Die unsichtbaren Ketten unserer Geräte: Warum wir eine Werkstatt für digitale Souveränität brauchen!

Mein Computer und mein Smartphone sind mir näher als die meisten Werkzeuge. Sie sind Fenster zur Welt, Archiv meines Lebens, Verlängerung meines Denkens. Und doch, in immer klareren Momenten, spüre ich: Sie gehören mir nicht wirklich. Ich besitze die Hardware, ja – aber die Kontrolle? Die liegt anderswo. Bei Konzernen, deren Geschäftsmodell darin besteht, meine Aufmerksamkeit zu verkaufen, meine Gewohnheiten zu protokollieren und meine Abhängigkeit zu zementieren.

Vollständiger Artikel:
https://writefreely.linuxat.de/h1-style-color-green-die-unsichtbaren-ketten-unserer-geraete-warum-wir-eine

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #DigitalFreiheit
#Fediverse #Community #SelbstbestimmtDigital #EthicalTech #Linux #Freiheit
#dd #graphene_os

Mach Dich frei und gestalte mit!

Die Fediverse Instanz im und für den Raum Rotenburg (Wümme)

https://social.row-social.de

#did #diday #digitalindependence #digitalindependenceday #rotenburgwuemme #rotenburg #rotenburgerinnen #rotenburger #row-social #fediverse #freiheit #socialmedia

Should you share screenshots of Fediverse content on other apps and Web sites?

#EvanPoll #poll #Fediverse

Out of curiosity, what is your _personal_ impression of the level of activity on your #Fediverse stream during the past six months?

Hey les gens du #fediverse, j'ai souvenir d'avoir vu passer une app qui aidait à se souvenir de maintenir le contact avec des gens.
J'étais pas dans un bon endroit, du coup, j'ai pas mis ça de côté, et maintenant que ça va mieux et que j'en aurais besoin, je retrouve pu
Ça sonnait comme Rel-quelque chose
Ça vous parle ?

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse “Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests. Dystopia, here we come | Arwa Mahdawi The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage Who would...”https://mstd.seungjin.net/@theguardian/116505182357381145🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

Heute ist #Diday #DUT
Mein #Heimserver läuft mittlerweile rund.
Darauf läuft #Nextcloud und mittlerweile #HomeAssistent.
Damit möchte ich die #Google Dienste ersetzen.
Ursprünglich wollte ich auch eine Sprachsteuerung nutzen, diese hat den kleinen Server aber an seine Grenzen gebracht. Deshalb vorerst ohne.
Zweimal am Tag holt ein Bot beim #HallerTagblatt die Nachrichten ab und postet sie im #Fediverse auf @haller_tagblatt.

@OddJob

Nope.

The #hero #narrative is a significant part of the problem. Every member of the #EpsteinClass is convinced that he is some kind of superior human specimen, and therefore deserves our worship.

My #life is my #story, and no one else gets to #prophesy my #destiny. I have #agency over my life and my future.

You cannot force me to become your protagonist. And, if you think this is important work that needs doing, it's rather arrogant of you to ask the #fediverse to do your work for you.

Good Morning #fediverse #tzag

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-expanding-domestic-surveillance-08b73187 # HackerNews # Tech # Surveillance”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-expanding-domestic-surveillance-08b73187

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Ok- is it me/my timeline or a real phenomenon? I don’t see nearly as much #international posting on #mastodon like I used to. Maybe a smattering from Western Europe, but mostly North America. Where did everyone go? Am I the only one noticing the #fediverse seems to be less global than it used to be? Well, seems like it just may be me… I noticed when I went from IceCubes to Ivory but that shouldn’t make a difference I wouldn’t think…

@2something @rhizome_industrie “JOMO” is an emotion that only the #fediverse can deliver. It’s an entire ecosystem of people who are perfectly happy missing out.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Why Elon Musk’s friend thinks he’s wrong about AI https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/05/01/trump-ai-elon-musk-weapons-00902230?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Healthprofession...”

https://social.espeweb.net/objects/285dce61-b114-4efc-abfd-d209359e0f05

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

“p.s. The websites I run are: http:// fedi.tips - Easy-to-understand guides for using Mastodon & the wider Fediverse https:// fedi.directory - Thousands of recommended accounts to follow https:// fedi....”

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116507591305197443

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Is the Bluesky kind of federation an example for the future of the Fediverse?

Read here what I think about this:
https://blog.gelbphoenix.de/the-glass-floor-of-digital-sovereignty/

#Fediverse #Bluesky #Blog #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #DigitalSovereignty #ATProto

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests. Dystopia, here we come | Arwa Mahdawi The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage Who would...”

https://mstd.seungjin.net/@theguardian/116505182357381145

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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

Special Guest: @samir@m.fedica.com

Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO founder FedicaHQ, Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 07/05/26 at 16:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )

🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥

📺 Live: @ozoned@stream.firesidefedi.live (#livestream)

🎬 VOD: @ozoned@tubefree.org (#Peertube #VOD)

🔔 Alerts: @when@freestreamers.btfree.org (new shows!)

Don't miss out — follow all three! #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

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A dark image. The background is unclear and blurry. On the foreground on the left there is a huge circle, inside of which a profile picture belonging to @samir@m.fedica.com. On the other side, a bit lower in the frame we see a fediverse logo, but on fire. This is the logo of the Fireside Fedi show. In between those two elements a text is written. This text says: AN INTERVIEW WITH @samir@m.fedica.com Samir Al-Battran - Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO founder FedicaHQ, Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon 07/05/26 AT 16:00 US EASTERN TIME ON FIRESIDEFEDI.LIVE

Posting new #sketching / #drawing on #Mastodon / #Fediverse account

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An abstract black and white drawing featuring flowing lines and triangular shapes, creating a dynamic and rhythmic composition.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests. Dystopia, here we come | Arwa Mahdawi https://www. theguardian.com/commentisfree/ 2026/may/02/flock-police-surveillance-tech-birds-iran-press-freedom # T...”

https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_opinion/116505147204835803

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I don’t have all the answers yet. Diagnosis is still preliminary (Asperger's mentioned, AuDHD suspected).

But I’m starting to accept that my brain will probably always do this dance.

What’s helping a bit:

- Fewer tools (I'm trying to kill half of them)
- Accepting that "good enough" is better than “perfect but abandoned”
- Writing things down immediately instead of trusting my memory

If you're also stuck in the endless app-switching hell… you're not broken. Your brain just needs different rules.

Would love to hear how other people handle this.

#AuDHD #ADHD #ExecutiveDysfunction #Neurodivergent #Blog #Thoughts #Productivity #MentalHealth #Fediverse

April was rough, but these two kept me going.

My Apple Music Replay shows 252 hours of listening this month - with Kælan Mikla as my №1 artist and Moby right behind.

Their atmospheric, melancholic sound was exactly what I needed when things felt heavy.

Kælan Mikla (BTW - Icelandic darkwave/post-punk) especially tracks like Sólstöður and Stjörnuljós (sorry, I had to copy the titles since I have no Icelandic layout) felt like cold northern light cutting through the fog.

Haunting, beautiful, strangely comforting. Moby’s Natural Blues and The Sky Is Broken hit different too (like in my previous post).

If you haven’t heard Kælan Mikla yet, start with their latest album "Undir Köldum Norðurljósum".

I can’t recommend them enough.
Music really does save us sometimes.

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/k%C3%A6lan-mikla/1140519808

#KaelanMikla #Moby #Darkwave #PostPunk #Advice #Mentalhealth #ASD #Music #Blog #Thoughts #Fediverse

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Apple Music Replay April 2026 showing 15,136 minutes (252 hours) of listening. Top artists: 1. Kælan Mikla, 2. Moby, 3. The Caretaker. Top songs: Sólstöður and Stjörnuljós by Kælan Mikla, Natural Blues and The Sky Is Broken by Moby. Top album: Undir Köldum Norðurljósum by Kælan Mikla.

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Apple Music Replay April 2026 showing 15,136 minutes (252 hours) of listening. Top artists: 1. Kælan Mikla, 2. Moby, 3. The Caretaker. Top songs: Sólstöður and Stjörnuljós by Kælan Mikla, Natural Blues and The Sky Is Broken by Moby. Top album: Undir Köldum Norðurljósum by Kælan Mikla.

@mastodonmigration @susankayequinn There are several companies which retail custom rubber stamps online. Perhaps the slop stamp would make a good novelty item to fundraise for #Fediverse hosting costs?

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“If a store knows, for example, that one of those customers lives in a wealthier neighborhood, it can charge that person a higher price. The bill enforcing the ban, the Protection From # PredatoryPricing Act, goes int...”

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116505093232518559

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good #tzag, #fediverse! are we having a good weekend?

wild that the band MASTODON
isn't on the website MASTODON

#mastodon #fedi #fediverse #HeavyMetal

I had the opportunity to tell the founders of the Sovereign Tech Agency (@sovtechfund) that I'm a big fan of their organization. I firmly believe that other countries should have similar initiatives. In fact, the EU should have one too.

Their recent €600k+ grant to Mastodon is a great example of what public investment in open digital infrastructure can look like. It strengthens the Fediverse, a real alternative to X. As I’ve argued in the #LeaveX campaign: we already have a viable social media alternative to X (1) and what we lack is sustained funding and political commitment. (2)

Thus, if more EU countries invested in improving Mastodon, how quickly could it become Europe’s de facto public square?

While most European politicians still prefer X for their official communication, reducing technical barriers could attract a more diverse audience, including the people our representatives want to reach, like journalists and the general public.

By the way, it's interesting, though not surprising, that the Sovereign Tech Agency has almost four times as many followers on Mastodon as on Bluesky. It would be great to see them highlighting posts and profiles of some awesome open-source projects active on the Fediverse. 😉

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #SocialMedia #EU #OpenSource

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Mastodon Profile (@sovtechfund@mastodon.social) - Alt Text: Sovereign Tech Agency - Mastodon Profile Display Name: Sovereign Tech Agency Handle: @sovtechfund@mastodon.social Bio: Strengthening digital infrastructure and open source ecosystems in the public interest. Home of the Sovereign Tech Fund, Sovereign Tech Resilience, Sovereign Tech Fellowship, and other programs supporting critical FOSS technologies. Joined: February 2023 Stats: Posts: 1,101 Follows: 113 Followers: 6,609

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Bluesky Profile (@sovereign.tech) - Alt Text: Sovereign Tech Agency - Bluesky Profile Display Name: Sovereign Tech Agency Handle: @sovereign.tech Bio: Strengthening digital infrastructure & open source ecosystems in the public interest. Home of the Sovereign Tech Fund, Sovereign Tech Resilience, Sovereign Tech Fellowship, & other programs supporting critical FOSS technologies. Website: www.sovereign.tech Stats: Followers: 1.7K Following: 59 Posts: 803

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

“I am an unpaid volunteer running 5 websites and 5 accounts helping people use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I pay their bills every month. If you want to help these sites & accounts keep going, you can buy me a coff...”

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116506057117495731

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#Fedle is now available in German!
Follow @Fedle_de to play the daily word game in German from your #Fediverse account.

Hmm. Das #freakstock sucht nach Menschen die #Workshop s anbieten. Ob ich mich mit einem Workshop zu einem dezentralen sozialen nicht zu #BigTech gehorenden Netzwerk, konkret dem #Fediverse um einen Workshop Slot bewerben sollte?

I'm so excited for this next year on the #Fediverse.

And the more I learn, the more I think #BridgyFed is going to become a foundational part of our network.

I just posted my first messages from #Emissary across Bridgy to my account on BlueSky.

I still have some things to fix (on my end, not theirs) but it worked.

IT WORKED.

NGL, I feel a little like Morpheus right now. And just think of what it will mean for every account set up on #Bandwagon...

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115418060743537770

This took a bit longer than expected, but it's finally here: the "Join the Fediverse!" zine!

https://jointhefediverse.net/zine?lang=en-us

#fediverse #JoinTheFediverse #zine

I think that once #Collections are up and running and have become well-established, and once people have curated some good #folklore and #mythology - themed Collections around here, I will write a "Folklore on the #Fediverse " page for my website.

I've long promoted a free and open approach to folklore research (which is why I have put all my translations of German folk tales under a Creative Commons Zero license), and thus it is in my best interest to promote the Fediverse as a great place to hang out for folklore enthusiasts.

And I remember what a massive boost Collections were for Google+ until Google killed the platform, so I hope Collections will do wonders for the popularity of the Fediverse.

(As a reminder, I want the Fediverse to grew much larger than it is currently so that it can supplant commercial social media platforms - most of which are now among the primary tools of fascists, and thus a dire threat to the long-term survival of human civilization.)

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/

ITECH goes green 🌿

Erster #BBNE -Tag mit vielfältigen Workshops zu #Nachhaltigkeit von „Climate“-Escape Game über faire #IT bis #Fediverse & #linux
Ausstellung, Basar & viel Engagement

Es war ein toller Tag mit durchweg positivem Feedback!

Sicher ist: Eine Fortsetzung folgt.

#BNE #BeruflicheBildung #itechnews

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Schüler udn Schülerinnen sitzen aneinem Tisch mit Laptops und arbeiten mit Linux. Am Tisch sitzt auch ein Linux-Pinguin-Kuscheltier

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Ein Knetmännchen sitzt auf einer gebastelten Wiesenfläche

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Ein von Schülern und Schülerinnen gemaltes Plakat zum Thema Schwermetalle im Abwasser

#Kookaburra #Stole my #Sausage by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/kookaburra-stole-my-sausage-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html

#bird #australianbird #hungry #eating #beak #feathers #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

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A kookaburra is perched on grass, holding a raw sausage in its beak. Surrounding it are green leaves and fallen brown foliage. A kookaburra at my house whilst we were preparing a barbecue. We had raw sausages ready to cook. (We should know not to leave any meat unattended as Kookaburras have a keen eye and smell). They also frequent nature reserves and wildlife parks when they smell a barbecue, and will often swoop down to steal raw or cooked sausages or any meat from a barbecue or even from the table where people are sitting! How dare they! Most Aussies are aware of this and many have had some of their meat taken by Kookaburras, but we all love them, and their great laugh that they make.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“"Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says"
"Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S."
"Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest ...”

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“# DualUseTech : the # LockheedMartin example https:// privacyinternational.org/repor t/5764/dual-use-tech-lockheed-martin-example # surveillance # military # privacy”

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Controls (Modular World Anniversary Show performance [from the archives, 9 May 2021]). Originally performed and recorded for the Modular World 1st anniversary show (8-9 May 2021) which was a massive livestream event of 33+ hrs during the pandemic lockdowns.

During the lockdown years, Modular World became one example of a fairly niche thing gathering people together worldwide to make experimental art online - when it was not possible to organize the usual small local performances - to create something positive and reach more people than they ever could individually. As the pandemic finally, thankfully, subsided, however, it seems that people went back to the enclosed local communities, and these types of global online communities lost their drive. 

Also the rapidly accelerating #enshittification cycle of the past few years has buried the visibility of these kinds of communities from all major social media platforms. Of course, as Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) has been pointing out for years, the enshittification of these platforms started much earlier. But somehow amid the pandemic, this niche scene still seemed to flourish, and it was only after Silicon Valley lined up to kiss the ring that the aggressive changes to the algorithms really seemed to change things. 

Maybe this is correlation more than causation, but as activity at such niche scenes is often also created by fairly principled DIY-oriented people, it seems that many (myself included) have struggled with justifying why we keep feeding these platforms. This disillusionment is further exacerbated by the rise of the AI-slopmachine that will rip off all the non-commercial work from these platforms just like everything else. Online activity that gathers enough momentum to actually keep things active has in these types of niche scenes been very much dependent on instagram and youtube. Over the past few years, the visibility of this type on stuff that doesn’t try to optimise for the alorithm has plummeted. 

Perhaps all of this has resulted in events such as the Modular World shows reaching fewer and fewer people. As wonderful as the promise of #Fediverse is, so far it seems that we’re very far from reaching the critical mass where it would actually start reaching new people. If the utopian enclave remains enclosed, it eventually dwindles away.

But we can try! I’m posting these weird little Johannes Karkia mini music videos and performances here bit by bit. It’s a transfer of archive, posted on insta & youtube over th years, and also new work now & then. 

But also Modular World does still exist! Go check out their channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/07ErB3AjlAo?is=qr9q2pXlhWm7Hie2 (Full performance of this piece, and interview with MW’s Johno Wells there on the Modular World youtube channel and on the Johannes Karkia youtube channel [link in the bio above], audio track also on Bandcamp).

#modularsynth #modularworld #anniversary #liveshow #electronicmusic #modulartechno #covid19 #pandemic #darkwave #eurorackmodular #Community #surveillancecapitalism #enshittification #platformcapitalism #algorithm #bigtech #siliconvalley #KissTheRing #enshittification #socialmedia #utopianenclave #utopianism #fediverse

Deleting my BlueSky Social profile https://bsky.app/profile/hofstede.io today and decomissioning the Personal Data Server associated with it. Bsky did never got traction for me and my real online-home is the Fediverse!

#fediverse #bluesky

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Ah yes, the noble pursuit of romance—now powered by the latest in # surveillance # technology . 🚔💔 Who needs Tinder when you have state-of-the-art # creep # tools at your disposal? Just imagine, all this cou...”

https://mastodon.social/@ngate/116500260382309773

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Taking a python path on plural sight now, and I find it puzzling that none of these people suggest installing `ipython` ... Why is it so?

#python #ipython #question #fediverse #askfedi #computerscience #datascience #devops #linux

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests https:// ij.org/police-have-reportedly- used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-times-in-recent-years/ #...”

https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/116500259989902252

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📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/xoYg8KekQ3BWSXuVtRrXVu
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_apple_116503160952463146_fr)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://denkstrom.org/artikel/apple-q2-2026-gewinn-29-milliarden-ki/")

L’innovation accrue et la focalisation sur l’IA génèrent un profit colossal, mais soulèvent des préoccupations quant à l’éthique et l’impact sur les pratiques open source.

#opensource #tech #science #fediverse #apple

📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/qXYaiCAJZvK6DpANg514v5
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_apple_116503160952463146_de)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://denkstrom.org/artikel/apple-q2-2026-gewinn-29-milliarden-ki/")

Die Diskrepanz zwischen Profit und strategischer Ausrichtung offenbart kritische Fragen.

#opensource #tech #science #fediverse #apple

Kleines Fediverse-Mysterium: Ich folge jemandem auf einer Pixelfed-Instanz, antworte über Mastodon, die Person sieht es auf Misskey – und alles funktioniert einfach so. ✨

Stell dir vor, du könntest einer Gmail-Adresse von Outlook aus schreiben. Ach warte, das geht ja auch. Nur bei sozialen Netzwerken haben wir das irgendwie 15 Jahre lang vergessen. 🤔

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Dezentral

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Le #Grand #Continent : La coalition de #Trump se fissure autour de la #surveillance par l' #IA

legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/04/3...

La coalition de Trump se fissu...”

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:epi5fsta2mfja2jqbua4dl2f/post/3mkshrqv34c2e

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🇫🇷 Rejoignez LOOPS !

C'est la toute dernière application du fédiverse ! Conçue pour exprimer votre créativité en publiant vos vidéos courtes, elle se substitue à TikTok, l'éthique en plus et les algorithmes en moins. Diffusez et partagez vos souvenirs, vos séquences rigolotes ou vos mèmes.

Venez participer : https://videos.gayfr.social

Pour vos vidéos plus longues et vos directs, préférez PeerTube.

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🇬🇧 Join LOOPS!

This is the latest app from the Fediverse! Designed to let you express your creativity by posting short videos, it's a replacement for #TikTok, but with full ethics and no algorithms. Broadcast and share your memories, funny clips, or memes.

Come and join in: https://videos.gayfr.social

For longer videos and live streams, try PeerTube instead.

#GayFR #GayFrancophone #Loops #GayLoops #Fediverse #GayFediverse #GayFedi

Two #ActivityPub fixes I submitted to #Misskey are in the latest release. I am so amped to see this happen; I cannot emphasize enough how important it is for established #Fediverse platforms to support the ActivityPub spec correctly. I love seeing this happen. Thank you Misskey for making the Fediverse a slightly easier place to write software!

https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/releases/tag/2026.5.0

I came up with the domain because I love the Fediverse and the open web.

The Fediverse gets better when more instances pop up on around the world.

I created this instance on the snac2 software because I love the lightweight of the software and the minimalist aesthetic.

#snac2 #MastoAdmin #Fediverse #OpenWeb

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#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“# Surveillance of # IndigenousPeoples in Canada continues even when the # RCMP and # CarneyCons say it isn't. https:// thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/28/BC- Protest-Response-Team-Monitoring-Treaty-Negotiations/ ...”

https://mastodon.social/@miki_lou/116499971767966636

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“https:// reclaimthenet.org/apple-digita l-id-age-verification-rollout # AgeVerification # privacy # surveillance”

https://better.boston/@athorn/116499970206739363

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💫Dawn💫

A slow challenge I did for inktober some years ago, returning to simpler shapes and watercolor practice ✨
Of course inspired by one of my favorite games, Sky : Children of the Light !

#inktober #watercolor #sky #skycotl #fediverse #mastoart #traditionalArt #painting

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A watercolor landscape in soft purples and blues, depicting a small figure in a red winged cape holding a pink butterfly and looking at a palace among the clouds.

💫Sunset💫

Sky has really some interesting out of bounds landscapes, and this one is by far my favorite ✨️

#inktober #watercolor #sky #skycotl #fediverse #mastoart #traditionalArt #painting

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A watercolor landscape in vivid oranges and dark purples, depicting a small figure in a yellow winged cape walking on a purple tilted terrace, looking to a far away city enshrouded in orange fog and clouds.

💫Silence💫

This place is so peaceful ✨️ I like to just...wander here and breathe for a while

#inktober #watercolor #sky #skycotl #fediverse #mastoart #traditionalArt #painting

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A watercolor landscape in soft greens, depicting a small figure in an orange winged cape sitting peacefully on a mossy mound, looking into a cave lush with greenery and bathed in soft pale yellow light.

“Inside Chernobyl With Ben Fogle” on Channel 5

Come on then #fediverse, let’s have your #disasterCelebs

I’ll start you off with “Judy Garland visits Five Mile Island”

Week in Fediverse 2026-05-01

Servers

- Hollo v0.8.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v8.2.0
- NodeBB v4.11.0
- PieFed v1.6.20
- TinyAP v0.1.8

Clients

- Pachli v3.6.0
- tooi v0.24.0
- Tusker v2026.1
- Nicolium v0.2.0
- Jerboa v0.0.87
- PeerTube Mobile v2.1.2
- Mitra Mini v0.3.0
- Holos v1.5.2

For developers

- Fedify v2.2.0

Articles

- The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card
- The Architecture of Autonomy and Freedom
- What would a LinkedIn alternative look like on the open web?

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019dc0ea-e585-7be3-8174-327c55ab28d5

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA’s ‘Big Brother Machine’ An unexpected visitor gave my team the evidence we needed to prove that the government was secretly wiretapping Americans. https:// thereader.mitpress.m...”

https://mastodon.social/@tinkel/116499692942012815

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“City Learns # Flock Accessed # Cameras in C#hildren's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway
Flock have been accessing sensitive cameras in the town to demonstrate the company’s # surveilla...”

https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/116498749279691673

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

“Are you looking for a good PeerTube server to publish your videos on? https:// tubefree.org - General server
https:// spectra.video - General server
https:// mrfunkedude.com/peertube - For origina...”

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116500447392629556

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“The # media and politicians so keen to blame peaceful pro- # Palestine protesters for the knife attack in Golders Green. They will use this attack to ban # protest and introduce more # surveillance . With an e...”

https://wehavecookies.social/@wilfridl/116497982417795613

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Której aplikacji używasz do przeglądania Mastodon na telefonie?

#miniankiety #Mastodon #aplikacjeMastodon #Fediverse #Android #iOS #socialmedia 📱

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Utah’s New Law Targeting VPNs Goes Into Effect Next Week Instead of realizing that mass # surveillance and age gates aren't exactly crowd favorites, # Utah lawmakers have decided that VPNs themselves are the real ...”

https://mas.to/@PrivacyDigest/116496961446726408

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I need to be more active out here in the #Fediverse as we contend with an increasingly restricted media environment. #PressFreedom isn't #FreedomofSpeech per se, but . . .

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/us-falls-below-ukraine-in-press-freedom-as-global-autocracy-takes-hold/

Dieses Wochenende in Berlin - nach dem Tag der Arbeit, ab in die digitale Selbstbestimmtheit. 💻 🐧 🚀 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧

Orte und Uhrzeiten in den Links!👩‍💻

Samstag:

#DIday Spezial im Stadtschloss Moabit + #Linux Installparty von @digitalzebra @topio @kleindatenverein @Anoxinon
@berlin

🔗https://events.diday.org/events/a3cad86d-6bb2-4b77-89b9-2050cd174487 🌱

Sonntag:

#Berlin #DIDit im @clubdiscordia mit @xHain_hackspace
🔗 https://events.diday.org/events/48f9f29f-8643-449d-a12c-d59ceb1f9c23 🌱

Allgemeine Infos und Vorführungen zur digitalen Unabhängigkeit
🔗 https://events.diday.org/events/27f4930d-15fe-4b1a-8d5d-bb35a482b993 🌱

Let's DID it - zurück in der @cbase
🔗 https://events.diday.org/events/0f47895d-0c2c-4e66-a07c-6df51bfa2637 🌱

#endof10 #fediverse

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“# JaredGolden isn't running, so he could give a shit about # Mainers (or anyone else)... ‘Dangerous and Shameful’: 42 House # Democrats Help # GOP Send # Trump Spying Bill to Senate “It was these Democra...”

https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/116496374340760818

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Hey #fediverse I'd like your help and thoughts. I believe that the work you create in any software program should be portable and yours to edit anywhere, but companies lock that work up in proprietary formats meaning you have to pay their license to access your work.

I think file formats should be open and I'm proposing legislation to help, customers and allow new companies to join the market.

I'd love help, support, your voice and your feedback on https://filefreedom.org #opensource

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Congress Passes Another Short-Term Extension of Expiring Surveillance Law https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/politics/congress-surveillance-extension.html # Politics # Surveillance # Law”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/politics/congress-surveillance-extension.html

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Ben Werdmuller shares: Building with love, and paying for it. https://werd.io/building-with-love-and-paying-for-it/ #OpenSource #fediverse #WebDev
Please donate to any instances you are on, apps you use, etc. If you are on a website platform, get the pro plan.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Alberta separatist group ordered to pull down list with millions of voters' personal information

Alberta has experienced a devastating data breach, resulting in the publication of personal information belonging to mil...”

https://coffee-time.org/@runsmooth/statuses/01KQG5763TVSV1M4CP55XPA73C

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#NextcloudCollectives fans, this one is for you!

The team behind the Nextcloud Collectives app does more than contribute code.

Community outreach, documentation, and even support groups in using the app for their work. 😍

And now, they have created their own #Fediverse page to post updates and talk about the new features!

Join the conversation! 👉 @collectives

Alt...

Quote card: "For me, this is really special about this initiative. The groups using our software work on amazing things like human rights, collective living, and privacy matters. The real contact makes us motivated to develop, maintain, and keep up communications." Nextcloud Collectives community team

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“US Congress passes short-term renewal of Fisa warrantless spying powers https://www. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a pr/30/fisa-warrantless-spying-renewal-congress # UsNews # Surveillance # Technology # Us...”

https://halo.nu/@theguardian_world_news/116495721764567896

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Good Morning #fediverse #tzag

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“https://www. europesays.com/people/51387/ Congress kicks the can down the road on surveillance law (again) # Congress # FISA # JohnThune # MarkWarner # Privacy # RonWyden # Section702 # SenateI...”

https://pubeurope.com/@people/116495674413661790

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RE: https://c.im/@dpnash/116496518709749615

This, my friends, is why I am on the #fediverse . There is no place better to be.

Thank you @dpnash !

toot.io relay service boosted

David Nash » 🌐 2026-05-01
@dpnash@c.im

@paco @davidgerard Former chemist, so a nerd snipe on anything to do with rapid oxidation and other fun material transformations is possible, but I'm going to give it the ol' Fermi problem try first.

A US note (regardless of denomination) is 156x66 mm, or about 0.01 square meter. Let's start by laying them all flat, in a single one-bill layer, to keep things simple. Assuming we're going to burn $100 bills (to maximize our literal cash burn), that's about $10,000 per square meter or 20,000,000 square meters to equal $200B.

This works out to a circular disk of $100 bills about 2523 meters in radius.

Individual bills are thin. They'd burn pretty fast, once lit. If we light the middle of the circle and the flame front expands radially outward by 25 mm (about an inch) per second, that's enough to consume an entire bill (lengthwise) in 6 seconds. Sounds about right, based on how fast thin paper seems to burn. At that rate, it'll take 2523 meters / 0.025 meters/second ~= 100,000 seconds or about 1.15 days to burn the entire disk of flammable currency.

But I suspect that past a certain point, the expanding fire might be hot enough to start igniting things further ahead of the immediate flames, in which case the flame front would expand much faster. Also, you'd likely get some updrafts that would carry burning Benjamins further afield, which would start spot fires in other pars of the gigadollar disk some distance away, each one burning at a similar rate. Spot fires could sharply reduce the total time, easily a factor of 10 or more, especially if they started fairly early on. My Fermi-inspired guess is you're looking at "a few hours, maybe longer if the fire is extremely well-behaved, maybe less if it goes total chaos muppet", to torch things that way.

I don't have a good sense of whether making stacks (more to burn per area, but less area) makes things go faster, and that's a branch of material science I'm not super familiar with, so I'll leave it at that.

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#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial

Your next trip deserves better than a feed engineered for clicks. Real travel stories, curated by real explorers. Follow the FediBoard Travel Feed.

https://fediboard.com/feed

#travel #wanderlust #fediboard #fediverse #flipboard #facebook #instagram

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“SCAN FACE TO PLAY: PlayStation ID Verification
# GNCA - # GamersNexus # ConsumerAdvocacy # yoti # ID # IDverification # uk # ie # FaceScan # sony # playstation # facialscan # Identit...”

https://mastodon.social/@MindTGap/116495198732626389

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If you're wanting to run your own Fediverse server but it seems too difficult, you might want to use a managed hosting service. They do all the technical stuff for you behind the scenes, as well as the actual hosting itself.

For example here are some Fediverse managed hosting providers:
- https://cloud68.co/managed-hosting.html
- https://fedihost.co
- https://masto.host
- https://weingaertner-it.de/?lang=en
- https://communick.com
- https://writefreely.host

#Fediverse #SelfHosting #ManagedHosting

In his latest “Pivot to AI” OpenAI faces cash crunch in 2026 as bills come due, @davidgerard (accurately) says: “#OpenAI works by setting as much money as it can on fire, as fast as possible.”

But I want to know: if we had $200B in, say, $100 notes, and we literally set them on fire:

• would it dispose of the money faster? How long would it take?
• would the impact on the environment be worse or less bad?

I gotta think there is someone on the #fediverse with the wherewithal to figure this out. Surely if we boost this, it will nerdsnipe the right person and we will learn the answer.

Thanks to @deadsuperhero for the collaboration on this update to my article from last summer. As Sean put it: "It's a way to reflect on how things have changed over the past six months, with clear ideas on where things are headed." Hope like the last time, this sparks good conversations and further motion.

The Seven Deadly #Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card https://wedistribute.org/2026/04/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux-sins-a-redemption-report-card

Jacksonville's Secret Recipe: Shrimp and Grits - Uncover Jacksonville's most controversial local recipe. Is it a culinary masterpiece or a delicious deception? Click to find out NOW!.
https://momvoyage.web.app/journal/jacksonville-secret-recipe-scandalous-truth
#FlipboardUserGroup #fediverse #blog #blogpost #follow #followforfollow #writing #surf.social
#JaxEats #ShrimpAndGrits #JacksonvilleFood #FloridaFoodie #TravelStays

Tags: #askfedi, #fediadmin, #fedi, #fediverse.

The funniest (and saddest) part? I keep buying into the fantasy version of myself.

“I'll become that organized person who uses one clean system.”

“I’ll finally be the guy who journals every day.”

“I’ll turn into an anime watcher and use this subscription.”

I pay for it. I set it up. I feel good for three days.
Then real life happens, my energy crashes, and the whole thing dies.

It's not even about the tools anymore.

It's about constantly chasing a version of me that doesn’t exist.

Anyone else living in this loop?

#AuDHD #Neurodivergent #Burnout #Productivity #Fediverse #Thoughts #Blog #Mentalhealth

Kristof Zerbe says: I love Bubbles. https://kiko.io/post/I-Love-Bubbles/ #bubbles #fediverse #IndieWeb
It's worth checking out as a place to find authentic items to read, view, etc.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Met Police's # Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs - https://www. theregister.com/2026/04/30/met _police_palantir_deployment_cop_probe/ # surveillance is surveillance”

https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116493269192330709

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

“If you see an account marked with the "Automated" or "Bot" tag, this does not mean anything bad! This tag can only be added by the owner of the account, so it is almost always used to mark good useful bots run by honest ...”

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116494487811597517

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This thread at least implies a basic definition of the Fediverse: Fediverse = ActivityPub.

But there’s more than “uses only ActivityPub and ActivityPub all the time” and “doesn’t understand ActivityPub”.

For example, there is (streams). It can speak ActivityPub. But it is not based on ActivityPub. It’s based on Nomad. It also speaks Zot6. And its ActivityPub support is optional, both server-wide and per channel, although it’s on by default in both places.

And then there’s (streams)’ big ancestor, Hubzilla. It, too, can speak ActivityPub. But it is not based on ActivityPub either. It is based on Zot6. It can speak a whole lot of protocols. ActivityPub support is established by an add-on named PubCrawl which, by default, is activated at server level, but deactivated on newly created channels.

Do both count as parts of the Fediverse because they both have ActivityPub support in some way?

Do both not count as parts of the Fediverse because neither of them is based on ActivityPub?

Do both not count as parts of the Fediverse because ActivityPub is optional at server level? Or because it’s optional at channel level?

Does (streams) count as part of the Fediverse because new channels support ActivityPub by default, but does Hubzilla not count as part of the Fediverse because new channels don’t support ActivityPub by default?

Does (streams) count as part of the Fediverse because ActivityPub support is built into the core, and does Hubzilla not count as part of the Fediverse because ActivityPub support comes from an add-on? (Side-effect, by the way: (streams)’ directory lists actors using ActivityPub, Zot6 and/or Nomad, but Hubzilla’s directory only lists channels using Zot6 in some way.)

Or would you draw the line around individual servers, i.e. Hubzilla hubs and (streams) servers do not count as part of the Fediverse if the admins have turned ActivityPub off server-wide?

Or would you go as far as drawing the line around individual channels, i.e. your (streams) channel officially leaves the Fediverse when you turn ActivityPub off, or your Hubzilla channel won’t be part of the Fediverse until you install PubCrawl?

Mastodon: @catouma@qlub.social

La créatrice et passionnée de médias multiplateformes, journaliste, fondatrice et rédactrice en chef de Culturemania, analyste des enjeux technologiques et culturels, chroniqueuse à l’émission Moteur de recherche sur ICI Radio-Canada Première, lauréate de 2 prix d’Hebdos Québec, et co-développeuse du jeu en ligne « Expert Antifake » pour former contre la cyberfraude et la désinformation, livre un rapport de terrain sur l’effondrement du modèle d’affaires de l’information et ce qui pourrait le remplacer.

Plateformes polarisées, retour de flamme de la loi C-18 sur Meta, censure algorithmique de nouvelles légitimes et hypertrucages générés par IA ont ensemble vidé la confiance et les revenus des petits et moyens médias, pendant que le discours québécois sur la souveraineté numérique produit des lois sans soutien concret aux solutions locales qu’elles exigeraient. La voie à suivre : des médias hybrides, multiplateformes, interactifs, transparents sur leurs sources de financement, et ouverts à partager l’espace avec des créateurs que la presse traditionnelle a écartés comme « pas de vrais journalistes ».

The multiplatform media creator and journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of Culturemania, technology and culture analyst, columnist on ICI Radio-Canada Première’s Moteur de recherche, winner of 2 Hebdos Québec awards, and co-developer of the online game “Expert Antifake” to combat cyberfraud and disinformation, delivers a field report on the collapse of the news business model and what might replace it.

Polarized platforms, Bill C-18’s backfire on Meta, algorithmic censorship of legitimate news, and AI-generated deepfakes have together gutted trust and revenue for small and mid-sized outlets, while Quebec’s digital-sovereignty rhetoric produces laws without any real support for the local alternatives they would require. The path forward is hybrid, multiplatform, interactive media, honest about its funding sources, and willing to share space with creators the traditional press has dismissed as “not real journalists.”

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Exposed Data Illustrates the Nightmare Scenario for a Stalkerware Victim

https:// web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wire d.com/story/exposed-data-illustrates-the-nightmare-scenario-for-a-stalkerware-victim/”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/exposed-data-illustrates-the-nightmare-scenario-for-a-stalkerware-victim/

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Arnold Schrijver (@smallcircles) just published a fairly long thinkpiece on the future of ActivityPub and the fediverse and how we could achieve a grassroots improvement of the standards. It's well worth a read!

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution/#fediverse-tomorrow

#activitypub #fediverse #FEPs #fep #fedidev

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116296958997347449

Last day to apply!

#SocialWeb #OpenSocial #OpenSocialAwards #fediverse

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/110265867199360216

Three years ago!

I'd love to hear if the site still holds up.

#fediverse #JoinTheFediverse #anniversary #feedback

AodeRelay boosted

Stefan Bohacek » 🌐 2023-04-26 / 2023-04-26
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

There's a lot of great explanation sites about the fediverse and its various communities, and I wanted to take a stab at this myself.

https://jointhefediverse.net

The site (very much work in progress) is aimed at a more casual audience. Let me know what you think!

#fediverse #SocialMedia #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #JoinTheFediverse

There's a lot of great explanation sites about the fediverse and its various communities, and I wanted to take a stab at this myself.

https://jointhefediverse.net

The site (very much work in progress) is aimed at a more casual audience. Let me know what you think!

#fediverse #SocialMedia #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #JoinTheFediverse

It is April 30th. What have you done this month to recruit others to the #Fediverse?

#FediOutreach
https://fedidb.com/

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores https://www. theguardian.com/technology/202 6/apr/29/maryland-grocery-stores-ban-surveillance-pricing # privacy # surveillance # s...”

https://mastodon.online/@jonsnow/116490002331169153

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LA's SECRET Fitness Spots REVEALED: You Won't Believe! - Uncover LA's most elite, off-the-beaten-path fitness havens. Discover secret training spots and push your limits like never before!.
https://momvoyage.web.app/journal/los-angeles-hidden-gems-fitness-training
#FlipboardUserGroup #fediverse #blog #blogpost #follow #followforfollow #writing #surf.social
#HiddenLA #SecretLA #LAFitness #LAHiddenGems #ExploreLA

Entah disini doang atau instance #gotosocial lain juga mengalami masalah yang sama: tidak bisa follow atau buka profil akun-akun tags.pub.

Sepertinya memang platform #kuper ini #gotosocial.

#fediverse #fediadmin #tagspub

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Congress Is in Chaos Over a Surveillance Law—But the Full Story Is Classified

https:// web.brid.gy/r/https://www.moth erjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-congress-fisa-spy-court-fbi-bill/”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-congress-fisa-spy-court-fbi-bill/

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Btw, I'm working on Mastic: a #Mastodon instance written in #Rust, running entirely on the Internet Computer as #WASM canisters.

One canister per user, Internet Identity auth, SNS-based DAO governance, no PostgreSQL/Redis/Nginx. Fully ActivityPub-compatible.

Live by the end of September.

https://blog.veeso.dev/blog/en/btw-i-m-working-on-mastic/

#rust #rustlang #fediverse #internetcomputer #activitypub #opensource

London vs. Manchester: Unveiling Hidden Gems and Unexpected Rivalries - London or Manchester? Discover hidden gems, shocking sports facility differences, and iconic landmark showdowns. Your UK travel debate starts NOW!.
https://momvoyage.web.app/journal/london-to-manchester-hidden-gems
#FlipboardUserGroup #fediverse #blog #blogpost #follow #followforfollow #writing #surf.social
#LondonHiddenGems #ManchesterHiddenGems #UKTravel #HiddenGems #TravelBlog

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Palo Alto license plate data searched by hundreds of out-of-state agencies Despite local officials’ claims to the contrary, hundreds of law enforcement agencies from around the country searched data from Palo Alto’s aut...”

https://mastodon.social/@gtbarry/116489068822328636

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I have often thought about you and imagined how quiet you must be in your solitary fort up among the empty mountains over which those great south winds rush, as if they wanted to devour them in mighty chunks.

The silence must be immense

To be able to receive such sounds and movements () joined by noise of the sea, present in the distance ()

Pre-historic harmony ()

Let this marvellous solitude work on you ()

A solitude which will never be deleted from your life.

In all that lies before you to experience and do,

It will continue as an anonymous influence ()

Perhaps like the way the blood of our ancestors moves unceasingly within us and mingles with our own

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Paris, on the second day of Christmas, 1908

Excerpts

p01

#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial

I think of you often ()

Whether my letters can really be a help, well, I have my doubts.

Do not say: Yes, they are. Just let them sink in and without any particular sense of gratitude, and let’s wait and see what will come of it. ()

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Furuborg, Jonsered, Sweden, 4. November, 1904

Excerpts

p01

#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Congressional funding is supporting huge government investments in surveillance tech and data analytics driven by AI.
Disclosure of documents allegedly hacked from Homeland Security reveal a massive surveillance web tha...”

https://climatejustice.social/@breton/116489054902256338

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() I should like to ask you to the best I can, dear Sir (/Madam. p01), to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue.

Do not now strive to uncover answers; they cannot be given to you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything.

Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future ().

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Worpsweede near Bremen, 16 July 1903

Excerpts

2/4, p01

#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial

So,

Dear Mr. Kappus (the young poet, p01)

You shouldn’t be dismayed if a sadness rises up in front of you, greater than any you have seen before; or if a disquiet plays over your hands () like light and cloud-shadow. ()

Think that something is happening with you,

That life has not forgotten you,

That it holds you in its hand;

It will not let you fall.

Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling () when you don’t know what work it is these states are performing within you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question where it all comes from and where it is leading? You well know you are in a

Period of transition ()

If there is something ailing in the way you go about things, then remember that sickness is the means by whih an organism rids itself of something foreign to it. All one has to do is help it to be ill, to have its whole illness and let it break out, for that is how it mends itself. ()

There is so much () going on ()

You must be patient as an invalid and

Trusting as a convalescent,

For you are perhaps both.

And more than that:

You are also the doctor ()

But with all illnesses there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait,

Inasfar as you are your own doctor

This above all is

What you

Must

Do

Now.

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904

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The fear of the inexplicable

Has not just rendered the individual existence poorer;

Relations between people, too, have been

Restricted,

As it were lifted out of the

River-bed of of endless possibilities

And placed on a deserted bank where nothing happens. ()

It is not lethargy alone which cause human relationships to repeat themselves in the same old () monotony ()

It is the shying away from any kind of

New,

Unforeseeable

Experience,

Which we think we may not be equal to.

But only someone who is ready for anything nd rules nothing out, not even the most enigmatic things, will experience the relationship with another as a living thing and will him (her, p01) self llve his (her, p01) own existence to the full. ()

Imagining an individual’s existence as a larger or smaller room

Reveals to us that most people are only acquainted with one corner of their particular room,

A place by the window,

A little area

To pace

Up

And

Down.

That way they have a certain security.

And yet the perilous uncertainty that drives the prisoners in Poe’s tales out the outlines of their () dungeons ()

But we are not prisoners.

There are no traps or snares set up around us, and there is nothing that should frighten or torment us.

We are placed into life ()

We have no reason to be distrustful of our world, for it is not against us.

If it holds terrors, they are our terrors,

If it has abysses, these abysses belong to us ()

How can we forget those ancient myths found at the beginnings of all peoples?

The myths about the dragons who at the last moment turn princesses?

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses, only waiting for the day when they will see us handsome (beautiful, p01) and brave?

Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904

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We

Have already had to adjust our theories of planetary motion,

And so, too, we shall gradually learn to recognize

That what we call fate originates in ourselves, in humankind, and does not work on us from the outside. ()

Many people () in panic () swore to never have found anything of the sort in themselves before. ()

Someone transported from his room, () without warning and interval, onto the top of a high mountain would feel () virtually destroyed by an unparalleled sense of insecurity, by an exposure to something nameless. He would think he was falling or believe himself to be hurtling out into space or shattered into a thousand pieces ()

For one who becomes solitary, many such changes suddenly take place at once and, as with the man on the mountaintop, unusual imaginings and curious sensations occur which seem to be take on dimensions greater than can be tolerated.

But it is necessary for us to experience this too.

We must accept our existence in as wide a sense as can be; everything, even the unheard of, must be possible within it.

That,

When you come down to it,

Is the only kind of courage that is demanded of us:

The courage of the oddest,

The most unexpected,

The most inexplicable

Things that we may encounter. ()

Human beings have been cowardly in this regard ()

The experiences we describe as ‘apparitions’, the entire so-called ‘spirit world’, death

All those things so closely akin to us

Have by our daily rejection of them been

Forced so far from our lives that

The senses with which we might apprehend them

Have atrophied. ()

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904

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I believe

That

Almost all our sadnesses are

Periods of tautening

That we experience as numbness

Because we can no longer hear stirring of our feelings, which have become foreign to us;

Because we are alone

With the strange feeling that has entered into us;

Because everything () is taken away from us for a moment;

Because we are in the middle of a transition ()

And that is why sadness passes:

What is new in us, the thing that has supervened,

Has entered into our heart,

Penetrated to its innermost chamber

And lingered not even there -

It is already in our blood. ()

We never quite know what it was. One might easily suppose nothing had happened, but we have altered the way a house alters when a guest enters it.

We cannot say who has come, perhaps we shall never know, but there are many indications that it is the future that enters into us like this,

In order to be transformed within us,

Long before it actually occurs ()

That is why it is so important to be () attentive when one is sad: Because the apparently uneventful and static moment when our future comes upon us is so much closer to life than the other () point when it happens () outside.

The quieter,

The more patient and open

We are in our sadness,

The deeper and more unerringly the new will penetrate into us,

The better we shall acquire it,

The more it will be our fate,

And when one day in the future it ‘takes place’ ()

We shall feel related and close to it in our innermost hearts. ()

And that is necessary ()

Little by little our development will tend in this direction ()

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904

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You

Have had many great sadnesses

Which have now passed by ()

But I ask you to consider whether these great unhappinesses did not rather passes

Through

You?

Whether much within You has not changed,

Whether somewhere, in some part of your being, you were not

Transformed ()?

If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and a little beyond the outworks of our intuitions, perhaps we then should then bear our sadnesses with greater assurance ()

For they are moments when something new enters into us,

Something unknown (),

Our feelings,

Shy and inhibited,

Fall silent,

Everything within us withdraws

A stillness settles on us,

And at the centre of it is the

New presence

That nobody knows,

Making no sound

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904

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