Check out my new Mastodon collection of quality European news accounts:

https://mastodonapp.uk/collections/116929757387114536

Unfortunately none of the news accounts on #Flipboard can be added (technical reasons?) and @euobserver can't be added (no idea why not).

#Mastodon #Collections #StarterPack #News #Europe

📢 Erinnerung: Fediverse-Sprechstunde

📅 Montag, 20.07.2026
🕢 19:30 Uhr

🌐 Thema: „Fediverse – wie sich alles zusammen nutzen lässt“

Viele denken, man müsse für jede Fediverse-Anwendung einen eigenen Account anlegen. Doch genau das ist einer der größten Irrtümer. In vielen Fällen genügt bereits ein einziger Account, um mit Menschen auf verschiedenen Plattformen zu kommunizieren. Weitere Accounts sind nur dann sinnvoll, wenn man die besonderen Funktionen einzelner Anwendungen gezielt nutzen möchte.

Unser Gast Friedhelm ( @catmanfriedhelm ) zeigt dies anhand seines eigenen Projekts. Mit seiner Katzen-Webseite gandalfgarfield.de nutzt er das Fediverse, um Wissen über Katzen zu veröffentlichen und zu teilen. Dabei setzt er unter anderem Friendica, Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube und BookWyrm dort ein, wo die jeweilige Anwendung ihre Stärken entfalten kann.

💬 Gemeinsam statt nebeneinander – genau das macht das Fediverse aus.

Je mehr Menschen sich beteiligen, desto lebendiger, vielfältiger und stärker wird das Fediverse. 🌱

Mitmachen ist ausdrücklich erwünscht! Egal, ob ihr gerade erst ins Fediverse einsteigt oder schon länger dabei seid – alle sind herzlich willkommen.

💻 Online: Konferenzraum zur Fediverse-Sprechstunde

ℹ️ Die Teilnahme ist ganz einfach:
Eine Registrierung bei BigBlueButton ist nicht erforderlich. Ihr benötigt lediglich einen aktuellen Webbrowser (empfohlen: Firefox oder Chrome) und den Einladungslink zur Veranstaltung.

Wir freuen uns auf einen spannenden Abend und einen offenen Austausch mit euch! 😊

#Fediverse #Friendica #Mastodon #PixelFed #PeerTube #OpenSocialWeb

Also exclusive to Vernissage are the header image and the fields (the custom key-value entries of a profile). The header image can already be uploaded in Pixelix, but the fields are read only for now. They can be edited in the official web app of Vernissage. Editing the fields in Pixelix will come with the next update.

Both of those features are compatible with Mastodon, so when watching a Mastodon profile in Pixelix it also displays the header and the fields.

#Pixelix #Vernissage #Mastodon

📢 Erinnerung: Fediverse-Sprechstunde

📅 Montag, 20.07.2026
🕢 19:30 Uhr

🌐 Thema: „Fediverse – wie sich alles zusammen nutzen lässt“

Viele denken, man müsse für jede Fediverse-Anwendung einen eigenen Account anlegen. Doch genau das ist einer der größten Irrtümer. In vielen Fällen genügt bereits ein einziger Account, um mit Menschen auf verschiedenen Plattformen zu kommunizieren. Weitere Accounts sind nur dann sinnvoll, wenn man die besonderen Funktionen einzelner Anwendungen gezielt nutzen möchte.

Unser Gast Friedhelm ( @catmanfriedhelm ) zeigt dies anhand seines eigenen Projekts. Mit seiner Katzen-Webseite gandalfgarfield.de nutzt er das Fediverse, um Wissen über Katzen zu veröffentlichen und zu teilen. Dabei setzt er unter anderem Friendica, Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube und BookWyrm dort ein, wo die jeweilige Anwendung ihre Stärken entfalten kann.

💬 Gemeinsam statt nebeneinander – genau das macht das Fediverse aus.

Je mehr Menschen sich beteiligen, desto lebendiger, vielfältiger und stärker wird das Fediverse. 🌱

Mitmachen ist ausdrücklich erwünscht! Egal, ob ihr gerade erst ins Fediverse einsteigt oder schon länger dabei seid – alle sind herzlich willkommen.

💻 Online: Konferenzraum zur Fediverse-Sprechstunde

ℹ️ Die Teilnahme ist ganz einfach:
Eine Registrierung bei BigBlueButton ist nicht erforderlich. Ihr benötigt lediglich einen aktuellen Webbrowser (empfohlen: Firefox oder Chrome) und den Einladungslink zur Veranstaltung.

Wir freuen uns auf einen spannenden Abend und einen offenen Austausch mit euch! 😊

#Fediverse #Friendica #Mastodon #PixelFed #PeerTube #OpenSocialWeb

Another Mastodon weirdness: somebody responded to one of my posts, but it didn't show up in my notifications.

I had to go to my original post and check the responses to see it?!

#mastodon #mastoadmin #mastolivre #fediverse #usability #federation #bug #error #fail #ux #activitypub #notifications

Also exclusive to Vernissage are the header image and the fields (the custom key-value entries of a profile). The header image can already be uploaded in Pixelix, but the fields are read only for now. They can be edited in the official web app of Vernissage. Editing the fields in Pixelix will come with the next update.

Both of those features are compatible with Mastodon, so when watching a Mastodon profile in Pixelix it also displays the header and the fields.

#Pixelix #Vernissage #Mastodon

Mein neues Tool 'TootTime' ist fast fertig:

Mastodon-Posts planen, lange Texte automatisch aufteilen (Thread sofort / planbare Multi-Posts mit Zähler "1/x"), Bilder + ALT-Text-Pflicht, geplante Posts verwalten - alles OpenSource und bald auch zum einfachen selbst hosten.
Login per Mastodon-OAuth (keine Passwörter).

Freu mich, wenn ihr testet und auch gern (lieb) meckert:
https://toottime.magicmarcy.de (Feedback-Button im Tool)

#boost #mastodon #opensource #followerpower #betatest #toottime

If you use #Tapestry by @Iconfactory and @phanpy here’s the Template and Pattern structure to open Tapestry’s #Mastodon links in #Phanpy:

https://paste.lol/macmanx/tapestry-to-phanpy

📰 無料でネット接続なしのオフラインでも使える地図アプリ「CoMaps」、オープンソースで開発され広告なし・個人追跡なし
https://gigazine.net/news/20260718-comaps/

#Mastodon #自動投稿

just a couple besties hanging out

#pixelfed #loops #mastodon

📰 無料でネット接続なしのオフラインでも使える地図アプリ「CoMaps」、オープンソースで開発され広告なし・個人追跡なし
https://gigazine.net/news/20260718-comaps/

#Mastodon #自動投稿

@thaumiel999@travel-in-busan.com @thaumiel999@mastodon.social
@thaumiel999@threads.net

트래블인부산

Four years later and #Mastodon continues to have a misogyny problem, what efforts have been made to make it better for women here?

Four years later and #Mastodon continues to have a misogyny problem, what efforts have been made to make it better for women here?

今夜はコンビネーションサラダで晩ごはん🥗

プチトマトにきゅうりにケール、紫キャベツに卵サラダをかけたじゃがいももたっぷり盛って

ごろごろのアーモンドにオリーブやオニオンも入った宝幸のナッツ入りオリーブオイルでキャベツとツナを和えたペンネも添えていただきまーす

#mastodon
#fedibird
#マストドン料理部

今夜はコンビネーションサラダで晩ごはん🥗

プチトマトにきゅうりにケール、紫キャベツに卵サラダをかけたじゃがいももたっぷり盛って

ごろごろのアーモンドにオリーブやオニオンも入った宝幸のナッツ入りオリーブオイルでキャベツとツナを和えたペンネも添えていただきまーす

#mastodon
#fedibird
#マストドン料理部

Check out my new Mastodon collection of quality European news accounts:

https://mastodonapp.uk/collections/116929757387114536

Unfortunately none of the news accounts on #Flipboard can be added (technical reasons?) and @euobserver can't be added (no idea why not).

#Mastodon #Collections #StarterPack #News #Europe

@luca does #Mastodon support audio-only files? Might look into sharing something.

You can also find me on #DiVine where I post 6-second clips of music stuff (and other things)

夏になるとこういうの描きたくなる

#illustration #manga #mastoart #art #creativetoots #mastodon #fedibird

夏になるとこういうの描きたくなる

#illustration #manga #mastoart #art #creativetoots #mastodon #fedibird

#Mastodon のニュースレター機能、アカウントがない人もメールアドレスがあれば更新情報をフォローできるという意味でめっちゃいいなと思いつつ、実際大量にメール配信するのはサーバー負荷もあるしだからこそサーバーレベルでオプトインする機能なのだろうし、実際は不特定多数のユーザー登録を受け入れるここ みたいな場所での利用はあんまり適さないだろうなと思っていて、例えば自治体みたいな団体が公共に情報を発信するためのツールとして自前の サーバーを立てて使うみたいな時に効果を発揮するんだろうと思って、改めてそういう利用方法が新たに選択肢として加わったという点で いいじゃん！と思ったのと、
そもそもこの 公式アカウントのポストを見て「そうだ、そもそもメールニュース以前に はデフォルトでユーザーごとの#RSS #feed 配信してたんだった！（そこからアカウント登録せずに購読するという方法もあった）」ということを思い出した。

#X なんかアカウントないと特定のアカウントの投稿を時系列で見ることすらできないからね…（何年も前のバズった投稿とかがプロフィールタイムラインの頭に表示される）全然即時性がないサービスになってしまっている。

国とか自治体とか公共性の高い情報発信してるアカウントは、いいかげんいつまでああいう #X みたいないかがわしいサービスに便乗し続けるんだろうと個人的には思っちゃうけど、

一方で、メール、RSS、#Fediverse ⁂（#ActivityPub ）という順番でどれも結構一般の人（例えば自分の親世代の高齢者）とかには、セットアップのハードルも高いのだろうし、そもそも「それは何なのか」みたいな理解もまあまあ難しい（そしてそもそも浸透していない）みたいなことも感じる。

まあでも、マイナンバーカードとか見てると、面倒だったり分かりづらかったとしても必要性があればやるし、それなりのサポートも（その必要性に付随して）出てくるし、慣れれば結構使えてしまうみたいな状況も見ていたりすると、スタートの時点で「手軽さ」みたいなものを優先して #X みたいなプラットフォームを選んでしまうということにやはり根源的な問題はありそう。

もうちょっとだけ、面倒とか難しいと感じるものと、ひとりひとりが向き合ったり、それを助ける動き（それこそ #Dugnat ってやつかな https://vivaldi.com/blog/how-can-a-dugnad-save-the-web/ ）も必要なのかも

Hey, #fedi and #mastodon folks: is there anyone out there who's written a guide to pulling out Mastodon About pages via the API?

What I'm interested in doing is gathering About pages (including server rules). I can do this by hand (indeed, I've done this many times before!) but maybe it's time for me to learn how to use the API. I'm not interested in posts or anything to do with users -- just the About pages.

#askFedi #boostsAppreciated

Ihr habt Menschen aus #Mastodon, #Friendica, #Pixelfed und Co. kennengelernt, aber nie getroffen? Dann solltet ihr das FediCamp JETZT nicht verpassen!

📅 04. – 09. August 2026

Ein ganzes Wochenende in der Natur mit:
- Workshops & Talks
- Echten Menschen (die aus diesem Internet!)
- Grillen, Chillen, gemeinsame Aktionen
- Diskutieren, Hacken, Lachen

🎯 Das Motto: "run: sudo chill"

Weg vom Algorithmus-Wahnsinn. Rein ins echte Miteinander.

⚡ Let's Go:

Jetzt anmelden: ticket.fedi.camp/FC/26/

Session-Idee? Hier einreichen

#FediCamp #Fediverse #Dezentralisierung #FediFamily

Ihr habt Menschen aus #Mastodon, #Friendica, #Pixelfed und Co. kennengelernt, aber nie getroffen? Dann solltet ihr das FediCamp JETZT nicht verpassen!

📅 04. – 09. August 2026

Ein ganzes Wochenende in der Natur mit:
- Workshops & Talks
- Echten Menschen (die aus diesem Internet!)
- Grillen, Chillen, gemeinsame Aktionen
- Diskutieren, Hacken, Lachen

🎯 Das Motto: "run: sudo chill"

Weg vom Algorithmus-Wahnsinn. Rein ins echte Miteinander.

⚡ Let's Go:

Jetzt anmelden: ticket.fedi.camp/FC/26/

Session-Idee? Hier einreichen

#FediCamp #Fediverse #Dezentralisierung #FediFamily

Hey @Mastodon, can we finally have scheduled boosts in the next version, pretty please 🥺?

#Mastodon

びよん

#mastodon
#fedibird
#cat
#ねこ

びよん

#mastodon
#fedibird
#cat
#ねこ

Letzte Woche haben eine Reihe von Digitalpolitiker:innen in der Open Social Web Alliance die Vision einer dezentralen Infrastruktur für digitale Kommunikation entworfen
👉 https://osw-alliance.net/
Wir teilen viele der dort formulierten Ziele.

Darüber hinaus wäre es zu begrüßen, wenn die beteiligten Organisationen und Politiker:innen sich in ihrem Umfeld für eine stärkere Nutzung der #Fediverse-Medien einsetzen würden. Also:
🔺 Priorisiert #Mastodon in Eurer digitalen Kommunikation vor den Plattformen von BigTech
🔺 Startet #PeerTube-Präsenzen nach dem Vorbild der @fsfe, @EH_Ludwigsburg etc.
🔺 Zieht Euch von der kriminelle Inhalte verbreitenden #X-Plattform zurück, sofern nicht schon getan
🔺 Führt Fortbildungen Eurer Mitglieder zu Fediverse-Medien durch
🔺 Veranlasst die Euch nahe stehenden Politiker:innen, diese Schritte auch in Ämtern und #Behörden umzusetzen*

Mit solchen konkreten Schritten würden wir der skizzierten Vision in großen Schritten näher kommen.

*https://mastodon-listen.playground.54gradsoftware.de/staedte-und-gemeinden-DE

#OSWA

#reflexion

El absurdo hábito de seguir en redes a las personas que te caen mal

Hay una conducta en las redes sociales que desafía por completo el sentido común. Se trata de esas personas que pasan el día entero criticando, atacando y quejándose de las publicaciones de alguien, pero que lo mantienen guardado con candado en su lista de cuentas seguidas. Desde un punto de vista lógico, esto no tiene ni un poquito de pies ni cabeza. Si el contenido de un usuario de verdad te molesta, te aburre o te cae mal, la pregunta obligada que todos deberíamos hacernos es: ¿entonces para qué rayos lo estás siguiendo en tu pantalla?

Esto es exactamente igual a caminar por la calle, entrar por tu propia voluntad a un restaurante sabiendo que solo cocinan cosas que detestas, sentarte a la mesa, pedir el plato más grande, comértelo a puños y luego ponerte a gritarle al cocinero porque la comida te supo horrible. Es una forma de actuar completamente irracional que solo te hace perder el tiempo y pasar un mal rato sin necesidad alguna. Lo más sano y maduro que se puede hacer en esta vida digital es aceptar que si algo no te gusta, simplemente debes dar la vuelta y dejar de mirarlo.

Por fortuna, dentro de una red libre y respetuosa como Mastodon no hay algoritmos obligándote a ver cosas feas, y tenemos herramientas muy fáciles de usar para limpiar nuestro espacio. Si no quieres ver las publicaciones de alguien, la plataforma te da opciones directas que van desde un simple botón de silenciar, para que sus mensajes dejen de aparecer en tu pantalla sin que se dé cuenta, hasta la opción de bloquear por completo a la cuenta. No te compliques la vida alimentando enojos artificiales; usa las herramientas de control y diseña un espacio que de verdad disfrutes revisar cada día.

— A. Eldritch, Periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso

Alt text via @altbot y @TeLoDescribot

#PensamientoCrítico #RedesSociales #Mastodon #SentidoComún #SaludMental #fediverso

#reflexion

El absurdo hábito de seguir en redes a las personas que te caen mal

Hay una conducta en las redes sociales que desafía por completo el sentido común. Se trata de esas personas que pasan el día entero criticando, atacando y quejándose de las publicaciones de alguien, pero que lo mantienen guardado con candado en su lista de cuentas seguidas. Desde un punto de vista lógico, esto no tiene ni un poquito de pies ni cabeza. Si el contenido de un usuario de verdad te molesta, te aburre o te cae mal, la pregunta obligada que todos deberíamos hacernos es: ¿entonces para qué rayos lo estás siguiendo en tu pantalla?

Esto es exactamente igual a caminar por la calle, entrar por tu propia voluntad a un restaurante sabiendo que solo cocinan cosas que detestas, sentarte a la mesa, pedir el plato más grande, comértelo a puños y luego ponerte a gritarle al cocinero porque la comida te supo horrible. Es una forma de actuar completamente irracional que solo te hace perder el tiempo y pasar un mal rato sin necesidad alguna. Lo más sano y maduro que se puede hacer en esta vida digital es aceptar que si algo no te gusta, simplemente debes dar la vuelta y dejar de mirarlo.

Por fortuna, dentro de una red libre y respetuosa como Mastodon no hay algoritmos obligándote a ver cosas feas, y tenemos herramientas muy fáciles de usar para limpiar nuestro espacio. Si no quieres ver las publicaciones de alguien, la plataforma te da opciones directas que van desde un simple botón de silenciar, para que sus mensajes dejen de aparecer en tu pantalla sin que se dé cuenta, hasta la opción de bloquear por completo a la cuenta. No te compliques la vida alimentando enojos artificiales; usa las herramientas de control y diseña un espacio que de verdad disfrutes revisar cada día.

— A. Eldritch, Periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso

Alt text via @altbot y @TeLoDescribot

#PensamientoCrítico #RedesSociales #Mastodon #SentidoComún #SaludMental #fediverso

@ecosia

If I may give a small tip that'll give more exposure to your message and the work you do: On the #fediverse it is common habit to add #AltText to images to support the visually impaired. On #mastodon this #a11y action is easily done by clicking 'Edit' on the image preview after adding it to the post draft. When alt-text is missing most fedizens will not boost the post.

"Post has 9 boosts"

Clicks to see who boosted..

"No one has boosted this post yet. When someone does, they will show up here."

*sigh*

#Mastodon #fediverse #microblogging

Darlings, the galaxy needs more people who shine as brightly as you. #LwaxanaTroi #Inspired #AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #StarTrekDS9 #DS9 #Mastodon

A #Mastodon (and #activityPub ?) feature: if #alttext is missing, anyone can click it and suggest alt text (like a reply to alt text) and original poster can accept it (or not).

adding more #mastodon collection options: you can mark a collection as sensitive and specify it’s not public so it doesn’t show up on your profile or in search, basically like bookmarking accounts or like a list where you don’t have to follow the accounts

adding more #mastodon collection options: you can mark a collection as sensitive and specify it’s not public so it doesn’t show up on your profile or in search, basically like bookmarking accounts or like a list where you don’t have to follow the accounts

A #Mastodon (and #activityPub ?) feature: if #alttext is missing, anyone can click it and suggest alt text (like a reply to alt text) and original poster can accept it (or not).

Oh, I missed that federated.press shut down. That was a place for journalism in the #Fediverse and there were multiple accounts for my @MediaOnMastodon on there. They are mostly gone now, it seems.

Does that mean, that my list of official (!) and verified (!) accounts of #media organizations on #Mastodon has begun to shrink? 😔

If you have some, that @MediaOnMastodon is not following, please give me a hint. And please share this.

Oh, I missed that federated.press shut down. That was a place for journalism in the #Fediverse and there were multiple accounts for my @MediaOnMastodon on there. They are mostly gone now, it seems.

Does that mean, that my list of official (!) and verified (!) accounts of #media organizations on #Mastodon has begun to shrink? 😔

If you have some, that @MediaOnMastodon is not following, please give me a hint. And please share this.

Letzte Woche haben eine Reihe von Digitalpolitiker:innen in der Open Social Web Alliance die Vision einer dezentralen Infrastruktur für digitale Kommunikation entworfen
👉 https://osw-alliance.net/
Wir teilen viele der dort formulierten Ziele.

Darüber hinaus wäre es zu begrüßen, wenn die beteiligten Organisationen und Politiker:innen sich in ihrem Umfeld für eine stärkere Nutzung der #Fediverse-Medien einsetzen würden. Also:
🔺 Priorisiert #Mastodon in Eurer digitalen Kommunikation vor den Plattformen von BigTech
🔺 Startet #PeerTube-Präsenzen nach dem Vorbild der @fsfe, @EH_Ludwigsburg etc.
🔺 Zieht Euch von der kriminelle Inhalte verbreitenden #X-Plattform zurück, sofern nicht schon getan
🔺 Führt Fortbildungen Eurer Mitglieder zu Fediverse-Medien durch
🔺 Veranlasst die Euch nahe stehenden Politiker:innen, diese Schritte auch in Ämtern und #Behörden umzusetzen*

Mit solchen konkreten Schritten würden wir der skizzierten Vision in großen Schritten näher kommen.

*https://mastodon-listen.playground.54gradsoftware.de/staedte-und-gemeinden-DE

#OSWA

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

Oh, I missed that federated.press shut down. That was a place for journalism in the #Fediverse and there were multiple accounts for my @MediaOnMastodon on there. They are mostly gone now, it seems.

Does that mean, that my list of official (!) and verified (!) accounts of #media organizations on #Mastodon has begun to shrink? 😔

If you have some, that @MediaOnMastodon is not following, please give me a hint. And please share this.

Very interesting preprint by @pettertornberg comparing the language indicators for content sharing on different social media platforms. On Mastodon (not sure how much content from the wider Fediverse was included), reasoning and nuance were most strongly associated with boosting. On X, insult, identity attack, and toxicity are rewarded instead. Bluesky doesn't seem to have particularly strong language indicators for sharing content.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04220

#fediverse #mastodon

Very interesting preprint by @pettertornberg comparing the language indicators for content sharing on different social media platforms. On Mastodon (not sure how much content from the wider Fediverse was included), reasoning and nuance were most strongly associated with boosting. On X, insult, identity attack, and toxicity are rewarded instead. Bluesky doesn't seem to have particularly strong language indicators for sharing content.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04220

#fediverse #mastodon

¿A dónde va un reporte cuando lo envías en Mastodon?

A las personas que moderan esa instancia, con herramientas concretas para decidir qué hacer.

Hemos preparado una guía sobre qué ve un admin, cómo funcionan los reportes, qué acciones existen y por qué la moderación siempre es local.

https://tuiter.ovh/moderacion-en-mastodon/

#Mastodon #Fediverso #Moderación

OK, I’m signing off for my holiday 🇮🇹🇫🇷, but here’s an early beta version of my #mastodon MacOS client `Maxtodon`.
It's still a bit rough around the edges, but it’s already useful.

Some pro features are already available for testing licensing via amore.computer – you can change the price. :) Licences will persist.

Download and test it here:

https://cdn.amore.computer/releases/com.ricobeck.Macstodon/1.0-744/Macstodon.dmg

Boosts, favs, and feedback welcome.

#mastodon #macos #indydev

ClimateJustice.social is a Mastodon server for climate justice activists and those concerned about global warming and the current environmental crisis.

This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters.

https://climatejustice.social

You can find out more at https://climatejustice.social/about or contact the admin account @PaulaToThePeople

#FeaturedServer #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Environment #ClimateJustice #Green #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

ClimateJustice.social is a Mastodon server for climate justice activists and those concerned about global warming and the current environmental crisis.

This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters.

https://climatejustice.social

You can find out more at https://climatejustice.social/about or contact the admin account @PaulaToThePeople

#FeaturedServer #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Environment #ClimateJustice #Green #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

OK, I’m signing off for my holiday 🇮🇹🇫🇷, but here’s an early beta version of my #mastodon MacOS client `Maxtodon`.
It's still a bit rough around the edges, but it’s already useful.

Some pro features are already available for testing licensing via amore.computer – you can change the price. :) Licences will persist.

Download and test it here:

https://cdn.amore.computer/releases/com.ricobeck.Macstodon/1.0-744/Macstodon.dmg

Boosts, favs, and feedback welcome.

#mastodon #macos #indydev

@scott if anyone has advice on how to get a new server off the ground, I'm all ears! Article links especially appreciated

#fediverse #fediadmin #mastodon

@scott if anyone has advice on how to get a new server off the ground, I'm all ears! Article links especially appreciated

#fediverse #fediadmin #mastodon

@scott if anyone has advice on how to get a new server off the ground, I'm all ears! Article links especially appreciated

#fediverse #fediadmin #mastodon

OK, I’m signing off for my holiday 🇮🇹🇫🇷, but here’s an early beta version of my #mastodon MacOS client `Maxtodon`.
It's still a bit rough around the edges, but it’s already useful.

Some pro features are already available for testing licensing via amore.computer – you can change the price. :) Licences will persist.

Download and test it here:

https://cdn.amore.computer/releases/com.ricobeck.Macstodon/1.0-744/Macstodon.dmg

Boosts, favs, and feedback welcome.

#mastodon #macos #indydev

Implementing your own #Fediverse #ActivityPub server sounds like a good idea until you see the mush of half-implemented protocols that #Mastodon actually is. #ActivityStreams Link type? Profile? Tombstone? Whomst?

Why is there a webfinger endpoint? I don't want skeletal twinks fingering my web!?

And also an RSA key pair? Publicly being this embarrassing should be proof enough, nobody would dare pretend to be *this*!

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

Hey folks! Remember I was asking what kind of merch you'd buy for #Mastodon's 10 years anniversary? It's here now! Hoodies and t-shirts made from organic, certified cotton, screen printed with a cute unique design in 5 vibrant colors. This is limited edition stuff, 100 units each, never happening again. Note: There are women's cut t-shirts this time.

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/collections/10th-anniversary-of-mastodon

#Merchtodon

The boost and fav numbers also aren't the same on every mastodon instance. I noticed every instance updates at different points, so while I currently see 250 boosts, 6 quotes (before my quote boosting), and 179 favs on my end, it could be a different number on another instance, higher or lower.

Same goes for posts with 0 boosts and favs. It may look like 0, on this instance but on another it could be like 5, 10, 50, 100.

#mastodon

だと、投稿の最後の行にまとめてハッシュタグ書いておくと、本文の文章とは別のラベルっぽい見た目にしてくれたりするよね（こういう風に

#Mastodon #fediverse #hashtags

🎉 ForkMesh just reached 100 followers on Mastodon!

Thank you to everyone who’s followed, shared feedback, tested the project, and helped spread the word.

We’re building a federated, local-first Git forge — and it’s exciting to see the community growing.

Onward to the next 100. 🚀

#ForkMesh #Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenSource #git

🎉 ForkMesh just reached 100 followers on Mastodon!

Thank you to everyone who’s followed, shared feedback, tested the project, and helped spread the word.

We’re building a federated, local-first Git forge — and it’s exciting to see the community growing.

Onward to the next 100. 🚀

#ForkMesh #Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenSource #git

To clarify moderation on #HolosSocial. A relay moderates like #Mastodon: it blocks accounts and stops their content from spreading.
On Mastodon, a ban cuts the account off from followers, follows, and messages. On Holos, keys and data stay on the device, so no relay can lock it in.
Without a custom domain, a move to a new handle stays possible. With one, the identity is portable and can point to another relay. Owners keep everything, and reporters stay protected, as their relay blocks it.

To clarify moderation on #HolosSocial. A relay moderates like #Mastodon: it blocks accounts and stops their content from spreading.
On Mastodon, a ban cuts the account off from followers, follows, and messages. On Holos, keys and data stay on the device, so no relay can lock it in.
Without a custom domain, a move to a new handle stays possible. With one, the identity is portable and can point to another relay. Owners keep everything, and reporters stay protected, as their relay blocks it.

If you've participated or been tagged in a discussion thread but you don't want to take part or receive notifications about it any more, you can remove yourself from the discussion by using the "mute conversation" feature:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/muting-conversation-threads-in-mastodon

After you've done this, you won't get any more notifications about the thread.

Note that you need to go to your *notifications* to find the option to mute the conversation. This option may not be available in the thread itself.

#FediTips #Mastodon

Are you writing a website link in your Mastodon post or profile? If so, remember to include https:// at the beginning so that people can click it!

example.com is written without https:// at the beginning and is just a piece of unclickable text.

https://example.com is written with https:// at the beginning and can be clicked to open its website.

#FediTips #Mastodon

Are you writing a website link in your Mastodon post or profile? If so, remember to include https:// at the beginning so that people can click it!

example.com is written without https:// at the beginning and is just a piece of unclickable text.

https://example.com is written with https:// at the beginning and can be clicked to open its website.

#FediTips #Mastodon

Are you writing a website link in your Mastodon post or profile? If so, remember to include https:// at the beginning so that people can click it!

example.com is written without https:// at the beginning and is just a piece of unclickable text.

https://example.com is written with https:// at the beginning and can be clicked to open its website.

#FediTips #Mastodon

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

What do you usually call it?

#EvanPoll #poll #ActivityPubNetwork #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenSocialWeb #Mastodon

What do you usually call it?

#EvanPoll #poll #ActivityPubNetwork #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenSocialWeb #Mastodon

Trying to tidy up my timeline on #mastodon and moving accounts into lists and muting them in main timeline, but can't seem to find this feature in @pachli (which is a great app overall, good work @nikclayton).

In Mastodon on web the feature is called something like 'hide from timeline'. Muting seems to hide accounts from both main and lists timelines.

Flipping.rocks is a Mastodon server for people who appreciate arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, fungi etc and who are open to helping other people appreciate them.

This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters.

https://flipping.rocks

You can find out more at https://flipping.rocks/about or contact the admin account @a

#FeaturedServer #Arthropods #Amphibians #Reptiles #Fungi #Nature #HometownMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Flipping.rocks is a Mastodon server for people who appreciate arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, fungi etc and who are open to helping other people appreciate them.

This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters.

https://flipping.rocks

You can find out more at https://flipping.rocks/about or contact the admin account @a

#FeaturedServer #Arthropods #Amphibians #Reptiles #Fungi #Nature #HometownMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

There are many ways to use Mastodon through a desktop or laptop computer, including the official web interfaces, third party web interfaces and desktop apps. Here's a list:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/desktop-apps-for-mastodon

Let me know if I'm missing something!

#FediTips #Mastodon

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

The open web is growing.

Communities around Mastodon, the Fediverse and ActivityPub are showing that we don’t have to depend entirely on closed platforms.

What if we take one more step?

Publish important messages on your own website first. Then share them everywhere else.

That’s the idea behind Method M.

https://method-m.eu/M/

#MethodM #Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #OpenWeb

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

The open web is growing.

Communities around Mastodon, the Fediverse and ActivityPub are showing that we don’t have to depend entirely on closed platforms.

What if we take one more step?

Publish important messages on your own website first. Then share them everywhere else.

That’s the idea behind Method M.

https://method-m.eu/M/

#MethodM #Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #OpenWeb

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

#Mastodon's #ActivityPub inbox treats object types in tiers. Note and Question are supported directly. A second tier, Article, Page, Image, Audio, Video, and Event, gets converted to a title, a summary, and a link; content itself doesn't show. Anything outside both tiers is dropped on delivery, which is a large part of why so much of the fediverse federates as Note regardless of what the object actually is.

mastodon/mastodon#24079 asks for content to show up whenever it's present and the mediaType is supported, independent of type. Open since 2023, and as far as the thread shows, no core team engagement beyond one offhand remark that they're not happy with the status quo either.

Reading the issue text closely, it's a bit ambiguous whether it covers the drop tier or only the convert-to-title-and-link tier. I left a comment asking for clarification, since the fix looks very different depending on the answer.

If you build on ActivityPub, a comment or a reaction there is worth more than another workaround.

#fedidev #fediverse

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

Can anyone recommend some relatively affordable managed #Mastodon hosting?

We've been with the absolutely fantastic Masto.host since starting Writing.Exchange in 2017, but it's become prohibitively expensive -- especially for a community of only ~250 active users, as our hosting costs are about to increase another $50 to $589/month this month.

#MastoAdmin #WritingExchange

@matt @beasts have a reputation for reliability and great support, they offer managed #Mastodon hosting:

https://www.mythic-beasts.com/apps/mastodon

Can anyone recommend some relatively affordable managed #Mastodon hosting?

We've been with the absolutely fantastic Masto.host since starting Writing.Exchange in 2017, but it's become prohibitively expensive -- especially for a community of only ~250 active users, as our hosting costs are about to increase another $50 to $589/month this month.

#MastoAdmin #WritingExchange

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

My essentially single-user Mastodon server is becoming more expensive to run on @mastohost without doing some cleanup. My problem is that I don’t actually know how/what to clean up.

Early on I used relays to improve federation; I think there’s a TON of data in the db from that which could just be purged, but I don’t want to accidentally lose any user data. A couple of years ago we did run `tootctl statuses remove` but I might have still had a relay enabled more recently.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

@matt @beasts have a reputation for reliability and great support, they offer managed #Mastodon hosting:

https://www.mythic-beasts.com/apps/mastodon

Can anyone recommend some relatively affordable managed #Mastodon hosting?

We've been with the absolutely fantastic Masto.host since starting Writing.Exchange in 2017, but it's become prohibitively expensive -- especially for a community of only ~250 active users, as our hosting costs are about to increase another $50 to $589/month this month.

#MastoAdmin #WritingExchange

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

So, I got this question some days ago and I can only guess: Why is there almost no content on #Mastodon/ in the #Fediverse about the #WorldCup?

Yes, I know, that we're supposed to boycott etc. But that's clearly no majority opinion out there. Is there really no interest here?
Is it because of something technical? Like no proper live debate because you won't see all posts?
Or does (almost) no one post about football here, because of negative replies? What do you think?

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

My plan so far:

• Download a backup

• Have @mastohost run `tootctl statuses remove` again to see if that improves things

20 GB for my dumb little fediverse account just seems… wrong.

Any other pointers? Should I give up and just migrate to an instance run by someone else? Should I try actually self-hosting Mastodon?? Help.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

My essentially single-user Mastodon server is becoming more expensive to run on @mastohost without doing some cleanup. My problem is that I don’t actually know how/what to clean up.

Early on I used relays to improve federation; I think there’s a TON of data in the db from that which could just be purged, but I don’t want to accidentally lose any user data. A couple of years ago we did run `tootctl statuses remove` but I might have still had a relay enabled more recently.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon

There are really important reasons why the Fediverse (including Mastodon) is spread out on thousands of fully independent servers:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers

There are also really important reasons why servers don't store every post from every other server:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/why-arent-all-mastodon-and-fediverse-posts-and-accounts-automatically-visible-from-all-servers

The weird quirks of the Fediverse (including Mastodon) are designed this way specifically to keep the network under the control of ordinary people and grassroots communities.

#FediTips #Fediverse #Mastodon

The Mastodon mascot, 3d printed!

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mastodon_mascot_vector_version.svg

#3dprinting #mastodon #mascot

Something I probably should've done a while ago, but I finally set up two-factor authentication on my Mastodon account.

The process was super smooth and it works perfectly. Highly recommend!

https://fedi.tips/using-two-factor-authentication-2fa-on-mastodon/

#mastodon #fediverse #2FA #TwoFactorAuthentication #security #OnlineSecurity

WOW decentralized and ENCRYPTED social media over #chatmail this is such an epic prototype!

the fun part is that by using chatmail:

- DMs are already end-to-end encrypted
- your identity is your encryption key and doesn't depend on a single home server
- your profile is basically uncensorable

since you need to give people your invite link it is kind of like private social network

https://github.com/lambadalambda/deltanet/

#ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #chatmail #socialmedia #fediverse #mastodon #encryption #e2ee

Our testing version is live! 🎊

Link: https://omicron.blog/

#fediverse #activityPub #blogging #blog #omicron #mastodon

📢 Einladung zur Fediverse-Sprechstunde

📅 Montag, 20.07.2026
🕢 19:30 Uhr

🌐 Fediverse – wie sich alles zusammen nutzen lässt

Das Fediverse besteht aus vielen verschiedenen Anwendungen wie Friendica, Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube oder BookWyrm. Oft entsteht dabei der Eindruck, man müsse überall einen eigenen Account anlegen.

Doch genau das ist einer der größten Irrtümer.

Im Fediverse sind die verschiedenen Dienste miteinander verbunden. In vielen Fällen genügt bereits ein einziger Account, um Menschen auf anderen Plattformen zu folgen, Beiträge zu lesen und miteinander zu kommunizieren. Zusätzliche Accounts sind nur dann sinnvoll, wenn man die besonderen Funktionen einer bestimmten Anwendung gezielt nutzen möchte.

An diesem Abend möchten wir zeigen, wie dieses Zusammenspiel in der Praxis funktioniert.

Unser Gast Friedhelm @catmanfriedhelm betreibt die Katzen-Webseite gandalfgarfield.de und nutzt das Fediverse , um sein umfangreiches Wissen rund um Katzen zu veröffentlichen und mit anderen zu teilen. Dabei verwendet er unter anderem Friendica, Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube und BookWyrm – immer dort, wo die jeweilige Anwendung ihre besonderen Stärken ausspielen kann.

Friedhelm wird anhand seines eigenen Projekts zeigen,
🐾 wie sich eine klassische Webseite und das Fediverse sinnvoll ergänzen,
🐾 welche Vorteile die verschiedenen Anwendungen bieten und
🐾 wie Inhalte im Fediverse eine größere Reichweite erhalten können.

Natürlich bleibt wie immer genügend Zeit für Fragen, Erfahrungen und einen offenen Austausch.

📍 Online per BigBlueButton
Den Zugangslink stellen wir wie gewohnt rechtzeitig zur Verfügung.

Egal, ob ihr gerade eure ersten Schritte im Fediverse macht oder bereits erfahrene Nutzerinnen und Nutzer seid – ihr seid herzlich eingeladen!

Wir freuen uns auf einen interessanten Abend mit euch.
Bitte gern teilen und weitersagen.

#Fediverse #Friendica #Mastodon #PixelFed #PeerTube #BookWyrm #OpenSource #OpenSocialWeb

📢 Einladung zur Fediverse-Sprechstunde

📅 Montag, 20.07.2026
🕢 19:30 Uhr

🌐 Fediverse – wie sich alles zusammen nutzen lässt

Das Fediverse besteht aus vielen verschiedenen Anwendungen wie Friendica, Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube oder BookWyrm. Oft entsteht dabei der Eindruck, man müsse überall einen eigenen Account anlegen.

Doch genau das ist einer der größten Irrtümer.

Im Fediverse sind die verschiedenen Dienste miteinander verbunden. In vielen Fällen genügt bereits ein einziger Account, um Menschen auf anderen Plattformen zu folgen, Beiträge zu lesen und miteinander zu kommunizieren. Zusätzliche Accounts sind nur dann sinnvoll, wenn man die besonderen Funktionen einer bestimmten Anwendung gezielt nutzen möchte.

An diesem Abend möchten wir zeigen, wie dieses Zusammenspiel in der Praxis funktioniert.

Unser Gast Friedhelm @catmanfriedhelm betreibt die Katzen-Webseite gandalfgarfield.de und nutzt das Fediverse , um sein umfangreiches Wissen rund um Katzen zu veröffentlichen und mit anderen zu teilen. Dabei verwendet er unter anderem Friendica, Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube und BookWyrm – immer dort, wo die jeweilige Anwendung ihre besonderen Stärken ausspielen kann.

Friedhelm wird anhand seines eigenen Projekts zeigen,
🐾 wie sich eine klassische Webseite und das Fediverse sinnvoll ergänzen,
🐾 welche Vorteile die verschiedenen Anwendungen bieten und
🐾 wie Inhalte im Fediverse eine größere Reichweite erhalten können.

Natürlich bleibt wie immer genügend Zeit für Fragen, Erfahrungen und einen offenen Austausch.

📍 Online per BigBlueButton
Den Zugangslink stellen wir wie gewohnt rechtzeitig zur Verfügung.

Egal, ob ihr gerade eure ersten Schritte im Fediverse macht oder bereits erfahrene Nutzerinnen und Nutzer seid – ihr seid herzlich eingeladen!

Wir freuen uns auf einen interessanten Abend mit euch.
Bitte gern teilen und weitersagen.

#Fediverse #Friendica #Mastodon #PixelFed #PeerTube #BookWyrm #OpenSource #OpenSocialWeb

I think its time to rebuild my mastodon instance to a container-based one. Its currently on Yunohost and its been getting flakier and more unstable with each update. Now I cant even update to the latest mastodon version - it just errors.

#mastodon #yunohost #selfhosted

Building this around ego-graphs (subgraphs of the real underlying social network, centred around one user) allows for a much simpler (and more decentralised) model than protocols like #ActivityPub, #Matrix etc, that need to reconcile multiple participants having equal rights on a discussion space…

The trade-off, is that it does not scale very well: these ego-graphs must remain at a manageable size (~10-15k people).

… which is a feature, not a bug™

#mastodon #telegram #signal #graphs

3/ 🧵

Unrefined #Fediverse / #Mastodon idea: have a platform (with at least one instance managed by a trustable structure) to host all accounts from recently shut-down servers. Read only, likely no posts, just backups of profile data.

1. Enable users (authentified with their email?) to download their following/followers/etc data even after their server closed.

1/2

Building this around ego-graphs (subgraphs of the real underlying social network, centred around one user) allows for a much simpler (and more decentralised) model than protocols like #ActivityPub, #Matrix etc, that need to reconcile multiple participants having equal rights on a discussion space…

The trade-off, is that it does not scale very well: these ego-graphs must remain at a manageable size (~10-15k people).

… which is a feature, not a bug™

#mastodon #telegram #signal #graphs

3/ 🧵

Unrefined #Fediverse / #Mastodon idea: have a platform (with at least one instance managed by a trustable structure) to host all accounts from recently shut-down servers. Read only, likely no posts, just backups of profile data.

1. Enable users (authentified with their email?) to download their following/followers/etc data even after their server closed.

1/2

Unrefined #Fediverse / #Mastodon idea: have a platform (with at least one instance managed by a trustable structure) to host all accounts from recently shut-down servers. Read only, likely no posts, just backups of profile data.

1. Enable users (authentified with their email?) to download their following/followers/etc data even after their server closed.

1/2

#Bluesky とか #Threads には日常を投稿せずに宣伝っぽいものだけ投稿するのめっちゃわかる（そしてわたしは日常は #Mastodon とか #Fediverse ⁂ とかにつぶやいている）し、 #X やってられないのもめっちゃわかる

#Bluesky とか #Threads には日常を投稿せずに宣伝っぽいものだけ投稿するのめっちゃわかる（そしてわたしは日常は #Mastodon とか #Fediverse ⁂ とかにつぶやいている）し、 #X やってられないのもめっちゃわかる

Our testing version is live! 🎊

Link: https://omicron.blog/

#fediverse #activityPub #blogging #blog #omicron #mastodon

Curious what kind of luck people have had running a single-user, self-hosted @gotosocial instance instead of joining a larger shared node.

With relays in GotoSocial, my feed is great—I can discover pretty much everything I care about. My bigger question is the *other* direction. I've heard some instances de-prioritize or outright limit federation from low-volume, self-hosted, or otherwise unknown nodes.

If you're mostly consuming content, I imagine it's a non-issue. But if you actually want to participate in conversations, are you giving up reliable interaction by running your own tiny instance?

Curious to hear real-world experiences. #Mastodon #Fediverse #SelfHosting #GoToSocial

Our testing version is live! 🎊

Link: https://omicron.blog/

#fediverse #activityPub #blogging #blog #omicron #mastodon

In the #Fediverse there are now
717 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
573 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@Esquireitalia2
@Stern_Digital
@RobbReport
@euronewsfr
@BritishGQ

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

I'm thinking it would be nice to have an option to create a list from a #mastodon collection and vica versa

You don't have to use the official Mastodon app if you don't want to!

Mastodon is an open platform and there are lots of different apps and web interfaces which you can use. I've tried to do a guide to all the different options here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/which-apps-can-i-use-should-i-use-the-official-app-or-a-third-party-app

You can even use your account on multiple apps and interfaces simultaneously, which is a good way of comparing their features.

#FediTips #Mastodon

Retro.pizza is a nerd culture Mastodon server where we strive to uphold the values of the fictional heroes we admire: to value diversity like the X-Men, to be as kind as the Doctor, to defend the weak like Optimus Prime and fight against fascism like Princess Leia.

This server has a post size of up to 1024 characters.

https://retro.pizza

You can find out more at https://retro.pizza/about or contact the admin account @trixter

#FeaturedServer #Nerds #SciFi #Mastodon #Fediverse

Retro.pizza is a nerd culture Mastodon server where we strive to uphold the values of the fictional heroes we admire: to value diversity like the X-Men, to be as kind as the Doctor, to defend the weak like Optimus Prime and fight against fascism like Princess Leia.

This server has a post size of up to 1024 characters.

https://retro.pizza

You can find out more at https://retro.pizza/about or contact the admin account @trixter

#FeaturedServer #Nerds #SciFi #Mastodon #Fediverse

If you're heading to @dweb Camp this week, it shouldn't be hard to find @michael just follow the neon glow 🙌

If that isn't enough, put on your brightest clothes and head over to his talk on Thursday at 12pm CET - "Black Holes & Day-Glo Symphonies: Onboarding Communities to the Social Web" 🕺

The entire Newsmast team will be wishing we were there to take part, it's going to be a good one!!

#DWebCamp26 #Berlin #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #DWebCamp

If you're heading to @dweb Camp this week, it shouldn't be hard to find @michael just follow the neon glow 🙌

If that isn't enough, put on your brightest clothes and head over to his talk on Thursday at 12pm CET - "Black Holes & Day-Glo Symphonies: Onboarding Communities to the Social Web" 🕺

The entire Newsmast team will be wishing we were there to take part, it's going to be a good one!!

#DWebCamp26 #Berlin #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #DWebCamp

einen Schritt zurück

Viele Jahre habe ich meine Internetprojekte vorrangig über #WordPress abgewickelt. Das ist auch ziemlich easy und es gibt viele Plugins und Themes etc.

Mit der Zeit wurde das System aber immer mächtiger und komplexer und das bringt auch die Gefahr der Sicherheitslücken und der Notwendigkeit regelmäßiger (manueller) Updates mit sich.

Bei einigen Projekten habe ich jetzt begonnen, einen Schritt zurück zu gehen.
Inhalte vor Design und Technik. Es braucht nicht immer das mächtige Werkzeug WordPress, um eine letztlich eher statische Seite ins Netz zu bringen.
Selbes bei meinem Blog, den ich bisher via #ActivityPub ins Fediverse gebracht habe. Warum nicht gleich den Blog mit längeren Texten im Fediverse schreiben. Jetzt versuche ich das privat also mal mit meiner eigenen #Friendica-Instanz bei #weingaertner-it. Ich spare mir einfach den Umweg über eine extra BlogSeite und somit auch die Wartung.

Für den alltäglichen Kram nutze ich weiter mein Profil bei #Mastodon @herrjemineh

Meine alten WordPress-Beiträge habe ich übrigens erstmal weiterhin online als Archiv - statisch und ohne Wartungsaufwand: archiv.herr-jemineh.org/

おそらく80〜90年代頃に作られた、カガミクリスタルのガラス皿によく似合う水わらび餅

黒蜜にきなこもいいけれど、ほろ苦な抹茶蜜も格別でした

#mastodon
#fedibird
#japanesefood

私の買ってよかったキッチンツール、オールタイムベスト殿堂入りのかもしか道具店の溝のないすりバチとスリランカの石のすりこぎ

重さのある石のすりこぎで軽い力でも短時間でごまやスパイスを潰すことができるし、溝のないすり鉢なので後始末もめちゃくちゃ簡単

使うたびに「買ってよかったなあ」と思える、お気に入りのキッチンツールです

#mastodon
#fedibird
#マストドン料理部

おそらく80〜90年代頃に作られた、カガミクリスタルのガラス皿によく似合う水わらび餅

黒蜜にきなこもいいけれど、ほろ苦な抹茶蜜も格別でした

#mastodon
#fedibird
#japanesefood

きゅっとした拳にご注目ください

#mastodon
#fedibird
#cat
#ねこ

きゅっとした拳にご注目ください

#mastodon
#fedibird
#cat
#ねこ

WOW decentralized and ENCRYPTED social media over #chatmail this is such an epic prototype!

the fun part is that by using chatmail:

- DMs are already end-to-end encrypted
- your identity is your encryption key and doesn't depend on a single home server
- your profile is basically uncensorable

since you need to give people your invite link it is kind of like private social network

https://github.com/lambadalambda/deltanet/

#ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #chatmail #socialmedia #fediverse #mastodon #encryption #e2ee

I'm thinking it would be nice to have an option to create a list from a #mastodon collection and vica versa

I’m patterning management of #mastodon collections similar to how I manage lists, from a profile you can add/remove the account from existing collections and create new collections to add to

Now in the Reader: Bluesky, Mastodon, and the Fediverse https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/05/28/reader-social-bluesky-mastodon-fediverse/ #Bluesky, #Fediverse, #Mastodon, #Reader, #Social

I’m patterning management of #mastodon collections similar to how I manage lists, from a profile you can add/remove the account from existing collections and create new collections to add to

I’m patterning management of #mastodon collections similar to how I manage lists, from a profile you can add/remove the account from existing collections and create new collections to add to

WOW decentralized and ENCRYPTED social media over #chatmail this is such an epic prototype!

the fun part is that by using chatmail:

- DMs are already end-to-end encrypted
- your identity is your encryption key and doesn't depend on a single home server
- your profile is basically uncensorable

since you need to give people your invite link it is kind of like private social network

https://github.com/lambadalambda/deltanet/

#ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #chatmail #socialmedia #fediverse #mastodon #encryption #e2ee

How many storms did it survive? How many birds found shelter in its branches? How many forests began from its seeds? An old tree is a lifetime of giving. Let's be the generation that protects, not destroys, our natural heritage.
#trees #biodiversity #environment #ecology #ecosystem #forestry #nature #ClimateAction #photography #fediverse #linux #mastodon #agroforestry #afforestation #Reaforestation #deforestation #Greenyouthmovement #wildlife #EcoConservation
https://gofund.me/8da0ff4a0

How many storms did it survive? How many birds found shelter in its branches? How many forests began from its seeds? An old tree is a lifetime of giving. Let's be the generation that protects, not destroys, our natural heritage.
#trees #biodiversity #environment #ecology #ecosystem #forestry #nature #ClimateAction #photography #fediverse #linux #mastodon #agroforestry #afforestation #Reaforestation #deforestation #Greenyouthmovement #wildlife #EcoConservation
https://gofund.me/8da0ff4a0

Über Monate habe ich gehofft, dass irgend ein Update die #Mastodon App #Pachli wieder repariert. Leider vergebens. Auch Neuinstallationen halfen nicht. So habe ich jetzt eingesehen, dass #Android9 nicht mehr kompatibel damit ist und sie deinstalliert. Schade, aber nützt nichts. Bei einem neuen Gerät kommt sie wieder zum Einsatz.

I discovered the query for #mastodon collections containing an account only works for your account, so moved it to My->Featured. You can tap on the collection owner for the profile and on the collection snippet to go directly to the full collection list

I discovered the query for #mastodon collections containing an account only works for your account, so moved it to My->Featured. You can tap on the collection owner for the profile and on the collection snippet to go directly to the full collection list

The Speakeasy at Bardic Perspiration is a close-knit Mastodon server for misfits, rogues, and activists who all share a desire to make this and every world a better place.

This server has a post size of up to 1496 characters.

https://bardicperspiration.club

You can find out more at https://bardicperspiration.club/about or contact the admin account @Overgoddess

#FeaturedServer #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

The Speakeasy at Bardic Perspiration is a close-knit Mastodon server for misfits, rogues, and activists who all share a desire to make this and every world a better place.

This server has a post size of up to 1496 characters.

https://bardicperspiration.club

You can find out more at https://bardicperspiration.club/about or contact the admin account @Overgoddess

#FeaturedServer #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Periodic reminder to boost the posts you like to keep the Fediverse alive.

WE are the algorithm here

#Mastodon

見返り美にゃん

#mastodon
#fedibird
#cat
#ねこ

見返り美にゃん

#mastodon
#fedibird
#cat
#ねこ

You can optionally restrict and screen who follows you in Mastodon by activating the follow request system. Here's a guide about how to do this:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/restricting-who-can-follow-you-in-mastodon

The guide also answers lots of questions about follow requests. If I've missed your question, post it in the replies 🙂

You can also combine follow requests with the followers-only post visibility setting to lock down your account completely, more info at https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon

#FediTips #Mastodon

You can optionally restrict and screen who follows you in Mastodon by activating the follow request system. Here's a guide about how to do this:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/restricting-who-can-follow-you-in-mastodon

The guide also answers lots of questions about follow requests. If I've missed your question, post it in the replies 🙂

You can also combine follow requests with the followers-only post visibility setting to lock down your account completely, more info at https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon

#FediTips #Mastodon

Burningboard.net is a Mastodon server for nerds and fans of technology. It's a continuation of a bulletin board which began in 2002. The main languages are English and German.

This server has a post size of up to 1000 characters and up to 8 poll options.

https://burningboard.net

You can find out more at https://burningboard.net/about or contact the admin account @Larvitz

#FeaturedServer #Tech #Technology #Nerds #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

I'm thinking it would be nice to have an option to create a list from a #mastodon collection and vica versa

Burningboard.net is a Mastodon server for nerds and fans of technology. It's a continuation of a bulletin board which began in 2002. The main languages are English and German.

This server has a post size of up to 1000 characters and up to 8 poll options.

https://burningboard.net

You can find out more at https://burningboard.net/about or contact the admin account @Larvitz

#FeaturedServer #Tech #Technology #Nerds #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

If you want to try @rolle`s #MastodonBirdUI theme along with the "for you" feed algorithm, here is a guide how to run it locally in containers. The setup is suitable for testing and developing. Have fun!

Of course you can also use other version images if you just want to try out podman.

https://help.mementomori.social/try-birdui-containers/podman

#podman #mastodon #containers

If you want to try @rolle`s #MastodonBirdUI theme along with the "for you" feed algorithm, here is a guide how to run it locally in containers. The setup is suitable for testing and developing. Have fun!

Of course you can also use other version images if you just want to try out podman.

https://help.mementomori.social/try-birdui-containers/podman

#podman #mastodon #containers

私の買ってよかったキッチンツール、オールタイムベスト殿堂入りのかもしか道具店の溝のないすりバチとスリランカの石のすりこぎ

重さのある石のすりこぎで軽い力でも短時間でごまやスパイスを潰すことができるし、溝のないすり鉢なので後始末もめちゃくちゃ簡単

使うたびに「買ってよかったなあ」と思える、お気に入りのキッチンツールです

#mastodon
#fedibird
#マストドン料理部

ForkMesh was registered 06/14 — just 3 weeks ago — and we’re already building in public: local-first distributed Git hosting, community mirrors, signed issues/patch PRs, encrypted repo rooms, and resilience beyond any single platform.

We think we’ve found our home on Mastodon. Thanks for helping shape it 💜

#ForkMesh #Mastodon #Fediverse #BuildInPublic #OpenSource #FOSS #Git #GitHosting #DistributedGit #LocalFirst #P2P #SelfHosting #DevTools #IndieDev #DigitalIndependence #DecentralizedWeb

七夕も近いため、今日は鶴屋吉信の星逢いでおやつの時間

白あんベースの塩羊羹に薄暮の空に星々が散っているような琥珀羹を重ねた美しい意匠のこちらは、甘すぎず上品な味わい

水出しの深蒸し緑茶との相性もぴったりでした

#mastodon
#fedibird
#japanesefood

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

#fediverse #mastodon #instance

七夕も近いため、今日は鶴屋吉信の星逢いでおやつの時間

白あんベースの塩羊羹に薄暮の空に星々が散っているような琥珀羹を重ねた美しい意匠のこちらは、甘すぎず上品な味わい

水出しの深蒸し緑茶との相性もぴったりでした

#mastodon
#fedibird
#japanesefood

ForkMesh was registered 06/14 — just 3 weeks ago — and we’re already building in public: local-first distributed Git hosting, community mirrors, signed issues/patch PRs, encrypted repo rooms, and resilience beyond any single platform.

We think we’ve found our home on Mastodon. Thanks for helping shape it 💜

#ForkMesh #Mastodon #Fediverse #BuildInPublic #OpenSource #FOSS #Git #GitHosting #DistributedGit #LocalFirst #P2P #SelfHosting #DevTools #IndieDev #DigitalIndependence #DecentralizedWeb

Welcome to #mastodon v4.4.19

adding quick access to feeds in #mastodon collections

adding quick access to feeds in #mastodon collections

Welcome to #mastodon v4.4.19

Let's see what platforms are responding to this year's Social Web survey, the annual questionnaire to see how #FediAdmin and #FediMod folks are doing:

#Mastodon 54
#Matrix 17
#PeerTube 15
#WordPress 10
#Pixelfed 9
#ATProto platform 8
#Lemmy 8
#Pleroma 8
#Bookwyrm 6
#GoToSocial 5
#Bonfire 4
#Gancio 4
#Sharkey 4
#Writefreely 4
#Akkoma 3
#Friendica 3
#Ghost 3
#Mobilizon 3
#Nostr platform 3
#Funkwhale 2
#Hometown 2
#Misskey 2
#NodeBB 2
#Hubzilla 1

It's also really hard to add alt text when I can't actually see the image. #Mastodon ...

@res260

"Post pending" on your quote post.

I think perhaps I know the article you want to refer to, and I'm able to quote it. But this makes me wonder about the quote post functionality in general. If you don't get the approval, then your post is meaningless to others, as there is no context.

Before quote posting existed you could share a link to someone's public toot, and clicking it would open it in a new browser tab. Perhaps the consent mechanism is okay as-is, dunno, but it is a bit weird that you can freely share an URL to someone's public blog post, but not to someone's public fediverse post because it is seen by default as an attempt to inline the post with yours.

https://hackers.pub/@fedify/2026/why-activitypub-is-hard

#ActivityPub #Mastodon #Fedify

Let's see what platforms are responding to this year's Social Web survey, the annual questionnaire to see how #FediAdmin and #FediMod folks are doing:

#Mastodon 54
#Matrix 17
#PeerTube 15
#WordPress 10
#Pixelfed 9
#ATProto platform 8
#Lemmy 8
#Pleroma 8
#Bookwyrm 6
#GoToSocial 5
#Bonfire 4
#Gancio 4
#Sharkey 4
#Writefreely 4
#Akkoma 3
#Friendica 3
#Ghost 3
#Mobilizon 3
#Nostr platform 3
#Funkwhale 2
#Hometown 2
#Misskey 2
#NodeBB 2
#Hubzilla 1

Let's see what platforms are responding to this year's Social Web survey, the annual questionnaire to see how #FediAdmin and #FediMod folks are doing:

#Mastodon 54
#Matrix 17
#PeerTube 15
#WordPress 10
#Pixelfed 9
#ATProto platform 8
#Lemmy 8
#Pleroma 8
#Bookwyrm 6
#GoToSocial 5
#Bonfire 4
#Gancio 4
#Sharkey 4
#Writefreely 4
#Akkoma 3
#Friendica 3
#Ghost 3
#Mobilizon 3
#Nostr platform 3
#Funkwhale 2
#Hometown 2
#Misskey 2
#NodeBB 2
#Hubzilla 1

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

#fediverse #mastodon #instance

New Mastodon Release

v4.6.3

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.3

#Mastodon #Mastoadmin

Get it here if you want to try it:

https://github.com/DanielSnor/TangerineUI-Classic-for-Mastodon

#TangerineUI #mastodon #css

Get it here if you want to try it:

https://github.com/DanielSnor/TangerineUI-Classic-for-Mastodon

#TangerineUI #mastodon #css

8 colour variants so far: Tangerine, Purple, Cherry, Lagoon, Granite, Garden, Ocean, and the newest, Bluebird — a nostalgic nod to the old Twitter blue bird, built from the classic #1DA1F2 blue and the old "Dim" dark theme.

Open source, and I still send generic bugfixes upstream to Tangerine Neue when it's a clean fit for both projects.

#TangerineUI #mastodon #css

So: TangerineUI Classic. Same lineage, same respect for the original design work, but deliberately flat — no gratuitous animation, no bouncing icons, no shimmering skeletons.

Fully compatible with Mastodon 4.6, including things that are easy to miss: Collections, the new profile edit screen, image cropping, and a real high-contrast accessibility mode.

#TangerineUI #mastodon #css

Tangerine Neue is actively evolving in its own direction now — motion, "personality" touches, new visual flourishes on top of the base look.

That's a legitimate direction for Matt's project, just not the one I wanted for my own instance: I wanted the calm, flat, no-frills v2.5.x aesthetic to keep working cleanly on the latest Mastodon, without extra visual noise layered on top.

#TangerineUI #mastodon #css

A thread about TangerineUI, the Mastodon theme — its history, and why there's now a "Classic" fork. 🍊🐦

The short version: @nileane created the original TangerineUI for Mastodon. When she stepped back from maintaining it, @matt_birchler picked it up as "Tangerine Neue," carrying it through Mastodon's big 4.6 theming overhaul so it kept working at all.

#TangerineUI #mastodon #css

@staff I really am a supporter of free speech and free expression, but I *really* wish you would ban people posting homosexual pornography on your instance.

Gay pride is not about publishing gay pornography.

And it's especially a real pity because mastodon.social is a big instance and pretty central to the Mastodon corner of the Fediverse.

I really do not want to block your whole instance. But it's a real nuisance trying to Limit those accounts.

If people want to publish pornography of whatever kind, they really should join or create focused instances for that.

Don't we want to cultivate a more "family-friendly" environment that will attract a bigger public?

Uncensored pornography on Free Open Source Software networks is precisely what "Big Tech" points at when they say that only corporate social tools are child-safe. And yet we *know* that it's not the case.

It's already a certain workload moderating a Mastodon instance.

If we don't sandbox pornography, when why don't we allow gore and other offensive content?

I actually did some six weeks of training as a moderator for Meta, so I do have some personal knowledge of the range of content you could be exposed to if nobody moderates anything.

#mastodon #pornography

@mapache

I think we're already invisible to people on #X or #TruthSocial. They don't care about #Mastodon or the #Fediverse. And I don't care about them all. #HATERS!

#StayInvisible

Kind.Social is a general Mastodon server with a broad community – queer, disabled, neurodivergent, crafters, techies, friends of all sorts. Our aim is to foster a genuinely enjoyable shared social experience.

This server has been online since 2018.

https://kind.social

You can find out more at https://kind.social/about or contact the admin account @Texan_Reverend

#FeaturedServer #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Kind.Social is a general Mastodon server with a broad community – queer, disabled, neurodivergent, crafters, techies, friends of all sorts. Our aim is to foster a genuinely enjoyable shared social experience.

This server has been online since 2018.

https://kind.social

You can find out more at https://kind.social/about or contact the admin account @Texan_Reverend

#FeaturedServer #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Nice, this update fixes images in email updates being linked to instead of embedded.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116817281859547761

I just updated my server, so if you'd like to try this out, you can sign up for email updates from @southpoleviews.

Hope you'll enjoy, it posts some really amazing views.

#mastodon #MastodonEmails

Nice, this update fixes images in email updates being linked to instead of embedded.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116817281859547761

I just updated my server, so if you'd like to try this out, you can sign up for email updates from @southpoleviews.

Hope you'll enjoy, it posts some really amazing views.

#mastodon #MastodonEmails

New Mastodon Release

v4.6.3

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.3

#Mastodon #Mastoadmin

New Mastodon Release

v4.6.3

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.3

#Mastodon #Mastoadmin

Hey everyone,

@casey and @rania40 had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• ahmadallouh32 (@ahmadallouh32)
• Hamza ak (@hak51156)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

今夜のメインはガンボスープ🫕

ディズニー映画の『プリンセスと魔法のキス』にも登場したこちらは、アメリカ南部のお袋の味

同じくアメリカで考案されたサラダのテキサスキャビアも添えて、たっぷりといただきまーす

#mastodon
#fedibird
#マストドン料理部

今夜のメインはガンボスープ🫕

ディズニー映画の『プリンセスと魔法のキス』にも登場したこちらは、アメリカ南部のお袋の味

同じくアメリカで考案されたサラダのテキサスキャビアも添えて、たっぷりといただきまーす

#mastodon
#fedibird
#マストドン料理部

Hey @lemonde !
Quand vous faites un article sur les "réseaux sociaux Européens", oublier #mastodon, ça frole l'incompétence.
Quant à mentionner positivement W, faites votre travail de journalistes, regardez les investigations d' @_elena