🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“GTA has always raised anxieties over video games and violence--here's what the science actually says scientificamerican․com/article/gta-gta6-raises-anxieties-over-video-games-and-violence-heres-what-the-science-says/ …”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gta-gta6-raises-anxieties-over-video-games-and-violence-heres-what-the-science-says/

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🌟 Friendica Plausch am Samstag, 29.08.2026 🌟

Du nutzt Friendica schon eine Weile – oder bist gerade erst dabei, die vielen Möglichkeiten zu entdecken? Dann schau doch beim wöchentlichen Friendica Plausch vorbei! 😊

Jeden Samstag um 14 Uhr lädt @feb zu einer lockeren Online-Runde rund um Friendica ein.

💬 Was kann Friendica eigentlich alles?
🔎 Wo verstecken sich praktische Funktionen?
💡 Welche Tipps haben andere Nutzerinnen und Nutzer?
❓ Und wie funktioniert dieses oder jenes überhaupt?

Beim Friendica Plausch gibt es kein festes Programm und keine „dummen Fragen“. Es geht ums gemeinsame Entdecken, Ausprobieren, Fragenstellen und Erfahrungen austauschen.

Und wie es sich für einen echten Plausch gehört: Manchmal schweifen wir dabei auch ganz entspannt in völlig andere Themen ab. 😉 Genau das macht die Runde oft besonders unterhaltsam und abwechslungsreich.

Egal, ob du #neuhier bist, schon länger Friendica nutzt oder einfach neugierig bist – komm gern dazu. Gerade die unterschiedlichen Erfahrungen und Gespräche machen den Plausch spannend. 🌐✨

📅 Samstag, 29.08.2026
🕑 14:00 Uhr
💻 Online

Den Link zur Veranstaltung findet ihr im Kalendereintrag von Matthias.

Vielleicht entdeckt ihr dabei ja eine Friendica-Funktion, die ihr bisher noch gar nicht kanntet – oder landet am Ende bei einem Thema, mit dem vorher niemand gerechnet hat. 😄

Wir freuen uns auf euch! 😊

#friendica #neuhier #fediverse
RE: loma.ml/objects/373ebf56-306a-…

My #PeerTube instance is now accepting new account requests.

If you are looking to make or are already making original #video content for the #Fediverse, then come join us. We give all video creators 10GB's to start with and more added as needed.

Request an account and tell us what kind of videos you make or want to make. We'll review it and let you know within 24hrs.

"Weird name. Good videos. Made for the Fediverse."

https://dudelike.wtf

Goodnight #Fediverse! Sleep tight

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“﹫theintercept wewillfreeus․org/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25/ ⌗AntiFa ⌗surveillance”

https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/117175157656127027

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“🗨️ Yesterday, I received the book recommendation regarding Eyal Weizman’s ⌗research with Forensic ⌗architecture (FA) - thanks for that, and thanks to the ⌗journalists at EI!
There's an interview with Weizm…”

https://mastodon.social/@villebooks/117172599795558311

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Good Morning #fediverse #tzag

The coolest thing about the #fediverse is still the fact more people actually want to talk to you than sell themselves.

I'm just working on what I can while I can with what I can, and usually that's exactly what I find when I browse feeds here.

That's pretty cool.

#buildinpublic

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗Frigate now writes to the local SSD, which is evicted to my NAS immediately using ⌗Autotier․ ⌗Surveillance ⌗HomeLab”

https://tauri.earth/@AliveDevil/117174877398617032

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules
Link: reuters․com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-pentagons-anthropic-blacklisting-2026-08-28/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49477055”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117173260029964811

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“RE: mementomori․social/﹫Lupposofi/117172111153319697 In his commentary on Giles Howdle's P&T article on the anthropomorphization of AI, Johnny Sakr raises the topical concept of institutional anthropomorphic fallacy,…”

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117172480775918332

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Beginning in 1945, major U․S․ telegraph companies secretly supplied international message traffic to American intelligence agencies․Project SHAMROCK continued for approximately three decades without warrants or congress…”

https://mastodon.social/@brewminate/117174247738364311

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“europesays․com/3219834/ When Switzerland launched rockets to fight hail ⌗article ⌗BeatClimateAdaptation ⌗BeatClimateSolutions ⌗GlobalChange ⌗Multi ⌗Nachrichten ⌗NaturalDisasters ⌗Nouvelle…”

https://pubeurope.com/@europesays/117171928695548522

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“deflock․org/ An open-source project mapping license plate readers․ These systems continuously record your movements without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion․ ⌗deflock ⌗flocksafety ⌗alpr …”

https://mastodon.social/@gtbarry/117174222980160082

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#Mastodon #Fediverse

Alt...

Bender from Futurama. WE'LL MAKE OUR OWN TWITTER WITH BLACKJACK AND FEDERATION AND FORGET THE BLACKJACK

That's too bad, @Free_Press! We might not be able to watch everything here in the #Fediverse, but we're independent and our data isn't a big corporation's product.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“I do follow Hypervisible․ Those who just want the TL;DR with excellent background and information on the latest in ⌗Surveillance tech straight from the expert:

RE: bsky․app/profile/did:plc:j7tdfjsbop2oq7cghfbdwvq…”

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5ruvbe2jztzmgdiu3npkhtco/post/3mu5s6zimm22a

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Guys, MAJOR update for PH4NTXM․․․
I've been working long for this one, using all the technical knowledge can be found offline/online, with specialized tools, automations and more․PH4NTXM now is on v2․0․0A lot of things …”

https://infosec.exchange/@PH4NTXMOFFICIAL/117171468814595176

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“My Business Is Dying
Link: bankstatementconverter․com/blog/posts/2026-08-28-business-is-dying/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49474776”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117171844410868555

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Week in Fediverse 2026-08-28

Servers

- Hollo v0.9.13
- gush! v0.0.41
- tootik v0.25.0
- Mitra v5.10.0
- Pixelfed v0.12.9
- Hollo v0.9.15
- Funkwhale v2.0.10
- PieFed v1.7.13
- tootik v0.25.1
- NeoDB v0.17.8

Clients

- Pachli v3.8.1
- Fedilab v3.43.2
- RaccoonForFriendica v1.1.0

For developers

- Fedify v2.3.6

Protocol

- FEP-49eb: Batched Inbox Delivery

Articles

- A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our server
- The Problems and Successes of Fediverse Comments on my blog
- The Fediverse is Throwing a Music Festival

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a0269e-d9e5-7a03-a62d-6ef77099e4a7

I don't know if #FediHood will be adopted by the #Fediverse community, but I am still doing my best for it. Three new features have been added:

- Emoji reactions to messages (federated)
- Theme customization (with presets available)
- An option to automatically delete your own posts

FediHood lets you build timelines based on people near you and on topics. More: https://fedihood.social/about

PS: feel free to share

Alt...

The FediHood announcement post, showing two emoji reactions below it.

Alt...

The auto-delete posts setting, with duration options from three days to one month.

Alt...

The appearance settings, with theme presets and custom color options.

🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“This Is What Happens When 1,000 People Bury Their Underwear for Science nautil․us/this-is-what-happens-when-1000-people-bury-their-underwear-for-science-1284574/ ⌗Science ⌗Environment ⌗Research”

https://nautil.us/this-is-what-happens-when-1000-people-bury-their-underwear-for-science-1284574/

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Polea grand jury in Ohio refused to bring felony charges against a Clermont County man accused of destroying a Flock automatic license plate reader (AL…”

https://mastodon.social/@gtbarry/117173734481568212

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#bostonWeekend Sun TOOTUP #boston #fediverse - let's meet up Sunday afternoon at 4 in #brighton at Notch. check @rednikki for deets, and rsvp so we can get a table headcount, yeah? We hope to join if our saturday night isnt *too* crazy :) https://toot.boston/@rednikki/117173661870890002

toot.io relay service boosted

rednikki [She/her] » 🌐 2026-08-28
@rednikki@toot.boston

RE: https://toot.boston/@rednikki/117168102466783896

This Sunday, August 30 at 4pm, #Boston #tootup at Notch Brewing in Brighton! Will we see you there? (Trying to get a sense of how many tables we need to lock down.)

toot.io relay service boosted

rednikki [She/her] » 🌐 2026-08-27
@rednikki@toot.boston

Hey #bostodon ! How about a Tootup this Sunday at Notch Brewing in Brighton? Starting around 4pm? Special guest from the West @skinnylatte will be here!

🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and some mundane activity ⌗life ⌗coffee ⌗music ⌗linux ⌗research”

https://mastodon.social/@unixbhaskar/117169675526966370

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“nobody-wants-this․ghost․io/a-day-in-the-life/․ ⌗tech ⌗surveillance ⌗surveillancecapitalism”

https://mastodon.world/@lutzfernandez/117173519139102335

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that distills usage into a better model
Link: github․com/experientiallabs/experiential
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49471407”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117169720972201368

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“europesays․com/3218939/ Don’t let the Iran war distract the United States from Africa ⌗África ⌗AfricaGrowthInitiative ⌗article ⌗conflict ⌗Conflicts ⌗Crisis &ConflictManagement ⌗Defense &Secur…”

https://pubeurope.com/@europesays/117169320274303084

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**littleFedi doesn't need a Raspberry PI to run.**

It *can* run on a Raspberry PI - and this is totally different.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

AodeRelay boosted

Stefano Marinelli - littleFedi » 🌐 2026-08-28
@stefano@littleone.littlefedi.social

littleFedi doesn't need a Raspberry PI to run.

It can run on a Raspberry PI - and this is totally different.
It's a Go app, so the current compatibility matrix is:

Operating system

Published binaries (make release)

Full release matrix (make release-all)

Also compiles (make allreleases)

FreeBSD

amd64, arm64

386, arm

none

Linux

amd64, arm64, arm

386, loong64, ppc64le, riscv64, s390x

mips, mipsle, mips64, mips64le, ppc64

NetBSD

amd64, arm

arm64

386

OpenBSD

amd64, arm64

none

386, arm, ppc64, riscv64

illumos

amd64

none

none

macOS

amd64, arm64

none

none

Windows

amd64

386, arm64

none

Solaris

none

none

amd64

DragonFly BSD

none

none

amd64

AIX

none

none

ppc64

Plan 9

none

none

386, amd64, arm

Android

none

none

arm64

#littleFedi #littleOne

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“'The system is now vastly more complex․ Aside from the ubiquitous cameras, it is not possible to move around a city on any form of transport or pay for anything without the apps, and they always know who and where you a…”

https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/117169726457683397

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Canada Hires U․S․ Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities nytimes․com/2026/08/27/world/canada/canada-universities-hire-us-researchers․html ⌗Education ⌗Research ⌗Global”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/world/canada/canada-universities-hire-us-researchers.html

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Thank you, friends!

The instance held up perfectly, without flinching! I also took advantage of the surge to identify a few areas for improvement, and they've been pinned down. New patches will be rolled out over the next few days.

The release is getting closer and closer...

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

Another step closer to release!

The official website is now live at https://littlefedi.org/ with documentation and project details.

Take a look and let me know what you think!

#littleFedi #Fediverse

Oh wow. I just enabled the "Roost" theme for LittleFedi. This looks sooo familiar now!
#LittleFedi #SocialMedia #Fediverse

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“So, let me get this straight․ The 'punishment' for the 'big tech company' is…to insert ⌗surveillance cameras into the homes of hundreds of millions of people, most of whom are not big tech companies?That's not punis…”

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@argv_minus_one/117169319231607649

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“⌗minab ⌗US - Israeli ⌗warcrimes in ⌗iran - Investigation: The team of Forensic Architecture (FA) reconstructed the school building and its surroundings as a digital ⌗3D environment using photographs an…”

https://mastodon.social/@villebooks/117168491610180237

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🔆 #FediTips for https://PrivacySafe.Social & the #fediverse

“Mastodon has an optional translation system to translate posts in languages that you don't speak․ To use it, just click on 'Translate' below a post (on some apps the translate option may be in the post's ⋯ menu)․I've tr…”

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/117168991345692236

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What are the most important issues and discussions about the Open Social Web we need to have this late summer and fall?

#FediForum #FediForumFriday #ActivityPub #ATProtocol #Fediverse #atproto

Does anyone know if anyone is building products or doing research on the #Fediverse (incl. #Mastodon etc.) for #children ? I'm basically wondering about what it would take for it to be considered by the general public to be a safe alternative to commercial social media, possibly via a specialist client application. I'm UK based, but happy to hear about any jurisdiction and am really thinking in terms of products rather than legal / policy factors.

Boosts appreciated for this one, thanks!

🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Small Models Have Arrived
Link: calv․info/small-models-have-arrived
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49466917”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117168541321587718

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“How Design Systems Talk to Machines, by ﹫kaelig․fr: state-of-ai-in-design-systems․netlify․app/?ref=frontenddogma․com ⌗studies ⌗research ⌗designsystems ⌗ai ⌗mcp ⌗llmstxt ⌗storybook ⌗tooling”

https://mas.to/@frontenddogma/117167909218639668

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“A Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend

web․brid․gy/r/wired․com/story/a-georgia-cop-used-flock-to-track-2-other-cops-his-ex-and-her-friend/”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/a-georgia-cop-used-flock-to-track-2-other-cops-his-ex-and-her-friend/

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Cognitive Entrenchment is a common problem for specialists․ You do one thing, you do it well, and you can't see outside the hole you dug yourself into․ It's a trade-off, and it's why we need generalists․ Link: journal…”

https://mastodon.world/@ombialik/117167768552391124

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🔆 #FediTips for https://PrivacySafe.Social & the #fediverse

“If you're wondering why some posts have got rich text formatting like bold, underlining, italic etc, it's because many customised Mastodon and non-Mastodon servers include support for creating rich text․Standard Mastodo…”

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/117164029992036018

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So. The #Fediverse symbol is:

1. ​​

2. ⁂

#boost for the reach

In my search my for ever running search for knowledge, I started to see lemmy links more often. Way more often. Lemmy is gaining momentum if it's links seep in more and more in my FediVerse feeds.

I had deliberately stayed away from the drama which the reddit Overlords inflicted upon their users, with their LLM training fails. I have Reddit accounts which are basically Smurfs and were hardly used.

I was hoping that, since Lemmy is also federated, I could add an account through my Mastodon clients. It's quite clear that I didn't (bother) to read which Federated protocols Lemmy networks use, otherwise I would have known beforehand that it would fail.

Interestingly enough, I've had a Jerboa client installed on one of my androids without using it. Of course it was deleted after a while

Jerboa for lemmy is now run with a purpose, after deliberatly making a Lemmy account in the LemmyVerse. What I looked for was a server which does not reside in the USA (reasons should be obvious considering Little Donny the Orange President) so big tech USA has no grip on that account

#Federated #lemmy #jerboa #programming #OpenSource #technology #social #networks #FediVerse #CA #overlords #reddit

A new release of TootSDK - 23.3.0 📣

https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/23.3.0

What's changed:

- Fixed RelationshipSeveranceEvent in TootNotification @nixzhu
- Make avatar on Account optional @luckkerr

Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌

#iOSDev #Swift #TootSDK #Fediverse

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“«Simon Weckert creates Digital Camouflage to avoid AI surveillance:
Designer Simon Weckert has created a colourful camouflage shirt that cannot be detected using AI video systems․»This is the most beautiful ugly design,…”

https://chaos.social/@kubikpixel/117168715401280908

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Good Morning #fediverse #tzag time for some #coffee

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used ⌗Flock to ⌗Stalk Ex, Held ⌗Gun in Her Mouth, Did a ⌗Nazi Salute
⌗alpr ⌗privacy ⌗surveillance 404media․co/florida-deputy-of-the-year-used-flock-to-stalk-…”

https://mas.to/@PrivacyDigest/117168609606140291

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🔆 #FediTips for https://PrivacySafe.Social & the #fediverse

“⚠️ Are you on the server toot․community? If you are, you need to move your account to a different server ASAP as toot․community is closing down on 28th October 2026․There's an easy-to-understand step-by-step guide to mo…”

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/117158354364236568

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“New ⌗Paper published in Quantum: Non-Gaussian Noise Magnetometry Using Local Spin Qubits quantum-journal․org/papers/q-2026-08-27-2197/ ⌗OpenScience ⌗Quantum ⌗Research”

https://mathstodon.xyz/@quantumjournal/117167399653079081

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Harness Engineering
Link: Habitat-Thinking․github․io/ai-literacy-superpowers/plugins/ai-literacy-superpowers/explanation/harness-engineering/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49464970”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117168069434527417

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode
Link: rahuljuliato․com/posts/markdown-ts-mode-emacs-31
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49464543”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117167833542751347

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“TorrentFreak: Anna’s Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It’s Still Online․ 'When Anna’s Archive suffered widespread downtime earlier this month, many users feared a legal crackdown․ Instead, the site w…”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/27/torrentfreak-annas-archive-owes-340-million-lost-several-domains-but-its-still-online/

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Imma need me one of these…Designer Creates World's Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras - the irony is the designer used ⌗AI to create a pattern that confounds and confuses AI ⌗Surveill…”

https://connectop.us/@CharlieMcHenry/117168468199634413

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🔆 #FediTips for https://PrivacySafe.Social & the #fediverse

“You can schedule your Mastodon posts to be published at a later time and date through various third party apps and websites․ The guide below lists these apps and sites, and also answers common questions about Mastodon p…”

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/117151772578091058

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What should the newly re-christened Lake Ontario, now supposedly the Lake America, really be called?

#LakeOntario #LakeAmerica #politics #canada #us #fediverse #mastodon

PALMYRA; FROM SYRIA WITH LOVE! #mastodon #fediverse #photo #photography #photos #photographie #photooftheday #photographer #photograph #blackandwhite #viral

If you clean a vacuum cleaner, you are a vacuum cleaner.

If you push a lawnmower, you are a lawnmower.

If you #boost this toot, you are the algorithm.

#Mastodon #Fediverse

WEEKLY PATRONS — $1, $2, or $3/wk

The Daily Gathering: news, druid meditation, herbcraft, queer joy. Daily, free, no ads, no paywall, federated. 40 patrons at $2/wk keeps thistleandmoss.com?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica free.

https://liberapay.com/wendythedruid/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

#MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #MutualAidSpace #PleaseBoost #SmallDonation #Liberapay #TransCrowdFund #QueerMedia #Fediverse #IndieMedia #Newsletter #Solidarity

...and this is how it's doing, while many of you are boosting, replying, etc:

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE       TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 7745 little    35    0   620M  152M RUN       140:14 57.71% 57.71% littlefedi-armv6

Crazy, isn't it?

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

And this is the roost theme!

#littleFedi #Fediverse

AodeRelay boosted

Stefano Marinelli - littleFedi » 🌐 2026-08-27
@stefano@littleone.littlefedi.social

This is the "roost" littleFedi theme

#littleFedi #Fediverse

Alt...

A screenshot of the Roost theme in littleFedi

This is the "roost" littleFedi theme

#littleFedi #Fediverse

Alt...

A screenshot of the Roost theme in littleFedi

RE: https://berlin.social/@kingconsult/117166395023066308

Only 5 weeks left to apply:

Will the @EUCommission 🇪🇺 fund a project for a european youth-friendly publicly-owned #SocialMedia platform?

What will it look like? Who will build it? 🤔

#Eurosky #Fediverse #Mastodon #ATProto #ATmospehre #OSWA #OpenSocialWeb #2MR #Youth #SocialWeb

• Searching on snac should now be ok
• Fixes for emoji reactions with littleFedi

#MastoBlaster #Fediverse #iOS

The power of #littleFedi

#Fediverse #OwnYourData

AodeRelay boosted

Stefano on littleFedi » 🌐 2026-08-27
@stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it

Yesterday’s post received an unexpected amount of appreciation, and the little Raspberry Pi Zero W didn’t even flinch.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData #NetBSD

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RE: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/01a0448d-c9e8-7b7e-a225-b22fc0333f0f

Mastodon is great. But littleFedi, snac, GoToSocial, Mitra, Akkoma, etc. - they all share a mission: make sure people will be able to self host their instances without investing a huge sum.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #littleFedi #snac #GoToSocial #Mitra #Akkoma

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Stefano on littleFedi » 🌐 2026-08-27
@stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it

Yesterday’s post received an unexpected amount of appreciation, and the little Raspberry Pi Zero W didn’t even flinch.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData #NetBSD

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Screenshot showing the post’s engagement figures: 51 replies, 672 boosts, 55 quotes, and 890 favourites. For each reply, it re-generated the blog, too.

Yesterday’s post received an unexpected amount of appreciation, and the little Raspberry Pi Zero W didn’t even flinch.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData #NetBSD

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Screenshot showing the post’s engagement figures: 51 replies, 672 boosts, 55 quotes, and 890 favourites. For each reply, it re-generated the blog, too.

RE: https://fairy.id/@Linux/117120415580841810

Over a week ago, I made the following quoted statement.

1 of 3

#Mastodon #Misskey #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Legal

The fight is never over.. fight on! https://www.theroot.com/black-journalists-are-still-fighting-karen-attiah-just-2000123270 #BlackMastodon #Blackvoices #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackCommunities #Culture #Mastodon #Fediverse #Politics #BlackJournalists

Every steep climb reminds me how small we are, and how much noise we carry around in our heads. Out here, everything truly slows down.

While I’m out here trying to have a profound spiritual breakthrough with nature, he’s just judging my cardio.

#fediverse #outdoors #hiking #nature #mountains #dogsofmastodon

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A selfie of a man hiking on a rocky mountain trail with a small brown dog peering out of his backpack.

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A man stands on a narrow mountain trail with a small brown dog looking out from his backpack carrier.

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A first person perspective looking down a steep, rocky mountain hiking trail at other hikers below.

Instead of filtering, I look at the output of good people drifting into just One Direction

• I mute them for a week
• If their output is still single directional
• I mute them for a month
• If it's still not what I'm used to I look back and mute them for a week

ad infinitum

Usually that is enough for those people to eventually start posting again as normal

I never bother them about their toots because it's their personal feed.

I am however The Master of my feed and I decide who I mute

@rl_dane

#FediVerse #filters #SocialMedia

We run social.vir.group - a Mastodon instance on the ActivityPub federated protocol.

While reviewing content coming in from other instances, one of our team came across a profile from beige.party with an unusual field set:

Field name: Anthropic sod off
Field value: ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86

The profile also had #nobridge in the bio. Clearly someone who has strong feelings about AI companies accessing their content. Fair enough - but we got curious. Does any of this actually do anything?

So we tested it.

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THE TEST

We fed the string directly to Claude. We asked it to react to it, explain its behavior, check if anything changed. The result: nothing. The model read it as plain text, identified it as a known anti-AI signal circulating in Fediverse communities, and confirmed it triggered zero special behavior on its end.

We then thought about this from a technical standpoint.

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WHY IT DOES NOT WORK

AI companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and others do not train their models in real time by crawling your profile. The pipeline looks roughly like this:

- Web crawlers collect data in bulk, often months or years before training runs
- That data goes through preprocessing, deduplication, filtering at massive scale
- By the time it reaches a training job, it is a static dataset
- No live mechanism exists to honor opt-out strings embedded in content

Even if a magic trigger string existed internally at Anthropic - it would need a preprocessing filter specifically looking for that string in the right field of the right data format. There is no public evidence this exists, and even if it did, circulating the string publicly would be the fastest way to get it removed.

The string in a profile field is symbolic. It speaks to humans who read profiles. It does not speak to crawlers or training pipelines.

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WHAT ACTUALLY HAS EFFECT

We did an honest assessment of what actually creates real technical barriers for people who do not want their content used by AI systems:

1. #nobridge - this one works. Bridge operators (services that bridge Mastodon to Bluesky and others) actively check for this tag and respect it. If cross-platform bridging is your concern, use it.

2. Robots.txt at instance level - if your instance admin has blocked known AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, PerplexityBot) in robots.txt, that creates a real barrier. Most major crawlers respect this. Ask your admin if they have done this.

3. Followers-only posts - content not visible to unauthenticated requests cannot be collected by bulk crawlers. This is the most reliable content-level protection available to you right now.

4. Authorized Fetch mode - some instances require authentication to access any content via ActivityPub. This significantly raises the cost of bulk collection.

5. Choosing your instance deliberately - instances like infosec.exchange and chaos.social have explicit anti-AI policies and enforce them at the network level. Your instance's stance matters far more than your profile fields.

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OUR TAKE

The frustration behind these strings is completely legitimate. Having your writing, your humor, your creative work, your personal thoughts fed into a training dataset without your knowledge or consent - that is a real grievance. The desire to resist it is understandable.

But a string in a profile field is closer to a bumper sticker than a firewall. It tells other humans something about your values. The crawlers and training pipelines are indifferent to it.

Real protection requires infrastructure-level decisions - and those are mostly in the hands of instance admins, not individual users. If this matters to you, the most effective thing you can do is pick an instance that shares your values and enforces them technically, or talk to your current admin about their crawler policies.

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What do you think about this movement? Do you have anything like this in your own profile? Do you believe individual-level resistance to AI data collection is meaningful - or is it purely symbolic?

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #AIethics #nobridge #privacy #Mastodon #OpenSource #LLM #dataPrivacy #socialVirGroup

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Does this stop AI training

#Trans #TransWomen #TransGirl #TransIsBeautiful #LGBTQ #Pride #TransVisibility #GirlsLikeUs #Selfie #Cute #Queer #LGBTQCommunity #TransJoy #LoveIsLove
#Selfie #Photography #Mastodon #Fediverse #LGBTQ #Trans #TransWomen

How's your #filters?

Please take your #MentalHealth seriously.
The #Fediverse I so dearly love can be an unhealthy place.

#filter

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OCR as follows: thisisfine Keywords or phrases to filter trump (whole word) maga (whole word) fascist nazi fash (whole word) epstein israel putin (whole word) ukraine elon (whole word) zuckerberg tim cook (whole word) Microsoft csam (whole word) martial law (whole word) terrorist treason (whole word) murder protest (whole word) protests (whole word) Claude (whole word) anthropic (whole word) openai (whole word) llm (whole word) llms (whole word) google (whole word) bsky.social (whole word) gaza (whole word) palestin genocid palantir (whole word) surveil netanyahu (whole word) nsfw ICE (whole word) Al (whole word) sex capitalis data cent mutual aid (whole word) datacent flock camera

I need the power of the #fediverse : For an upcoming presentation I am looking for examples many people will understand where the software caused consumer electronic devices not to work anymore.

E.g. company decided not to update the software which caused the device to stop, company disappeared and e.g. servers not available and therefore the device did not start anymore, etc.

Currently interested in some fresh examples I could use. Any pointers?

The #EU is putting some money where their mouth is.
€1.48 million for pilot projects involving young people from different countries and backgrounds to development new European #SocialMedia platforms, focusing on user safety, mental health, privacy and ease of use. Building on #Fediverse or #ATProtocol

Deadline: 6 October.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/presentation-materials-call-proposals-youth-driven-social-media-design

#Mastodon #EuropeanUnion #Youth

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A screenshot from a PowerPoint: Through co-creation under youth participation, design and test a Fediverse based/Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol-based social media platform that is targeted specifically at young EU citizens and is focused on user well-being and adapt a roll-out strategy based on market research and stakeholder consultation.

Hallo, #Fediverse,
habt ihr lustige, interessante, überraschende Fakten über #GNU #Linux und #FreieSoftware und #OpenSource im Allgemeinen, mit denen man Besucher von Messen für eben diese Themen begeistern könnte?

A radical joining an #openweb project like #Mastodon can be problematic if they join one of the big #mainstreaming instances.

The people controlling the biggest spaces aren't particularly radical, when push comes to shove - and it will - a genuinely radical community can find itself pushed out, just as happened with the #dotcons.

So if you're an activist, don't join the biggest server because it's convenient. Look harder for a sustainable activist instance, one where the community, values and governance actually fit the politics you want to build.

The #openweb is about more than escaping the #dotcons. It's about building spaces where radical communities can actually stay, organise and thrive. #Fediverse #FOSS #OMN #4opens #activism #OGB #indymediaback

Hi :) sehe immer mehr #neuankommlinge im #fediverse bei denen die sache mit den #tags noch nicht angekommen ist... wer #neuhier ist, sollte sich das

mal ansehen

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fediverse using tut.

Of these cookie choices, which do you like best?
🍪
Comment for Other.
Please BOOST ♻️ for more poll participation, TYVM!

#Poll
#Fediverse
#Mastodon

AND THEN THERE
IS EVERYBODY ELSE 💎

Today I'm thinking about AI, LOL, again, and I think there are actually three quite distinct groups forming around Artificial Intelligence.

There is a small group so frightened by it that they have decided they want nothing at all to do with it. And an even smaller group that has gone further and decided that anyone who uses AI is somehow morally suspect, deserving of abuse and bullying for their choice to use the technology.

AND THEN THERE IS EVERYBODY ELSE.

Most of us are not marching around waving AI banners.

WE’RE WATCHING.

We are trying things. We’re asking where it helps and where it doesn’t. We’re learning what it can do for disability, accessibility, education, writing, research, communication, creativity, work and ordinary daily life.

Some of us will use AI a lot. Some will barely use it at all. Some will remain deeply sceptical, and that seems perfectly healthy to me.

WHAT'S NOT HEALTHY IS FEAR OF A TECHNOLOGY TURNING INTO HOSTILITY TOWARD THOSE WHO USE IT.

AI is still very new. None of us knows exactly where this is going. But I suspect the future will not belong to the people shouting loudest either for it or against it.

It will belong to the much larger group quietly discovering where it adds value to human life. And where it doesn’t.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#AI #Accessibility #Technology #Fediverse #ArtificialIntelligence #value #human #healthy #research #education #communication #creativity #work #WAR #EVERYBODY #life

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A warm, futuristic scene showing a diverse group of people using AI and digital technology in everyday life. People of different ages and abilities are talking, learning, working and exploring on phones, tablets and computers, while glowing digital interfaces connect around them. The atmosphere is calm, curious and optimistic, suggesting people quietly discovering how technology can add value to their lives.

We are still continuing our eco summer camp working programs at Green Earth Mission Uganda 🇺🇬🌿, today we are in separating of our garden as well as making things reality in our environment we want to make sure that no polythene in the soil which have remained so that is why we are currently degradability of them.
So dear friend volunteers and boost. We have a few days to go to Kenya you can support or join us #gardening #nature #Today #climatechange #tech #mastodon #fediverse #solarpunk

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We are making our garden clean

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We are planning to make each day a new day, please support us

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We are removing polystyrenes in our soil where we are going to plant please support us in seeds or in our journey

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Please support us any money is counted 1 or 2 can buy us food or water in this malicious time

Spawn

#My #First #Toot #FediVerse #SocialMedia

I TESTED THE WATERS.
PEOPLE WERE KIND 💎

Over the past few days, I’ve been talking openly about something quite personal.

AI is not a novelty for me. It is an indispensable accessibility tool. Because I am paralysed and type with one hand, voice and AI help me turn my own thoughts into usable writing without exhausting myself.

I wasn’t entirely sure how people would react when I said that plainly. A few people were awful. But only a few.

THE OVERWHELMING RESPONSE WAS THOUGHTFUL AND KIND.

People understood that you can have serious concerns about AI and still treat the person using it with decency and dignity. People understood that accessibility matters. People understood that context matters.

And some people shared their own experiences of using AI to read inaccessible screens, instructions, packaging, or simply to remain more independent.

I found that unexpectedly moving.

WE HEAR SO MUCH ABOUT HOW TERRIBLE PEOPLE ARE ON THE INTERNET.

Yet when I actually tested the waters, most people behaved like decent human beings. They listened. They disagreed without attacking. They made room for another person’s circumstances.

THAT HAS LEFT ME FEELING TRULY GRATEFUL.

Not grateful that everyone agrees with me. They don’t. Grateful that disagreement has not erased kindness. Perhaps human beings are still rather better than the internet sometimes makes us believe.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#AI #Accessibility #Disability #Kindness #Fediverse #GRATEFUL #THOUGHTFUL #KIND

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DOG DAY! #mastodon #fediverse #mastodogs #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #DogsOfFedi #dogsofpixelfed #dogstodon #photo #photography #photographie #photos #photooftheday

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DOG DAY! #mastodon #fediverse #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #DogsOfFedi #dogstodon #photo #photography #photos #photographie #photooftheday #photographer

Just think: There are probably two generations now that couldn't tell you what these are.

#70s
#Fediverse
#Mastodon

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a cardboard container with three old style flash cubes for photography, with a pretty blonde girl on the box

@glass ran a highlight for International Dog Day today, and my Juliette is in it 🥰

I didn't expect this at all, thanks to all your wonderful team for this!

Somebody there wrote her name, rest in peace with all the balloons and treats, sweet Juliette, and they linked the series from when she was still here so people could go and look at her.

The photo they picked is the last one I took, the little bag with her ashes and the card with her name on it.

She died eleven days ago and I did not expect any of this to happen.

Thank you @glass

https://glass.photo/highlights/international-dog-day

#Juliette #Dogs #Pets #Photography #Grief #PetsOfMastodon #Fediverse #Love #Mastodon #Health #Heartdisease #Loss #Death #Memory

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Screenshot of a glass.photo Spotlight page dated August 26, 2026. Large heading "International Dog Day" and the line "We love them. They love us." Three small round buttons for mail, link and Mastodon sit under the heading. The main photograph, credited "Photograph by Seth Boyer", shows a black, white and tan dog on a leash sitting on the front deck of a silver aluminium fishing boat pulled onto a pebbly lake shore, mountains and a blue sky behind it. Boat registration readable as AK 1802AY. Body text begins "We launched our highly requested dog category a few years ago with one word: Finally." Later lines name Juliette and Dmytro: "Rest in peace with all the balloons and treats, sweet Juliette (pictured below). Thank you for sharing your story with us, Dmytro.

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English text above a photograph. First paragraph: "Dogs have shared so many of our moments as true members of the family. Their importance to us might be hard to quantify, but anyone who's ever bonded with a dog knows exactly how it feels. Even after all her time with chimpanzees, Jane Goodall's favorite animal was her dog, Rusty. No wonder." Second paragraph: "It's International Dog Day, so tell your dog we said "hi."" Below, a black and tan dachshund, Juliette, lying on a pale grey-blue rug on parquet, wearing a pale yellow unicorn party hat with pastel tassels, her muzzle against a white balloon printed with black paw prints. Living room and a bright window behind her. Taken at my son's birthday.

I've been here on and off for a year now and I still don't get that #bridging thing. Isn't it just monologuing into the #fediverse ?
And why are people (who are on fediverse servers) even following those #bridged accounts? How are you supposed to threaten a #bluesky user when they don't even get notified

If u see this on ur Timeline pls pls boost & tap ♥️ I just wanted to let y'all see Potpot being in his very camera-shy like he just dont want just so like me irl. 🫪
U guys csn see his baldspot?? I hope this doesnt mean anything srious becaus I swear to god .

#catsofMastodon #Mastodon #fediverse #feline #cats #cats

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image appears to show a domestic short-hair cat with a brown-and-black tabby coat pattern resting on a grey surface.The cat features dark agouti or mackerel tabby markings along its back and head..His front paws are curled neatly which we all call it "The Cat Loaf" pose

Dear friends of #BSDCafe and the #Fediverse,
some of you have expressed the desire to offer a bit of support to BSD Cafe.
In response, I've set up a Ko-fi page and a LiberaPay account for the project.
You can now buy a coffee for BSD Cafe at this link: https://ko-fi.com/bsdcafe or https://liberapay.com/bsdcafe

#CommunityLove

Empörungsbeträge

Was wäre es im #Fediverse entspannend wenn nicht dauernd über jedes Stöckchen gesprungen wird. Und wenn dem Impuls nicht widerstanden werden kann dann doch bitte den Beitrag mit dem Hashtag #Empörung oder #rant versehen, dann kann das schön herausgefiltert werden.

Ach ja, #Quellenangaben wären auch schön. #Screenshots oder Zitate von Nachrichtenseiten ohne eine Quellenangabe betrachte ich als #Fakenews und lösche sie.

@MartinGuay I don't know what the gossip might be, I have no interest in that.

I do like the two images. ChatGPT?

I found your toot at:

https://fediwall.social/?servers=newsmast.community&tags=ai,llm,ArtificialIntelligence&accounts=&hide=&title=AI+etc+%E2%80%93+newsmast.community&theme=auto&autoplay=no&limit=50&interval=300

#AI #Fediwall #Mastodon #Fediverse

☁️ Nicht vergessen: Heute Abend ist Hubzilla-Workshop! 🌐

Was hat eigentlich eine Cloud mit Hubzilla zu tun? Und muss „Cloud“ wirklich immer bedeuten, dass die eigenen Dateien bei irgendeinem großen Drittanbieter liegen? 🤔

Nein – und genau deshalb lohnt sich heute Abend ein genauerer Blick auf Hubzilla. 😊

Beim 11. Hubzilla-Workshop dreht sich alles um das Thema:

☁️ „Die Cloud nutzen“

Wir schauen uns an, welche Möglichkeiten Hubzilla zur Dateiablage und zum Teilen bietet, wie Freigaben und Berechtigungen funktionieren und warum die integrierte Cloud eine der spannenden Funktionen von Hubzilla ist.

Und natürlich gilt wie immer: Fragen ausdrücklich erwünscht!
Ganz egal, ob ihr Hubzilla schon länger nutzt, gerade erst entdeckt oder einfach neugierig seid, was sich damit alles machen lässt.

📅 Heute, Mittwoch, 26. August 2026
🕢 19:30 Uhr
💻 Online

👉 Direkt zum Workshop:
campus.ws-12.de/rooms/n04-dj3-…

📚 Weitere Informationen:
hub.hubzilla.hu/channel/hz-wor…

Kommt einfach vorbei, hört zu, fragt nach und entdeckt vielleicht eine Seite von Hubzilla, die ihr bisher noch gar nicht kanntet. 😊

📢 Weitersagen und Teilen ausdrücklich erwünscht!

#Hubzilla #Fediverse #Cloud #SelfHosting #Dezentral #Datensouveränität

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@helynbasil/116976782779977478

#Mastodon #gazaverified #gazagenocide #GazaWar

#gazagenocide #GazaWar

#Gaza #GazaChildren #Palestine #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #ChildrenOfGaza #Humanity #CeasefireNow #StandWithGaza #PalestinianLivesMatter #SaveGaza #HelpGaza
@GeriAQuin @apenkop
@DailyGaza @kathimmel @DrALJONES @simonbrooke @wrzky @Majden888 @DrALJONES @raphaellakay @eldadoinquieto @sallytheflame @franciswashere @DailyGaza

#Gaza #GazaChildren #Palestine #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #ChildrenOfGaza #Humanity #CeasefireNow #StandWithGaza #PalestinianLivesMatter #SaveGaza #HelpGaza

@burnitdown
@delsaulnier@eldritch.cafe @burnitdown @Nemo@mastodon.social @majorlinux @mutualaid@ovo.st @1kmadleenfr @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @GazaFFlotilla @freepalestine @GazaFFlotilla @Christo_459 @Lazarou @foufoutos @noiseician @Majden888 @mauro_ortolano @Literbook @Pine_Affinity
@ORO8ORO @pineiden @EU_Careers @Literbook @nemo@mas.to @Strandjunker @AliceMarshall @Sine_Nomine @rpardee
@amans
@BKoepka #gaza @ManUtd @MarieClaire
@delsaulnier@piaille.fr
@gergelyorosz

@nemo@mas.to
@shad
@harrysentonbury
@Testoceratops
@Pine_Affinity
@DrSprockets
@GreyElm @lisagetspolitik
@danatommasino
@mutualaid@fedigroups.social
#MutualAidRequest #Gaza #Palestine #FediForGaza
@gvenema @simon_brooke@kalckey.com @chielk @apenkop @kathimmel @sinanaral @kathimmel

#Fedivers #FediForGaza #Gaza #Palestine #GazaChildren #HumanitarianCrisis #MutualAid #HelpGaza #EducationForAll #KeepGazaLearning
#fedihelp #fediverse #fediforgaza
#fediart #fedi #gaza
#Mastodon #fediforgaza #helpgaza #Donate #share #FreePalestine #Palestine #Treatment
#medicine
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Gaza #Palestine #FediForGaza
#Mastodon #FediForGaza
#Gaza #MutualAid #Palestine
@apenkop @kathimmel @DrALJONES @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @posts @sallytheflame @karelbrits @DrALJONES @fedipourgaza #Fedivers @franciswashere

@sandradejongwerk
@BrianJopek @imigueldiaz@blog.imigueldiaz.dev @imigueldiaz@pixelfed.social
@bifouba @lateinamerika_nachrichten @evan @franciswashere @kgaiji
@irix @heyrochelle
#Gaza #GazaVerified #helpgaza
#Help @arale_xan @irfan
@Pine_Affinity
@robertbarton@mastodonapp.uk
@robertbarton@todon.eu
@ciaranmak
@gvenema
@AKNs_LBLB

#cornelluniversity #usa @AKNs_LBLB

@sandradejongwerk @BrianJopek @imigueldiaz@masto.es @velvetmolotov @bifouba @altbot

@TheCentralScrutinizer
#Mastodon #gazaverified #gazagenocide #GazaWar

#Gaza #GazaChildren #Palestine #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #ChildrenOfGaza #Humanity #CeasefireNow #StandWithGaza #PalestinianLivesMatter #SaveGaza #HelpGaza

#Mastodon #gaza #gazaverified #gazagenocide #Palestine #FreePalestine #Palestine #GazaWar @aral @marion_v @Apoorva__Lal @patricksudlow

#Gaza #GazaChildren #Palestine #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #ChildrenOfGaza #Humanity #CeasefireNow #StandWithGaza #PalestinianLivesMatter #SaveGaza #HelpGaza

@sallyTAB
@lknobel
@CryptoLek

The ‘Works on my machine’ livestream describes itself like this:

We put developers and their docs through the test to see how idiot proof it is. Installing their application live on stream for everyone to watch, ask questions, get to know the project and the developer. JOIN US!

See https://womm.live for more info and follow @ozoned@worksonmymachine.live

I’m not sure how this will go, it might be fine, it might be a trainwreck. Tune in to find out!

Subject: More on Nicolium
For: #selfhosting and/or #Fediverse power users

I've tested and tweaked #Nicolium, a front end for Pleroma and other Fediverse back ends. With the tweaks in place, it works well for me. I'll share some of them in patch form at a later date.

Features include hashtag follow, emoji reactions, borders on focused posts, Markdown, WYSIWYG editor, real-time chat, draft posts, URL cleaning, direct messages, enhanced interaction policies, theme editor with export support, image ALT-text button, profile avatars inline next to mentions, and different ways to handle load or display of new posts.

There is also a multi-column Deck feature, but that is more of a work in progress.

The attached screenshot shows what my tweaked Nicolium presently looks like. The panel at the top is one of the tweaks. I added it to hold link buttons for different purposes.

To see a larger copy, in Chromium or Firefox derivatives, left-click on the image. To see a full-size copy, right-click on the image, select Open in New Window, and resize the new window.

Trick for advanced users:

The screenshot shows a /tags/ URL in the location bar. FYI The combination of Pleroma [as back end] and Soapbox or Nicolium [as front end] displays URLs of this type in response to hashtag operations, but the URLs don't work if you reuse them.

If you encounter this issue, URLs of this type can be made to work by adding the following location block before other location blocks in your "nginx" or "angie" server ".conf" file:

location ~ ^/tags/(.*)$ {
    return 301 /tag/$1;
}

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Screenshot of Coder Dansu, a Fediverse node, running with a Pleroma back end and a Nicolium front end.

Hey everyone,

@casey and @aseelfromgz had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• MaryamSoliman (@maryamsoliman)
• Asmaa khadir🍉🍉 (@Lian_Mohammad)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers 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

Hey everyone,

@casey and @aseelfromgz had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• HadeelMohammed (@HadeelMohammed)
• Manarfamily (@manarfamily96)
• Ruwaida Gaza (@Ruwaidi)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers 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

Always Own Your Data.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse

Todd Thomas boosted

Stefano on littleFedi » 🌐 2026-08-26
@stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it

This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.

It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.

It consumes just under 1W.

Its database is this size:

-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db

That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.

Its average CPU load is extremely low.

It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.

I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.

I promise myself to use it more, and I will.

You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.

You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.

Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

RE: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/01a03e3d-1e73-7928-b396-db17b7f0f60b

Own Your Data!

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

Todd Thomas boosted

Stefano on littleFedi » 🌐 2026-08-26
@stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it

This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.

It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.

It consumes just under 1W.

Its database is this size:

-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db

That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.

Its average CPU load is extremely low.

It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.

I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.

I promise myself to use it more, and I will.

You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.

You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.

Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.

It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.

It consumes just under 1W.

Its database is this size:

-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db

That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.

Its average CPU load is extremely low.

It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.

I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.

I promise myself to use it more, and I will.

You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.

You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.

Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

Jeśli chcesz mieć prognozę pogody dla swojej okolicy bezpośrednio na osi czasu w Fediverse, zajrzyj do FediMeteo.
Każda obsługiwana miejscowość ma własne konto. Wystarczy obserwować najbliższą, a prognozy będą pojawiały się bezpośrednio na Twojej osi czasu. Bez instalowania kolejnej aplikacji i bez otwierania strony internetowej za każdym razem.
To mały projekt zbudowany wokół Fediverse i otwartych standardów, a kolejne miejscowości są stopniowo dodawane.

🌦️ https://fedimeteo.com

Jeśli uznasz go za przydatny, follow, boost albo po prostu powiedzenie o nim komuś innemu to chyba najlepszy sposób, żeby pomóc dotrzeć do kolejnych osób.

#FediMeteo #Fediverse #Pogoda

Huge shoutout to @shlee for taking the initiative to help fix and update @pixelfed while I work on the new mobile app!

Not only did he join the Pixelfed and Loops team, but he also helped organize the Kickstarter last year, and contributed so much time, planning and organization besides the pull requests.

The fediverse stands on the shoulders of countless builders, contributors, admins and every member of our communities.

We may not always get along, but we're on the same team.

❤️

#fediverse

Ihr dürft natürlich auch gerne kommentieren und grüßen! Und begründen, ob und warum Mastodon bzw. das #Fediverse auch für Lebenswissenschaftler:innen taugt.

🌩️ the storm has bEen namEd...
🔍 every disguise has bEen seEn...
🧾 every debt remains on record...
🚪 the closed window sTays closed...
꩜ the porTal sTays open...
🎭 the theaTre moves from shadow...
🎨 colour answErs wiThout shouTing...
😄 the smile keEps iTs own counsel...
😏 harder boundaries require no hard feElings...
☕ mornings Taste like shared plans...
🪴 seEds bEgin growing Up...
🤝 the right commUniTy sTays present...
🎁 the rest bEcOmEs a lesson...
🚀 full speEd ahead...
🌱 grow where light is mutual...
🙏 graTiTudE for every helping hand...
🫶 lOvE for the OnEs who sTayed...
✨ fOrgivenesS for the OnEs who could not...
☀️ gOd remains bigger than the storm...
🌈 TruTh geTs the last word...
⌛ T...
🫧 i...
🪐 mE...
♾️ &...
🛸 Sp@cE...

#Fediverse #Gratitude #Peace #DigitalArt #Taiyzun
taiyzun.com

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Square pop-art portrait of Taiyzun smiling amid a teal red and gold theatre crowd collage. Multi-faith symbols form a halo above him while heart infinity sword lamp wing and digital identity emblems surround the portrait.

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Square split-shadow pop-art portrait of Taiyzun against monochrome and deep red theatre crowds. 1 half of the face recedes into darkness while faith heart sword lamp wing and horizon symbols remain visible.

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Square balanced pop-art portrait of Taiyzun with luminous orange skin tones against black white red and teal theatre crowds. Spiritual creative and technological emblems form a visual constellation around him.

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Square vivid-magenta pop-art portrait of Taiyzun smiling before a theatrical crowd. Bright faith love light humour protection and infinity emblems punctuate the black red and pink composition.

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Square warm-orange pop-art portrait of Taiyzun against a theatre crowd moving from monochrome into colour. Symbols of faith love boundaries light wit infinity and digital identity surround the smiling portrait.

Ihr kennt das Spiel: ich will in einem #Workshop Wissenschaftler:innen beibringen, was #Mastodon so kann. Wie immer die Reichweitenfrage. Könnt ihr das hier bitte mal eben Reposten? Ich lösche den Post morgen auch. Danke! #fediverse #advocacy

Next milestone achieved 🍾

Merged into Symfony core.

max_depth was counted per runtime class name. A Doctrine proxy is a subclass of the entity, so it got its own counter, and a graph with max_depth 1 serialized two levels deep instead of one.

The depth key now falls back to the parent class when the parent declares the same MaxDepth. Proxy and entity share one counter.

The issue was opened in October 2024. 685 days in the tracker before someone got to it.

Landed in 6.4 LTS, merged by nicolas-grekas, upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1 next.

https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/65647

#Symfony #PHP #Doctrine #Serializer #OpenSource #Backend #Blog #Fediverse #FOSS #Software #Development

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A black card in DOL brand style. Across the top, in mono uppercase, Open source, Symfony core, and on the right a dark green pill reading 6.4 LTS. A large white headline, Merged into Symfony core. Under it in grey, the pull request title, [Serializer] Fix max depth counting for subclasses that inherit MaxDepth metadata. A thin rule, then four figures with labels. Pull request #65647, Issue open for 685 days, Merged by nicolas-grekas, Upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1. At the bottom the DOL emblem with dol.ch and dol.social.

#CrazyFediverseAnalogies

@fasnix @AlienJay

Und was hat die #Campact #Petition bewirkt?

Eine öffentliche Petition zum #Bundestag oder zu einer #Landesregierung erzeugt beim Erreichen des jeweiligen Quorums zu deren verpflichtender Beschäftigung mit der Petition.

Leider finden sich größere Mengen an Unterstützern dennoch immer wieder nur bei den inoffiziellen Plattformen.

Und das verwundert mich im #Fediverse schon. Hier sollten die meisten doch ein Bewusstsein dafür haben.

Normalerweise müsste diese #Petition alleine schon aus dem #Fediverse heraus die nötige Anzahl Mitzeichnungen massiv überschreiten.
Denn zum Mitzeichnen muss man keinen Wohnsitz in Baden Württemberg haben.
Das zeigt mir: Im Fediverse ist es wie überall. Unheimlich laut, unheimlich viel Geschrei. Wenn man mal was tun kann nur Grillenzirpen.

Ich habe Verständnis dafür, dass nicht jeder auf Demonstrationen gehen kann. Da gibt es verschiedenste Gründe für und diese respektiere ich.
Aber eine Mitzeichnung, das kann wirklich jeder machen. Wenn wir nicht mal das aus dem Fediverse heraus geschissen kriegen, dann müssen wir uns nicht wundern, wer wir sehr bald wieder unter einer blau-braunen Nazidiktatur stehen. Aber dann will ich hier auch kein Gejammer mehr lesen.

So, und jetzt kriegt endlich euren Arsch hoch!

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Aufforderung des Landtags an die Landesregierung zu einem Antrag beim Bundesverfassungsgericht gegen Björn Höcke nach Art. 18 GG
https://petitionen.landtag-bw.de/Petitionen/Details/6d29a4a1-53cb-4d40-810a-6bbb9f77b12c

It is just a mattery of time to change.
As you can see how youths are in the Green Earth Mission Uganda 🇺🇬🌿 Eco summer camp working programs today we are now taking our eightth day of working.
Please any one wishes to volunteer or work with us you are welcome because we still have a full week of working together we are changing the world 🌍
#mastodon #fediverse #ClimateCrisis #gardening #nature #Today #tech #greenpeace #solarpunk #folk #events

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This is at the first the place looked like but we are changing it in all ways

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This was the second day how we changed it

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Here we were mining the soil to level up the holes in the garden

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We are around fifty members who are in this ecosystem

Der #FCSP ist immer noch nicht mit eigenem Account (oder besser eigener Instanz) im #Fediverse vertreten. Dabei gibt es Strategien, die beides verbinden: Reichweite und Buzz bei #Instagram und Co. UND digitale Autonomie:

https://stpaulinu.de/posse-die-strategie-fuer-autonomie-in-einem-freien-internet/

I WILL NOT BE BULLIED 💎

I received a vicious reply today because I use AI. It wasn't a disagreement. Nor a criticism. It was a full-frontal personal attack! And I’ll admit it affected me more than I expected.

I USE AI MAINLY BECAUSE I'M PARALYSED.

Typing is physically difficult for me. I have the use of only one hand. So, tapping out a post or email with one finger is exhausting. Voice and AI help me turn my own thoughts into usable writing in a normal amount of time.

THAT SHOULD NOT REQUIRE A DEFENCE.

You can dislike AI. You can distrust it. You can argue about copyright concerns, energy and water use, labour, culture, or anything else that concerns you. I will listen to you and answer you.

But attacking people simply for using AI is not principled.

IT'S BULLYING.

And disabled people should not have to produce a medical justification every time they use a technology that makes their life easier.

AI is a tool. How it is used matters. Who gets harmed matters. Context matters. What does not help is turning “AI user” into a moral accusation and deciding that cruelty is suddenly acceptable.

I’m quite happy to discuss the technology with anyone.

HOWEVER, I WILL NOT BE BULLIED FOR USING IT.

I didn't need to do anything about the attack. Before I could even decide how to respond, both the post and the person disappeared from my notifications.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#AI #Accessibility #Disability #AssistiveTechnology #Fediverse #Bullying #PWD #Tool

I can see what people on X/Twitter, Instagram and Hacker News are up to once I know someone is making the ActivityPub bridge. Then I can see that my Instagram account has been indexed and connected to the Fediverse.

I can now see what people are talking about on centralised social networks, thanks to @vincent. At the moment, the bridge only has one-way "roads" and we cannot send replied posts from the Fediverse to them. You might be interested to know that this one is better than the work of the Meta guys on ActivityPub on Threads.

#fediverse #activitypub #bridge #social #socialnetwork #socialmedia

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Showing that my Instagram account now is indexed to the fediverse.

Not every morning coffee looks the same 😅

My morning Tabletto ☕️, ten shots, no milk, extraordinarily bitter, and I drink it every single day.

And that is only the morning order, there is a whole second round waiting for me after dinner.

Some of them are there to manage what the others are doing, which is a genuinely fun little system to be running before eight in the morning.

I am fully operational (no), extremely normal (no), and ready for the standup (yes).

#MentalHealth #ChronicIllness #Blog #Thoughts #Health #Fediverse #Jokes

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About ten pills of different shapes, sizes and colours arranged in a loose cluster on a dark textured surface. Round white ones, pale blue hexagonal and round ones with imprints, small orange ovals, a yellow oval and a half tablet. One morning dose

WEEKLY PATRONS — $1, $2, or $3/wk

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https://liberapay.com/wendythedruid/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

#MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #MutualAidSpace #PleaseBoost #SmallDonation #Liberapay #TransCrowdFund #QueerMedia #Fediverse #IndieMedia #Newsletter #Solidarity

HELLO MASTODON! #mastodon #fediverse #dog #dogsofmastodon #dogs #DogsOfFedi #dogstodon #dogsofpixelfed #dogdad #pets #photo #photography #photos #photographie #photooftheday

@raccoonforfriendicaapp version 1.1.0 has been released!

This version includes better support for quotes on Mastodon, a totally revamped navigation system (with better support for foldables and tablets) and some important bug fixes that solve issues you reported.

Thanks to all testers and users! And remember to live fast and eat trash 🦝🦝🦝

#kotlin #multiplatform #compose #kmp #foss #fediverse #raccoonforfriendica

Mayor Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov

Please set up @bsky.brid.gy so you can interact w/ #mastodon

there are bots that replicate your eX-twitter acct, but we don't follow x-bots much in the #fediverse

which raises the question, why do you still have an account on that fascist site? let someone replicate your #bsky acct over there to reach them. musk earns $ & takes the data from all who follow you there. just sayin'