If you know someone who wants to move their account from one Mastodon server to another, here's an easy-to-understand step-by-step guide:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

It tries to answer all the questions people have about transferring Mastodon accounts. If I've missed something let me know 🙂

If you know someone looking for a server to move to, here's a human curated site listing good reliable servers:

➡️ https://fedi.garden

#FediTips #Mastodon

#homelab housekeeping sunday has been very productive! #mastodon upgraded from v4.3.17 all the way to v4.5.9! getting back on that horse...

still to do:
- get honcho memory working (mainly need to add a pgvector database)
- decom old postgresql things, confirm backups work (also need to test restore)
- migrate off bitnami mysql helm chart

WEW #MASTODON ON CLOUDNATIVE-PG! FINALLY OFF #BITNAMI at least for #postgres. #cnpg

Mastodon gets €614k from the Sovereign Tech Fund to improve Fediverse infrastructure, including blocklists, media storage, and E2EE messaging. 🌐
€90k funds interoperable FOSS, with open protocols, admin control, and transparent data processing across decentralized platforms. 🔍

@Mastodon

🔗 https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

#TechNews #Mastodon #Fediverse #SovereignTechFund #OpenSource #ActivityPub #E2EE #Decentralization #Privacy #Interoperability #FOSS #Transparency #Security #OpenWeb #DigitalRights

PC Mag: Mastodon Plans End-to-End Encryption for Private Messages. “Decentralized social media platform Mastodon plans on adopting its own end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for private messages. Mastodon announced the upcoming feature in a blog post about receiving €614,000 ($724,000) from the Sovereign Tech Fund, an effort backed by the German government to support open-source software.”

Is your timeline too empty or too full? Are you seeing too many boosts? Is there an account you don't want to miss? Are there topics you want to hide?

Here's a guide to all the different ways to customise your Mastodon timeline so that it shows what you want it to and hides what you don't want:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/does-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-use-algorithms-does-it-start-pushing-stuff-at-me-based-on-my-interactions

#FediTips #Mastodon

Hey Bluesky users... 🙋‍♂️

Good day to try Mastodon. We won't bite.

Join a server. We call them instances. Here are few great choices:

mstdn.social: https://mstdn.social/auth/sign_up A really great choice! EU based and run by @stux. Cats!

Vivaldi: https://social.vivaldi.net/about Yes, Vivaldi the browser, but you don't need the browser.

infosec.exchange: https://infosec.exchange/auth/sign_up Techies! Run by @jerry

Or just go to https://joinmastodon.org and pick one. It is hard to go wrong.

#Mastodon #Bluesky

Sovereign Tech Agency funding

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

#FOSS #privacy #cybersecurity #Mastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Here is your usual reminder to regularly back up your #Mastodon user data (from settings/export).

This is particularly important for users of European instances - because if the #EuropeanUnion really makes age verification for social media mandatory, I suspect that a lot of admins will close their instances down rather than take on the legal risk.

#EUDIWallet

E2EE is coming to Mastodon. And it’s long overdue. Not until next year, but at least it’s on the horizon.

On one hand, it’s a little scary seeing Mastodon features receiving large sums of money for features and improvements. On the other, it’s meaningful to see Mastodon maturing.

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/04/15/mastodon-to-get-e2ee-for-private-messages-thanks-to-sovereign-tech-fund/

#Privacy #Mastodon #InfoSec #E2EE #Encryption #PrivateMessaging #DM

#Mastodon has gone mainstream: love scams involving ‘US officers’ 🤮 , credit fraud, and phishing attempts by supposed moderators.

The good news: our moderators are real people and are actively on the ball. Accounts like these don’t last long.

If you have such follow requests: #report them *before* blocking. So you help that others get protected.

The Retro Gaiden 'About' page is full of helpful information for both new and existing users, including listing all the ways you can support this instance!

https://retro-gaiden.com/about

#Mastodon #Retro #SocialMedia

Today (April 15th, 2026) is the two year anniversary of Retro Gaiden!

Here's a #Patreon post I wrote to commemorate the occasion:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/155680250?pr=true

Retro Gaiden: https://retro-gaiden.com

#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #OpenSource

@haubles @stux

1/4

I’m looking for a little help about dealing with the seemingly mass attack of Russian bots. What's the best way of handling this?

I report this Russian propaganda as 'Something Else' and bookmark a post, so that I can later see if the account is still running, then I block the account. I also leave the checkbox on, for the server itself to receive my report

Many accounts are not suspended

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Spam #Propaganda #ActivityPub #Russia #Putin #Ukraine #EU

Great new investments in Mastodon, which will be used for several things including E2EE , nice 👍
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/
#mastodon #e2ee #fediverse #socialmedia

Congratulations to the @Mastodon team, and huge thanks to the @sovtechfund!

"Mastodon’s mission is to connect the world through thriving online communities, and this investment enables us to do that by providing funding for solutions to some key infrastructure challenges faced within the Fediverse ecosystem."

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

via https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116402716327956884

#mastodon #fediverse

Where are you? 🙏
Even your words are gone… and it hurts 😭
We are still trying to survive, but time is running out.
In just a few days, my children and I may have nowhere to go.
I urgently need 🚨 $250 🚨 to pay rent and secure a simple shelter for us.
Please don’t leave us alone 🙏
Even a small donation or a share could save us.
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#gazaverified #Mastodon #helpgaza #Donate #HelpFamilies #Art #gaza #palestine

@AngelaScholder So, Karen, just so you understand the consequences of your actions:

Because you reported this post (https://mastodon.energy/@AngelaScholder/116397038832441549) by @joynewacc for an erroneously autocompleted hashtag (#doctor -> #doctorWho), a mastodon.social moderator *deleted her post*.

Yes, read that again: the post of a Palestinian, suffering through genocide in Gaza and trying to share her experience – someone who is, moreover, a founding team member of Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/team/) – was *deleted* for a stupid hashtag that some white Karen in the West got distressed about.

This is so fucking wrong in so many ways that I don’t know where to begin.

I want to know:

1. Is it mastodon.social policy to just go ahead and delete the posts of its members or was this a moderator acting out of spite against a Palestinian? (Or is everyone on mastodon.social at risk of having their posts deleted if moderators don’t agree with the hashtags they use?)

2. If this is not mastodon.social policy, I’d like to know what action will be taken regarding this moderation action and the moderator responsible and what will change internally to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen again.

Israel is already doing their best to erase Palestinians. The least we can do is to not help them by literally deleting the posts of Palestinians on the fediverse. Thank goodness hashtags weren’t a thing in the days of Anne Frank because clearly some of you would have burned her diary had she used the wrong one by mistake.

3. Can we all, please, have some fucking basic decency and maintain perspective when dealing with people suffering through genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid? It’s a pretty low bar for humanity.

And, whatever you do, do not be this Karen.

Check your bloody privilege.

And fuck your hashtag.

We’re talking about human lives here.

CC @staff

#Gaza #Palestine #mastodon #fediverse #moderation #mastodonSocial #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism

Alt...

Screenshot of email Joy received from mastodon.social alerting her that her post has been deleted by a mastodon.social moderator for using a “wrong hashtag”.

With the new features that have come to #PureBlog over the last few releases, I've updated the "Title-less Notes" how to guide that shows how to have a proper separate notes page, with its own feed.

It even includes an optional #Mastodon cross-poster!

https://pureblog.org/how-to-create-a-titleless-notes-page

@anjara

Great idea, in principal:

*How To Use #WordPress + #ActivityPub for #ContentCreation #Fediverse #Blogging

(1/n)

1. Create free #Anjara account

2. Activate #WordPress blog (included for free)

3. Write posts, just as usual

4. **Your posts appear in #Mastodon timelines**.
Your followers don't have to visit your blog.

Your content comes to them, in their feed."

"**In addition you get: **

- Email (@anjara.org)

- Cloud storage (#Nextcloud)

...

I'm sympathetic to folks who want better discovery tool on fediverse but I'll never truly understand. I love being in the wild west and hunting for content and collecting follows and content sources. Anything that hands me content I quickly loose interest it.

Tiktok never held my interest even trying to get the algo to give me things I want. It never worked and I gave it several week of trying.

#mastodon #fediverse

If you follow someone whose own posts are good but they boost too much, you can hide just their boosts if you want:

1. Go to their profile page
2. Click the ⋯ icon
3. Click "Hide boosts"

(If you change your mind, go back to their profile and click "Show boosts" instead.)

#FediTips #Mastodon

This is how much custom CSS I’ve applied to Retro Gaiden to get it to look the way it does. It’s kind of nuts.

#Mastodon

Before starting Retro Gaiden, I looked for a great retro-themed #Fediverse instance to join & promote. I fully expected to find one.

I did not.

Every instance I found was permeated with politics & social justice commentary. Not to mention, they all had an identical look. Plain and boring. They're all "retro" in name only.

Retro Gaiden is simply the best retro-themed #Mastodon server on the internet and it's not even close.

https://retro-gaiden.com

#SocialMedia #RetroGaming

If I was to nominate the two things I find most striking about Mastodon they'd be:

1. the ability to edit posts after posting; this (as my followers will know) is a facility that I use a lot (and thanks to my great crew of typo spotters);

2. the norm of civility that we all maintain; of course trolling & slamming is not completely absent, but at least in my timeline & discussions/conversations civility have been the over-riding characteristic of my exchanges.

#Mastodon #civility #SocialMedia

⚠️ If you @ someone in a post on Mastodon, that person will be notified and they will be able to see that post. This happens no matter what visibility you're using for your post, even if it's a DM or a followers-only post.

So, be really careful if you @ someone!

If you want to mention an account without the account seeing the post, replace the @ signs with the word AT before you publish, and make sure you're using a non-public visibility like followers-only or DMs.

#FediTips #Mastodon

Today's #mastodon upgrade was another very rough ride.

Transforming destructuring to the configured target environment ("chrome64", "edge79", "es2020", "firefox67", "safari12" + 2 overrides) is not supported yet
5815 | function handleMessage(event) {
5816 | const {
5817 | data: { locale, path }
| ^
5818 | } = event;
5819 | void loadData(locale, path);

at getRollupError (file:///home/mastodon/mastodon/node_modules/vite/node_modules/rollup/dist/es/shared/parseAst.js:406:41)
at file:///home/mastodon/mastodon/node_modules/vite/node_modules/rollup/dist/es/shared/node-entry.js:23863:39
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:104:5)
at async catchUnfinishedHookActions (file:///home/mastodon/mastodon/node_modules/vite/node_modules/rollup/dist/es/shared/node-entry.js:23321:16)
at async rollupInternal (file:///home/mastodon/mastodon/node_modules/vite/node_modules/rollup/dist/es/shared/node-entry.js:23846:5)
at async buildEnvironment (file:///home/mastodon/mastodon/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/config.js:33545:12)
at async Object.build (file:///home/mastodon/mastodon/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/config.js:33904:19)
at async Object.buildApp (file:///home/mastodon/mastodon/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/config.js:33901:153)
at async CAC.<anonymous> (file:///home/mastodon/mastodon/node_modules/vite/dist/node/cli.js:629:3)
error Command failed with exit code 1.

pid 82788 exit 1
Build with Vite failed! ❌

I ended up having to manually disable the legacy plugin in vite.config.mts and comment out polyfill in app/views/layouts/application.html.haml before i could get anything even to compile on freebsd --

Probably about time to ditch this and look for a more lightweight fediverse server that isn't so.... webby?

My daughter, Miyu, created a graphic for my #Mastodon instance. I love it! Can you tell I'm a Star Trek fan?

https://hear-me.social/about

#startrek @georgetakei @OnlyTheJaneway @GoodAaron @nocontexttrek @JeriLRyan @robertdmcneill

“Narrative violence” cry the victims committing actual violence on a daily basis.

“Zionism” (n): the standard unit of human depravity.

Report and block (harassment, bot, posts reply and blocks, ban evasion): @Calderon

#zionism #israel #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #genocide #hasbara #fediverse #mastodon #fediblock

Alt...

Fediverse reply by depraved anonymous Zionist hasbara account: Calderon @Calderon@infosec.exchange 13m @aral ANTONS L BELSE ANTIZIONIST LIBELS NARRATIVE VIOLENCE "COLONIZER" NOUN Frames Israeli Jews as foreign intruders by drawing on Nazi-Soviet propaganda that casts Jews as "alien intruders" or symbols of "Western imperialism." "APARTHEID" ADJECTIVE Appropriates the moral prestige of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle to recycle older anti-Judaic canards of Jews being inherently "exclusive," "chosen," or supremacist. "GENOCIDE" VERB Reworks Western settler-colonial discourse to redefine genocide from an intent-based crime into a permanent "structure" or "process," casting Israel's existence itself as genocidal.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589

here it goes:

what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.

so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?

people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.

the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.

Chris López boosted

Elena Rossini ⁂ » 🌐 2026-04-08
@_elena@mastodon.social

Dear Fedi friends,

Next week I have the honor of doing a presentation advocating for the Fediverse in a really prestigious venue (I can't share more now, but I will after it takes place).

I'm currently working on slides and I would love to hear testimonies from YOU. Why the Fediverse is so special to you in contrast to Big Tech platforms (bonus points if you speak French & can reply en français).

I'll share a selection of your testimonies in my slideshow presentation.

Merci beaucoup ❤️

#Productivity #Obsidian #PKM

For me, it's a note outlining how my home network is set up. local names, IP addresses, SSH usernames, etc.

So many things are going on (including this #Mastodon instance) that it's impossible to keep track of them.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nekoow7/116364897860326620

I've seen some great success stories with #MutualAid and have been warmed by the generosity and support that define #Mastodon and the larger #Fediverse. Today, as we all reel from the knowledge that life will only get harder now, I wonder if you're able to help make today a little easier for Yureii.