#instagram is currently down, time to pester your friends with recommendations to switch to #fediverse

https://downdetector.com/status/instagram/

#mastodon #federation #meta #digitalindependence #autonomy #diday

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/116777616644053403

Heads-up, you might want to check if your favorite app supports this, and let the developers know if not.

(Just reached out to the folks making the Mona app.)

#mastodon #fediverse #polls

@aral Saying people are "Nazis" is cathartic...

YES - People are complicit AND ignoring / accepting the #system's incremental approach to #enshittification...

BUT #AralBalkan do you see PEOPLE ON #MASTODON ARE ALSO SOFT-#NAZIS ? / OK to participating indirectly with system?

YES?...

So forgive me 🤜 🤛 WE NEED TO MOVE ON to focus on sticking the measurably good people together often. YES?

Do you hear me? More than the anger / one-way posting?

Can we increment #Trust with #SmallTalk etc? 🤜 🤛

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Poster to show that most people (directly or indirectly) are willing Nazis of various levels and kinds.

I was going to post snark-ily about the theme for this upcoming giveaway. But then I remembered I'm on Mastodon, and there will be sincere excitement for that kind of postcard.

What I'm saying is, you weirdos made me a nicer person

#Mastodon #mosstodon

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Just 2 days left of our fundraiser We need your help to keep the project alive! Donate today Perks invoice receiving twice-a-year our very special postcard packs! Next theme: "SOIL"

Interesting post without alt-text: favourite.

Interesting post with alt-text: boost.

https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images

#altText #accessibility #inclusivity #mastodon #fediverse

hey anyone know how I would go about configuring #mastodon to email notify me about updates? Apparently it's supposed to but it isn't, and I can't see any options for it

does anyone know if there's a guide to switching instances that is written in arabic? i'd love to share it with some of my friends in gaza who are stuck on mastodon dot social so they have the option of moving to a more hospitable server. :) thanks for any help.
#feditips #arabic #mastodon #gaza #palestine

What many people misunderstand about hosting your own content (like this social media instance) is thinking we somehow NEED a big audience or Big Tech involvement.

I'm perfectly fine if the world faded away and it was just the thousand of us here. It's like the early days of the web when we had small forums, nobody missed Reddit back then. Federation is a big plus, not a requirement.

It's the same with websites or IRC for me. I know people use Discord, but I still stick to IRC even if there are only about a hundred of us left. I know people use AI now and website visitors are dropping, but who cares? I still keep doing it for those who like to read.

I don't need the whole world involved for this to feel worthwhile. It's mine, I own it, and I host it for as long as I breathe. After that, it won't matter to me anymore, but I hope other admins keep things running the way I did.

#SelfHosted #SelfHosting #OpenSource #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenWeb #SocialWeb

I just published "Why come to Mastodon?"
https://medium.com/@stuart_ml/why-come-to-mastodon-24a6c62a868b

#socialmedia #mastodon #bluesky #x #medium #article #Fediverse #tech #technology

@rl_dane

Just curious...what are the benefits of using a different #Mastodon web client?

@elk

Now that I've dug my hands deep into the Mastodon core, it looks like it's definitely possible to get the original home instance counts for federated posts, not just your own server's local tally.

For boosts and favourites, recent versions of Mastodon already fetch the origin's reported totals when retrieving a post and store them as "untrusted counts" (untrusted because the remote server self-reports them). So a remote post carries the home server's actual numbers.

Replies are trickier, as they only federate to subscribed servers, so the local count tends to lag. However, you can fetch the full reply tree from the origin on demand.

I'm basing our algorithmic home feed exactly on that: boosts and favourites from the origin counts, and comments from a backfilled reply tree.

Add opt-in ranked home timeline (experimental)
https://github.com/mementomori-social/mastodon/pull/4

The numbers in question have been requested for ages:

Boosts and favourites counts
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/22627

Show the number of reshares, likes, and comments directly in the timeline
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8280

#MastoAdmin #OpenSource #Mastodon #FYP

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A screenshot of my For you -page in Mastodon

@AwetTesfaiesus Da stimme ich Dir zu, für mich wird an zweites Merkmal aber immer wichtiger, was mir allerdings auch erst in den letzte Wochen und Monaten bewusst wurde: Wie einfach ist es, mit den Vertretern der Partei in einen Austausch zu treten? Zu meiner Überraschung funktioniert dies in meiner Bubble nur mit zwei Parteien, den @GrueneBundestag und @dielinke .  Spannenderweise ist es bei meiner Familie ebenso, und die treiben sich nicht auf #Mastodon.

Ich sehe von daher noch nicht ganz schwarz, Pun intended, wenn es um das Wahlverhalten der Menschen im #Fediverse geht.

Anyway, this is how coffee looks in the #garden ☕ As you can see, the beans are still green, meaning they are not yet ready for #harvest. Soon they will turn red, which shows they are ready to be picked, and We will also show you that stage.

So if you love coffee but don’t know the first process before it reaches your cup hhhh 😄 follow this thread and let’s learn together.

And please… coffee does not start from supermarkets 😂

#organicfarming #coffeelover #nature #sustainableliving #Mastodon

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Coffee tree with long hanging branches full of green coffee beans, with a few turning red as they begin to ripen.

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Coffee plant covered with clusters of green coffee beans growing in a lush garden, showing coffee before harvest.

@vmstan Good luck in you future endeavors but, dang, ...June 30 is such a short time for people, esp ones who put their trust in you because they were promised 3 months notice.

#Mastodon
#Mastoadmin #vmstan

https://github.com/vmstio/vmstio/blob/main/about.md

https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

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Michael Stanclift @vmstan@vmst.io The vmst.io instance will cease operations at the end of June 30, 2026. Please use this time to migrate your user account and connections. All data will be deleted after this date.

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Commitment to give users at least 3 months of advance warning in case of shutting down Sometimes services shut down, it is the cycle of life. But users must have the confidence that their account will not disappear overnight, so that they have time to export their data and find another server.

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This repository was archived by the owner on Jun 16, 2026. It is now read-only. Mastodon for geeks and nerds of every type and stripe Why choose vmst.io as your Mastodon server? We run the latest available Mastodon code and regularly contribute fixes back to the Mastodon project. We uphold the guidelines of the Mastodon Server Covenant. We're built to be highly performant and highly available, and committed to taking ownership of issues when things go south. We publish our real-time system status, and strive for better than 99.99% observed availability.

https://vmstan.com/deprecation-notice/

#fediverse #mastodon #vmstio

Does anyone know why in the official Mastodon Android app sometimes I click on a post in my timeline and it's a reply to something but when I click on the reply I can't scroll up to see the thing it's a reply to

And if I click on "Open in browser" then I can see the post above it, so it does exist, and I can even fav it and it shows up in the Mastodon app so it is accessible to me...

#mastodon

Hello Fediverse!

This is the very first post on this friendly new instance for everyone who likes, uses, and enjoys talking about free and open source software, especially Linux, BSD, and illumos operating systems.

#fediblue #darkblueproject #mastodon #opensource #freesoftware #fediverse

I've upgraded the FediBlue Mastodon instance successfully to Mastodon 4.6

https://mastodon.fediblue.de

#fediblue #mastodon

#Lazyweb When I want to spin up my own #Fediverse instance that supports #Markdown when composing a post and that can handle my significant amount of followers with a seamless migration from my current #Mastodon instance, which #ActivityPub Implementation would you use? Ideally it should be a simple rootless container setup that JustWorks™ with podman. Perfection would be a single, self-contained container without the need to spin up several ones for databases or other stuff.

Mökkikuvakilpailuun osanottoteos
#juhannus #mastodon

So how do they think it can be enforced everywhere?

• They'll simply tell you to do it.
• They'll lecture you about it.
• They'll call you out if you don't do it.
• Once they've caught you not doing it repeatedly, they'll insult you as ableist.
• They'll block you. Before they block you, they'll announce in public that they'll block you because you're an ableist swine who refuses to add alt-text to his images, and they'll mention you so that you can see it.
  If you're only here to get and stay in contact with a select few people, none of whom are on Mastodon, you might not care.
  But if you need a certain amount of reach especially on Mastodon, this is bad.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Ableist #Ableism #AbleismMeta #CWAbleismMeta

I've not yet seen any posts, attacking or otherwise, taking this stance

Right now, this feature is only available in a development version of Mastodon and only on mastodon.social. Next will be the daredevil servers that run development code to be ahead of release in features.

But eventually, a new stable release will be rolled out with this feature. More and more servers will be upgraded to this new version with this feature. Once typical activist servers like beige.party introduce it, my prediction will come true.

I have family who have varying levels of blindness who consume media from all over the internet. All of them have been quite thrilled about the state of these new robot assistants we all now have such easy access to.

Specifically assigned "alt-text" is never necessary.

In fact, however, image-describing AI is just barely better than nothing, if at all. It describes stuff that doesn't matter. It doesn't describe stuff that does matter. Most importantly, it's unreliable and inaccurate. It hallucinates and describes stuff wrongly. However, people who aren't sufficiently sighted don't know. They can't verify whether what the AI says is true because they can't see the image well enough to be able to compare it with the description.

100% hand-written alt-text is always more reliable, more accurate and more fit for the context than AI-generated alt-text will ever be.

I know from first-hand experience. I've tasked an image-describing AI with describing an image which I've described manually with no AI help first, and then I've analysed the AI description and compared it with both the actual image and my descriptions. I've even done that twice. The results were abysmal.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #ImageDescriptionMeta #CWImageDescriptionMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon

How does Nostr compare to Mastodon? Can the two be bridged?

#mastodon #nostr #fediverse #askfedi

Would enjoy seeing ZINES from the #SDF #mastodon community. If you write a Zine of any sort please consider sharing or linking. #zine #magazine #newsletter.

On #Mastodon there are now
420 verified accounts from #news organizations in
21 languages and on
121 instances.

255 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@igd_news (ENG)
@publicdomainrev (ENG)
@macrumors (ENG)
@HalifaxExaminer (ENG)
@lucire (ENG)

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

Built by @mho

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