Two new maintainers join Fedify: Chanhaeng Lee and Jiwon Kwon

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Chanhaeng Lee (@2chanhaeng) and Jiwon Kwon (@sij411) are now co-maintainers of Fedify. They have already been doing maintainer-shaped work for much of the past year, so this is mostly making the repository match reality.

Chanhaeng has done a lot of the package-boundary work in Fedify. The most visible piece was splitting the old @fedify/fedify/x/* modules into standalone packages: @fedify/cfworkers, @fedify/denokv, @fedify/hono, and @fedify/sveltekit. They then separated the Activity Vocabulary layer itself into @fedify/vocab, @fedify/vocab-runtime, and @fedify/vocab-tools, making it possible to build custom vocabulary extensions without touching the federation core. They built @fedify/next and @fedify/nuxt from scratch, contributed to @fedify/solidstart, and added Nuxt support to fedify init. @fedify/sqlite gained SqliteMessageQueue: a queue backend that only needs SQLite, handy for single-node deployments and local development. Chanhaeng also implemented the fedify webfinger CLI command, fediverse handle utilities (parseFediverseHandle(), isFediverseHandle(), toAcctUrl()), and the @fedify/webfinger and @fedify/lint packages. They are currently working on a custom background task API built around defineTask().

Jiwon has spent much of the past year making the CLI and relay tooling more useful for real ActivityPub debugging. fedify relay, backed by @fedify/relay, spins up a local ephemeral ActivityPub relay server with Mastodon and LitePub support. They extended fedify lookup with multi-URL traversal and inline image rendering for compatible terminal emulators (Kitty, WezTerm, iTerm, and others), and added configuration file support so options can live in ~/.config/fedify/config.toml or a project-local .fedify.toml rather than being passed on every invocation. They also fixed a race condition in RedisMessageQueue, corrected ActivityPub object handling for relative URLs, extended TypeScript types for RFC 6570 URI Template expressions in dispatcher paths, and implemented the FEP-5711 inverse collection properties, including likesOf, repliesOf, and followersOf.

Chanhaeng and Jiwon both came to Fedify through OSSCA 2025, Korea's Open Source Contribution Academy. I'm grateful that the program led to long-term maintainers, not just a few merged patches, and I'm looking forward to working with them in this new role.