soc.octade.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
@screwlisp There's a number of code-evaluating bots, mostly BASIC, LOGO, or processing.js, since they do things with short snippets and can reply with a short GIF of the run.
I think longer evaluations than one toot are too hard to follow, and EL especially doesn't visually do much. There's some more text under the prompt, but the *state* is all hidden.
If you hook this up to CLIM and only take a single toot, which evals & posts a picture, it can be interesting.
#lisp #fediverse #programming
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/eev/mastodonel-eev-repl-programming/
#fediverse #programming #learning #example #mastodonel #eev #emacs sharpsign "it-already-exists"
Brief description and literal example of my shared programming learning fediverse theory. I will try it out more. There is a link to the poll thread at the end of the article.
@joynewacc @riverbirchtree Folks, I just donated $250 myself which was doubled to $500. (I would donate more but I need to keep what little savings I have so I can fly out and meet Joy and help her get to Milan from Egypt or Jordan once she has left Gaza.)
Looks like we have raised $3,105 so far – thank you so much! Let’s keep this going!
Remember that your donations will be doubled until we get to $10K.
Please donate if you can to help us evacuate Joy from Gaza. And please share so others might do the same.
Thank you so much in advance. C’mon, fediverse, I know we can do this! :)
💕
#Joy #GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #fediAid #mutualAid #evacuation #FreeJoy #FreePalestine #fediverse
Hi everyone,
@aseelfromgz, @casey, and I had the honour of meeting three friends* from Gaza via video chat and we’d like to welcome them and their families to Gaza Verified:
• Soboh Ibrahim (@Sobohs)
• Ruaa (@ruaa)
• Mohamed Al qadi (@gazalive123)
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
💕
* Our fourth chat, with, @sarada9669 sadly couldn’t go ahead for technical reasons but we’re working on rescheduling it for tomorrow and fitting it in at the end of our regularly-scheduled calls.
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
#Guardian of #Time The #Steampunk #Lion by Kaye Menner Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:
#lion #animal #steampunk #clock #fantasy #architecture #sky #majestic #imaginative #gears #architecture #time #brass #metal #industrial #sky #clouds #majestic #surreal #ai #digitalart #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
#Central #Bearded #Dragon by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:
https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/central-bearded-dragon-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html
Honored to achieve 1st place in: FAA Contest - Skinks Lizards Snakes and Crocs in Australia - October 2025
#lizard #scales #teeth #eye #spikes spines #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
Ich bin gerade dabei, meine Folien zu den Misskey Artigen Diensten vom letzten Jahr neu zu machen und anzupassen. Dabei merke ich gerade, mein letzter Talk für die Also liebe Als kleines Zubrot, halte ich einen kleinen Talk zu den Misskey Artigen Diensten im Fediverse RE:
Da sind immer welche, die euch helfen können.
Hey everyone,
While @joynewacc’s Internet connection is offline during her move, I was lucky enough to have @aseelfromgz with me today as we carried out today’s verification video calls for Gaza Verified and we’re happy to welcome four new accounts/families to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Mohamed Hesham – @mohamedhesham
• Naeema family – @naeemafamily
• Hema Alshaer – @hemaalshaer
• Seraj Alnajjar – @serajnjar20
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
Also, please remember that Aseel is in Gaza too and is helping others despite facing the very same challenges herself. You can help her and her family via her:
• PayPal (easier for them to get the funds): https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=7DTFU9TQV44EY
• GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-aseel-and-family-leave-gaza-before-its-too-late/
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
I really feel like #xkcd 908 is really a (not so) quiet polemic about how our entire digital infrastructure is almost literally a house of cards mortared with llama poo.
Thank you, #xkcdOtron, for your continued service to the #fediverse.
Hey everyone,
I’d like to welcome four more Palestinian friends (and their families) from Gaza to Gaza Verified.
I had the honour of speaking with them during the last hour. Joy’s Internet connection is sadly offline as she’s moving house and so it was just me in the meetings. Thankfully, everyone spoke far better English than I do Arabic and we were able to manage. It never gets easy being shown the scenes of devastation in Gaza. You see it in the news but it hits differently through someone’s mobile phone.
In any case, please give a warm welcome to our newest Gaza Verified members and their families:
• Maisa (@maisakr) – I was lucky enough to also meet Lana, one of her three children :)
• Mohamed Dawed (@Mohamed_Dawed)
• Mohammed Hamada (@mohammedhamada)
• Rawan (@Rawan_kh22)
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
Meanwhile, because Mastodon server admins are all cheapskates and we're not going to pay the sort of prices for hosting that AWS charge, the Fediverse keeps on chugging away happily while the corporate internet falls apart.
I really, really dislike when people (like @FediTips, whom I often really appreciate) push for the Fediverse to defederate from unfavored speech. “If there be time to expose through discussion, the falsehoods and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”
Pushing for #Bluesky to use its ill-advised centralization to make it more like regular corporate social media that picks winners and losers is antithetical to what we should desire in the decentralized, open web. It's also the exact sort of thing "regimes" like to do.
Speaking of that term: there is plenty of room to criticize any administration, including Trump's. I've criticized the administration and some of its use of social media on here, in fact. But calling a duly elected administration a "regime"... persuades precisely zero people of anything. I've disliked that flex when the Right used it and I dislike it when the Left uses it, too. It also obscures that it is in the public interest for us to know what the White House says, both when we agree and disagree with it.
#FreeSpeech #Fediverse https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115396451982308613
@xankarn I like your post at the top a lot -
I saw after something I think we have to be careful with as there is a fine line between many people who do care on low / high spectrum (even to comment otherwise wouldn't care enough to ask why) so it's good to not really quickly exclude these people or even write them off so easily as all or nothing support us or fuck off.
I don't mean those that have a profile full of bad stuff more professionally - but really at protest people have asked me similar things (which in person is more clear) and they have been mom and dad people too full of weird concern / old or new ways and yes some fascistic things they will take to their death. But it's good not to condemn them so quick, even online.
I'll give you an example but from the 'best of us' types of people here on #Fediverse - some of hero level (Teachers, Privacy advocates, whole range) and they have said some actually wild or vile stuff (like seconds from the message of me saying I'm a fan or appreciate them) - and THAT got me angry. "Lesson I learned" was "from nothing" people can actually create more antagonism or enemies from someone actually over-genuine or over-writing (as you do to your hero's or wanted to help overly).
It was like totally unexpected - I totally was not sending those vibes and they literally created it double back to me (I don't know how guessing so clearly wrong or not asking more or not reading more into my message or all my posts allows people made them make such big mistakes - so it shows even the best have these things. Almost opposite and this 'fine' line of fascism (I could say they are... and actually I'm reconsidering this post but I'm sure in person they are better or their history says so, so I have to forgive and not chase them as a fan or co-creator, or anything - which is a human shame and part of all this problem when you can't even join the good people even a bit)
So seriously careful with PUTTING people into labeling them and blocking quickly and therefore not even allowing much room to work with them slowly (or indirectly from your good posts) - the long-burn convincing or even let them realise on their own,,, is golden - and it may even be low % but usually the people who care also speak so again have to be careful and see from profiles or not have to guess and condemn people so wildly to lose even 20% of those asking what's the point...
Again I know there is a % nativity and plenty of bad - but responding in unhelpful way also isn't great - even in my nativity saying MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT THAT FASCIST or as extreme as we feel asking questions we find hard to answer.
It's true they don't care but I've been writing about #fascism as a word being used for people that don't care enough (and there is a BIG difference).
So don't be too quick, check their profile and honestly even from the left that block the left - It does create *more* anger rather than allowing people to speak a bit - as there is a natural sparring or sword fighting that happens to get our minds in better shape... nothing that wrong with saying "what's the point?" and letting people practice answers if they are not a professional fascist.
Remember fascism come frmo authoritarian hierarchical government (or governing) like #state and #banks (which many people are under IF NOT ALL and some thing negative maths or numbers are neutral - even Left / Liberal people so needs a whole re-format of people brain since they were born into money thinKING is ok), Obviously money and that hierarchy is the problem (but not everyone is there yet or willing to do everything without money more often)
LONG STORY SHORT:
It is going to take a long time for all the specrum and points - and sometimes it's not as clear getting rid of Trump either - and getting the next one to jump in the financial hot-seat. It's all the rich-isms and even comfy people with it too (sorry a lot have it after spending time in studying / wondering why good people have similar isms)... ⏲️ Time.
Thanks for reading, even reading once more to get the points...
Much love to the #NoKings people and #Animal dressers out there (#Frogs and #unicorns etc),
⚠️ Admittedly lots of hashtags to really sort this #Fascist thing a bit more - as people unversed use for everyone imperfect much like those being a #Terrorist incorrectly used by the other sides. Too easy to call people fascist and terrorists. Could say people don't care or have relativity (it's not the same but often more true)
#Portland #Antifa #Frog #Frogs #AntiFascistFrog #Trump FrogBrigade
P,S For those that can talk 'long' -
I'd like to know how we can continue this good work with the lesser / smaller #bigboss baddies ❓ ...because after this I feel like they go under the radar because it's so integrated and born-in as a system.
(just an after-thought).
Thanks again for reading / considering / adjusting / staying true and passionate.
Some incentive and respect #system towards #more-social / pro-#social #movements in healthy way - because without it you have quiet empty software / shallow posts and no real trust and relationship #building.
So promoting, accepting, using all types of people with a #reward helps increment #trust slowly in the #Fediverse. Let me know what you think of the picture - #FreeSchool
#AltText
An edited picture (from other rewards system) - not real but re-edited towards #respect / #reward given n social for Mastodon #ecosystem etc by sending reward of some kind (doesn't have to be #crypto).
Important parts of Text say "How do I contribute to websites and creators?"
and "puts your privacy over #BigTech's profit... With rewards, you can directly #support websites and #creators"
So creators and people can all get together more and not be so #scared online...
Source re-edited from Brave Rewards:
https://brave.com/brave-rewards/
Kaye Menner sold a Jigsaw Puzzle - 18" x 24" (500 Pieces) to a buyer from Dorking, Surrey (United Kingdom). Thanks to the buyer.
One of my best selling images...
Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:
https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/washing-machines-of-yesteryear-kaye-menner.html https://buff.ly/20pDglQ
#photography #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
Sorry that's much like partially shooting yourself in the foot and then blaming rich people / bad leaders.
So you if you don't see Banks as bad / funding wars - there is something seriously wrong. If you're keeping money there and going to protest - no matter how hard you #protest your money is with them and doing bad things overnight.
(Appreciate the reply by the way / let's try work on this)
I know alternatives are seemingly few or hard to do but don't let that stop you trying for those things and not just protesting -
*This* more-human part or real #boycott is part of the REAL "protest" (I.E. other protests are real but THEY ARE *JUST PROTEST* as in 'asking' / begging constantly for them to change.
Protest in many senses we know is low change / 💯 % not going to happen (a lot of protest in history!) so by not moving what power / money (or things similar) out of their control / abuse) this is basically not clever protest
(measurably not just my opinion - there is a direct power construct to paying for #war and #bad things).
I don't think you got it as much as this above (with respect) so I'm adding this...
I'm saying yes to your list as partially good but not physically changing enough in core areas. (d it all but don't avoid the more core things and not just 'support' stuff which will be infinite unless your change the core).
The picture (newer version + others added) was trying to show we are born into all this / part of the system and showing you (the public) are part of it's thinking too if you are thinking you are not part of fascist structures (the whole #State and #Bank #hierachy / #authority / #monopoly).
I know you don't want to label yourself / agree you're part of #fascism BUT if people are using banks / bad maths / cheating systems and think it's ok and just neutral numbers paying each other less calue THEN YOU ARE PART OF FASCISM AND NEED TO COME OUT OF THAT THINKING!...
VICTIMS
*I do blame* victims AFTER they know this and continue. While all victims should have a chance and need time - some are WAY TOO COMFORTABLE and went into settling for it.
No longer victim here as bourgeois (LOTS of people here very comfortable)... *and they* play their part in I'm a victim by going to the same theater or opera / shops / institutes / city.
And they think all people online are doubtful - might as well did you're own grave that way.
When the crowd pays to go in and boo the actors and want to pay bad people for their goods (and then complain). Just playing into it too much.
So there's a measurable limit even to "victim" I'm sympathetic for (to a limit), but not settling comfortably into and not even in blaming-mode constantly helps (which is a lot of #Fediverse too).
They spend 100's of hours (go check all the hashtags - again it's measurable) - but nearly nothing on forging friends... all the Tech people work on machines, code and then blame #Musk for using it. Short examples like that (more of a long chain but you get the picture).
"It's not our fault we don't like giving time to other humans online or offline and play with PlayStation Linux all day, all our life..."
#Trump #Musk bla bla bla hashtags and near-0 on building #trust / #friendship / giving #time to random people here between themselves. And poor you now getting a long detailed reasoning you might avoid replying.
Just blame and #caturday cat pics?
Na. Not working.
HOPE THAT'S CLEARER FOR YOU!
🧑🤝🧑 + 🏦 🤑 = FASCISM HIERARCHY / AUTHORITY / POWER / MUSK or whoever
Even using #Amazon back ends to fuel instances without non-interactive human instances to change... is passing time like watching one-way TV news and never using ourselves / adding others almost whoever they are.
SO WHAT NOW -
Let me know where we can go for participating in circles...
Let me know what you think of each part of this.
We're all recovering but #Mastodon etc as a #social engine is largely empty software without a kind of department dedicated to actually doing social on any deeper level than complaining - an organized social - not one way stuff ... our stuff - 2-way into deeper things, not just text but audio chat that people can dedicate to every days as part of the whole #therapy of life. And create our way out of it into the new (not spread their crap).
My whole #FreeSchool account shows I've genuinely tried to find and #failed to find much and many are not interested.
I appreciate your reply and this isn't damning you or to win in the end an argument...
....unless you choose to end it here.
About resources:
I think it is more #emotionally yes and not having will-power needs working on to encourage each other (hence having chats with people and not necessarily having to say everything but enough to really push past alone-ism)- time seems plenty for many (you can tell but their profile posts)
It's the #will or constancy in others encouraging / asking for / seeing and accepting others as imperfect (naturally) and not being so doubtful - as that scuppers any chances too.
Wwithout even testing people out people have resigned / accept fascism and even play their part.
Part of the answer we need to do is in testing and solving real communication - no more bashing #trump #ETC.
Agree? / Disagree?
Want to work on it?
⬆️ These are clear questions -
please don't avoid.
Congratulations to the newest batch of @NGIZero fediverse ⁂ projects to receive grants! Seeing that 20% of the 29 projects in this round are #fediverse projects is exciting:
#Flohmarkt (https://nlnet.nl/project/Flohmarkt)
#Hubzilla (https://nlnet.nl/project/Hubzilla-Superblock)
#GoToSocial (https://nlnet.nl/project/GoToSocial-1.0)
#Drupal (@drupal, @swentel https://nlnet.nl/project/Drupal-AP-recipes)
#Mirlo (@mirlo https://nlnet.nl/project/Mirlo)
#GoActivityPub (@mariusor https://nlnet.nl/project/GoActivityPub)
Here's the announcement https://mastodon.xyz/@NGIZero/115384471765057337
#Yellow #Dahlia #Orb Print by Kaye Menner #Photography #prints #lovely #products at:
https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/yellow-dahlia-orb-kaye-menner.html
#sphere #floral #floralorb #flora #round #ornamental #pretty #yellowtones #yellowwhiteorb, #creamyelloworb, #creambackground, #lotsproducts #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
Do you have a GitHub account?
One of the conversations at #FediForum revolved around accessibility for non-techies in the Open Social Web. One of the barriers raised was the reliance on spaces built for developers, such as GitHub. So, we're wondering, how many people on the Fediverse have a GitHub account?
Please boost so more people can interact!
#Poll #GitHub #Fediverse #SocialWeb #Mastodon #Tech
| I do: | 274 |
| I don't: | 144 |
| I do, but don't use it: | 147 |
| I don't, but I would: | 3 |
Today, @joynewacc and I had the pleasure of talking to the families behind four Mastodon accounts from Gaza over video chat and we’re very happy to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Talal Naser – https://mastodon.social/@tallalnaser1990
• Mohanad Alqadi – https://mastodon.social/@mohanad22
• Baraa family – https://mastodon.social/@baraa1998
• Sobhi – https://mastodon.social/@Sobhalgadi
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
Another edition of Scrolls is now out. Go take a look! 📜 👀
https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-10-17
There's a lot of great links (as always), and I have everyone below to thank! Those mentioned below have made this week's writeup as fun and unique as ever.
@bojidar_bg @jaz @xandra @susam @nova @readbeanicecream @mdhughes @anubiarts @nopatience @JohnHammond @ana @ragman @qsky @grimalkina @ricci @clarigaricus @xero @gayint @jaz @Mikal @sylvia
*#Fediverse vs. #BigTech*
Ich bin seit Längerem nur noch hier aktiv.
Die #Technofeudalisten wie #Musk und #Zuckerberg zu unterstützen mit Beiträgen ist, wie (neue) Studien zeugen, #Demokratiefeindlich und #Gesundheitsgefährdend (#MentalHealth).
Zudem lohnt es sich, wie @marquito betont, sich mit der #Reichweitenlügen-Thematik auseinanderzusetzen:
boostedHello everyone,
@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to four lovely people from Gaza today over video chat and we’d like to welcome them to the Gaza Verified family.
They are:
• Mohamed Naji – @mohamednaji
• Rania Rizq – @Rania
• Ibrahim – @ibrahim46
• Islam and her family – @eslamradwan1_D_5
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
Hier noch mal für viele #NeuHier und auch denen die es nicht sehen. Das
So sieht das Fediverse in Wirklichkeit aus.
So happy to see that we have three full days of verification interviews lined up (starting today) and that slots are already filling up for next Tuesday (we hold the interviews on weekdays) :)
https://gaza-verified.org/people/#scheduled-for-verification
There are a few niggles I’m working on ironing out and a few improvements I’ve got lined up to improve the experience but the main functionality seems to be working 🤞
If you are from Gaza and want your Mastodon account verified so we can protect it from attacks and protect you from scammers, please schedule a verification interview:
https://gaza-verified.org/join/
#Gaza #Palestine #Mastodon #fediverse #GazaVerified #FreePalestine
Hey everyone, the new Gaza Verified web site is now live!
If you’ve been waiting for verification, you can now sign up for a video call (the first ones will be tomorrow).
#Halloween in the #Woods by Kaye Menner Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:
https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/halloween-in-the-woods-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html
#happyhalloween #witch #witchonbroom #moon #bats #spiderwebs #pumpkins #halloweenpumpkins #jackolanterns #handdigital #notai #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
Fediverse Report 138 - this week's #fediverse news
- a closer look at the Tumblr-like platform Wafrn, which connects to both #activitypub and #atproto. Their latest update allows people to migrate their #bluesky account to wafrn, joining the fediverse while staying connected to their bluesky network
- @loops is getting closer to joining the fediverse
Read at: https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-138/
Yes, and I was, I guess, playing devil's advocate there.
I have already decided I will not help the NGO do the kind of marketing research I know they really need/could use, because it is not ethical on the #Fediverse.
But I did start doing the sort of qualitative market analysis which can help their volunteers to use built-in #Fedi tools (hashtags, follows) to become more engaged with fedizens who share their own affinities already — mostly based on your previous response.
The fall poll 😂
It's that time of year again.
Visitors in many apartments and houses.
Yes, we're talking about spiders 🕷️🕸️
How do you feel about them?
Are you afraid of spiders?
A boost for more results would be nice
Comments would also be cool 😁
#mastodon #fediverse #autumn #spiders #fear #survey #comments #comment #life #apartment #boost #spider #poll
| Yes, I am afraid.: | 7 |
| No, I'm not afraid.: | 21 |
| I don't care about them.: | 8 |
| I'll just carry them out.: | 22 |
#Free #silhouette #animal of #animals #organisms etc for #science etc
Great for #publications and #presentations! 🖼️
Also on #Fediverse the creator!
@phylopic
#science #biology #entomology
#phylopic #research #academia #ScienceResources
#creatures #insects #silhouette #animal #science #art
@UlrikeHahn
#Fediverse is #failing (said in positive way but it's negative progress)
Look at my account if you want the other reasons and evidence why
TLDR example: We have empty social / just the software.
NOBODY IS REALLY PUMPING SOCIAL FOR SOCIAL. It's just software and people staying unsocial...
<--- bookmark it
⬆️ and let me know when it's untrue when there is dedicated Mastodon or other people out there DOING THE SOCIAL / TURNING THE COMMUNITY POT!
Again my account has been looking / failing also FOR YEARS!
So I know how crushing it is EVERY DAY I'm trying.
#Free #images of #animals #organisms etc
Great for #pics#scientific #publications and #presentations! 🖼️
Also on #Fediverse the creator!
@phylopic
#CreativeCommons #CC license
means sometimes attribution / mention is needed
e.g. https://www.phylopic.org/images/9e1615e2-4fc8-4967-8a3a-baff830fef51/bombina-variegata
#science #biology #entomology
#phylopic #research #academia #ScienceResources
#creatures #insects #silhouette #animal #science #art