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.

Site description
These are the voyag... uh, things I post about.
Admin email
jrollans@gmail.com
Admin account
@jrollans@jrollans.com

Search results for tag #mastodon

[?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
@wdlindsy@toad.social

I do not mean that I'm inclined to give up. We do not have that luxury, any of us who care. I think I just have to figure out ways to conserve strength for the increasing personal battles I'll have to fight along with my husband on the home front, if his illness progresses more swiftly than his hematologist and oncologist hope will be the case. He already experiences fatigue that's exacerbated by his having to have blood taken routinely as a treatment.


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    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
    @wdlindsy@toad.social

    So, sadly and with much heart pain, I think I should stop posting here and wean myself of trying to keep up with the latest news. I find my focus already waning due to age, which tends to isolate us. And now my husband and I have a medical situation to deal with that hasn't been there until very recently — at least, we hadn't known that some blood irregularities his doctors had been tracking had a name.


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      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
      @wdlindsy@toad.social

      This series of postings isn't easy to write and I hope it's not all jumbled and hazy. It's hard to write about things that touch the heart at a deep level. Hard for me, at least.

      To those who have followed me here: I couldn't be more grateful. You have made me feel I had a place, that my voice and insights count, and that means much.


      /9

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        [?]Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB » 🌐
        @AwetTesfaiesus@mastodon.social

        Es kommt nicht auf die Größe an. Tagesschau

        Das Bild enthält einen Text, der zwei Online-Plattformen, Mastodon und Bluesky, diskutiert und ihr Engagement für das Gemeinwohl hervorhebt. Es wird erwähnt, dass Mastodon ein deutsches Unternehmen ist und Bluesky aus den USA stammt, mit Benutzerstatistiken für beide Plattformen: Nicht nur Größe relevant Beide Plattformen haben sich dem Gemeinwohl verpflichtet. Mastodon ist ein deutsches Unternehmen, Bluesky stammt aus den USA - und war ursprünglich eine Ausgründung von Twitter. Mit den Nutzerzahlen der Mega-Plattformen können sie nicht mithalten: Mastodon hat rund 750.000 monatlich aktive Nutzerinnen und Nutzer. Bei Bluesky existieren rund 41 Millionen Konten. X kam im Juli 2025 dagegen auf rund 600 Millionen monatliche Nutzer und Schätzungen zufolge auf 400 bis 600 Millionen aktive Nutzerinnen und Nutzer.

        Alt...Das Bild enthält einen Text, der zwei Online-Plattformen, Mastodon und Bluesky, diskutiert und ihr Engagement für das Gemeinwohl hervorhebt. Es wird erwähnt, dass Mastodon ein deutsches Unternehmen ist und Bluesky aus den USA stammt, mit Benutzerstatistiken für beide Plattformen: Nicht nur Größe relevant Beide Plattformen haben sich dem Gemeinwohl verpflichtet. Mastodon ist ein deutsches Unternehmen, Bluesky stammt aus den USA - und war ursprünglich eine Ausgründung von Twitter. Mit den Nutzerzahlen der Mega-Plattformen können sie nicht mithalten: Mastodon hat rund 750.000 monatlich aktive Nutzerinnen und Nutzer. Bei Bluesky existieren rund 41 Millionen Konten. X kam im Juli 2025 dagegen auf rund 600 Millionen monatliche Nutzer und Schätzungen zufolge auf 400 bis 600 Millionen aktive Nutzerinnen und Nutzer.

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          [?]mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) » 🌐
          @atax1a@infosec.exchange

          A screenshot from the Mastodon UI, saying 'Lately you've posted about #the, #we, and #hashtag. Add these as featured hashtags?', offering "No thanks" and "Add".

          Alt...A screenshot from the Mastodon UI, saying 'Lately you've posted about #the, #we, and #hashtag. Add these as featured hashtags?', offering "No thanks" and "Add".

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            [?]Fedi.Tips » 🌐
            @FediTips@social.growyourown.services

            If anyone shares a link to my website on here, there will automatically be a smaller link to my account below the website link's preview (see the screenshot below for an example of this in action).

            If you would like this to happen when people share links to your website, there's a guide to how to activate this feature here:

            ➡️ fedi.tips/when-i-post-a-link-o

            This can also be used to show accounts of people who have written articles for your site.

            Screenshot of a post on Mastodon where a link to a page from the Fedi.Tips website has been included in the post. Below the preview for this website link, there is a smaller link labelled "More from Fedi.Tips" which goes to the FediTips Mastodon account.

            Alt...Screenshot of a post on Mastodon where a link to a page from the Fedi.Tips website has been included in the post. Below the preview for this website link, there is a smaller link labelled "More from Fedi.Tips" which goes to the FediTips Mastodon account.

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              [?]Aktionsb. neue soziale Medien » 🌐
              @neuSoM@bewegung.social

              Anläßlich der morgen beginnenden legen wir noch eine Schippe 🪏 drauf in unserem Einsatz für und das 🌐.
              Gemeinsam mit und den uns unterstützenden Organisationen* haben wir ein Tutorial erstellt. Es soll öffentlichen Einrichtungen dabei helfen, eigene Accounts oder Instanzen einzurichten und mitzumachen bei der Nutzung sozialer Medien, die dem verpflichtet sind. 🌅

              Bezieht die Broschüre digital von hier
              👉 cloud.wechange.de/s/K46GejqGn4 QRcode ⬇️
              (zurzeit noch nicht barrierefrei, Aktualisierung folgt)
              oder besorgt sie Euch am Stand von Wikimedia auf der re:publica .

              * @algorithmwatch @cyber4EDU @CCC @Datenpunks @digitalcourage @DresdnerForschungswerk @fiff_de @guteIT @kuketzblog @okfde @topio @wechange @wikimediaDE

              Das Bild zeigt die Titelseite der Broschüre, die den Schriftzug trägt „Schritt für Schritt. So gelingt der Einstieg ins Fediverse. Ein Tutorial des Aktionsbündnis neue soziale Medien.“ Zudem wird am Fuße der Seite noch Wikimedia Deutschland genannt, die freundlicherweise die Herausgabe der Broschüre organisiert haben.

              Alt...Das Bild zeigt die Titelseite der Broschüre, die den Schriftzug trägt „Schritt für Schritt. So gelingt der Einstieg ins Fediverse. Ein Tutorial des Aktionsbündnis neue soziale Medien.“ Zudem wird am Fuße der Seite noch Wikimedia Deutschland genannt, die freundlicherweise die Herausgabe der Broschüre organisiert haben.

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              [?]Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈 [he/him/his] » 🌐
              @darth_hideout@c.im

              Is mas.to down? I can't even load the status page all of a sudden.

              @darth_hideout@mas.to

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                [?]James Endres Howell » 🌐
                @jameshowell@fediscience.org

                RE: mathstodon.xyz/@oantolin/11658

                Insightful and informative post.

                Meta-comment: recently has emerged as the place for some of the best discussions

                [?]Omar Antolín » 🌐
                @oantolin@mathstodon.xyz

                New post on M-x apropos Emacs! May I recommend eww for Emacs's innovative UI?

                matem.unam.mx/~omar/apropos-em

                Please consider this as entry for the May edition of the Carnival, @sacha.

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                    [?]Böckli 平凡札記 :mastodon: » 🌐
                    @boeckli@social.boeckli.net

                    Dear friends and followers,

                    Please consider following me at my alt account @boeckli@mas.to as I might have to stop using this self-hosted account due to the cost of hosting plan.

                    If I’m currently following you and you boost a lot, I might have to unfollow you to reduce the media usage. But I will make sure to follow you from my alt account.

                    Thank you for your understanding.

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                      [?]Obermüller und Partner » 🌐
                      @Obermueller_und_Partner@dresden.network

                      Lieber @Orkan_der_rechtspflege

                      in Anbetracht dessen wie schnell jetzt im Starterpaket

                      fedidevs.com/s/MTAwNQ

                      eine ganze Menge cooler Accounts zusammengekommen sind und wir einen durchaus lebhaften Austausch zu einem markanten Hashtag für die |bubble erzeugen konnten, stellt sich mir die Frage, ob wir es zusammen schaffen könnten, die Rechtsanwaltskammern zu & Co zu lotsen?

                      Ich gestehe, dass ich Dich nicht nur frage, weil Du selbst offensichtlich ein Überzeugungstäter bist, sondern auch wegen des (R)echt interessant.

                      brak.de/recht-interessant/

                      Wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe, bist Du Pressesprecherin der - wie sind die Aussichten, dass Ihr mit gutem Beispiel vorangeht, gelegentlich über oder Mastodon postet, vielleicht sogar ein Netzwerk etabliert und/oder z.B. den Podcast auch über laufen lasst?

                      Unabhänigig sind und jetzt vorgestellte Hashtags in unserem Profil. Wer macht mit?

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                        [?]Multi Purr Puss :verified: » 🌐
                        @platymew@layer8.space

                        🧵 6/n in order to cope, for now, i've updated my function repo: github.com/PurryPlatypus/bashr

                        We users gotta do something, while the devs are figuring out how to pronounce GIF 🤣 ...my inconvenient bypass route utilises the always magnificent 🥰 👍

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                          [?]clar fon » 🌐
                          @clarfonthey@toot.cat

                          🟧 also, honourable mention to @andypiper, who helped start this entire thing! there wouldn't be an anniversary to celebrate without you

                          remember: the word "fuck" is such a powerful COC violation that it is capable of overpowering even a project that gives a "Frick" about accessibility. in case you're looking to write about the topic, you can use a title like this: "Mastodon accessibility concerns disrupted by powerful fuck" or "powerful fuck leads to 3-month anniversary of 6-character Mastodon accessibility change"

                          even in the face of evidence-based accessibility changes, things can still be halted by a single fuck that was given!

                          thanks to @MastodonEngineering for curating such a great team!

                          txt.ltdk.xyz/giving-a-fuck-abo

                            [?]el Jeff 'eh » 🌐
                            @fourthestate@mastodon.social

                            RE: mastodon.social/@mastoanalytic

                            Honestly? 747k active users out of 10 million accounts on Mastodon doesn’t shock me at all. Most people signed up during peak Twitter chaos, looked around for 20 minutes, got confused about instances, then wandered back to yelling on the bird app.

                            Still, 750k actual active humans without an algorithm shoving outrage into their eyeballs every 4 seconds is probably healthier than half the internet right now.

                            Discuss.

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                              [?]Multi Purr Puss :verified: » 🌐
                              @platymew@layer8.space

                              🧵 5/n THAT's what i'm talking about!

                              I've just added (ffmpeg'd) a silent audio track, and BANG, we get PROPER video transport controls!

                              EAT THAT, !

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                                [?]Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈 [he/him/his] » 🌐
                                @darth_hideout@c.im

                                is a word similar to the classic & also inspired by as played here on . One user hosts by choosing a word or phrase from & then runs polls with choices of letters. The winner of each poll is used as a collective guess from those playing. The results are revealed & then a new poll is run until someone guesses the result.

                                Suppose the host chooses “The Force” as the answer to the puzzle. The puzzle would initially start as:

                                _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _

                                Choices might be:

                                A as in Alderaan
                                E as in Endor
                                O as in Onderon
                                U as in Utapau

                                If E wins the poll, the result would be:

                                _ _ E / _ _ _ _ E

                                Then a new poll would run. This repeats until someone guesses. Then that person runs the next puzzle.

                                1/3

                                Y-Wings with a ringed planet in the background

                                Alt...Y-Wings with a ringed planet in the background

                                  [?]🏳️‍⚧️ Christin Löhner 🏳️‍🌈 » 🌐
                                  @christin@lsbt.me

                                  FediSuite

                                  Hashtags sind im Fediverse eine der wichtigsten Mechaniken für Sichtbarkeit. Aber nicht jeder Hashtag funktioniert für jeden Account. Welche Tags bringen dir wirklich Reichweite und welche sind eigentlich nur Lärm? FediSuite analysiert deine eigene Posting-Historie und zeigt dir, welche Hashtags und welche Kombinationen bei dir tatsächlich Engagement erzeugen. Wer fünfzehn Tags pro Post setzt und trotzdem nicht vorankommt, sieht das jetzt schwarz auf weiß und kann gezielt aufräumen, statt weiter ins Blaue zu raten.


                                  fedisuite.com

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                                    [?]Evan Prodromou » 🌐
                                    @evan@cosocial.ca

                                    I participated in today. It was great! 👍🏼

                                    If you haven't signed up for a session, I highly recommend it. It's professional, participative and friendly. I was glad to be there; I felt like it mattered.

                                    app.hi.events/event/7599/masto

                                      [?]Hannah Grace » 🌐
                                      @hpod16@eupolicy.social

                                      So is coming back, this time as !
                                      Does anyone know anyone who can get me an invite code? I want in!
                                      The App is coming back with no allowed, and will allow people to own their own content.

                                      For the geeks: it's built on the protocol , and apparently they're experimenting with integrating the , future integration with , the protocol behind and .
                                      youtube.com/watch?v=zUGnNIh60-0

                                        [?]Elefeed » 🌐
                                        @elefeed@mastodon.social

                                        Introducing Elefeed, a clean, privacy-first Mastodon client with organized, tidy feeds that runs entirely in your browser.

                                        No servers. No tracking. Just your feeds, your way.

                                        Available at: elefeed.app
                                        Android app: play.google.com/store/apps/det

                                        Built for the fediverse.

                                        (1/3)

                                        Elefeed main screen desktop light theme.

                                        Alt...Elefeed main screen desktop light theme.

                                        Elefeed main screen desktop dark theme.

                                        Alt...Elefeed main screen desktop dark theme.

                                        Elefeed mobile screen blue theme.

                                        Alt...Elefeed mobile screen blue theme.

                                        Elefeed mobile screen dark green theme. News view.

                                        Alt...Elefeed mobile screen dark green theme. News view.

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                                          [?]Fedi.Garden » 🌐
                                          @FediGarden@social.growyourown.services

                                          Masto.fediverse.games is a friendly inclusive Glitch Mastodon server for those who love games, including video games, board games, tabletop or card games.

                                          This server has a post size of up to 2048 characters and up to 10 poll options.

                                          :Fediverse: masto.fediverse.games

                                          You can find out more at masto.fediverse.games/about or contact the admin account @BobDendry

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                                            [?]steve mookie kong » 🌐
                                            @mookie@weredreaming.com

                                            After three months and 1.6k posts later on snac, I'm super happy. Main things that I like about running snac for my Fediverse presence:

                                            Like on resources. I can run this on a potato if I want and it would still run great (I'm not, but I could*.)

                                            • Backups are easy. Tar up the directory. Done.
                                            • Migrations are easy. Install nginx, build snac, untag backup. Done.
                                            • Quirky web interface. It takes a little to get used to it, but it is very functional and it's got character. I thought I would use Phanpy with it more, but I'm not. I enjoy the snac web interface.
                                            • Works (mostly) with Mastodon clients.
                                            • No crazy caching of photos, avatars and other media. This is a really big deal because my disk usage is so much lower than when I ran Mastodon.
                                            • No database. NO DATABASE. So good.
                                            • Fast. snac is really fast doing everything. It's nice.
                                            • @grunfink@comam.es is awesome. Friendly and responsive.

                                              [?]ActivityPub for WordPress » 🌐
                                              @activitypub.blog@activitypub.blog

                                              Radical Speed Month — The Reader Meets the Fediverse

                                              Two weeks into Automattic's Radical Speed Month, the WordPress.com Reader has grown a Mastodon tab, a Bluesky tab, and a Google Reader-compatible API. Here's what shipped, what's still to come, and how it connects back to the ActivityPub plugin. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                              This post is about work happening on WordPress.com, specifically the Reader, the long-running subscription-and-reading surface that’s been part of WordPress.com since 2008. It’s a sibling effort to the ActivityPub plugin, not a feature of it. We think it matters to plugin readers anyway, because the two pieces are converging, and the converging point is what we’ll be working on next.

                                              Two weeks ago, Automattic kicked off something internally called Radical Speed Month, a four-week sprint where small teams ship fast on focused projects. We (@jeremy and @pfefferle) took the chance to spend it on something that’s been sitting at the edge of the Fediverse-and-WordPress conversation for a while: making the WordPress.com Reader speak Fediverse.

                                              Today is roughly the halfway mark, and the picture is clearer than we expected. Here’s what shipped, what’s in flight, and what’s still ahead.

                                              The thesis

                                              The Reader on WordPress.com has held a single, useful role for over a decade: it’s where your subscriptions live. Blogs, podcasts, RSS feeds. What it hasn’t done, yet, is read the open social web. Your Mastodon timeline lives in another app. Your Bluesky timeline lives in a third. The Fediverse is out there, and the Reader stays over here.

                                              The Radical Speed Month bet: ship three protocol adapters in four weeks, and prove the Reader can become a universal aggregator. RSS / Google Reader API (so any reader app can use WordPress.com as a sync backend), ActivityPub (so Mastodon, Pixelfed, and friends show up natively), and ATProto / Bluesky (because that’s where a real chunk of the social-web conversation has gone). One Reader, every protocol you care about.

                                              If you’ve been following the ActivityPub plugin for a while, you already know one half of this story, your blog speaking out to the Fediverse. The other half is reading in, and that’s where this month’s work concentrates.

                                              What’s already landed

                                              Reader as a sync backend

                                              Any Google Reader-compatible app can now point at WordPress.com and use it as a sync backend. That includes Reeder, NetNewsWire, ReadKit, lire, Unread, Fiery Feeds, Feed Me, and Read You. The auth onboarding is short, and your subscriptions, read state, and stars sync across whichever app you actually like. We’re working on a setup guide that walks through the steps for the most common apps; it should land soon.

                                              This wasn’t directly Fediverse work, but it’s part of the same idea: the Reader as a backend, not a destination. If your reading habit lives in a different app, that’s fine. Your subscriptions still live on WordPress.com.

                                              Bluesky timelines, threads, and profiles

                                              The Bluesky / ATProto adapter has moved further than the original plan suggested.

                                              You can:

                                              • Connect a Bluesky account through the Reader’s connections panel, with a Verify step that confirms the handshake works on both sides.
                                              • Read your Bluesky home timeline as a tab in the Reader, with native rendering for facets, embeds, and quote posts.
                                              • Follow links inward, opening a thread in the Reader, viewing an author’s profile, browsing their posts / replies / media filter tabs, following a hashtag.
                                              • Follow and unfollow Bluesky accounts directly from the profile pages.
                                              • Like posts, repost posts, and reply to posts. A shared composer for replies is in late review.

                                              The remaining piece on the Bluesky side is quote-posting and deleting your own posts, which we’re shipping together. After that, Bluesky is a complete first-class tab in the Reader.

                                              Mastodon, the same shape

                                              Mastodon followed the same pattern: connect, verify, then a steady cadence of small additions like timeline, in-app threads, author profile and feed (with Posts / Replies / Media filter tabs), and tag and hashtag feeds. All of those are live for Mastodon today.

                                              What’s still coming on the Mastodon side is the equivalent of the Bluesky interaction work (favourite, boost, reply, quote) built on the same shape that worked for Bluesky. Expect those to land in the second half of this month.

                                              How this connects to the plugin

                                              If you read 8.1.0 — By the Numbers, you’ll have noticed a small line in the announcement: the plugin now exposes an ActivityPub API. It’s experimental, behind a feature flag, and lets third-party apps create, edit, and delete posts on your blog the way they would post to a Mastodon account.

                                              That work isn’t an accident. It’s one half of a bridge, and Radical Speed Month is the other half.

                                              The Mastodon-in-Reader work that shipped this month is user-level: you connect your Mastodon account once, and the Reader can sync your Mastodon timeline regardless of where your blog lives. That’s a useful starting point, but it’s not the only path forward. The model we’ve been working toward for a year is blog-level: each ActivityPub-enabled WordPress blog as its own social identity inside the Reader, with the plugin providing the actor and the ActivityPub API providing the connection.

                                              That work is on the schedule for the second half of the month. The radical-speed pace gave us proof first: timelines, threads, profiles, and interactions can all run through one shared pattern, with two networks already validating it. With the pattern in place and the plugin’s ActivityPub API ready to talk to, the blog-level path slots into the same architecture, letting your plugin-enabled blog appear as an ActivityPub identity in the Reader sidebar, with its inbox, its outbox, and its real ActivityPub follow graph. And because the API is part of the ActivityPub standard, the same path works for any Reader or client that speaks it, not just WordPress.com.

                                              What’s still planned

                                              A short list of what we’re chasing for the second half of the month and just past it:

                                              • Quote-posting and delete-your-own-post for both Bluesky and Mastodon, the last pieces of the interaction set.
                                              • A shared composer that handles replies, quote-posts, and standalone posts across networks. Already in progress on the Bluesky side; Mastodon plugs in next.
                                              • Disconnect, a clean way to remove a Mastodon or Bluesky connection from the Reader.
                                              • Blog-level ActivityPub, the design pass and first slices for plugin-enabled blogs as first-class Reader identities. The user-level work proved the pattern; this is where the plugin and the Reader actually meet.
                                              • Tightening the shared pattern so adding the next network (Threads, Pixelfed, whatever comes after) is incremental work.
                                              • Wrap-up, a metrics snapshot, an honest retrospective, and the heads-up notes our customer-support folks need before the work goes broad.

                                              A note on speed

                                              A month feels short to ship three protocols’ worth of reading, profiles, and interactions. It’s worth saying out loud: this didn’t happen because we worked unsustainable hours. It happened because we sat with the design for months, picked a shape that lets each protocol reuse the same plumbing, and broke the work into pieces small enough that any one was reviewable in a day or two. “Radical speed” turned out to mean: a backlog of careful design, drained quickly.

                                              What this means for you

                                              If you run an ActivityPub-enabled WordPress blog, whether on WordPress.com or self-hosted, the practical takeaway is small for now and meaningful soon. The plugin’s ActivityPub API in 8.1.0 is the foundation for your blog showing up as a real social identity inside any Reader or app that speaks the same protocol. The WordPress.com Reader is the first concrete target, but the universality matters: any client that implements the standard can talk to your plugin-enabled blog the same way.

                                              Already, the work this month means there’s now a Reader on WordPress.com that knows how to read the Fediverse alongside RSS and Bluesky. That’s a meaningful thing to have built, and the bridge from your plugin-enabled blog to that Reader is what the second half of the month is about.

                                              Tell us what you’d like to see

                                              We’ll keep posting updates as the month closes out. If you have thoughts on what blog-level ActivityPub in the Reader should look like, what protocols you’d want next, or how the plugin’s ActivityPub API should evolve to make this seamless, leave a comment on the plugin’s GitHub repository or reply on the Fediverse. We read every message.

                                              Wapuu in a space suit floats inside a spaceship, reading a newspaper with a “Radical Speed Month” headline and a yellow update graphic, while message cards for RSS, ActivityPub, and ATProto drift in through a window showing space.

                                              Alt...Wapuu in a space suit floats inside a spaceship, reading a newspaper with a “Radical Speed Month” headline and a yellow update graphic, while message cards for RSS, ActivityPub, and ATProto drift in through a window showing space.

                                              The image shows Jeremy Herves Bluesky profile in the reader.

                                              Alt...The image shows Jeremy Herves Bluesky profile in the reader.

                                              The image shows Matthias Pfefferles Mastodon profile in the reader.

                                              Alt...The image shows Matthias Pfefferles Mastodon profile in the reader.

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                                              [?]Julien Deswaef » 🌐
                                              @julien@m.xuv.be


                                              Is there a client that does multi-account AND offers the possibility to view all of them (all their inbox feed) in ONE unified timeline?

                                              Thx.

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