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

In case you missed it, our website is now green-ticked on Mastodon. 🎉

#Mastodon

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A screenshot of the BMC Mastodon profile page, cropped to the website, showing it with a green background and a tick

@hedders

TIL about Count Binface and Acton on Sea.

Thanks Mastodon!

#BinFace #Mastodon

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,

This week at 8UTC Sunday (40 minutes..) we have another #software #mastodon titan, @yantar92 #developer of #orgmode !

#peertube #livestream : https://toobnix.org/w/2Z7id1MZQ6C2GTo4XjvuX1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgmode http://orgmode.org/ is comparably famous to last week's Mastodon #curl's @bagder ( https://toobnix.org/w/rPKt4GRBwLeWzF3VcMFWNo ).

The first thing anyone sees on #git is its README.org support for Ihor's orgmode. The #lisp community's Ihor's #emacs #orgmode.

+ @me 1 year org user!
#lispyGopherClimate
boost for visib

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Red Lispy Gopher Show banner The gopher, lisp alien and another character lean on a "lispy gopher show" sign. The banner says anonradio.net but you should go to the toobnix.org peertube in this case.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Joshuakevins12/116617488591022175

We recently started this project (sweet potatoes growing ) bug am looking for someone who can help us out by teaching us how to grow these potatoes effectively. The potatoes grew well and healthy looking but they didn't put on any potatoe over there down when we reached the day of harvesting , the we couldn't get anything.
YOUR IDEAS MATTER
BOOSTS WELCOME
#mastodon #solarpunk #solarpunksunday #today #fridaysforfuture #gardening #growyourown #fediverse #home #permaculture #garten #environment

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

Hi, #Mastodon family

Once again, we are reaching out with hope.

First, thank you to everyone who helped us purchase our land which now belongs to us, and we are deeply grateful for your support.

Today, we are launching a new fundraiser for the next important step: digging a permanent water well on our farm. We have tried several ways to secure water, but they haven't been reliable.

A well will provide a sustainable water source, helping us grow food, care for our projects, and empower more young people in our community.

We kindly ask our supporters, friends, and well-wishers to stand with us once again.

Every donation, no matter the amount, brings us closer to making this dream a reality. Please boost or share our fundraiser it makes a huge difference.

Together, we can keep this sustainable project growing. Thank you for your #love #solidarity and continued support.https://www.gofundme.com/f/water-well-at-eco-youths-farm

#agriculture #gardening #sustainability #climatechange #environment

#mastodon #fediverse #mookie

Morning Moon Bath Towel

Visit:https://jeremy-aiyadurai.pixels.com/featured/morning-moon-jeremy-aiyadurai.html?product=bath-towel
#Mastodon #Art #AbstractArt
Artist Info: https://linktr.ee/jeremyartist
#FineArtAmerica #Pixels #BuyIntoArt

The FediBlue Mastodon server was successfully updated to Mastodon 4.6.3 which contains bug fixes and updated dependencies

https://mastodon.fediblue.de

#fediblue #darkblueproject #mastodon

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

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Social Web Survey cover page "2026 Social Web Operations Survey IFTAS' annual environment scan and needs assessment for the platform admins, moderators, and social web community builders safeguarding the open web."

Update: Already implemented on #Mastodon, partially implemented on #GtS: https://chaos.social/@nordern/116857153076615091

There seriously needs to be a way to say "Show me my toots from 2026-05-02" or whatever on #fedi.

Paging down through pages and pages of results feels silly, and is an unwarranted tax on the server.

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

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.

I know this plant might be in a small amount over there, some may have tested it some may have heard of it the first time and some might not even want to know but this is a jackfruit plant very sweet and tasty it's plenty over here and cheap it's single from the school garden #gardening #mastodon #solarpunksunday #fediverse #linux #solarpunk #growyourown #gardening @gardening #gardeningtips

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Me with the Jackfruit plant in our school garden

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Jackfruit plants in our school garden

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

One of the handiest productivity things that I've done in a long time is set up the ability to send a #toot to #Mastodon directly from#DraftsApp.

Urgently. Please read this.

We owe 4 months rent for the land our tent sits on — $150/month. The owner is threatening to evict us. In Gaza. With nowhere to go.

A kind friend covered one month. I still need $450 in the next 48 hours.

$450 is the difference between having ground under our tent — or nothing.

I have never been this scared of losing what little we have left.

Please donate any amount :
https://chuffed.org/project/help-mai-and-the-gaza-camp-kids
#urgent #gazagenocide #palestine #war #support #donate #mastodon