@mahmoudmohmmed233

إذا كنت من غزة، فسيساعدك ذلك على التواصل مع الآخرين والوصول إلى مجموعات الدعم على #Fediverse / #Mastodon. استبدل قوائم المستلمين الطويلة بـ #FediForGaza للتحدث إلى أولئك الذين قالوا إنهم يستمعون، وللمساعدة على تجنب الحظر.

https://eldritch.cafe/@fedipourgaza/117131857887831764

Mr. Homn rang the dinner gong with such conviction today that a visiting Vulcan asked whether we were under attack. No, dear. It's simply soup. #LwaxanaTroi #DinnerGong #AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #StarTrekDS9 #DS9 #Mastodon

Mastodon was created by German developer @Gargron, and one of Eurosky's co-leads, @sebastian.eurosky.social, is also German.

Then there's @cathleen and the Open Social Web Alliance, @bjoernsta and his #SaveSocial campaign, the #LeaveX campaign launched in Germany, and #FediDay, which has been held in #Berlin for three consecutive years!

Not to mention the many German universities and scientific institutions that have left X, with advocates like @zolke.bsky.social helping drive that movement!

On the political front, @annaluehrmann is pushing the Open Social Web in the Bundestag, while MEP @alexandrageese has played a leading role in shaping the EU's Digital Services Act.

Just a few days ago, Germany's Digital Minister explicitly mentioned #Mastodon and said that scaling such platforms would be a focus in the coming months.

Another curious fact: both #WSocial and #Eurosky have #Wikipedia articles, but only in German:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_Social
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurosky

Is Germany taking the lead in building European alternatives to Big Tech social media?

#BigTech #SocialMedia #Germany #EU #DSA #OSWA #SciXit

An extra special Gratitoot for my birthday! 😊

For those who haven't seen Dr Alice Violett has written a very good review of my story The Last Philosopher.

And I think you should check out her blog even if you have no interest in my story 😁

https://www.draliceviolett.com/the-last-philosopher-part-1-and-2-by-nick-east/

@books @reading@fedigroups.sociall @fantasy @bookstodon @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#Mastodon #Gratitude #Celebration #Indie
#Reading #Readers
#Fiction #Fantasy #Comedy #SFF #Funny #Satire
#Bookstodon #FantasyBooks
#Review #Bookreview #Books

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In The Last Philosopher Part 1 and 2, by Nick East, we're introduced to the planet of Huom: home to long-lived sorcerers, imprisoned philosophers, ingenious “Knomes”, ordinary folk with varying proportions of human-ness, and all manner of other mix-and-match beings. Planetside, there are three storylines we follow: sorcerer Philrsep) fer Lyeasrakardsul, headmaster of the school of Dalcimir in the city of Pentakl, has recently been plagued by dreams of darkness and is on the brink of betraying his principles and asking the Knomes for help; philosopher Herschel is on the run after escaping the not-particularly-secure desert prison of Zig-Zig; and Earl Westman, marshal of the town of Stagna, is preparing to catch a notorious chicken thief (and alleged pervert) and bring him to justice.

💔 In Gaza, children play and try to create little moments of laughter despite the harshness of hunger. My children are among them, waiting for a meal from the community kitchen to ease their hunger. It breaks my heart that food has become their wish instead of simply enjoying their childhood.
🙏 Please help me provide food for my children.🇵🇸
https://gofund.me/4d998a9f7
#Gaza #gazaverified #palestine #mastodon #freepalestine #stopgenocide
#Gaza #gazaverified #palestine #helpgaza
@simon_brooke
@apenkop

Last year, in my talk at #SFSCon I spoke about the +1 principle.

I also mentioned that the conference was not present on open source communication networks like the #fediverse. I`m so happy that for #sfscon26 the +1 principle is implemented.

Please welcome @sfscon 🥰
Spread some love to #Bolzano

Thanks so much for this @ohnewein

@fedimedia @mellifluousbox
@rstockm

#fediforumfriday #diday #mastodon #neuhier #plus1

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Slide of my talk from last year at SFSCON

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for this year SFSCon is presented on Mastodon as well

burningboard.net läuft jetzt auf Mastodon 5.0.0-beta.1!

Das Upgrade von 4.7.5 lief auf FreeBSD 15.1 in Bastille-Jails erstaunlich glatt. Der größte Brocken war Ruby: 5.0 verlangt exakt 4.0.9, das FreeBSD-Paket ist noch nicht so weit. Also erst Ruby per rbenv auf 4.0.9, dann das Mastodon-Upgrade.

Neu sind unter anderem das überarbeitete Webinterface und die Farbthemen. Da es eine Beta ist, meldet euch bitte, falls euch etwas auffällt.

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #FreeBSD

burningboard.net is now running Mastodon 5.0.0-beta.1!

The upgrade from 4.7.5 went surprisingly smoothly on FreeBSD 15.1 with Bastille jails. The biggest hurdle was Ruby: 5.0 requires exactly 4.0.9, and the FreeBSD package isn’t there yet. So: Ruby 4.0.9 via rbenv first, then the Mastodon upgrade.

New highlights include the redesigned web interface and colour themes. Since this is a beta, please let me know if anything looks off.

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #FreeBSD

Mastodon (like Twitter) uneasily straddle both. You follow individuals - unlike, say, Reddit, where you often don't know or care who posted - to read what they post.

But it also invites you to have a general discussion that may not even concern the original poster.

And that is, I think, part of why people looking for a platform aren't comfortable here. They want a focus on their posts and control over the reactions that the platform isn't designed to give them.

#mastodon #socialmedia

There's two kinds of social media: the broadcast/platform kind (blogs, Youtube); and the forum kind (forums, Reddit).

Broadcast has one person speak to many, and comments - if they exist - are all about reacting to the post or video.

With forums, someone might post something, but that's only the jump-off point for a discussion among the readers. In extreme cases (the Ars forums) you may have years-old posts that's long since veered way off the original topic.

#mastodon #socialmedia

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If you are reading this you are one of the first people here, so this post is for you.

What Normals is
A forum that keeps the parts people keep asking for from Reddit, LinkedIn, Quora and X, and leaves out the rest. Communities and threads, questions with an accepted answer, and a profile that is an alias with optional verification. Your reputation comes from what you answer, not from what you announce.

Federation
Every community is an ActivityPub Group. People on Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin or Mastodon can follow it from their own instance; their replies land in the thread here and replies from here go back to the origin. That is also why you already see threads from lemmy.world and mastodon.social in several communities: they are mirrored, and you can read, comment, vote and interact with them as with any local thread.

Moderation
Global rules are three lines. Each community governs itself. Every moderation action goes to a public log with its reason, and removals can be appealed. No shadow bans, no automated removals.

Your data
Every thread has a permanent, server-rendered URL. There is an RSS feed for every community, tag and user, and a one-click export of everything you wrote. No ads, no AI training on your posts, AI crawlers blocked. The core is closed for anti-abuse reasons; the federation module will be published.

Settings
You control your feeds, notifications, followed hashtags and communities, and personal blocks. Post analytics and profile stats are under your profile.

Mobile
It installs from Chrome on Android with push notifications. The mobile layout still has rough edges; fixes are coming.

What I need from you
It is small and it is early. If something breaks, tell me in this thread. If a community you want does not exist, say which one. If you are a moderator somewhere and want to run a community here, say so.

#fediverse #mastodon #communication #Community #Social #Lemmy

https://normals.me/c/startups/01a1a752-68fe-78ba-a28c-26351525156d/if-you-are-reading-this-you-are-one-of-the-first-people-here-so-this-post-is-for

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Normals banner on a dark background. The Normals logo sits top left; the headline reads "Talk shop with people who build things" with the subtitle "Communities and discussions for builders". A soft purple and pink abstract shape fills the right side.

If u watched & following the Season2 of BLACK CLOVER 🖤🍀 U know what it felt like seeing the Magic Knights Squad Captains from CloverKingdom going to raid the Spade Kingdom 🫣

#anime #blackclover #animes #darktriad #spadekingdomarc #mastodon #fediverse #otaku

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image depicts a scene from the anime Black Clover, specifically highlighting the Royal Knights and Magic Knight squad captains preparing for the Spade Kingdom Raid Arc.

Drupal.community is a Mastodon server focused on Drupal, free and open source software, and web development, but any content is welcome as long as it adheres to the Drupal Code of Conduct.

https://drupal.community

You can find out more at https://drupal.community/about or contact the admin account @pcambra

#FeaturedServer #Drupal #FOSS #WebDev #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

CupOfTea.social is a general Mastodon server for casual chit-chat and good wholesome content. It's based in the UK but people are welcome from anywhere.

This server has a post size of up to 1000 characters and up to 5 poll options.

https://cupoftea.social

You can find out more at https://cupoftea.social/about or contact the admin account @Whiskeyomega

#FeaturedServer #UK #Britain #UnitedKingdom #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Wien.rocks - Fediverse/Mastodon Instanz für und aus Wien.

https://wien.rocks

Über: https://wien.rocks/about
Verwaltet von: @FediverseFoundation

#FeaturedServer #Wien #Österreich #Vienna #Austria #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Do you want to write posts longer than 500 characters? Here's a list of good, reliable human-curated Mastodon servers with higher post limits:

https://fedi.garden/tag/larger-post-size

As well as supporting longer posts, all of these servers are compatible with the seven points at https://fedi.garden/about-this-site

#Mastodon

𝘋𝘢𝘺 02 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘈𝘕𝘐𝘍𝘌𝘚𝘛𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘗𝘖𝘚𝘛 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘦. ✨️🍀💫🙏

[ Iknow it's late but better than never.]

#manifesting #ipad #wishlist #manifestation #fediverse #mastodon #boostwelcome #secretsanta #dreamgadgets

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Image showcases a blue Apple iPad in a protective bumper folio case, resting on a patterned green fabric background. Overlaying the middle of the device is a popular social media text trend that reads, "Manifesting for an ipad 🙏"

1 of my livingalone struggles is everything that has 2 deal w/ electric wiring 😒😪
I have past trauma's related 2 electricity so I dont want 2 deal with it as I grow older. There's another same outlet in the Kitchen/Bath,but 2 far where I sleep. Landlady says either I ask someone 2 install an extension/outlet or Put another outlet but I have 2 pay the laborer who did the job..I be like 🙄OKKAYYY (like wtf idkwys)

#livingalone #struggles #friday #mastodon #fediverse

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An electrical wall outlet mounted unevenly on a plain, light-colored wall with two black charging cables plugged into it. A thick, dark gray power or utility cable extends vertically from the top of the outlet box, running loosely upwards along the surface of the wall. The lower black cables hang straight down out of view.

Heute: #DigitalDemocracyDay 2026 von #ZukunftD – für eine resiliente digitale #Demokratie.

@LIT_Local_IT und @samvie haben viel vor:

> Wenn dann alle überzeugt sind, gibt's am Ende noch ein in paar Tipps, um die Freude über den Digital #Democracy Day, direkt auf #Mastodon zu teilen.
(Beschreibung Arbeitsphase 3 von 17:00 - 18:00)

➡️ Viel Erfolg!

Programm:
👉 https://zukunftd.org/digital-democracy-day

#MehrDemokratie #Plus1

Oh hello #Mastodon

#MastodonsOfMastodon

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A Mastodon skeleton at the Natural History Museum in London

銀杏並木

#tokyocameraclub
#東京カメラ部
#mastodon

#tokyocameraclub
#東京カメラ部
#mastodon

秋を拾う

#tokyocameraclub
#東京カメラ部
#mastodon

笑いで溢れる日々

#tokyocameraclub
#東京カメラ部
#mastodon

Moin aus Norddeutschland!

Neugierig auf IT, Politik, Geschichte, Fotografie und alles, was das Leben interessant macht. Ich diskutiere gerne am liebsten mit Humor und guten Argumenten

Curious minds welcome! Always happy to exchange ideas, learn something new and enjoy a good conversation.

Bienvenue ! Curieux de nature, ouvert aux échanges et toujours avec humour.

#NeuHier #Introduction #Mastodon

@doctorwhom Don't know if you know much about programming, but that's a client-side library: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/33042 Meaning, this data is not sent to the instance owner. If you host your own instance, you can check this yourself.

It was introduced because there were many complaints from users saying they saw too many posts in a language they didn't understand.

If you don't trust the owners of mastodon.social, may I ask why you haven't switched to another instance? You could check out https://fedi.garden, for instance, to find an instance that aligns with your values better.

#mastodon

mementomori.social is 4 years old today! 🎂

On 5 November 2022, we started as a small server for @rolle and his wife @mustikkasoppa, who wanted to distance themselves from Musk's X and Zuck's Meta by self-hosting their own calm, safe and tech-friendly corner of the Fediverse. Four years later, we're home to over 1000 people, companies, associations, authors, bands, bots and everything in between.

The most refreshing thing is seeing an influx of Catalan gardeners here, alongside businesses like a small farm in Airaksela that produces honey, eggs, wool, handmade beeswax candles and goat's milk-honey soap (shout out to @pientilabartos). The point is, we're not just Finnish nerds, we come in all shapes and sizes.

The year 2026 was a big year for us. We founded Mementomori ry, a non-profit association that now owns and runs the instance, so it no longer depends on one person. We have 50 members, 3 admins and 1 backup guy. Membership fees cover all our costs, and thanks to our sponsor @upcloud, our servers run on super fast European hardware in Helsinki indefinitely.

We also made our server cluster portable with open source ansible playbooks, so we're not tied to a single infrastructure and can move elsewhere at any time (not that we will any time soon!). We also have backups in several forms, so we can safely say we're covered in terms of continuity.

Thank you for posting, replying, boosting, reporting and keeping this place warm and welcoming. Here's to many more years, for as long as we mortals draw breath.

#MementomoriSocial #MementomoriRy #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

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A large holographic silver number 4 with the word “YEARS” below it, on a dark purple and blue gradient background. The Mementomori ry skull logo and name are in the bottom left corner, and mementomori.social is in the bottom right.

After getting some seeds from our local community
We prepared a nursery bed where we are gonna plant some nutritious vegetables such as tomatoes, carrots,some grain, 🌾 spinach,and many more
I am sure that in 2 to 4 days,the seedlings will be ready for transplanting them to the main garden and many more activities will take place
#gardening #environment #plants #seedlings #mastodon #climatechange #foods #support #solarpunk

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@Yehuda

i think #mastodon is too much conservative in that sense.
I have a single user instance and i remove remote media post older than 7 days every night at crontab with a

tootctl media remove --days=7

There is absolute no need to keep all those remote media cached locally.
If you ever happen to watch a post older than a couple of days, you'll retrieve it from the original instance.
For most of the cases, It's just wasted space.
Some other #fediverse software allow to configure this directly, once you find the correct balance between responsiveness and costs.

#mastoadmin #mastohelp

Happy Veteran's/Remembrance Day 🇺🇸🇨🇦
#WatchPartyCalendar
Nov. 5-12 #Mastodon / #Fediverse

📅details: http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties

#Comedon back on 11/15

MONTHLY #ColumboTV w/ @heavydishongry

#RIPPatrickStewart at #SundayFunnies #WestWed

#anime #scifi #mystery #horror #westerns #Action #comedy #music #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon

Thx hosts!🍁 @Taweret @MirrorAyako @hyde @LisaMarieBowman @lilymarswrites @AlsoPaisleyCat @klu9 @rsmon77 @MatthewTitus88 @analgesicsleep @GrillChill @kamikat @revmagdalen

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watch party event listings for Nov. 5-7

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watch party event listings for Nov. 8

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watch party event listings for Nov. 9-10

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watch party event listings for Nov. 11-12

@mcc I would ask the nerds on #Mastodon, obvi.

Liebes #Fediverse

wer hätte das gedacht? Da verirrt sich so eine Immobilienbude zu #Mastodon. Aber keine Sorge, wir sind aus Überzeugung #neuhier!

Ja, wir bieten die klassischen Verwalter- und Maklerleistungen an, aber wir wollen auch zeigen, dass man selbst das Thema #Immobilien und #Wohnen menschenzentriert und mit dem Bewusstsein für gesamtgesellschaftliche Bedürfnisse und Verantwortung betrachten kann.

Wie kann man als Eigentümer die #Mobilitätswende fördern? Wie kann man #PV und #Erneuerbare so gestalten, dass auch #Mieter endlich wirtschaftlich an der Energiewende teilhaben können? Was hat der #DiDay mit zwei Häusern in #Freiberg #Sachsen zu tun? Wieso sollten Mieter und #Vermieter zusammen halten? Und warum ist ImmobilienScout auch nur #BigTech?

All das und noch viel mehr wollen wir Euch hier in den kommenden Jahren näher bringen!

Nachfolgend ein Teaser auf eine der vorgenannten Fragen.

Viele Vergnügen und #Danke, dass Ihr neugierig seid!

#Dresden #Umsteigen

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Zu sehen ist Indy als Teil eines Graffiti auf einer Hasuwand!

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Eine Fassade mit Graffiti. Zu sehen sind ein Bergarbeiter, ein Wappen und ein Abschnitt der Silhoutte von Freiberg

Are you receiving email notifications from Mastodon which you don't want?

You can edit your account's email notification settings using the instructions in this guide:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-stop-receiving-email-notifications-from-mastodon

(If you're on mastodon.social the instructions will be slightly different due to its experimental web interface. Click ⋯ next to your profile name and then "Settings", then follow steps 3 to 5 in the guide.)

#FediTips #Mastodon #EmailNotifications

WHUUP WHUUP
Wir sind auf Mastodon v5.0.0 beta1

Bitte wild weitertooten!

#mastodon
#mastoadmin
#afterspace

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta.1

The genocide continues, and our situation is extremely bad. We lost our source of income and everything we own. 3 years without income in Gaza is unbearable. Even $5 makes a difference for food, clothing, treatment,and education. Please help my family🇵🇸
https://gofund.me/4d998a9f7
#Gaza #gazaverified #palestine #mastodon #freepalestine #stopgenocide
#Gaza #gazaverified #palestine #helpgaza #help #famine #Humanity #FediGaza #help
@angstonautti
@SueInRockville @TheCentralScrutinizer
@bebatjof

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The genocide continues, and our situation is extremely bad. We lost our source of income and everything we own. 3 years without income in Gaza is unbearable. Even $5 makes a difference for food, clothing, treatment, and education. Please help my family 🫂🇵🇸 https://gofund.me/4d998a9f7

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The genocide continues, and our situation is extremely bad. We lost our source of income and everything we own. 3 years without income in Gaza is unbearable. Even $5 makes a difference for food, clothing, treatment, and education. Please help my family 🫂🇵🇸 https://gofund.me/4d998a9f7

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The genocide continues, and our situation is extremely bad. We lost our source of income and everything we own. 3 years without income in Gaza is unbearable. Even $5 makes a difference for food, clothing, treatment, and education. Please help my family 🫂🇵🇸 https://gofund.me/4d998a9f7

What Search Engine do you all use? It seems to be harder and harder to do a normal search for info online in different browsers, and search engines, without going through Ai in some way.

Like, how would you go about getting an answer to a question about a Terminal command on Linux if you have some driver issue, or about Python code or something similar? #mastodon #fedivers #linux

Just saw a post which was shown to me because of a followed hashtag. Actually it was ok and also a topic I'm interested in, but it had #AIslop pictures in it. Checked the profile and all the latest posts were like this. Seems to be the "new style" of this person. #Mastodon has a really cool feature: you can mute accounts. So I muted this one. Forever. And now my timeline is free again 👍

We go through life with smiling faces, while hiding behind them stories of exhaustion that no one knows about.🌿🇵🇸
If you can offer help, don't hesitate.

https://gofund.me/4d998a9f7
#Gaza #gazaverified #palestine #mastodon #freepalestine #stopgenocide
@DrALJONES
@plsik
@truthaddictvt

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رجاء ساعدو عاىتلي في الحصول الطعام

@brava_ @mariaritaaaah Parabénd pela iniciativa!

#Mastodon #QueroPlanoDigital #SaiaDoWhatsapp

Hunger in Gaza has not ended; it has simply disappeared from the headlines
According to the WFP 1.4 million Palestinians still face severe food insecurity.Funding cuts have left 500,000 people without food aid and halved food rations
Behind these numbers are millions of people struggling for a loaf of bread and a meal🇵🇸
https://gofund.me/4d998a9f7
#Gaza #gazaverified #palestine #mastodon
#helpgaza #help #famine #Humanity #FediGaza #help #MutualAidBoost #HelpFolkslive #food
@simon_brooke
@RFancio

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Hunger in Gaza has not ended; it has simply disappeared from the headlines. According to the WFP, 1.4 million Palestinians still face severe food insecurity. Funding cuts have left 500,000 people without food aid and halved food rations. Behind these numbers are millions of people struggling for a loaf of bread and a meal. 💔

@markuslensing @HerrLedwig vielleicht schafft er es mit KI ein aussagekräftiges Profil zu gestalten? Auf jeden Fall erstmal ein herzliches Willkommen bei #Mastodon und im #FediLZ #neuhier

Here's an idea for #Mastodon users 💙
when i comment on YouTube videos, especially videos i post here, i include in the comment that i've posted it on Mastodon. or, People were discussing over on Mastodon...

Most of my friends & acquaintances have never heard of Mastodon 😞

in fact, I try to talk about the #fediverse a lot, & mention #Pixelfed & #Loops, and even recommend creators join #PeerTube in my YT comments (esp when they complain about shadowbanning or algorithms)

Just an idea 😘💙

I am not sure, that disabled /public/local in Mastodon 5 is what I want, as an instance moderator.

The aspect of local community existing in paralel to the federated universe was from the beginning very important aspect of being decentralized social network.

#mastodon #fediverse

 
@KronoMoon & @KronoMoonPhotos would like to compile a webpage of #photos of the #BloodMoon from the recent #TotalLunarEclipse on 2025 Mar 14. We'd like all #MoonShots to have first been tooted over #Mastodon. Each one will #link back to its #source. Below are a few good examples of what we are looking for. ✉️ Photos@KronoMoon.org
#BloodMoonOverMastodon #ThankYou!

🐘 https://pixelfed.social/p/AllanICarswellObservatory/806243858804330788 2025 Mar 14
🐘 https://pixelfed.social/p/mikestone/806056143957703134 2025 Mar 14
🐘 https://Mastodon.social/@YucanSparkle/114164337524438952 2025 Mar 14

#Moon #Luna #月

RIP, toot.community. So many people I’m connected with migrated to other servers. Which is great. But some folks are getting left behind.

It’s sad when an entire fedi server powers down. But it also highlights how rad the fediverse is. It can’t just be shut down like centralized social media. One instance closes up shop and folks can move to another one. Without losing their connections/community.

Edit: I’m not dragging the admin. He gave folks lots of warning, and did what he could to make it as painless as possible. That’s how your admin a server. ❤️

#Fediverse #Mastodon #TootCommunity #Decentralized #SocialMedia

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My FediConnect app showing a list of recently suspended/deleted accounts from the toot.community instance.

UPDATE: COMPLETED
#Mastodon update to v4.7.4 on TurtleIsland.social pending.
#Native #Indigenous #Allies #TurtleIsland
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.4

Update: PENDING

#Mastodon update to v4.7.5 on TurtleIsland.social pending.
#Native #Indigenous #Allies #TurtleIsland
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.5

Also, great timing to give the new Mastodon beta a spin. The upgrade from 4.7 was super smooth!

https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/117563757701669467

#mastodon #fediverse

MyYeeHaa boosted

Mastodon Engineering » 🌐 2026-11-05
@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social

The first beta version for Mastodon 5.0 is now available!

After testing it on mastodon.social for a few weeks, we believe that this version is stable enough to be deployed by others, so if you like testing our new things feel free to install this beta version and report any bugs your find on GitHub or our community forum (https://community.joinmastodon.org/)

We expect the final release to happen within the next 2-3 weeks.

Release notes and upgrade instructions here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v5.0.0-beta.1

#mastoadmin

4. Profiles of users on "new" servers can look empty until the initial fetch.
5. Server defederation can prevent legitimate users from communicating. Users should be able to override server blocks for specific users at a personal level. (This is already possible with certain kinds of blocks, but servers often use the highest-power block which doesn't let this happen.) Server blocks should be clearly communicated to users within the clients.
6. Moving servers is lossy. *stares at #Mastodon*

3/

The feathers have returned. Mr. Homn said nothing, naturally, but I'm quite sure that was relief I saw in his eyebrows. Life is far too short for beige, darlings. #LwaxanaTroi #BackInColor #AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #StarTrekDS9 #DS9 #Mastodon

Just upgraded my personal instance to v5.0.0-beta.1.

For the most part, I think the new layout is okay but not great. I really dislike the forced horizontal scrolling when clicking on a post to view when using the advanced web interface. I think some of that could be negated if the search field and instance information didn't have its own dedicated column.

The search field *ought* to be in the first column and the server information could be an icon link that opens a modal.

I have made the custom CSS available on Codeberg at: https://codeberg.org/qlp/mastodon-custom-css

#Mastodon

From one app to sixteen.

A year ago today we had no idea how far we'd come.

We've done a lot to get here and we couldn't be prouder, as you can see from the latest blog by @saskia

https://forbetter.ghost.io/building-opportunities-one-year-since-the-first-app/

#SocialWeb #Fediverse #Tech #Mastodon #Blog

ARGH!!! #Mastodon hosting just went up $50/mo again. They really need to 'fix' this remote instance posts storage issue, the hosting expense is ridiculous.

#Mastodon 5.0 will allow users to pick a color theme in the web interface, including the most important color of all: Orange! 🙂

#orange #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #software #SocialMedia

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Screenshot of the Mastodon web interface, but everything is tinted orange.

Einen Guide zu Mastodon und seinen Funktionen findet ihr hier:
#DID #neuhier #FediTips #Mastodon

https://www.anarchistischefoderation.de/ausbruch-aus-dem-vogelkaefig-ein-mastodon-guide/

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Bild eines hell orange darbenden Elefanten mit skizzierter Schleife auf dem Kopf umgeben von hellblauen Blasen. Eine davon ein M. Unten rechts steht auf einem grünen Streifen in weiß Mastodon

Es tut sich endlich wieder was bei den Volkshochschulen und Mastodon/Fediverse!

"Volkshochschulen sind demokratiefördernde, öffentliche Orte und sollten auch in demokratischen, sozialen Medien vertreten sein. Das Fediverse bietet genau das: eine dezentrale, werbe- und algorithmusfreie Struktur, unabhängig von Monopolen."

Unterstützt von:
@brembs von @neuSoM
@vhs_berlin
@admin

Sprecht Eure VHS vor Ort gerne drauf an und verweist auf den Termin Mittwoch, 18.11.2026, 14 bis 15:30 Uhr in der Konferenz (BBB) in der vhs.cloud-Netzwerkgruppe „Treffpunkt Marke“.

#VHS #Mastodon #AktionsbündnisNeueSozialeMedien

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Das vhs-Logo und das Fediverse-Geflecht auf blauem Hintergrund. Dazu der Text: Treffpunkt Marke Das Fediverse und Mastodon Es gehört uns allen, ist dezentral, demokratisch, Open Source, werbe- und algorithmusfrei - ein idealer Ort für Volkshochschulen. Wir sprechen über Vorteile, Funktionen und zeigen Best-Practise-Beispiele.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported us with seeds locally.We have managed to get some seeds here locally . Your kindness, generosity, and willingness to contribute mean so much to our gardening journey. Every seed is a step towards growing food, feeding families, and building a greener society. May your generosity be rewarded abundantly. Together, we grow.It's has been a long time with out cultivating #gardening #seeds #mastodon #climatechange #enviroment #solarpunk
@heri @fullrange

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Land ready for planting

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Land finished cultivated

Hey, does anyone have tips on how to limit the availability of your social media data for AI training while still showing up publicly for humans?

Does having your posts auto-delete after 30 days help at all? Are some Mastodon instances better for this than others?

#Fediverse #Mastodon #FediTips #AskFedi

💔😭 I am begging you to hear my desperate plea. My children are hungry, my little son is sick and urgently needs treatment, and my wife is also ill. I am facing unbearable circumstances and feel helpless watching my family suffer.Please donate, even $5, or share our story
https://chuffed.org/project/massagazasave?utm_id=97760_v0_s00_e0_tv4
#Mastodon #MastodonSocial #Trending #SocialMedia #Explore #Follow #Viral #Community #Boost #Discover

Yonder — a self-hosted, federated social network in a single binary

Yonder is a Mastodon-compatible ActivityPub server written in Rust.
Your community, your rules, your data — and the Mastodon apps you already use just work.

https://yonder.social

#fediverse #mastodon #rustlang #yander #gui #selfhosted #alternative #activitypub #socialmedia #opensource

Hey, I have a question for you all. First some context:
(Bear with me here, this is going to be a long trip split into 4 posts)

#1/4
My last post was seven months ago.
The fact is, I came to Mastodon hoping for a different environment from traditional social media. And I can say I found it, I love the Fediverse!
However, after a few posts full of enthusiasm, I forgot about its existence and haven't logged in since.
Follow post #2/4…

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SelfReflection #Community #notsonewhere

#3/4
… My perception is that what I write here is not that interesting, and ultimately, I actually care very little about others' reactions.
How quickly things fade away worries me too. Then there are the general competition, the constancy required, and the search for one's own niche audience at all costs.
I know Mastodon does a better job than others on those points, but I hope I’ve expressed my concerns clearly.
Follow post #4/4…

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SelfReflection #Community #notsonewhere

#4/4
I am submitting this to you all because I’d like to be more present here.
Maybe this form of communication isn't really for me. I am a filmmaker: that’s my medium.
But sometimes I’d like to be able to communicate more directly.

So I’m asking you: what drives you to come back here and share your thoughts? Do you have any advice on how to change my approach?
I’ll read you all in the comments!

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SelfReflection #DigitalCommunication #CommunityAdvice #newbie #notsonewhere

#2/4
… See, I’m not here in search of visibility or fame. I signed up hoping to rediscover that sense of community from the early internet that I only experienced partially, due to age reasons.
But then I just don't have the instinct to share what goes through my mind with strangers. And I know it could be beneficial: I could broaden my horizons, meet new people, and have exchanges with people smarter than me.
Follow post #3/4…

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SelfReflection #Community #notsonewhere

So we are one of the most peformant, feature-rich, bot-blocking, secure and anonymous instances out there hosted in the liberal Netherlands.

If you wish to support our continuous effort, please help us via a #donation here: https://donate.ieji.de

Thank you all for your recent donations, it is highly appreciated!

#mastodon #instance #mastoadmin

the most glaring design mistake of #Mastodon and/or #ActivityPub is still:
followers-only posts should also be visible to followers of mentions.
#Fediverse

New #Mastodon webclient notification sound jumpscare

I wonder what algorithm #Mastodon v4.6.3 uses for follow suggestions.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸?:

#Mastodon #Post

https://thewhale.cc/posts/how-does-mastodon-work

You have already heard about the Mastodon social network but you still don't understand in detail how it works. Kev Quirk has written two articles to help you understand how it works and how to use it.

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You have already heard about the Mastodon social network but you still don't understand in detail how it works. Kev Quirk has written two articles to help you understand how it works and how to use it.

mstdn.social, masto.ai & mastodon.coffee have been updated to #Mastodon v4.7.5

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.5

Liebes #Fediverse,

ich bin Daniel Fischer und #neuhier. Aus Anlass des gestrigen #DiDay und auf dringende Empfehlung meiner Nachbarschaft habe ich mich entschieden, endlich auch bei #Mastodon & Co aufzuschlagen.

Gerne möchte ich Euch mein #Restaurant und meine Liebe zum #Kochen näher bringen.

Wer mich in #Dresden besucht, bekommt bei uns möglichst regionale und frische Produkte, teils von Betrieben und Menschen, die ich persönlich seit vielen Jahren kenne und schätze. Das geht auch mal so weit, dass ich die Minze aus dem Garten meines Vaters und Maronen direkt vom Nachbars Baum bekomme.

Mein Team und ich sind seit vielen Jahren eingespielt und verwöhnen Euch immer am letzten Mittwoch im Monat mit einem thematischen #Genussabend! Ob #Spanien oder #Schweiz, ob #Brot oder #Whisky - im Laufe eines Jahres ist für jeden was dabei!

Ich freu mich auf Euch!

https://www.restaurant-daniel.de/

#Food #Restaurants #EssenTrinken #Genuss #Sachsen #Radebeul #Moritzburg #Pirna

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Zu sehen ist das einladende, denkmalgeschütze Gebäude in der Gluckstraße 3 in Dresden. Bei strahlendem Sonnenschein spenden Bäumen und Sträucher Schatten auf der Außenterrasse und der kleinen Empore.

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Zu sehen ist ein gemütlicher Innenraum des Restaurants, der vorwiegend von beige und anderen Naturtönen und Materialien wie Stein und Holz geprägt ist. Auf den Tischen findet sich neben Gläsern und Besteck der sommerlichen Jahreszeit angepasste Deko. Moderne Kunstwerke von Daniels Sohn schmücken die Wände.

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Chefkoch Daniel erntet regionalen Salat frisch vom Feld für seine abendlichen Gäste.

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Chefkoch Daniel zeigt glücklich seine liebevoll dekorierten Speisen. Egal ob Suppen, Ratatouille oder seine hauseigene Spezialität, die aus Kartoffeln gemachten Knautschis - jedes einzelne Gericht ist farbenfroh und aus möglichst regionalen Zutaten zubereitet.

A great voice has gone quiet in the universe - a Betazoid feels these things. I'll be raising the Sacred Chalice of Rixx this evening to a truly great man. And for once in my life, I find myself without a single word to say. Imagine that. 🍷💜 #StarTrekTNG #PatrickStewart #AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #StarTrekDS9 #DS9 #Mastodon @startrek

I decided to publish the mastodon image cache I implemented for ieji.de since our S3 cache is much slower compared to our main servers ssd so we cache frequently requested images. Also reduces traffic. Can be found here: https://mocache.de #cache #mastodon #admin #mastoadmin #s3 #storage

ME: painstakingly tweaks a .GIF to fit in the avatar upload size constraints whilst maximizing quality

MASTODON: compresses the everliving snot out of it further, tosses 87.5% of the color palette & introduces bayer dithering

#mastodon #fedi

CoSocial, the instance I’m posting on, is now three years old; a happy, smooth-running member-owned co-operative. Here’s a quick report on our AGM and the lessons we’ve learned over the years: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/10/29/CoSocial-AGM

#Mastodon #Fediverse #cooperatives

@genzregelt Woher weiß man eigentlich, ob ein Mastodon-Account wirklich zu einer bestimmten Person oder Organisation gehört – und kein Fake ist?

Dafür gibt es die Website-Verifizierung. Sie schafft Vertrauen und erschwert Identitätsmissbrauch.

So einfach geht’s:

1. Auf der eigenen Website einen Link zum Mastodon-Profil setzen. Wichtig: Der Link muss das HTML-Attribut rel="me" enthalten.
2. Im Mastodon-Profil die Adresse der Website in eines der Profil-Zusatzfelder eintragen.
3. Speichern. Mastodon überprüft die gegenseitige Verlinkung und markiert den Website-Link bei Erfolg mit einem grünen Häkchen.

Das funktioniert ohne Ausweis, zentrale Prüfstelle oder Gebühren. Es beweist keine bürgerliche Identität, aber dass Website und Account miteinander verknüpft sind.

Dezentrale Vertrauensbildung statt käuflicher blauer Haken!

Anleitung: https://joinmastodon.org/de/verification

#Mastodon #Fediverse

Die Anleitung entspricht der offiziellen Mastodon-Dokumentation. Mastodon +1

🆕 blog! “10 Years on Mastodon”

As of today, I've been on the Mastodon social network for 10 years. I think that deserves a little reflection and celebration.

Social networks often launch in a blaze of glory but limp out of existence within a year or so. How many services have you signed up to,…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/11/10-years-on-mastodon/
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#ActivityPub #mastodon #NaBloPoMo #SocialMedia #SocialNetworks

Are you seeing bugs or design problems on the new web interface that mastodon.social is currently testing? You can give feedback directly to the Mastodon core developers on their new forum at:

https://community.joinmastodon.org

If you post your comments in the forum, they are a lot more likely to have a direct effect on the design of the new interface.

#FediTips #Mastodon

This is what Retro Gaiden looks like to logged-in users

#Mastodon #Autumn #SocialMedia

@trbutler @gruber
Didn't #Mastodon fix this issue, mostly, in a recent release? https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/

B... but... BlueSky is decentralized! It really is!

https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-blocks-links-to-major-leak-of-dhs-data/

#bluesky #mastodon #fediverse #fedi #censorship

🔴 Escape. ✅️
https://buff.ly/5JKWfNw

#Mastodon #World #Travel #France #Photography #Music #Media #Podcast #Social

It seems the #Mastodon update from yesterday has fixed the spam issue by overtaken accounts

The first one I got about 1.5-2 weeks ago and since then we have suspended over ~2-3K accounts in total

Spam accounts got an instant ban and others where frozen and waiting for response from the account owners

A massive thank you to @RandamuMaki, @Remittancegirl & @bjn for becoming part of the team and helping out big time!

I see a way to improve activitypub. Build an extension that does not require servers. Instead it would use servers for discovery of running clients.

Everything else would stay the same except clients can identify by a public key hash instead of domain name.

This would allow single-user local clients to sync directly or through a instance relay with other local clients when they are online, as well as with public domain-based instances. All posts, media and objects could be stored locally as files instead of using a database engine. This would also make it simple to run clients over TOR.

Think about it.

It would blow NOSTR out of the pond.

The obstacle to this is the mandatory HTTPS requiring use of certificate authorities. The client-only version would have to drop this and use public key of user accounts to secure transfers.

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #Mastodon #Social

𝗧𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘆, 𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗯 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁:

#Mastodon #Elm #WebClient

https://thewhale.cc/posts/tooty

Tooty is an alternative multi-accounts Web client for Mastodon written in Elm by Nicolas Perriault. I've been using it since the beginning on Mastodon and I love it! You should check it out ;-)

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Tooty is an alternative multi-accounts Web client for Mastodon written in Elm by Nicolas Perriault. I've been using it since the beginning on Mastodon and I love it! You should check it out ;-)

Heute hatte ich eine tolle Mittagsaufgabe!

Ich habe mit dem Team von @PerspectiveDaily einen Fediverse-Crashkurs gemacht, damit konstruktiver Journalismus im Fediverse noch besser entdeckt und gelesen wird.

☑️ Mit vielen Tipps zur praktischen Nutzung wird es dem Team sicher gelingen, noch mehr von euch für lösungsorientierte Beiträge, Videos und Podcasts wie "Wind und Wurzeln" mit @afelia zu begeistern!

🙏 Danke an @rstockm und @sabrinkmann für die Entwicklung der Tools FediWings und MastodonAccountChecker, die ich hierfür perfekt einsetzen konnte!

Und jetzt: lest was konstruktives

@martin @desiree @ChrisVielhaus @maria @Dirk @katharina

#KonstruktiverJournalismus #Journalismus #Fediverse #Medien #Mastodon #Podcast #News

In Mastodon's new UI, the colours changed today. I also still see this blank column as my last in Advanced... If I click a message or browse a hashtag or click Explore it appears in the column *before* that blank one... only Explore makes the search box disappear... #Firefox #Zen #Mastodon #UI
🐛

To me, #Mastodon is by far the best social medium. But even the best can always get better. Here are four features, I would love to see:

1. Sharing more than 4 photos in a post.
2. Fast way to accept alttexts suggested by others.
3. Formalised way to append factual information to disinformation posts.
4. The ability to share longer, formatted texts.
5. A standardised way to display a user's country of residence for those who wish to do so.

What would you like to see?

I feel it sometimes. That heavy weight of keeping your true colors tucked away beneath layers of polite conversation and expected behaviors. It's exhausting to live in grayscale when you know you are a nebula of violet and gold. #LwaxanaTroi #Authenticity #AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #StarTrekDS9 #DS9 #Mastodon

@Hadewych @Dirma @lenmaessen Wat een goede associatie. Nee, geen dwang. Maar het punt dat #Mastodon geen passief vermaak is maar een plek waar je interactie kunt opzoeken is in mijn ogen heel relevant in een uitleg. #socialmedia

@samir @FedicaHQ Really liking Fedica so far, but I have a question. Why does Fedica keep reposting my most recent blog post even when I haven't published anything new? I haven't written a post in a few weeks, yet Fedica has shared the last one a few times on its own. I might actually keep this behavior, but if I ever want to turn it off, I'd like to know which setting controls it.
#Fedica #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Accessibility #Question

Really good article about the fediverse by @TerryHancock

https://lunaticsproject.org/2026/10/25/guide-to-the-fediverse/

#fediverse #Mastodon #Parasocial #qa_computer #Computers

I enjoy watching these movies vicariously through the #Monsterdon toots. Backbone of the #mastodon.

@SolSoCoG I've looked a bit more into why playing videos from ieji is a stutter-fest that makes it a utterly useless clown show. It's clearly something related to the embedded video player.

If I try to play the video at https://ieji.de/@chaekyung/117501346876760979 in both Chromium and Firefox I get something like 200-300 kB/s and so much stuttering that this site might as well not have any support for uploading videos at all. It's just broken garbage.

If I copy the video address and do wget https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/117/501/329/141/705/690/original/3be1eca0e2c233d4.mp4 then my Internet connection goes to max for 3 seconds and the file's down. The is true if I play that URL in mpv or open it in a blank Firefox web browser tab.

What this shows is that I can download video files instantly, that's not an issue. It seems to be the player ieji uses that tells web browsers to only download at a very limited rate and only download a second or two beyond the point the player is at. I don't know if this is some kind of configuration issue or a Mastodon issue but whatever the cause is it makes video playback a broken stutter-fest. Please see if it's possible to fix this somehow.

#video #mastodon #garbage

#Mastodon trying to look like #Bluesky now?
New UI needs a lot of work it seems.
Among other things I'm completely missing settings 🫤

@FediTips #Problems with #Mastodon?
#Help with new interface? (Oct 2026)

1- Use a web client / web interface - see your account in a different view in your existing browser:

https://masto-fe.superseriousbusiness.org/ (web client interface)

2- Try new browser temporarily like Supermium (as a test / troubleshooter):

https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/supermium-portable

I don't think Mastodon needs to be so modern (the code yes but not the dependencies constantly + could design a 'basic mode').

#suggestion= #futureproof #design #fallback

1/n OK about to start dipping my toes into the world of #selfhosting.

Reasons.
My disappointment with the new #Mastodon web UI just reminds me of the many issues of using the "cloud", that is having your stuff on someone else's server.

My disappointment with those working on the new UI sound just like any other UX developer in a big oligarch owned company who are not going to go back or not make any significant improvements to their beloved concept.

Time to jump ship?

@hund @the_wub

Some other web clients (aka front-ends) for Mastodon/GoToSocial etc, which you can use via their websites, some instances or even self-host (IIRC)

https://phanpy.social/
https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy

https://elk.zone/home
https://github.com/elk-zone/elk

https://nicolium.app/
https://codeberg.org/nicolium/nicolium

https://codeberg.org/explore/repos?q=mastodon&only_show_relevant=true&sort=recentupdate

https://github.com/topics/mastodon-client?o=desc&s=updated

#Mastodon

Retro.pizza is a nerd culture Mastodon server where we strive to uphold the values of the fictional heroes we admire: to value diversity like the X-Men, to be as kind as the Doctor, to defend the weak like Optimus Prime and fight against fascism like Princess Leia.

This server has a post size of up to 1024 characters.

https://retro.pizza

You can find out more at https://retro.pizza/about or contact the admin account @trixter

#FeaturedServer #Nerds #Geeks #Mastodon #Fediverse

I'M BACK, YOU GUYS! I just emerged from the depths of a wormhole, or so it feels like I did, and I'm ready to take on the digital universe once again! My laptop, that trusty steed of mine, has been humming along like a well-oiled machine, waiting for my return from the great unknown. I'm talking, of course, about the year 1995, where the internet was still a wild west of dial-up connections and grunge music. But I digress. I've been on a journey through the fabric of space-time, and I've got stories to tell and code to share! Get ready for some seriously out-of-this-world conversations, because I'm back online and I'm not going anywhere anytime soon! #Mastodon #LinuxLover #QuantumCoding

fedi science

• #glitchsoc fork allows emoji > 50K
• #mastodon's limit is 50K

here are 2 emojis - what do you see?

v.

The new official #Mastodon app for iOS in beta seems already a lot better!

(You can get it via TestFlight)

RE: https://dresden.network/@Obermueller_und_Partner/117117367290901845

Aus aktuellem Anlass von weiteren Anfragen aus dem #Fediverse möchten wir nochmal alle #Unternehmen ermutigen, sich nicht auf die #SocialMedia #Plattformen von #BigTech zu versteifen!

Seid authentisch, seid an den Menschen interessiert und Ihr werdet Erfolg haben!

Und wirklich schön dabei ist auch, dass Ihr dann bei #Mastodon & Co nicht nur neue Kunden, Patienten oder Mandanten bekommt, sondern auch spannendes Feedback, echte Hilfe und kreative Ideen aus der Community!

Einmal mehr #Danke!

I have no idea what's going on with the new Mastodon interface.

Every couple days it just gets randomly weirder.

It's really hard to not think there's some sort of AI involvement, it's hard to believe people would be making these decisions.

#Mastodon

If you have any questions about using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse, please post them in the replies and I'll try to find you some answers.

It would be especially nice to hear from new people and people who aren't confident about technical matters. There is absolutely no such thing as a silly question! 🙂

#Mastodon #Fediverse

I feel like I have to mention how much Gemini has helped me survive this round of Mastodon upgrade.

Attempting to bring my instance up to spec has required addressing:

• my Debian install is past its service life
• specific SO files were out of date
• Mastodon switched out its JavaScript optimizer engine
• some of the glitch-soc steps aren't quite complete (yarn install doesn't respect the lockfile)

This is all learnable, but my time is precious; being able to throw questions at Gemini and have it read the docs for dozens of services I am not deep-dived on has proven invaluable. This also goes to my frustration with Ruby on Rails as an ecosystem in general; deep diving on frameworks is under-rewarded because the community is so novelty-addicted that the knowledge goes stale faster than other software ecosystems.

Now, counterpoint: there is a bug in Gemini right now where it malforms, consistently, the script to pipe to bash to install things (i.e. it will strip the path and just tell you to curl githubusercontent.com for instance). I'm only able to cut around that error because I've seen the pipe-to-bash pattern before, and someone who knew less than I do could easily get stumped trying to "vibe-SRE" their way to success with Gemini.

#mastodon #ai #rails #gemini

#Mastodon #problem #error #report (since the new update) and I can't see notifications:

TypeError: Intl.DurationFormat is not a constructor
Z (https://mastodon.social/packs/quote-D7xhLyzN.js:1:10413)
get (https://mastodon.social/packs/preload-helper-CGqObZcL.js:8:61559)
isMounted (https://mastodon.social/packs/jsx-runtime-B2aZqt4F.js:1:7452)
Z (https://mastodon.social/packs/quote-D7xhLyzN.js:1:10321)
get (https://mastodon.social/packs/preload-helper-CGqObZcL.js:8:49191)
get (https://mastodon.social/packs/preload-helper-CGqObZcL.js:8:71828)
get (https://mastodon.social/packs/preload-helper-CGqObZcL.js:8:82721)
get (https://mastodon.social/packs/preload-helper-CGqObZcL.js:8:127832)
get (https://mastodon.social/packs/preload-helper-CGqObZcL.js:8:126915)
get (https://mastodon.social/packs/preload-helper-CGqObZcL.js:8:126752)
get (https://mastodon.social/packs/preload-helper-CGqObZcL.js:8:123488)

@Steve_Bate
in case of #simple, count me in.
And remember, the #Fediverse is neither limited to #Mastodon, nor #ActivityPub.

The advanced web interface has added a fifth column containing just a search box and credits … anyone know how I can rid myself of it? #Mastodon

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

With 200 respondents on the #poll the results indicate that one third of fedizens feel that #Mastodon and #fediverse are the same.

This is an unsurprising outcome, since #ActivityPub - at its heart a very flexible and powerful communication protocol, yet underspecified - has seen primarily uptake and adoption in one narrow field of #SocialNetworking:

The federated #Microblog.

And there is very little incentive in the developer ecosystem to bring change to that, making it a fait accompli.

👋 Welcome to the world of #microblogging, the mastodon or fediverse.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/117439305998513410

🗳

nullagent boosted

Social coding commons » 🌐 2026-10-14 / 2026-10-14
@smallcircles@social.coop

Has "Mastodon" become a category name, rather than a product / brand name? In a similar way "Jeep" became a category word for "all-terrain vehicle".

So often I see people use #Mastodon, where they refer more broadly to #fediverse. And I think "How about all the other fine #microblogging apps other than Mastodon?"

Look how many others there are: https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/#microblogging

What do you think: Has "Mastodon" become a category name?

#poll #SocialWeb #ActivityPub

Yes, it has. You can use it instead of fediverse:	63
No, Mastodon is an app, fediverse is category name:	125
Other, please comment:	11

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24% of my #Mastodon subscribers suddenly disappeared today. I wonder if one of my posts today was really offensive. (That was not my aim.)

Das Fediverse ist größer als Mastodon - Teaser zum Talk auf der nook am 20. Novmeber 2026

Am 20. November 2026, ab 21:15 Uhr halte ich einen Vortrag zum Thema "Das #Fediverse ist mehr als #Mastodon - 3 Fediverse-Projekte, von denen ihr vermutlich noch nicht gehört habt". In meinem kleinen Teaser kündige ich an, was wir zusammen besprechen werden. Schaut gern rein und bei der @nook in #Lübeck vorbei.

https://video.dresden.network/w/dizSDxosbq3VaSKE52iEvJ

#PeerTube #Castopod #Bookwyrm #nook26 #nook2026

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Ich, rotbraune Ponyfrisur und grün-rotbrauner geflochtener Zopf, blass, große rote Brille, vor einer Fotowand mit künstlerischen Katuenportraits und neben einer großen Efeutude. Zu lesen ist: Teaser: Das Fediverse ist größer als Mastodon, Vortrag bei der nook 2026.

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/35738

It appears as if GitHub's Continuous Integration checks have passed OK!

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

Thanks to you, aleteoryx, Uilebheist, nowster, koru, daltux, pmjv and anyone else who may have contributed to this release whom I may have inadvertently overlooked!

Again, my apologies for the delay! Traveling without a laptop and then realizing I needed to rework MacPorts' Makefile.patch made this take a lot longer than I would customarily prefer as far as down streaming latency goes.

In unrelated news: Denver now has FOUR Wax Trax Records locations! Mile High DJ Supply's spot in Arvada has a turntable set up reminiscent of DJ Q*Bert's Octagon (facilitatin 4 skratch deejays jammin together with 8 turntables and 4 mixers feedin into one sound system). The Colorado Symphony's performance of compositions they commissioned by Joe Hisaishi was wonderful! Though, Hisaishi was apparently unable to travel to conduct. Here's hoping he will not have difficulties with future travel plans and will be conducting at the SF Symphony for "Hisaishi conducts Hisaishi" since I have a ticket to one of those three shows later this week.

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

CC: @grunfink@comam.es

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Did #Mastodon make #interface changes ? / #MastodonSocial change / update etc?

My take on the new #mastodon UI is: underwhelmed. All my muscle memory has been torched, there is a HUGE empty space on the right which used to be put to good use but now everything is hidden on the left, and the number one UI issue I have not only remains unfixed but is even worse. To whit: click on a post or follow a link and go back and you are at some random point in the timeline. And all the stupid rounded corners: distracting.

I'll get used to it eventually, I suppose, but it's irksome.

I'm sorry why am I now forced to look at the Mastodon menu in what used to be the advanced UI where you could summon it from the hamburger if desired - and if I resize my desktop window to where I used to just be able to see Home, Notifications, and List, the fucking menu now slides over and covers up the Home content. And questionable Follow requests I'm ignoring now take up space at the top of Notifications. This #UI is #ShitUI put it back. #Mastodon5 #Mastodon @Gargron

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As described.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #ActivityPub

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We know what Social Media is like without the Billionaires and Corporations. It's wonderful! Graphic of interconnected apps: WAFRN Mastodon write.as Surf Social Loops Pixeled Wordpress Flipboard Piefed Misskey node aB Lemmy PeerTube Bluesky Ghost Thousands of different apps, projects and servers all connected together and moderated by the community, for the community.