I wish #Mastodon would just implement FEP-8b32 instead of the LD Signatures which is obsolete.

https://w3id.org/fep/8b32

#ActivityPub #LDSignatures #fedidev

This one is for server admins and moderators 👇

Would you be open to new trying technology built to help you manage your Mastodon server?

Please boost for more visibility!

#Fediverse #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Admin #Server #Patchwork

@grunfink Thank you for your continued improvements to snac!

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to version 2.58 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/25617

GitHub Actions CI checks passed OK!

I don't have commit access, so it's up to someone else to merge it.

#snac #MacPorts #ActivityPub #Mastodon #OpenSource #NoDataBaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript
#NoCookiesEither
#NotMuchBullshit

With #FediForum coming up next week, we thought we'd give you a little more info on our new service for server admins - Patchwork.

Patchwork servers won't just benefit the admins who run them, but also the people who use them. For example, admins can choose to add complex post types to their server, including:

- Long Posts
- Post Scheduling
- Rich text
- Local Only Posts

We're happy to chat to server admins about what Patchwork can do!

#Admins #Mastodon #Fediverse #Patchwork

"For Fediverse 2.0 to be a meaningful hub, pulling different platforms and protocols together, we can’t just be providing plumbing for Meta and Google. Going beyond a debate about people vs protocols, we need to add in a third “p” that’s definitely not plumbing: politics."

Going beyond recent migration and into the future, take a look at what @michael thinks the next steps are: https://www.blog-pat.ch/brazil-bluesky-fediverse/

#Blog #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky #SocialMedia

Y'all, I had a very productive Labor Day weekend. I finished WikiTwister AND I got my upgrade to MastoGizmos finished! MastoGizmos ( https://mastogizmos.com/ ) is a set of 11 tools for exploring #Mastodon.

Here's a thread about the tools. If you have a friend who isn't on the fedi but is Mastodon-curious, let them know about MastoGizmos - you don't need a Mastodon account to use any of the tools.

MastoGizmo is free to use, free of ads, and works best on desktop. Let's go!

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Seems appropriate that my first cross posting using openvibe to be about openvibe.

https://openvibe.social/#download

#Mastodon #BlueSky #app

Spent some time this morning getting a cursory understanding of #ATProtocol (the open protocol behind #BlueSky). I have a decent understanding of #ActivityPub and I expected AT to have a lot of similarities.

It’s quite different, and this diagram surprised me.

PDS here is “Personal Data Server”. You might think of it as something like a #Mastodon instance where all your data is stored and posts by those you follow are cached.

Except notice that there’s no arrows between PDSes.

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Instâncias Brasileiras do Fediverso

Microblogging

Mastodon (similar ao Twitter)

• ayom.media - 🔓 Registro aberto
• bertha.social - 🔓 Registro aberto
• bolha.us - 🔓 Registro aberto
• burnthis.town - 🔓 Registro aberto
• colorid.es - 🔓 Registro aberto
• conversafiada.net - 🔓 Registro aberto
• cwb.social - 🔓 Registro aberto
• piupiupiu.com.br - 🔓 Registro aberto
• ursal.zone - 🔓 Registro aberto
• bantu.social - 🔒 Apenas por convite
• bolha.one - 🔒 Apenas por convite
• masto.donte.com.br - 🔒 Apenas por convite
• mastodon.com.br - 🔒 Apenas por convite
• mstdn.facb69.com.br - 🔒 Registro fechado
• panelinha.club - 🔒 Registro fechado
• social.br-linux.org - 🔒 Registro fechado
• social.rochacbruno.com - 🔒 Registro fechado

Sharkey (similar ao Mastodon)

• capivarinha.club - 🔓 Registro aberto

GoToSocial (similar ao Mastodon)

• eita.club - 🔓 Registro aberto
• falcon.millenium.red - 🔒 Registro fechado
• subversida.de - 🔒 Registro fechado

Akkoma (similar ao Mastodon)

• harpia.red - 🔒 Registro fechado

Agregador de Links

Lemmy (similar ao Reddit)

• lemmy.eco.br - 🔓 Registro aberto
• bolha.forum - 🔓 Registro aberto
• forum.ayom.media - 🔓 Registro aberto

Compartilhamento de Mídia

PixelFed (similar ao Instagram)

• bolha.photos - 🔓 Registro aberto
• pixelfed.com.br - 🔓 Registro aberto

PeerTube (similar ao YouTube)

• peertube.lhc.net.br - 🔓 Registro aberto
• bolha.tube - 🔓 Registro aberto

Funkwhale (similar ao Spotify)

• sonora.radioaconchego.org - 🔒 Apenas por convite

OwnCast (similar ao Twitch)

• bolha.stream - 🔒 Registro fechado

Blogging

WriteFreely (similar ao Medium)

• blog.ayom.media - 🔒 Registro fechado
• blog.bantu.social - 🔒 Apenas por convite
• bolha.blog - 🔒 Registro fechado

BookWyrm (similar ao Goodreads)

• bolha.review - 🔓 Registro aberto
• velhaestante.com.br - 🔒 Registro fechado

Rede Social

Friendica (similar ao Facebook)

• bolha.network - 🔓 Registro aberto
• fed.sfl.pro.br - 🔒 Registro fechado

Se conhecerem mais instâncias de mais serviços, me digam para que eu possa adicionar aqui

#Fediverso #Brasil #Mastodon #Twitter #X #Xandão #STF #ElonMusk #BoasVindas #PleaseBoost

I think this is the first time I'm seeing a fediverse post embedded in an article by a major news site.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/1/24232298/sub-club-fediverse-make-money

#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia #embeds

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A screenshot from a section of the linked article showing an embedded Mastodon post from Tom Casavant @tom@tomkahe.com.

X: Probably still my favorite platform but it’s getting worse and worse. At least, my lists and circles are fully functional, the search works quite good and brings me up the desired content. Finding new people gets different and is almost only possible when they commenting things with valuable content. The stream is going in the wrong direction (at least for me), where videos of fights, death or typical “sex sells” posts are shown. But working with communities and lists is still a great way to use it.

Fediverse: Runningm my own instance here for month. Sure no ads, but just a few interactions, finding new content is difficult, using the search is the probably worst experience ever. Sure, an instance cannot have knowledge of all instances in the world but when searching for not even niche content and only finding three posts that are even outdated, this is not useful or a great experience.

Threads: Could have been a great alternative. However, EU accounts do not support Fedi federation and the content is too mainstream in form of the typical Instagram content which is more about “sex sells”.

Blue sky: Anyone really still using it? I haven’t seen anyone anymore there being active.

Nostr: Hm yeah, too nichy.

Conclusion:
X stays on top, because only there I can find and interact content and people. Feediverse is a great alternative when you finally found your matching community where people are sharing your interests, because finding something by the search is just annoying. I can clearly understand why many ones are going back to Twitter/Y.

#fediverse #mastodon #socialmedia

You can opt-in to the beta notification grouping feature on #Mastodon, by clicking the gear above the notifications area and activating the toggle. Notification filters have been improved as well, and content warnings and word filters have a new and improved look across the web app. Enjoy!

Do you feel that you would be able to setup and run a mastodon instance for a few people? Not if you will, but would be technically able to to do it for your family or closest friends.

#mastodon

I've just updated my blog post on installing Mastodon on FreeBSD, making it clearer and more streamlined.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2022/11/23/installing-mastodon-on-a-freebsd-jail/

#Mastodon #FreeBSD #SelfHosting #RunBSD #Fediverse

I'm so glad to finally welcome #WordPress to #Mastodon: @WordPress

Give them a follow!

https://github.com/WordPress/Marketing-Team/discussions/168#discussioncomment-10337994

If you haven't seen already, @jaz at @iftas shared this brilliant blog yesterday: https://about.iftas.org/2024/08/13/fediverse-trust-and-safety-the-founding-and-future-of-iftas/

It's a really important, in-depth look at how we scale trust & safety on the Fedeiverse.

We've always supported the work of IFTAS, but when you read through this blog it makes you realise just how important they are in the future of this space.

Thank you IFTAS & the whole team!

#trust #safety #moderation #fediverse #mastodon

The Newsmast app is open to all Mastodon accounts!

Login to Newsmast using your Mastodon account to get access to:
- 60+ hand-built topical communities
- Our Amplifier
- Built-in federation control
- Your servers home & following feeds
- Long posts
- Automatic hashtags
- Drafts
- Post scheduling

Download the Newsmast app today or visit on desktop: https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/download-the-app/

#mastodon #fediverse #technology

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A person holding a mobile phone displaying Newsmast's sign-in screen.

Hey Tooters - If you are linking to YouTube videos, don’t use the “Share” function in YouTube to generate the link. Copy and paste the URL from your address bar.

Using the “Share” function generates a generic preview in Mastodon, whereas cutting and pasting the actual URL gives a nice preview for the video, including the title.

The preview for my image below might be cropped in your browser, click to see the comparison.

#Communication #Mastodon #YouTube

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Two consecutive posts to Mastodon by me. The first has a link to a YouTube video that is generated by the “Share” function in YouTube. All that shows is the first bit of the URL - no title or preview image. The second post has a link to the same video that was generated by copying and pasting the URL from the browser’s address window. The first bit of the URL is shown, along with an image preview of the video and its title.

i spent some time making two themes for the @MonaApp #mastodon client. they‘re not 100% finished but if you want to give them a spin, go ahead! 😊

gestalter (light mode):
mona-cat://f71d

campfire (dark mode):
mona-cat://4c8a

#MonaApp #MonaTheme #ChaMona #iOS

Some recent articles I wrote about the #fediverse:

"A lot of people think that the pentacle was chosen because of its occult or satanic connotations."

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-history-of-the-fediverse-logo/

Analysis of the usage of link verification feature.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/verification-in-the-fediverse/

A look at custom emoji used across the fediverse.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/custom-fediverse-emoji/

#emoji #verified #verification #mastodon

Last Week in #fediverse and #bluesky - ep 77

The news this week:
- Dutch government plans to expand their #Mastodon project
- Nomadic Identity (decoupling user identity from servers) over #activitypub comes to the fediverse
- @openvibe combines Mastodon, #nostr and now Bluesky into a single app and a single feed.

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-and-bluesky-ep-77/

Ok, this instance is back up! Now I must migrate my account to my new instance and then I will retire this one. I just don’t have the time to admin a #Mastodon server anymore, unfortunately. It was a fun hobby for a couple of years though!

Ok, this instance is back up! Now I must migrate my account to my new instance and then I will retire this one. I just don’t have the time to admin a #Mastodon server anymore, unfortunately. It was a fun hobby for a couple of years though!

Pretty neat! If you're on mastodon.social (or another server running the latest in-development version of Mastodon), you can go to the Explore page eg. https://mastodon.social/explore/links and view posts that discuss trending news articles (see the "X posts" below the headline link).

via https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112729592397936855

#mastodon #SocialMedia #news #design #UXUI

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A screenshot from Mastodon's Explore page showing a list of articles with headlines, author names, and image thumbnails. Below the headlines are links that show the number of posts discussing each article.

Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 76

This week's news:

- A fully-featured review platform for the fediverse with @neodb
- #Mastodon better supports journalism with author bylines on links, and seeing what people are talking about on trending news links
- The first Ghost instance joins the fediverse, at @index

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-76/

Friends of #BSDCafe and the entire #Fediverse, good morning and happy Sunday!

I've made some changes to our setup. Last week, there were some slowdowns in the services at BSD Cafe, especially in the #Mastodon instance. After investigating, I discovered that the issue was with the DNS resolution (it was the DNS! 😆 ).

I’ve now installed two jails with unbound on the two BSD Cafe VPSs. This allows us to perform all DNS resolutions locally with caching, so we don’t have to rely on external services.

This way, services like Mastodon or Matrix, which make extensive use of name resolution, can benefit from local caching and resolve domains autonomously.

#BSD #FreeBSD #DNS #Decentralization #SelfHosting

Wait, Threads is now blocking mastodon.social?

https://www.threads.net/moderated_servers

#mastodon #threads

EDIT: mastodon.social has been removed from the list after about 30 minutes. It will be interesting to hear what happened, and how this affected folks who follow each other.

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A screenshot from the "Moderated Servers" page on threads.net, showing mastodon.social being blocked for violating "Community Guidelines or Terms of Use". The explanation text on top says: "We've blocked communication with some other servers on the fediverse for a variety of reasons, including lack of privacy policy, violations of our Community Guidelines, and lack of compliance with our deletion requests."

I wrote a little Python script that downloads domain blocks from a specified Mastodon server and saves them as a CSV file that can be imported to your own server. In case this is something you need.

https://github.com/stefanbohacek/mastodon-domain-block-exporter-script

#mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastoAdmins #DomainBlocks #fediblock

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A screenshot of a command prompt with the output of the script: python script.py mastodon.social true false true downloading domain blocks from mastodon.social... processing... saving to mastodon.social-domain-blocks.csv... done!

This is a #Bluesky quote of a bridged #Mastodon post, showing a screenshot of a #Misskey view of my Bluesky post quoting a Mastodon post bridged to Bluesky, which was reposted on Mastodon 😵‍💫

Somebody repost or quote this back to Fedi, we need to go deeper 🌀 #BlueskyBridge

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t3v6fbmbi6hu537osxistzfg/post/3kvhrvdomrla2

I updated my Mastodon Tools browser plugin to include expanded quote post previews, based on the work I've done here: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112643848931362289

Go give it a try! Available for Firefox and Chrome: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/mastodon-tools-browser-extension/

#mastodon #BrowserExtension #BrowserPlugin #firefox #chrome #quotes #QuoteBoosts #QuotePosts

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A side-by-side comparison of a quoted Mastodon post. On the left, the text is cut off. On the right, it is fully visible.

Yes, you read that right. While the overall numbers might suggest growth, a deeper look reveals a worrying trend: the monthly active users on the Fediverse have plummeted to half of what they once were. Even the big profiles are feeling the pinch with dwindling interactions. Could it be that the Fediverse honeymoon is over?

Meanwhile, Twitter/X is seeing a resurgence. More and more users are flocking back, reigniting the platform with a surge of interactions. Is this the beginning of the end for the Fediverse, or just a bump in the road?

Let’s hear your thoughts!

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Federated #socialmedia #Twitter #X #Posting #Interactions #MAU #monthlyactiveusers #social #socialising #tech #techbubble #alternatives

Exciting news 📢

Our Community Feeds have reached 10,000 followers!!!!

Thank you so much for your support 🧡 It’s great to see that so many people believe in knowledge sharing on social media.

If you haven’t already, you can see our full list of topical Feeds here: https://newsmast.community/about or you can log into Newsmast with your Mastodon account to see them first hand.

#mastodon #fediverse #celebration #knowledge

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A dark background with numerous blue balloons. Text reads "newsmast" at the top, "Thank You" in the middle, and "10,000 Followers" at the bottom.

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 70

This week's news:
- The Verge and 404 Media are preparing to add federation to their news sites
- @newsmast starts adding #bluesky and #threads accounts into their communities to create a hub in the social web
- Combining #nostr and #Mastodon in a single feed with the app @openvibe
- A 10k seed funding bounty for building DeviantArt on #ActivityPub

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-70/

A recording of this part will also be provided soon!

https://gyptazy.ch/howtos/howto-build-freedive-a-freebsd-gui-management-tool/

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSDCafe #Community #Mastodon #BSD #RUNBSD

🚀 Exciting News! 🚀


Openvibe now fully supports both Nostr and Mastodon protocols! 🌐📲

Experience seamless crossposting and a unified timeline for all your social interactions 🐙


👉 Learn more & download the app at https://openvibe.social



PS: Next up - Bluesky 🦋

#Openvibe #Nostr #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Fediverse
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Openvibe app screenshots. Full Mastodon account support added to Openvibe. Avaiable now!

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Openvibe app screenshot. Crosspost to Nostr and Mastodon. At once.

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Openvibe app screenshot. Nostr and Mastodon posts in one timeline.

From today, contributors from the wider social web will appear in Newsmast Communities.

To outline our vision for a values first network, our director @michael wanted to share this 👇

#fediverse #mastodon #socialweb #threads #bluesky #tech #newsmast

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The Fediverse logo, a pentagram with connected social media logos. Newsmast, Flipboard, Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon. Text: Connect across the social web

Folks using the Mastodon API will probably like this! Advertising deprecations in API responses: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30308

#MastoDev #Mastodon #MastoAPI

Some recent #fediverse #data explorations and #polls:

- Fediverse clients vs alt text: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/impact-of-fediverse-clients-on-the-use-of-alt-text/
- Sending a post into the fediverse: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/data-on-sending-a-post-into-the-fediverse/ (with a great follow-up from @stefan@gardenstate.social!)
- Keeping fediverse sustainable: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-ways-we-keep-the-fediverse-sustainable/
- How many fediverse servers know about my server?: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-many-fediverse-servers-know-about-my-server/
- Analyzing fediverse followers: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/analyzing-fediverse-followers/ (featured on the official Mastodon blog!)

https://stefanbohacek.com/category/fediverse-explorations/

#dataviz #poll #mastodon

Interesting to compare the use of alt text based on which apps people use.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/impact-of-fediverse-clients-on-the-use-of-alt-text/

#accessibility #a11y #AltText #fediverse #mastodon

It is pretty cool to see all the different forks of major fediverse platforms. Just learning about Chuckya, a "soft fork" of glitch-soc, which itself is a fork of Mastodon.

https://github.com/TheEssem/mastodon

Really shows the diversity of the fediverse!

#mastodon #fediverse

25 years ago today, Google was founded.
On the same day, I wiped Windows 98 off my computer, believing that Debian Linux (which I had been using for a while but still kept Windows on another partition) could do everything I had been doing with Windows until then.

Since that day, many installations of Linux, *BSD, MacOS have graced my computers, but Windows has remained, on a few occasions, only an occasional (unwelcome) guest.

In the spirit of a typical support group phrase, I can joyfully say:
'Hello, I'm Stefano, and I haven't been using Windows as my primary operating system for 25 years.'

Please boost and share your experience!

#Linux #OpenSource #OperatingSystems #TechJourney #GoogleAnniversary #Debian #MacOS #BSD #WindowsJourney #Mastodon #TechLife #GeekLife #Google #Windows

If you make tools for Mastodon, consider increasing compatibility with the rest of the fediverse.

This guide might help.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/making-fediverse-apps-for-everyone/

#tutorial #fediverse #mastodon #fedidev #mastodev

So if you see me start following you from here, you will know it is me!