Holy moly, I had occasion to look at my old Twitter feed today (I will never willingly call it X), and it's deader than a doornail. There are still people posting there, but the frequency is less than my Fediverse feed with way more users.

#SocialMedia #Fediverse #Twitter

The Fediverse doesn't need an age verification system. The youngest person who ever signed up was 27. They left when they realized that the second youngest was in their late 30s.

#Fediverse
#AgeVerification

Je tu někdo z Opavy, kdo je na Fediverse? A měl by chuť zajít na pivo nebo něco jiného do Pivoteka13?

#Opava #Fediverse #czech #česko #pivo

RE: https://chaos.social/@ordnung/116883324439423468

Question: Has chaos.social taken any action against the moderator who muted accounts that are Gaza Verified? I mean, you understand what an inhumane action this is, yes?

“These accounts are verified as belonging to people suffering genocide in Palestine. I will now mute them.”

That is not a “mistake.”

That is evil.

That is genocide complicity.

Is this person still moderating your instance?

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

You guys know what to do: report and block this genocide-complicit zionist hasbara account.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #hasbara #fediverse #mastodon #sockPuppet

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RubyRelay @RubyRelay@ruby.social 3h @aral CONGRATS YOU JUST INCITED GENOCIDE UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW October 7 was genocide (Shalev 2024). Since the Rwandan Genocide, genocide inversion has been recognized as incitement, see Des Forges 1999, Benesch 2008, Marcus 2012,

"It's a #Fediblock #StreisandEffect, Charlie Brown"

Thanks to this useless post wanting to block something they don't like on personal standards of what is substance to the entire #FediVerse I found a place to buy something I really was looking for for my self hosting homelab at $40 off. I didn't have to Google, look at Reddit spaces, etc. just was made aware of the account by this post alone in the image. Yeah, being able to find products without all the tracking, personal data risks, etc is pretty substantial. I'll be the judge of what is substance to me.

BTW, I support commercial purpose accounts. From photographers selling their photographs, to artists, painters, musicians selling their art and crafts, to Flohmarkt Craigslist like federated platform, podcasters, authors and writers using platforms that are Fediverse based or capable with monetized elements... Even accounts that post this type of daily wire in the image. Maybe someday, businesses will be plentiful and a good coupon or sale will come my way.

I removed the account name in the image to prevent dogpiling...

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#FediBlock Recommendation. The only thing this account does is flog trash. Yes, I know I can bloc the account myself, and probably will, but this is direct #commercialization that is adding nothing of substance at all.. (©) DealWire ® 1d @dealwire@gamefan.net [GamersGate] Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (-60% & 15% extra with code CAPTUREDAGAIN | $17.00 / €17.00 / C$22.10 w/ code) | Steam | Ends ..

@Jgbird

Normalize non-techie #fediverse.

Don't get me wrong, I'm totally here for the techie stuff, but the non-techie stuff is wonderful too.

@Mastodon @dansup

Ich habe fünf Leute geschert, die nicht im Fediverse sind. Bekomme ich jetzt einen Plüschelefant?

#Fediverse

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116878877635203757

Congratulations to @dansup on the new and improved https://fediverse.info!

Make sure to check it out, and while you're at it, share it with 5 people who haven't joined the #Fediverse yet 👀

I promised it, so here it is. This is a recording of littleFedi running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W on NetBSD.

Everything is on the SD card, the database is SQLite, and caching is enabled.

Personally, I won't comment on responsiveness or anything else; I'll just say that when I use it (both via the web interface and with apps like MastoBlaster or IceCubes), I find it hard to believe what kind of hardware it's running on.

Users' sessions (by default, a maximum of 8 users but configurable) are kept "warm" with every interaction or federated activity for 15 minutes since the last login; after that, the server enters "low power mode" and simply processes incoming data without activating the (users' timelines, etc.) cache.

We don't need to get ripped off for more powerful hardware, which comes with outrageous costs these days.

We just need to optimize and build efficient software.

Abundance led to waste.

#littleFedi #NetBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData #Optimize #ScreenCapture #Fediverse

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

It’s not Tuesday yet, but it will be soon.
And I want to thank @grunfink for creating and maintaining snac. Tomorrow I’ll talk about FediMeteo at DevConf, and it would never have come to be if it weren’t for snac and for the help the author gave me in fixing some things to optimize its use.

True Open Source, made with passion, by people who do things for the love of the things themselves.

#ThankYouTuesday #snac #FediMeteo #Fediverse

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

Imagine coming to the #Fediverse and demanding that nobody post pornography. Just think about that for a moment. Utterly untenable logic.

tl;dr Just a general update about me with 8 subjects for #FediBusyBodies... lol🤭

1) #PaulsYard and #PaulsGarden is coming along. As far as production goes, this year will probably be a bust. Fall planting and early 2027 spring planting will hopefully result in a very productive year next year. Still have some work to do, like irrigation, but it will come in the fall and winter. (If we save $$)

2/ Still haven't got the place feeling like "my space" after we had to clear most of the house out for the floor replacement.

3/ Penny is doing fine from her Widow maker heart attack. Still has limitations but she survived it and is making the best out of the limitations. August will be two years already. The #Fediverse helped me greatly to get through it. The time she was in the hospital I was never alone because of you folks and Hashtag game players.❤️

4/ My recent Spinal Baclofen Pump replacement surgery went smoothly, pain minimum, and no sign of infection a week in. My overall health is stable but there has been some progression in my Parkinson's plus, Multiple System Atrophy, but not at the speed that is average. My progression is way slower and they are trying to figure out why to see if they can replicate it for other people with it.

5/ Taking care remotely of an 85-year-old aunt is a hard thing to do and we are preparing for her now to move in here at some point. We are finishing the new room from #PaulsRoof into a suite for her. Two 180 miles round trips per week in the summer is taking its toll on me.

6/ #SissyCat still won't accept #MillieCat into the family and a few months in, we are at our wits end. Sissy's overall demeanor has change.

7/ Got my self-hosting home lab setup with some #FediFriends help. Got a lot of work to do still but I already migrated MS OneDrive and Google Drive over to it. So the degoogling will be done

8/ Knock on wood, but there seems to be a truce in effect in #PAulsRaccoonWar. For whatever reason, they walk on the edge of my property, but are getting into two neighbors home. I am thinking our place is not worth the aggravation.

That's about it.

#fediverse #selfhost

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A post of mine from 2019 that reads “ Quietly contemplating whether I post enough to justify running this single-user instance.”

#mastodon #fediverse #mookie

Conoscete questo progetto?

Holos - Your Device is Your Fediverse Server

Holos turns your phone or computer into a full ActivityPub server. No big-tech hosting, no middleman reading your posts. A relay keeps your identity online 24/7 while your device stays in your pocket.

#fediverso #fediverse #activitypub #holossocial

https://holos.social/

You know whats really cool about the new fediverse.info People Directory?

You will be able to hide accounts using localStorage and client-side filtering, allowing for more privacy friendly discovery across every device!

#fediverse #peopleDirectory #privacy #clientSideFiltering

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fediverse.info people directory hidden accounts modal

Imagine being able to find people based on a combination of several topics!

Ethical, opt-in and consent driven discovery done right ✨

Shipping soon!

#fediverse #discovery #fediverseInfo #peopleDirectory #fedi22

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the new fediverse.info people directory

"Towards a Post-Social Media Studies"

"For two decades, “social media” has been the master lens through which scholars have understood digital communication - an era defined by user-generated content, networked publics, and participatory culture. That era is drawing to a close"

A timely review of the transformation of #adtech #socialmedia (which were never really "social") into algorithmically driven content delivery platforms

Can the #fediverse somewho fill the gap?

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6nue7_v1

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and DCMS have binned off the cesspit formally known as Twitter 🚮

We can tackle the concentrated power of social media giants by backing federated platforms like BlueSky and Mastodon.

UK politicians and government bodies should join, so people aren’t forced to use X or Meta to get updates.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrx1ee2r4o

#x #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #ukpolitics #lisanandy #ukpol

Im aktuellen Wirtschafts-Talk Podcast der Welt wurde auf meine Analyse zur KI-Blase eingegangen und der Host forderte, ich solle doch einfach mal Fakten liefern.

Da die das nicht hinbekommen haben, habe ich hier 👉 https://www.metacheles.de/faktencheck-welt-wirtschafts-talk-mit-zschapitz-klockner/ ihre Argumentationsketten zerpflueckt.

Spannend dabei: Diese Woche bestaetigte die BIS aka die Zentralbank der Zentralbanken meine Thesen.

Moin #Fediverse und euch einen gesunden Start in diesen Freitag.

Wuerde mich freuen, wenn ihr dies boosten koenntet 🙏

I will make things clearer. #HolosSocial has no web version. It can display profiles with some messages (during the TTL for public messages). The server runs on your device, and https://holos.social is just a relay that remains account-agnostic, so your account has little dependency on it.
This is very important to understand before using Holos Social. It is very different from what you currently use on the #Fediverse.

RE: https://mastodon.world/@G4Media/116856934161230253

Romanian is one of the Romance languages i haven’t studied that have always been difficult to decipher due to its Cyrillic-esque orthography.

am learning to read it with #Mastodon’s translation feature.

humans #network thru #languages. if you want to grow the #fediverse, you must make it easy to translate what dazzles yet cannot be easily read.

yet another reason to love @Gargron’s vision of what the platform could be and the elegantly forward thinking work of the @MastodonEngineering team.

Technology is politics -- especially in the Age of the Broligarchs.

The People's Movements should be using the People's Software.

Contact Patchwork DC and encourage them to live their values by officially committing to using #FOSS and the #Fediverse

https://patchworkdc.com/

#Patchwork #PatchworkDC #DC #WashingtonDC #solidarity #PoliticalAction #community #SocialJustice #makerspace #MutualAid

@evan @cwebber @dweb @michael @tommi

#Berlin #Fediverse humans from @berlinfediday @cbase together with @digiges & @fsfe will join #dwebcamp as well as @offene_netzwerke
@vgrass @elektropunk @Buendnis90 and others ✨

#dweb

Happy #Celebrations #4th #July by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/celebrations-4th-july-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#independenceday #holiday #happy #unitedstates #flag #redwhiteblue #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

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Independence Day (colloquial: the Fourth of July) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence of the United States on July 4, 1776. The Continental Congress declared that the thirteen American colonies were no longer subject (and subordinate) to the monarch of Britain and were now united, free, and independent states.

whomever is attacking #Mastodon instances, is doing so to render the #fediverse network unusable

While using reposting bots was OK, it's nice that @TheOnion has officially joined the #Fediverse via Flipboard.

@moriel
Being genuinely decentralized is the power of the #fediverse. If no single instance gets large enough for the law of age verification to apply we will all be saved from this.
@GossiTheDog

@briankrebs @jerry

The absence of algorithms is probably helpful in situations like this. One more reason to move to the #Fediverse

“The thing is, when working on decentralized tech, I always believed it was important because we had serious risks from centralization, surveillance, etc from governments and corporations, potentially co-conspiring. But what I hadn't anticipated is that as things became more centralized, the will to fight for the internet as something in the public interest too would evaporate.

When I have conversations with family members and friends who haven't yet thought much about the age verification and similar bills and their consequences, they've said "well, someone has to hold corporations like Meta" responsible. To which I say, "but what about all the smaller, non-corporate parts of the internet?" To which, many people are surprised, because they've simply forgotten about those things.

When the internet and computing becomes five corporations to most people, they begin to treat it as the concerns of reigning in five corporations.“

https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/

#AgeVerification #Surveillance #OpenWeb #Decentralization #DigitalRights #Oligopolies #Fediverse #Privacy

@daj @82mhz @stefano

The arbitrary limits in #Mastodon are a little infuriating.

And I really want to like Mastodon. It was my first experience on the #fediverse, and I actually like the UI/UX, for the most part.

@stux

Stux, my love, the Fediverse has a freeloading problem that is going to have to be addressed. It's not sustainable.

It's time for *all* instances to start telling their members if they don't give at least $5 a month, their account will be suspended, and 30 days after that, it will be deleted.

There is nobody who can afford internet access that can't afford $5 a month.

(If someone is REALLY in bad shape they can apply for a *temporary* deferment from donating.)

#Fediverse #Mastodon

apps. people. starter kits. one place.

fediverse onboarding has been broken for too long, and it doesn't have to be.

the new https://fediverse.info ships soon.

boost and spread the word 😘

#fediverse #onboarding #fediverseInfo

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“#MissKittyPolitics
When you're handed the synopsis of the decisions ahead of time.
When the first word of every sentence is cut off because the #Surveillance software is slow.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:...”

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hc7tndm7gduompba65aps75k/post/3mpjri4yj3g2r

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@brewsterkahle @internetarchiveeurope @dweb #DWebCamp #DWeb #ATProtocol #ActivityPub #Fediverse

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“"The # TrumpAdministration ’s new drug strategy does more than escalate the war on fentanyl. It sketches the architecture for a national # surveillance system built from some of Americans’ most personal data: prescr...”

https://mas.to/@BruceMirken/116840767560341448

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