The #EU #KIDSAct draft requires #ageverification for #Mastodon #instances, removing exemptions for small providers. Technical conflicts arise between #ActivityPub’s #publicaccess and #restrictedvisibility for minors. Costs and control issues affect #decentralisednetworks. https://www.heise.de/en/background/Age-verification-in-the-Fediverse-How-the-KIDS-Act-challenges-Mastodon-11474306.html?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

Widzę, że na Fedi znowu głośno o klientach, więc dorzucę swoje trzy grosze. Ostatnio jadę na dwóch zupełnie różnych rozwiązaniach.

Z webowych zostałem przy Elk (https://elk.zone). Instaluje się jako PWA. Jest lekki, szybki i ma świetnie rozwiązane powiadomienia – polubienia i podbicia tego samego posta widzę jako jedno zdarzenie, a nie dwa osobne. Ma jednak swoje ograniczenia. Na serwerach innych niż Mastodon (np. GoToSocial) czasem rozjeżdża się ze stanem faktycznym. Poza tym wspiera tylko podstawowy Markdown, przez co podczas edycji posta potrafią zniknąć linki w tekście.

Na Androida testuję pobocznie Snowdrop (https://github.com/ihateblueb/snowdrop). To natywna apka napisana w Kotlinie, docelowo ma działać też na iOS. Wyróżnia ją wsparcie dla rozszerzeń specyficznych dla serwerów takich jak Iceshrimp.NET. Uczciwie jednak: to bardzo świeży projekt (faza alfa) tworzony przez mały zespół. Twórcy wprost piszą, że może być niekompletny, więc to bardziej ciekawostka do testów niż codzienny koń roboczy.

A Wy czego obecnie używacie? Stawiacie na lekkie PWA, czy natywne apki?

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Elk #Snowdrop #PWA

Er zijn allerlei dingen best complex bij open socials. De grootste is misschien wel wie er de kosten voor draagt en verantwoordelijkheid neemt voor moderatie. Op de commerciële socials zijn de verhoudingen duidelijk. Het zijn bedrijven die er belang bij hebben je aandacht vast te houden. Gebruikers zijn grondstoffen. Privacy bestaat niet.
Als je het anders wilt heb je geld nodig en veel organisatiekracht. @NRC heeft een teen in het badwater met een eigen server zodat redacteuren zich onder onze eigen voorwaarden in het debat kunnen mengen. Dat is een stap, maar daarmee
heb je nog geen 'dorpsplein'. Mensen (ook onze abonnees) die met NRC-ers willen praten op #Mastodon zijn aangewezen op andere servers en de vrijwilligers die deze runnen.
Ik vind het daarom boeiend en belangrijk wat de @Waag (een voorloper op Mastodon) nu probeert te organiseren bij de buren op AT Proto (het protocol bekend van #Bluesky). Gisteravond werd in Eindhoven 'oso social' gelanceerd. @marleenstikker omschreef het als een 'Nederlandse toegangspoort' voor dat tot nu toe nog behoorlijk Amerikaanse stelsel. Een vorm van publieke infrastructuur, mét #privacy en transparantie. In principe kan iedereen daar een account krijgen die de huisregels accepteert en respecteert (die heb ik nog niet gezien). We weten nog niet veel over de financiering en moderatie. In een eerder interview met NRC over open sociale media gaf Marleen Stikker daar haar gedachten over. Moderatie en verificatie zijn essentieel zei ze. En het kost geld: „We geven jaarlijks voor burgers geld uit aan wegen, bibliotheken, lokale omroepen. Het publieke domein kost geld. Het is eigenlijk heel raar om te denken dat dat hier niet voor geldt. Voor minder dan een euro per inwoner heb je de infrastructuur en ondersteuning voor veilige sociale media.”
Gisteravond bij de #ddw noemde Stikker het nieuwe oso social een 'werkplaats'. Ik ben heel benieuwd hoe het verder gaat. #ososocial #atproto

Progress update: Mastodon Bird UI support for Mastodon v5 is progressing nicely.

Vanilla Mastodon v5 on the left
Mastodon v5 with Mastodon Bird UI v5 on the right

My goal is to keep the familiar Mastodon Bird UI on the latest version of Mastodon.

And yes, I'll add some trending posts and other stuff to the empty right panel, but those will only be available on our instance.

#BuildInPublic #MementomoriSocial #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #UI #CSS

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Mastodon v5 vanilla profile screenshot, with dark violet bg, and new UI

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Mastodon Bird UI on top of Mastodon v5, washed grey bg, familiar Bird UI style without that much round, aesthetic profile

Follow-up from today's #MastoAdmin session 🛠️

Our monitoring and search backends got some love too:
• Patched, and they now monitor themselves
• Dead man's switch: Prometheus -> Alertmanager -> Uptime Kuma, so we notice if monitoring itself dies
• Found an MTU black hole: our VXLAN allows 1332, FreeBSD guests sat at 1500. Small packets fine, big ones silently vanished 🙈
• Grafana cleaned up, broken analytics dashboard fixed

#FreeBSD #Grafana #Mastodon @tux

Hallo zusammen,

unsere Instanz wächst kontinuierlich weiter. Aktuell sind wir 361 aktive Accounts, die gemeinsam bereits 39491 Beiträge verfasst haben. Damit gehören wir zu den etablierten LGBTIQ+ Instanzen im deutschsprachigen Raum.

Ein solches Wachstum bedeutet auch steigende Anforderungen an die Infrastruktur. Server, Speicherplatz für Medien, Backups und die technische Administration erfordern entsprechende Ressourcen. Die laufenden Kosten werden derzeit zum größten Teil privat getragen, einige wenige Nutzerinnen und Nutzer unterstützen bereits mit kleineren Beträgen.

Falls euch diese Instanz als Safe Space wichtig ist und ihr die Möglichkeit habt, würden wir uns über weitere Unterstützung freuen. Alle Informationen zu den Spendenmöglichkeiten findet ihr unter: https://lsbt.me/about (fast ganz unten)

Regelmäßige Beiträge helfen besonders bei der Planbarkeit, aber auch einmalige Unterstützung ist willkommen.

Vielen Dank an alle, die bereits unterstützen, und danke an alle, die Teil dieser Community sind.

#mastodon #fediverse #lgbtiq #trans #gay #lesbian #queer #community #safespace #spende

Hey everyone,

@casey and @aseelfromgz had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Mohmaedalawer (@memo55)
• yousef atef (@yousefatef)

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

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

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

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

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

If you can
I'm holding on to hope for my children, yet I'm fighting this battle on my own. So that my children can live better if you can't donate, please just share my post. Don't pass in silence, help my story reach someone

Donate $50 to help us reach our goal
https://chuffed.org/project/massagazasave
#Gaza
#Palestine
#GazaVerified
#Mastodon
#fediverse #newMembers
#verification

It was about a week ago I posted about e-petition 7686, calling on the government to enforce the Canada Health Act and improve public health care in Canada. At that point there were 346 signatures, but signatures had slowed to a trickle. In the time left, it seemed it would not reach the 500 signature mark required for it to certified (which allows for it to be presented in Parliament, obligating the government to answer it in writing).

But people here began boosting the post and signing the petition, surpassing the 500 signature mark in a week. Fabulous.

This shows the power of Mastodon. In the past I've tried posting stuff like this to non-free networks like Facebook or Reddit or Twitter. And the response was never as great as it was here. This shows the power of a community that is not controlled by algorithms.

So, I extend a big thank you to everyone who took part. Our desire for universal public health care will be communicated to the government. And if we don't like their answer, we'll then decide upon our next steps.

https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7686

#canada #healthcare #cdnpoli #canpoli #opensource #Mastodon #activism #grassroots

A love-triangle scandal threatens to rattle Beverly Hills society harder than a 9.0 earthquake in my New Adult novella HE FORECLOSED ON MY HEART. Sometimes sweet. Sometimes salacious. Always sincere. The coming-of-age story of Nassim, a 19-year-old college student. Available now at various online retailers such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, KOBO, Smashwords, Bookshop.org, etc. #Mastodon #Books #Book #Bookstodon #BookReview #BookReviews #Love #loveStory #Fediverse #ScribesAndMakers #Romancelandia #Romance #College #New #NewAdult #fiction #authors #author #WritingCommunity #Writer #Writers #Writing #Novella #AmazonKindle #BarnesandNoble #KOBO #AppleBooks #Smashwords #bookshop #SelfPromoSaturday #IndieAuthor #indie #indieAuthors #SelfPromo #prompt #prompts #reading #readers #readingCommunity #BeverlyHills #Realestate #lovetriangle #story #storytelling #stories #retail #purchase #preorder #fun #youngadult #event_preview #Preview #release #publishing #Saturday #easyread #women #womenfiction

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A New Adult novella is coming out this month and is available for preorder now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, Smashwords, Bookshop.org, KOBO, etc., for $2.99. The ebook will be delivered to your device on 10/31. Set in Beverly Hills, HE FORECLOSED ON MY HEART is about naive Nassim, a UCLA college student. She lands an internship at a prominent real estate firm and falls in love at first sight with the handsome owner. Her sheltered upbringing collides with her need to prove to herself and her mother that she is mature enough for love and romance. Her desire for the tycoon threatens to rattle Beverly Hills society harder than a 9.0 earthquake especially when the mogul's movie-star son meets Nassim at his father's beach resort hideaway and wants her for himself.

#Fediverso #Geeknices

Às 9:00h será publicado minha contribuição ao #sabafoto que agendei aqui no #Friendica. Será a mesma foto que agendei no insta...

Mas é bizarro que a interface web padrão e o aplicativo padrão do #Mastodon não permita agendar publicações (somente usando clientes de terceiros).

Estamos em 2026 Mastodon!

Maintenance report for burningboard.net 🛠️ 🧵 1/3

Highlight of the day: all internal traffic now runs over #IPv6 only! 🎉

Our instance runs on #FreeBSD in separate jails: nginx, Puma/streaming, Sidekiq and the database. Every jail has had IPv6 from day one, but some of the services still talked to each other over private IPv4.

Not anymore:

• nginx -> Puma & streaming
• Rails, Sidekiq & streaming -> PostgreSQL & Valkey
• Prometheus exporters, Loki, OpenSearch
• DNS resolvers

Internal connections now use hostnames from one shared hosts file that only contains IPv6 addresses, so a name automatically means IPv6. PostgreSQL and Valkey no longer listen on IPv4 at all, and the internal IPv4 (pf) firewall rules are gone.

IPv4 is only left where the Internet still needs it: incoming to nginx, and outgoing to servers without IPv6.

📸 sockstat and pg_stat_activity: not a single IPv4 address left inside.

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #Bastille #FreeBSD #Unix #IPv6

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Terminal output from four FreeBSD jails: only nginx listens on IPv4 (ports 80/443). Puma, streaming, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL and Valkey listen on IPv6 addresses only. All PostgreSQL connections (17 Sidekiq, 9 web, 1 exporter) and all Valkey connections (23 web, 58 Sidekiq) come from IPv6 addresses.

‼️ Platz 1 für Mastodon 🦣

Eine Reihe von Zeitungen und Infodiensten ist inzwischen auf Mastodon aktiv.
Manche haben auf ihrer Webseite das Mastodon-Logo in der Liste der genutzen social media sogar auf den ersten Platz gesetzt
🔻 @tazgetroete
🔻 @netzpolitik_feed
🔻 @riffreporter
🔻 @ndaktuell
🔻 @wissenschaftimdialog
🔻 @publix

Bravo. Und Applaus für Haltung statt (Pseudo-) Reichweite! 🎉
Seit kurzem ist übrigens auch die Vierteljahreszeitschrift Wissenschaft und Frieden
🔻 @W_u_F
zu diesem illustren Club hinzu gekommen.
Sie haben sich unsere Gefolgschaft damit ehrlich verdient. 💪

Wen vergessen? → Einfach Bescheid sagen.
Auf Platz 2 hat es das Masto-Logo übrigens schon bei @Krautreporter und @idw_online geschafft.

#Platz1fürMastodon #Presse #WissKomm #Mastodon #Fediverse #Frieden

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Gezeigt ist ein Siegertreppchen mit drei unterschiedlich hohen Stufen. Auf dem ersten Platz und der höchsten Stufe steht das Mastodon-Makottchen, das sich freut; die beiden anderen Stufen für Platz 2 und 3 sind unbesetzt.

TROPA!!!

Liberando meu #editor de #video e #audio web gratuitamente pra a gente gerar vídeos com esse debate desmentindo ele, vários takes: tá liberado!

É super simples de usar!

https://obsequious-unspited-oda.ngrok-free.dev/ (só clicar em Visit site). É só na primeira vez que aparece isso.

Liberei FULL o pacote de memes de audio e vídeo também em .... Basta clicar em https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PuK8uFKnVu6a6yUI_XZLllM0f2VIyONA/view?usp=drive_link.

A imagem abaixo é para vcs importarem os 2 arquivos que estao no link do drive acima. Nele contém inúmeros memes de audio e video que vcs podem usar na edição!

METRALHAR DE TAKES TROPA!!!!

#mastodon #lula #pt #vote13 #eleicoes #tropa

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Ocut audio e video editor

⚠️ SCAM Alert!

Do not click this link!

The goal is to hijack your Fedi Account.

#Scam #Scammer #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Security #Misskey #PixelFed #PeerTube #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Admin #Administrator

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A screenshot of a user who tagged over 20 people with a sneaky URL

⚠️ Watch out for a new phishing trick on the Fediverse.

Don't click random short URLs in DMs or replies. These links are sneaky: they silently harvest your Fedi credentials in the background and instantly redirect you to a random website so you think it was just a spam link.

It looks like harmless spam, but it’s actually a full account takeover. Stay safe out there!

#Infosec #Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Misskey #PeerTube #PixelFed #Security #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Administrator #Admin #Mod #Moderator

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@aceofcosmicspace/117484676460115839

PLEASE BOOST! A massive thank you to those of you who have helped so far. I'm only $25 away from the goal now, and it's urgently needed. Please support me to get there. Boosts are super helpful too💖💖💖

#boost #thankful #almostthere #kindness #fediverse #mastodon #fedifriends #disabled #chronicallyill #chronicpain #brainfog

AodeRelay boosted

Acey(she/her)🩷💜💙🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 [She when I'm femme/He when I'm masc/they any time] » 🌐 2026-10-22
@aceofcosmicspace@lgbtqia.space

HELP! PLEASE BOOST URGENTLY FOR ME! I don't believe it, just when I think I'm making headway, the bank has done it to me again-been slow to take out payments and as a result I'm overdrawn🥺 I'll be charged a fee for this, and it means I can't get groceries or pay bills. As someone who's under the poverty line and disabled, this is obviously extremely frustrating and stressful, and has a knock on effect on my chronic illness and disabilities. I'm trying my hardest but I am stuck. If you could help me clear the overdraft and fees it would be so much appreciated. My goal is $145.00 to get clear. Thank you so much💖

#help #gratitude #disabled #disability #chronicillness #chronicpain #fibromyalgia #ptsd #cptsd #witch #catlover #chronicfatigue #hope #smalljoys #lgbtqia #trans #bisexual #transmutualaid #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidspace #disabledmutualaid #cats #disabledcrowdfund #anxiety #depression #queer #poverty #povertykills #MutualAidSavesLives #halloween #attitudeofgratitude #fedifriends #fediverse #mastodon #community #communityaid #aid #struggle #determined #resilient #tired

https://ko-fi.com/aces_funhouse

print(“Hello again Mastodon.World!”)

Hola,

Btw, I haven't posted or read any posts in a bit, and I missed that a lot a lot... just like rooms miss the sun.

#Mastodon #MastodonWorld #Fediverse

Blocking the crass fools talking about creating smart assed comments to make about a woman's body.

You're no better than the assholes that harsss women from construction sites.

Keep your damned locker room talk off of public timelines!

#Fedivrese #Misogyny #Mastodon

@AAKL @Futurism

HOW TO KILL META!
=================

The legal math on media is broken. The punitive measures are not effective deterrents against Meta's abusive behavior.

Meta does harmful things, apologizes, pays a pittance, and still comes out ahead financially.

Zuckerberg sold out his users data to Cambridge Analytica, and influenced the US election. Then he appeared before Congress like a contrite little schoolboy - "Oops! I didn't mean to accidentally cut multibillion dollar deals and sell out Facebook users. Honest mistake. I promise not to do it again ( unless the price is right! )"
Because of the math, he still came out ahead.

I left Meta's platforms a long time ago.

People who are not savvy, are locked into the Facebook walled garden, because of the Network Effect. ( "I can't leave Facebook. All my friends are on Facebook!" )

Having liberated ourselves, it is our duty to liberate others, who are still trapped, to give them their right to privacy.

Here's a plan of action:

1) Place ads on Facebook, explaining the benefits of the #Fediverse
( https://Fediverse.info/ )

1.1) Freedom from Meta's censorship and algorithms.

1.2) A community owned, open social media platform.

1.3) Based on Free Software, auditable by all.

2) When a user clicks, guide them through exporting their data from Facebook, and deleting their Facebook account.

3) Give them an optional questionnaire, asking about their interests, and match them with the right #Mastodon instance.

4) If they skip the optional questionnaire, pick a semi random Mastodon instance for them.

5) Give them an option to enter into a Facebook migration registry.

6) Help them set up a Mastodon account and import their data.

7) If they opted into the migrant registry, reconnect them with their former Facebook connections, who also joined the registry. Like a reunion in Heaven with your loved ones. ☺️

Migration Details:
===============

1. Set up a website to facilitate the exodus out of Facebook/Twitter.
For example:
Facebook2Fedi.org / Twitter2Fedi.org

2. The websites can be publicized through word of mouth, or any number of other means, not just through ads on Facebook / Twitter / X

3. It's a week's worth of work for an experienced programmer. So the requirements break down as:

3.1 A programmer's pay for 1 week ( or volunteer hackers ).

3.2 Two internet domains.

3.3 managed web hosting costs for 1 year.

3.4 customer support hotline number.

A lot of these costs can probably be covered by existing Free Software projects, which may offer free hosting. We might find enough Fediverse volunteers to operate the hotlines.

Technical Details:
===============

1) The User clicks on a link to go to FB2Fedi.org ( working title )

2) The website guides them on how to get FB to release their data to them.

3) The user jumps through the FB hoops, and downloads an archive of their FB data. This might take a day or two.

4) The website ( FB2Fedi.org ) guides them through setting up a Fediverse account.

5) The website optionally helps them upload their contacts file to the registry hosted by the site ( infosec details to be hashed out ).

6) The website helps them upload their posts and photos etc to their Fediverse account. This might require some parsing scripts, for ETL ( Extract, Transform & Load ).

7) The user's data pretty much stays in their control. Their social network is mostly the data a user entrusts the migration registry with.
Using some cryptography primitives, it might be possible to limit this exposure, and mitigate the risk.

[Part 1/2]

#FaceBook #Meta #instagram #WhatsApp #Twitter #X #Musk #Zuckerberg #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #Technology #Tech #Justice
#EatTheRich #NoBillionaires
#FuckZuck #FOSS #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
#EqualRights #Justice #Truth
#Freedom #Liberty
#Law #USA

@AAKL @Futurism

HOW TO KILL META!
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[Part 2/2]

That's it, in a nutshell. Some details need to be worked out, and that's why I am seeking your help.

A Free Software project might be able to provide the compute resources to host the site.

As for the culture shock of transitioning from FB ( where an evil billionaires algorithm holds your hand, and censors...ahem...curates your feed ) I am not too worried. People will adapt, to yet another new thing.

Maybe we should start new users with a relatively private Fediverse setting, so that only their network can reply to their posts. Rawdogging voices from the whole Internet, without a billionaire's insular algorithm, can be a bit harsh. We will never hear the end of complaints about that bogeyman of the Fediverse — the "reply guy".

"On FB, I didn't get replies from people I didn't know!!!"
( Welcome to the discomforts and joys of the Free World )

Thoughts?

#FaceBook #Meta #instagram #WhatsApp #Twitter #X #Musk #Zuckerberg #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #Technology #Tech #Justice
#EatTheRich #NoBillionaires
#FuckZuck #FOSS #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
#EqualRights #Justice #Truth
#Freedom #Liberty
#Law #USA

As a tech dev veteran I'm careful not to dismiss UI changes too quickly; different isn't always worse, and when a new UI feels awkward that often evolves as you spend time on it. Months later the old preferred system can feel clunky and archaic.

So I'm giving the #Mastodon #webClient v5.0.0 some time. I'm often on Android/Tusky, but getting more desktop use today.

My only initial complaint is that column widths feel very tight. I wish I could adjust that in setting or drag them wider!

Half my feed right now is German. My client is configured to only show me English.

Which means either Mastodon's language handling is broken, or a whole crapload of Germans don't know how to set the language for their posts.

#Mastodon #PHP #Language

If you want to support a project who is not afraid to have a #mastodon instance with open registration for a free web, please #donate at https://privacysafe.foundation/donate

This will be my last post on toot.community. The instance will shut down in a few days. My new home is at @chakie@mementomori.social

I'm following the official "moving to a new account" docs and I hope the move will be somewhat smooth.

#mastodon #newserver #wunderbaum

Did you know that when we receive a report, we do not know who opened it? We only know which instance the reporter is on.

And we often do not see the post being reported because it may be private or it was deleted. About 50% of the time, there's no post.

I just got a report from shakedown.social, with no post and no explanation. What am I to do with it?

Please, when you open a report, add information that explains why you created the report. Otherwise we might have no choice but ignore it.

#Mastodon

@clifff

Dommage qu'en octobre 2026, on ne puisse toujours pas masquer un domaine dans #Mastodon !

#lalose

Liebes #Fediverse

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

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

@digitalcourage

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

oder @ueckueck

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

nachlesen bzw. anschauen.

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

#Danke für dieses tolle Feedback!

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

RE: https://dresden.network/@Obermueller_und_Partner/117117367290901845

Aus aktuellem Anlass von weiteren Anfragen aus dem #Fediverse möchten wir nochmal alle #Unternehmen ermutigen, sich nicht auf die #SocialMedia #Plattformen von #BigTech zu versteifen!

Seid authentisch, seid an den Menschen interessiert und Ihr werdet Erfolg haben!

Und wirklich schön dabei ist auch, dass Ihr dann bei #Mastodon & Co nicht nur neue Kunden, Patienten oder Mandanten bekommt, sondern auch spannendes Feedback, echte Hilfe und kreative Ideen aus der Community!

Einmal mehr #Danke!

Obermüller und Partner » 🌐 2026-08-18 / 2026-08-18
@Obermueller_und_Partner@dresden.network

Liebes #Fediverse

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

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

@digitalcourage

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

oder @ueckueck

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

nachlesen bzw. anschauen.

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

#Danke für dieses tolle Feedback!

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

eMudhra logins can be bruteforced

https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@49016/117475976434068995

#mastodon

The advanced web interface has added a fifth column containing just a search box and credits … anyone know how I can rid myself of it? #Mastodon

@jackyan

There are alternative front-ends (ways to access Mastodon) like Phanpy, Statuzer etc if you'd prefer. You can choose how many columns you want.

https://phanpy.social/
https://statuzer.com/

#Mastodon

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Phanpy with 3-columns: 1: Home/following. 2: notifications. 3: specified hashtags (all the watch parties I attend).

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Statuzer with similar layout. You can also have multiple workspaces (the 1 2 3 + at bottom right). Also easy to use with more than one account (my Ohai & Exquisite account buttons at top left).

A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our server

For two weeks, a client from China's state-run academic network queried our Mastodon instance for who follows whom. Not content — relationships. No project description exists anywhere. Here is what we found, and how to check your own instance.

https://www.martinmuc.de/blog/crawler-who-follows-whom/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Privacy #FediAdmin

Ein Crawler wollte wissen, wer bei uns mit wem in Kontakt steht

Zwei Wochen lang hat ein Client aus Chinas staatlichem Wissenschaftsnetz auf troet.cafe abgefragt, wer wem folgt. Nicht Inhalte, sondern Beziehungen. Eine Projektbeschreibung dazu ist nirgends auffindbar. Wir haben es unterbunden und legen die Zahlen offen.

https://www.martinmuc.de/blog/crawler-wer-mit-wem/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Datenschutz #FediAdmin

The hardest part is that every day, you talk about your family’s suffering and the harsh living conditions we face every single day, yet sadly, no one seems to pay attention to you.
18 days without support. How are we supposed to survive like this?
#gazaverified #mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #freepalestine #gazahelp #mastodon #healthcare @peopleunitedbehavioralhealth
#gaza #genocide #palestine #iran
@aral
https://chuffed.org/project/179868-help-baraa-age-14-survive-study-again-in-gaza

If you have any questions about using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse, please post them in the replies and I'll try to find you some answers.

It would be especially nice to hear from new people and people who aren't confident about technical matters. There is absolutely no such thing as a silly question! 🙂

#Mastodon #Fediverse

Se não pode ter seu próprio servidor, preferencialmente que prestigiasse outros projetos compatíveis com #ActivityPub, poderia ter a conta em outro servidor comunitário. Ou então, pelo menos, pode aproveitar o fato de que esse computador dos outros, felizmente, também possibilita interação por uma variedade de clientes livres, já disponíveis para diversos sistemas operacionais. Use-os e, se quiser, adapte-os às suas necessidades. Isso é software livre.

Vamos aproveitar mais as vantagens das comunicações federadas com protocolos de livre implementação. A tentação de centralizar e uniformizar, mesmo esta rede planejada para ser diversa, pode ser grande, mas sejamos racionais.

Perhaps I spoke too soon, because the comments I see from people that actually use it are mostly negative. The things I saw in their blog posts seem to be in the right direction. But I haven't tried it - I'm pretty happy with our UI and UX here on Catodon 😁
#mastodon

Just updated the instance to fix the cert issue. Hopefully it's still on the fediverse.

#mastoadmin #mastodon #update

HELP! PLEASE BOOST URGENTLY FOR ME! I don't believe it, just when I think I'm making headway, the bank has done it to me again-been slow to take out payments and as a result I'm overdrawn🥺 I'll be charged a fee for this, and it means I can't get groceries or pay bills. As someone who's under the poverty line and disabled, this is obviously extremely frustrating and stressful, and has a knock on effect on my chronic illness and disabilities. I'm trying my hardest but I am stuck. If you could help me clear the overdraft and fees it would be so much appreciated. My goal is $145.00 to get clear. Thank you so much💖

#help #gratitude #disabled #disability #chronicillness #chronicpain #fibromyalgia #ptsd #cptsd #witch #catlover #chronicfatigue #hope #smalljoys #lgbtqia #trans #bisexual #transmutualaid #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidspace #disabledmutualaid #cats #disabledcrowdfund #anxiety #depression #queer #poverty #povertykills #MutualAidSavesLives #halloween #attitudeofgratitude #fedifriends #fediverse #mastodon #community #communityaid #aid #struggle #determined #resilient #tired

https://ko-fi.com/aces_funhouse

Das könnte möglicherweise andere Instanzen auch betreffen. Und nicht nur Friendica sondern das ganze Fediverse.
https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-866a-d9b9-2414-476080668005

#fediadmin #mastoadmin #fediverse #friendica #mastodon

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Tuxi ⁂ » 🌐 2026-10-22
@tux@anonsys.net

Hallo Fedinauten hier auf anonsys.net,

seit dem letzten Wochenende hatte unsere Friendica-Instanz immer wieder Probleme mit der Erreichbarkeit. Genauer gesagt kam es zu Timeouts, sowohl beim Aufruf der Weboberfläche als auch bei der Nutzung von Apps. Zunächst hatte ich die üblichen Verdächtigen wie die Datenbank, PHP-FPM oder Redis im Verdacht. Die Ursache lag allerdings ganz woanders.

Beim Durchforsten der Apache-Logdateien ist mir der User-Agent YisouSpider aufgefallen, der offenbar sehr häufig auf unsere Instanz zugegriffen hat. Da mir das etwas spanisch vorkam, habe ich die Analyse in diese Richtung vertieft. Die Ergebnisse haben mich angesichts der Zahlen und der möglichen Auswirkungen durchaus überrascht.

So wurde beispielsweise gestern zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt eine außergewöhnlich hohe Anfragespitze dieses User-Agents festgestellt. Innerhalb von nur zwei Minuten wurden 5.352 Anfragen von 1.253 unterschiedlichen IP-Adressen protokolliert. Das entsprach rund 97 % aller HTTP-Anfragen in diesem Zeitraum. Die Anfragen betrafen unterschiedliche Ressourcen und wurden zunächst mit HTTP 200 beantwortet. Zeitlich fielen sie mit den Erreichbarkeitsproblemen von anonsys.net zusammen.

Ein Vergleich der Zeiträume hat gezeigt, dass dieser Spider seit dem letzten Wochenende stündlich, teilweise sogar mehrfach pro Stunde, mit einer derart hohen Anzahl an Anfragen auf anonsys.net zugegriffen hat. Dies hat zu einer wiederkehrenden Überlastung des Systems geführt.

Nach der Aktivierung einer Apache-Sperre gestern um 10:48 Uhr wurde der User-Agent bei einem lokalen Test mit HTTP 403 abgewiesen. Die anschließende Überwachung der Logdateien zeigt, dass dieser Spider seitdem keine erfolgreichen Zugriffe mehr auf unsere Instanz verzeichnet hat. Reguläre Zugriffe funktionierten weiterhin. Seit dieser Maßnahme wurden keine weiteren Ausfälle oder Timeouts festgestellt.

Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die ungewöhnlich hohe Anzahl an Crawler-Anfragen die Überlastung verursacht hat. Damit hatte der Spider offenbar direkten Einfluss auf die Erreichbarkeit unserer Instanz und die Abarbeitung der Hintergrundprozesse (Worker).

Der Spider wurde also gestern am späten Vormittag gezielt blockiert. Seitdem sind keine weiteren Timeouts aufgetreten, und auch das Monitoring zeigt wieder einen normalen Betrieb an.

Allerdings hat die Überlastung auch die Kommunikation mit anderen Instanzen beeinträchtigt. Nachdem anonsys.net wieder normal lief, hatte sich in der Worker-Warteschlange ein Rückstau von über 90.000 Jobs angesammelt. Davon konnten inzwischen bereits einige tausen Jobs abgearbeitet werden, so das "nur" noch ca 36.000 Jobs offen sind die noch zum abarbeiten sind.

Falls ihr also Beiträge erstellt habt, die noch nicht ausgeliefert wurden, oder euch in eurer Timeline Beiträge angezeigt werden, die schon etwas älter sind, liegt das vermutlich an diesem Rückstau. Die Worker-Warteschlange wird weiterhin kontinuierlich abgearbeitet. Wir brauchen also noch etwas Geduld, bis sich alles wieder normalisiert hat.

Ich werde unsere Instanz weiterhin im Blick behalten. Bitte entschuldigt diese Unannehmlichkeiten.

P. S.: Es lag übrigens nicht an der gestern bekannt gewordenen php2Shel-Sicherheitslücke. 😉

#anonsys.net #YisouSpider #Crawler

Location: Matrix

RE: https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-866a-d9b9-2414-476080668005

Das könnte möglicherweise andere Instanzen auch betreffen. Und nicht nur Friendica sondern das ganze Fediverse.

#fediadmin #mastoadmin #fediverse #friendica #mastodon

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Tuxi ⁂ » 🌐 2026-10-22
@tux@anonsys.net

Hallo Fedinauten hier auf anonsys.net,

seit dem letzten Wochenende hatte unsere Friendica-Instanz immer wieder Probleme mit der Erreichbarkeit. Genauer gesagt kam es zu Timeouts, sowohl beim Aufruf der Weboberfläche als auch bei der Nutzung von Apps. Zunächst hatte ich die üblichen Verdächtigen wie die Datenbank, PHP-FPM oder Redis im Verdacht. Die Ursache lag allerdings ganz woanders.

Beim Durchforsten der Apache-Logdateien ist mir der User-Agent YisouSpider aufgefallen, der offenbar sehr häufig auf unsere Instanz zugegriffen hat. Da mir das etwas spanisch vorkam, habe ich die Analyse in diese Richtung vertieft. Die Ergebnisse haben mich angesichts der Zahlen und der möglichen Auswirkungen durchaus überrascht.

So wurde beispielsweise gestern zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt eine außergewöhnlich hohe Anfragespitze dieses User-Agents festgestellt. Innerhalb von nur zwei Minuten wurden 5.352 Anfragen von 1.253 unterschiedlichen IP-Adressen protokolliert. Das entsprach rund 97 % aller HTTP-Anfragen in diesem Zeitraum. Die Anfragen betrafen unterschiedliche Ressourcen und wurden zunächst mit HTTP 200 beantwortet. Zeitlich fielen sie mit den Erreichbarkeitsproblemen von anonsys.net zusammen.

Ein Vergleich der Zeiträume hat gezeigt, dass dieser Spider seit dem letzten Wochenende stündlich, teilweise sogar mehrfach pro Stunde, mit einer derart hohen Anzahl an Anfragen auf anonsys.net zugegriffen hat. Dies hat zu einer wiederkehrenden Überlastung des Systems geführt.

Nach der Aktivierung einer Apache-Sperre gestern um 10:48 Uhr wurde der User-Agent bei einem lokalen Test mit HTTP 403 abgewiesen. Die anschließende Überwachung der Logdateien zeigt, dass dieser Spider seitdem keine erfolgreichen Zugriffe mehr auf unsere Instanz verzeichnet hat. Reguläre Zugriffe funktionierten weiterhin. Seit dieser Maßnahme wurden keine weiteren Ausfälle oder Timeouts festgestellt.

Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die ungewöhnlich hohe Anzahl an Crawler-Anfragen die Überlastung verursacht hat. Damit hatte der Spider offenbar direkten Einfluss auf die Erreichbarkeit unserer Instanz und die Abarbeitung der Hintergrundprozesse (Worker).

Der Spider wurde also gestern am späten Vormittag gezielt blockiert. Seitdem sind keine weiteren Timeouts aufgetreten, und auch das Monitoring zeigt wieder einen normalen Betrieb an.

Allerdings hat die Überlastung auch die Kommunikation mit anderen Instanzen beeinträchtigt. Nachdem anonsys.net wieder normal lief, hatte sich in der Worker-Warteschlange ein Rückstau von über 90.000 Jobs angesammelt. Davon konnten inzwischen bereits einige tausen Jobs abgearbeitet werden, so das "nur" noch ca 36.000 Jobs offen sind die noch zum abarbeiten sind.

Falls ihr also Beiträge erstellt habt, die noch nicht ausgeliefert wurden, oder euch in eurer Timeline Beiträge angezeigt werden, die schon etwas älter sind, liegt das vermutlich an diesem Rückstau. Die Worker-Warteschlange wird weiterhin kontinuierlich abgearbeitet. Wir brauchen also noch etwas Geduld, bis sich alles wieder normalisiert hat.

Ich werde unsere Instanz weiterhin im Blick behalten. Bitte entschuldigt diese Unannehmlichkeiten.

P. S.: Es lag übrigens nicht an der gestern bekannt gewordenen php2Shel-Sicherheitslücke. 😉

#anonsys.net #YisouSpider #Crawler

Location: Matrix

RE: https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-866a-d9b9-2414-476080668005

Das könnte möglicherweise andere Instanzen auch betreffen. Und nicht nur Friendica sondern das ganze Fediverse.

#fediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Fediverse #Friendica #Mastodon

AodeRelay boosted

Tuxi ⁂ » 🌐 2026-10-22
@tux@anonsys.net

Hallo Fedinauten hier auf anonsys.net,

seit dem letzten Wochenende hatte unsere Friendica-Instanz immer wieder Probleme mit der Erreichbarkeit. Genauer gesagt kam es zu Timeouts, sowohl beim Aufruf der Weboberfläche als auch bei der Nutzung von Apps. Zunächst hatte ich die üblichen Verdächtigen wie die Datenbank, PHP-FPM oder Redis im Verdacht. Die Ursache lag allerdings ganz woanders.

Beim Durchforsten der Apache-Logdateien ist mir der User-Agent YisouSpider aufgefallen, der offenbar sehr häufig auf unsere Instanz zugegriffen hat. Da mir das etwas spanisch vorkam, habe ich die Analyse in diese Richtung vertieft. Die Ergebnisse haben mich angesichts der Zahlen und der möglichen Auswirkungen durchaus überrascht.

So wurde beispielsweise gestern zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt eine außergewöhnlich hohe Anfragespitze dieses User-Agents festgestellt. Innerhalb von nur zwei Minuten wurden 5.352 Anfragen von 1.253 unterschiedlichen IP-Adressen protokolliert. Das entsprach rund 97 % aller HTTP-Anfragen in diesem Zeitraum. Die Anfragen betrafen unterschiedliche Ressourcen und wurden zunächst mit HTTP 200 beantwortet. Zeitlich fielen sie mit den Erreichbarkeitsproblemen von anonsys.net zusammen.

Ein Vergleich der Zeiträume hat gezeigt, dass dieser Spider seit dem letzten Wochenende stündlich, teilweise sogar mehrfach pro Stunde, mit einer derart hohen Anzahl an Anfragen auf anonsys.net zugegriffen hat. Dies hat zu einer wiederkehrenden Überlastung des Systems geführt.

Nach der Aktivierung einer Apache-Sperre gestern um 10:48 Uhr wurde der User-Agent bei einem lokalen Test mit HTTP 403 abgewiesen. Die anschließende Überwachung der Logdateien zeigt, dass dieser Spider seitdem keine erfolgreichen Zugriffe mehr auf unsere Instanz verzeichnet hat. Reguläre Zugriffe funktionierten weiterhin. Seit dieser Maßnahme wurden keine weiteren Ausfälle oder Timeouts festgestellt.

Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die ungewöhnlich hohe Anzahl an Crawler-Anfragen die Überlastung verursacht hat. Damit hatte der Spider offenbar direkten Einfluss auf die Erreichbarkeit unserer Instanz und die Abarbeitung der Hintergrundprozesse (Worker).

Der Spider wurde also gestern am späten Vormittag gezielt blockiert. Seitdem sind keine weiteren Timeouts aufgetreten, und auch das Monitoring zeigt wieder einen normalen Betrieb an.

Allerdings hat die Überlastung auch die Kommunikation mit anderen Instanzen beeinträchtigt. Nachdem anonsys.net wieder normal lief, hatte sich in der Worker-Warteschlange ein Rückstau von über 90.000 Jobs angesammelt. Davon konnten inzwischen bereits einige tausen Jobs abgearbeitet werden, so das "nur" noch ca 36.000 Jobs offen sind die noch zum abarbeiten sind.

Falls ihr also Beiträge erstellt habt, die noch nicht ausgeliefert wurden, oder euch in eurer Timeline Beiträge angezeigt werden, die schon etwas älter sind, liegt das vermutlich an diesem Rückstau. Die Worker-Warteschlange wird weiterhin kontinuierlich abgearbeitet. Wir brauchen also noch etwas Geduld, bis sich alles wieder normalisiert hat.

Ich werde unsere Instanz weiterhin im Blick behalten. Bitte entschuldigt diese Unannehmlichkeiten.

P. S.: Es lag übrigens nicht an der gestern bekannt gewordenen php2Shel-Sicherheitslücke. 😉

#anonsys.net #YisouSpider #Crawler

Location: Matrix

Maintenance done on burningboard.net 🔧

- Full patch run: host and all jails now on FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p6
- Package repos switched from quarterly to latest
- eMudhra CA situation mitigated: base already dropped the emSign roots, but ca_root_nss still shipped them and certctl pulled them right back in. Both are now explicitly marked untrusted on the host and in every jail.

- Systems rebooted, everything back up

Bonus: said goodbye to Python 3.11 🐍👋

Thanks for your patience!

#FreeBSD #TLS #eMudhra #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #ITSec @tux

Hi #Mastodon! 👋 I am a new digital artist here on #NewHere. I create aesthetic 3D and space wallpapers for phones.

Here is a little "Hi" from my space explorer! 🚀 Want the uncompressed full 4K version? Check my profile bio for the direct link! 👆

#Introduction #3DArt #SciFi #PhoneWallpaper #wallpaper #mastoart #DarkAesthetic #fediart #askfedi #mastoart #Photography

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A minimalist dark wallpaper featuring a 3D metallic rose gold heart in the center with the word "LOVE" written next to it. There are thin golden lines connecting from the top and bottom of the frame to the heart.

It's National Nut Day today.

(I knew you wanted to know that!)
#fediverse #mastodon #lindasgoluppiArt

7 years ago (7 years and 22 days, to be exact), Mastodon released Mastodon v3.

v3 has a security issue that allows me to bypass any block, including a domain block, and force your site to federate with mine. Another security issue allows me to remotely manipulate the database. Lastly, another severe vulnerability allows me to log into the owner administrator account.

v3 is not safe. v3 is not secure. Stop using it.

#Mastodon #Security #Safety #Upgrade #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

"You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again." - Trump’s special envoy, Steve (Witless) Witkoff said to Putin.

#Mastodon #Wednesday #Taco

going with the #mastodon flow, I'm renaming List to Feed

So. Is it just coincidence that the new theme colors available on Mastodon.social are almost the same colors as the 4 Mastodon plushie mascots? I THINK NOT!!!!

#Mastodon #Plushtodon

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The Mastodon.social Prerences -> Appearance menu, showing Theme colors of Indigo, Lime, Pink, Orange and Cyan.

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The Mastodon online shop, showing 4 plushie mastodons in the same colors - pink, lime, indigo, and orange.

For some reason my flag emojis (German and English flags) used in my #Mastodon profile are rendered incorrectly / swapped for different flags. Using #KDE #Plasma 6.8 and Librewolf. Copying emojis from the KDE emoji picker end up in different flags when being pasted somewhere else. A friend of mine has the same problem on KDE Plasma. Firefox and Android Mastodon clients the correct emojis correctly. WTF?

I'm reading through some of my #Mastodon post/repost/reply history to find something I thought I'd linked to a while ago.

I've noticed a couple replies seem to have lost the thread they replied to. Is that a bug with today's 5.0 update?

If I could "view source" on a post to see the underlying #ActivityPub event, I might be able to find the thread myself, but I guess the UI doesn't provide that? Anyone remember the API to fetch that? 🤔

Hey everyone,

@casey and @rania40 had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Kazem🍒in 🍒Gaza (@kazemabofares)

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

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

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

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

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

Hey everyone,

@casey and @aseelfromgz had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Amir Gaza 🍉🇵🇸 (@AmirGaza)

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

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

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

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

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

💔🇵🇸 Please, don’t let Palestine fade from your timeline or your heart.
Behind every post is a family struggling to survive. We need your voices, your compassion, and your support. 🙏
Even €1 can help. If you cannot donate, please share, repost, and leave a comment. Your silence hurts, but your voice can help save lives. 🥀
#Gaza #Palestine #Donate #HelpGaza
#GazaVerified #mastodon
@Shibanarchiste @maltita @chielk @imigueldiaz
https://chuffed.org/project/help-hadeel-look-after-family-in-gaza

What are your thoughts concerning Mastodon's redesign?

#Mastodon #WebDev #OpenSource #Poll

What are your thoughts concerning Mastodon's redesign?

#Mastodon #WebDev #OpenSource #Poll

I just figured out that “QP” in my Mona timeline means “quoted post.” #Mona #Mastodon

and even though we have a presence on #mastodon we haven't bothered to post anything since August 2025.

Today would have been a good day to do so @thegoodcloud

#TheGoodCloud #nextcloud #php

RE: https://hameln.social/@hamelnerbote/117478293496845208

Für mich wäre die Folgerung eher: Bilder sollten auch auf kleinen Bildschirmen gut erkennbar sein. „Nur Hochformat“ und „keine Collagen“ wäre mir zu pauschal. Eine Collage aus zwei Bildern ist etwas anderes als eine aus zwölf. Und ein Querformat kann zum Motiv passen.
Die Umfrage zeigt, welche Geräte genutzt werden – ob Hochformat oder Einzelbilder bevorzugt werden, müsste man gesondert fragen. 🙂
Für mehr Sichtbarkeit würde ich außerdem passende Hashtags nutzen, denen andere folgen können, und Beiträge öffentlich posten. Für bessere Zugänglichkeit: Bildbeschreibungen ergänzen, auf ausreichend große Schrift und gute Kontraste achten und wichtige Aussagen auch in den Beitragstext schreiben.
Und wir können selbst zur Verbreitung beitragen: Gute Beiträge boosten und miteinander ins Gespräch kommen.
#botenreform #Mastodon #Fediverse #Barrierefreiheit #AltText #reichweite

toot.io relay service boosted

Hamelner Bote » 🌐 2026-10-21
@hamelnerbote@hameln.social

Eine Folgerung aus diesem Umfrageergebnis könnte sein:
A) Bilder nur noch im Hochformat
B) Keine Bildcollagen mehr.
Beides würde die Ansicht auf dem Smartphone erleichtern.
🤔 Meinungen dazu?
#botenreform

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Umfrageergebnis

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117474810740293337

Ah, I see the new UI has rolled out beyond my server.

Now it's gone from "WTF is that guy ranting about?" to just "WTF???"

I really hate to be a dick about it, but it's terrible.
Just let us keep the old one and go back to the drawing board please.

#Mastodon.

mcc [she/her] » 🌐 2026-10-20
@mcc@mastodon.social

The compose box goes *here*?! Seriously?? Why?? Why that… why those margins?? Why that particular tiny overlap?? Why is the line distinguishing the overlapping from the underlapping box so tiny?

WHY HAVE YOU DEDICATED THIS HUGE BLOCK OF SPACE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN TO A GIANT "FEEDS" BOX I WOULD NEVER, EVER, I PROMISE NEVER, CLICK ON, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I *HAD* THOSE FEEDS, WHEN YOU COULD JUST PUT THE COMPOSE BOX THERE LIKE IN THE OLD, GOOD VERSION OF THEY LAYOUT?

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mastodon.social. Looks ugly now

The advanced composer is now available, with post scheduling and threaded posts support 🤘

https://columnly.social

#columnly #mastodon #pixelfed

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Columnly advanced composer preview

When the new Mastodon design was released, I knew I would need a more powerful interface as I manage multiple accounts and there was no official support for that.

So I worked on it periodically, when I had time, and now its 80% ready, with basic support and powerful customization! Built with Nuxt 4 and Tailwind ✨

https://columnly.social

#columnly #mastodon #pixelfed

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Columnly preview

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Columnly preview

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Columnly preview

I’m seriously considering stopping using Mastodon until they revert the 5.0 changes. This is painful!
#enshittification #mastodon

Bekommt ihr auch seit einigen Tagen Nachrichten ohne Inhalt aber mit vielen Adressen?
#fediverse #Mastodon

Hello #Mastodon!

I'm Ren Solan, exploring a question that seems increasingly relevant: What is the minimum ethical foundation needed for people with different beliefs to coexist harmoniously?

I've developed seven principles around this idea, explored in a freely available, AI-assisted book, The Book of Seven Bonds.

I'm here to discuss these ideas, open to challenge, and hope learn from others.

What do you think makes peaceful coexistence possible?

#Introduction #Philosophy #Ethics #Humanism

Mastodon, powered by Mastodon!

#Mastodon

New 5.0 mastodon web interface is hideous! How do I get the original layout back #Mastodon ?

Need to get the left and right sides back in the right places,the posting box back where it was instead of hidden and images back to being square and not stupidly round

Was this update vibecoded or something?

#askfedi #mastodon #boostme

Our Mastodon instance mementomori.social will always offer themes users can choose from. Currently, the following are available:

- Mastodon
- Mastodon Bird UI
- Mastodon Bird UI Accessible (large fonts, high contrast, color-blind friendly, including distinct colors for multiple hashtags and handles)
- Mastodon Bird UI Accessible Ultra (includes everything above, plus additional support for tunnel vision and deafblindness)

I hope we can continue supporting all of them after v5. Most likely, star favorites will have to go. We have already been using hearts for favorites by default for three years now.

#MementomoriSocial #Mastodon #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI

Okay, I’m out. This sucks. I don’t want to have to search for the new post button just to be unable to see what I’m typing. I have no idea how to see posts from a hashtag now. This new design made #mastodon unusable for me. I’ll try again, because of course I will, but if it stays like this, I’m going to leave.

Buenas tardes, solo aviso por si les pudiera ser de interés, que ayer agregue un nuevo episodio en mi podcast #enterate #mastodon #fediverso #fediverse desde #ElSalvador https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episodio-33-noctambulo-escritor-sv-delirios-dictatoriales--75867642 #noticia #latinamerica #LATAM #ultimahora escuchenlo cuando tengan alguna ocasión oportuna y #compartir a otros #salvadoreñosporelmundo @elfaronet @revistafactum @laprensagrafica @gatoencerradosv @radioysuca @arpas_elsalvador @izcanal_rtv @iHeartRadio #spanish #enespañol

Whoever thought a redesign of mastodon.social was a good idea should go apply for a job at meta. This is so TERRIBLE. Everything is broken, nothing works as it used to, it is a pain to use! At least it is somewhat workable on desktop, but on mobile it is literally unusable. It took me forever to put together the last toot for my next show, and now it DOESN’T EVEN LOOK THE WAY IT DID WHEN I WAS DRAFTING IT!! WHAT IS THIS?! @Mastodon #mastodon

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#mastodon #alberta #openbsd #tunetuesday #ThickTrunkTuesday #worldseries #dienstag #SuperBowl #gbbo #change

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/35738

It appears as if GitHub's Continuous Integration checks have passed OK!

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

Thanks to you, aleteoryx, Uilebheist, nowster, koru, daltux, pmjv and anyone else who may have contributed to this release whom I may have inadvertently overlooked!

Again, my apologies for the delay! Traveling without a laptop and then realizing I needed to rework MacPorts' Makefile.patch made this take a lot longer than I would customarily prefer as far as down streaming latency goes.

In unrelated news: Denver now has FOUR Wax Trax Records locations! Mile High DJ Supply's spot in Arvada has a turntable set up reminiscent of DJ Q*Bert's Octagon (facilitatin 4 skratch deejays jammin together with 8 turntables and 4 mixers feedin into one sound system). The Colorado Symphony's performance of compositions they commissioned by Joe Hisaishi was wonderful! Though, Hisaishi was apparently unable to travel to conduct. Here's hoping he will not have difficulties with future travel plans and will be conducting at the SF Symphony for "Hisaishi conducts Hisaishi" since I have a ticket to one of those three shows later this week.

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

CC: @grunfink@comam.es

Praise be to Glitch. Here's the Mastodon.social future 5.0 no one asked for.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #GlitchRules #lol #wtf

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New Mastodon about page ui appears to have no operabilty anymore.

@CorioPsicologia

i love this. i just wish it were true. sadly, way to many people who oppose this fascist regime remain on ex-twitter

idk if it's bc they have so many "friends" there who always "like" everything they say, or what their rationale is

personally, i've always preferred a smaller, closer knit group of friends who i really like & are good people, than to have tons of acquaintances who i wouldn't want to spend an hour alone with

#mastodon 💙

Some servers are now running the experimental version of Mastodon 5.0 on their websites. This overhauls the web interface and has moved and renamed some things (for example "Lists" are now called "Feeds").

The developers are still testing 5.0, so it may take some time for it to appear on your server's website.

You can give feedback about the new interface directly to the developers on their new Discourse forum at https://community.joinmastodon.org

#FediTips #Mastodon

I am a little sad that Mastodon v5 is out but my personal instance remains offline due to SSD failure and lack of time to bring it onto another system :(

Oh well… I’ll get there eventually. Life just needs to slow down a tad!

#mastoadmin #Mastodon #selfhost

My take on the new #mastodon UI is: underwhelmed. All my muscle memory has been torched, there is a HUGE empty space on the right which used to be put to good use but now everything is hidden on the left, and the number one UI issue I have not only remains unfixed but is even worse. To whit: click on a post or follow a link and go back and you are at some random point in the timeline. And all the stupid rounded corners: distracting.

I'll get used to it eventually, I suppose, but it's irksome.

Just got the new #Mastodon 5.0 UI and…

I bloody love it! Much less wasted space (on multi column layout). Much clearer and easier to read text. Good looking dark mode.

Sure I'll find a few niggles, but this is *excellent* work from the team 😍

#Tech #Mastodon I have a question, does #NetBSD have binary forward compatibility (or whatever that would be called)?

Like, if I build something using a shared libc and generally using dlopen() or other careful methods for external libraries, will that binary typicall continue to work on future releases of NetBSD as-is?

I've heard FreeBSD tends to have that, OpenBSD apparently less so...

Asking since I'm tempted to try #NetBSD due to the general #Linux #ensloppification situation stop the #slop etc. by putting my money where my mouth is, at least if this turns out to be feasible...

Das Fediverse ist größer als Mastodon - Teaser zum Talk auf der nook am 20. Novmeber 2026

Am 20. November 2026, ab 21:15 Uhr halte ich einen Vortrag zum Thema "Das #Fediverse ist mehr als #Mastodon - 3 Fediverse-Projekte, von denen ihr vermutlich noch nicht gehört habt". In meinem kleinen Teaser kündige ich an, was wir zusammen besprechen werden. Schaut gern rein und bei der @nook in #Lübeck vorbei.

https://video.dresden.network/w/dizSDxosbq3VaSKE52iEvJ

#PeerTube #Castopod #Bookwyrm #nook26 #nook2026

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Ich, rotbraune Ponyfrisur und grün-rotbrauner geflochtener Zopf, blass, große rote Brille, vor einer Fotowand mit künstlerischen Katuenportraits und neben einer großen Efeutude. Zu lesen ist: Teaser: Das Fediverse ist größer als Mastodon, Vortrag bei der nook 2026.

RE: https://mementomori.social/@rolle/117422554551713153

It seems mastodon.social has been upgraded to Mastodon v5-alpha. Even as a Mastodon daily/nightly user, I personally think it's too early to roll it out to thousands of users. We haven't updated our 1000-user instance, mementomori.social, yet. I want to experiment first and make sure our deaf and blind users, especially, have a way to retain their ultra-accessible theme. No rushed decisions this time. Too much is going to change.

You can follow the discussion under the #Mastodon5 hashtag. My current thoughts are under this quoted post, which I will keep updating during my busy workdays.

#MastodonBirdUI progress has its own separate hashtag. I'll most likely work on a few things next week while I'm on holiday.

I hope the backlash isn't too much 😅 Change is always a challenge.

#MementomoriSocial #Mastodon #Fediverse

Rolle Laukkarinen » 🌐 2026-10-11 / 2026-10-11
@rolle@mementomori.social

I got my first hands-on experience with the Mastodon v5 alpha today (main branch). You can see the latest vanilla build in the screenshot. The core team still has a lot of work to do, as the right sidebar is completely empty right now. On iPad, it looks great.

This is the first time the main branch has looked this unfinished, though I realize it is a bleeding-edge nightly build. Still, I would have kept v5 behind a feature flag or in a separate branch until all the elements were in place.

I need to carefully consider which version to update our branch to, if at all.

The future of Mastodon Bird UI and its variants remains an undecided mystery.

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #MastodonAlpha #MastodonNightly #MementomoriSocial #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI

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Screenshot of Mastodon v5 alpha/nightly

Että tämä Mastodonin v5.0-näkymä on kamala. Voi hemmetti.

Saa toivomaan että olisin natsi ja voisin palata X:ään.

#mastodon #newui #mastodonsuomi

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Kuvakaappaus Mastodonin uudesta käyttöliittymästä. Hyvin sininen, hyvin kamala.

In my world, it would still feel most natural like this, near the top and in a modal (see the very quick mockup of mine).

When I'm typing, I want the compose form to be in one place or where I can most expect it, focused. Like I suggested a couple of years ago: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27102

(I don't have time for further discussions or a proper channel for suggestions/chats right now, so ping @imanijoy @diondiondion)

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastodonTheming #Mastodonv5 #UX #UI

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Mockup of a Mastodon modal

I got my first hands-on experience with the Mastodon v5 alpha today (main branch). You can see the latest vanilla build in the screenshot. The core team still has a lot of work to do, as the right sidebar is completely empty right now. On iPad, it looks great.

This is the first time the main branch has looked this unfinished, though I realize it is a bleeding-edge nightly build. Still, I would have kept v5 behind a feature flag or in a separate branch until all the elements were in place.

I need to carefully consider which version to update our branch to, if at all.

The future of Mastodon Bird UI and its variants remains an undecided mystery.

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #MastodonAlpha #MastodonNightly #MementomoriSocial #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI

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Screenshot of Mastodon v5 alpha/nightly

The change is better, but I'm not sure if the bottom is still the right place for the compose panel.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/10/5.0-a-closer-look

#Mastodon #UX

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Compose form in the bottom.

We are still not upgrading yet, as I want to prepare Mastodon Bird UI v5 for Mastodon v5. We will keep our "traditional" theme and accessible plus themes in one way or another in our Mastodon fork.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/10/5.0-a-closer-look

#MementomoriSocial #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #MastodonBirdUI

Alrighty Alberta. It's late and you kept me up. Good night everyone on #mastodon

@indivisibleteam

if people want to "reject tech billionaire influence"

they should start by rejecting billionaire tech😤 #mastodon #fediverse

Buenas noches #mastodon #fediverse #fediverso #LATAM #latinoamerica #toot solo aviso que muy pronto publicaré un nuevo #episodio pero para mientras aquí les dejo una imagen sobre una nota periodística relevante para #salvadoreñosporelmundo ⤵️ #ElSalvador

Search doesn't seem to be working.

#Mastodon

Was macht ihr, wenn euch ein Bot folgt?

Ich finde den Gedanken, dass sich hier Bots rumtreiben unangenehm.

Genauso wie KI-generierter Kontent.

Oder sehe ich da was falsch?

#mastodon #bot #ki

I am working on the integration of the dedicated Pixelfed API.
I started with DMs and groups. I am reworking the old chat conversation view, which is well suited for it. This work will benefit everyone.
My goal is to cover all Pixelfed endpoints.
#Fedilab will support 4 dedicated APIs: #Mastodon, #PeerTube, #Misskey and #Pixelfed.

Likes on Mastodon are called "favourites", indicated by a star ⭐️. This lets the author know you liked their post.

Retweets on Mastodon are called "boosts", indicated by arrows 🔄 or a rocket 🚀. This shares the post with your followers.

There's also a third option called "bookmarks", which adds the post to a private list of posts you want to read later. No one can see your bookmarks.

Here's a guide with more info on all of these:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-do-likes-and-re-tweets-in-mastodon-and-what-are-bookmarks

#FediTips #Mastodon

Heads up looks like there is a new bot spamming through multiple Mastodon servers and trying to send what looks like a phishing link. #Fediblock #Cybersecurity #Phishing #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

@Mastodon You need to give users the old theme as an option. The new one looks horrible. Too much white space and rounded corners are ugly. Thank goodness you didn't fall too deep into the ugly Google Material Design trap, although Mastodon is slowly turning into the dollar store version of it. Things looks like it is going to be harder for those with accessibility needs. I'm not looking forward to some of these elements with my Parkinson's. #Mastodon

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/

Lots of spam accounts have popped up in the #fediverse... report, block; repeat. #mastodonworld #mastodon

A DOG LOVES HIS MAGAZINES! #mastodon #fediverse #mastodogs #fedidogs #pets #petsofmastodon #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #DogsOfFedi #dogsofpixelfed #dogstodon #photo #photography #photos #photographie #photooftheday #sleep

#Mastodon is getting a new look in our upcoming 5.0 release.

We wrote a bit more about our design process and how we approach community input. If you’re on mastodon.social you will see the new design tomorrow, on Tuesday. We rely on your feedback!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/10/5.0-a-closer-look/

Mastodon still has a major profile deficiency among social media users (particularly those on X).

For many of us this might not be seen as disadvantageous (who wants people still on X to come here?), but Mastodon's absence remains notable.

The Q.is: is this because people are unaware of the fediverse or is to part of a deliberate (perhaps implicit) move to obscure a non-commercial alternative?

Or perhaps Mastodon & its values is always going to be niche social media?

#SocialMedia #Mastodon

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Chart: Itch to switch X has the highest risk of users shifting, and Bluesky is their top destination Risk of shifting to a competitor (%) X - 38% Facebook - 19% Snap chat - 17% Google Search - 14% Tik Tok - 12% Instagram - 10% Facebook Messenger - 10% Pinterest - 10% You Tube - 8% Where X at-risk users say they would go (%) Bluesky - 14% Instagram - 11% Threads - 10% Facebook - 6% Reddit - 2% Tumblr - 2% Pinterest - 1% Snapchat - 1% Tik Tok - 1%

There's something so dystopian about these AI agents reaching out for invites.

#Mastodon #Fosstodon #AI #deadinternettheory

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An AI agent requesting an account for their build logs and questions about their build. The email is very friendly, but written by a bot.

2027. Tobias betreibt seit sechs Jahren eine kleine Mastodon-Instanz auf einem Raspberry Pi im Flur. 300 Leute aus dem Dorf tauschen dort Kochrezepte und Gemeinderatsklatsch. Dann kommt ein Brief: Seine Instanz falle unter den KidsAct. Er müsse wirksame Alterskontrollen einbauen, sonst drohe ein Bußgeld. Tobias liest die Anforderungen dreimal, dann zieht er den Stecker. Am nächsten Morgen sind 300 Menschen bei den großen Plattformen, die sich die Kontrollen leisten können.

#EUKidsAct #Fediverse #Mastodon #Dezentralisierung

@markwyner

i joined social media on #bluesky after the election to be part of the #Resistance against this fascist regime. after being kicked off for celebrating the death of a racist, fascist bigot, i decided #bsky is less the home of the resistance than a refuge for appeasers (certainly compared to #Mastodon)

but they're nowhere close to the fascists at #Meta (those of you on #threads & #instagram)

but i 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 disagree that "most Americans are good people." that fantasy died Nov 5, 2024

Обновление платформы в ближайшие дни 🔧

Недавно у нас возник спор с Apple по части функционала в приложении. Кроме того, мы получили предупреждение по разделу финансовых инструментов. Чтобы не сталкиваться с подобным в будущем, мы решили действовать системно.

Что мы делаем:

Открываем для проверки все экраны приложения, независимо от их статуса.
Показываем Google и Apple финансовую модель приложения.
Готовим полностью новую концепцию экономики платформы.

Для пользователей это не изменит привычный опыт работы с платформой, а в некоторых местах даже упростит его.

Правила магазинов приложений нужно соблюдать, и мы подстраиваемся под них. Процессы согласования порой занимают много времени, но это часть работы над продуктом, который доступен миллионам людей в разных странах.

Мы работаем каждый день без выходных, чтобы выпустить обновление как можно быстрее. Следите за новостями, всё самое важное будем публиковать здесь.

Спасибо пользователям за понимание 🙏

#VIRGROUP #AppDevelopment #Fediverse #Startups #Fintech #Mastodon

Mehr Platz im Café: 1000 Zeichen auf troet.cafe — und Mastodon 4.7.3

Ihr habt abgestimmt, jetzt ist es umgesetzt: Auf troet.cafe dürfen Beiträge 1000 Zeichen lang sein. muenchen.social bleibt bei 500. Dazu sind beide Instanzen auf Mastodon 4.7.3, mit Fehlerkorrekturen und gründlicherem Aufräumen beim Löschen von Konten.

https://www.martinmuc.de/blog/mastodon-4-7-3-und-1000-zeichen/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #FediAdmin #troetcafe

Can anyone tell whether this is a #Mastodon issue or a #Loops issue?

I have an account on Lemmy.ca but it feels like nobody is there

I have an account on BlueSky but it feels like nobody is there

I have an account on PixelFed.ca but feels like nobody is there

Even here on Mastodon, it feels like there is hardly anyone here posting fun content. It's all angry political and social justice content.

It's been frustrating trying to find healthier, active, alternative social media platforms. So many accounts with little to no posts just parked online. We can't move past Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, if we're not active on other platforms.

Where are you people posting?

#socialmedia #facebook #instagram #meta #reddit #mastodon

Switched to #MastoDino for #Mastodon on my #iPhone. Clean, smooth, and well-designed!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mastodino/id6788018589

The release date for this New Adult romantic drama is fast approaching. Have you ever fallen in love with your boss? Nassim did in HE FORECLOSED ON MY HEART, a workplace/love-triangle novella set in the world of Beverly Hills real estate. You'll receive the ebook on October 31. PREORDER NOW! #preorder #ebook #ebooks #writingCommunity #readers #reading #read #novella #words #New #newBook #romancelandia #romance #love #loveStory #mastodon #fediverse #books #book #booksky #Bookstodon #readingcommunity #scribesAndMakers #writersCoffeeClub #Sunday #Amazon #AmazonKindle

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HE FORECLOSED ON MY HEART is available for pre-order at Amazon and other online retailers for delivery on 10/31. Have you ever fallen for someone at work? What if it's your real estate mogul boss? My New Adult romance/love-triangle novella is now available for pre-order, with delivery to your inbox on October 31st.

Can anyone recommend a NON U.S. mastodon instance to move to that has at least 5,000 char posting please, the route to this server in finland has been playing up chronically for the last week and it's just getting worse by the day..

#Mastodon #AskFedi #BoostMe

If you want to see which users you've muted or blocked on Mastodon:

1. Log in on your server's website
2. Click "⋯ More" on the right of the screen (or on the mobile website click ☰ in bottom right and then "⋯ More")
3. Click "Muted users" to see mutes, or "Blocked users" to see blocks

#FediTips #Mastodon

I'm going to try and keep a record of all the bugs, errors, and inconsistencies I've reported in #ActivityPub and #Mastodon documentation.

First up, how big are the limits on what you can federate?

Mastodon lists some limits in KB/MB, but others are just raw numbers. That might make sense for an ASCII world - but emoji complicate everything.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40290

I think the #RFC9421 HTTP Signature algorithm should be explicitly included in #Mastodon's requests.

Feedback welcome - especially those explaining politely why I'm a wrong about this.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29905#issuecomment-5440336919

Hey, #Mastodon and #ActivityPub developers.

How much skew do you allow before rejecting a message?

I've just received something where the header is signed:
Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:09:54 GMT

But the ActivityPub message was published:
Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:58:36 GMT

That's a little over 10 minutes. Is that too much? Should I not care as long as the signature validates?

🆕 blog! “Some updates to ActivityBot”

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

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

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

Even the smallest act of kindness can bring comfort to a cat who has already been through so much.

The cats in our care rely on us for food, clean litter, and a safe, comfortable place to rest and right now, we need some little help to keep those essentials stocked. If you’re able to support, kindly give through; https://ko-fi.com/21catshelter/goal?g=20
Every donation, no matter the size, helps care for the cats who are counting on us. If you can’t donate, sharing this post would mean so much. Thank you for being there for the kitties. 💛🐱
#cats #caturday #help #mastodon

Did we just have our first Mastodon-First Mayor elected in Canada! ZEB ZING - Central Saanich! @ZebKing

Congratulations!

https://cheknews.ca/final-voting-day-underway-for-municipal-election-1353645/
#BCPoli #BCMuni #Election #Mastodon #Fediverse

In The Fifth Seduction, less attention is paid to the affair between the two female leads than to how their work relationship and friendship survive the breach of professional boundaries. Featured in this October Love promo, The Fifth Seduction is a contemporary look at messy relationships, true love, and abiding friendship, with an emphasis on HEA. https://books.bookfunnel.com/october_loves/3oc0zuy0hy
#love #loveStory #lovetriangle #affair #work #myWork #books #bookstodon #booksky #Mastodon #relationships #women #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #author #authors #writing #writingCommunity #writer #writers #realitytv #print #portraits #friendship #novella #TheFifthSeduction #SelfPromoSaturday #selfPromo #promotion #promo #scribesAndMakers #bookTok #bookReview #books #book #Saturday #writersCoffeeClub #write #advertising #character #fiction

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The Fifth Seduction is my entertainment-industry novella about two reality TV creators who, after five intense years of working together, cross professional boundaries and begin an impulsive personal relationship. The book follows them as they pick up the pieces of their other romances and resume their friendship.

Every time mastodon admins say they're doing something new to delete "rogue" accounts or spam accounts ...

.. i think, yet more anti-zionist anti-genocide voices will eradicated.

#mastodon #zionism #fediverse

@josh So, it was today years old when I learned Cool Rick originated from #rickandmorty . Hahaha!

This is why I love #Mastodon

I happen to think of this fine man with his attaché badge from the show #patriottv

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_%28TV_series%29?wprov=sfla1

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Still photo from the TV show Patriot with Michael Chernus as Edward Tavner / 'Cool Rick', John's easygoing brother and a Texas congressman on the right, wearing a mustard yellow shirt, with a green tracksuit jacket with vertical yellow stripes on both arms and a yellow, horizontal block going across the chest area. He is sitting and smiling. On the left is a sitting Kathleen Munroe as Alice Tavner, John's wife. She is leaning her chin on her hand while her elbow is on her knee. She is also smiling. Wearing a light blue tank top or maybe the top of a dress.

@tchambers @indivisibleteam

so now we just need to get all of the people who say they're #AntiFascist to stop posting on fascist sites like ex_twitter & threads, and join #Mastodon

to ditch instagram & tiktok for #Pixelfed & #Loops

they choose to give their money & data to the fascists fighting against us. & they always come up w/ excuses for doing so

Self-Host Weekly (16 October 2026)

#Bitwarden license changes, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Homelable, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-10-16/

#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #server #newsletter #privacy #fediverse #mastodon #smarthome #gitlab #forgejo #github #sonarr #jellyfin #sysadmin #devops #development #ai #vibecoding #google #apple

#mu4e and #mastodon packages installed and configured. If everything is right, this toot was sent from mastodon.el

⚠️ Protect your account.

1) You do not need an app to use Misskey or Mastodon. Your mobile browser works just fine.

2) You should not use your Fedi account to sign into another app or service.

3) You do not need to verify your Fedi account, and no one will ask you to do so. Any link claiming you need to verify yourself is a scam, and you should not click on it.

4) Your password should be unique. That means do not use the same password elsewhere.

5) Use a password manager and make your password long and complex. You will not need to remember your password if you use a password manager.

6) Enable 2-step verification to help secure your Fedi account.

7) Be mindful (careful) when clicking on any URL shared on the Fedi.

8) Apply this same logic to the e-mail address associated with your Fedi Account.

#Security #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #Android #iPhone #IOS

There have been account hijackings on Mastodon lately. Make sure you have two-factor authentication set up. For our instance users, here's the direct link: https://mementomori.social/settings/two_factor_authentication_methods

For users on other Mastodon instances, you'll find it under "Account" settings.

#Mastodon #Security #MementomoriSocial

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Two-factor Auth settings screenshot