Some clucky Valentines fun with Happy Valentines Day Chickens - available here: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/happy-valentines-day-chickens-lisa-s-baker.html

#chicken #chickens #bird #birds #birdsofmastodon #Valentinesday #Valentines #HappyValentinesDay #hearts #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #creativeToots #digitalart #mixedMedia #fun #funny #cute #whimsical #red #pink #holiday #greetingcards #ValentinesDayCards

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Happy Valentines Day Chickens by Lisa S Baker. Five cartoon chickens wear sunglasses against a pink background filled with hearts. The text 'Happy Valentine's Day' is playfully displayed above them.

Manche gerade auch im so sympathischen #Fediverse glauben ja immer noch, digital vermittelte #Politik ließe sich vor allem durch "Vernunft" (#Logos) und ganz ohne Statusstreben (#Thymos), digital befeuerte #Polarisierung & also zunehmenden Freund-Feind-#Dualismus erklären.

Die für viele hier schmerzhafte Realität in den #USA wie auch in #Deutschland aber so:

"AfD in Umfrage weiter vor Union: #Pistorius, #Söder und #Weidel haben bei Wählern größten Rückhalt"

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/afd-in-umfrage-weiter-vor-union-pistorius-soder-und-weidel-haben-bei-wahlern-grossten-ruckhalt-15100110.html

Habe meine Reise weg von der Abhängigkeit großer US Tech Firmen bereits Anfang 2025 gestartet. Hier der aktuelle Stand zum Anlass des #DigitalIndependenceDay

Wechsel von:
- FB/Insta zu Mastodon & Pixelfed
- Google Drive/Photos zum Selbsthosten (Synology NAS & Immich, ongoing)
- Wechsel von Windows zu Linux (Mint) auf meinem Razer Blade 14
- Gemini zu Mistral AI
- Chrome zu Vivaldi (Chromium, aber mehr Privatsphäre)

To Do: WhatsApp (sehr schwer!)

#DiDay #Linux #Fediverse #Pixelfed

Da ja heute #diday ist, will ich auch meinen übersichtlichen Senf dazu geben. Mich muss man von #FOSS nicht mehr überzeugen. Ich nutze seit über 20 Jahren #Linux und #FreeBSD Windows existiert bei mir privat nur noch als Gaming-Plattform.

Mail: #Thunderbird mit #Posteo
Browser: #Firefox
Social Media: nur das #Fediverse Insta, X, Facebook & Co habe ich schon ewig nicht mehr

Als Messenger habe ich so ziemlich alles #Signal, Telegram, Threema und leider auch noch WhatsApp.

Heute ist #DigitalIndependenceDay.

Gar nicht so schwer, #digital #souverän​er, selbstbestimmter, unabhängiger von #TechMonopolisten zu werden.

Mein #Laptop: #Linux und #LibreOffice.
#EMail: #Posteo. #Handy: #GrapheneOS ohne #Google + Google Apps! 😊 Es gibt so viele #Apps im #FDROID + #Aurora Store.

Statt #X, #Meta, #Facebook, #Instagram = #Mastodon im #Fediverse. Statt #Whatsapp = #Signal! Anfang Dezember habe ich zuletzt mit #Paypal gezahlt.

Das geht alles ✌️🙂

https://di.day/

So dann werde ich mich zu digitalen Unabhängigkeitstag mal dran machen alle Rechner, Tablets, Handys etc. auf Ecosia als Standard Suchmaschine umzustellen.

Da es immer irgendeinen im Fediverse gibt der bei etwas nen Haar in der Suppe findet bin ich schon gespannt wann der erste Schreit: Ecosia ist Böse, bau dir doch besser deinen eigenen Suchindex mit diesem Perl Script aus dem Jahre 2009 auf und nutze es mit dieser Crappy GUI. Ihr wisst was ich meine.
#fediverse #sarkasmushilft #ecosia #diday #didit #dut #dutgemacht

🇩🇪 1/2
Zum ersten #DigitalIndependenceDay ist hier erstmal eine kleine Bestandsaufnahme:
- #Facebook verlassen und ins #Fediverse gewechselt
- #Whatsapp verlassen, stattdessen #Signal, #Telegram und #Threema
- #Linux als Hauptsystem, #Windows bei Bedarf (dieser Bedarf passiert immer seltener)
- Langjährige #Yahoo-Mailadresse durch nachhaltigere ersetzt, abgerufen über #Thunderbird
- #LibreWolf als Haupt-Browser
- #Ecosia statt #Google
https://di.day

#didit #dutGemacht

✅ eMail (schon immer)
✅ #Fediverse (statt X/Meta)
✅ #Linux Mint auf #Macbook Air 2015
✅ #Nextcloud (statt Dropbox & Co.)
✅ @vivaldibrowser
✅ Ecosia/Startpage (statt #Google)
✅ #Qobus (statt #Apple Music)
✅ #MusicAssistant statt #Sonos
✅ #Immich (statt Apple Fotos)
🔄 #Kodi auf #Raspi (statt #AppleTV)
⭕️ Payment (#Paypal und Apple Pay ablösen)
⭕️ Linux statt macOS Desktop
⭕️ Big Tech Messenger vollständig ablösen
⭕️ mobile Endgeräte (Endgegner)

#DigitalIndependencyDay #DID #didit #dutgemacht #diday

"Und irgendwann merkst du: Es tut nicht weh. Im Gegenteil... es ist befreiend!"

Mein Blogposting zum 1. #diday dreht sich rund um alternative und sichere Emailanbieter. Dazu gibt es einen kleinen Fahrplan fuer die ersten 5 Monate der Serie.

Wuerde mich freuen, wenn ihr im #Fediverse auch diesen Artikel zum #digitalindependenceday boosten und liken koenntet.

Zusammen packen wir das.

Danke fuer euren Support 🙏

https://www.metacheles.de/digital-independence-day-1-email-anbieter-einfach-wechseln/

Hallo ihr lieben #neuhier im #Fediverse. Ich wünsche euch allen viel Spaß und Freude hier in diesem verrückten und kunterbunten Haufen. Kommt rein, lernt die #Fedinauten kennen und habt viel Spaß. So manches mag vielleicht ganz anders sein, wie ihr es vielleicht gewohnt seid. Nehmt euch aber Zeit, um das Fediverse und seine #Fedinauten kennenzulernen. Ihr werdet sehen, dass es sich ganz bestimmt lohnt. Solltet ihr die eine oder andere Frage haben, dann stellt diese einfach. Bestimmt wird sie euch beantwortet werden.

Für den Start möchte ich euch folgenden Link empfehlen: fediversum.info/. Dies ist eine sehr gute Anlaufstelle, die ein paar grundlegende Fragen beantwortet.

Diese beiden Videos erklären das Fediverse auch sehr gut. Wer also ein paar Minuten Zeit hat, dem kann ich folgende Links zu den Videos auch nur empfehlen:
- tube.sekretaerbaer.net/w/97UHb…
- tube.sekretaerbaer.net/w/kXZhT…

Jetzt aber erst einmal viel Spaß beim Kennenlernen und Umschauen. 😊👋

#did #diday #digitalindependenceday #unplugtrump #digitalesouveranitat
RE: tube.sekretaerbaer.net/videos/…

Happy #did an das gesamte #Fediverse 🥳

Jau, heute ist der erste #diday oder #digitalindependenceday und ich nehme das nun zum Anlass auf @info (kommt im Laufe des Tages) und meinem Podcast dann jeweils drauf hinzuweisen.

Heute schnappe ich mir das Fundament jeglicher digitalen Kommunikation: die gute, alte Email!

Hier 👉 https://share.transistor.fm/s/8749fab8 koennt ihr reinhoeren und natuerlich freue ich mich ueber jeden Boost, jeden Like und euer Feedback.

Wir schaffen das! Danke fuer euren Support 🙏

Ich betreibe seit Jahren meine eigene Cloud auf einem Home-/Fileserver, hoste meine Mailadresse selbst, nutze #Signal, #Linux und das #Fediverse. Jetzt zum #diday festgestellt, dass meine lokale Buchhandlung bei #genialokal ist und portofrei Bücher zum selben Preis wie Amazon verschickt.

Du kannst immer was optimieren!

https://www.genialokal.de/

Good Morning #fediverse #tzag

In the past, we used smoke signals, the telegraph, and Morse code for communication. Now, we use an elephant-like creature called Mastodon, a numerical thingy like Matrix, but some also use Signal. There are so many. This includes using the sharks (Sharkey), a programme called "Misskey," and there's textual electronic paper on which we can freely write anything! (WriteFreely)

#humour #humor #communication #internet #fediverse #technology #humour #socialmedia #history #opensource #digital #culture #messaging #writing #community #meme #memes #joke #jokes #funny

Anmerkungen zum #DiDay

#datenschutz #privatsphare #opensource #fediverse #foss #selbstbestimmt #nobigtech

https://dusk.morbia.org/kleine-ergaenzung-zur-website-di-day

Goodbye @pixelfed,

today I am deleting my self-hosted server.

#Pixelfed could have been great if you had focused on it.

Maybe I'll try again in a few years when Pixelfed is out of alpha status.

Bye and good luck!

#Fediverse

Sliced Apple Abstract: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/sliced-apple-abstract-lisa-s-baker.html

#slicedapples #apples #apple #fruit #food #foodart #painting #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #abstract #abstractart #kitchendecor #kitchenart #buyintoart #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #artprints #canavsprints #puzzles #puzzle #slice #stilllife #snack #texture #palette #paletteKnifePainting

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Textured abstract painting of sliced red apples with creamy interiors, layered in soft blush and warm neutral tones using expressive palette-knife brushstrokes. Art by Lisa S Baker.

Bisa dibilang gak nemu netizen #USA yang bela Trump di #fediverse.

Ini cuma pengamatan sepihak ya, dan sekali lagi mungkin hanya efek chamber.

Ich hab ja in letzter Zeit ein bisschen mit der coop-cloud rumgespielt. Es gibt dort ein Rezept für blogs, die direkt ins #fediverse publizieren - ich probiere das unter @namnatulco@writefreely.dyn.namnatulco.eu aus (und hab dort Mal Blogs reinkopiert, die ich gestern geschrieben habe, als ich dazu Lust hatte - normalerweise landet sowas bei mir immer nur im Notizhaufen, also erwartet nicht zu viel 🙂).

In the #Fediverse there are now
716 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
504 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@InvestorsBD
@SheKnowscom
@PopularScience
@Star_Phoenix
@OlharDigital

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

Built by @mho

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

Hallo @Streifenpferdchen@mastodon.social
du bist im #Fediverse gelandet.
Hallo und willkommen

Grüße mit (nicht auf) #Sharkey 👋

Ha! You can run an entire Mastodon/Fediverse server on your phone 🤩

https://holos.social

#Fediverse #Mastodon

@FediTree was waren die #fediverse-accounts mit denen ich 2025 am meisten interagierte?

Morgen, Sonntag im Klimabüro ind Gütersloh, Schulstraße 5, ab 14 Uhr: Erster Digital Intependence Day in Gütersloh! Gäste willkommen!
https://fsub.de/
#did #Klimabuero #mastodon #fediverse #Linux #publicmoneypubliccode

I'd like to get my wife on the #Fediverse in 2026. Help me convince her? I'll get her to read the responses.

@north

What are her interests, hobbies, passions? Find *those* communities on here and follow the hashtags & associated accounts.

She will 🧡 engaging with others in a healthy way.

The Fediverse is "like it used to be" online before pesky algorithms & unhealthy folks ruined things on the platforms.

The experiential value of this will probably be more compelling than facts & figures. 🧐

#community #connectedness #fediverse #migrate

@erin

Everybody has their own situation(s) and I don't know yours. I have PTSD (etc). Mj helps me considerably with anxiety related issues.

I've stopped it before without a problem (for weeks and even months). I have relied, in part, on my anxiety meds to mitigate some of the impacts from cessation.

That said, the article below offers some tips for helping with temperature regulation, etc. Definitely be aware of hydration, esp at night!

And: it might be worth checking in with a psychiatrist to see if, like me, mj has been helping your mind/body with other issues.

👍 You're not alone; the #Fediverse is here for you! Best of luck.

https://biologyinsights.com/how-to-deal-with-weed-withdrawal-sweats/

This is my last message here at the #TroetCafe
I was here since 26.04.2022 and arrived well in the #Fediverse
But after thinking about it for a while I decided to move to another instance. A much smaller instance. You'll find me from now on as @AlienJay
Therefore this account here will be closed.
I hope the move will work properly.
Again thanks a lot to the admin team of Troet Cafe amongst others @martinmuc and @ErikUden

Dies ist meine letzte Nachricht hier im #TroetCafe
Seit den 26.04.2022 war ich nun hier und bin gut im #Fediverse angekommen.
Aber nach reichlicher Überlegung habe ich entschieden, dass ich auf eine andere Instanz umziehen werde. Eine wesentlich kleinere Instanz. Ihr findet mich ab sofort dann als @AlienJay
Dieser Account hier wird damit geschlossen werden.
Ich hoffe der Umzug klappt gleich reibungslos.
An der Stelle nochmals Danke an das Admin-Team des Troet Cafe um @martinmuc und @ErikUden

#neuHier bin ich nur auf dieser Instanz. Im #Fediverse bin ich schon seit dem 26.04.2022 unterwegs. Begonnen habe ich im #TroetCafe.

Ich interessiere mich für Technik (Arduino, ESP, Raspberry, SmartHome). Meine Rechner laufen unter #Linux. Ich stelle auch gerade soviel wie geht um auf freie Alternativen ohne #BigTech

Ich setze mich für die vollständige Legalisierung von #Cannabis ein. Auch die Forschung an #LSD und #Psilocybin muss voran getrieben werden. In beidem steckt großes Potential zur medizinischen Nutzung.

Auch politisches wird es hier immer wieder geben.

Mein musikalisches Interesse gehört hauptsächlich dem #Reggae, #HipHop und den 80ern. Aber generell höre ich auch anderes sehr gerne.

Auch das Vereinigte Königreich wird hier immer wieder Thema sein.

Ich freue mich nun auf die kommende Zeit hier mit euch bei Burningboard.net
Der Account ist neu, der Name ist neu. Aber ich bin der Alte geblieben und mache weiter wie bisher.

Liebes #Fediverse,

genug von #Zoom und #MSTeams?

Zum ersten #DiDay 2026 möchte ich zum Austausch über offene #Videokonferenz-Tools einladen!

🗓️ 04.01.2026
🕔 17:00–18:00 MEZ
📍https://meet.opentalk.eu/room/e05f049b-8da3-4344-b188-84eff773fa11?invite=4dcdd767-9047-49ce-bc21-a638a6d1fe25

Ich stelle einen #OpenTalk-Raum zur Verfügung und möchte damit gleichzeitig einen Stresstest machen (bis zu 200 Teilnehmer:innen gehen rein, daher teilt und boostet, so viel ihr könnt)! Ihr braucht nur einen Browser – und Zeit.

#39c3 #dutgemacht #ididit #digitalesouveranitat #opensource

@nieldk The United States is out of its tiny mind. All for the oil. #Fediverse #mastodon

Ich bräuchte ein noobfreundliches Tutorial für das Aufsetzen und Betreiben eines eigenen Mastodon-Servers. Ihr könnt mir das doch bestimmt weiterhelfen oder? ODER? 😁
#followerpower #mastodon #fediverse

Wenn alle kommen, die diesen Beitrag zum #diDay gehostet haben, ist unser OpenTalk-Raum zu klein (!) 😳

Sagt nochmal jemand, dass es im #Fediverse oder bei #Mastodon keine #Reichweite gäbe. Pfft.

https://higher-edu.social/@davidlohner/115826438896187745

@plinubius

Wie zur Bestätigung unseres Dialoges über die Gefahren digitaler #Medien geht hier auf #Mastodon gerade eine linksdualistische & zunehmend aggressive #Blase mit Fantasien eines #CSU - Parteiverbotes steil.

Habe dort jetzt freundlich widersprochen, aber ziehe mich für heute auch aus dem #Fediverse. Das #Internet befeuert die #Polarisierung jeder Art leider allzu stark. Muss überlegen, ob ich mir hier weiter engagiere.

Habt alle einen schönen Tag hier. 👋

✨ Best of Stickers #39c3

STRONG WOMEN STRONG SIGNALS

#haecksen on air @haecksen

god forbid women have hobbies

Berlin #Fediday 2025 @berlinfediday

Thanks to @jellie and @elektropunk 👏

#hamradio #pota #Fediverse @digiges

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4 Stickers #hamradio and #fediday25 STRONG WOMEN STRONG SIGNALS Haecksen on air god forbid women have hobbis Berlin Fediday 2025

I self-host not because it is cheaper or easier, but because it lets me break things in very personal, handcrafted ways.
Also because the server lives in Europe and speaks politely to GDPR.

But jokes aside, I am genuinely curious:
Why do so many technically aware people still default to Google, Microsoft, or Meta for almost everything?

Is it convenience? Habit? The feeling that “everyone is there anyway”?
Or maybe the quiet assumption that opting out is pointless because the damage is already done?

The problem is not that these platforms are evil in a comic-book sense. The problem is structural. Their business models are fundamentally built around surveillance, profiling, and extraction of behavioral data. Even when you are not the customer, you are the product. Often both.

Your email metadata, your documents, your location history, your contacts, your photos, your calendar patterns. All of it is collected, correlated, retained, and analyzed. Not because someone is spying on you personally, but because at scale, this data becomes power. Economic, political, and informational power.

And the argument “I have nothing to hide” misses the point entirely. Privacy is not about hiding wrongdoing. It is about retaining agency. About not having your digital life continuously optimized for engagement, monetization, or influence by systems you neither control nor meaningfully understand.

What makes this especially frustrating is that alternatives exist. Good ones. Mature ones. European ones. Open-source ones. Federated ones. Boring ones, even. Email providers that do not scan your inbox. Search engines that do not follow you across the web. Social platforms that do not build shadow profiles of non-users. Cloud services where data residency is not a marketing slogan but a default.

Yes, they may require a bit more effort. Sometimes the UI is less polished. Sometimes you have to read documentation. Sometimes you even have to think.

But that trade-off buys you something valuable: autonomy.

Self-hosting is not for everyone, and it does not need to be. Neither is abandoning Big Tech overnight. But questioning defaults should be normal for people who claim to understand technology. Blind trust in massive, opaque platforms is not pragmatism. It is outsourcing responsibility.

So I will keep running my small, imperfect services. I will keep breaking them. Fixing them. Learning from them.
And I will keep asking this question, especially to fellow tech people:

If we know how these systems work, why do we still accept them as inevitable?

#SelfHosting #Privacy #DigitalAutonomy #Fediverse #OpenSource #Decentralization #BigTech #DataOwnership #SurveillanceCapitalism #GDPR #TechCulture

The why and how of backing up your Mastodon data

Why this matters

Recently, the admin of a relatively prominent Mastodon¹ server, med-mastodon.com, decided to stop maintaining the server and shut it down without warning. This is, generally speaking, a terrible thing to do, but I will give the admin the benefit of the doubt and assume that he had some very good reason why he needed to shutdown without giving his users time to export their data or migrate their account to a new server (though as far as I’ve seen he hasn’t shared any such explanation).

Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time this has happened, and it won’t be the last. Even servers whose admins have agreed to follow the Mastodon Server Covenant, which among other things requires server admins to commit to giving users at least 3 months’ warning before shutting down, occasionally go belly-up without warning.

This could happen to your server at any time. Your server admins may be great people, but shit happens. Not only that, but your server’s admins or moderators could decide at any time to suspend or delete your account.

Some people protect themselves from this by self-hosting their own server. That has advantages, but it also has disadvantages, including time and money costs, and so it’s not for everyone. If you’re not interested in self-hosting, but you also don’t want to run the risk of suddenly losing all your Mastodon data, then you should be backing up your data on a regular basis.

How to back stuff up

The most important thing to back up is the list of who you follow; fortunately that’s also the easiest. In the Mastodon web app, go to Preferences, then click “Import and Export” on the left, and click “CSV” to the right of “Follows”.

There you can also download your lists, muted and blocked people and domains, and bookmarks. All of those can be imported into a different Mastodon server using the “Import” page linked on the left.
Set up a reminder to back up this stuff regularly!

The next thing to back up is posts and uploads. If you consider social media transient, you may not care about this, but otherwise, you can periodically click the “Request your archive” button on the export page. You’ll receive a notification when the archive is ready to download.

Note that unlike the CSV files, your posts and media are not easy to upload into a new server. Unless you want to jump through some hoops (see below), you’re just downloading them for reference.

If you’re paying attention, you may have noticed that there’s something important missing above: what about your followers? Can those be backed up? Alas, it’s not easy.

The way it’s supposed to work is when you decide you want to migrate to a new account, you configure your old account to tell your followers automatically what your new account is, and their accounts follow your new account automatically. But obviously, that doesn’t work if your old server goes away with no notice!

I’m not aware of any web tools for backing up your followers (if you know of any, post a reply!), so if this is something you care about, you’re going to need to resort to the command line. Command-line tools that support exporting followers from your server include:

• toot
• mastodon-archive

If you’re so inclined, you could also write code to do the export yourself; Mastodon has a rich, well-documented API.

Note that mastodon-archive also supports backing up a bunch of other stuff, so you could use it to set up periodic automated backups of all the data listed above, rather than just followers. Personally, I have mastodon-archive backing up my data automatically every night.

The toot utility mentioned above also supports downloading followed hashtags (“toot tags followed“), which you may also want to back up if following hashtags is a significant part of how you use the fediverse.

What to do with the backed-up data

You pretty much can’t import your old posts

The bad news first: there is no good way to migrate your posts from one server to another. This isn’t just true if the old server goes away; there’s also no good way to copy posts from an existing server to a new one. People have been asking for this for many years but apparently it has not been enough of a priority for the Mastodon developers to implement it.

There’s at least one early-stage effort to build this functionality, and somebody has written a clever tool that server admins can use to do it as long as the old account is still available, but neither of these is a robust general-purpose solution.

You can still browse your exported data, look at the posts in a text editor, write your own code to do stuff with the data, etc. Furthermore. There are a number of tools for viewing and searching through your exported post archive.

How to get your followers back

If your account wasn’t migrated automatically because it disappeared out from under you, then assuming you’ve archived your followers as described above, you’re going to need to reach out to them one by one, let them know what your new account is, and ask them to follow you again.

(If you’re in online fediverse communities where people know you, you can also make a public post about your new account and ask people you know in those communities to boost it. You may need to do this several times to catch everybody, and you might still miss some people.)

If you have a lot of followers, then sending a bunch of DMs one by one to all of them will probably be a drag. You could automate it with toot, but be careful of running afoul of your server’s posting limits; you may get throttled if you post too many DMs too quickly.

Also, keep in mind that some people don’t read DMs at all, or don’t read DMs from people they don’t follow, so everyone may not see your messages asking for them to follow you again.

Restoring followed hashtags

You can use the toot utility (“toot tags follow hashtag“) to restore the followed hashtags from the list you previously exported with toot. Or if there aren’t too many you can just search for them by hand in the web app and then follow them.

Everything else, you can import

The import page in the web app’s preferences can be used to import the CSVs exported from the export page. If you used mastodon-archive or toot or whatever to export the data instead, then you can manually construct a CSV in the correct format for import.

¹This article focuses on Mastodon for clarity, but much of what is written here is applicable to any type of fediverse server.

#fediverse #Mastodon

Liebe user die ihr euer Zelt bei Mastodon,social aufgeschlagen habt.

Bitte verteilt euch und nutzt andere Instanz und macht nicht den Fehler und baut diese eine Instanz zu einem Gatekeeper auf, allein wegen der schieren Masse an user.

Wenn ihr dazu hilfe braucht, meldet euch bitte.

Denn e gibt im #Fediverse die Möglichkeit, das ihr umziehen könnt 👍

Week in Fediverse 2026-01-02

Servers

- Vernissage Server v1.27.0
- Ktistec v3.2.6
- Pleroma v2.10.0
- Wafrn v2026.01.01
- NeoDB v0.12.7
- PieFed v1.4.1
- shops v0.1.9
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.7
- Mitra v4.16.0
- Agora: A distributed knowledge graph
- December 2025: hooo boy! (Bandwagon)

Clients

- Pachli v3.3.0
- IceCubesApp v2.1.1
- Loops Mobile App v1.0.1.19
- Voyager v2.43.1
- P2Play v0.10.0
- tooi: A text-based user interface for Mastodon, Pleroma and friends

Tools and Plugins

- Mastodon to Bluesky v1.5.0
- Altbot v2.5

For developers

- funfedi.dev schemas v0.1.0
- apsig v0.6.0
- apkit v0.3.7

Articles

- A case for organisations running their own ActivityPub servers
- Fediverse predictions

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019b5b98-13e5-ff26-3605-f31d929bf9bf

Just FYI, just updated the Fedi.Garden website so it now has a different general server as the default suggestion, alongside a couple of other good ones and a link to over 100 other good ones.

This is what people see if they click on "Please suggest a good server":

➡️ https://fedi.garden/i-want-to-join-the-fediverse-but-im-not-sure-which-server-to-choose

I'll keep rotating which server is in the featured position based on a selection of good general servers suitable for beginners. This way the growth will be spread out 🙂

#Fediverse

Donut Delight - Fun new food art added to my collection: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/donut-delight-lisa-s-baker.html

#donut #donuts #pastry #bakery #cafe #sweettreats #dessert #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #painting #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #food #foodart #abstract #abstractart #yum #desserts

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Thick, textured abstract painting of assorted donuts stacked together, featuring white, chocolate, and pink icing in warm earthy tones with expressive palette-knife brushstrokes. Art by Lisa S Baker.

Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. FYI, this is our first one of 100% TPF curation.

It's your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week.

https://www.thefulcrum.dev/the-programmers-fulcrum-02-january-2026/

#fediverse #OMN #TechnoAnarchism

Self-Host Weekly #152: Wrapped

#NewYear resolutions, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Tugtainer -- a #Docker update platform, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-01-02/

#selfhost #selfhosting #foss #opensource #homelab #devops #sysadmin #fediverse #resolutions #privacy #newsletter #development #smarthome #magic #mongodb

Was hat eigentlich #Vivaldi mit #Apple, Samsung, Ecovacs, dem #Fediverse, #Linux und #schleswigholstein zu tun?

Das sind alles ganz persoenliche Highlights aus dem vergangen Jahr und die habe ich hier 👉 https://www.metacheles.de/best-of-2025-meine-tech-highlights-des-jahres/ in eine neue Ausgabe von #MeTacheles gegossen.

Wie immer wuerde ich mich freuen, wenn ihr diese boosten und damit verteilen koennt.

Mein Blog ist uebrigens auch unter @info erreichbar.

Danke fuer euren Support 🙏

Hei, olen välillä nähnyt täällä vinkkejä, linkkejä, blogeja ja koonteja siitä, että miten Metasta + Googlesta voi hankkiutua eroon, joko etsimällä vaihtoehtoiset palvelut tai jättäytymällä kokonaan pois.

Tälle vuodelle olen ottanut tavoitteeksi päästä irti mahdollisimman monesta Googlen ja/tai Metan palvelusta ja miettiä matkan varrella, että tarvitsenko jollekin palvelulle korvaavaa.

Kaikki tällaiset linkit ja vinkit otetaan vastaan, kiitos!

#kysymastodonilta #meta #google #fediverse

Weitere Eindrücke von #Good (good-search.org) als Suchmaschine:

Die Ergebnisse scheinen durchaus tauglich zu sein. Ich habe bisher keine Motivation verspürt, auf Google zurückzugreifen.

Was mich aber massiv stört: Es gibt keine Anleitung, wie man Good als Suchmaschine einrichten kann.
Es wird nur auf die Addons oder Apps verwiesen.
Wenn ich aber meinen Browser behalten will und es für diesen kein Addon gibt, stehe ich im Regen.

Oh, und noch was: Good ist nicht im #Fediverse vertreten. :(

Für das neue Jahr habe ich mir vorgenommen, für unser Städtchen eine Mastodon Instanz aufzusetzen in der Hoffnung, dass sich mehr Menschen für das Fediverse zu interessieren beginnen.

Die ersten Arbeiten am Server sind gemacht, aber noch bin ich mir nicht so ganz schlüssig wie die Domain lauten soll.

Schauen wir mal wie es nach einer Tasse Kaffee aussieht.

#fediverse #mastodon #server #linux

My mission for 2026: drag local organisations and businesses into the #Fediverse by approaching them actively. Explaining the benefits, offering free hosting of accounts, free consultation and support.

Happy #NewYear! To kick off 2026, I've revisited all the new #selfhosted software launches I covered in my weekly #newsletter in 2025 and have published a listing of them below for anyone new to my content.

(The list starts in February due to a revamped tracking process I implemented earlier this year.)

https://selfh.st/post/wrapped-new-software-2025/

#selfhost #selfhosting #foss #opensource #fediverse #homelab #homeserver #server #devops #sysadmin #development #smarthome #photos #videos #software #music

#introduction

Hi #fediverse. Let me do a quick introduction.

This account is just another alter account of someone who enthusiast with #science and #technology. Love #linux and #opensource.

Need to create this new account just to speak more freely, because my main account needs me to be formal.

Born and living in #jakarta, #indonesia.

January is fediverse punk month.

https://allpunkspleaseleavemeta.com/

#Fediverse #ActivityPub

What are you looking for in social media? (1/N)

https://privacy.thenexus.today/what-are-you-looking-for-on-social-media/

Since you're seeing this on fedi -- or Bluesky, Blacksy, or elsewhere in the ATmosphere -- you already know the value of alternative social media that's not controlled by techbro white supremacist CEO's who make money by exploiting their users and working with their cronies in authoritarian governments.

But, what we have today is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible.

#fediverse #ATmosphere #ActivityPub

Kinners, ich kann euch nur raten, schaut euch auch andere Zugangssoftware für das #Fediverse an

Unter anderem auch mal #Sharkey

Stellt euch vor, euer Mastodon in schön, schnell und mehr Funktionen 😁

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/w8bVvpfaZLsSbQQkPUPjy9

added tooi and microblog.pub to my #fediverse on #codeberg list

https://codeberg.org/technicat/fediverse-on-codeberg

"Nett hier. Aber waren Sie schon mal im #Fediverse?"

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Schwarze Ellipsenscheibe. Darauf "Nett hier. Aber waren Sie schon mal im Fediverse? Fediverse. Das soziale Netzwerk.

🥂 Thank you to all of our https://PrivacySafe.Social #fediverse community! On the last day of 2025, we peaked at our best growth statistics yet! Over 500 users and more than half of those are *active users* utilizing our #social web app 🤓

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PrivacySafe.Social metrics

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PrivacySafe.Social metrics

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PrivacySafe.Social metrics

Steady growth of https://PrivacySafe.social throughout early #December with *zero* marketing spend and all organic word-of-mouth. Lots of folks discovering #decentralized networks / the #fediverse for the first time. Get @privacysafe 🦾

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PrivacySafe Social

Happy New PEERS! We're now on #PeerTube, along with https://jam.coop (@jamcoop) and https://bandwagon.fm(@benpate), under the Fun Music Place banner (also the name of the Discord at https://discord.com/invite/VjKq26raKX where you can often find us chatting about our projects). 🎉🐦‍⬛

https://tv.gravitons.org/a/funmusicplace

#Music #Videos #FunMusicPlace #Fedi #Fediverse #Federated #FediMusic #JamCoop #BandwagonFM #Mirlo #Musicians

In the #Fediverse there are now
716 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
517 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@NewAtlas
@MetrolandMedia
@OuestFrance
@UNILAD
@Syracusecom

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

Built by @mho

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

You can simply use relay instances to be interconnected with other instances to exchange posts and it works seamless with #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #snac / #snac2 and many other ones! If you're in tech, you might want to use:

https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

You can simply add it to get a bigger reach but also to get more interesting content into your own timeline which becomes even more important on single user- & smaller instances.

#activitypub #mastodon #fediverse #opensource #bsd #runbsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #debian #proxmox #xcpng #talos #coding #programming #fediwall #relay #fedirelay #acitivitypubrelay #selfhost #homelab #community

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Activity Pub / Fediverse Relay

Reasons for optimism at the turn of the year: reflections on the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next

https://privacy.thenexus.today/reasons-for-optimism-at-the-turn-of-the-year/

#fediverse #ActivityPub #ATmosphere

🗣AM ENDING 2025 WITH A BOOST & FAVE

look who just arrived in time to welcome the new year: my THING1 & THING2 gifts in #plushtodon form, #Boost & #Fave.

it was hard to get a good pic of us together by myself, so i hope you don’t mind the potato quality of my tablet’s pics.

i haven’t stopped smiling since i opened the package.

🗣HAPPY NEW #FEDIVERSE YEAR TO YOU ALL

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my new plushtodon twins, Boost and Fave

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Fave kept hogging the shot in this selfie with me

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Boost thought you can’t see them because they think they blend with the blue of the art on the wall

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this is the best i could do with the 3 us in the shot: Boost, me in the middle, and Fave

Here's your chance to see the fediverse platform Bonfire in action (without having to install it or create an account)

Our favorite fedi live streamer, @ozoned is going to be streaming an install and walk through soon (Jan 2 at 8 AM CST).

Add it to your calendars and #JoinIn

https://freestreamers.btfree.org/event/bonfire-install-and-config-livestream

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Bonfire #HomeLab

Exactly one year ago, on 30th December 2024, I laid the foundation of FediMeteo.

I took a VM, installed FreeBSD, and set up the first jail to support Italy. The goal was to create a tool for my own use, support a few countries, and announce it.

Unexpectedly, the enthusiasm was incredible. That pushed me to keep going, support more countries and cities, and turn it into what it is today.

FediMeteo now supports 38 countries and 2,937 cities, with more than 7,700 followers in the Fediverse alone, not counting the many people who follow via RSS feeds or visit the web pages.

If you are curious to read the story and some technical details, you can find it here:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/

Today is also Tuesday, a #ThankYouTuesday, so I want to say thanks to:

* OpenMeteo - @openmeteo - for providing accurate, high quality data, without which FediMeteo would be far less useful

* @grunfink - creator of snac, who made all of this possible using very few resources, on a 4 euro per month VM

* FreeBSD, which thanks to the efficiency of the OS and its jail implementation made it possible to run this service in a stable and efficient way with minimal effort

* FediFollows - @FediFollows - that periodically spreads the word about cities, countries, and the enthusiasm around the project

*All of you*, who suggested, encouraged, corrected, and celebrated this project

And forward toward supporting more countries and other interesting features already in the works.

Happy birthday, FediMeteo! 🎉

#FediMeteo #HappyBirthday #Meteo #Weather #FreeBSD #snac #snac2 #OpenMeteo #Fediverse

I took a VM, installed FreeBSD, and set up the first jail to support Italy. The goal was to create a tool for my own use, support a few countries, and announce it.

Unexpectedly, the enthusiasm was incredible. That pushed me to keep going, support more countries and cities, and turn it into what it is today.

FediMeteo now supports 38 countries and 2,937 cities, with more than 7,700 followers in the Fediverse alone, not counting the many people who follow via RSS feeds or visit the web pages.

If you are curious to read the story and some technical details, you can find it here:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/

Today is also Tuesday, a #ThankYouTuesday, so I want to say thanks to:

• OpenMeteo - @openmeteo@fosstodon.org - for providing accurate, high quality data, without which FediMeteo would be far less useful

• @grunfink@comam.es - creator of snac, who made all of this possible using very few resources, on a 4 euro per month VM

• FreeBSD, which thanks to the efficiency of the OS and its jail implementation made it possible to run this service in a stable and efficient way with minimal effort

• FediFollows - @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services - that periodically spreads the word about cities, countries, and the enthusiasm around the project

And forward toward supporting more countries and other interesting features already in the works.

Happy birthday, FediMeteo! 🎉

#FediMeteo #HappyBirthday #Meteo #Weather #FreeBSD #snac #snac2 #OpenMeteo #Fediverse

This week's #fediverse news - Fediverse Report #131

- How age verification laws impact the fediverse, both how we understand the network as well as the impact on server admins
- CrowdBucks is a new crowdfunding platform for the fediverse
- Google's Play Store requirements for clients result in @apps creating different versions for their app on FDroid

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-131/

Two Fediverse clients I like are Elk and Phanpy, but both had the same issue: the inability to filter "replies" and "boosts" from the timeline. For me this is essential. I can't keep up with my timeline, and if I also see replies to posts unrelated to what I follow, it just becomes chaos. So I tried to implement these filters and opened a PR.

The Elk developers have already merged it into the main branch, so we should soon see the two hide options appear in Elk. Hopefully the same will happen in Phanpy as well, because this greatly improves the experience on two excellent Fediverse tools, which are also compatible with snac.

https://github.com/elk-zone/elk/pull/3482

https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/pull/1400

#Fediverse #snac #Mastodon #elk #phanpy

I've had Honk, a light hearted activitypub platform, installed for quite awhile now. Updating and installing were simple enough that I could do it, but I honestly have no idea how to use it!

It's fun to say I've honked something tho. 🦆

Are there any other Honkers out there?

I'll write up my notes on the install process (has been stored away in my journal for over a year) before I uninstall.

https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #Honk

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A dark-themed digital interface with a purple background. It features text fields for entering information, including options to attach files, add coordinates, and a button for advanced settings. There are also buttons for previewing and canceling.

Let's stress test the Fediverse on new year's.

Let's all make a nice "happy new year!" post (add media for bonus) and see if our beautiful decentralised network can handle it.

Boost for increased load. 😎

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #NYE #NYE2025

It's live.

I've just released my final software update for 2025, which includes 100% fidelity account migrations between #Bandwagon servers.

This long-overdue enhancement means that everyone can take their identity to any other #Emissary server on the #Fediverse. EVERYTHING moves with you.. music uploads, album sales, everything. And, your followers are forwarded to your new address.

There's plenty more, including a 2025 recap, and some plans for 2026 here: https://bandwagon.fm/2025-december

Hey #39C3!
Tomorrow, Day 3, 14:00, I will spontaneously be hosting a session in the @cbase Fediverse Assembly on “Lessons from a Public University: Bringing Institutions into the Fediverse” and sharing my experiences from the step-by-step approach at the University of Innsbruck, where we have a Mastodon Instance on our servers, SSO-connected, based on a general strategic approach towards open plattforms.
Happy to see a lot of Fediverse fighters!
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/de/event/detail/lessons-from-a-public-university-bringing-institut

#fediverse #mastodon

it’s hard to make time for all my #fediverse accounts

Excited to see some new projects implementing #ActivityPub and joining the #fediverse in the final stretches of 2025:

Accounts on new server implementations I have come across the last days are #Agora (test account here: @flancian) and #SquidCity (test account: @lobsters)

SocialOntario.ca is a new Mastodon server for Ontarians and anyone connected to Ontario, Canada.

https://socialontario.ca

You can find out more at https://socialontario.ca/about or contact the admin account @Mathew

#FeaturedServer #Ontario #Canada #Canadian #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Mein Blog im Fediverse findet ihr jetzt hier: @mapf.net

🤗

#Blog #Wordpress #ActivityPub #Fediverse

Zeroes.ca is a COVID-aware Glitch Mastodon server hosted in Canada, open to people from anywhere in the world. Misinfo, disinfo and bad faith content is not permitted.

This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters and up to 8 poll options.

https://zeroes.ca

You can find out more at https://zeroes.ca/about or contact the admin account @zeroes

#FeaturedServer #COVID #Canada #Canadian #GlitchMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

I've been experimenting with lightweight activitypub tools like gotosocial and snac2.

So far snac2 works, but seems incompatible with basically every frontend I've tried.

gotosocial is more compatible, but crashes randomly and won't stay online for 24hrs at a time.

What am I doing wrong here?

Anyone have any tips?

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #gotosocial #snac2

Originally created as a temporary setup to experiment with #snac, I later decided to keep it online. For about a year now, it’s been my most 'private', less technical corner. And I couldn’t be happier: it runs in a #FreeBSD jail, uses almost zero resources, and is always ready to serve me.

Happy birthday, FediHome!

#FediVersary #Anniversary #Birthday #snac2 #Fediverse

@fedicat

Sounds good, and Fedicat has a very impressive list of features re so many #Fediverse platforms

Sadly, I can't try it out as I don't have iOS

Lgbtqia.space is a cute Mastodon server for all LGBTQIA ppl out there that want a caring and safe environment. If you are part of the LGBTQIA community you are very cordially invited to join this server.

https://lgbtqia.space

You can find out more at https://lgbtqia.space/about or contact the admin account @mcp

#FeaturedServer #LGBTQIA #LGBT #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-12-26

Servers

- Hollo v0.6.19
- Iceshrimp.NET v2025.1-beta5.patch3.security4
- Mitra v4.15.0
- Manyfold v0.130.2
- stegodon v1.3.0
- PieFed v1.4.0
- Lemmy v0.19.15
- Ktistec v3.2.5
- Misskey v2025.12.2
- Castopod v1.13.8
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.8.2
- NeoDB v0.12.6
- NodeBB v4.7.2
- SquidCity: A tiny ActivityPub (Fediverse) server, written in NodeJS/Typescript

Clients

- Tusker v2025.4
- Photon v2.2.2
- Thunder v0.8.3
- Holos: A Fediverse client that turns your smartphone into a complete ActivityPub server

For developers

- BotKit v0.3.1
- Fedify v1.10.0
- apkit v0.3.5
- FEP MCP: An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides access to Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

Protocol

- FEP-0151: NodeInfo in Fediverse Software (2025 edition) (Final comments)

Articles

- My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019b384b-9d7a-abda-7227-014207339cc2

Dear Fedi friends,

I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.

I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).

The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️

I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.

And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly

Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you @j12t and @anca

The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.

I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌

#TheFutureIsFederated

Just a little bit frustrating to read people saying "the Fediverse should have starter packs" when I've spent the last four+ years hand-curating recommended accounts to follow on @FediFollows and https://fedi.directory

I'm not the only person doing this kind of initiative, the Trunk directory (https://communitywiki.org/trunk) was the first, and the Fediverse.info directory by @dansup (https://fediverse.info/explore/people) is an automated way for people to add themselves to suggested lists.

We already have these things on the Fedi, people just need to ask around and discover them, and let their friends know about them.

#Fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 91

This week's news:
- @loops has launched and is now available for everyone!
- @radiofreefedi will shut down early next year
- Bridgy Fed talks about potential governance directions

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-91/