Recently, we were asked why we, a knowledge & community focused charity, were posting to celebrate cultural and religious holidays.

We believe that the Social Web has the potential to be the most diverse space on the entire web. But to get there, we have to start simple.

We aren't experts. We're learning each time we post (and we hope you are too). Our goal is to provide the very first stepping stones to that, diverse, Social Web we dream of.

#Diversity #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon

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The background of the image shows silver stars. Over it, text reads: Why we celebrate Diversity across the social web. Newsmast Foundation.

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The background of the image shows silver stars. Over it, text reads: Awareness. The Social Web, especially the Fediverse, has a long way to go before it represents the diversity of the real world. The Social Web is dominated by the Western perspective. We hope that, by celebrating cultural events and holidays across our Social Web presence, we can highlight the many missing voices in the timeline.

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The background of the image shows silver stars. Over it, text reads: Education. There are so many cultures and religions on our small planet. We are a species of dreamers and believers. It’s unfair to presume that a person would be educated on the experiences of others from different countries, cultures, and beliefs. But to welcome diversity to the Social Web, we should make a collective effort to learn. We’re not experts. Our commuity team are all from the English countryside. We’re not always perfect, but we try to take time to educate ourselves. We hope that by sharing that knowledge on the Social Web, others may too learn about the experiences of those different to them. Together, we can make this space more welcoming.

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The background of the image shows silver stars. Over it, text reads: Acceptance. We hope that if someone from a group or culture which is a minority on the Social Web sees one of our posts, they feel a little more at home. In the past, the culture of the Social Web itself has felt unwelcoming to those marginalised by Western society. This is not acceptable. The Social Web is a place for everyone who can treat others with respect and decency. It belongs to no one. We welcome everyone, no matter their culture or religion, and trust that they too will welcome the diverse opinions and voices of the Social Web.

Some good news! The NOS, our country's main news media channel, will not be posting on X anymore. It's about time. #fediverse

https://over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-plaatst-vanaf-vandaag-geen-nieuwsberichten-meer-op-x/

Out of curiosity, what #FediVerse applications _other_ than Mastodon have you used?

In my case, it's:

- #BookWyrm
- #PixelFed
- #Lemmy
- #NeoDB
- #WordPress #ActivityPub plugin

@kuketzblog Ich denke, dass allen "Internetteilnehmern" die Nachteile von #BigTech mittlerweile bewusst sein sollten.
Die, die bei BigTech sind, wollen es so.
Man kann sie leider nur "dumm sterben lassen".

Solche Informationen im #Fediverse zu verbreiten bringt rein gar nichts, außer "Likes", denn hier sind die bereits missionierten.
Missionieren in einem Kloster wird das Wissen nicht verbreiten.

Wir sollten uns leider eingestehen, dass #Kapital heutzutage mächtiger ist als #Ideal.

@DerSash ...es sei denn man ist im #fediverse 😆

I remember joining the fediverse and staring at this empty feed, feeling completely lost. Coming from algorithms that constantly fed me content, the silence was disorienting. Like everyone else knew where the party was and I was just standing in an empty room.

So I built @hypebot to fix that. It finds quality trending posts across instances and boosts them to your feed, so you get to discover what's happening across the fediverse without the algorithmic manipulation you left behind.

If your feed feels empty right now, give it a follow. It's there to help.

#Fediverse #FediTips #trending #mastodon #goingdark

I left mainstream platforms completely burned out and found the fediverse, and god it felt like I could finally breathe again without someone tracking every single thing I did.

But even here I kept wondering who actually protects my data when someone comes asking for it, and I realized I didn't want to trust anyone else with that answer.

So I run https://goingdark.social now because I wanted that certainty for myself and my community. When someone demands data or tries to shut down what we talk about, I'm the one who gets to say no and take whatever comes with that.

I pay for this out of pocket because it matters to me, and your admin is probably doing the same thing, maybe a father of three running a server from his home office, a single mom keeping her community safe between work shifts, an older gentleman who remembers what the internet used to feel like before corporations owned everything.

That's how this whole thing works, regular people running small spaces because they care, all of us building something no single company or government can control. We're doing this together and every small instance matters.

Support your local instance admin however you can. They're keeping this alive for all of us.

#Fediverse #Privacy #Decentralization #supportyourlocalinstance #mastodon #socialmedia

Mastodon, Matrix, ActivityPub, XMPP, ATProto. whatever your flavor of decentralization is, there’s room for you.

Submit your proposal to the Decentralized Communication devroom at FOSDEM before the end of this week!

https://fosdem.org/submit

#FOSDEM #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Time to revisit a hastily-written thread posted by me nearly a year ago explaining the essential problem with LLMs, in the context of the relationship their creators always maintain with governments around the world. Because power always speaks to power. This has been true since time immemorial and will continue to be so forevermore.

It's why we need decentralised social media and information networks, perhaps more so than ever before.

It's why we need the #fediverse.

https://mastodon.world/@ApostateEnglishman/113917433845352918

@ricci @FediGarden

Sublime thank you for sharing this amazing code!

https://moderation-explorer.online/

#Programming #FediVerse #moderation #explorer #online

20 days left to contribute to @bonfire ! Let's help fund the #Fediverse and support some #Developers so they can keep investing in US!

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

Liebes #fediverse kennt evtl. jemand Untersuchung dazu, wieviel traffic / Rechenzentren-Kapazität eigentlich für Leerlauf oder bloßen Komfort drauf geht; lässt sich das solide bestimmen?

Wenn man z.B. sagen würde: ich abonniere eine Streaming-Show, aber ich muss die neueste Folge nicht unmittelbar immer am Release-Tag sehen (Freitags bin ich ohnehin zu kaputt), dann könnte die Folge doch ganz in Ruhe und mit niedrigerer Bandbreite (/Latenz?) auf mein Gerät tröpfeln und da auf mich warten, oder?

mastodon.social has a spammer problem. I have increased my blocks 300% today, all were from mastodon.social.

Perhaps they've always had it and I just didn't see them (due to using Akkoma at the time, which has great spam protection) but now when I'm on other services (Sharkey) it is glaringly obvious the problem is mastodon.social.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

In the #Fediverse there are now
716 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
608 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@TecMundo
@TheHillTimes
@Womencom
@NBCSports
@WiredItalia

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

I should make my own Masto instance… maybe.

What would this involve? Is it possible to have it on my RPi4 over my Tailscale or is that just not possible? I don’t exactly have the ability to port forward my RPi4, nor rent a VPS or something.

Does anyone have suggestions? It’s merely for a test.

#Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon

Dads.cool and cooler.mom are Hometown Mastodon servers for parents of all kinds, including biological and non-biological parents, foster parents, adoptive parents and people of all gender identities.

https://dads.cool

https://cooler.mom

You can find out more at https://dads.cool/about and https://cooler.mom/about or contact the admin accounts @alex and @sydney

#FeaturedServer #Parents #Parenting #Children #Kids #Mastodon #Hometown #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

neat graphics by #feditips comparing #bluesky pretend-decantralization to #fediverse 📍🕸️🦋🦣
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/113896029909649321

Something Fediverse related that I am working on —

Toddlerverse

Basically, what I have been thinking about is —

What would take to make areas of the Fediverse geared towards toddlers.

(The document I am writing is still a work in progress.)

(I am a parent of young children, so I have first-hand experience with kids usage of online media, including social-media.)

#FediUX #Fediverse #FediverseUX #SpreadFediverse #Toddler #Toddlers #Toddlerverse

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Imagine an online world designed for your toddler — not to sell to them, or track them, or overstimulate them — but to help them grow. One that puts parents in control. The Toddlerverse is a safe, gentle, ad-free digital space inspired by the calm, educational approach of Mr. Rogers and Ms. Rachel. It gives your child access to simple, developmentally appropriate videos, songs, and activities — without autoplay traps, noisy algorithms, or surprise content. You (the parent) stay in control of what your toddler sees, and everything is built around real early-childhood learning science The Toddlerverse isn't about more screen time; it's about better screen time. It is a place where your toddler can explore safely, learn at their own pace, and experience the kind and thoughtful media every parent wishes existed online The Toddlerverse is not a business, and it is not driven by profit. Its purpose is far greater: to create a lasting resource for parents, families, caregivers, and communities that nurtures the growth and development of young children. Every video, story, and activity is designed to serve the public good, freely accessible and shareable, so that parents everywhere can support their toddlers' learning and curiosity The Toddlerverse is built with the future in mind—a cultural and educational commons that can be used, adapted, and enjoyed for generations, leaving a legacy of knowledge, creativity, and care that will benefit children and families long into the future

#OverUnder 043 with @jasper

He's a technical director that @florianziegler suggested to me.

I found out that we have many interests in common, such as #fixies, #vim and #cameras.

So, of course, he had to be invited to his series.

Today, he shares his thoughts on #Kaweco Sport, #Airtags, #fixies, split #keyboards, and #crisps.

#books #bookstodon #bicycles #photography #mechanicalKeyboards #fountainPens #blog #fediverse #mastodon

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-043

I've said again and again that I consider it to be of the utmost importance that the #Fediverse grows far beyond its present size. My reasoning is thus:

All major commercial social media platforms are either owned by #fascists , or by people who are only too happy to bend their knees to the fascists for the sake of profits - and thus are also fascists for all moral accounting purposes.

And they have used the power of these social media platforms to heavily promote fascists, or opened the door for fascists to promote their agenda. The resurgence of fascism we are seeing in the world these days was largely done with the aid of social media - outrage farming is an _extremly_ effective tactic for promoting fascism, especially when the social media algorithms actively support you.

I think we can all agree that fighting fascism is important (and if you _don't_ agree, go away - I don't want to talk to you). Thus, we need to attack the mechanisms that allow fascism to grow - i.e. commercial social media.

Now, maybe there is a future where we won't have any kind of online social media, but barring a complete collapse of civilization I am not seeing it - humans are a communicative species, and have always used the latest technology for that purpose. Thus, I don't see the concept of "social media" by itself to go away any time soon.

But replacing _commercial_ social media seems much more achievable - after all, the problem is #Capitalism, not #SocialMedia itself. Thus, we need to grow _noncommercial_ social media until can replace corporate social media. And as far as I can see, the Fediverse is the most viable noncommercial alternative out there.

The main objectiion to "growing the Fediverse" that I have heard is this:

"#X, #Facebook , #TikTok and the others are full of assholes. If the Fediverse grows as big as they are, all the assholes will come here as well!"

And I can understand that fear. We need to be careful about _how_ we grow the Fediverse, and there is much work to be done. Our moderation tools, for instance, could be much better than they are (just ask #BlackMastodon ...). However, of all the social media systems out there, the Fediverse alone actually has the potential to develop _better_ moderation in the long run - while commercial social media platforms see good moderation as _hostile_ to their business models (as recent revelations about #Meta have shown). Thus, fear of failure should not stop us from making the attempt.

Furthermore, while the (algorithm-boosted) fascists might be the loudest people on commercial social media right now, I believe that the majority of people using social media in the modern world are _not_ assholes, and we want to encourage these not-assholes to come to the Fediverse in large number. Or do you really think that the (predominantly white and European/North American) Fediverse bubble represents the only not-asshole group left on the planet?

And consider the stakes. Not only will the fascists become increasingly violent towards marginalized groups of people, they are actively hostile to any efforts to fight threats to Earth as a whole - #GlobalWarming first among them. We need to wrestle the microphone from them before they doom us all, and that means wrestling social media away from them - but we cannot do that without replacing commercial social media with non-commercial social media.

At least, that's what I think. If you have any better plans to fight the social media power of fascists, feel free to share them!

Sometimes my soul rises and becomes a white cloud drifting across the sky. It watches, lives in the sunlight, stays quiet and, when it feels sorrow, it cries.
Yet the sky above it is, and will always be, bright and blue.

Have a great week, #BSDCafe
Have a great week, #illumosCafe
Have a great week, #Fediverse

#FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Sky #Clouds #NewWeek

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A wide blue sky holds a soft, bright cloud drifting gently above a layer of lighter mist, glowing in the midday light.

Liebes #fediverse,

meine bald 80-jährige Mama leidet an #Vorhofflimmern und soll sich auf Anraten ihres Arztes eine #Fitnessuhr zulegen, die dies und andere Unregelmäßigkeiten ihres Herzens erkennen kann. Sie hat ein iPhone, mit dem sie gut zurecht kommt. Wir haben über eine #Garmin oder eine #AppleWatch nachgedacht, aber keine*r von uns Kindern kennt sich wirklich aus damit.
Habt ihr Erfahrungen oder Tipps?
Tausend Dank vorab 🫶🏻

The Holly Jolly Owl: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/the-holly-jolly-owl-lisa-s-baker.html

#owl #barnowl #bird #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdsOfFediverse #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #watercolor #mixedMedia #greetingcards #stationary #holiday #Christmas #Christmascards #christmas2025 #festive #red #green #nature #wildlife #puzzles

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The Holly Jolly Owl / Holiday Art by Lisa S Baker. A majestic owl perches amidst lush greenery, surrounded by holly leaves and red berries. Snow delicately covers the branches, enhancing the scene's festive and serene atmosphere. The owl's detailed feathers and intense gaze draw the viewer into this winter wonderland.

Mastodon 4.5.2 has been installed on C.IM.

This update focuses on refinements and bug fixes, mostly around quoting, keyboard shortcuts, and UI behavior.

Details: https://s.ee/cfju

#Mastodon #CIM #Fediverse #Update

I am wondering how easy it is for a bigtech company to collect all fediverse data for AI training? Are there signs that they are doing that? In my personal opinion it is fine dat AI models train on public posts but i was just wondering if it happens...
#AI #trainingdata #fediverse #bigtech #mastodon

@janboehm Böhmi??? Bist Du falsch abgebogen das Du wieder im #fediverse auftauchst? 🙃

Good Morning Fediverse!
Finally browsing here after almost a week.

#Coffee #GoodMorning #Aeropress #Weekend #Fediverse

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A little setup making coffee with aeroprres

@fediverse

So here is a first analysys of shares and favs by #Software 👇🏼

There are some missing, maybe because my instance doesn't know about them (I'm getting the number via API), and #Bluesky has some more (but not much). Sadly I tagged #Lemmy/#Piefed wrong, so they could not share/like.

The most surprising part for me is how many of the accounts are bridged via #BridgyFed, it's more than one sixth as far as I can see.

I will look into the data more.

#Fediverse #SocialMedia

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Graph with breakdown of favs

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Graph with breakdown of shares

Ehrliche Analyse über die Situation in der #Ukraine - Es ist erschreckend zu sehen das immer noch so viele dies ignorieren und wir in Europe immer noch den USA hinterherlaufen. Wir müssen uns endlich auf uns selbst konzentrieren. Persönlich vermeide ich so viel US Produkte wie derzeit möglich. #Linux #Foss #Opensource #noBigTech #Fediverse

https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/politik/Was-Jaeger-an-Trumps-Ukraine-Plan-wirklich-beunruhigt-id30055213.html

und

https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/politik/Navidi-Oligarchen-sitzen-in-den-USA-direkt-in-der-Regierung-id30058479.html

A new release of TootSDK - 21.2.0 📣

https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/21.2.0

What's changed:

- Quotes feature marker and quotes support in push notifications @luckkerr

Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌

#iOSDev #Swift #TootSDK #Fediverse

Meine IT Datenschutz Liste für alle !!
🔒 ♥️

auch als PDF:

https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/6M62aD9+qLS1ojbtcxVi8DLI/

#Datenschutz
#Privatsphäre
#sicherheit
#Chatkontrolle
#Linux
#Endof10
#UnplugTrump
#Windows
#AI
#Fediverse
#Mastodon

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Meine IT Datenschutz Liste für alle !! 2025

@FediGarden #mastodonSocial seems to have become the #twitter of the #fediverse. If the percentage of #badApples is constant, they obviously have the most. It is obviously against the ideals that created the whole thing. Size breeds power, and power corrupts.
#SupportYourLocalInstance! Local with respect to interests, not necessarily geography.

Flipping.rocks is a Hometown Mastodon server for people who appreciate arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, fungi etc. and helping other people appreciate them. If you want a general Fediverse home that’s okay too.

This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters.

https://flipping.rocks

You can find out more at https://flipping.rocks/about or contact the admin account @a

#FeaturedServer #Arthropods #Amphibians #Reptiles #Fungi #Hometown #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/now-witness-the-power-of-this-fully-operational-fediverse/

How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.

Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog from each site. It is an imperfect measure - and a vain one - but lets me know where I should be spending my time. No point posting on a network which is just bots talking to each other, right?

Earlier this year I built a stats-counter for my blog. Every time someone clicks from a website which links to my blog, it records that visit in a database. I get to see which blog posts are doing numbers, and where those numbers came from.

Until fairly recently, the Mastodon social network didn't send referer details. I thought that reduced the visibility of the network and lobbied for it to change. As various Mastodon servers upgrade, and admins opt-in, it is becoming more apparent just how much traffic originates from the Fediverse.

Over the last few weeks, here's how many people have clicked from BlueSky and Mastodon to one of my blog posts.

Total

Source

1,607

bsky.app

752

mastodon.social

At first glance, it doesn't look good for our elephantine friends, does it? The butterfly sends over twice the traffic. Game over!

But, of course, while Mastodon.social is the biggest instance - it is far from the only one. What happens if we slide down the long tail? Here's all the Mastodon-ish instances which sent me over 10 clicks.

Total

Source

193

phanpy.social

120

android-app://org.joinmastodon.android/

106

infosec.exchange

62

mas.to

59

mstdn.social

55

social.vivaldi.net

49

wandering.shop

48

fosstodon.org

33

mathstodon.xyz

27

mastodon.online

26

mastodon.scot

24

app.wafrn.net

19

indieweb.social

18

social.lol

17

tech.lgbt

17

toot.wales

16

en.osm.town

16

feditrends.com

14

mstdn.ca

14

piefed.social

12

wetdry.world

11

c.im

11

mastodon.nl

51

Sites sending < 10 clicks

Ah! Add them all up and you get a grand total of 1,773 visitors from Mastodon-powered sites. That's more than BlueSky.

Now, there are some obvious caveats to the data:

• I have a smaller follower count on BlueSky than I do on Mastodon.
• My posts may appeal more to one demographic than another.
• People may have strict privacy controls which suppress the true volume of visitors.
• There's no way to measure how long someone spends reading my posts.
• RSS and newsletter visitors aren't counted.
• Clicks from apps may not always show a referer.
• Some people may be on multiple services.
• Fediverse users can follow the post directly, so don't need to visit the site to read it.

And yet… no matter how you slice it, Fediverse servers are sending as much traffic as BlueSky!

I think this is brilliant. Web services should be able to scale from small to big - and each ActivityPub-powered site helps power the open Internet.

Just for completeness, this is how Reddit, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Lemmy do over the same period:

Total

Source

1,158

reddit.com

585

android-app://com.reddit.frontpage/

76

facebook.com

76

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/

56

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/

52

youtube.com

41

t.co

38

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nsw7f4/til_in_mongolia_instead_of_a_street_address_a/

31

linkedin.com

27

android-app://io.syncapps.lemmy_sync/

27

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nsw7f4/til_in_mongolia_instead_of_a_street_address_a/

22

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1n96ftn/40_years_later_are_bentleys_programming_pearls/

22

lemmy.ca

17

android-app://com.linkedin.android/

16

lemmy.dbzer0.com

14

feddit.org

11

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1n96ftn/40_years_later_are_bentleys_programming_pearls/

10

discuss.tchncs.de

10

l.instagram.com

8

lemmy.blahaj.zone

6

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1m2l84b/considering_making_the_switch_does_google_pay/

6

reddthat.com

If you add up all the Lemmy instances, they send about as much traffic as Facebook and LinkedIn combined. That's not a huge surprise - those platforms hate anyone clicking away to the wider web.

Twitter is basically the Dead Internet. I'm no longer on there, but I do occasionally search it to see who is sharing my posts. The popular posts I write get shared a lot - sometimes by accounts with huge followers - yet there are no comments or retweets and barely and clicks.

I don't do Instagram or Threads, and that might be reflected in their low numbers. But I'm not active on YouTube either - yet people there occasionally link back to me.

Final Thoughts

Firstly, my stats only represent my site. Your site might be very different.

Secondly, I've ignored search engine traffic, big blogs, newsletters, and other sources.

Thirdly, and most importantly, this isn't a competition! The desire for a "winner-takes-all" service is dangerous and disturbing. An ecosystem is at its most vibrant when there are multiple participants each thriving in their own niche.

I want a thousand sites, running a hundred different software stacks, some of which only serve a dozen people, or even a lone participant.

Diversity is strength.

#activitypub #bluesky #fediverse #mastodon #statistics

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Logo for ActivityPub.

@dansup

Looks fab!

Concerned #accessibility comes after all being worked on now.

I ❤️ #monetization options are planned. Concerned "ad free" options imply ads are planned as part of the roadmap?

Absence of #AI is refreshing!

Is #UnifiedPush part of "push notifications", or just feeding everything via #Google / #Apple? (cue usual: "They're encrypted. Don't ask whether metasdata / future decryption / #MobileLinux matter" discussion)

Project Moebius (#decentalized?), better editing & live streaming look super cool! ❤️

Finally, a regular reminder to please avoid creating a digital 1% elite by focusing "For you" on relevance not rolling-snowball-boosting of already popular accounts/content.

Thanks for all your amazing hard work! 💕 You ROCK!

#Loops #Privacy #Foss #OpenSource #Fediverse

This is a very mid- or elder millennial thing; younger #millennials like Bo Burnham (who's only 4 yrs younger than me) got hit hard w/the freedom & abandon to post vids of themselves on #SM. For my class tho, kids putting their real identities & antics up on the Internet was utterly unacceptable, according to our parents & even I'd say our own senses of self-preservation & privacy...

Does this resonate or have I got it wrong? Share your perspective I'd love to see what the #fediverse thinks 💛👍

23:09—Good night #Fediverse! 😴💤

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Cat #CaturdayEveryday #Caturday

💬 Warum seid IHR im #Fediverse?

Ist es für Euch etwas Besonderes oder nur ein weiteres Netzwerk?

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Hintergrund: Bunte Seesterne und verschiedene Muscheln Vordergrund: FEDIVERSE in bunten Buchstaben geschrieben Frage: Warum seid Ihr hier?

I moved from @midtsveen@bookwyrm.social to @Midtsveen@books.infosec.exchange!

#Bookstodon #BookTok #Books #Book #Fediverse

On #Mastodon there are now
412 verified accounts from #news organizations in
21 languages and on
121 instances.

175 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@musikblog (GER)
@NDR (GER)
@pixelsfr (FRA)
@dagen (SWE)
@OrioGuka (BAQ)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

🆕 blog! “Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!”

How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.

Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/now-witness-the-power-of-this-fully-operational-fediverse/
⸻
#ActivityPub #BlueSky #fediverse #mastodon #statistics

I am Him

3077 × 3700 PX • 11.1 MP • 91.24 MB

#loops #video #meme #humor #lol #chad #dog #doge #gnome #gnu #videoediting #gnuedit #linux #fediverse #art #absurdres #encoding #ffmpeg #kdenlive #ubuntu #fedora #kde #loopsapp #loop #gimp #gnuimagemanipulationprogram #fypシ #fyp

People say that the fediverse or heavy blocking traps you in an echo chamber.
I disagree.

The fediverse plus selective blocking puts a shield between you and the noise. It keeps you from having to pretend that obvious facts are somehow up for debate in a true/false frame. Some things simply aren’t debatable — they’re just true. Or, as Spock would put it: “It’s only logical.” 🖖

#FediLogic #SignalOverNoise #LiveLongAndProsper #Fediverse #DecentralizedWeb

People say that the fediverse — or heavy blocking — traps you in an echo chamber.
I disagree.

The fediverse plus selective blocking simply puts a shield between you and the noise. It lets you treat the obvious as something that can finally be discussed in a true/false frame. And true/false isn’t a matter of opinion — it’s logic. As Spock would say, “It’s only logical.” 🖖

#FediLogic #SignalOverNoise #LiveLongAndProsper #Fediverse #DecentralizedWeb

Unsere #Mastodon Instanz

- c64.social

läuft jetzt mit Version 4.5.2

#mastoadmin #upgrade #security #fediverse

Plot twist: TikTok's "secret sauce" is recommendation ML + video encoding (likely ffmpeg like the rest of us).

They built their empire on open source foundations.

We're doing the same with @loops but keeping it open, federated, and yours.

The magic was open source all along.

Who's really disrupting who?

https://joinloops.org/why-loops-matters

#loops #fediverse #tikTok #activityPub

Anyone know what's going on with qaf.men? Site's been down for like a week

#mastodon #QAF #QAFmen #fediverse #theSystemIsDown

The FediDB CommunityDB project is a curated list of apps and projects for the fediverse that powers https://fedidb.com

We just merged a PR for a new promising #NeoDB app called NeoComment!

https://github.com/fedidb/communityDB/pull/42

https://fedidb.com/apps?projects=neodb

#fediDB #communityDB #activityPub #fediverse

@alteredspecifis @debacle @kitkat @JeremyMallin @Goffi true, #fediverse was originally only about #ActivityPub servers. But it expanded to include adjacent cousins like #PixelFed, #Lemmy, #Peertube, and now #Loops (none of which are twitter/X replacements). So then it was only a small hop skip and a jump to include any Open Protocol which federates (#XMPP, #Matrix, #Deltachat, email, etc)

#fediverse #fediart #pixelfed #blackandwhite
#blackandwhite #bwphotography #bwphotos #blackandwhitephotography
#bnwphoto #monochrome #photographie #streetphotography #photography #fotografie #photographie
#spiralstaircase #staircase #architecturelovers #architecture #architecturephotography #abstractphotography

#fedihelp Anyone's got an opinion (I'm sure you all do) and experience with audio hosting platforms on the #fediverse to host podcasts? Thanks! 🎙️

#Hund Jimmy und ich wünschen Euch einen wundervollen #Sonntag. Viele Grüße an alle Menschen und Tiere im #Fediverse.

I have 2000+ followers on #LinkedIn where I post way less interesting things than I do here on the #Fediverse.

Though, I've had my LinkedIn account for more than a decade (dang, I dated myself) and I don't move accounts on LinkedIn at all compared to my digital nomadness here on the Fediverse.

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A black and white picture of myself with a goofy smile. Showing my title as a "troublemaker" and I have 2,018 followers.

A new release of TootSDK - 21.1.0 📣

https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/21.1.0

What's changed:

- Introduce rendering options on AttributedStringRenderer @luckkerr

Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌

#iOSDev #Swift #TootSDK #Fediverse

(Linux news in previous posts of thread)

FOSS NEWS

After Nearly 10 Years of Building Mastodon, Eugen Rochko Steps Into Advisory Role:
https://itsfoss.com/news/mastodon-ceo-steps-down/

TABS API is Mozilla’s Latest Bet on the Agentic Web:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/mozilla-tabs-api-ai-web-agents

Firefox recent updates improve tab group handling:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/firefox-recent-updates-improve-tab-group-handling/

Firefox 147 Will Support The XDG Base Directory Specification:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-147-XDG-Base-Directory

A great showcase of open source - Blender 5.0 is out with completely overhauled colour management:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/a-great-showcase-of-open-source-blender-5-0-is-out-with-completely-overhauled-colour-management/

GIMP 3.2 RC1 launches with proper SVG export, improved text editor, and UI enhancements:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/gimp-3-2-rc1-launches-with-proper-svg-export-improved-text-editor-and-ui-enhancements/

Signal to add pinned messages feature for chats on all platforms:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/signal-to-add-pinned-messages-feature-for-chats-on-all-platforms/

Bluesky adds new moderation tools with expanded categories & a unified enforcement system:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/bluesky-adds-new-moderation-tools-with-expanded-categories-and-a-unified-enforcement-system/

Proton Mail apps update adds navigation features on iOS and Android:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/proton-mail-apps-update-adds-navigation-features-on-ios-and-android/

diVine is Vine back from the dead, thanks (in part) to Jack Dorsey:
https://betanews.com/2025/11/17/divine-is-vine-back-from-the-dead-thanks-in-part-to-jack-dorsey/

Spotube 5.1 released with audio source plugins, NewPipe integration on desktop, and more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/spotube-5-1-released-with-audio-source-plugins-newpipe-integration-on-desktop-and-more/

Servo Announces Sponsorship Tiers To Get More Organizations Backing This Browser Engine:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Sponsorship-Tiers

Cryptomator 1.18 desktop now lets you restore lost or damaged master keys & vault config:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/cryptomator-1-18-desktop-now-lets-you-restore-lost-or-damaged-master-keys-and-vault-config/

Earth 2140 remake on OpenRA engine OpenE2140 gets a first release:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/earth-2140-remake-on-openra-engine-opene2140-gets-a-first-release/

Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/zork-i-zork-ii-and-zork-iii-are-now-officially-open-source/

(more FOSS news in comment)

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #OpenSourceNews #Mastodon #Fedi #Fediverse #Firefox #Blender #GIMP #Signal #Bluesky #Proton #ProtonMail #Vine #diVine #Spotube #Servo #Cryptomator #OpenE2140 #Earth2140 #Zork #Zork1 #ZorkI #ZorkII #ZorkIII #BrowserEngine #Browser #WebBrowser #SocialMedia #Chat #ChatApp #Email #EmailService #Gaming #FOSSGaming #OpenSourceGame #FosseryTech

@JeremyMallin this #Fediverse you speak of would include the #ActivityPub protocol, but I think it also encompasses #Deltachat, #XMPP, #Matrix, and even email. Those protocols all also Federate, and are all implemented in various #OpenSource servers.

@kitkat @alteredspecifis @d1 @JeremyMallin

#Fediverse = decentralized, interconnected, #socialMedia platforms that use #openProtocols

It does not matter which #protocols are used. #ActivityPub, #Diaspora, #XMPP, #OStatus, whatever.

See #Libervia by @Goffi!

@debacle
@kitkat

Originally "Fediverse" started out talking about activitypub based solutions

(Mastodon first then others like Misskey, Akkoma etc.)

Somewhere along the lines it got intermixed with the use for Federated hosting strategies.

i predict in about 10 years it will also include Facebook (or as sometimes referred to as meta), because it has 3-5 apps working for it.

#fediverse #federated #federatedSoftware #words

@d1 @JeremyMallin @Goffi

#BookWyrmSocial is just painfully slow, can the #Fediverse recommend me a better instance?

#FediHelp #BookTok #Bookstodon #Books #Book

In the #Fediverse there are now
716 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
540 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@WhatHiFi
@UsbeketRica
@19thnews
@TechRadar
@cosmopolitan

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

Einen wundervollen #Samstag, Ihr Lieben. Uiuiui war das kalt auf der Hunderunde, so mit Eis im Bart. #Hund Jimmy und #Mensch Basti schicken Wärme und Grüße ins #Fediverse

Week in Fediverse 2025-11-21

Servers

- Bookwyrm v0.8.2
- GoToSocial v0.20.2
- Manyfold v0.129.2
- Mitra v4.13.1
- Mastodon v4.5.2
- Hubzilla v10.6.1
- Misskey v2025.11.0
- tootik v0.19.11
- NodeBB v4.6.2
- PieFed v1.3.3

Clients

- Elk v0.17.0
- Photon v2.2.0
- Voyager v2.40.4
- Blorp v1.10.0
- Fread v1.7.21

For developers

- roboherd v0.1.14
- fediverse-pasture-inputs v0.3.5

Articles

- Fediverse Report – #143

-----

#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019a841a-6ed9-3f60-73ef-d558b9db5abb

Einen wundervollen Abend, liebe Fedifamilie. #Hund Jimmy und #Mensch Basti schicken liebste Grüße und positive Gedanken aus dem Remstal ins #Fediverse. Bleibt gesund oder werdet gesund und fühlt Euch gedrückt.

On #Mastodon there are now
412 verified accounts from #news organizations in
21 languages and on
121 instances.

254 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@volkskrant (NLD)
@meduza_en (ENG)
@origamimedia (FRA)
@apfeltalk (GER)
@bastamedia (FRA)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

Hello #Fediverse it’s time for some new music with #FletchsFridayReleases. Let us huddle around the fire of metal and let the flames and riffs warm our bones. #Metal #HeavyMetal #DeathMetal #BlackMetal #DoomMetal #ThrashMetal #Prog

https://hailsandales.club/weekly-release-roundup-49/

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Depravity - death - Australia Terror Corpse - death - USA Karu - melodeath - Finland Havamal - melodeath - Sweden Outlying - melodeath - Canada Sun of the Dying - doom/death - Spain Fear Connection - death/thrash - Germany Acid Death - death/thrash/prog - Greece Temple of Katharsis - black - Greece Majestat - black - Russia Nøkk - black - USA Olde Throne - black - New Zealand Remaining Warmth - black/post - Russia Drugoth - black/crust - Australia Sedna - black/sludge - Italy Morbikon - black/thrash - USA Dead Head - thrash/death - Netherlands Sterbhaus - thrash/death - Sweden Thrash Bombz - thrash - Italy Kill Ritual - thrash - USA When Nothing Remains - goth/doom/death - Sweden

Alt...

Dream Portals - goth/doom - Germany Fate's Hand - heavy metal - Australia Sortilége - heavy metal - France Stryper - heavy metal - USA Wolftooth - heavy/doom - USA Old Night - doom - Croatia Born of Plagues - doom/sludge - USA Dune Aurora - stoner - Italy Stone Nomads - stoner/doom - USA Scythe For Sore Eyes - prog/heavy - Finland Blizzen - heavy/speed - Germany Speedclaw - speed/heavy - Croatia Bloodbound - power/heavy - Sweden Hounds - heavy/power - Italy DarkTribe - power - France Frozen Land - power - Finland Númenor - power/black - Serbia In Virtue - power/prog - USA Dome Runner - industrial - Finland Turbo Lovers - hard rock - USA

Alt...

EPs: Aeons - prog/metalcore - Isle of Man The Halo Effect - melodeath - Sweden Sallow Moth - prog/death - USA Rot Fester - death - Sweden Lapidem - doom - Costa Rica Flesher - death - USA Aittala - heavy/stoner/doom - USA Monachopsis - tech death - UK Locusts and Honey - doom - UK Slaughterday - death - Germany Black Mass Pervertor - black/punk - Finland El Muerto - black/death - Netherlands Decrepit Altar - death/doom - Croatia

Does this also apply to the #Fediverse in #Australia 🇦🇺 as well‽

👉🏾 #Meta gives Australian kids 2-week warning to delete accounts as world-first social media age restrictions loom https://www.cbsnews.com/news/australia-social-media-ban-children-meta-warns-kids-delete-accounts/

Hey folks,

@aseelfromgz and I had the pleasure of welcoming two new families to Gaza Verified today.

They are:

• Nour (@nour_s) – please send her some love as the genocidal Israeli army bombed a position near her home while we were talking
• Saeed (@saeeeed)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, donate to their fundraisers.

You can see a list of our Gaza Verified families who have Chuffed or GoFundMe accounts, sorted by those who’ve received the least in donations over the last seven days, at:

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Nour’s donation link uses PayPal so she’s not on that list, but here’s her fundraiser: https://paypal.com/donate/?campaign_id=AZGLMWUYP9D5G

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Self-hosted Delta Chat?

I've been thinking more about the hurtle of getting friends and family to use federated/self-hosted services. One of the issues to onboarding is people not "getting" the idea of picking an instance. This has led, in part, to "default" instances, like mastadon.social, that grow so large it almost defeates the idea.

I've been thinking that I really wish #DeltaChat had a web client. I have had a MUCH more difficult time getting folks to try that out than even #fediverse SNS. But I was thinking how the heck are you going to pull that off without @delta having to host the overhead for a robust web client and possibly host a gigantic server system that has to grow exponentially to keep everyone's email from all the possible email providers, really defeating the goal of their project.

This morning, I thought of a possible solution to both problems. What if you have a built-in transfer requirement. So you start with a default, say pleb.joinmastodon.org or noob.delta.chat and after a certain time (3 months or something) you have to either transfer to a new instance, including hosting your own client for in browser decryption web access to your encrypted mail chats or your account (in the case of #mastodon) or web client access (in the case of Delta Chat) is shut off.

Do you think this could work?

@delta_chat

Good morning my #Fediverse friends. We have made it to Friday!

Any good plans for today and the weekend? I just have the regular work today. Although I am working from home today as I am not feeling all that great. I need my "comfy chair".

This weekend, we have a religious assembly (tomorrow). Other than that, not much is going on this weekend.

#GoodMorning #KoffeeWithKyle #MorningHandshake #DailyBootup

How far will it go this time?
This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more.
That's #Sharkey, #Misskey, #Pixelfed, #Mbin, #Lemmy, #Friendica, #Hometown, #Akkoma…

If you see it, please share it.

#SocialMedia !fediverse@piefed.social

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The colorful Fediverse-logo

Raw numbers are perhaps not enough to get across just how bad the centralisation of the Fediverse by mastodon.social is. I've done a chart to show this visually, hopefully this will make the situation clearer?

Given the circumstances, getting people to join other servers except mastodon.social would greatly help decentralise the Fediverse. It's no longer big vs medium vs small, it's more like supergiant deathstar mastodon.social vs everyone else 😞

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonSocial

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Graph showing twelve different Mastodon servers with their percentage of the active Fediverse on the Y axis. Mastodon.social has almost 30% of active Fediverse users while all other servers have about 1% or less. Caption under chart says "Largest Mastodon servers vs % of active Fediverse, 21st November 2025, data from FediDB.com" Another caption next to the bar for mastodon.social says "Percentage occupied by mastodon.social is growing! It used to be less than 15%! JoinMastodon.org and official Mastodon apps are STILL promoting mastodon.social!"

I can’t be the only person on the #fediverse who still listens to Dan Darrah’s, “Jungle Gym Literature.” #music #Chicago https://youtu.be/M-h0YecIH4E?si=bXVuJr6D0O9sgJRl

Eine Frage an die Wesen hier im #Fediverse, die etwas mit #Musik zu tun haben!

Habt ihr Lust auf Austausch mit Gleichgesinnten, eine Plattform für euch und eure Kunst, eine Möglichkeit euch zu vernetzen?

Ich möchte aus der Plattform des #SchenklRadio mehr machen, daher arbeite ich an einer Idee, wie wir uns gegenseitig helfen und unterstützen können.
Wenn Ihr Interesse habt an dieser Idee mitzuwirken, sie weiterzuentwickeln und mitzumachen, dann meldet euch gerne bei mir!

Ich habe gestern mein neues Experiment https://überholt.schule hier auf Mastodon erwähnt, und das Feedback und Interesse war enorm groß: 2600 Aufrufer innerhalb von 24h – nur durch meinen popeligen Mastodon-Account. Die Reichweite des #Fediverse ist wirklich nicht zu unterschätzen manchmal.

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Screenshot aus einem Webanalyse-Tool, das "7.03k Views" und "2.88k Visits" darstellt.

**“The Haunted Lighthouse Ltd is officially lit.
A small, quiet corner of the internet — built slowly, run properly, and always privacy-first.

Hosting, open-source infrastructure, and calm social spaces from our Manx outpost.

More soon. The beacon is on.

#mastodon #SelfHosted #Fediverse #OpenSource #Sysadmin #IndieWeb #PrivacyTech #IsleOfMan”**

I think it's time to write an #introduction for this account as well!

I'm Stefano Marinelli, Barista of the illumos Cafe and the BSD Cafe. I'm a technology and open source enthusiast, a strong advocate for #OwnYourData, and against computer monoculture, even when it comes to open source solutions.

I've been active in the #Fediverse for years and am a firm believer in it. I decided to found this Cafe to bring the positive spirit of the BSD Cafe to curious and passionate users of #illumos based operating systems (#OmniOS, #SmartOS, #Tribblix, #OpenIndiana, etc.).

I'll mainly use this account for content related to this instance and illumos-based operating systems, while my account at the BSD Cafe - @stefano@bsd.cafe - remains my primary one.

For more information about the illumos Cafe, you can read the introductory post here: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

#illumosCafe #BSDCafe

I could use some #FediHelp with some website traffic weirdness I have encountered.

I use a #WordPress blog with the #ActivityPub plugin. This means that I get #Fediverse -based requests that look like this in the #Apache logs:

"POST /wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/1/inbox HTTP/1.1"

So far, so unspectacular. In the latest logs - spanning from 20/Nov/2025:01:49:32 to 21/Nov/2025:05:49:47 - I've had 2046 such requests. Most of these are one-time affairs.

However, 1099 of these requests are from mastodon.sdf.org , which is very suspicious. They are very evenly spread, too - a new request comes every minute or two.

This instance is on #Mastodon 4.1.25. Does this version have a known bug where it sends the same request over and over again?

@SDF

You know…I’m pretty sure that the #fediverse and #mastodon in particular has enough delightful geeks and nerds that if I put out a call to come join a Nerf-armed Macedonian phalanx so that the Zergling could command their own army of nerf-pikes in the cul-de-sac. It’s several months away, I’m halfway tempted…

Is it wrong for me to hope that this stupid AI bubble bursts? 🤔

Yes, okay, in a way it is, because a hell of a lot of people work for the companies that would be severely affected.

And now I'm answering my own questions 😂

#mastodon #fediverse #ai #aibubble #world #stock #stockmarket #wealth

Randomly thinking of that glorious moment in time over four years ago when @jz made a poll with three options: R, G, B, and fedi collectively created a color: Fédi-vert.

https://mamot.fr/@jz/106002949694434169

#Fediverse

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Single-color background, a very calm, low-intensity shade of green.

2/2

Another issues, which you may have noticed, are many Fediverse sites wrongfully discriminate against Fediverse sites in Asia (Korea, Japan, etc...).

I find this ironic for many reasons.

The one I am currently on (this one) is in Europe, but one of the reasons I have had more than one account, and why many of the 3rd party Fediverse Apps allow you to sign in to multiple accounts, is to overcome that fragmentation. The Fediverse most certainly does have a fragmentation issue.

If you're looking to join the Fediverse. And presuming you are one of the people who do not want to promote hate speech (not all of 4Chan is bad), I would recommend an Asian site, since freedom of speech is more respected and valued. Perhaps more Asian sites allow it because it's not exactly widespread in offline (in the real world).

There are some good European sites (this being one of them). But know that most Asian sites will be more relaxed.

#4Chan #Fediverse #DigitalSovereignty #Asia #Korea #Japan

Is there a #Mastodon app for #iOS that have a ”notify me about replies to this post”, just like one can subscribe to notifications for comments on Facebook?

#Fediverse

Hello 4Chan

This will be the — you know what? I've lost track of how many times I've been "featured" on 4chan.

Unfortunately, the mass wave of people opening tickets claiming I should add the chan to this list, triggered the anti-spam feature. You're all a very enthusiastic bunch, as always. 😂 That said, 4Chan is not part of the Fediverse and the domain name extension is American, and so would qualify for my list. 🤷

But I did want to address one of the tickets, since it does underline some of the issues among the Fediverse. 😉

The Fediverse has a lot of fragmentation. This is often caused by admins who should not be administrators. An admin will get into a disagreement with 1 person, 1x and choose to block not just that individual, but the whole site and all their users. So if you have 5,000 people on site "1A" and 5,000 on site "2B", you have 10,000 people who cannot communicate with one another, and are clueless this has taken place.

1/2

#4Chan #Fediverse #DigitalSovereignty

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A screenshot of an email that reads: I've been using the Fediverse features of this project, and I've encountered some inconsistencies that are really frustrating. Specifically, when trying to interact with instances outside the United States, the responses are often delayed or even fail altogether. Furthermore, it seems that some features like cross-platform mentions and notifications don't work reliably. For example, I'll get notifications for messages sent on platforms A and B, but nothing from C, even if I can see the messages directly on C. I've tried testing this with multiple accounts and instances, but the issues persist. It's extremely annoying because I need to rely on consistent interaction across all platforms. Could you please prioritize looking into this? It shouldn't be this complicated to stay connected across the Fediverse. Thanks.

Gibt es im #Fediverse eigentlich weitere Leute, die eine eigene Mastdon Instanz self-hosted für den Selbstgebrauch (oder ganz wenigen Accounts) betreiben?
#frage

Fediverse, what do you techie people think about elestio?

#Fediverse

If only your opinion mattered, if there were no limits, what would you do? What would you create?

#Art #Writing #Fediverse #Mastodon

Hey everyone,

Today, @joynewacc and I had the pleasure of talking to two and welcoming two new members to the Gaza Verified family.

They are:

• Ahmad (@goodahmad)
• Suad (@suad)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse and contribute to their fundraisers if you can. (And please share this so others can do the same.)

Remember that you can see a list of our members and their fundraisers in one place (ordered by those who have raised the least in the past week) at:

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Mastodon 4.5.1 is now live on C.IM.

This is a major update that introduces quote posts, a redesigned composer, improved moderation tools, enhanced emoji rendering, better mobile behaviour, and many UI refinements.

Version 4.5.1 also includes a set of important fixes to improve stability and compatibility.

Full details are in our blog post:

https://s.ee/tx3y

#Mastodon #CIM #Update #Fediverse

Wow, already 3 years on the #Fediverse, meaning I have been running my #Mastodon instance just as long... crazy how fast time flies by...

My instance here in Switzerland is still small, so if someone needs a home, you may join!

#jointhefediverse #Switzerland #mastoadmin #fediadmin

Good day #fediverse! My morning coffee is powered by a portable gasoline generator as well as my network, office and heating.

Blackouts came just in time when almost all of my #Homelab is moved to #Hetzner. Actually blackouts are always not in time, as well as #russians. Please, remember that #RussiaIsATerroristState.

Fediforschung beginnt mit Dir!
Das Fediverse ist groß, bunt und manchmal ein bisschen rätselhaft. Doch das sollten wir nicht als Nachteil betrachten, sondern als spannende Herausforderung. Deshalb hat @digitalcourage ein kleines Mitmach-Abenteuer erstellt für alle, die das #Fediverse besser verstehen wollen: Denn Neugier ist der Anfang von Erkenntnis und Wissenslücken bieten Gelegenheit, etwas Neues zu lernen. Wir müssen nur wieder Lust entwickeln, Technik selbst zu begreifen und uns damit digital selbst zu behaupten. So gewinnen wir die Freiheit und Mündigkeit zurück, die uns Big Tech permanent abtrainieren will.
Auf der Seite
https://digitalcourage.de/fediforschung
findest Du kleine Aufgaben, Experimente und Beobachtungen, mit denen Du das freie, dezentrale und wirklich soziale Netzwerk Schritt für Schritt erkunden kannst.
Viel Spaß!

(Textgrundlage aus dem heutigen Newsletter von Digitalcourage.)

#Fediforschung #Fediverse #digitalcourage #Spiel #Rätsel #Abenteuer

Random Idea: Every time you like a post in the Fediverse, it prompts you why you like it and turns it into a comment. There would be a lot more friendly comments. :)

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Can anyone recommend a tool for basically mass unfollowing Fediverse/Mastodon accounts or otherwise managing your followings?

I'm following almost 2000 accounts and while my feed is very much alive and buzzing, it feels like it doesn't really match my interests. It's too generic.

I need to weed out what I actually care about. Is there anything that can help with that?

#Mastodon #Fediverse #AskFedi

#Fediverse #SocialWeb #Canada News!

mastodonserver.ca is now thesocialweb.ca

Its Fediverse handle should be updated automagically (i think?) to @directory

All servers and instances in Canada are welcome to get in touch and have their server listed on the webpage!

#mastodon #Peertube #Lemmy #Loops #community
https://thesocialweb.ca/welcome-to-thesocialweb-ca-a-new-name-to-welcome-all-social-web-and-fediverse-communities-in-canada/

#hubzilla #fediverse #nomad

Good day all! Fireside Fedi Episode 51 starts NOW!

Special Guest: @anca #Connector, #Instigator, #Maker. #Slime #mold #farmer. #fediforum2025 #fediforum25

Watch the show live:
#Owncast #Livestream - https://stream.firesidefedi.live

After the show:
#Peertube #VOD - https://video.firesidefedi.live
#Castopod #Fedicast - https://audio.firesidefedi.live

#Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@btfree_org

All #Links - https://firesidefedi.live

#stream #interview #firesideFedi #FsF #people #peopleOverPlatforms #protocolsOverPlatforms #fedi #fediverse #open #internet #openInternet #podcast #show #episode #peertube #vod #castopod #writefreely #lemmy #boostplease #fedizen #btfree #bigTechFree #nonprofit #signup #tubeFree

If you're enjoying the show, please consider supporting our new nonprofit btfree.org at https://givebutter.com/btfree. We're currently running https://tubefree.org which is a moderated peertube open for signups right now!

I've gone live!

Fireside Fedi - Episode 58 - Connector, Instigator, Maker

#owncast #streaming #interview #fediverse #fedi #people #show #firesidefedi #FsF

https://stream.firesidefedi.live

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Live stream preview

In the #Fediverse there are now
716 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
623 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@Tecnoblog
@Fotogramas
@WMagazine
@forbes
@SonyAlpha

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#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

Good morning my #Fediverse friends. How are we doing today? Do we have any exciting plans today?

I’m just at work doing the usual. Kicking threats in the butt. 😜 I don’t really have much of anything planned for later after work.

#GoodMorning #KoffeeWithKyle #MorningHandshake #DailyBootup

I've been here for years and I still haven't cracked the Fediverse code.

On Twitter I could post "eating cereal" and get 50 bot likes + one crypto bro following me.
Here I can post a 30-second video of my cat trying to fight the vacuum cleaner with the caption "me when someone's instance federates with threads dot net" and… absolute silence. Not even a sympathy boost from the admin who literally pays for the server I'm yelling on 😭

So please, someone finally explain the secret sauce:
Do I need to switch my cat to a vegan gluten-free diet? Do I have to mention systemd negatively in every post? Or is the real trick sacrificing a Raspberry Pi to the old gods of ActivityPub??

#Fediverse #Mastodon #CatsOfMastodon #ActivityPub #SystemdHateClub #PleaseBoostImBeggingYou

Having some fun with graphic design today — meet the T-Shirt Pups! 😺🎨
A playful bunch ready to brighten up shirts, totes, and more. 🧡 https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/t-shirt-pups-lisa-s-baker.html

#dog #dogs #dogart #pup #puppies #puppy #art #arte #artwork #digitalart #graphicdesign #funart #doglovers #giftideas #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #artprints #canvasprints #tshirts #throwpillows #puzzles #totebags #buyintoart #giftideas #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #artforkids #dogloversgiftideas #christmasgiftideas

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A playful black and white illustration of three dogs. Their expressive eyes and exaggerated features add a touch of humor. Art by Lisa S Baker. Displayed on a T-shirt.

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A playful black and white illustration of three dogs. Their expressive eyes and exaggerated features add a touch of humor. Art by Lisa S Baker. Displayed as a framed print

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A playful black and white illustration of three dogs. Their expressive eyes and exaggerated features add a touch of humor. Art by Lisa S Baker. Displayed on a tote bag.

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A playful black and white illustration of three dogs. Their expressive eyes and exaggerated features add a touch of humor. Art by Lisa S Baker. Displayed on a throw pillow

#snac2 #snac #fediverse #selfhost #联邦

1. 目前不支持 wss://，不知道代表了什么，至少目测没有公开时间轴，relay约等于摆设
2. snac2 适合1c1g的超低配用户，据我所知snac基本上全都是个人实例、不对外开放注册，中文snac2实例一只手数的过来，去fedi列表里找基本大海捞针。如果你要发消息给snac2实例上的人，实测私信是收不到的，你可能需要找到我的帖子，然后 at 我+ 公开，不然问就是看不到（已经联合的不知道还是不是这样，其实也可以点个follow）。
3. 下面的配置文件retry可以调小一点，反正收不到就是收不到。你可能要apt install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev，不记得是不是误解了什么，反正装一个又不会死；总之就是编译一个snac，apt install lighttpd (+启用tls、proxy拓展)的反代就完事了，或许也可以直接用cloudflared
4. 有服务器了为啥不吃点好的呢？

``` json

{
"host": "填你的域名，下面那个prefix基本是空的，除非你的网站在某个子目录里面，layout不要动，让它自己生成",
"prefix": "",
"address": "127.0.0.1",
"port": 2345,
"layout": 2.7,
"dbglevel": 1,
"queue_retry_minutes": 1,
"queue_retry_max": 5,
"queue_timeout": 8,
"queue_timeout_2": 16,
"cssurls": [
""
],
"def_timeline_entries": 50,
"max_timeline_entries": 50,
"timeline_purge_days": 120,
"local_purge_days": 64,
"min_account_age": 10,
"admin_email": "填你的邮箱",
"admin_account": "ui",
"title": "ui的snac运营试点",
"short_description": "personal snac instance",
"short_description_raw": false,
"protocol": "https",
"shared_inboxes": true,
"fastcgi": false
}

2025 was huge for the #fediverse

Mad respect to all the devs, artists, and community members making this movement unstoppable

Thanks to @DavidRGardiner I was able to fix some issues in the #ManfredApp. I am currently testing the next release which will feature:

- Pasting images from the clipboard into posts
- Better scrolling experience in threads
- Stopping any video playback when leaving the app, because it would kill background music re-entering (there is still an issue with GIFs unfortunately).

Thanks for all the feedback.

#Mastodon #MastodonApp #Fediverse

Is ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net fear de dh’iomadh frithealaiche Mastodon neo-eisimeileach as urrainn dhut cleachdadh airson pàirt a ghabhail sa cho-shaoghal. Tha am frithealaiche seo ann do luchd na Gàidhlig.

https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net

Mu dhèidhinn: https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net/about
Rianachd le: @gunchleoc

#FeaturedServer #Gàidhlig #ScottishGaelic #ScotsGaelic #Gaelic #Alba #Scotland #Scottish #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Does anyone have #fediverse or #mastodon stats (preferably from a few different servers) about numbers of bad-faith actors being identified, banned, etc.? I've become pretty interested in this from a methodological point of view. I'm thinking of running some #moderation simulations to explore possibilities in a "calculate some stuff and make some graphs" way. Actually, if someone already did that, I'd be keen to read it.

I'm interested in how to detect "bad eggs," realizing as I think about it that I don't even know all the questions to ask, and this entire line of investigation has some thorny issues I'll need to deal with. I think infosec.exchange might, in some ways, be the perfect server to be on for this, because I am pretty sure that #cybersecurity has huge overlap with this whole domain.

#advice is helpful. #data is even more helpful.

#moderators #BadActors #infosec #socialmedia

Every time there is an outage like #cloudflare or #aws I see people talking about the (in)dependence of the fediverse. But did someone actually look into on what hosters etc. the fediverse relies on?

If not let's coordinate that below this toot. Boost to get more people on board.

#fediverse #independence #hosting

Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/06/self-hosting-your-mastodon-media-with-seaweedfs/

#FreeBSD #SeaweedFS #Mastodon #ITNotes #Fediverse #Hosting #OwnYourData #RunBSD

Eine Million Euro Abfindung? Nicht schlecht. @Gargron@mastodon.social

#Fediverse #Mastodon

#Hund Jimmy und #mensch Basti sagen Guts Nächtle kleines Spechtle. Liebste Grüße aus dem Remstal ins #Fediverse.

calling it "X (formerly Twitter)" two years later is driving me insane, like at what point do we just accept reality and move on.

I don't support musk, I don't like what happened to the platform, but it's been two years and we all know what it's called now, what's the point of the disclaimer every single time?

facts matter even when they suck, and the fact is the bird app died in 2022, this is what we got instead, just call it by its name already

#Twitter #SocialMedia #Fediverse #birdsite

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Peter Griffin from Family Guy sitting at a news desk looking annoyed, with a sign behind him reading "WHAT REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS" with two blue gear icons

On #Mastodon there are now
412 verified accounts from #news organizations in
21 languages and on
122 instances.

265 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@AIB (GER)
@euskalerriairratia (BAQ)
@riffreporter (GER)
@inside_It (GER)
@elpuntavui (CAT)

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Anyone know of any good Fedi accounts to follow for finding new movies to watch?

#movies #movie #fediverse #fedi

Weil ich mich frage, ob nur ich so ein digitaler Einsiedler bin.

Kennt ihr Accounts (denen ihr folgt, die euch folgen) des #Fediverse auch im "physischen Leben", also so offline?

Gerne #boost wenn du auch Interesse hast, wie sich das hier so verhält

EDIT: Merke gerade, dass meine Finger bei Option 2 was anders getippt haben, als mein Hirn sich gemerkt hat. Hier wäre >5 eigentlich geplant gewesen ;-)

A new release of TootSDK - 21.0.0 📣

https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/21.0.0

What's changed:

- Use Authorization header when establishing websocket connections @dale_price
- Quote post @nixzhu

Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌

#iOSDev #Swift #TootSDK #Fediverse

Added apps for #NeoDB (#Fediverse alternative to #Letterboxd, #Goodreads, #RateYourMusic etc) to:
https://joinfediverse.wiki/Apps
https://joinfediverse.wiki/NeoDB

@neodb @neodb_you @piecelet @fedicat @chihu @mohammadrafigh

@alison

And those are the people I want to help. That's what my guide addresses, people who really want help and will accept help. Not people who just want your money. 😉

Of course, that is why those 4 posts are currently my most heated posts. Because there are a lot of scammers here who just want your cash.

#Fediverse #Scam #Fraud #MutualAid

It's my Fediverse/Mastodon Cake Day!

Cheers for eight wonderful years!

Big shout out to @jerry and team for keeping this server running!

#fediverse #mastodon #anniversary
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Hi everyone,

I had video chats with three people and families from Gaza today and I’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Yazzan (@yazzangaza)
• Hadi (@HadiSamir)
• Abeer (@mmotherps)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can. (And please share this so others might do the same.)

And remember that you can see the fundraisers of all our members in a single list (ordered by those who have received the fewest donations in the last seven days) at:

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

I think too many websites relying on CloudFlare. It's everywhere... from "prove you are human" pages to web hosting services. IMHO it is a good time think about dropping it like a hot mess.

That's why I like everything decentralized. Not one person or company should own everything.

#CloudFlare #Internet #SocialMedia #FediVerse #InternetArchive #Decentralized

@jwildeboer my instance is also up, but no doubt some of those elsewhere in the #Fediverse won't be working and we wont see any posts from them until this is fixed.

Watch your back

..then stretch

https://makertube.net/w/eraZDf1wXszWm8jfUL6GEN

#calisthenics #yoga #challenge #fitnesschallenge #fitness #fit #lifting #strengthtraining #workout #veganfitness #vegan #health #healthcare #fediverse #gym #training #online #homeworkout #yogachallenge #fitnesschallenge #strength #wellbeing #heavymetal #home #movement

⚠️ As of this timestamp

Vivaldi dot Social is down

check here for status updates

https://vivaldistatus.com

#Mastodon #Fediverse

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Some services are unavailable Check the status and availability of Vivaldi's online services. Cloudflare outage Reported on 2025-11-18 11:57:44 An issue with Cloudflare is currently affecting some of our services. See https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7 for updates.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115569662927806367

some great points in this blog post that I really wish the #fediverse would internalize:

"I think I need not elaborate that the passion so many feel for social media does not always manifest in healthy ways.

You are to be compared with tech billionaires, with their immense wealth and layered support systems, but with none of the money or resources.

It manifests in what people expect of you, and how people talk about you."

I much agree; people need to learn to chill, or learn to program IMHO.

fedicat boosted

Mastodon » 🌐 2025-11-18
@Mastodon@mastodon.social

Our Founder, @Gargron is stepping down from his position as CEO. He shared a reflection on his time building and growing Mastodon on our blog.

We want to take a moment to express the Mastodon team’s deep gratitude and admiration for Eugen, and for the technology and community he has built here. We’re thrilled he’s staying on in an advisory capacity.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon