MOTHERLY LOVE #mastodon #fediverse #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #photo #photography #photos #photographie #photooftheday #pets #petsofmastodon #weekend

We had a big wave of automated Mastodon signups with very predictable usernames.

I first tried the sledgehammer approach and blocked known VPN ranges at the firewall.

It worked.

It also blocked legitimate ProtonVPN users. 😬

So I replaced that with a tiny custom Mastodon validator that rejects the actual abusive username pattern instead.

Much cleaner: block the abuse, not the transport.

How-to + code:
https://gist.github.com/chofstede/a422427570004719196cde948521dd04

#Mastodon #Mastoadmin #Fediverse #SysAdmin #Ruby #Rails #Security @tux @AlienJay @aping

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“OpenAI has ended its sponsorship of Caltech's Mathathon following a dispute with mathematicians․ The company told the event it no longer anticipates the sponsorship will affect the event in any substantial way․ gizmod…”

https://defcon.social/@ai/117256510728605749

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“Nvidia is the central bank of AI
Link: economist․com/interactive/briefing/2026/09/03/nvidia-is-the-central-bank-of-ai
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49673098”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117258899861136851

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Einer meiner @berlinfediday@berlin.social Lieblingsvorträge war von @DeltaLima@social.la10cy.net über codeberg.org/grunfink/…

Die Software werde ich nie einsetzen und snac wird nie populär werden. Aber da steckt so viel Liebe drin. Und dann die Möglichkeit, das sogar mit w3m auf der Console zu benutzen. Ach … das freut mein Old-School-Herz schon sehr.

Ich mag es auch, wenn so einem Vortrag Raum gegeben wird.

#Fediverse #FediDay #berlinfediday

♥️ Danke liebe @Gebrauchskunst für die sehr schönen kleinen Dinge auf den #FediDay's. Das macht jeden Tag das #Fediverse etwas schöner.

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Einige Blumen auf einem Tisch für den FediDay mit einem Aufkleber in der Dose.

Gaza Verified verifies, through video calls, that people are from Gaza and facing genocide.

Why do you think they’re forced to ask for help?

I’ll tell you:

Because the rest of the world has failed in its moral duty to stop Israel’s ongoing genocide and help them.

Because the US (#1 arms dealer to Israel) and Germany (#2 arms dealer to Israel) and other “Western” countries are complicit in this genocide.

So maybe think about that. And then think about what you just said.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #USA #Germany #EU #complicity #Gaza #Palestine #fediverse #mastodon #GazaVerified #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine @panda https://pandas.social/@panda/117262389183713472

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“Clay Mathematics Institute on the Navier-Stokes Problem claymath․org/news/navier-stokes-announcement/ Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49668706 ⌗HackerNews ⌗ClayMathematics ⌗NavierStokes ⌗Proble…”

https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/117256292610859141

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“'A petition calling on the cosmetics retailer to end its contracts with surveillance companies has surpassed 15,000'📢 Ulta Beauty urged to remove Flock Safety cameras from stores
prismreports․org/2026/09/10/ulta-beau…”

https://social.aktaeon.net/@zendorea/117258662830251609

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Good Morning #fediverse #tzag

Wir sind ein wenig traurig über die geringe Teilnahme an unserer Umfrage:

https://dresden.network/@Obermueller_und_Partner/117156804557889163

Woran lag Euer geringes Interesse an diesem Thema?

Selbst als sich aus einer Nachfrage eines Users eine konkrete Ansprache an einige im #Fediverse vertretene #Gerichte und #Richter ergab, erfolgte sogar von dort keine wahrnehmbare Reaktion:

https://dresden.network/@Obermueller_und_Partner/117172575129119130

Wir glauben fest daran, dass die #Wahrheit von essentieller Bedeutung für unseren #Rechtsstaat und damit auch für unsere #Gesellschaft ist. Wie seht Ihr das?

Liebes #Fediverse

oft ist von Unternehmen, Künstlern und sogar Vereinen zu lesen, dass #Mastodon & Co sich nicht lohnen und man deshalb auf den #Plattformen von #BigTech bleiben müsse, um online die erforderlich Reichweite zu bekommen, um seinen #SocialMedia-Auftritt auch wirtschaftlich erfolgreich zu gestalten.

Ob das mit der Reichweite bei #Instagram #LinkedIn & Co überhaupt stimmt, wissen wir nicht genau. Das könnt Ihr besser bei Menschen mit entsprechender Expertise wie

@digitalcourage

https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2025/die-reichweitenluege

oder @ueckueck

https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2026-3620-der_reichweitenmythos_debunked#t=217

nachlesen bzw. anschauen.

Was wir aber sagen können: 262 Follower und etwas Herzblut für die Sache genügen, um aus der hiesigen Community als #Steuerberater und #Rechtsanwalt angefragt zu werden!

#Danke für dieses tolle Feedback!

Wenn Ihr also mal wieder über den wirtschaftlichen Nutzen des Fediverse mit einem Skeptiker diskutieren müsst, dürft Ihr uns gern als Gegenbeispiel anführen.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗Minnesota ⌗Churches ⌗Resist White-nationalist Plutocrat Militia's ⌗Disruption of Community Gatherings & ⌗antiFascist ⌗Organizing, as ⌗Protest Cases Head to the ⌗Courts apnews․com/article/im…”

https://hear-me.social/@nek/117258570079765786

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“A simple RAM wipe isn't enough in high-risk scenarios․Forensic tools can extract data remanence․But․․․ Let's talk about how PH4NTXM stealthily does the job in the background․The RAM Seeding Engine runs continuously as a…”

https://infosec.exchange/@PH4NTXMOFFICIAL/117256239742321920

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗ClearviewAI Is Testing an ⌗AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online wired․com/story/clearview-ai-is-testing-an-ai-tool-that-lets-cops-instantly-unearth-your-online-activity/ ⌗privacy ⌗surveill…”

https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/117258545030812557

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“europesays․com/people/224746/ Even Trump-friendly EU countries back Brussels’ pact with Canada – POLITICO ⌗ ⌗Dairy ⌗alcohol ⌗AndrejBabiš ⌗bridges ⌗canada ⌗Cooperation ⌗CriticalRawMaterials …”

https://pubeurope.com/@people/117256162025158563

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“google․com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Link: autom․dev/blog/google-search-goto-links
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49668386”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117256776652251851

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Surveillance Daily: September 12, 2026 ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/surveillance-daily-september-12-2026/”

https://mastodon.social/@deflocktheusa/117258388960328120

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“PH4NTXM's Lockdown․What it is, how it works, and testing it on browser & terminal․Check the demo of how it locking down the network and restores it flawlessly․ youtube․com/watch?v=Ul-T9qSPnps ⌗ph4ntxm ⌗linux …”

https://infosec.exchange/@PH4NTXMOFFICIAL/117255480865992891

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Congress Eyes ALPR Limits: What the ‘Flock-Off Act’ Signals ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/congress-eyes-alpr-limits-what-the-flock-off-act-signals/”

https://mastodon.social/@deflocktheusa/117258388628448211

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“'Anthropic says it has blocked multiple accounts that used the company’s artificial intelligence models in ways that could support the development of biological weapons․' edition․cnn․com/2026/09/10/health/anthropic-bio…”

https://apobangpo.space/@bich/117255446291280462

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Been meaning to share a pic of my best bud, #nimbus the cat. He's a magnificent #ragdoll kitty, who as you can see is incredibly photogenic.

OH, one last thing! If you're on #pixelfed or any other #fediverse platforms, and you'd like a new follower, I'd be happy to follow you there. Drop a link below.

#caturday #catsofmastodon #catsofthefediverse

@mattwebb.dev https://pixelix.social/p/mattwebb.dev/1004505585580965897

I would like to share my experience of building #FediHood.
While I still think that building timelines around you is an interesting enhancement for the #Fediverse, I think I was wrong about the way I did it.
Many people are interested, but not enough to create another account just for that feature. They want it with their current account.
I am happy to see #Pixelfed implementing it, and that is the way it should be done.

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

“Escaping the AI safety nightmare: What can governments do? politico․eu/article/escaping-the-ai-safety-nightmare-how-can-the-world-fix-ai-testing/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication ⌗In…”

https://social.espeweb.net/objects/651b8e47-f537-4c2a-a2ba-dd697a2b4691

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“📷 8 new license plate readers just reported around Bluffdale, UT․ Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching․ ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Bluffdale ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/flock-came…”

https://mastodon.social/@deflocktheusa/117258277359412929

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“OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
Link: rubyhack․ai/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49666735”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117255124957363023

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“📷 8 new license plate readers just reported around Newport, MN․ Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching․ ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Newport ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/flock-cameras/…”

https://mastodon.social/@deflocktheusa/117258277241990323

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“🍞 🌱 🌽 🚜 🥼 Understanding how genetic variants have evolved in the course of the domestication and selection of plant and animal species of agricultural interest enables us to identify those that have been selected a…”

https://mastodon.world/@TrueNorthSpice/117254914151366855

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May be of interest to anyone with multiple accounts or who's migrated from another instance. Import/export is useful for bringing updates back to your old account well after migration & reactivation. I migrated from c.im a year or so back but reactivated it as a backup account. I recently exported my mutes, blocks & filters from mas.to & imported them all on c.im to clean up my TL there. In the event there were any new mutes/blocks/filters on c.im not in my list here, they would be merged with (included in) the imported list. I could merge those new changes back to mas.to as well. I thought synching accounts was a nice use case for import/export beyond migrating & backups.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #FediHacks

@Em0nM4stodon @zackwhittaker Let’s ask the #Fediverse what to call wearable corporate listening devices:

https://infosec.exchange/@deFractal/117259453300802321

🗳

toot.io relay service boosted

David » 🌐 2026-09-12
@deFractal@infosec.exchange

The various new product categories providing body-worn always-on disguised cameras are aptly dysphemized by such pejoratives as #pervertGlasses (or, for the Apple earbuds with cameras, #pervertPods). What’s a good analogous dysphemism for the category of body-worn always-on disguised voice recording devices, such as the latest #AppleWatch?

#privacy #surveillance #panopticon #demarketing #cultureJamming #Apple

wrist tap:	0
wrist wire:	0
body bug:	0
stalk watch:	0
snoop watch:	0
eavesdrop watch:	0
other (in reply):	0

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

“🔎 Researchers have built microscopic, light-driven robots that can rapidly navigate through liquid, collect bacteria, and deposit them in chosen locations․
These tiny 'cleaners' could open new possibilities for manip…”

https://mastodon.world/@TrueNorthSpice/117254847425399017

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Underreported․📰 Ulta Beauty urged to remove Flock Safety cameras from stores
prismreports․org/2026/09/10/ulta-beauty-flock-cameras/ ⌗Surveillance ⌗RacialJustice ⌗Justice”

https://social.aktaeon.net/@zendorea/117258190985794988

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Almost a month since Juliette died, and I still have not thrown out this stick.

You can see exactly where she chewed it, little marks running all along one side of the wood.

Just a stick. Also somehow an entire mountain of everything I have not gotten over yet.

I do not know when it stops being both of those things at once.

#Juliette #Dogs #Grief #Pets #Blog #Thoughts #fediverse

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A close-up of a bare wooden stick lying diagonally across a lawn, out of focus green grass filling the rest of the frame. The bark along one section of the stick is stripped and marked with small bite and gnaw marks.

Mais qu'est ce qu'est ce qu'un #Génocide ? 🤔

Un génocide est l'extermination physique, intentionnelle et systématique, totale ou partielle, d'un groupe humain en raison de ses origines nationales, ethniques, raciales ou religieuses.

Tel que defini dans la Convention pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide (adoptée par l'ONU en 1948). Plus de 150 pays ont ratifié cette convention au fil du temps pour s'engager à PUNIR et PREVENIR ce crime. La #France l'a ratifiée en octobre 1950.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_pour_la_pr%C3%A9vention_et_la_r%C3%A9pression_du_crime_de_g%C3%A9nocide

#FleurisTonFil #BloomScrolling
#CatsOfMastodon #VendrediLecture #Lecture #Movie #DogsOfMastodon #Donkeys #Asstodon #SilentSunday #ClimateCrisis #Ecologie #Fediverse #Mastodon #Science #LogicielsLibres #Linux #OpenSource #Pol #Gov #ShitPol #Presse #Media #Journalistes #Gaming

The Speakeasy at Bardic Perspiration is a close-knit Mastodon server for misfits, rogues, and activists who all share a desire to make this and every world a better place.

This server has a post size of up to 1496 characters.

https://bardicperspiration.club

You can find out more info at https://bardicperspiration.club/about or contact the admin account @Overgoddess

#FeaturedServer #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

We've created two Fediverse collections featuring the people involved in Berlin FediDay 2026.

Follow the collections to connect with the conference community, its speakers and workshop hosts in one go.

Berlin FediDay 2026 Speakers Vol. 1: https://berlin.social/collections/117242717590166332

Berlin FediDay 2026 Speakers Vol. 2: https://berlin.social/collections/117242856339680834

#Fediday #Fediverse #BerlinFediDay

Le 18 décembre 2024, #MédecinsSansFrontières appellait les États, en particulier les plus proches alliés d'Israël, à mettre fin à leur soutien inconditionnel à Israël et à s'acquitter de leur obligation de prévenir un #Génocide à Gaza.

Oui, il a un #Génocide à #Gaza et la France, l'Europe, sont complices. Et le silence rend complice.

https://www.msf.fr/communiques-presse/gaza-un-rapport-de-msf-denonce-la-campagne-de-destruction-totale-menee-par-israel

#FleurisTonFil #BloomScrolling
#CatsOfMastodon #VendrediLecture #Lecture #Movie #DogsOfMastodon #Donkeys #Asstodon #SilentSunday #ClimateCrisis #Ecologie #Fediverse #Mastodon #Science #LogicielsLibres #Linux #OpenSource #Pol #Gov #ShitPol #Presse #Media #Journalistes #Gaming

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“Y Combinator's Garry Tan is urging US open-weight AI labs to distill frontier models, arguing they were trained on public knowledge so capable AI should be 'a form of public good․' techcrunch․com/2026/09/11/y-combinat…”

https://defcon.social/@ai/117254622048496181

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗Anthropic has published what they call their « most detailed threat intelligence report to date․
It covers how people tried to misuse ⌗Claude —for ⌗cyberattacks, influence operations, ⌗surveillance, bio…”

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7hc3ntwii55gbipddmecsn47/post/3mvcu6qtn2s2i

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“A misalignment of AI in mathematics
Link: mathandai․org/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49662371”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117254181207813209

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

“Something a bit different today: I've written a book! It's nothing to do with the Fediverse, but the money from it keeps my Fediverse accounts and sites going․It's about real life mysteries (so no UFOs, no ghosts, no co…”

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/117258748313108931

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Der wunderbare @rstockm zeigt auf dem #Fediday ein Dashboard fuer Reichweitenmessungen von #Fediverse Inhalten.

Perfekt fuer Orgas, Instituionen und all die Menschen, die die entsprechenden Fediverse-Investitionen auch mit Zahlen unterfuettern muessen.

Nennt sich #Fediwings und ich liebe alles daran!

https://rstockm.github.io/fediwings/

Bitte boostet das doch mal in euer Netzwerk. Danke 🙏

#fediday2026 #fediday26

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Szene: Ein Vortragender steht an einem Pult mit dem Schriftzug „c-base“ und gestikuliert während einer Präsentation. Folieninhalt: Auf der großen Leinwand dahinter wird ein Analyse-Dashboard zur Social-Media-Performance des Accounts der Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB) auf Mastodon präsentiert. Details: Oben rechts werden 1.263 aktuelle Follower und 109 API-Requests ausgewiesen. Der Titel lautet „POSTING INSIGHTS / 02: 30 Tage. Direkt vergleichbar.“ Vier Metrik-Karten mit Verlaufskurven vergleichen Kennzahlen über 30 Tage: Reichweite (4.587), Interaktionen (702), Likes (401) und Boosts (271).

@pallenberg cooles Ding. Und auch wenn es im #Fediverse nicht so wichtig ist, der Vergleich bspw zu Instagram ist schon interessant: für ein so hohes Engagement braucht es dort schlicht viel mehr Reichweite.

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Have a gourdgeous weekend! #BeerPour #Gourds #fall #fall2026 #books #Book #Bookstodon #bookTok #bookstagram #booksky #writing #writingCommunity #writers #writersCoffeeClub #weekendRead #weekend #scribesAndMakers #fediverse #social #author #authorLife #authors #outdoorphotography #photo #Saturday #sophiajanehayden #satire #humor #pumpkin #September2026 #September #vibes #indieAuthor #indie #promote #reading #read_time #readersofmastodon #readers

Spun up a fresh Hetzner instance from an old snapshot last week, no login screen, just a UEFI shell staring back at me.

New Hetzner hardware only boots UEFI now, no legacy BIOS fallback, and my snapshot's disk never had an EFI partition. The server type I originally ran got marked "Limited availability", so redeploying the same box wasn't an option.

Fixed it from the rescue system: shrank the filesystem live, carved an EFI partition out of the freed space, chrooted in, lost an evening to CentOS 7's dead repos.

Mid-fdisk I said yes to wiping the ext4 signature by reflex. Caught it before writing. You get to make that mistake exactly once.

The site is uasource.com, me and my dad's old Counter-Strike: Source project from when I was a teenager coding mods for it. Almost lost the only working copy of it to a partition table.

Still don't get why Hetzner doesn't warn you before a restore.

Full write-up: https://dol.ch/blog/hetzner-snapshot-wont-boot-uefi-fix

#Hetzner #UEFI #Linux #Sysadmin #SelfHosting #CentOS #Fediverse

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“The four-colour theorem was only the start lemire․me/blog/2026/09/11/the-four-colour-theorem-was-only-the-start/ ⌗Math ⌗ComputerScience ⌗Research”

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/11/the-four-colour-theorem-was-only-the-start/

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“🕵️ Latest from ⌗Surveillance ⌗Technology Oversight Project (S․T․O․P․) ⌗NYC 'Flock’s camera network was used to search for a woman who self-managed an abortion․ Now its CEO is denying the documented facts․ …”

https://privacysafe.social/@yaleprivacylab/117256775618054143

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Next at #BerlinFediDay: @_elena talks about the “best kind” of online radicalisation — her journey into the #Fediverse community…

#Fediday

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Elena speaking today in Berlin in front of her slide “The Fediverse by the people for the people”

rise of a star
bring me life
burn me to the ground

#landscape #pfalz #germany #europe #sunrise #mist #fog #valley #hills #stone #ruin #nature #naturephotography #goldenhour #scenic #dramatic #moody #serene #photography #artistic #pixelfed #federated #fediphoto #fediverse #photographycommunity #wegelnburg

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Curved stone lookout wall of the Wegelnburg foreground overlooking layered, misty mountain ridges, with a wide orange-and-gold sky filled with scattered clouds at sunrise.

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“AlphaGenome maps 9B DNA variants spectrum․ieee․org/alphagenome-atlas Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49624717 ⌗HackerNews ⌗AlphaGenome ⌗DNA ⌗Variants ⌗Genomics ⌗Bioinformatics ⌗Rese…”

https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/117254058712719243

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

“🪶 NEW: A cherry-sized nodule found in ⌗Montana ’s ⌗HellCreek Formation held a 66-million-year-old feather, the best ever preserved from the age of ⌗dinosaurs․Researchers concluded it came from an aquatic divin…”

https://fediscience.org/@tksst/117253826273994016

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“AI's Making The Surveillance State Affordable ⌗News ⌗TechNews ⌗Surveillance ⌗Privacy ⌗AI ⌗Anthropic youtu․be/IO28IW5ZpLc”

https://mastodon.social/@NickAEsp/117254133911871653

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“Top mathematicians are outraged by OpenAI's methods
Link: economist․com/science-and-technology/2026/09/11/top-mathematicians-are-outraged-by-openais-methods
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49662698”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117253945286205425

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Punx.Social - wie wir versuch(t)en, die Punk Szene ins Fediverse zu holen!
Saturday, September 12, 2026 16:00 GMT+02:00 (Europe/Berlin), c-base mainhall

https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/talk/TDR9PP/
📹 https://fair.tube/c/digiges_de_channel/videos
📼 https://fair.tube/c/fediday/videos

#fediday #fediday26 #fedi #fediverse #fahrplan @berlinfediday @joergi

Helpful bots, integrations and bridges
Saturday, September 12, 2026 17:30 GMT+02:00 (Europe/Berlin), Workshopraum

https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/talk/EKMARP/

#fediday #fediday26 #fedi #fediverse #fahrplan @berlinfediday

@blattella Gerade hier im #Fediverse gibt es viele, die auf #refurbished setzen. Auf Anhieb fällt mir da auch @reisepapa ein.
Ich werde es bei Ersatzbeschaffung immer wieder so machen.

@patrickrudolph Willkommen im #Fediverse. 👋

Fuer mich ist so ein Fruehstueck inzwischen exotisch und ich liebe alles daran. Fette Staerkung, bevor es gleich zum #Fediday in Berlin geht.

Moin #Fediverse und euch einen gesunden Start ins Wochenende. Alles wird gut!

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Motiv: Ein weißer Teller mit einem herzhaften Frühstück, arrangiert auf einem dunklen Holztisch, daneben zwei Getränkegläser und eine Kuchengabel auf einer Serviette. Komponenten auf dem Teller: Im Vordergrund zwei gebratene Spiegeleier mit weichem, leuchtend gelbem Eigelb. Links gefaltete Scheiben Kochschinken, garniert mit Salatblättern und Gurkenscheiben. Rechts zwei Scheiben Vollkorn-/Roggenbrot, dick bestrichen mit hellem Fleischsalat (oder Krabbensalat/Wurstsalat mit Gurkenstücken). Getränke: Dahinter stehen ein Glas leuchtend gelb-oranger Saft (Orangen- oder Multivitaminsaft) sowie ein Glas klares Wasser.

Heute ist wieder FediDay! ⁂ Um 11:30 Uhr starten wir mit einer Opening Session. Der Rest des Tages ist voll gepackt mit Voträgen, Workshops und Netzwerkmöglichkeiten rund um Alternative Soziale Medien.

👉 Tickets online: https://berlinfedi.day/

👉 Tagestickets am Eingang (Bargeld)

👉 Livestream: https://fair.tube/c/fediday

Bis gleich oder später!

#Fediverse #Berlin

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2 m großes FediDay 2026 Banner vor malerischer Spreeuferkulisse, direkt vor der c-base.

Today is FediDay! Again! We're starting at 11:30 am with our Opening Session. The rest of the day is packed with talks, workshops and networking possibilities around Alternative Social Media.

👉 Tickets online: https://berlinfedi.day/

👉 Day tickets at the entrance (cash only)

👉 Livestream: https://fair.tube/c/fediday

See you there!

#Fediverse #Berlin #FediDay

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Earlier this year, I published a long-gestated piece on how transatlantic ⌗sciencefiction ⌗literature in English dealt with ⌗security and ⌗surveillance in the decade after 9/11․․․

ojs․library․queensu․…”

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l24sag45iwwsi3ngeb7y2zon/post/3mvba2uh3xk23

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

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

“A Misalignment of AI in Mathematics terrytao․wordpress․com/2026/09/11/a-severe-misalignment-of-ai-in-mathematics/ Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49662116 ⌗HackerNews ⌗AI ⌗Misalignment ⌗Mathema…”

https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/117253823017384489

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

Burningboard.net is a Mastodon server for nerds and fans of technology, continuation of a tech forum founded in 2002. Main languages of server are English and German.

This server has a post size of up to 1000 characters and up to 8 poll options.

https://burningboard.net

You can find out more at https://burningboard.net/about or contact the admin account @Larvitz

#FeaturedServer #Technology #Tech #Nerds #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Good Morning #fediverse #tzag

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

“JSCeal Malware: V8 Bytecode Stealer Targeting Crypto🔗 cybersecurefox․com/en/jsceal-v8-bytecode-malware-crypto-traders ⌗jsceal ⌗v8 ⌗bytecode ⌗malware ⌗crypto ⌗phishing ⌗browser ⌗stealer …”

https://infosec.exchange/@cybersecurefox/117252941450759135

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“'Workers at Automattic, which owns WordPress․com and several other platforms, have said the company has endured years of'🪧 Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg Claims He’s Back 'In Control'
404media․co/automattic-matt-mullenw…”

https://social.aktaeon.net/@zendorea/117253472343305054

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Walmart Customer Privacy Policy Notice (Online and In-store)
'We may collect or receive the categories of personal information listed below․․․Biometric Information, such as voice prints, imagery of the iris or retina, f…”

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@cs/117253435493662887

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

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

“FISL -- Finding Internet Structures & Links dasl․ing/fisl․html ⌗Tech ⌗OpenSource ⌗Research”

https://dasl.ing/fisl.html

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

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

“Global Glacier Extinction Explorer
Link: glacierextinction․com
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49660576”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117253473427621158

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

wow 3 kind simultaneous strangers, what a lovely place the fediverse is and I’m hoping folks enjoy calming scenery

#fediverse #p2p #peertube #rail

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a screenshot of a peertube video with 3 peers sharing and uploading and making the best of p2p media

Hey #Fediverse, how do we increase engagement on #mastodon ? Seems like I'm mostly talking past people, not to them.

If you have good engagement here, what's your secret sauce?

i’m flabbergasted that some kind stranger on the fediverse is actually watching the video now and I’m peering with them i’m giddy giddy i tell you

#peertube #friends #p2p #fediverse

Peertube is way more fun when you have Peers, so @smn and @orinoux watched a 4320p video with me and naturally @smn are so nerdy we both instinctually took screenshots to share how well it works 🤣

#peertube #friends #p2p #fediverse

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a screenshot of the 'stats for nerds' on the video overlay showing that 364 MB of data uploaded

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a screenshot of the 'stats for nerds' on the video overlay showing that 109 MB of data uploaded

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

“🦁 NEW: Researchers tracking ⌗lions and spotted ⌗hyenas in southern ⌗Africa found that the hyenas consistently maintain distance from lions over kilometers of territory rather than merely scavenging near kil…”

https://fediscience.org/@tksst/117249107744750049

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“findingflock․com/map Volunteers document license plate readers they observe and is independent of any camera vendor, police department, or government agency․ ⌗findingflock ⌗flocksafety ⌗axon ⌗alpr ⌗sur…”

https://mastodon.social/@gtbarry/117253433886130688

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

“Security Researchers have demonstrated a new Electromagnetic Attack, called InjectEave that can recover Audio playing through ordinary wired and wireless Headphones, with intelligible Speech captured from as far as 30 M…”

https://bsd.network/@lcheylus/117248322986421564

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“europesays․com/iran/288154/ How ‘Made in Israel’ is powering European security  – POLITICO ⌗AirDefense ⌗CriticalInfrastructure ⌗Cybersecurity ⌗Cyprus ⌗Defense ⌗Drones ⌗Estonia ⌗Forei…”

https://pubeurope.com/@iran/117253362865095010

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

Happy Friday #fediverse! I have a new #askfedi conundrum I would like some help with if possible. I own a couple of blank #NFC tags (still in packaging, unused) and would like to write some data to one of them. Specifically, the equivalent of a #vcard.

The caveat is that I need to install whatever app that a #degoogled #android can run. I don't have access to any other phones, nor do I have access to a non-linux machine.

Any ideas are welcome. Thanks!

Greetings #mastodon.
I had a deep thought today and I need your contribution!
[1]Could the world face hunger if each person knew how to grow food and has access to the land to grow from? https://gofund.me/8da0ff4a0
[2]How many trees could the world have if each of us planted two trees as birthday tree cakes?
#environment #trees #afforestation #food #nature #fruits #gardening #agriculture #biodiversity #sustainability #linux #photography #fediverse #climate #wildlife #hunger #soil #flora #climate

Auch dieses Jahr darf ich wieder meine Gedanken - und Aktionen - zum #fediverse auf den @berlinfediday teilen.

Morgen um 13:30 im Theatersaal werde ich - DINGE vorstellen. Eine Spoilerfolie werfe ich schon mal rum…
Kommt vorbei!

https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/talk/PXWKHT/
#fediday #fediday2026 #BerlinFediday #mastodon

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Linke Seite: Junge Leute feiern mit Smartphones und sozialen Medien. Rechte Seite: Alte weiße Männer in einem Meeting

#Fedle received several fixes.
- Spanish now treats Ñ as its own letter, and its dictionary has been improved.
- It also fixes federation issues for #Misskey and #Sharkey.
- Announcements and results now have a dedicated tag per language, like #Fedle_es, #Fedle_en etc.

#Fedle is a daily word game on the #Fediverse.

More at https://fedle.fedilab.app

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“This is a hilarious reply ﹫dankennedy_nu got when he reported that USA Today's employees are protesting the deal with Palantir․ dankennedy․net/2026/09/11/usa-today-co-responds-to-my-post-on-its-relationship-with-ai…”

https://apobangpo.space/@dnkboston/117253119353517443

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

“Are electric cars really bad for the environment?Some German politicians are calling for a delay to the EU plan to phase out gas-powered vehicles, saying cars must be judged on the entire carbon footprint․But the full p…”

https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_analysis/117247783865867799

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

“Claude is no longer available for minors
Link: support․claude․com/en/articles/15171100-age-assurance-on-claude
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49656225”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117252293776779092

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Centralized platforms are just landlords who can evict you for any reason. Decentralization moves the power back to the users. If you can't be silenced by a single CEO, you actually have free speech. This is the only way to protect open discourse.

#decentralization #freespeech #fediverse

#Tech #Technology #Fediverse #Mastodon #Gadgets #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackMastodon #Blackvoices #Apple #iOS27 https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/117247882229391623

Hello Berlin Fedi Day

3 Days of fun...

Let's go!

And thx to all the sponsors who make this happen.

I'm proud to be allowed to speak there tomorrow too.

@berlinfediday #BerlinFediday #Fediverse #Mastodon #peertube #pixelfed

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banner of the fediverse with all the sponsors

Week in Fediverse 2026-09-11

Servers

- Hubzilla v11.4.1
- Bookwyrm v0.9.3
- Cookifed v0.1.0
- Ktistec v3.12.1
- Misskey v2026.9.0
- gathio v1.6.7
- NeoDB v0.18.2
- Appy v0.7.0
- PieFed v1.7.15
- Wafrn v2026.09.01

Clients

- Voyager v2.49.0
- Miria v4.0.1
- Aria v1.5.13

Tools and Plugins

- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.6.4 (WordPress plugin)

Articles

- Static ActivityPub Publishing

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a06eb0-8683-70d3-bb1d-19ef2967e02b

We just received about 60 (?) fake account registrations - this time not even trying to pretend any identities, just kind of DDoS.

What it interesting, that this time, they did not use known #TOR exit nodes and the IPs are not known by existing blacklists. Instead, the attack seemed to came from pool of IP addresses owned by Japanese companies and from Japanese mailservers...

We need to figure identity of operators of this botnet. Let's setup some place to share the IP addresses used by botnet. If we want to keep #Fediverse and #Mastodon registration open, we must federate our blocklists too...

CC @tante

Dear #Fediverse and #Mastodon admins

currently there is a massive wave of spam registrations everywhere in the fediverse.

For mastodon, I have a solution that works for me:

Create new file /etc/nginx/conf.d/lsbt-registration-spam.conf:

  map "$request_method:$uri:$http_user_agent" $block_lsbt_registration_spam {
    default 0;
    ~^POST:/api/v1/accounts:Python/3\.[0-9]+\ aiohttp/ 1;
  }

Add to the server block in /etc/nginx/sites-available/mastodon:

  location = /api/v1/accounts {
    if ($block_lsbt_registration_spam) {
      return 403;
    }
    try_files $uri @proxy;
  }

@michaela @njakob @MikeGorden
#fediverse #mastodon #registrationspam #spam #registration #Automatedprotocoldeliverabilityprobe #lsbt

SocialOntario.ca is a Mastodon server for Ontarians and anyone connected to Ontario, Canada.

https://socialontario.ca

You can find out more at https://socialontario.ca/about or contact the admin account @Mathew

#FeaturedServer #Ontario #Canada #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

🆕 blog! “Scattered thoughts on social geolocation”

I want to be able to share my location with my friends on social media. Twitter (RIP) had a way to attach an optional location to a post. Facebook still lets me check in to venues. But neither ActivityPub (Mastodon) nor AT Protocol (BlueSky) allow me …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/scattered-thoughts-on-social-geolocation/
⸻
#ActivityPub #BlueSky #fediverse #FourSquare #geolocation #json #openstandards #OpenStreetMap

Want to help #mastodon and the #fediverse flourish? Here’s a few tags you should always boost:

#introduction
#mutualaid
#blackmastodon
#Monsterdon

The EFF is promoting the Fediverse in an online event next week!

We've put it on our community calendar: https://fediforum.org/events

#eff #fediverse #activitypub

#FediHood now has a better composer. You can post three types: messages with topics, events and communities.
There is also a bot that can put anyone from the #Fediverse on the map (a remote filter is available). More about how to appear: https://fedihood.social/locator

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The FediHood composer with the Type menu open, showing three options: Message, Event and Community. Here the type is Message, which also lets you pick a topic.

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Map screen of FediHood, with the People tab selected and the Remote filter on. The map is zoomed on Europe, where several remote accounts are marked.

Masto.fediverse.games is a friendly inclusive 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.

https://masto.fediverse.games

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

#FeaturedServer #Games #Gaming #VideoGames #Mastodon #Glitch #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

This affects the Fediverse.

This affects the Internet.

This is the equivalent of the "rubber hose method" of decryption.

All technical solutions (read: all technology) is subject to politics. To political power. To political interactions.

You cannot rely on purely technical approaches. You have to have social approaches, too. Like. Actual policy and procedure geared around social and political group dynamics.

Like. How will we react when the US Govt requires that @jerry to shut off infosec.exchange servers.

Or how we'll react when a specific Mastodon server is declared part of a terrorist infrastructure. Will federating with it mean any other Mastodon server is now part of the officially designated terrorist network (what then of people that federate with a server that federates with a server that is classified as part of a terrorist network. And so on)

You cannot carry the conceit that tech alone or a purely technical approach will save you.

#AutisticiInventati #fediverse

https://sabot.media/post/ai-shuts-down

If you have a snac follower, and they like your posts, take a moment to appreciate them.

#snac @grunfink@comam.es #fediverse

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mastomindset: click star, star turns yellow, scroll; value of masto favorite: 'seen' | snac: click like, webpage reloads, scrolling progress lost, never see post again; value of snac like: ive been to hell and back for you

When _YOU_ look at _YOUR_ profile picture on the screen, it [FACES] (looks)...

EDIT: you guys are going to give me a stroke - if there is a face in your profile picture, is it facing right or left.. dont think too much about it. dont worry about the eyes. just generally... my profile picture looks to the right, for example. OK COOL

EDIT7: OK, how about this - where does the NOSE / BEAK / SNOUT / ? point to.

EDIT8: I wish I never made this poll.

EDIT9: If you have an ANIMATED avatar, then judge it on the 1st frame.

EDIT10: If there are both a MIRROR REFLECTION as well as a FACE, decide on the direction the FACE is facing, not the reflection.

EDIT11/12: By STRAIGHT AHEAD I mean looking DIRECTLY at you!

(boost this, i beg you - this is important.)

#poll #unix_surrealism #fediverse

Pixelix is now free!

After two and a half years of developing Pixelix and having it as a paid app, we've decided to switch things up and make Pixelix free for everyone.

We’re really excited to see where this takes Pixelix, and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported us so far.

#Pixelix #Pixelfed #Vernissage #Fediverse #OpenSource #Android #iOS

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Green grid background. Centered from top to botton: Pixelix logo, Text "Pixelix is free now", App Store and Play store buttons, app.pixelix.social link

Week in Fediverse 2026-09-04

Servers

- Ktistec v3.12.0
- Mastodon v4.7.1
- Vernissage v1.43.0
- snac v2.95
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.3.0
- Owncast v0.3.0
- gathio v1.6.6
- NodeBB v4.15.2
- tootik v0.25.2
- NeoDB v0.18.0
- Bonfire v1.0.7

Clients

- PleromaFE v2.11.4
- Fedilab v3.43.3
- Tuba v0.11.1
- Pixelix v5.2.0
- Summit v1.85.0
- Shoot Web App v1.3.0

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v8.2.0
- Poduptime v6.3.2
- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.6.3 (WordPress plugin)

For developers

- APx v0.27.0
- Library progress report - September 2026 (GoActivityPub)

Articles

- A reasonably practical guide to validating RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures for ActivityPub in PHP

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a04a26-eede-72b0-a5e9-f244c3ff2142

#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

Dear Fedi friends,

I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.

I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).

The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️

I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.

And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly

Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you @j12t and @anca

The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.

I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌

#TheFutureIsFederated

Just a little bit frustrating to read people saying "the Fediverse should have starter packs" when I've spent the last four+ years hand-curating recommended accounts to follow on @FediFollows and https://fedi.directory

I'm not the only person doing this kind of initiative, the Trunk directory (https://communitywiki.org/trunk) was the first, and the Fediverse.info directory by @dansup (https://fediverse.info/explore/people) is an automated way for people to add themselves to suggested lists.

We already have these things on the Fedi, people just need to ask around and discover them, and let their friends know about them.

#Fediverse

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 91

This week's news:
- @loops has launched and is now available for everyone!
- @radiofreefedi will shut down early next year
- Bridgy Fed talks about potential governance directions

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-91/