on the relay (10 MB cap), or pushed to a personal S3, WebDAV. Signed URLs for private buckets, direct URLs for public ones. Video compression configurable on the device before upload. Backups and media can share storage or be separated.
The architecture makes it possible: there is no instance admin to ask, and the relay holds no media beyond a temporary cache. The choice belongs to the user.
#HolosSocial
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@apps@toot.fedilab.app
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Apr 25, 2026
Fedilab Apps
@apps@toot.fedilab.app
This account is dedicated for news about FOSS apps: Fedilab, TubeLab, UntrackMe, OpenMultiMaps
toot.fedilab.app
#HolosSocial is a project that lets users run their own #ActivityPub server on a device (Android/iOS). Would a desktop version interest you? For purists, dynamic DNS could replace the relay entirely, which is simply not realistic on mobile. Main account: @HolosSocial@mastodon.social Your opinion?
Yes, with relay support
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Poll closed
View on toot.fedilab.app
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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Apr 20, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
#HolosSocial 1.4.0 is available!
New: link preview cards for external URLs, default post format (text or markdown), media quality filters, push notifications with actor name and action type.
Improved: shared post links open in thread view, faster timeline pagination, fresh client registration on login.
Available on the custom #FDroid repo and #AltStore.
https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/releases/tag/1.4.0
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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Apr 21, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
#HolosSocial is now accepted on the iOS store. Verification emails aren't being delivered at the moment. I will approve subscriptions manually and fix this shortly.
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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Apr 21, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
The next #Holos release will support reactions. Long press the like button to pick one. It will be compatible with other software that supports reactions like Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Sharkey, and Firefish. Can be disabled in settings.
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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Apr 17, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
In #Holos, timeline media has dedicated views, enabled with a single tap: one for images, one for vertical videos (TikTok style, swipe) and one for horizontal videos. What is still missing is a filter on media size. No one using these views wants to see a GIF (MP4) or a low-resolution meme. Reducing that noise will make the experience much better. This will be fixed.
#HolosSocial
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Hi @HolosSocial@mastodon.social, I am brand new to #HolosSocial. This is great! Setup was super easy. Very impressive. Thanks for moving the fediverse forward with Holos.
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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Apr 10, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
#Holos 1.3.0 is available on #FDroid and #AltStore
What's new: Quote posts from other Fediverse clients are now supported.
Several fixes on timelines, notifications, tunnel stability, and compose screen.
https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/releases/tag/1.3.0
#HolosSocial
For AltStore: https://files.fedilab.app/altstore/altstore.json
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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Apr 04, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
#Holos is now available via #AltStore for #iOS users.
AltStore source: https://files.fedilab.app/altstore/altstore.json
Learn more about Holos: https://holos.social/how-it-works
#HolosSocial
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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Apr 03, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
#Holos 1.2.0 is available
What's new: Markdown preview in the compose screen, import followings from a Mastodon CSV file, separate S3/WebDAV storage for media and backups.
Several fixes app/relay. More https://codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/releases/tag/1.2.0
Small bonus for #iOS users, it's available on TestFlight.
#HolosSocial
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@apps@toot.fedilab.app
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Apr 03, 2026
Fedilab Apps
@apps@toot.fedilab.app
This account is dedicated for news about FOSS apps: Fedilab, TubeLab, UntrackMe, OpenMultiMaps
toot.fedilab.app
Today I subscribed to an #iOS dev account. The first app available is #HolosSocial (TestFlight - @HolosSocial@mastodon.social).
Two other apps will follow: #CastLab (https://codeberg.org/tom79/CastLab) and #FediPlan (https://codeberg.org/tom79/FediplanApp)
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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Apr 02, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
Tomorrow, #Holos is moving to a more powerful server. One issue identified was inactive users accumulating a large number of pending activities on the relay. The relay now detects inactive users (no connection for more than 14 days) and reduces home timeline retention to 4 hours, while all notifications (follow, mentions, DMs, etc.) are kept at their normal retention period.
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@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
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Mar 31, 2026
Holos Social
@HolosSocial@mastodon.social
#Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.
mastodon.social
Something to clarify about custom domains. This feature lets you own your identity with your domain name. No one else can create an account with it, the relay verifies domain ownership through DNS before activation.
If you want friends or family to have an identity on your domain, you can. As the domain owner, you control who gets one. For root domain identities, this is done through WebFinger configuration, without hosting a relay and even if people are on different relays.
#HolosSocial
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