RE: https://mastodon.social/@riverbirchtree/117099674446276439

You made it possible for @joynewacc to leave Gaza and study in Milan. Now you have the chance to reunite her with her sister.

What do you say, Fediverse?

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #fediverse #mastodon

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River [they/them] » 🌐 2026-08-15
@riverbirchtree@mastodon.social

Hi friends, I’m excited to share that we have the chance to help Nour, @joynewacc ’s 18yo sister, join her in Italy. Nour is a hardworking medical student and talented artist who wants to become a doctor.

Uni Milano has accepted Nour and will evacuate her in September if we can raise sufficient funds for her scholarship.

Last year, you made it possible for Joy to leave Gaza and continue her education. Please donate and help Nour and Joy study together in safety!

https://chuffed.org/project/194963-help-nour-evacuate-gaza-and-continue-her-education

I often see that question about the way I use #E2EE over #ActivityPub.
#FediHood and #HolosSocial do not use the end-to-end encryption #Mastodon is working on. They are going for MLS over ActivityPub. I use the Signal Protocol, already working between Holos and FediHood, which I both maintain. Once MLS is available, I'll happily switch.
But to be clear: it works perfectly with the Signal Protocol. The switch would only be for compatibility.

No, I will not use standard #mastodon features, because I do not want to increase this crap in mastodon "algorithms".

I just wanted to remind, that the only solution is to support the Defence Forces of #Ukraine as much as possible, so that more #russian occupants return to their homes in zinc coffins, unable to kill any child any more.

And btw #askfedi can I somehow ban all these 255+237 people together?

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Hey fellow #Mementomori user! Now there is a way to support our #mastodon server hosting fees. If your situation allows, please chime into server maintenance costs by simply applying for membership here along with payment (required by Finnish law for non-profits) 🙏🫶:

https://members.mementomori.social/

@ry

Simpsons creator Matt Groening implies that a Hit & Run remaster is coming, current showrunner hastily disputes

Stonecutters-level opsec.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/simpsons-creator-matt-groening-implies-that-a-hit-and-run-remaster-is-coming-current-showrunner-hastily-disputes/

#gaming #games #videogames #gamedev #indiegame #esports #xbox #pcgaming #mastodon #healthcare #news #healthit [PCGamer]

Mementomori ry Member portal and sign up is now open for members. JOIN AS MEMBER here: https://members.mementomori.social

The association runs and funds mementomori.social. Membership fees cover the server costs, and using the service stays free for everyone: membership is how this place stays up and independent.

Memberships:
- 5 €/month or 60 €/year, with a vote at the association meeting.
- Patron 50 €/month or 600 €/year, for organisations and anyone who wants to contribute more.

No joining fee. Pay by card or bank transfer, sign in with your mementomori.social account.

#Mementomoriry #Mastodon #NonProfit #Association #Associations #Mementomorisocial

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Today in “I’m stupid”: if you have a beta and check the release channel for updates, it will never show updates. 🤦‍♂️

If you are interessted in the latest version of Maxtodon, here it is:
https://cdn.amore.computer/releases/com.ricobeck.Macstodon/1.0-1107/Macstodon.dmg

#macdev #indydev #BuildInPublic #mastodon

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Juliette died last night. She was 13.

In June I posted a photo of her in a yellow unicorn party hat and called it her "second" birthday. A year before that I had spent a weekend doing some kind of CPR on her and writing her heart rate down every 30 minutes, certain she would not see Monday.

She saw fourteen more months. She walked, she ate, she ran around the flat like nothing had happened.

That post: https://dol.social/@dima/116782367532858418

Thank you to everyone who wrote something kind under it. I went back and read all of it again today.

This photo is from a boat on Lake Lucerne. A third of her life she spent here in Switzerland, and on every walk it was obvious who was walking whom.

She always got her way. She never backed down from anything, not once, not until yesterday.

❤️

#Dachshund #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs #Grief #Pets #Blog #Thoughts #Medicine #Fediverse #Mastodon #Switzerland #Death

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A view through the window of a passenger boat. A man in a black coat and black beanie stands on the open deck holding a black and tan dachshund wrapped in a cream knitted sweater. Both are looking out across the water. Behind them is Lake Lucerne with snow-covered mountains including Pilatus, a shoreline of bare poplars, snowy fields and town buildings, under a partly cloudy sky.

Me? Hiding? Not a chance.

I couldn't hide even if I tried, because members of a scam group called "Gaza Verified" have already DOXed me twice (2x). They published my full name, home address, phone number, and email. They are also the ones sending me death threats and trying to ruin my reputation.

Instead of letting them bully me into silence, I decided to stand my ground. Yes, my name is Adam Howard, and I live in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Anyone can easily find me on Google. I've even shared my voting ballot to prove my progressive record. I am not hiding, I am not anonymous, and I always use the same screen name — Linux or LinuxBSD, depending on availability.

Now they are accusing me of "ban evasion." That is ridiculous. Participating on a decentralized network is not avoiding a ban. If that were true, the scam group Gaza Verified would be guilty of it themselves.

It's the classic "rules for you, but not for me" attitude. While they waste time playing games. 🙄

I am actually trying to fix the system. I have posted three (3) suggestions on GitHub to help Mastodon users and admins escape abuse and make the internet safer. I bet the people complaining are the exact ones who don't want the internet or the Fediverse to be safer.

Suggestion 1:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40172

Suggestion 2:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40116

Suggestion 3:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40117

Of course, there is also my general public block list. One of the reasons it keeps growing is because that scam group keeps evading.
https://github.com/Fediverse-Express/Fediverse

#FediBlock #Mastodon #Misskey #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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A photo of a mail in ballot for the democratic 2026 mid term primaries.

Me? Hiding? Not a chance.

I couldn't hide even if I tried, because members of a scam group called "Gaza Verified" have already DOXed me twice (2x). They published my full name, home address, phone number, and email. They are also the ones sending me death threats and trying to ruin my reputation.

Instead of letting them bully me into silence, I decided to stand my ground. Yes, my name is Adam Howard, and I live in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Anyone can easily find me on Google. I've even shared my voting ballot to prove my progressive record. I am not hiding, I am not anonymous, and I always use the same screen name — Linux or LinuxBSD, depending on availability.

Now they are accusing me of "ban evasion." That is ridiculous. Participating on a decentralized network is not avoiding a ban. If that were true, the scam group Gaza Verified would be guilty of it themselves.

It's the classic "rules for me, but not for you" attitude. While they waste time playing games,

I am actually trying to fix the system. I have posted three (3) suggestions on GitHub to help Mastodon users and admins escape abuse and make the internet safer. I bet the people complaining are the exact ones who don't want the internet or the Fediverse to be safer.

Suggestion 1:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40172

Suggestion 2:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40116

Suggestion 3:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40117

Of course, there is also my general public block list. One of the reasons it keeps growing is because that scam group keeps evading.
https://github.com/Fediverse-Express/Fediverse

#FediBlock #Mastodon #Misskey #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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A photo of a mail in ballot for the democratic 2026 mid term primaries.

It is update day. There are lots of migrations this time... like, this is going to take some time with our vCPUs...

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MementoMoriSocial

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Interstellar scene: This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years

We week in trying other Mastodon clients. Someone recommended Ice Cubes as an alternative, GPLA licensed, source code on GitHub, a ts quite nice. As a holder of an Apple Dev account, I think I will modify the app slightly adding a couple of things it is missing compared to @MonaApp , since I can no longer get the Pro Max upgrade to Ultra.

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884

https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp

#mastodon

Can anyone recommend a desktop client for scheduling posts on #Mastodon?
I can do it through #trunks on my phone, but I prefer to work on a desktop, really.

If I could have just one feature implemented on #Mastodon it is this:

Whenever we create a multipost thread, Mastodon should display, that each post is part of this thread by adding thread numbers to each post, e.g 1/3, 2/3, 3/3.

I am a bit frustrated by having to add these manually, and if I don't, I get questions from my fellow Mastodonians, indicating they overlook that a post is part of a larger context.

It is not good that Metas commercial product Threads has this feature, and we don't.

Moderatori o prevaricatori? Perché abbandono Livello segreto" - un post di @wrathofkahn

@fediverso

Un intervento fuori luogo del moderatore @capetaun è l'occasione per riflettere sulla moderazione nelle istanze pubbluche di #Mastodon.

Per esempio, è vero che Livellosegreto ha un po' rotto il cazzo con le politiche dei CW per qualsiasi cosa abbia a che fare con la politica, la fame, la morte, la religione, il sesso e le bistecche alla brace, ossia tutto ciò per cui è liberatorio parlare?
Ma soprattutto, fino a dove può spingersi la moderazione? L'applicazione delle regole è sempre la priorità?
E infine, quanto conviene scassare la minchia ai quattro gatti del fediverso già stressati dal luddismo anti AI, dalla sessuofobia, dall'antinuclearismo e dalle infinite e martellanti richieste di donazione in denaro da parte di mastodon.uno e dai presunti abitanti di Gaza?

Che ne pensano i moderatori di Livello Segreto? E i moderatori delle altre istanze?

https://ossessionicontaminazioni.com/2026/08/14/moderatori-o-prevaricatori-perche-abbandono-livello-segreto/

#fediverso #moderazione

FATHER AND SON! #mastodon #fediverse #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #DogsOfFedi #dogsofpixelfed #dogstodon #photo #photography #photos #photographie #photooftheday #photographer #pets #Friday

A DOG, A BAKER AND AN APPLE PIE #mastodon #fediverse #baker #pets #dogs #dogsofmastodon #DogsOfFedi #dogsofpixelfed #dogstodon #photo #photography #photos #photographie #photooftheday #photographer #applepie #viral

Moin.

Urlaubsgrüße vom #Attersee. Wäre irgendwie cool, wenn #Mastodon beim Upload von Fotos anbieten könnte, die Metadaten zu entfernen. Alle Detailinfos möchte ich dann doch nicht drinlassen.

I am talking with a journalist who has some really deep questions about the #Mastodon codebase. Their questions are now well beyond my depth.

Please PM me if you know the Mastodon codebase (specifically Mastodon, not other ActivityPub implementations) well and would like to go on the record with a journalist regarding technical details about the codebase.

I think I've never said “please boost” before, but this is a case where I would appreciate wide reach. Thanks in advance to all.

Hey friends and members of this #mastodon in this #sailentSaturday .
I want to ask you if you have ever prepared land like this of ours, and after how did you do it?
Just in addition to that l was on jackfruit, thinking of someone we can enjoy it together, so am here to get someone, who would like to eat it with me.
#gardening #nature #climatechange

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Premier soils

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Standing on Jack fruit any one wishes to visit and eat jack fruit

I made yet another feature request for Mastodon.

Like my previous feature request, this too aims to help improve the safety of the Fediverse.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40172

#Mastodon #GitHub

Podem falar o que quiser, mas meu ❤️ é do Firefox, amor eterno!

#Firefox #Mozilla #Linux #Mastodon

Hello #Mastodon this is my #introduction

I am a happily married man with four beautiful children! Outside of being a provider for my family and spending as much time with them as possible my current interests include #privacy and #security and specifically distancing myself from big tech, data harvesting, and warrantless surveillance! I am looking to continue learning more about the #cybersecurity and #opensource spaces and meeting great people and communities here!

I made another poster. GOOSE CREEK HOLLER. MONEY. MOUNTAINS. MURDER. Legal thrills in the heart of Appalachia. #mastodon #mastoArt #books #bookstodon #booksky #bookReview #book #poster #postADay #post #ad #advertising #ads #writing #author #august #authorLife #authors #writingCommunity #writers #writer #productivity #pro #promotion #socialmedia #fediverse #worldBuilding #words #graphics #pictures #picture #novels #novel #fun #exhibition #selfPromo #indieAuthor #indieAuthors #indie #DailyCreate #creative #creativity #readingCommunity #reading #read #ebooks #ebook #paperbackCoverArt #paper #publishing #published #ProductLaunch #creek #rural #Appalachia #legal #attorney #law #lawsuit #lawyer #crimeFiction #suspense #thriller #mystery #hills #hidden #murder #mountains #money

Found some time, so I decided to update to Mastodon 4.6.5.

And noticed that 4.6.6 was released meanwhile.

And I am a bit curious , thinking about an upgrade to 4.7.rc1 😄

#mastodon #update #fediverse

Should You Buy an iPhone 17 Now or Wait for iPhone 18? - MacRumors https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/14/iphone-17-vs-iphone-18-buying/ #Tech #Technology #Fediverse #Mastodon #Gadgets #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackMastodon #Apple #iPhone

Curiosities about Brazil:

#Brazil #Curiosities #Mastodon

France shares its longest border with Brazil, not Spain or Germany or Italy.

I created Sup because Mastodon and Pixelfed never really focused on Direct Messages/Group Chats, and now my vision of making this a first class feature is taking shape with Loops.

I understand though, both Mastodon and Pixelfed were created in 2016/2018 and it was a very different time.

People want more intimate 3rd spaces, and so we will adapt ✨

#Sup #DirectMessages #GroupChats #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Loops

Hi everyone,

We are aware of a Gaza Verified member who has made multiple other accounts and is sending what appear to be automated direct messages.

We have spoken to him and asked him to delete these accounts and stop the automated messages by end of today and to confirm that he understands that this behaviour damages the reputation of the hundreds of other Palestinians on Gaza Verified and Gaza Verified itself and to promise not to do so in the future.

We apologise if you’ve been contacted in this way. Our verification verifies that someone is a Palestinian from Gaza. It is not a character reference (we can no more vouch for the character of every Palestinian than we can for the character of every USian). However, we have rules clearly set in our guide (https://gaza-verified.org/guide) and these are there to protect the accounts of our friends from Gaza from being reported and thus limited/suspended.

So, please, if you need to mute or block an account, do so. If you’re a server admin and you notice mass automated messages, you’re well within your rights to limit or suspend an account but if it’s not automated, please contact us so we can talk to them and explain why what they’re doing isn’t in their long term interests. Many of you already do and I thank you for it.

But please also realise that there are hundreds of Palestinians who are Gaza verified and they are all suffering through genocide and many are watching their families starve or die due to lack of access to modern medicine (again, because Israel has bombed all the hospitals and doesn’t let aid through as part of its ongoing genocide).

In many Western countries, our governments are directly complicit and, many times, profiting from Israel’s genocide.

Whatever you do, please don’t judge the entirety of something by the actions of a few and please try and keep things – namely Internet etiquette and genocide – in perspective and ask yourselves what you would do if you were in their shoes.

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #mastodon #fediverse

What would happen to your timeline if mastodon.social went away?

(Reposting my tool that helps you figure this out.)

mastodon.social is the biggest server on the #fediverse , with over 21% of accounts, and an even higher percentage of #Mastodon accounts.

But what does that mean to you, personally? Let's say it went away tomorrow - (assuming you aren't on it yourself), how much of your timeline would vanish?

In my case, it turns out - not a lot, actually! The biggest sources of posts that I see are (1) a very small instance that doesn't even federate with much of the Fediverse, but many of my friends are there, (2) my own instance, (3) a large tech-focused instance that is still much smaller than mastodon.social. The big guy is only 5% of the post I've seen recently.

But this might be different for you!

Find out for yourself at https://moderation-explorer.online/ . Use 'advanced mode' to see this analysis, since you need to log into see your actual feed.

You might even decide to try moving to an instance that you're more connected to?

(It's explained more on the site, but all the work happens in your browser, I don't see your identity, auth tokens, posts that get loaded, none of it.)

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Image summarizing the last 800 messages on my Mastodon feed. types.pl is the top one, with 17%. Mastodon.social is fourth, at 5% of posts.

one thing to watch out for when supporting #fedihood with a #mastodon api client is that remote account IDs are in the form of a url, so you need to percent encode it when incorporating into an endooint

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Today we're sharing additional guidelines about our Trade Mark Policy based on community feedback that we received.

The new guidelines, and more background about these changes, are available on our blog:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/sharing-guidelines-about-mastodons-trade-mark-policy/

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #FediDev #MastoDev #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

Oh nice, it sounds like Mastodon's own implementation of the Fediscovery service, called Fediscoverer, is coming along!

"Multiple bugs have also been fixed and we are planning to start testing it on heavy traffic servers soon, before making it available for everyone."

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/trunk-tidbits-july-2026/

via https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/117083365087901611

#mastodon #fediverse #fediscovery #fediscoverer #TrunkAndTidbits

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/117078460930346514

I built #FediHood on the #Mastodon API, so you can connect your account with any Mastodon-compatible app, such as #Fedilab.
Fedilab will soon support the extra features at the heart of the project: finding people nearby by city via #OSM, and using #E2EE DMs.

I just suggested to the @Mastodon team to implement Sign in with Apple/Google in their official mobile app.

I think it would make a huge difference.

Yes, it would centralize the fediverse more, but it would also bring a whole diverse new crowd here, to make a home on the most trusted and stable Mastodon server.

Once they discover the fediverse, they could migrate to another server that better suits them.

Only a matter of time, mark my words.

🚀

#Loops #Mastodon #SignInWithApple #Onboarding

THEODORE ROOSEVELT SHOT BY CRANK IN MILWAUKEE STREET

#content_review #unix_surrealism #fediverse #loops #mastodon #lemmy #art #mastoart #javascript #cats #snac

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Funhole Content Review FEDIVERSE I HAVE A DREAM 'you need to enable javascript to run this this app.' How to make it big? You don't @mmtmm pls sponsor me How to get more boosts? Cats. so many rabbits LOOPY CONSPIRACY - Who is behind the manufactured fame of a tiktok clone nobody asked for? THE C BANSHEE: What is snac and should you be worried? FEDIVERSE MENACE: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? hackers.town: Is nowhere safe? ONE FREE ANTI-SLOP KITTO THE LIST: 50.000 mastodon addresses to avoid if you don't like illegal content.

Like @loops has improved so much. I love how smooth the experience has become. #loops #mastodon #fediverse #foss

#FediHood should be easy to use, with a very simple interface. It fully uses #ActivityPub and is compatible with the #Mastodon API (tested with #Fedilab). It will of course bring extra endpoints related to how it works. The project reuses the combined work from #HolosSocial and #PawFed.

Here are some screenshots of the Web UI.

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FediHood's map set to an 8 km radius: an interactive map showing two count badges, each marking how many people are in that spot.

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FediHood's Nearby feed: a distance slider set to 10 km, then a few posts from people close by, each with a time, a city, a distance and a topic tag such as Sport or Events.

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FediHood's compose screen: a large message box, then four options: Visibility (who can see the post), Reach (how far it shows in Discover), Topic (its category) and Language (what you write in), plus Add image and Publish buttons.

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The topic list in FediHood: Chat, Meet people, Events, Help, Buy & sell, Transport, Local news, Politics, Sport and Culture.

🆕 blog! “Some updates to ActivityBot”

I couple of years ago, I developed ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots. It is a single PHP file which can run an entire ActivityPub server and it is less than 80KB.

It works! You can follow @openbenches to see the latest entries on OpenBenches.org, and @colours for a …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/some-updates-to-activitybot/
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#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #mastodon #php

More about how moderation will work on #FediHood.

FediHood is a way to talk with people near you without telling anyone who you are or where exactly you live. It uses the #Fediverse with the #Mastodon API for common endpoints, so it already works with most apps such as #Fedilab. Moderation is at the heart of this new app on the Fedi. The success of the project depends on it.
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#mastodon 4.7 showing up in the doc

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/Account/#invalid_handle