A big new release after months of work is a good time to mention that #Mastodon is crowdfunded. Unlike many other platforms out there, we don’t take venture capital, we don’t sell ads, and we don’t sell your data. We rely on your donations to pay our team. Please consider chipping in:

https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

If you want to search Mastodon posts you've interacted with, include the phrase in:library along with your keywords. This will just show results for posts you have interacted with.

If you want to search just your own posts, include the phrase from:me in your search.

There are lots more special phrases like these (also known as "operators") listed in the search guide at https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon

#FediTips #Mastodon

I've recently migrated to this personal / single-user #Mastodon instance and finally got around to writing about that "journey”, explaining how and why I did it.

https://shellsharks.com/own-my-social

It is but one more way in which I am pushing further into adoption of #indieweb #ownyourweb #ownyourdata #ownyoursocial ideas.

Honestly, the hardest part about the move was emotionally leaving infosec.exchange, I explain why in the post (https://shellsharks.com/own-my-social#thanks-to-infosecexchange). Thanks for everything @jerry 🧡!

After Bluesky, Threads, and so on, the whole #WSocial thing is another reminder that it was never about the #Fediverse being "too complicated" or "just for nerds".

A bafflingly large amount of people genuinely only act on a gut feeling telling them that only commercial products with fancy marketing owned by a for-profit corporation can be trustworthy, 'official' and 'legal', for the lack of a better word.

If something is a commercial offering by a competent-looking, rich family man in a suit, it's clearly an official, legal, trustworthy product. You can be proud of using such a fancy-looking service.

When they see a community-run open-source project or a grassroots initiative, their first instinct is that it must be shady, illegal, complicated, broken or predatory in some way. It's probably some aftermarket grey area bootleg made by weird tech nerds, political groups with an ulterior motive, conspiracy theorists or some naive teenage hackers. They'd also be embarrassed for using it in front of their peers and neighbours; who uses some free back-alley software, are you poor or something?

The same people are the reason why Google is using the word 'sideloading', why scammers love wearing fancy suits, why people suddenly act childishly helpless in front of LibreOffice, or why DIY HRT is so demonised.

They trust any kind of 'official approval' over their own senses. If someone does something that isn't 'approved', they're a bad person or clearly endangering themselves and others. No idea why exactly, but psh, it must be wrong somehow, or everyone would do it, right?

If people on the Fediverse understood that the whole "it's all so complicated and clunky" thing is just a thinly veiled excuse for a general disdain for non-commercial software, we could finally stop making all our software imitate their corporate equivalents in a futile attempt to appease people who never gave us a chance in the first place.

You'll never convince them to treat it in good faith no matter how much effort or money you put into UX or 'ease of use'. All you're doing is making the software worse, e. g. through things like dot-social, verified accounts or begging brands, corporations and politicians to join and give your product some kind of 'official' validation.

#mastodon #openSource #linux

Not sure if this was rolled out on mastodon.social just recently, or a while ago, with all the other UI updates, but only noticing it now, and it is very nice!

#mastodon #accessibility #AltText

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A screenshot of the profile edit interface on Mastodon, showing a menu with an "Add alt text" option highlighted.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116765910384325070

Big news!!

Congratulations to @MastodonEngineering and everyone who has contributed!

#mastodon #fediverse

muddle 🥣 boosted

Mastodon » 🌐 2026-06-17
@Mastodon@mastodon.social

#Mastodon 4.6 is here! It's been a long time in the works, but it's finally ready. In this release, we're introducing Collections—a way to share curated collections of profiles to help old and new users discover more of the #Fediverse. We're also updating the look of profiles, alongside many quality of life and accessibility improvements. Read more here:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108

W is for Warning.

⚠️

#WWarning #WSocial #fediverse #mastodon #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming

Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) boosted

Aral Balkan » 🌐 2026-06-18 / 2026-06-18
@aral@mastodon.ar.al

Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.

You simply don’t need to.

You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.

Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.

The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.

And yes, they’re just another venture capital funded surveillance capitalist, people farmer, and burgeoning Nazi Bar. They just happen to be based in the EU. (As Nazi Bars traditionally have been.)

#WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116770291207686239

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Ursula von der Leyen’z post wishing a “warm welcome to all folllwers on W” and calling it user friendly, open source, privacy preserving and “humans only/no bots”. Oh and “European” (unlike Mastodon, which I guess was made on Mars).

@bocasun

Welcome to the #Fediverse! (That's what we call the larger network that #Mastodon is on, just FYI)

Your bio is a good start, now put out some posts so that the people you follow will know a little more about what you're all about, and will be more likely to follow you back.

Cheers, and have fun! ;)

#Mastodon 4.6 is here! It's been a long time in the works, but it's finally ready. In this release, we're introducing Collections—a way to share curated collections of profiles to help old and new users discover more of the #Fediverse. We're also updating the look of profiles, alongside many quality of life and accessibility improvements. Read more here:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

Here are some very decent Mastodon instances:

Gamer Plus | Harry Larry is a workhorse!
-- https://gamerplus.org

Vivaldi
-- https://social.vivaldi.net/

InfoSec Exchange
-- https://infosec.exchange/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Instances #Social

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

244 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@ElSaltoDiario (SPA)
@ComputerBase (GER)
@mondiaalnieuws (NLD)
@FTM_nl@social.ftm.nl (NLD)
@lucire (ENG)

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

Built by @mho

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

@nathanu

> P.S. Lord does it suck to share links on #Mastodon. Markdown syntax support when?

On vanilla Mastodon, probably never. But there are plenty of other great options that support longer toots and full Markdown:

• Gitch Social (Mastodon fork)
• GoToSocial (somewhat minimalist #fedi server, which the instance I'm on is running)
• snac (very minimalist fedi server, see https://snac.bsd.cafe)

I don't have any Glitch instance recommendations offhand, unfortunately. I can dig through my files for one if you'd like, or you can try looking online.

10 years of #mastodon

Although this account is only eight and a bit years old...

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Photo of me wearing a black t-shirt, bearing the text "10 years of Mastodon", and an image of John Mastodon sailing a ship through a storm, with a large whale behind it.

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

WE are the algorithm here

#Mastodon

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

184 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@28kanala (BAQ)
@arrasategoiena (BAQ)
@appgefahren (GER)
@kuketzblog (GER)
@WinFuture (GER)

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

Built by @mho

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

#Mastodon tip: There is a way to use only part of a word as a hashtag!

For example, you might want to say the word “toots”, but use the hashtag “toot”.

To do this, place a U+2060 WORD JOINER before the “s” in “toots”. Example: #toot⁠s.

If you're using #X11 or #Wayland (i.e. #Linux or #BSD desktop), you can add the following line to ~/.XCompose to give yourself a keyboard shortcut:

<Multi_key> <w> <j> : "⁠" U2060 # WORD JOINER

Then just type Compose, then W, then J.

Reasons why I love Mastodon:

1. I can ask help for stuff I know nothing about and some expert somewhere will be like "I know I know!!!" And I get good information.
2. People also have useful links I can't find myself.
3. People will literally GO TAKE A PHOTO FOR YOU for reference if you ask, and are so damb nice about it that my heart grows three sizes. <3
4. So much lovely HUMAN MADE art. :D
5. Blocking seems to work really well.
Etc.

#fedi #mastodon

To reassure followers, let me state clearly:

there will be no posts about the FIFA World Cup here (other than this one, obviously)...

I will leave aside the price gouging of dynamic pricing, the denial of entry to footballers & officials to the USA and the general political character of the event (and the role of ICE in its 'policing').

This is a football-free Mastodon account; you can follow/read posts in safety (if you are a footie-phobe)

#Mastodon

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:

* 2.0 is as ready as possible, test now!
* #Google spreading FUD about #Android #FLOSS apps
* #Fedilab #Mastodon 'Collections'
* more #ReFra gallery goodies
* more categories
+ 34 new apps
& 293 updates

Grab all your devices from the drawers: https://f-droid.org/2026/06/12/twif.html

#KeepAndroidOpen

For #Mastodon app developers and fellow #fediverse platform developers, with the approaching Mastodon 4.6 release we've put together an overview of new and changed APIs that you may want to look at! Collections, profile editing, #Wrapstodon, and more:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4-6-for-devs/