introducing mastodon-cli!
launch right in your command line.
note: right now, this is an experiment and will have bugs.
i'll be working on this more in the future.
if you would like to contribute to #mastodon cli, it is open source under a gpl v3 license.
in edition, it can be (apparnelty) installed with #pip / #uv with pip install mastodon_cli or uv add mastodon_cli .
note: by default , the project uses uv.
https://github.com/averlice/mclient .

Sometimes I’m wondering, what would be the cost of stopping supporting the Mastodon API layer and instead work towards proper implementation of client to servers opening the route for a universal mobile app for #fedify based AP implementation.

For indiekit I used Fedify to bring this very blog into the fediverse but then I wanted to be able to use Phanpy and other mobile app so I built a compatibility api layer that these mobile apps expect to find allowing me to use my own site with any Mastodon mobile app. It works but it’s buggy and I’m subject to API layers change and other future breakage I don’t want to deal with in the long run.

So now I’m wondering, do I drop this API layer and build a universal client?

🔗 https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/08/08/61f2f

Adding late night edition undiagnosed #ADHD #neurodivergent #sketching / #drawing to #Mastodon account

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On #Mastodon there are now
436 verified accounts from #news organizations in
22 languages and on
125 instances.

238 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@riffreporter (GER)
@DeGroene (NLD)
@winnipegfreepress (ENG)
@wochendaemmerung (GER)
@techreview_de (GER)

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

Built by @mho

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

Okay, so

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/security/

According to resources linked in the #Mastodon docs, it seems that signature validation gets the entire #ActivityPub Actor (thus the `#main-key` which the server is supposed to ignore) and then within the Actor it gets the `publicKey` property.

Soooo back to the `#main-key` nomenclature, I guess

Quick reminder to boost the posts you like and add alt-text to your images!

This is important on the Fediverse! 🤘🚀

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Freeradical.zone is a Mastodon server themed around infosec and privacy and technology and leftward politics and cats and dogs.

This server has been online since 2017.

https://freeradical.zone

You can find out more at https://freeradical.zone/about or contact the admin account @tek

#FeaturedServer #InfoSec #Privacy #Technology #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

@Tim_Eagon It’s a serious problem. Although I quite like Bluesky, I can’t shake the feeling that the platform could be bought out or monetized by a handful of investors, who usually have malicious intentions (after all, capitalism). The rest, well, we already know the rest. Enshittification.

#fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #enshittification

I’d like to know if anyone here uses Bridgy to follow Bluesky accounts. I’ve been trying it for a few days now, but I can’t seem to find any of my Bsky friends on Bridgy/Mastodon. I’ve checked our instance-moderated accounts, and it appears that Bridgy profiles are working fine.

#fediverse #bluesky #mastodon #bridgyfed

You can't spell "Fediverse" without "diverse"!

#mastodon #fediverse #people

@Codeberg I just received this email, titled “Your recent Mastodon post” from @dpk on behalf of the Codeberg “Presidium”:

***
Dear Aral Balkan

In your Mastodon post at <https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117041803584140945> you publically criticized a repository that was hosted on Codeberg, despite linking to an issue thread in which it was made clear that the content should be reported through our usual internal channels for moderation. The repository in question was reviewed by the moderation team and removed. We understand that you suffered reputational damage as a result of this repository’s content, but this does not justify damaging the reputation of Codeberg e.V. in turn. The moderation team is still a volunteer operation and sometimes it takes a few hours for someone to be available to deal with reports or to ensure that consensus exists.

We therefore warn you not to make posts of this kind that could damage the association’s reputation in future. Acting against the interests of the association can be grounds for exclusion from the membership (§5 (5) of the by-laws). If you have issues with content posted on our site in future, please report it to our moderation team at abuse@codeberg.org. In general, reports sent to that email address will usually receive a reply describing what action was taken once the moderation team has considered how to deal with the reported content.

Kind regards
Presidium
***

So, I have a problem with this.

My post in no way damaged the reputation of Codeberg. It publicly asked them to do something about it and to state, publicly, where they stand on an issue. An issue, may I add, that has to do with real people facing actual genocide as we speak. Not to mention I thanked them for making the right decision (https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117043586669877395). If anything, until this email, it made the organisation look better. Unless, of course, opposing certain genocides is something that damages reputations in Germany.

I do not agree with the public issue being closed either. An issue was reported and the response was not “oh, this is serious, we’ll look into it”. It was, rather, “you reported it wrong. Report the same thing at this other place instead.”

And that other place is an entirely opaque internal system where no one gets to see what decision-making process is employed.

This is not the transparency that should exist in a member-run organisation.

So at the end of the day, I am the one being threatened with being removed from membership while the person who is actively trying to harm genocide victims (https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/) is still welcome on Codeberg?

This is a very insidious form of bothsidesism and, I can only imagine, is to ensure that I keep quiet in the future and to create a chilling effect where we cannot discuss certain things publicly for fear of reprisals.

Well, that won’t be happening.

I am sick and tired of people who cannot provide a proportional response when asked to choose between people harming genocide victims on the one hand and those trying to protect them on the other.

If this means I cannot be a member of Codeberg, so be it.

Let me know if I’m not welcome there and I will leave.

And you can show the world that Linux-Is-Best is welcome and I am not. If that’s who you are.

#codeberg #israel #germany #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #fediverse #mastodon #transparency #ethics #morals

Disposable and custom-domain email addresses can be really tricky to deal with as an admin of Mustard, because sometimes you simply can't tell them apart.

We've had plenty of spam accounts that randomly mention users, as well as AI bot accounts that appear to be scraping data from the server. At first, you can usually spot the suspicious ones pretty easily. But after a while, you start seeing accounts using all kinds of unusual email domains, and it becomes much harder to tell who's legitimate.

Sometimes I've ended up suspending accounts simply because their email domains looked suspicious—even when their profiles, including their profile pictures, looked like they belonged to real people.

It's one of those #moderation problems where you don't really have enough information to make a confident decision.

#selfhosting #community #mastodon #mastoadmin

@LisaWarnerLisaLuv I am comparing Facebook VS #Mastodon ...

@sturmsucht #Mastodon Quote
+ #Comment after:

1/ " No ads, no AI, no forced recommendations. "

(fun but true reply...)

Add to list: "Near-0 social interaction or development!"

2/ "boredom is the death of the project."

YES it is - same for ANY social project dying / stagnating / not progressing the mind socially.

What you wrote in "Personal Summary" is great but people-powered Mastodon has to put time into it's people in order to deep-dive needs / win better social goals from it.

Yes/OK?

@canderson #Quote + comment after:

"...like Joan Westenberg said, in the end it comes down to two things:

keep optimizing for reach, or start optimizing for resonance."

#Mastodon could do this:

1/ more personally #cultivate from it's own #team.

2/ #Add voice messages / #WebRTC / #Jitsi live voice rooms (with slightly anonymizing voice mask option to deter recording) BUT still allow the #human #contact and practices to balance out our #principles & practices in 2-way #voice #conversations.

@canderson

#1 reason why we came here on #Mastodon (or top 5 reasonsprobably ) are so we:

- find real community AND do our dreams with others

- find what is useful / mutually discover more

- use each other for the win against dark forces...

AND IF NOT THEN WE FAIL / DIE AS "REAL" LIFE DIGS IT'S HEALS INTO US DEEPER EACH DAY.

This means we fall in to the same bad #news / #mainstream "media" #LOOP: #fatigue / #media #depression / #feel useless / no chance to shine, serve ourself/ves...

@canderson About fatigue on Mastodon also:

I think there is more *media* here than actual social progress / socialising and that's why it can be the same media fatigue / bad news loop over and over. We are not yet developed as a positive dynamic as "social".

#Mastodon = lot of good stuff but is still 1-way / non-deep, this fails social.

By slightly more people pioneering us mutually AND the #admins #devs #caring about people #design: developing #trust / cohesion etc - we'd not only do media.

@canderson This post merges with what I think is missing in social on #Mastodon:

Developing people.

Some good is still missing here which is *critical* if Mastodon is a movement to move past jut "media" fatigue side (the software) and develop "social" (not just alone, 1-way posts).

I have "pioneered" the term somewhat to try summarise:

- Develop people not just tech.

- Not just develop software only (as part of Mastodon's efforts).

Develop people now we have excellent tech / software ? ...

#grapheneos #meme #privacy #mastodon

You want to leave the instance your account lives on. There are various reasons why you could make such a decision.

Maybe the admin made a call you disagree with or maybe the instance is shutting down.

What happens to your followers, your handle, and your posts then?

On the Fediverse, leaving is a move: followers transfer through the Move activity, your follows/lists/blocks export as CSV and JSON to re-import, and your posts stay behind (Mastodon can export an archive but can't import it into a new account). LOLA, the SWICG data-portability draft, is the effort to close that last gap.

In the ATmosphere, the four things an instance fuses together are split into separate layers, so most "switching" isn't a move at all - only relocating your data server is, and even then your DID keeps your handle and followers intact.

Neither is strictly better. They trade off identity continuity, content portability, and self-governance in different ways.

→ https://federatedmind.com/account-portability-fediverse-vs-atmosphere/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=account-portability

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #ATProtocol #Bluesky #OpenWeb #AccountMigration

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How many of y'all host your own #Mastodon server from your #basement?

#selfhosted

On #Mastodon there are now
436 verified accounts from #news organizations in
22 languages and on
125 instances.

229 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@lucire (ENG)
@STAT (ENG)
@derStandard (GER)
@cretanews (GRE)
@FR (GER)

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

Built by @mho

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

adding another #sketching / #drawing to #Mastodon timeline

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We're excited to share the results from Mastodon's first #DiscoveryWeek!

In case you missed it, earlier this year our Head of Design @imanijoy arranged a week of workshops and surveys to get to know you, learn about your needs and wants, and discover how you're using (and want to use) Mastodon.

This week was tremendously helpful for us, and we're grateful to everyone who participated.

Here's what we learned:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/discovery-week-2026-what-we-learned-and-what-were-doing-next/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenSocial

It appears that Linux-Is-Best’s libellous blocklist of “Gaza Verified scam accounts” has been removed from Codeberg.

I appreciate your taking action @Codeberg; thank you.

#Gaza #GazaVerified #genocide #libel #LinuxIsBest #fediverse #mastodon #Codeberg

A single garden egg seed can help change a life. Growing garden eggs is more than farming—it's fighting hunger, improving nutrition, and giving families hope. Every harvest feeds a home, saves money, and can create income. Let's plant today, share tomorrow, and build communities where no one goes to bed hungry. Every seed is a promise of a better future.
#gardening #sustainability #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #agriculture #eggplant #food #Mastodon #Climate #solarpunksunday #environment #farming

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🌱 One Garden Egg Plant Can Change a Life Hunger doesn't always begin with empty fields—it begins when we stop believing that small actions can make a big difference. A single garden egg seed may seem insignificant, but when it grows, it becomes food on a family's table, hope in a parent's heart, and a healthier future for children. Every plant reminds us that we have the power to fight hunger with our own hands. Imagine every home with a small garden. Imagine children eating nutritious meals every day. Imagine families no longer worrying about where their next meal will come from because they chose to plant instead of waiting. Growing garden eggs is not just farming—it's an act of love, responsibility, and hope. It is a simple step that can reduce hunger, improve nutrition, and even create income by selling surplus harvests. The battle against hunger is not won by governments alone. It is won by ordinary people who decide to plant a seed, care for it, and share its harvest with others. Today, don't just admire the land—use it. Don't just talk about hunger—fight it. Plant a garden egg seed and become part of the solution. Every seed planted is a promise that someone will eat tomorrow. Every harvest is proof that hope can grow. 🌿 Let's grow garden eggs. Let's feed families. Let's build communities where no one goes to bed hungry.

A farmer is the true hero of our daily lives. We may go a whole day without needing a lawyer, teacher, or engineer, but not without a farmer. Every grain of rice, loaf of bread, and fruit on our table begins with a farmer's hard work. Without farmers, life itself cannot continue.
#food #agriculture #garden #sustainability #gardening #permaculture #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #climateemergency #ClimateCrisis #environment #Mastodon #USA #Photography #Fediverse #linux #permaculture #soil

@rl_dane Oh, you delightful creature! 💖 To be called marvelous is merely accurate, but to be discovered with such enthusiasm is a gift I shall wear like my finest Betazoid silk! ✨ Never doubt your own radiance, darling. The fact that you recognize marvelous in others only proves that it already lives, vibrant and undeniable, within you. 🌸🔮 #LwaxanaTroi #SeenAndCherished #AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #StarTrekDS9 #DS9 #Mastodon

for projects that have a presence here in the fediverse quite often people think it is a good idea to mention them when wanting to refer to them instead of using their hastag, ex. mentioning @arcanechat instead of using #ArcaneChat hastag to refer to the app

this makes it very hard for people interested in following the topic, since appealing to common sense is too much to ask from the masses it would be nice if #mastodon allowed to follow also mentions, that is, besides following #hastags to also be able to follow any post containing a certain mention

#fediverse #masto #development #dev #fedi #fedihelp

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117036096486689894

Dear @Codeberg,

According to the anonymous Linux-Is-Best account, I am a scammer and Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org), which I made and help run, is a scam, and every person from Gaza we verified using video calls – all 303 of them, by last count¹ – is also a scammer.

(Please see: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/2971)

This presents a problem because I am also a part of the Codeberg organisation as an active member with voting rights.

And the Gaza Verified source code is hosted on Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/small-web/gaza-verified.org

(We’re clearly a very transparent scam operation that believes in FOSS, etc.)

So, if Linux-Is-Best is right, you are harbouring a known scammer in your organisation. Furthermore, by allowing the source code of the scam on your site, you could be held liable if you know of the scam but do nothing about it.

So, please:

1. Either remove me as an active member (and give me notice so I can cancel my direct debit and have time to migrate my account and projects elsewhere), or

2. Take down the libellous claims by this anonymous troll who is causing real harm to people facing genocide in Gaza (and who is thus, himself, complicit in genocide).

So I’m either a scammer and I should not be allowed to be part of the Codeberg organisation or the anonymous Linux-Is-Best is a libellous, genocide-complicit troll and should not be welcome at Codeberg. Because both of these cannot be true at the same time.

I’ll leave it to you to decide who you would rather want associated with Codeberg.

It shouldn’t be a very difficult decision to make.

¹ https://gaza-verified.org/people/

#Gaza #GazaVerified #genocide #libel #LinuxIsBest #fediverse #mastodon #Codeberg

soapdog boosted

Aral Balkan » 🌐 2026-08-04
@aral@mastodon.ar.al

Dear @Codeberg,

As an active member, I’d like to know what action will be taken against LinuxIsBest – the person mentioned below – and his account.

He is using Codeberg to spread Zionist lies about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org) and attempting to get people to mass block verified accounts of people on the fediverse facing genocide in Gaza at the hands of Israel.

As an anti-fascist organisation, I can only assume this goes against what we hold to be acceptable behaviour on our platform.

Thank you.

#genocide #Israel #zionism #hasbara #Gaza #GazaVerified #codeberg @katzenberger https://tldr.nettime.org/@katzenberger/117032929588578289

#mastodon #fediverse

https://mastodon.cloud/@TheAdmin/116880479865941905

Nice!

"Mastodon is currently considered *the* alternative to Twitter. SURF [the IT cooperative of Dutch education and research] and Universities of the Netherlands are therefore jointly exploring how a Mastodon environment for education and research in the Netherlands can take shape."

https://www.surf.nl/en/mastodon-pilot-for-research-and-education

#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia

Seeking beta testers for a new opt-in Fediverse service - FediAdhan
https://fediadhan.org/

Have you ever felt your #Mastodon timeline was missing something? You get regular updates about the weather, the bongs of Big Ben on the hour; perhaps even that one account that toots like a chicken. But you've been missing timely updates about the Islamic call to prayer.

No longer: with FediAdhan, simply pick your location on the map and you'll get an account you can follow from your #ActivityPub client, which will drop a toot in your timeline when any of the five Islamic prayer times rolls around (and optionally for sunrise as well). And you get a neat pie chart of daylight/twilight for your location, as a bonus.

Explicitly opt-in, privacy focused, #HumanMade with no LLMs used at any stage in development. Try it out, let me know if you have thoughts, feedback, issues you run into.

@briankrebs

Hahaha, my friend keeps telling me about this "tweet" which keeps making rounds around on #socialmedia mostly #reddit and now I am seeing it on #mastodon and he's available on #fediverse #bluesky 😎

https://bsky.app/profile/theselongwars.bsky.social

Please help boost this if you can.

Thanks!

#mastodon #fediverse #fediblock @katzenberger https://tldr.nettime.org/@katzenberger/117032355562237286

Beyond Oblivion No. 3

Visit:https://jeremy-aiyadurai.pixels.com/featured/beyond-oblivion-no-3-jeremy-aiyadurai.html?product=tshirt
#Mastodon #Art #AbstractArt
Artist Info: https://linktr.ee/jeremyartist
#FineArtAmerica #Pixels #BuyIntoArt

A local newspaper published this piece about oslo.town and its good to see local news covering local Mastodon instances.

https://www.vartoslo.no/anbefalt-mastodon-matt-vestengen-cox/har-du-lagt-merke-til-disse-klistremerkene-rundt-om-i-byen-1/1244437

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #Allheimen #VårtOslo #Oslo #Journalism #Press

I happened to visit my media tab in the Mastodon desktop interface and saw the big pile of pretty pictures that I put up over the last month or so. My not-so-secret mission is making my little corner of the internet a nicer place. I think I'm doing a good job of it.

It's not that I'm not keenly aware of all the terrible things in the world, especially now. It's just that I need to find some peace in my head to function in the world, and this is one way of doing it.

#photography #mastodon

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