Short videos.
Your community.
Your rules.

https://joinloops.org

#Loops #Fediverse #TikTok

Trying to see where things are with FEP-ef61: Portable Objects. Anyone working on this?

https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/ef61/

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-ef61-portable-objects/3738

#fediverse #FEP #PortableObjects

Years ago I built a People Directory for the fediverse, to help you find people based on topics aka hashtags in their bio.

https://fediverse.info

Spread the word!

#fediverse #findPeople

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116822734968898442

I'm thinking a federated wiki type service with a trust metric that allows more trusted users to moderate/curate edits.

We could expand this beyond related hashtags.

#activitypub #fediverse #pixelfed #askfedi

dansup » 🌐 2026-06-27
@dansup@mastodon.social

Pixelfed has a related hashtags feature, and I'm thinking maybe we should create a global corpus to help curate them.

What do you think?

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Pixelfed new mobile app hashtag screen

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Pixelfed new mobile app hashtag screen in grid mode

FediCon 2026 website is now live, thanks to @reiver for organizing this!

https://fedicon.ca

#fedicon #activitypub #fediverse

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Karma is coming. Quote from Wikileaks: Prominent US war hawk John Bolton has pled guilty to violating the Espionage Act after previously demanding execution for whistleblowers Edward Snowden & Chelsea Manning and 176 y...”

https://infosec.exchange/@AmmarSpaces/116819321092938488

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“# EFF , # TEDIC and # CEJIL Challenge Secrecy in the Use of Face Recognition in # Paraguay https://www. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/eff- tedic-and-cejil-challenge-secrecy-use-face-recognition-paraguay # ...”

https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/116818300132627657

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Hey #KommunenAmLimit - hier habt ihr eine #mastowall

https://rstockm.github.io/mastowall/?hashtags=KommunenAmLimit&server=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social

Der Hashtag zeigt ganz gut, dass man mittlerweile auch im #fediverse Kampagnen fahren kann.

🎉 The Fediverse is meeting IRL at FediCon.

Talks. Demos. Panels. Real humans.

🎟️ Get your FOSSY ticket, which gets you into FediCon ⬇️
https://2026.fossy.ca/attend/tickets/

🌐 FediCon
📍 UBC campus, Vancouver (Canada)
🗓️ August 6-9

#FediCon #FediCon2026 #FOSSY #FOSSY2026 #Fediverse

Took a lil break from Pixelfed dev to update the fedicon.ca website, I hope @reiver approves and merges the PR!

https://dansup.github.io/fedicon-www/

It's much cleaner and informative, though it does need the final schedule and speakers.

I also added some logic to hide sections after certain dates 😎

#fedicon #fediverse #activitypub

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“@ WJCT @ jacksonville-today-WJCT If # pedo buddy # DeSantis was actually worried about government # surveillance , we wouldn't have # Flock cameras and # APRs everywhere. He's a sawed off, piece ...”

https://mastodon.social/@Bandersnatch/116818088853397546

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In case you want to help us with the development (and we could really use your #frontend help right now, not gonna lie...) or you're just interested in dev side of things: join us on our new dev channel!

https://matrix.to/#/#pond-dev:matrix.org

#fediverse #opensource #needhelp #webdev

Ist es nicht ein bißchen arrogant, wenn wir hier im Fediverse etwas von "Stromverbrauch der KI RZ" schreiben und dabei im RZ daneben durch das Senden und Verteilen des toots Strom verbrauchen?

#fediverse #stromverbrauch #rechenzentrum

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“TikTok collects keystroke patterns, clipboard contents, and device identifiers beyond what most users realize when they agree to its terms. # privacy # tiktok # tracking # surveillance # indigoprivacy”

https://mastodon.social/@indigoprivacy/116817791667788983

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Flock is expanding to collect SIGINT data harvested by Bluetooth sensors at traffic lights. At this point, it's making me sick seeing 5-10 devices hanging from almost every traffic light. This technology would allow ALP...”

https://infosec.exchange/@sethhonda/116817498990434675

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“RE: https:// mastodon.social/@gtbarry/11681 7365790247018 I have bookmarked the site. I opened the map & checked the 2 zip codes for my general neighborhood; Centennial Hills/Skye Canyon, Northwest # LasVegas ...”

https://mastodon.social/@PattyHanson/116817471507559276

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It might be a good thing to start an antifascist movie night on Fedi.

Y'know. Rather than limit ourselves to fictional monsters and such.

What do you think?

#Fediverse #Movies

Good Morning #fediverse #tzag

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“President vs Parliament: # Metsola overrides MEPs in bid to force through child abuse law https://www. politico.eu/article/president- vs-parliament-roberta-metsola-overrides-meps-bid-force-child-abuse-law/ # ...”

https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/116817356540243975

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“What's the plan for the 29th?? How are we going to hit them badly, are we even sure emails are enough? # ChatControl # privacymatters # surveillance”

https://mastodon.social/@juno0/116817234973507197

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Invasion of Privacy! Demanding notice anytime! #mastodon #fediverse #dogsofmastodon #dogs #photo #photography

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“License Plate Cameras Are Tracking Your Life Without a Warrant Automatic license plate readers sold by surveillance companies are now using a technology called SignalTrace that uses sensors in the ALPRs to scrape electr...”

https://mastodon.social/@gtbarry/116817007231939856

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Week in Fediverse 2026-06-26

Servers

- Vernissage Server v1.39.0
- Bookwyrm v0.9.0
- Mastodon v4.6.1
- GoToSocial v0.21.3
- Ktistec v3.6.0
- snac v2.93
- Mitra v5.6.0
- Misskey v2026.6.0
- NeoDB v0.16.2.1

Clients

- Fedilab v3.42.0
- Mastodon for Android v2.13.0
- Voyager 2.47.3
- Tesseract v1.5.4
- Holos v1.10.2
- Phanpy changelog
- Rocinante: A modern, open-source Android client for BookWyrm

For developers

- Fedify v2.3.0
- Masto.js v7.12.0

Articles

- FR#168 – LLMs Join The Fediverse

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019ee1be-dd85-7353-beca-83c9a087b4fc

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“The EU pushing "chat control" again is just wild. they really want to scan our devices under the guise of safety.
encryption is basically useless if they backdoor the OS, but at least we can hide our traffic metadata f...”

https://mastodon.social/@masara11/116816878234755119

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RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116817281859547761

Every now and then I see people getting really upset when features change, break, or are missing.

Let this be your occasional reminder that the fediverse is run by regular people like you and me, who are doing their best with very limited resources.

I get being frustrated, but use that energy to file a bug report, maybe even offer help, if you have the skills. Or donate, if you can afford it.

We make the fediverse better by working together.

#fediverse

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“RE: https:// mastodon.social/@Tutanota/1168 15262001889776 # NoMeansNo # Privacy # Surveillance”

https://mastodon.art/@707Kat/116816645520605655

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RE: https://mathe.social/@tomkalei/116812600219433585

Wie ihr vielleicht gesehen habt, ging gestern die neue #Mastodon Instanz

=> mathe.social <=

an den Start.

Wenn ihr Leute aus der (deutschsprachigen) #Mathematik kennt, die jetzt starten wollen... Bei der Registration bitte angeben, warum man auf mathe.social sein möchte und wer man ist.

Ich arbeite auch daran, dass mathematische Forschungsprojekte, Softwareprojekte, etc. ihre #wisskomm dort betreiben können und das wird dann ganz großartig.

Mehr #Mathe im #fediverse!

Hello #Boston #Massachusetts - its the end of June 2026 - every week I put together a thread of local events worth the trip, as a way to build community on the #fediverse. Follow along at #BostonWeekend and enjoy, enjoy your #NewEngland 1/???

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Learn to recognize them: https:// petapixel.com/2026/06/25/meta- launches-cheaper-smart-glasses-without-ray-ban-starting-at-299/ # Meta # Surveillance”

https://en.osm.town/@mdione/116815828625564804

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“@ eff welcome to Cyberfascism... Same Corrsion Strategy as always … # Cyberfasism # CorrosionStrategy # PoliceState # SurveillanceState # fascism # Surveillance”

https://tech.lgbt/@Netzblockierer/116813765005038452

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Hello everyone how do you grow your Chinese cabbage, for us this is how we grow small scales containing much food 🥑🥝
#mastodon #fediverse #environnement #climatechange #solarpunk #birds #nature #gaedening #gardens #agroecology #farming #farms #farmers #crops #Tec #technews #creativity #evolution #sustainability

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This is our Chinese cabbage 🥬 just 3 weeks ago we planted them

Post 1/2 Hallo Leute ich bin #neuhier und möchte mich mal etwas im #Fediverse ausprobieren. Ich wohne in #Leipzig und mache gerade quasi einen Neustart und möchte euch etwas aus meinem Leben teilen. Zu meiner Situation: Ich bin aufgrund psychischer Krankheiten nicht mehr als 3 Stunden arbeitsfähig und bekomme eine Erwerbsminderungs­rente. Zu meinem Neustart suche ich nach einer günstigen #Wohnung in #Leipzig. In meiner Freizeit beschäftige ich mich mit #Linux #Opensource.

DESIDERATA! #mastodon #fediverse #dogsofmastodon #dogs #photography #photo

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“North Korea neighborhood watch leader shortage https://www. byteseu.com/2139949/ # Conflicts # ideology # Mobilization # NorthKorea # Pyongyang # surveillance # women # workers”

https://pubeurope.com/@byteseu/116812639348765877

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Post Originaly from https://bsky.app/profile/fjox.win/post/3mofs2frbvs2v at 2026 06 16

my server had been down for like 5 days now. Now im stuck on this stupid place and don't even have acces to my nas. Then I found out I spend the last day and a half copying the wrong drive with ddrescue. Im soo done with this shit. I have decade old hard drives but ask a ssd to do more then 3 years hell no. I want a server that could run forever if electricity is provided. Ssds make it impossible. 3 months of 15 vms that probably didn't even do 500gb per day in total killed a drive that supposed to have a rw capacity of 2400 tb. Also I hate bluesky with its stupid twitter like post limit of 500. My mastodon had a limit of 65536. You could write a small book with that. And now that I have to copy shit with ddrescue again but instead of getting the same or better performance since its a ssd copying to a USB harddrive compared to a USB harddrive to the same USB harddrive its 30 times slower at peak. And that USB harddrive is 1tb bigger. now some might say just use the last backup. Well to even acces ir i need a vm on that ssd because nobody plans that ssd especially one from a reputable brand like samsung dies after 4 months of use. Even if mine was rather extreme compared to the usual use of one of them. it's ridiculousthat only 50 bad sectors and a passed smart test causes all the data to be inaccessible. Also the expectationthat I have backups that can survivea nuke is unrealistic. If i had the money i wouldn't use decade old hardware. Now you might say just play video games on your gaming pc. Well i don't have one, all my desktops are on my server and the only other computer that could game properly is copying the drive. I pirated gamesI alreadyown on a laptop for just to play some shitty DM for a dozen mins. This thread is probablybecoming longer then any serious post I made on the fediverse. Anyways now that i dont have a ssd for vms ig i gotta use a dozen decade old hard drives from the discard pile of a graphics design studio since im broke and you cant run multiple windows on a single harddrive cause that shit fucking lagggs. Im so done with this shit, i can even torture myself by editing long overdue videos and ive watched so many video essays that I can't watch anymore. I might just start looking on ebay for like epyc Rome shit or something. HAHA I GOT IT TO COPY AT 135MB/s. So now it's done at 0000... great. STILL BETTER THEN 10 DAYS HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHS OR THE PREVIOUS DAY AND THEN SOME ONTOP JAHAHHAHAHSHSHDHDHHDJDJFHDJDJDJDHHFJDJDJDHDJJFHDHDHFHNFJFNJDJFKFJFJDJDHFH it wasn't done, ddrescuetime calc sucks ass like it's not gonna be like 12 hours instead of 8... all the copying was fine no errors ddrescue didn't see any faulty sectors and yet all my data is shot. I can't boot truenas nor can I extract the config of it.

#thread #server #ssd #samsung #homelab #storage #proxmox #hypervisor #vdi #nvidia #fediverse #vgpu #serverrack #computers #computer #rant #hdd #hp #bsky #bluesky #twitter #externalhdd #usb #linux #ddrescue #datarecovery #data #nas #pc #thinclient #gaming #games #bsky #repost #bskyrepost

#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Eric Arthur Blair, (AKA George Orwell) born June 25, 1903

"George Orwell" illustration by Danny Hellman for Public Eye, 1/18/21

#Illustrator #illustration #comix #comics #literature #nineteeneightyfo...”

https://pixelfed.social/p/dannyhellman/975829809504124864

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Don’t use #Meta products anymore, but I have in the past. Today, I got an email from the company, and this was the first sentence: “The setting to disconnect your off-Meta activity is going away.” Because…of course it is. This continued #enshittification of the #internet in general and social media specifically is predatory corporate BS - and #TechBros are making it harder and harder to opt out - without taking drastic steps. #SurveillanceCapitalism is predicated on collecting our data to use against us in the marketplace, and lately…to use against us in the political arena as well. It didn’t have to be this way. Thank goodness for the #fediverse, for #FOSS and for those hardy souls who continue to resist #CorporateGreed and #CorporateTerrorism.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“New. Sekoia: Sold to the Highest Bidder: The Escalation of ADINT from Geolocation Tracking to Intrusion Vector https://www. sekoia.com/blog/sold-to-the-hi ghest-bidder-the-escalation-of-adint-from-geolocation-track...”

https://infosec.exchange/@AAKL/116812106234030297

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Meta paused an employee-monitoring program that collected keystrokes and mouse activity for AI training after some data was found broadly accessible internally 🖥️🔒
The program drew backlash over consent, privacy, and ...”

https://mastodon.social/@knoppix95/116812097579367559

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INTEGRAL — A Federated Cooperative Economic System. #fediverse #foss #cybernetics

https://integralcollective.io/

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“https://www. europesays.com/people/129066/ Meta’s surveillance tool leaked employee private data # Facebook # MarkZuckerberg # Meta # Privacy # surveillance # WorkplaceMonitoring”

https://pubeurope.com/@people/116812036503431935

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🔭 FediBoard was step one.
Now the open web ecosystem grows — bringing the same tools to bloggers beyond Flipboard too.
But it all still starts here: install FediBoard, Free Forever.
Be part of the loop. 🔄

https://fediboard.com

#Flipboard #Fediverse #FediBoard

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“North Korea neighborhood watch leader shortage Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Workers’ Party of Korea, reported on October 14, 2025, that workers…
# EuropeSays # Korea # KR # NorthKorea # ide...”

https://pubeurope.com/@korea/116811538099086162

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Loops dot Video: Short videos. Your community. Your rules. The flagship instance of the open-source, federated alternative to commercial short-video platforms.

connect.fediforum.or...

Curated by FediForum Connect.

#loops #video #fediverse

FediForum Connect | loops.vide...

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“President vs Parliament: Metsola overrides MEPs in bid to force through child abuse law – POLITICO Ambassadors on Friday will consider an “invitation of the President of the European Parliament [to] proceed with the…
...”

https://pubeurope.com/@europe/116811242877046115

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Ah, the # Olympics of # Orwellian oversight—where every nation is a gold medalist in invasion of privacy! 🎖️🥇 Democratic or authoritarian, they all want to prove who's best at wearing a tinfoil hat while peeking ...”

https://mastodon.social/@ngate/116810936411579981

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You know how they say #socialMedia damages your #mentalHealth by keeping you hooked with an endless stream of #rageBait?

Yeah, that all is not a thing here. My most boosted/favorited post here, by far, is a joke about keyboard interrupts. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@argv_minus_one/115091485249788597

And now, I posted a bunch more funnies I found, like https://mastodon.sdf.org/@argv_minus_one/116811512688326879 and I'm getting flooded with boosts and favorites again.

I love the #Fediverse so much. ❤️ It is all that X/FB/etc is not.

#Mastodon

I'm going to visiting Southern Ontario and #Ottawa the first two weeks of July. Does anyone know of any #Fediverse / #foss / #Linux meetups I could try to connect with while I'm there?

⚠️ Word is from Admins and Mods, Russian bot farm accounts are becoming a real problem so the advice I'm hearing is, carefully vet new accounts following you and any you might want to follow.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

edit # 2
Thanks to
@crapaud for providing this resource specific to the aforementioned Russian bot farm

https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-russian-propaganda-network-targeting-activitypub-and-atproto-services/

edit: Look below this post--I will add a couple articles about how to spot a bot account

⚠️

An article about how to spot a bot account:

edit: I think the article I added below this one is better

#BotAccount #fediverse #Mastodon
#Bots
#SocialMedia

https://stateofsurveillance.org/guides/basic/bot-network-detection-social-media/

Hey everyone,

@casey and @rania40 had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Laila (@Laila11)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their account, and donate to their fundraiser if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

ActivityPub = Fediverse
Fediverse = ActivityPub

If other federated things like XMPP, Matrix or E-Mail were part of it, the Fediverse would exist at least since 1971.

Nobody saying "Fediverse" talks about something older than the web.

#ChangeMyMind #ActivityPub #Fediverse

Almost forgot, a person at work had this on her whiteboard in front of her cubicle…

“Sometimes, I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe, is that none of it has tried to contact us.”

I second that! Especially with the US and its current administration

For now, good night to y’all good people of #Fediverse

Bonne Saint-Jean #fediverse

#quebec

💡 Pro tip: control your story volume.
FediBoard preloads what's cached — click "Load more" for as much as you need.
No overload. No waiting. Just what you ask for.
Your panel, your pace. ⚙️

https://fediboard.com

#Flipboard #Fediverse #FediBoard

PDX.social is a Mastodon server for the Portland, Oregon, USA region.

This server has been online since 2017.

https://pdx.social

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

#FeaturedServer #Portland #Oregon #PortlandOR #USA #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Just found out through Vivaldi's news feed that Tangerine UI for Mastodon is officially EOL as of this month 🧡

The author ran it for nearly three years - hundreds of GitHub stars, 50+ instances, 40k+ users. But keeping it alive meant rebuilding it from scratch every time Mastodon shipped a major release, which just isn't sustainable when the fun of building it is long gone.

Honestly respect the decision. Burnout is real, and forcing yourself to maintain something you no longer use or enjoy helps nobody.

If you loved the theme, the author recommends giving Phanpy a try - apparently it was a big visual inspiration for Tangerine UI anyway.

Rest well, little orange theme 🍊
Thank you @nileane very much for your effort these years.

Source: https://github.com/nileane/TangerineUI-for-Mastodon/releases/tag/v2.5.4-EOL

#Mastodon #TangerineUI #Fediverse #OpenSource #WebUI #MastoAdmin #FOSS

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“President vs Parliament: Metsola overrides MEPs in bid to force through child abuse law https://www.politico.eu/article/president-vs-parliament-roberta-metsola-overrides-meps-bid-force-child-abuse-law/?utm_source=RSS_Fe...”

https://social.espeweb.net/objects/da9752fb-4977-4bec-8af8-3c72e035c2ed

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“@ aSweetGentleman They were sentenced to fifty years in jail for what they said, and you still use voice devices, siri and alexa.
And copilot. Astounding. When Trump disagreed with the International Court of Just...”

https://mstdn.social/@kevinrns/116802443657841979

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Epic rant. # AI # surveillance is already out of control, and it is creating hardships for citizens for NO RETURN TO SOCIETY other than to enrich the handful of billionaires that profit from the grift. Be like Ja...”

https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116801293250943388

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“What we call "age verification" is actually mass # surveillance https:// pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/des troy-the-village/ https:// pw.wzm.me/wall/v/22741”

https://indieweb.social/@elgg/116801283376648934

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Hallo Mastodon!
das Haus der Instrumente (HdI) ist #neuhier und freut sich auf regen Austausch im #Fediverse !
Als Angebot der Albert Koechlin Stiftung stellt das HdI historische #Musikinstrumente und den historisch orientierten #Instrumentenbau vor.
Unter diesem Account werden wir Artikel zum Thema historische #Instrumente teilen. Dazu aktuelle Infos, wann bei uns im #Museum in Luzern-Kriens, #Schweiz die nächsten Projekte und Kurse stattfinden.
Zielpublikum sind Interessierte und Fachleute

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

““The problem is, there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surv...”

https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116801189420796329

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new server, new #introduction

i'm Christopher, i live in The Hague, Netherlands! i moved here from Seattle 2.5 years ago to continue my cybersecurity freelancing (entrepreneur visa), and I have been a privacy activist for 16 years, which started with running Tor relays and teaching others how to safely run them too

presently in my free time I am working on @discotheque -- a new Dutch Stichting that owns and operates this Mastodon server, gay.amsterdam. we are working on creating a novel organization model that aims to decentralize Trust & Safety in a radical way (blogged about this here https://blog.disobey.net/yawnbox/working-towards-an-organizational-model-for-defending-a-fediverse-community)

this effort to radically decentralize hierarchy native to even Mastodon (and other fediverse) instances is something I thought about while running @emeraldonion -- legal demands sent to an operator has no way to meaningfully inform a community about legal threats. if you're interested in helping work on Disobey Discotheque, please reach out, I'm looking to invite Advisory Board members or Trust and Safety Committee members. in the long term, like i am doing with Emerald Onion, I plan on speaking at hacker conferences about this lead-by-example model for building safe fediverse communities!

i'm very interested in meeting and making new friends in and around the Netherlands ^_^ and i am single :3 I'm passionate about many things: my family and friends, science, the internet, blogging, the fediverse, solarpunk, sailing, off-grid engineering, permaculture, hacker spaces and conferences, vegan cooking, coffee, matcha, swimming, yoga, sci-fi, anime, massages, raves, electronic and contemporary-classical music, trains, bicycles, camping, and learning in general!

#DenHaag #TheHague #Netherlands #fediverse #mastodon

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on a bright sunny day, in June 2026, here is Christopher in a red shirt, dark brown hair, white pale skin, wearing shiny green sun glasses and holding a Sony digital camera. in the background is a rusty bridge wall made out of narrow bars so that you can see through the tall evergreen trees in the background

Dug into the ActivityPub platforms beyond Mastodon with current FediDB numbers (June 2026): Misskey and its fork family, Pleroma and Akkoma, Friendica, GoToSocial, and the Threadiverse.

Misskey's custom emoji culture runs deeper than it sounds. Instances maintain hand-drawn reaction libraries that federate across the network. The closest analogue is early Slack workspace emoji culture, but federated.

Friendica has been federating since 2010 via its own DFRN protocol, Diaspora*, and OStatus. It added ActivityPub in 2019, consistent with its core goal of bridging every federation protocol it can reach.

GoToSocial exists for people who want a personal fediverse presence but find Mastodon too heavy to self-host. 250MB RAM, SQLite, no web client of its own. Runs on a Raspberry Pi.

Part 1 of the "Fediverse beyond Mastodon" series. Part 2 covers the visual fediverse: Pixelfed, Loops, and PeerTube.

→ https://federatedmind.com/misskey-pleroma-friendica/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=misskey-pleroma-friendica-1

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #OpenWeb #Misskey #Pleroma #Akkoma #Friendica #GoToSocial #Lemmy

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Do you think there is still a room for Prismo in fediverse? We have couple of amazing projects already, doing something similar or much more (lemmy and piefed as an examples). Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments!

#fediverse #fedidev #activitypub

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

““[On 24 June] the EU Commission is expected to propose an overhaul of Europol’s mandate which will substantially expand its powers and more than double its (already huge) annual budget by 2034, to €444m annually Keeping...”

https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116801134917561687

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Daily podcast: Trust in AI Companies is Incredibly Low. So why do we use their products? # News # TechNews # AI # ArtificialIntelligence # Trust # Privacy # DataMining # Surveillance # podcast ...”

https://mastodon.social/@NickAEsp/116801097900619516

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

My fediverse invitation page creator now supports Collections!

https://invite.jointhefediverse.net/?server=mastodon.social&collections=116784146949292427,116777306758391615,116772911150547635,116688621551680623

Give it a try: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-invitation/#link-builder

#fediverse #FediverseInvitation

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/116777616644053403

Heads-up, you might want to check if your favorite app supports this, and let the developers know if not.

(Just reached out to the folks making the Mona app.)

#mastodon #fediverse #polls

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AodeRelay boosted

Chee Aun 🤔 » 🌐 2026-06-19
@cheeaun@mastodon.social

Do you know that Mastodon 4.6 allows posting poll and media together?

Related PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/39203

Yes:	19
No:	93

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The good, the bad, and the ugly of running a fediverse server for the past four years, from @gfsc.

"Rather than getting mad at Bluesky for taking over the debate, the fediverse needs to look at itself and ask who it’s including, who it’s excluding, and how it can actually become a transformative social network, rather than a technological toy for computer programmers."

https://gfsc.community/why-we-discontinued-our-mastodon-server/

#fediverse #SocialMedia

Yesterday X accounts of many LGBTI+ organizations are closed in Türkiye. So today we are going to continue our Fediverse migration campaign for queer communities in Türkiye. We are going to suggest safe #Fediverse #instances for them. Do you have any suggestions? And would invite-only instances like to help this cause?

#lgbtq #queer #freedom #solidarity #oppression #censorship

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Summer is here, and sadly it is peak season for pet abandonment.
#PawFed is a federated map for animal welfare built on #ActivityPub and #OSM.

It already shows shelters and vets near you. Found an abandoned animal or need help? Mention @PawFed from any #Fediverse account: a pin lands on the map, and your call is relayed across the #Fediverse, whatever your instance.

More: https://pawfed.org/how-it-works

Please enjoy these animated 88x31 fediverse GIFs!

Dark: https://static.stefanbohacek.com/88x31/fediverse/fediverse-88x31-dark.gif
Dark with border: https://static.stefanbohacek.com/88x31/fediverse/fediverse-88x31-dark-border.gif

Light: https://static.stefanbohacek.com/88x31/fediverse/fediverse-88x31-light.gif
Light with border: https://static.stefanbohacek.com/88x31/fediverse/fediverse-88x31-light-border.gif

#fediverse #88x31

Two things you can see here... It's pretty hot! That's why I stayed home and implemented a missing feature into snac. That's what you can also see - it finally sends push notifications to devices! In this case, we can see notifications coming from #MastoBlaster App for iPhone.

What we can also see, it's still a bit faulty and not the expected content, but a first success here at least ;) I'll make some further adjustments when there's time and get in touch with @grunfink@comam.es to check if we can get this upstream. Thanks to @stefano@bsd.cafe for testing with me :)

#fediverse #mastodon #fedi #activitypub #snac2 #c #programming #clang #MastoBlaster

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Week in Fediverse 2026-06-19

Servers

- Gush! v0.0.39
- Hollo v0.9.5
- FitPub v1.1.0
- Mbin v1.10.0
- PeerTube v8.2.1
- Mastodon v4.6.0
- Wafrn v2026.06.02
- Ktistec v3.5.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.0.1
- NeoDB v0.16.2
- NodeBB v4.13.2

Clients

- Nicolium v1.0.0
- Mastodon Bird UI v4.0.0
- Loops for Android v1.0.2.4
- Voyager v2.47.1
- Aria v1.5.4
- Loops is now on Google Play

Tools and Plugins

- PeerTube livechat plugin v14.0.3
- Canvas: A collaborative pixel canvas built for the Fediverse

Articles

- We've been hacked

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019ebd9e-110f-7960-b3cc-e837a3b2f810

#Lazyweb When I want to spin up my own #Fediverse instance that supports #Markdown when composing a post and that can handle my significant amount of followers with a seamless migration from my current #Mastodon instance, which #ActivityPub Implementation would you use? Ideally it should be a simple rootless container setup that JustWorks™ with podman. Perfection would be a single, self-contained container without the need to spin up several ones for databases or other stuff.

In the #Fediverse, most software is built around a specific platform model. One for microblogging, one for video, one for photos... and new ones will keep coming.
With #Holos, your phone runs your own #ActivityPub server. You control your data and can use your own domain as your identity.
Built on the protocol, not a platform model, Holos is not limited to a single use case. One account that adapts to your needs.
That's where we're heading, and we hope for your support.

#HolosSocial

Don't get me wrong, a lot of fediverse developers do not want millions of users, they are designing their software carefully for them and people like them.

I'm a dreamer, and love to think bigger, and build platforms with millions and even billions of people.

Both types of devs and projects can thrive, because we give the people control and power.

That is what matters, nobody can control this, not even me or mastodon.social

The protocol is the true power.

#activityPub #socialWeb #fediverse

https://fedidb.com will soon launch our new software version tracker feature.

We will also be crawling software more frequently after a new version has been released to give better real time data.

Shipping soon!

#FediDB #fediverse

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The concentration of power in Silicon Valley happened partly because we let it. We accepted a few platforms as inevitable. We built our communities there because that’s where everyone was. It wasn’t because their technology is better. It was a choice—made again and again by the people on those platforms, by investors, and by policymakers.

A different choice is possible, but it requires that those of us building alternatives actually believe what we say about cooperation. It means assuming good faith from people building different projects. It means investing in infrastructure that doesn’t benefit us alone.

We, the builders of the open social web, are the only ones who can make that choice.

It starts with deciding that our mission matters more than winning alone.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/why-the-social-web-must-work-together/

#SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon

Is there a website that shows Mastodon versions in use by the number of accounts, not just servers?

#mastodon #fediverse #MastoAdmins #FediAdmins

Well I couldn't find one, so I put this together based on data from https://fedilist.com/instance.

Almost half of active Mastodon users are now on version 4.6, nice!

#mastodon #fediverse #data #dataviz #DataVisualization

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A screenshot of a table and a pie chart from Excel showing top 10 Mastodon versions by the number of Monthly Active Users (MAU) with version 4.6.0 at 407,149 MAU, making up 49% of the total MAU. Full raw dataset: Mastodon version, MAU (Monthly Active Users), MAU % 4.6.0, 407149, 49.2% 4.5.11, 106624, 12.9% 4.4.0-alpha.4, 98256, 11.9% 4.5.10, 40361, 4.9% 4.5.9, 20071, 2.4% 4.1.18, 15348, 1.9% 4.6.0-alpha.9+gl, 12159, 1.5% 4.3.22, 10270, 1.2% 4.7.0-nightly.20, 7938, 1.0% 4.5.11+vivaldimo, 7530, 0.9% Other, 102259, 12.4%

Wuhu, loops did finally release the Android app on the Play Store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixelfed.loops

I will give it a try. Finally I can use it on my phone 😊

#Loops #Android #FediVerse #PlayStore

12 hours later, 26% of active Mastodon servers are running the latest version.

Nice.

#mastodon #fediverse #MastoAdmins #FediAdmins

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A screenshot from the linked website showing a pie chart labeled "Active instances software version distribution". Top 3 Mastodon versions are: Version 4.6.0: 2,440 servers at 26.42% Version 4.5.11: 2,368 servers at 25.64% Version 4.5.10: 613 servers at 6.64%

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116765910384325070

Big news!!

Congratulations to @MastodonEngineering and everyone who has contributed!

#mastodon #fediverse

fedicat boosted

Mastodon » 🌐 2026-06-17
@Mastodon@mastodon.social

#Mastodon 4.6 is here! It's been a long time in the works, but it's finally ready. In this release, we're introducing Collections—a way to share curated collections of profiles to help old and new users discover more of the #Fediverse. We're also updating the look of profiles, alongside many quality of life and accessibility improvements. Read more here:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

#Mastodon 4.6 is here! It's been a long time in the works, but it's finally ready. In this release, we're introducing Collections—a way to share curated collections of profiles to help old and new users discover more of the #Fediverse. We're also updating the look of profiles, alongside many quality of life and accessibility improvements. Read more here:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

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

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/