[Microblog] 🆕 blog!

submitted by

🆕 blog! “Some updates to ActivityBot”

I couple of years ago, I developed ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots. It is a single PHP file which can run an entire ActivityPub server and it is less than 80KB.

It works! You can follow @openbenches to see the latest entries on OpenBenches.org, and @colours for a …

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/some-

#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #mastodon #php

2
1

Log in to comment

2 Comments

I was temped to add versioning to #ActivityBot using:

```php
define( "VERSION", hash_file( "xxh32", __FILE__ ) );
```

But I've gone with boring old DateVer instead.

Well this is exciting!My little #ActivityBot server is through to the next round of the @nlnet grant application process.Still a long way to go, but rather encouraging.You can play with the code at gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

Screenshot of an email. Dear Terence, it is my pleasure to inform you that your project "ActivityBot" has been selected to enter the second round of the February 2026 call. While the first round is solely based on your proposal, this strict selection round is potentially interactive. As your project is looked into in more depth, the reviewers may need some additional information to properly assess your application, in which case they will contact you.

Insert image