Governments should host their own social platforms 🤷‍♂️

This shows a more clear way for information and also a more trusted source

The only way this can be done fully is with #Fediverse software

Some great examples are the Netherlands and Germany 👏

https://social.overheid.nl
https://social.bund.de

The #Fediverse is perhaps the only #socialMedia that still deserves to be called “social media”.

Because this is perhaps the only remaining social media whose primary function is socializing, not advertising.

Which of these privacy options have you used in the last 30 days?

#EvanPoll #poll #privacy #Fediverse

@mike @evan @kev @tatertot @matthartley @adamsdesk @cmccullough @haubles @Gina @joel @Greylinux @markwyner

Thanks, man! Fosstodon was my first long-term fedi home, and I have many good memories and friendships there!

Glad to know you, Kev, Joel, Gina, and everyone else on Fosstodon, and elsewhere on the wide fediverse.

To me, the #Fediverse is the real Internet we were promised.

Do you like the people on the Fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll #Fediverse

My experience of the #fediverse :

Year 1 (2023):
It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

Year 2 (2024):
I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

Year 3 (2025):
My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

Year 4 (2026):
I'm experimenting with #LoRa off-grid #mesh communication 💁‍♀️

#TIL about #Harmony, a bleeding-edge project to build a decentralised replacement for Miscord using ActivityPub, E2EE using Vodozemac, a cryptography library used in Matrix software;

https://joinharmony.app/

Source code is on GritHub, under AGPL;

https://github.com/zcharef/harmony

Anyone know anything about this? So far I haven't been able to find fediverse accounts for the project itself, or the creator.

#fediverse #ActivityPub #Vodozemac #Matrix

If you can, make sure to edit your original post instead of posting the correction in another post in the thread. I see so many people boost the original post but since it wasn't edited, the edited information is more, often times, lost. Editing isn't a bad thing at all, despite what some #Fediverse users tell you. The way federation works, your correction might not even make it to all the instances. Editing is common on most third party apps too. Editing makes you more trustworthy in my eyes. I love the edit functionality, and I am old enough to remember when Fedi nearly flipped it's shit in a negative way when the feature was first proposed. It's the best feature we have. Use it! #FediTips

#WelcomeToTheFediverse, @Lone!

As you might have learned, the #Fediverse is quite different from corporate #SocialMedia sites.

In particular, there's *no* automatic #algorithm. *People* are the algorithm.

As with moving to a new neighborhood, you need to engage consistently.

The first two steps are to create a relevant #Bio and a pinned #Introduction that you (re)boost every week or so.
Here are some further tips to make this a worthwhile experience here:

Good luck!

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109960697083138864

@PaulaToThePeople

Just came accross this ancient post (3y).
Alas, not much became of this.
#GretaThunberg lasted only 46 posts, a fate shared with many celebs in the #Fediverse, despite her >100k followers here.
@gretathunberg

🌍 We just got back from Dweb Camp, hosted by the Internet Archive in the German forest — and what a gathering.

Alongside @commonsnetwork @goteo_fund and friends across the Fediverse, we presented the Democratic Tech Fund prototype and ran sessions on governance, P2P financing, and community-owned social spaces.

Full report on our site 👇
https://freeknowledge.eu/notes_from_DwebCamp_building_the_DemocraticTech.Fund_with_a_wider_community

#DigitalCommons #Fediverse #DemocraticTech #DTF #DwebCamp #Dweb

Alt...

Welcome ceremony at the Dweb Camp by the dweb team; picture with hundreds of people seated in front of the main stage.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116931281609412806

Our services now costs a massive €200+ EXTRA each month

#Fediverse

muddle 🥣 boosted

BrianKrebs » 🌐 2026-07-16
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange

Thanks to AI eating the supply chain, hosting a website has gotten a LOT more expensive than in years past. One wonders what's going to happen to bajillions of small hosting companies that are profitable as long as all their equipment isn't 2-10 times more expensive than it used to be. For now, they're just passing the costs on to their customers. But my guess is the hosting industry is headed for a wave of consolidation and/or bankruptcies.

https://topsitehosters.com/blog/why-your-hosting-is-getting-more-expensive/

Alt...

An April 2026 story from TopSiteHosters.com, Why your hosting is getting more expensive (and it's not what you think) What's actually getting more expensive The numbers from industry analysts are stark. Server Component Price Increases: Q1 2026 Server Rav QED 60% QoQ Enterprise 550+ EID 0.50% Coa clontssos CEE 0%: 00 Standard Servers (ED +15% (OEM signals) Server DRAM prices rose more than 60% quarter on quarter in Q1 2026, according to TrendForce. Enterprise SSD prices climbed 40-50% in Q4 2025, then kept rising. The spot price of DDRE memory went from around $6.84 per chip in September 2025 to over $27 by December, a near 300% rise in three months. It's not just memory and storage. Major server manufacturers including Dell, HPE, and Lenovo have signalled around 15% price increases on standard servers, because components shared with Al hardware (power supplies, networking cards) are also being squeezed. The basic cost of building a server has jumped even before you get to the software running on it. TrendForce projects a further 58-63% quarter on quarter increase in conventional DRAM contract prices in Q2 2026. Micron disclosed in its December 2025 earnings call that it could only fulfil 55-60% of core customer demand and gave no timeline for that improving.

Fun, first the bsky bridge has a shitty implementation where if you do a copy link you get a link that will only download json, but if you first open it in a browser you get a page.

Now ghost (I think) has an even shittier implementation where you can't get a web friendly version of the post at all.

#FediVerse

Dear #Mastodon and #Fediverse client devs,

Please don't refer to #ContentWarnings as "spoilers."

That's only one type of #CW.

@SrRochardBunson As of almost 5AM, it's I think six hours left. I think everyone must be asleep on all platforms. I'm scared. I haven't known if people in #Europe are awake now and on #Mastodon & #Fediverse. I should maybe try to sleep, even a little. The #CanadaWildfires are supposed to hit where I am in the Midwest today. We've also got the most cases of #Cyclosporiasis in the US just a half hour drive away from me.

A hypothetical about chat control and #HolosSocial

Say a law one day required client-side scanning. The relay only ever sees encrypted data, so a scan would catch nothing. To read content, it must run in the client, before encryption. A closed client could add it silently in an update. An open one cannot: the code is public, anyone can recompile without it.

Would an open source #E2EE messenger on the #Fediverse like Holos be breaking the law if it did nothing? I am not sure. Your opinion?

https://blog.incogni.com/digital-fatigue-and-burnout/

CC: @SeaFury@aus.social

The fedi seems like a smaller and smaller place lately... people have disappeared #fediverse

Hello to the fediverse !
If you are admin of a Mastodon instance, you should check if IP from the bloc 43.160.0.0/12 (precisely IPs in the ranges 43.172.194 to 198 and 43.173.173 to 194)
are asking for A LOT of pages and consuming a lot of CPU / Bandwidth.
It's a malicious bot that harvest the fediverse by tags, feel free to bloc it ;)

#Fediverse #Bots #Mastodon

#Sunflower with a #Busy #Bee by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/sunflower-with-a-busy-bee-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#flower #yellowflower #honeybee #stamen #pollen #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

Alt...

My macro photograph of a vibrant sunflower in full bloom which occupies most of the frame with a bee collecting nectar and pollen at its center highlighting the beauty of nature and the vital role of pollinators. The bright yellow petals contrast against a soft green background. Captured in Sydney, NSW, Australia. THE FINE ART AMERICA WATERMARK WILL NOT APPEAR ON PURCHASED PRINTS OR PRODUCTS.

The year is 2025. Social is entirely occupied by Enshittified Corporate Goons. Well, not entirely. One small decentralized platform of indomitable nerds still holds out against the invaders....

#fedi #BlueSky #enshittification #asterix #fediverse

Alt...

The opening page from ASTERIX comic books. A map of ancient Gaul, with a magnifier over north-west France - showing the Gaulish village surrounded by Roman camps. Here the village is crossed out and says The Fedi.

Alt...

the cover from ASTERIX and the Great Crossing - a small ship is in heavy seas with Asterix peering over the bow, a defiant Obelix with arms crossed, and tiny Dogmatix (a dog) at the side of Asterix. Here the ship has the fediverse logo on the hull.

#Starterkits. Gerne #boosten, reposten:

Starterkit Loops-Accounts zum AfDverbot und Pruefdemos  loops.video/starter-kits/gQFuEw4Ah-/afdverbot-pruef-demos

Starterkit Loops-Accounts zu CSDs  loops.video/starter-kits/gQDnihhjhC/csd-pride-parade

Starterkit Loops-Accounts zu Wikipedia loops.video/starter-kits/gQkEpnIUe0/wikipedia

Den Accounts kann von #Mastodon/aus dem #Fediverse gefolgt werden. #Loops hat drei #Feeds, einer davon ist algorithmisch. Das Folgen/boosten/liken der Accounts und Videos bringt diesen also mehr #Sichtbarkeit in Loops.

https://loops.video/starter-kits/gSLTadqvCz/critics-of-grokipedia

https://loops.video/starter-kits/gSL4fx2xCu/loops-on-wheels

https://loops.video/starter-kits/gSKvzTGjCo/elbphilharmonie

#starterkit #boost #PSA

Introducing CLEANR® 2.0*: now for Mastodon and the fediverse. Our moderators are hard at work silencing and suspending accounts of Gazans from Palestine.

CLEANR® 2.0: making virtual ethnic cleansing a reality. Because life’s too short to see injustice™

* 100% of proceeds go to supporting Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

** CLEANR® 1.0 still available from https://medium.com/slackjaw/homelessness-solved-you-re-welcome-efd11fc64960

#mastodon #fediverse #zionism #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism

Alt...

CLEANR® glasses (version 1.0): hide homeless people you don’t want to see behind potted plants, etc. Because life’s too short to see injustice.

#New #Product for #Baby by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/new-product-for-baby-kaye-menner.html

#funny #unusual #real #toiletpaper #whitered #bathroom #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

Alt...

Not long ago, I purchased an eight pack of toilet rolls from the supermarket. They were 'on special'. To my surprise when I opened the pack, I found this dear little mini roll. My initial thought was, "No wonder it was on special"! I couldn't help but think of it as a new product for baby.... it was rather cute! Also, with the 'downsizing' of many supermarket products these days, I felt this downsize may be going a little too far! THIS WOULD LOOK GREAT ON THE BACK OR FRONT OF YOUR BATHROOM DOOR! THE FINE ART AMERICA LOGO WILL NOT APPEAR ON PURCHASED PRINTS OR PRODUCTS.

@naor_nl @pluralistic Welkom!

Gelukkig zijn er al veel landgenoten op de #Fediverse, genoeg om te volgen

Als je een handig lijstje wilt met populaire accounts: https://fedidb.com/accounts

#HolosSocial relay is confirmed to be very stable. I will officially tag it soon so admins can run their own relay with a script to easily install it on their VPS.
Using Holos with a custom domain and a cloud for media allows you to own your portable identity on the #Fediverse. Relays become only an infrastructure for it. Your device runs the #ActivityPub server and works as smoothly as any other app. Micro-blogging, media, and video, all from a single account. Switch with a simple tap.

Gentle reminder to add alt-text to your images and screenshots if you want your content to be accessible AND multiply your engagement with much more people reposting your posts.

Adding alt-text is a win-win-win situation, really. It helps everyone 💚

#Mastodon #Fediverse #AltText

Self-Host Weekly (10 July 2026)

Online reactions to #AI, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #TypeType - a privacy stack for #YouTube, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-07-10/

#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #devops #sysadmin #privacy #newsletter #fediverse #homeassistant #smarthome #immich #photos #feed #app #apps #lemmy #hackernews

#Our #Beautiful #Ocean by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/our-beautiful-ocean-kaye-menner.html

#waves #whitewater #blueocean #bluewhite #pacific #pacificocean #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

Alt...

A photograph I shot a few days ago at beautiful Nambucca Heads, New South Wales, Australia of our beautiful Pacific Ocean with pretty colors in the water and rolling waves. It was so windy this day I could hardly stand still to capture this image. Hence, you will see some spray and mist above the waves created by this strong wind. Mother Nature has so much to offer. THE FINE ART AMERICA LOGO WILL NOT APPEAR ON PURCHASED PRINTS OR PRODUCTS.