jrollans.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
@nycki I bandied the idea of a #Flarum forum in the past (Flarum is lightweight, *and* looks great on mobile, unlike https://wrongplanet.net/forums/), but there wasn't enough interest. I had no one willing to help with #forum moderation. Server setup - when low-maintenance enough - is something I have talent enough to do, and maintain.
Alas, the #autistic community doesn't have the strength in numbers, and will to escape the #enshittification, eschewing the closed-source, more popular-yet-surveillance-capitalism-style forums like #Discord.
PS: It's a small miracle this #Mastodon instance I'm on is autistic-themed (*and* runs on #OpenSource software, *and* looks great on mobile). Thanks @AutisticInnovator !!
Open request to the users of Mastodon: if you use an acronym, please spell it out the first time you use it in each post. You know what the acronym means, but Mastodon is huge and there are people all over the world who may be reading your post. Telling us that some alphabet soup did something means nothing if it just comes out as alphabet soup!
It's standard practice in journalism and writing to fully write out the words of an acronym the first time it's used. Please think of your readers.
Thanks!
#Mastodon #acronym #ACriminalRegimentOfNastyYoungMen #grammar #usage #courtesy
Wait a minute, why is #proton on all the socials EXCEPT #mastodon (but it is on Twitter, BSKY, Threads, Whatsapp, Telegram)?
Also, I saw they have a notes app (Standarad Notes) that is apparantly run from the US (and not Europe). What is up with that? I joined (and trust) Proton as a secure and privacy-by-design alternatieves to Big Tech.
I love the Fediverse and really enjoy the Mastodon platform, but (and this surprises me) the gaming community over on Bluesky is really big & engaging! Like, not gamergate types, like good folks!!!
How do we get some folks off Bluesky???
RE: https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/115960773719651038
Möchte zu diesem sehr weisen #Mastodon - Post von @ArneBab gegen #Vereinsamung durch digitale #Blasen & #KiKokons meine #Mimesis - #Menschenwürde - These aus 2025 einbringen:
„Die Idee der Menschenwürde bildet die gemeinsame #Mitte aller aufgeklärten #Religionen und demokratischen #Zivilreligionen.“
In diesem Satz habe ich Jahrzehnte der Arbeit in #Religionswissenschaft & #Politikwissenschaft gegen #Rechtsmimesis verdichtet. Ich erwäge ihn für meinen #Grabstein 🪦. 🤓📚🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱🇺🇸💬
How me discovered #mastodon or #bridgeovertime Soundtrack: https://youtu.be/yGQTygjOBhQ?si=3MB7WUAtC2hu7fc_
P.S. IL0VeU
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/exportacion-del-modelo-de-populismo-punitivo-que-hace-pedazos-el-estado-de-derecho--69585610 #mastodon #fediverse #fediverso #LATAM #latinoamerica #latinos #Enterense #nota desde #ElSalvador #toot #espanol #ultimahora #ultimominuto #Compartan #compartir #TT #opinion #latinoamericanos favor escuchar atentamente cuando tengan ocasión oportuna. PLEASE gracias de antemano y saludos cordiales.
Installed a #Mastodon Filter GUI from Github to manage keyword filters. Love it. It's a pipx application. Will make filtering with my Parkinson's easiers, esp adding new keywords.
You can easily add or edit your keyword terms or create new filters. You still have to change the behavior of a filter in Mastodon but if you want to easily manage, add words, tags, etc, you can.
There are command line options, also, including filter templates
Image 2, their screenshot on the dev page. Screenshot 1, my current sports keywords.
I have around 30 different filters setup, from hide behind warning, to hide forever.
I just tried it to add Gohawks to my sports filter and it worked. I look forward to populating that filter. lol
@syn_rst @JuenniausUebach @gunchleoc @sequundi
Danke Euch für die gute Debatte! 🙏🙌
#Mastodon ist viel freundlicher als #X. Hier gibt es viel weniger Hater, aber doch eine Menge Leute (überwiegend, aber nicht ausschließlich Männer), die andere gerne für „falsche Sprache“ maßregeln.
Wir Arbeiterkinder nannten solche autoritären Linken gerne #Macker & machten uns lustig darüber, warum sie sich immer wieder über mangelnde Beliebtheit wunderten. 🤭 Nicht ärgern lassen, einfach weitermachen. 🤗
Accessibility-focused Mastodon question.
I’m currently using the Enafore web client and generally like it. I’ve been seeing some chatter about FastSM, and I’m curious how it compares in real use.
Has anyone here used Enafore and then switched to FastSM? If so, how is it with a screen reader, and what feels different or better (or worse)?
I don’t have much energy for trial-and-error right now, so firsthand experiences would be especially helpful.
#Mastodon #Accessibility #ScreenReaders #BlindTech @mastoblind @main
🔴 🟠 🟡 Good day, #Mastodon!
#Irbenes is officially here 💚 🌱 ! A proudly #European 🇪🇺 company that creates branding and visual images for businesses and individuals.
We only use European and #opensource 🔓 solutions in our work!
Good to be here 💚 !
#marketing #branding #visual #image #visualimage #europa #eurooppa #finland #lahti #company #business #foryou #new #start #brand #EU
Uusi eurooppalainen some tulossa: W.
Kyllä, ne onnistui keksimään X:ääkin paskemman nimen
Tässä projektissa on siis ihan liikaa red flageja 🚩🚩🚩
Vahva tunnistautuminen ChatControl-malliin? Hahah, juu ei, minä en ala jakamaan passiani minkään somen kanssa.
Ja harhaanjohtavaa tämä mielikuvan luominen Euroopasta, joka on ihan typösen tyhjillään kaikesta paikallisesta some-toiminnasta. Minne unohtui Fediverse? Eurooppahan on täynnä Mastodon-instansseja.
Mun veikkaus: W on ennemminkin massiivinen L (kyllä, mä olen hip and cool kuin gen z konsanaan)
Hei uudet Mastodon-tyypit!
Ennen kuin seuraatte muita, niin laittakaahan ensin profiilikuva + lyhyt esittely kuntoon.
Meillä on myös tapana tehdä erillinen esittely-postaus. Esittelypostaukseen kuuluu olennaisena osana hashtag #esittely . Sen hashtagin voi laittaa postauksen alkuun tai loppuun.
Jos on kysyttävää Mastodonin käyttöliittymästä tai muusta tähän liittyen, niin kysykää rohkeasti apua. Me autamme mielellään aloittelijoita ja miksi ei myös vähän kokeneempiakin.
✨
Kuvattomia ja tyhjä infokenttäisiä seuraajia ei tule seurattua takaisin, kun emme tiedä ketä olemme seuraamassa.
Danke Euch! 🙏
Nach meiner Auffassung ist #Mastodon ein #Fediverse - Medium für #Dialog 💬
Deswegen mag ich es nicht besonders, wenn manche Accounts nur #Follower „sammeln“. Stattdessen folge ich gerne zurück und lese & reposte auch von „kleineren“ Accounts. Das ist meine Grundhaltung im dialogischen #Monismus. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/relativismus-dualismus-und-monismus-auf-twitter-mastodon-chatgpt-und-instalive/
As a pacifist, what I love most about the Fediverse is how it feels like a shared search for peace. We have Caturday, when everyone posts cat pictures every Saturday. There's Mosstodon, which is all about sharing beautiful photos of moss and nature. And we have SilentSunday, where people post calm outdoor and nature photos. Even with all the chaos in the world, the Fediverse has a way of calming my mind.
@usercounts It seems we are now seeing a steady rise in Mastodon user numbers. Let's hope they are joining for the right reasons and like what and who they find! @mastodonmigration #mastodon
"#ICE joined #Bluesky as part of a wave of Trump Administration accounts that were created last November, as an apparent intimidation tactic against a network that was perceived to be largely left-wing.
…
For #Mastodon, this is in some ways an endorsement of #thefediverse model. Both communities and individuals can choose not to connect with other communities and accounts that they find harmful."
Hello #Mastodon! 👋 This is my #Introduction here.
I'm a solo dev making my first #Cozy game for Steam called #Catomino.
Honestly, I’m kinda obsessed with how these cats jiggle 🐈✨
🧵 Follow for devlogs and cute cats!
#IndieDev #GameDev #PuzzleGame #Cats #MadeWithUnity #SoloDev #CozyGame #3DArt #Ukraine
@Bellingcat please share your OSINT news and analyses 🔍 on here like you do on Bluesky 🙏🏼
🔁 Boost is appreciated!
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/115955640315842496
@flexghost I am, coincidentally, seeking a second home in the Fediverse.
I spent a few hours today reducing a long list to a shortlist of seven possible instances.
I have not made a final decision, but I'm leaning – repeatedly – towards beige.party.
@jerry I'll follow up with you. Thanks.
cc @FeloniousPunk @rlstone4dems @theropologist
FEDIVERSE DECISION TIME
If you know the type of stuff that I post to BSD Cafe – my "first home" – that doesn't really belong in the Cafe:
― please help me to find a second home
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/363b63f24e5ae9e65c1c0b7247702e72
@zotheca Man kann es so abtun, ja.
Mein Punkt ist, dass sich technisch bei #mastodon seit ewigen Zeiten nichts mehr tut, während andere Dienste im #fediverse, wie eben #sharkey beispielsweise, durchaus Fortschritte machen. Und das als Nische. Andere Dienste wie #diaspora sind mEn. tot.
Und unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Zugänglichkeit betrachtet, ist das Fehlen von Einstellungen für Schriftgrößen ein großes Problem.
Wo doch alle wg. Bildbeschreibungen so viel Bohei gemacht haben ;-) ...
FEDIVERSE DECISION TIME
If you know the type of stuff that I post to BSD Cafe – my "first home" – that doesn't really belong in the Cafe:
― please help me to find a second home
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/363b63f24e5ae9e65c1c0b7247702e72
Interesting introduction to the differences between the protocols #ActivityPub (#Mastodon/#Fediverse) and #ATProto (#Bluesky).
https://fediversereport.com/a-conceptual-model-of-atproto-and-activitypub/
Want a cool icon after your #Mastodon handle? Just add : name_of_icon : with no spaces before or after the colons, after your name on your profile page. First, though, go here https://emojos.in/ to find out which #emojo your Mastodon server supports 🙂
Because my Mastodon feed still shows me content in languages other than English and/or Malay, I think I will soon find ways to get a translation API and configure my instance to be able to translate any posts on my feed.
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Translation #Language #Multilingual #SelfHosting #Tech #OpenSource #SocialMedia #Instance #ActivityPub #DigitalTools #API #Automation #Malaysia #Selangor #TechLife #Privacy #Community #Innovation
Hoi mastodonttivelhot!
Onko täällä mitään mahdollisuutta laittaa ketju seurantaan, vaikka siihen ei itse osallistuisi (eli tule merkityksi mukaan)? Äkkiseltään en löytänyt.
Nimim. Epätietoinen Savosta
A question for my fellow #Fediverse advocates:
I am currently working again on ActivityPub polls for WordPress. #Mastodon has a kind of hidden feature (not accessible by most clients) to hide the poll results until the poll has ended. This only includes how much votes each option has got so far, not the total amount of people that voted already.
Should I offer an site-wide setting so that this does not apply for the poll-creator, when the "hide totals" flag is set?
| No. It's unhealthy. Keep it hidden for all then.: | 0 |
| Yes, why not?: | 0 |
| It's difficult...: | 1 |
@waidler @hungeninfo
Hier in Hof ist es auch nicht anders. Als ich meinem #SPD-Stadtverband vorschlug auch auf #Mastodon zu publizieren, war die Reaktion: "Wir wollen jemanden erreichen". Ich meine, sie haben einfach den Schuß nicht gehört. Und irgendjemand muss nun mal anfangen sich aus den asozialen Netzwerken zu lösen.
Gibt es eigentlich keine Software mit der man die sozialen und asozialen Netzwerke in einem Arbeitsgang bespielen kann?
@randulo Like you, I don't tell people what to do. I mentioned that I wished hashtags, like USPOL, could be placed in a list and then hidden from home timeline like we can do with users and lists. I do that with political users. I was told by #Mastodon developers that adding hashtags and then hiding from home would not ever happen. I think it would be a great thing and I hope they reconsider it.
Until then, I filter things out of my timeline I don't want to see or am not interested in. It's far from perfect and things get through I am not interest in.
At least now they add an option when you click a hashtag to quickly mute it.
Good luck. I enjoy your account very much. The music, stories, etc.
Depuis ce matin, les profils montrent également les statuts #mastodon des utilisateurs qui ont référencé leur compte ✍️
Hab versehentlich meine Mastodon Instanz dark.morbia.org gekillt.
Hätte zwar ein Backup gehabt, doch habe mich entschieden Glitch-Soc zu installieren und somit wieder neu zu beginnen.
Dadurch habe ich zwar meine Follows und Follower verloren, doch man findet sich bestimmt wieder.
Dürft aber gern auch boosten, dann geht es vielleicht schneller
#nichtneuhier #Mastodon #GlitchSoc #Gothic #Queer #Anarchie #Selbstbestimmung #FOSS #Linux #GrapheneOS #Datenschutz #DigitaleAnarchie #NoBigTech #UnplugTrump #UnplugUSA #LibreLife #Fediverse
@tychotithonus Heh. Seems like a bug in #Mastodon, treating a trailing comma (as opposed to one between otherwise consecutive digits) as part of the number.
https://youtu.be/7CD3nSQbX0E
🛑🇺🇸”Six Masked ICE Agents” execute legally armed white US Citizen in the streets (CNN VIDEO) #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #France #Italy #Cyprus #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine #Mastodon
Niagara.social is a Mastodon Hometown server based in the Niagara region in Ontario, Canada.
This server has a post size of up to 1500 characters.
You can find out more at https://niagara.social/about or contact the admin account @admin
#FeaturedServer #Niagara #Ontario #Canada #HometownMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
There is a lot going on in the world right now, and it may be overwhelming at times. If you want to follow the news but you also need some way of taking breaks, you might want to try Mastodon's "Lists" feature.
Lists lets you move the accounts you follow into several separate timelines. You could for example create a "News" timeline and a "Non-News" timeline, then switch between them when you want to.
More info on how to use Lists in the guide at https://fedi.tips/using-custom-emoji-on-your-mastodon-server
The Canadian Political Fediverse is growing!
Avi Lewis @avilewis joined today!
He joins NDP leadership candidates @votetanille and @tonymcquailgreenprogressive!
Add in BC Greens @mlabotterell and @emilylowan
And the pioneer of them all! Senator Simons! @Paulatics
Now if we can just get parties and governments to create their own instances so people can be confident they are authentic and we can grow the #socialweb!
More!
#canpoli #cdnpoli #fediverse #mastodon #digitalsovereignty
"Trump U-Turns on NATO Insults But Attacks Canada Instead"
"Trump Says 100% Tariffs on ALL US-Canada Trade if Carney Goes Through with China Deal"
"Trump's ICE Murder Another American Protestor With Multiple Shots in Minneapolis"
"Trump's DHS Immediately Lied About The Circumstances Of Citizen Murdered By ICE."
[Another Insane Day in Trump-Land]
Would you like your public Mastodon posts to be as easy as possible for people to discover? If so, you might want to opt into "full text search". This will make your public posts show up in search results a lot more easily.
There's a step-by-step guide on how to activate it and answers to lots of questions about it at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-opt-into-or-out-of-full-text-search-on-mastodon
If you don't activate it, your public posts will still be searchable but only by hashtag.
We've successfully upgraded our Mastodon server to v4.6.0-alpha.3+mementomods-2026-01-24, along with Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4.
This update includes today's latest daily build with 107 new commits from upstream since alpha.2 (2026-01-11).
What's new in Mastodon core - These are the changes Mastodon Team have introduced us in the latest nightly version we are running:
🔒 Security
- Updated lodash to v4.17.23 (security fix)
- Multiple security patches merged from upstream
✨ New Features
- Collections: "My collections" page, featured collections, collection endpoints
- Profile redesign (in Mastodon core theme only): verified badges, account name tyling, profile fields redesign
- New UI components: Callout, Toggle, MiniCard, form fields
🎨 Theming system
- New file-based theme system with data-color scheme and data-contrast attributes
- High-contrast styles added to common stylesheet
- Updated embedded styling and error pages for new theme infrastructure
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed quote cache invalidation
- Fixed cross-server conversation tracking
- Fixed keyboard navigation in media modal
- Fixed directory showing load more button incorrectly
- Fixed quote approval policy being reset on status update
- Fixed delivery worker error counting
- Fixed isDarkMode utility
🔧 Other updates
- Bumped to v4.5.5
- Removed deprecated ImageMagick usage
- Updated Node.js to 24.13
- Various dependency updates and translations
🐦⬛ Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4:
- Migrated to new file-based theme system
- Added semantic token overrides for light theme
- Fixed missing search icon in dark theme
- Release: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui/releases/tag/4.0.0-alpha.0-4
Check out the source code of our fork: https://github.com/mementomori-social
Mastodon Bird UI 4.0.0-alpha.0-4 is still a work in progress in the nightly branch. It's not 100% ready, but it's stable with today's Mastodon alpha.3.
As always, if you notice anything unusual or buggy, please reach out to me or any of the admins. Enjoy your time here, and feel free to message me with any questions or thoughts. 
#MementomoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI
⏰ Erinnerung: Fediverse-Sprechstunde 
📅 26.01.2026
🕢 19:30 Uhr
🧭 Thema: Fediverse entdecken – mehr als Mastodon!
Austausch für Einsteiger, Neugierige & erfahrene Nutzer:innen
Fragen, Ideen, Technik, Kultur & Miteinander 🌱
🔗 Zum Raum:
https://campus.ws-12.de/rooms/8p9-mvy-srr-ynb/join
➡️ Raum öffnet 10 Minuten vorher
Mehr Miteinander statt Gegeneinander.
Mitmachen ausdrücklich erwünscht
🤝
Bitte teilen, weiter empfehlen und selbst dabei sein.
#FediverseSprechstunde
#Fediverse
#MastodonBeginner
#Mastodon
#socialmedia
There are currently videos circulating that may disturb some people. Unfortunately, some of them do not come with a warning or find their way onto your timeline in other ways.
You would probably prefer not to see such videos when scrolling through your timeline again. Or other posts, for that matter.
In the attached video, I show you how to hide these posts from your timeline.
First, you need to define a filter that hides something completely.
Then you can go to the post and apply this filter to it. This hides the post without you having to mute or block the sender.
Think about your mental health.
#Fediverse #Forkiverse #Mastodon #Filter #MentalHealth #Tutorial
Does anyone know a Linux-Desktop or Web-Client for Mastodon, that supports multi-account features like the @moshidon android app?
I'd like to browse with an instance and like/comment/repost with a different account. Bonus points if it supports browsing pixelfed as well!
I tried Fedistar, Elk, Phanpy, Tooty and pl-fe so far.
Thanks!
Ein guter, ruhiger, sachlicher Beitrag über #mastodon
Mikroblogging-Dienst Mastodon als ein Baustein für die IT-Souveränität Europas
Das Thema „Digitale Souveränität“ ist in vieler Munde und meist geht es dabei darum, wie sich digitale Abhängigkeiten reduzieren lassen. Dieser Artikel gibt einen Ausblick, wie sich einzelne Institutionen oder Personen vergleichsweise einfach mehr Unabhängigkeit verschaffen können.
… weiterlesen
Toot.Kiwi is a Mastodon server for anyone that has a connection to Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Pōneke / Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
You can find out more at https://toot.kiwi/about or contact the admin account @fancypants
#FeaturedServer #NewZealand #Aotearoa #NZ #Wellington #WhanganuiATara #Pōneke #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
I've submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.89 here:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/30876
Two of three GitHub Continuous Integration checks are running with a third queued.
Hopefully they'll complete without issues?
If so, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it!
#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces
For the last decade, the #EU has been funding #Mastodon #KDE #Phosh #Nextcloud #OnlyOffice #PixelFed, #Libreoffice, #CryptPad, #Kdenlive, #Lemmy and many other Open Source projects you know and love through its #NextGenerationInternet programme.
But now that programme is ending and they are thinking about its successor.
They want to hear from you on what it should look like: Share your feedback to make sure the Commission keep funding amazing Open Source projects!
[JM]
So I renamed my send button at snac... 🙂
The redesigned profile fields are now on mastodon.social.
I wasn't too sure when I first saw the mockups, but I'm starting to like this.
Mastodon.Radio is a Mastodon server for radio enthusiasts including the Amateur (Ham) Radio community, anyone interested in Shortwave Listening (SWL), etc. Come join us and talk radio, technology, and more!
You can find out more at https://mastodon.radio/about or contact the admin account @M0YNG
#FeaturedServer #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #Radio #SWL #Shortwave #ShortwaveRadio #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
#Loops has entered #beta with #ActivityPub support, allowing users to connect with creators across the #fediverse. This means users can follow and interact with creators on platforms like #Mastodon and #Pixelfed, and vice versa. Loops has implemented several technical features to ensure smooth federation, including a shared inbox, HTTP signatures, and smart content representation. https://blog.joinloops.org/loops-joins-the-fediverse/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News