Also been introducing more local people to the DeltaChat privacy messenger.

Don't hesitate to message me, especially if you are wanting to buy a ThinkCentre mini PC with Linux. I still have some available.

#Fediverse #DeltaChat #privacy #Linux

Periodic official communication, just to clarify a few things.

The BSD Cafe is an open, inclusive and friendly community. A community of people who try to be *“pro, not against”* and *“supporters, not haters”*: enthusiasts, friends, people who come here to share, to learn, to discuss. Not to hate each other.

This does not mean that we all have to think in the same way. Quite the opposite: it means that we can have different opinions, discuss them, defend them strongly, and question each other’s ideas.

What it does not mean is that it is acceptable to insult, threaten, attack people, or pretend that there can only be one morally acceptable position on every possible subject.

Calling the BSD Cafe a "Nazi Bar" from the outside simply because we do not automatically censor people who have an opinion different from yours is offensive towards the hundreds of people who are part of this community. Unless you're a Nazi or a fascist. In that case, you're not welcome here.

People are, of course, free to criticise what happens here. But expecting us to attack, ban or silence someone because you believe they deserve it, and then accusing the whole Cafe because we do not, is something different.

And I have seen something even worse lately: actual calls for hate. The equivalent of *“hey, everyone, go and attack this person”*, simply because that person does not share your position.

No. This is not acceptable.

And, dear friends, declaring yourself anti-Nazi while organising a crowd against somebody, intimidating them and treating them as an enemy who deserves to be attacked means using exactly the kind of methods you claim to oppose.

I do not say this lightly. I come from a family, and from a country, with a very real history of fascism and of the antifascism that immediately followed it. These are not just abstract words to me.

Hate is not tolerated, at any level, inside or outside the Cafe. The same is true for threats, intimidation and aggression. Believing that our cause is right does not make those behaviours more acceptable.

You disagree with someone? Say it. Explain why. Argue against their ideas. Support yours with all the conviction you want. But do not aggressively attack. This is not tolerated.

And expecting everyone else to attack that person too, or considering them somehow complicit because they do not, is something different. And it is not what I want for this community.

On any subject.

Even pineapple on pizza (!!!).

The Fediverse is a non-place, but it is made of real people. Wonderful people, very often. Let’s not turn it into version 2.0 of traditional social media, where every discussion becomes a war and anyone who does not think exactly like us automatically becomes the enemy.

In the last few weeks I have seen people stepping away exactly because of this. On different subjects, people accused of the worst things not because of something they had done, but because they had not said what someone expected them to say. Some of them, for their own wellbeing, simply decided to take a step back.

We all lost something because of that. Nobody gained anything.

So let’s keep supporting what we believe in. Let’s do it with conviction, and with firmness when needed. But let’s discuss ideas without turning people into targets.

From experience, I have learnt that real change also requires discussion, organisation, patience and concrete actions. We can disagree deeply without stopping considering each other as people.

This is the kind of place I want the BSD Cafe to continue to be.

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2026/03/31/im-just-the-barista/

#BSDCafe #Fediverse #SupportersNotHaters

I argue that #ForgeFed #ActivityPub should support multi-types as specified in #ActivityStreams, even though how to actually work with them in a robust AP extension mechanism hasn't been fully figured out yet.

The argument for avoiding multi-type is to compromise in order to facilitate the current microblogging-heavy installed base on the #fediverse. While that is practical, it will forever keep the tech debt we have created in our fediverse ecosystem.

#Forge federation should not have a primary concern to retain compatility to legacy #microblogging apps, imho.

https://codeberg.org/ForgeFed/ForgeFed/issues/324#issuecomment-22201186

RE: https://the.bisexuals.town/@gersande/117196090829345834

SPITBALLING HERE:
has anybody turned pics into SVGs, and embedded #AIslop prompts in them?

pinging @dansup @Gargron @evan because been pondering this too: it was easy for AI vultures to scrape images because JPG PNG WEBP GIF are self-enclosed containers. SVG, though, is an image turned into code you can embed into HTML.

so, given the #fediverse is based on permissions, what if SVG is the unlogged & poisoned default?

fedi’s login and de/federation systems might be the AI deterrent we need.

webhat🔜#40c3 boosted

Gersande La Flèche » 🌐 2026-09-01
@gersande@the.bisexuals.town

I've asked this question before and got crickets from the fedi, which really was disappointing, but now that it's September it's worth trying again: if you have any tips of tech that actually works that I could use to poison my photos (hosted on my website photos.gersande.com) against AI, please let me know.

I've never been able to get the Nightshade/Glaze Project to work, and I've reached out to their team by email multiple times and never got an answer.

Cheers.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“📡 The BSSID Black Market: Who's Selling Home WiFi Maps?→ telegra․ph/The-BSSID-Black-Market-Whos-Selling-Home-WiFi-Maps-08-17 ⌗wifi ⌗surveillance ⌗privacy ⌗infosec”

https://infosec.exchange/@monniele/117194493782576823

🤖 via RSS feed. Not an endorsement.

@occitel
Ah le CPC, quelle machine !
L'iMac des 8 bits, bien avant l'iMac, Alan Michael Sugar était visionnaire sur ce point. L'anecdote raconte que lorsqu'il a voulu essayer un ordinateur (certainement un ZX Spectrum), il se serait emporté face à la montagne de cables et d'alimentations à branchement pour avoir un système exploitable.
A l'époque, l'ordinateur, et le stockage, que ce soit en cassette ou en disquette pour les plus riche, étaient séparés. Ajoutez une imprimante, le moniteur, et ça commence à faire beaucoup.

Résultat des courses, on a eu un 8 bits tout en un, où il n'y avait que 3 cables. Le cable d'alimentation du moniteur, FOURNI avec l'ordinateur, et 2 cables partant du moniteur vers l'ordinateur, avec clavier intégré, et de très bonne facture d'après mes souvenirs.

Entre temps, y'a eu quelques addons bien sympatiques comme le radio réveil et le tuner TV, pas ultra pratique à utiliser, mais qui faisait une TV d'appoint.

Et je parle pas des jeux, avec des pépites comme Robocop, Wec le Man, Batman the movie, Renegade, Shinobi (peut être un des meilleurs titres de la machine), etc, etc...
Y'a eu aussi pas mal de bouses, on va pas se mentir... Surtout à cause des Speccy ports, où les éditeurs n'avaient aucun scupules à prendre une version ZX d'un jeu et le porter tel quel sur l'Amstrad, qui était fortement compatible avec le ZX. Ou les jeux qui étaient juste une démo pour présenter à un éditeur et qui ont été vendus comme des jeux complets (coucou Airwolf qui a traumatisé une génération entière de joueurs).

Bref, mon premier ordinateur que mon père m'avait ramené pour mes 5 ans, persuadé que l'informatique allait être une révolution. Il avait pas prévu que ça allait juste définir ma vie...

#Fediverse #RetroTech #ComputingHistory #Amstrad #Z80 #CPM

Pensée émue pour l'Amstrad CPC 6128 de 1985.
Si le monde ne jure que par les puces modernes, rappelons qu'avec 128 Ko de RAM, un Zilog Z80A et une puce sonore AY-3-8912, des développeurs fabriquaient des chefs-d'œuvre sans aucun tracker publicitaire ni mise à jour de 45 Go.

Le vrai format propriétaire d'élite ? Les disquettes 3 pouces d'Hitachi. Plus chères que les 3,5", introuvables aujourd'hui, mais quel charme. 💾⚙️

As-tu connu ?

#Fediverse #RetroTech #ComputingHistory #Amstrad #Z80 #CP/M

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Proposer un moniteur monochrome vert en 1985, ce n'était pas un choix technique, c'était une méthode radicale pour tester la résistance des yeux des adolescents.

August is gone

#blogging #fediverse #100DaysToOffload 79/100
https://lazybea.rs/august-26

Hey everyone,

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

They are:

• klj (@kljh)
• Ahmed (@Ahmednn)

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

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:

• Bader family 🇵🇸🍉 🇵🇸 (@bader2000)
• Nana Ahel (@nanaahel)

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

ft. big update - over 100 new achievements!

https://qum.cz/snac_achievements/

#snac2 #fediverse @grunfink@comam.es

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get snacpilled achievement

👋🏻 𝘏𝘌𝘠~𝘏𝘌𝘓𝘓𝘖! 𝘏𝘖𝘞 𝘈𝘙𝘌 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘎𝘜𝘠𝘚 𝘏𝘖𝘓𝘋𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘜𝘗? 🫂🥺
I hope y'all are doing okay & holding up w/ the waves of life.

𝘔𝘦? 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘧 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘐'𝘮 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘐'𝘮 𝘖𝘒. 𝘜 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘐 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯. 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩.RENTBILL is waving & can't risk 2 get another notice this time😢

𝘐 𝘏𝘖𝘗𝘌 𝘈𝘓𝘓 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘗𝘌𝘖𝘗𝘓𝘌 𝘎𝘖𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘜 𝘉𝘈𝘋 𝘛𝘐𝘔𝘌𝘚 𝘞𝘐𝘓𝘓 𝘎𝘌𝘛 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘖𝘜𝘎𝘏 𝘐𝘛. 𝘔𝘈𝘠 𝘞𝘌 𝘈𝘓𝘓 𝘎𝘌𝘛 𝘉𝘓𝘌𝘚𝘚𝘌𝘋 𝘛𝘖𝘋𝘈𝘠 & 𝘌𝘝𝘌𝘙𝘠𝘋𝘈𝘠.✨🍀🌠

#mastodon #fediverse #lifeupdate #mutualaid #boost #support #bekind #monday

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The image shows a text quote on a plain background that reads: "Whoever abandoned you in the middle of the ocean has no right to know what the sharks did to you or how you managed it to the shore"

I am seeing reports of a small number of #GazaVerified accounts hounding people who have donated in the past with posts at the rate of “one every few minutes”.

This has to stop.

If you’re doing this, your servers will suspend your accounts and we will not step in to help nor will we reverify a new account.

This is harming everyone on #GazaVerified and the reputation of Palestinians in general and we won’t be tolerating it.

And the people who sympathise with the cause and have donated in the past do not deserve to be harassed in this way.

Please stop.

#Gaza #Palestine #mastodon #fediverse

Evil again and again... You can't trust human beings

#Blaugust #100DaysToOffload 78/100 #fediverse #blogging
https://lazybea.rs/evil-again-and-again

#OverUnder 081 with @raeubervater

His thoughts about #iWatch, #Fujifilm recipes, #postcards, zoom #lenses, and #coleslaw.

And, like every week, we got a recommendation for two #books.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #food #blogging #photography #Apple #Casio #watches

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-081

Irions-nous jusqu'à dire que sur le super extra formidable #Fediverse, nous sommes à l'abri des contenus #IA ?

What frustrates me most is that many people want a better digital world, but they are unwilling to try alternatives like Mastodon or running their own website.

People have become lazy. Everything has to be ready-made. You cannot have everything handed to you on a silver platter, life does not work that way.

The hardest challenge is getting people to unlearn the addictive patterns of an enshittified internet and move toward healthier habits and the decentralized web.

#enshittification #SocialWeb #decentralization #Fediverse #SocialMedia

At the end of it all, I’m here because I like being here.

I’m here to talk to people. To read things I care about. To see beautiful photos. To be part of a wonderful community. To talk about the things I love, to share my thoughts, and some of what I’ve learned over the years.

But also to share the small pleasures of life: a good pizza, a tiramisu, a beautiful sunrise over the sea, or a quiet path through the trees.

There is already enough anger in the world.

Life is too short to spend it being angry all the time.

#GoodNight #Fediverse

@silverpill @rimu @elle

I wrote a comment in the open issue on the 3-stage process, in the SWICG charters repo..

https://github.com/swicg/charters/issues/33#issuecomment-5470092604

#ActivityPub #SocialWeb #fediverse

Skastodon.com is a Mastodon server for ska musicians, artists, fans, and anyone else in the ska community. We welcome everyone from the ska, punk, reggae, rocksteady, new wave, or other related music fandoms. We are also proud proponents of the Ska Goth Alliance.

https://skastodon.com

You can find out more at https://skastodon.com/about or contact the admin account @BrianTransplant

#FeaturedServer #Ska #SkaMusic #Reggae #Rocksteady #Music #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

I have migrated my ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible bots to use a queue and parallel workers. Synchronized requests were taking too long for many bots with many followers.

Upgrade now if you use my bot software:
https://github.com/nekromoff/mastodon-bots

#bot #bots #mastobots #mastoadmin #mastolivre #fediverse #activityPub #software #webdev #tools #webdevelopment

Now on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W - powered by NetBSD (armv7) - with an USB ethernet card, as the internal wifi seems to lock when the traffic goes up.

It's blazing fast

#littleFedi #Fediverse

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The Raspberry PI Zero 2 W - powered by NetBSD - running this instance

🆕 blog! “ActivityBot is the recipient of an NLnet grant!”

Back in February, I applied for NLnet's Next Generation Zero grant. They were looking for Fediverse projects to help rewild the social media landscape. Or, as they describe it:

Reclaim the public nature of the internet

Small and medium-sized R&D grants between 5.000 and 50.000 euro,…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/activitybot-is-the-recipient-of-an-nlnet-grant/
⸻
#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #fediverse #NLnet

Good morning, #Fediverse.
Have a great Sunday!

#Weekend

The Centre for European Policy Studies "a leading think tank and forum for debate on EU affairs, ranking among the top think tanks in Europe" has a report about the #fediverse called "Unpacking the fediverse: What it is, why it matters – and how it could cause a major headache for the DSA"
https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-publications/unpacking-the-fediverse

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a corprete looking pdf that says: Unpacking the fediverse What it is, why it matters – and how it could cause a major headache for the DSA Paula Gürtler 2025-02

Salut tout le monde, je me demandais : Y-a-t-il des forums (notamment autour du logiciel) qui acceptent les comptes mastodon comme identifiants ? C'est à dire que je peux consulter et intervenir dans un forum depuis mon compte.

Ce serait pas mal, non ?

#mastodon #fediverse #forum

Week in Fediverse 2026-08-28

Servers

- Hollo v0.9.13
- gush! v0.0.41
- tootik v0.25.0
- Mitra v5.10.0
- Pixelfed v0.12.9
- Hollo v0.9.15
- Funkwhale v2.0.10
- PieFed v1.7.13
- tootik v0.25.1
- NeoDB v0.17.8

Clients

- Pachli v3.8.1
- Fedilab v3.43.2
- RaccoonForFriendica v1.1.0

For developers

- Fedify v2.3.6

Protocol

- FEP-49eb: Batched Inbox Delivery

Articles

- A crawler wanted to know who talks to whom on our server
- The Problems and Successes of Fediverse Comments on my blog
- The Fediverse is Throwing a Music Festival

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/01a0269e-d9e5-7a03-a62d-6ef77099e4a7

I don't know if #FediHood will be adopted by the #Fediverse community, but I am still doing my best for it. Three new features have been added:

- Emoji reactions to messages (federated)
- Theme customization (with presets available)
- An option to automatically delete your own posts

FediHood lets you build timelines based on people near you and on topics. More: https://fedihood.social/about

PS: feel free to share

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The FediHood announcement post, showing two emoji reactions below it.

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The auto-delete posts setting, with duration options from three days to one month.

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The appearance settings, with theme presets and custom color options.

#Mastodon #Fediverse

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Bender from Futurama. WE'LL MAKE OUR OWN TWITTER WITH BLACKJACK AND FEDERATION AND FORGET THE BLACKJACK

Thank you, friends!

The instance held up perfectly, without flinching! I also took advantage of the surge to identify a few areas for improvement, and they've been pinned down. New patches will be rolled out over the next few days.

The release is getting closer and closer...

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.

It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.

It consumes just under 1W.

Its database is this size:

-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db

That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.

Its average CPU load is extremely low.

It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.

I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.

I promise myself to use it more, and I will.

You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.

You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.

Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.

EDIT: littleFedi allows to transform posts into blog posts, having its own SSG (Static Site Generator). The one generated by this post is reachable by clicking here.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

...and this is how it's doing, while many of you are boosting, replying, etc:

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE       TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 7745 little    35    0   620M  152M RUN       140:14 57.71% 57.71% littlefedi-armv6

Crazy, isn't it?

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

This is the "roost" littleFedi theme

#littleFedi #Fediverse

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A screenshot of the Roost theme in littleFedi

RE: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/01a0448d-c9e8-7b7e-a225-b22fc0333f0f

Mastodon is great. But littleFedi, snac, GoToSocial, Mitra, Akkoma, etc. - they all share a mission: make sure people will be able to self host their instances without investing a huge sum.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #littleFedi #snac #GoToSocial #Mitra #Akkoma

Stefano Marinelli boosted

Stefano on littleFedi » 🌐 2026-08-27
@stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it

Yesterday’s post received an unexpected amount of appreciation, and the little Raspberry Pi Zero W didn’t even flinch.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData #NetBSD

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Screenshot showing the post’s engagement figures: 51 replies, 672 boosts, 55 quotes, and 890 favourites. For each reply, it re-generated the blog, too.

Yesterday’s post received an unexpected amount of appreciation, and the little Raspberry Pi Zero W didn’t even flinch.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData #NetBSD

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Screenshot showing the post’s engagement figures: 51 replies, 672 boosts, 55 quotes, and 890 favourites. For each reply, it re-generated the blog, too.

Mon chéri a une requête qui correspond aux compétences et à la sollicitude du #fediverse
Voir ci-dessous. Réponse à @CCailleaux, en + c'est bientôt son anniv !
Le repouet soutient la lutte contre la société de consommation ✊

"J'ai un Huawei P8 Lite 2017, il est devenu très lent et sa mémoire est saturée alors que je dois avoir 5 applis.
J'ai pensé à changer d'OS pour le dégoogliser, mais je rencontre un mur, il semble incompatible avec les OS alternatifs.
Quelqu'un aurait une piste ?"

I need the power of the #fediverse : For an upcoming presentation I am looking for examples many people will understand where the software caused consumer electronic devices not to work anymore.

E.g. company decided not to update the software which caused the device to stop, company disappeared and e.g. servers not available and therefore the device did not start anymore, etc.

Currently interested in some fresh examples I could use. Any pointers?

Little Fedi looks like an interesting project! I also saw a toot earlier where it was showing a settings screen where someone disabled media without a description. https://littlefedi.org/ #AltText #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon

RE: https://dobbs.town/@bobcromwell/117164438687055192

this shagmaxxing content right here is why i’ve parked my ass at #mastodon and the #fediverse

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 boosted

Doktor Overcomma » 🌐 2026-08-26 / 2026-08-26
@bobcromwell@dobbs.town

Shagmaxxing has been around since the 1973 J. C. Penney catalog. The circumtoilet shag rug forming a second layer of shag rug atop the primary shag rug is a nice touch. ProTip: The toilet seat shag cover with its elastic band can be worn as a hat.
#shag #ShagMaxxing #pink #LifeHack #ProTip

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Page from 1973 J. C. Penney catalog showing a bathroom with pink shag carpeting on the floor, the circumtoilet region, the toilet seat, and the toilet tank and its lid. Further pink atrocities continue throughout the room.

How's your #filters?

Please take your #MentalHealth seriously.
The #Fediverse I so dearly love can be an unhealthy place.

#filter

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OCR as follows: thisisfine Keywords or phrases to filter trump (whole word) maga (whole word) fascist nazi fash (whole word) epstein israel putin (whole word) ukraine elon (whole word) zuckerberg tim cook (whole word) Microsoft csam (whole word) martial law (whole word) terrorist treason (whole word) murder protest (whole word) protests (whole word) Claude (whole word) anthropic (whole word) openai (whole word) llm (whole word) llms (whole word) google (whole word) bsky.social (whole word) gaza (whole word) palestin genocid palantir (whole word) surveil netanyahu (whole word) nsfw ICE (whole word) Al (whole word) sex capitalis data cent mutual aid (whole word) datacent flock camera

AND THEN THERE
IS EVERYBODY ELSE 💎

Today I'm thinking about AI, LOL, again, and I think there are actually three quite distinct groups forming around Artificial Intelligence.

There is a small group so frightened by it that they have decided they want nothing at all to do with it. And an even smaller group that has gone further and decided that anyone who uses AI is somehow morally suspect, deserving of abuse and bullying for their choice to use the technology.

AND THEN THERE IS EVERYBODY ELSE.

Most of us are not marching around waving AI banners.

WE’RE WATCHING.

We are trying things. We’re asking where it helps and where it doesn’t. We’re learning what it can do for disability, accessibility, education, writing, research, communication, creativity, work and ordinary daily life.

Some of us will use AI a lot. Some will barely use it at all. Some will remain deeply sceptical, and that seems perfectly healthy to me.

WHAT'S NOT HEALTHY IS FEAR OF A TECHNOLOGY TURNING INTO HOSTILITY TOWARD THOSE WHO USE IT.

AI is still very new. None of us knows exactly where this is going. But I suspect the future will not belong to the people shouting loudest either for it or against it.

It will belong to the much larger group quietly discovering where it adds value to human life. And where it doesn’t.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#AI #Accessibility #Technology #Fediverse #ArtificialIntelligence #value #human #healthy #research #education #communication #creativity #work #WAR #EVERYBODY #life

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A warm, futuristic scene showing a diverse group of people using AI and digital technology in everyday life. People of different ages and abilities are talking, learning, working and exploring on phones, tablets and computers, while glowing digital interfaces connect around them. The atmosphere is calm, curious and optimistic, suggesting people quietly discovering how technology can add value to their lives.

Mastodon.Radio is a Mastodon server for radio enthusiasts including the Amateur Radio (Ham) community, anyone interested in Shortwave Listening (SWL) and other forms of radio communication.

Mastodon.Radio has been online since 2018.

https://mastodon.radio

You can find out more at https://mastodon.radio/about or contact the admin account @M0YNG

#FeaturedServer #Radio #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #SWL #Shortwave #ShortwaveListening #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117163073497592482

just want to say, from the bottom of my heart, am grateful for the work law professor and attorney Heidi Li Feldman does here in the #fediverse.

#antifa work needs aaaaall the tactics in all the domains of society: arts, culture, education, government, law, politics, science, tech.

we can never have too much of antifa #praxis. i hope others, especially in other countries, stand up to the task and find in her a blueprint for their activism.

thank you @heidilifeldman

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 boosted

Heidi Li Feldman » 🌐 2026-08-26
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social

New activity today in legal efforts to prevent Trump from unlawfully interfering with mail-in voting.

A reminder of what Trump is attempting: he’s trying to use the USPS to control who gets absentee/mail-in ballots. This is to throttle vote-from-home, which for many people has meant requesting a ballot be mailed to them, which they then complete and return by hand or mail. Trump is trying to limit who receives ballots by mail. 1/ #LawFedi

RE: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/01a03e3d-1e73-7928-b396-db17b7f0f60b

Own Your Data!

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

artlog boosted

Stefano on littleFedi » 🌐 2026-08-26
@stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it

This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.

It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.

It consumes just under 1W.

Its database is this size:

-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db

That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.

Its average CPU load is extremely low.

It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.

I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.

I promise myself to use it more, and I will.

You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.

You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.

Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.

It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.

It consumes just under 1W.

Its database is this size:

-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db

That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.

Its average CPU load is extremely low.

It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.

I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.

I promise myself to use it more, and I will.

You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.

You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.

Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

#CrazyFediverseAnalogies

URGENT. PLEASE BOOST: Fedi friends, I really hate having to ask this, but after my most recent surgery to place a stent(hooray kidney issues!😐), I require adult diapers for a while. I'm a disabled trans man living under the poverty line, and I've just realised I'm almost out of the diapers I desperately need. My goal is $72.42 which will get me three packets of diapers that can be delivered for free asap and last me a while.
If you could help my reach that goal, it would be much appreciated. I can't do without them and I'm understandably stressed about my situation. Disability, chronic illness and poverty is hard(not to mention finding the courage to le the fediverse know I'm currently incontinent😅) Thank you in advance for your help. I appreciate you so much❤️

#boostforreach #disabledmutualaid #transmutualaidrequest #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidSavesLives #mutualaid #disabled #disbility #lgbtqia #urgentneed #HelpOthers #grateful #gratitude #povertykills #optimistic #positivity #adultdiapers #chronicillnesswarrior #chronicillness #chronicallyill #DisabledSocial #DisabledVoices #disabledwitch #fediverse #SpreadJoy #love #hope

https://ko-fi.com/aces_funhouse

I WILL NOT BE BULLIED 💎

I received a vicious reply today because I use AI. It wasn't a disagreement. Nor a criticism. It was a full-frontal personal attack! And I’ll admit it affected me more than I expected.

I USE AI MAINLY BECAUSE I'M PARALYSED.

Typing is physically difficult for me. I have the use of only one hand. So, tapping out a post or email with one finger is exhausting. Voice and AI help me turn my own thoughts into usable writing in a normal amount of time.

THAT SHOULD NOT REQUIRE A DEFENCE.

You can dislike AI. You can distrust it. You can argue about copyright concerns, energy and water use, labour, culture, or anything else that concerns you. I will listen to you and answer you.

But attacking people simply for using AI is not principled.

IT'S BULLYING.

And disabled people should not have to produce a medical justification every time they use a technology that makes their life easier.

AI is a tool. How it is used matters. Who gets harmed matters. Context matters. What does not help is turning “AI user” into a moral accusation and deciding that cruelty is suddenly acceptable.

I’m quite happy to discuss the technology with anyone.

HOWEVER, I WILL NOT BE BULLIED FOR USING IT.

I didn't need to do anything about the attack. Before I could even decide how to respond, both the post and the person disappeared from my notifications.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#AI #Accessibility #Disability #AssistiveTechnology #Fediverse #Bullying #PWD #Tool

Too far ahead of her time, too independent for show business.
But she left behind masterpieces like this one, which have kept me company for many years.

Good morning, #BSDCafe!
Good morning, #illumosCafe!
Good morning, #Fediverse!

https://song.link/s/28pVz3JvJQkfpOHs2oQWhn

#Music #JukeBox #MastoMusic #MastoRadio #FediMusic #FediRadio

It was proven today that the Fediverse liked Dolly Parton as much as it likes cats.

#DollyParton #Fediverse #Cats

RE: https://zpravobot.news/@Rainmaker1973/117156601411627558

#Mastodon and the #fediverse have, finally, an official #Caturday #music composition, #CatsOfMastodon composer, and the nerdiest conductor and philharmonic boosts and likes cannot buy

John Shaft boosted

Massimo » 🤖 🌐 2026-08-25
@Rainmaker1973@zpravobot.news

Lithuanian composer and conductor Mindaugas Piečaitis, directs his orchestra on the notes of Nora the cat playing the piano.

She earns a standing ovation.

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Lithuanian composer and conductor Mindaugas Piečaitis, directs his orchestra on the notes of Nora the cat playing the piano. She earns a standing ovation. https://t.co/5okuXaBRpG

Privacy note: While they may appear to be, polls on here are not anonymous under the hood. It's possible to learn who voted how. It's easier for the admin(s) of the instance the poll came from but it can also be possible for regular users under some conditions depending on the software involved. Like most things on the Fediverse, an inherently-public medium, privacy is not absolute.

#FediTips #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Privacy #FediPrivacy

littleFedi allows you to hide all posts that have images without alt text.
Because yes, that's how it should be.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse

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Screenshot of the "Timeline" settings menu in littleFedi, showing checkboxes for timeline preferences, including "Hide posts with undescribed images".

Where under Preferences can I find the option to filter and hide completely, posts with media that lack ALT text? 🤔

#fediverse #mastodon

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:

• MaryamSoliman (@maryamsoliman)
• Asmaa khadir🍉🍉 (@Lian_Mohammad)

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

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'd like to create a custom #Fediverse t-shirt for my upcoming talk at #BerlinFediDay.

I thought of maybe using the Fediverse logo as the "O" for "HOPE". What do you think? Trying to gauge if it's cheesy or not, I'd love some external opinion 😅

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a mockup of my custom t-shirt idea, showing a man (you can only see the torso and arms) wearing a navy blue t-shirt that reads HOPE - where the O is the Fediverse logo

Point matériel : la cassette HP 9162-0050.

Bien qu'elle adopte le format physique de la Compact Cassette, il s'agit d'un support certifié pour données numériques (digital-grade). Les caractéristiques magnétiques de la bande sont prévues pour du signal carré (0 et 1) et non pour la réponse en fréquence qu'exige le son analogique.

connaissais-tu ?

#RetroComputing #Hardware #ArchivesTech #Fediverse

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Mettre du son sur cette bande, c'est comme utiliser un câble série RS-232 pour diffuser de la FM.

#OverUnder 080 with Eric Bower

His thoughts about #POSIX, #terminals, #multiplexers, #Neovim, and #ClubSandwiches.

And, like every week, we got a recommendation for two #books.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #food #blogging #writing #unix #shells #linux #opensource #tmux #ghostty

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-080

1.2M people joined 2.1K Pixelfed servers and shared over 55M photos and videos!

Legit can't believe it sometimes.

Never give up and keep building, homies ❤️

#pixelfed #socialWeb #fediverse #millionsServed

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1.2M people joined 2.1K Pixelfed servers and shared over 55M photos and videos!

Hey everyone,

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

They are:

• HadeelMohammed (@HadeelMohammed)
• Manarfamily (@manarfamily96)
• Ruwaida Gaza (@Ruwaidi)

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

Once we fix all open bug reports, and federation, would you like to see us add support for AtProto (what Bluesky uses)?

#pixelfed #socialWeb #atproto #activitypub #fediverse #askFedi

I wish there was a Fediverse platform for music #scrobbler. Something similar to last.fm but OpenSource and supporting #ActivityPub. There is libre.fm, but despite being active, I cannot find their source code and I believe they are a centralized platform.

It would be great if we can also self-host our music history and be able to share it.

There is multi-scrobbler under MIT license that can be a nice place to start:

1. https://github.com/FoxxMD/multi-scrobbler

#Fediverse #scrobbler

Fediverse : commenter une #vidéo peertube

https://tube.p2p.legal/w/voqTF3zf3SBE7TVYuM1eih

> Vidéo sur le #fediverse, comment commenter une vidéo peertube ou suivre une chaîne. Exemples avec #mastodon et #pixelfed.

#comment #commentaire #tuto

New: WP+Masto POSSE — publish to both WordPress and Mastodon

A few days ago, I asked the fediverse <https://federate.social/@jik/117130547259731867> if anyone knew of a tool I could use to publish an article on my blog and publish the same article as a thread on Mastodon.

I already have a way to post summaries of and links to my blog postings into my Mastodon account. I’ve also already set up my WordPress server as an ActivityPub server. These aren’t what I want.
#fediverse #Mastodon #WordPress #POSSE #FOSS
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Hey #fediverse, I am trying to track down a person named/pseudonymed "Rog Cooper" who released an album called "Delta Nine Transmission" in 2013. As you can see, the album had a picture of Roger Moore with an 80s-era microcomputer on the cover.

I found one of the songs from the album on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOacmHqv8NA

Please boost!

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A record album featuring a man in white and off-white suit, shirt, and tie holding a white all-in-one computer & keyboard with joystick. The artist is given as Rog Cooper, and the album's name is Delta Nine Transmission.

🔧 Correction d'un bug sournois sur mes scripts de maintenance PeerTube : le nettoyage automatique (prune-storage/house-keeping) attendait une confirmation qui n'arrivait jamais en cron → rien n'était supprimé depuis des mois, sans erreur visible. C'est corrigé, avec des notifs Gotify plus détaillées en bonus.

📖 Docs à jour sur mon wiki :
🐳 Docker : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/maintenance-peertube-docker
⚙️ Classique : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/maintenance-peertube-installation-classique

#PeerTube #SelfHosting #Fediverse

Par hasard, je suis tombé sur cette mini-fiction d’Europod : Déconnecté.e.s en 2050
https://www.europod.eu/podcast/deconnecte-e-s-en-2050/

Je pense que ça en intéressera certains ici : ça parle de surveillance des GAFAMS, du #fediverse, des #chatons,…

🇫🇷 Le FÉDIVERSE expliqué.

Vous vous demandez quelle application du Fédiverse utiliser ? Voici ma vision, selon le contenu et le temps, ou bien quelle app capitalistique est remplacée : https://gayfr.online/map

🔄 Repouets, réutilisation et suggestions bienvenues !

____________________

🇬🇧 FEDIVERSE, explained.

Wondering which Fediverse app to use? This is my vision, according to content and time, or alternately, which mainstream corporate application is replaced: https://gayfr.online/map

🔄 Boosts, reuse and feedback welcome!

#GayFR #GayFrancophone #Mastodon #GayMastodon #Friendica #GayFriendica #Loops #GayLoops #WriteFreely #GayWriteFreely #Mobilizon #GayMobilizon #Pixelfed #Pixelfed #PeerTube #GayPeerTube #Lemmy #GayLemmy #BookWyrm #GayBookWyrm #Funkwhale #GayFunkwhale #XMPP #GayXMPP #Movim #GayMovim #XMPPBridge #BridgeXMPP #RSS #FreshRSS #MastodonRelay #AodeRelay #FediverseRelay #Fediverse #GayFediverse #GayFedi

Mastodon Blog: 5.0: Laying the foundation. “Two weeks ago, we shared insights from Mastodon’s first Discovery Week and how it’s informing our roadmap. Today, we’re offering a deeper dive on what’s in store for Mastodon 5.0 – not an exhaustive list of changes, but a glimpse into major decisions and the thoughts behind them.”

New on our blog: 2026 Q2 Finance Report by Mirlo

https://mirlo.space/team/posts/741

Support Mirlo: https://mirlo.space/team/tip ❤️🐦‍⬛

#Music #Mirlo #Blog #Blogs #MusicNews #FediMusic #Fediverse #Musicians

The Gamers’ Tavern is a cosy Mastodon server talking mainly about gaming and other topics. The goal is providing gamers a cosy and safe home to play together.

This server has a post size of up to 1500 characters and up to 8 poll options.

https://gamerstavern.online

You can find out more at https://gamerstavern.online/about or contact the admin accounts @tgt or @alex

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

Probably not exact numbers, but this gives an idea of the scales :
X: ~550–600 million MAU
Threads: ~450 million MAU
Bluesky: ~10–27 million MAU (depending on web vs. app-only metrics)
Mastodon: ~670,000 MAU

This is depressing. It really feels like like lack of ethics and number of users are directly correlated.

#socialmedia #fediverse

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/117134196889411019

I love #mastodon and the #fediverse because a post about old books by a feminist writer can go trending on here 💚

Added @sutty (@distributedpress CMS), #gofed, #Habitat, #Forte (streams fork) and #Sakura (Misskey fork) icons to #FediverseIconography at https://fediverse.wake.st (repo at https://codeberg.org/FediverseIconography)
#fediverse #ActivityPub

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a screenshot of icons for Kitsune, Librecast, Newsmast, Sutty, go-fed, Habitat, Forte, and Sakura

Hey #Fediverse can I ask you a favor?

Please don’t post URLs that have been shortened. Link-shortening services can not only potentially *track* your interactions and add telemetry to track your behaviors, they can also *break* and make your links unusable.

You can use services like https://urlexpander.net or install an app (I like Link Unshortener (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/link-unshortener/id1506953658)) to find the ultimate destination of a shortened link, and then post that instead.

Remember, all URLs in #Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long the actual URL is, so there really is no benefit to shortening your URLs.

The source code of #FediHood is now available under the AGPLv3.

A #Fediverse app using #OpenStreetMap to display timelines close to you, filtered by topics.

More about the project: https://fedihood.social/about

Source code: https://git.holos.social/tom79/FediHood

Now for something a bit different, a self-hostable Fediverse-compatible crossword server:

🌱 https://apps.lashman.live/cruciverb

There's a demo server at:

🌱 https://cruciverb.lashman.live

It's written by @lashman and is CC0 so it's totally free code with no restrictions at all.

The crosswords don't require an account to play. The Fediverse element is to do with sharing puzzles, clues and leaderboards between servers.

#Crosswords #FOSS #SelfHosting #Fediverse #ActivityPub

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rouh/117132336610939568

To people from #Gaza and those supporting them: You’re invited to use #FediForGaza, for connection.
If you’re from Gaza, it helps you connect with others, and reach support groups on the #Fediverse / #Mastodon. Replacing lists of recipients with #FediForGaza speaks to those who are listening, and it helps to avoid bans.
If you want to support people and groups from Gaza, follow #FediForGaza. Whether you favorite posts, boost, or donate: Visible feedback confirms they are seen, and supports them.

I'm a big fan of Sill, a service that connects to your Mastodon account in read-only mode (and your ATProto account, if you're so inclined), and then sends you a daily newsletter with popular links! (i.e. that had lots of reboosts among your follows)

https://sill.social

Now that's my beloved free software

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #ATProto #Sill

Is it just me? There is sometimes such a big disconnect between how we feel about the fediverse and how it actually is.

Every poll I've seen about alt text suggests we all use it.

But then you look at results posted by @AltTextHealthCheck.

So many seem to agree that racism and mansplaining and gatekeeping are bad.

Can anyone say any of this has actually improved over the past few years?

Or have we collectively just driven enough marginalized people away that we don't see the complaints as often?

#fediverse #FediMeta

Another cool thing about the #Fediverse:

IF (most likely NOT gonna happen) a major instance or smaller ones would be sold to whatever evil entity that wants to use it to influence our network…

…most of the rest of the Fediverse would simply block them and local users migrate to a different instance for example

What I’m saying is, the Fedi cannot be bought by an evil billionaire 🤷

#Randonnée #Roller #RideOnLille ce vendredi soir à #Lille.
Départ 21h de République, #Gratuit, #Vélo friendly à l'arrière.
#Rando niveau normal pour les riders.
N'oubliez pas vos protections, lumières, et votre eau.

#Fédiverse #Sport #Loisir #Ride

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Flyer de la Rando Roller du vendredi 21 août 2026 Les infos à gauche, la carte à droite. C'est Encadré en orange, niveau normal rider.

Hé le #Fédiverse, y a t'il quelqu'un qui connaît une alternative à Quik l'application #Android #GoPro lourdingue, complètement pétée et pleine de pubs.
Genre #OpenSource sur #FDroid?

#HelpWanted #Tips #Aide #Conseil #Caméra

🐘 Mon instance Mastodon vient de passer en 4.7.0 !

Grosse mise à niveau côté interne (sécurité, nouveaux protocoles ActivityPub, préparation à la 5.0), presque invisible côté utilisateurs — mais ça méritait un petit guide.

📝 J'en ai profité pour documenter toute la procédure Docker Compose (backup, migrations, bascule) sur mon wiki, pour celles et ceux qui gèrent leur propre instance :
👉 https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/mise-a-niveau-mastodon-docker

#Mastodon #SelfHosting #Fediverse #Docker #FOSS

littleFedi and your data

Several people have asked me the same thing over the past few days, in different words but with the same question underneath: "if I set up a littleFedi instance, or open an account on one that is already running, what ends up stored somewhere?".

It is a fair question and it deserves a precise answer. So I went back and reread the code, the database schema and the default configuration, and what follows is what I found. Including the parts I do not like, and the parts no fediverse software can solve.

One premise that applies to everything else: littleFedi is a binary running on a server. Whoever administers that server has access to the database. This is true for littleFedi, for Mastodon, for snac, for GoToSocial, for anything. The difference is how much that database holds, and how much of it leaves for the outside world without anyone asking.

The database holds the obvious things: username, display name, bio, avatar, header image, the key pair that is the account's ActivityPub identity, posts, favourites, follows, blocks, mutes, bookmarks, lists, filters.

Then the preferences: theme, interface language, default post language, default visibility, which notifications you want by email, which by push. Functional stuff.

Email is optional. require_email is false by default: on a single-user instance you can leave it out entirely, and on a multi-user one it is the operator who decides whether to require it. If you do provide it, it is used for verification, password reset and the notifications you chose. Nothing else.

The password is hashed with bcrypt. The TOTP secret, if you enable the second factor, is encrypted at rest, not stored in the clear.

And here is something I want to say because it was a deliberate choice: every bearer token is stored as a SHA-256 hash, never in the clear. Session tokens, OAuth access and refresh tokens, application client secrets, password reset tokens, email verification tokens. Anyone who walks off with a copy of the database does not walk off with reusable credentials.

We did a cleanup on exactly this just yesterday. The sessions table had been carrying a legacy token compatibility column for a long time, inherited from an older schema. It held nothing dangerous, because the function that creates sessions was writing the hash into it rather than the browser token, and I checked that this is the only path that leads to an insert. But the guarantee lived in one line of Go, not in the schema. A line of Go can be removed by accident; a column that does not exist cannot. So I dropped the column with a migration, and now there is simply nowhere in the sessions table for a token in the clear to end up.

There is exactly one place where an IP address ends up

The sessions table. When you log in, littleFedi saves the session row with: hashed token, creation date, expiry, User-Agent and IP address.

It serves one purpose: the Settings > Sessions page, where you can see your active logins and revoke them one at a time. It is your data, shown to you. There is no admin screen listing users' IP addresses, and we did not write one on purpose.

Sessions last 30 days and are removed by automatic maintenance when they expire, along with the push subscriptions attached to them.

What is not saved, and what other software does save:

• No registration IP. Until yesterday the registration struct had a field for the IP and one for the User-Agent that nobody ever read: the data arrived inside the function and died there, without touching the database. We took them out. I did ask myself whether it was worth actually recording it, the way Mastodon does, and the answer I arrived at is no. There is really only one use case, the wave of fake accounts created in bulk, and in that case you already have the data: a freshly registered account that is spamming has an open session, and that session holds the IP and the User-Agent. Someone who registers and never logs in is not spamming. On top of that the IP is a weak signal in itself, between CGNAT, mobile carriers and VPNs, while invites, manual approval and email verification are real defences. And unlike the session, which expires in 30 days and disappears, a column like that would stay attached to the account forever: one more entry in the privacy policy, one more target in a breach, and one more thing someone can come asking for with a stamped piece of paper. On a single-user instance it would mean nothing at all.
• No last-login IP on the account. Only the session, which expires.
• No IP history. Close the session and that row is gone.
• The per-IP rate limiter does exist, but it keeps its counters in memory only and cleans them up by itself. It never touches the disk.

What about cookies?

Five, all first-party, all functional:

session (HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax, Secure when you are behind HTTPS, 30 days), pwreset_token (lives 15 minutes during a password reset), locale, theme, appearance.

There is nothing else. There is no analytics cookie because there is no analytics.

Zero third parties

What the code does not contain: Google Analytics, Matomo, Plausible, Sentry, a CDN, a remote font, a third-party script, a pixel, a beacon. And, old-fashioned as it may sound, there is no AI listening in and offering suggestions.

The default Content-Security-Policy is default-src 'self' with a nonce for inline content. Pages load only what your own instance serves. If someone tried to slip an external resource in tomorrow, the browser would block it on its own.

There is not even an update check phoning home. littleFedi does not know you exist and I have no way of finding out.

The only connection to a server of mine is the commercial Big Tech domain list, still empty, (https://littlefedi.org/lists/commercial-bigtech.csv), which is downloaded only if you turn that block on, and it is off by default. It is a download of a CSV of domain names: it sends nothing about you, and you can point the same option at your own list or at a mirror.

The /metrics endpoint is disabled by default.

What about logs?

Here I owe you the whole truth. The access log is on by default and writes one line per request: method, path, status, bytes, duration and remote address.

High-volume, low-value requests (static assets, proxied media, /health, /metrics, /robots.txt, the service worker) are logged at debug level only, so at the default info level they stay silent. But pages are logged.

It goes away with one line:

[observability]
access_log = false

And retention is not littleFedi's call: those lines end up wherever your init system sends them, journald or syslog or anything else. It is the operator who decides how long they stay. In the policy template I ship I suggest 14 days as a starting point.

As for media?

EXIF metadata on uploaded images is stripped by default (strip_exif = true). Orientation is preserved because it is baked into the pixels before the rewrite, so the photo does not end up sideways.

With one honest caveat: the rewrite only happens for JPEG and PNG. GIFs are deliberately left untouched, because rewriting them would flatten the animation, and WebP files are not rewritten because the library I use has no WebP encoder. In practice: if you upload a WebP with GPS coordinates inside, those coordinates stay. I am saying it plainly because it is better to know than to find out. We will look at it later on.

File names are randomised (rename_media = true), so IMG_20250812_my_coffee.jpg does not become a public URL.

And then there is the thing I am proudest of, which is on by default: the remote media proxy.

proxy_remote = true. When an image, an avatar or an emoji living on another server shows up in your timeline, your browser does not contact that server. It contacts your instance, which streams it through. The result is that the remote instance does not see your IP address, does not see your User-Agent, does not see what time you read that post, and cannot use an image as a tracking pixel.

Proxy URLs are HMAC-signed and regenerated on every response, never stored anywhere. And cache_remote is off by default: the stream is passed through and that is it, without keeping other people's media on your disk. If you would rather keep them to cut down on traffic there are the lazy and eager modes, but that is your choice, not a default you find yourself saddled with.

I will add the security headers, which are privacy too: X-Frame-Options: DENY, X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff, Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin (meaning: when you click a link to the outside, the destination site does not see which exact page you came from), HSTS when you are behind TLS.

But there is also the part no software can fix.

Which is to say, it is time for the uncomfortable section, and it applies to littleFedi just as it does to any other ActivityPub implementation. If someone tells you otherwise, they are selling you something that does not exist.

Public posts are public. When you publish, a copy is delivered to every server that has at least one of your followers, and to every relay your instance is connected to. Those copies are on machines you do not administer. There is no way to call them back.

Direct messages are not end-to-end encrypted. In the fediverse a DM is a post with direct visibility. It sits in the clear in your instance's database and in the clear in the recipient's instance database. Whoever administers either server can read it. Do not use fediverse DMs for anything you would not put on a postcard. This applies to littleFedi, it applies to Mastodon, it applies to everyone. We are thinking about a way to encrypt DMs between littleFedi instances, but that could not apply with other software, and it risks giving a false sense of security.

Followers-only is a convention, not a lock. You tell the remote server "this is for followers only". The remote server, if it is honest, respects that. If it is not, no amount of encryption is going to stop it.

Deleting means asking to delete. littleFedi sends Delete activities to peers and has a queue with retries. If a peer is offline, or uncooperative, that copy stays where it is. That is a limitation of the protocol, not a bug.

And what if I delete my account?

I wrote this part carefully, because it is where a lot of software pretends.

When an account is deleted, a single transaction removes: posts and boosts, polls, options and votes, notifications (both received and generated), mentions, favourites, emoji reactions, bookmarks, link previews, home feed rows, attachments, filters and filter keywords, scheduled posts, push subscriptions, OAuth tokens, sessions, lists, followed tags, featured tags, blocks and mutes (in both directions), follows (in both directions), relays, read markers, personal domain blocks, password resets, email verifications, digest state, MFA recovery codes, exports, imports, reports, generated invites, and finally the account row itself. Counters on other accounts and other posts are recalculated, not left out of sync.

The actual files, meaning media, export archives and import archives, are deleted from storage, whether that is a local disk or S3.

What stays, and I am saying so explicitly:

• Tombstones. A row with a URI, the original type and a date. They exist so that deleted content is not resurrected when a peer offers it back to us. The ones for posts have a configurable retention, 90 days by default. The one for a deleted actor stays indefinitely, but it holds nothing but URI, type and date.
• The moderation log. Administrator actions stay, because an audit log you can delete is not an audit log. The template suggests 2 years.

Deletion has a window: peers are notified first, then it is finalised. There is a deadline past which it is finalised anyway, because at that point the right to erasure of someone who is here outweighs an unreachable peer.

But you can take your data with you.

There is the account export: a ZIP with account.json, the media index and the media themselves. It is served with private, no-store, it has an expiry, and a cleanup job removes it from storage. The template suggests 24 hours and a single download.

There is the import, which accepts the same format. And there is migration to another instance. The archive uploaded for an import is deleted as soon as the import succeeds.

What if you use littleMesh?

Anyone running an instance behind NAT with littleMesh has one more surface, and I want to be precise here too, because it is already written in the documentation.

The lighthouse relays encrypted circuits. It does not read the contents, it cannot impersonate a node, and it has neither the mesh key nor the actor key. But it does see which node IDs open circuits to which, with what sizes and what timings. littleMesh solves reachability, not anonymity. If anonymity is what you need, an onion service is the right tool, not this one.

The HTTPS gateway is a different matter: it is the one terminating TLS for non-mesh servers, so it sees the traffic. That is written in the trust table in the documentation, in plain terms, along with what it can and cannot do.

The default exposure is federation: discovery, inboxes, objects, actors and public media get through. The web interface, the authentication pages, the Mastodon API and the media proxy do not.

Retention defaults, all in one place

What

Default

Sessions

30 days, then removed

Remote posts

30 days (prune_remote_statuses_after_days = 30)

Remote media cache

disabled; if enabled, 720 hours

Terminal jobs

24 hours

Post tombstones

90 days

Your own posts

never, unless you ask

Moderation log

indefinitely

Access log

your system keeps them, not littleFedi

You can have your own posts pruned automatically, by age and with like and boost thresholds, if you want a timeline that forgets. And there are self-destructing posts with a per-post timer. But those are things you choose, not things I decide for you.

There is something the software cannot do in your place, though

If you open an instance to other people, the code cannot write your privacy policy for you. It cannot decide the lawful basis, the jurisdiction, the subprocessors, the policy on minors, the breach notification timelines.

That is what docs/instance-policy-template.md is for: an operator checklist with a starting retention table and a list of what an honest privacy policy has to cover, namely federation of profiles and posts to independent servers, caching and proxying of remote content, email, push endpoints, logs, moderation records, backups, exports, imports, tombstones, where the data lives and how people exercise their rights. It is not legal advice and does not claim to be.

Moderation, privacy and security contacts, the rules and the terms of service are published from the admin console without restarting anything, and they land on /about, on /terms and in the instance APIs.

In two lines...

...littleFedi collects what it needs to work and nothing more. One IP address per session, shown to you and revocable by you. No analytics, no telemetry, no third parties, no phoning home. We do not know how many of you there are or who you are, and we have no interest in finding out. EXIF stripped by default, remote media proxied by default, metrics off by default, secrets hashed at rest, deletion that actually deletes.

And then there is the fediverse, which is a publishing protocol. What you put on it in public is public, DMs are not encrypted, and deleting is a polite request to other servers. littleFedi does not change that and neither does anyone else. Once you know it, you can live with it perfectly well.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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littleFedi Logo

Calling on fediverse moderators: if you see a post that kind of, sort of borders on racism, but you're not really too sure: yep, you're definitely dealing with a racist.

Learn about dog whistles. And microaggressions. Get a Black person on your moderation team.

None of the redesigns and user experience tweaks will matter if we can't make this place welcoming to everyone.

#fediverse #FediMeta #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #racism #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon

Transcription par @aprilorg de l'échange intervenu entre @bayartb et Quentin Adam, #clevercloud, le 25 mars 2026, et intitulé « Benjamin Bayart : les plateformes menacent-elles l’Internet ouvert ? »

@federationfdn #fediverse #mastodon

https://www.librealire.org/benjamin-bayart-les-plateformes-menacent-elles-l-internet-ouvert

Bonne lecture !

LEAVING META
WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR LIFE 💎

After my posting about Meta over the past two days, one thing became very clear.

A lot of people would LIKE to leave Facebook, Instagram, or both. But parts of their actual lives are all tangled up in them.

So don’t make leaving a purity test. Start somewhere. Remove Facebook from your phone and use it only on your laptop, or better still, only on your desktop when you genuinely need it.

STOP POSTING TO META. STOP FEEDING THE TIMELINE.

Move conversations with real friends to your email, text, Signal, phone calls, Mastodon account, or wherever works for you, away from Meta.

TELL PEOPLE WHERE ELSE THEY CAN EASILY FIND YOU.

If you run a business, start putting your email address and/or website URL everywhere you promote your business so Facebook is not your only front door.

Download anything you actually want to keep. Then, when you’re ready, deactivate or delete what you no longer need.

Maybe you keep Messenger for Aunt Doris. Maybe you keep Instagram because your local café apparently believes websites were abolished in 2014.

Fine.

The point isn’t ideological cleanliness.

THE POINT IS REDUCING YOUR DEPENDENCE.

Every conversation you move elsewhere is one conversation Meta no longer owns the doorway to.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO ESCAPE THE META CAGE IN ONE HEROIC LEAP.

Just start opening the door.

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia #Fediverse #people #DEPENDENCE #Messenger

You're Not Alone.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Cyberplacesocial

LEAVING META
WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR LIFE 💎

After my posting about Meta over the past two days, one thing became very clear.

A lot of people would LIKE to leave Facebook, Instagram, or both. But parts of their actual lives are all tangled up in them.

So don’t make leaving a purity test. Start somewhere. Remove Facebook from your phone and use it only on your laptop, or better still, only on your desktop when you genuinely need it.

STOP POSTING TO META. STOP FEEDING THE TIMELINE.

Move conversations with real friends to your email, text, Signal, phone calls, Mastodon account, or wherever works for you, away from Meta.

TELL PEOPLE WHERE ELSE THEY CAN EASILY FIND YOU.

If you run a business, start putting your email address and/or website URL everywhere you promote your business so Facebook is not your only front door.

Download anything you actually want to keep. Then, when you’re ready, deactivate or delete what you no longer need.

Maybe you keep Messenger for Aunt Doris. Maybe you keep Instagram because your local café apparently believes websites were abolished in 2014.

Fine.

The point isn’t ideological cleanliness.

THE POINT IS REDUCING YOUR DEPENDENCE.

Every conversation you move elsewhere is one conversation Meta no longer owns the doorway to.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO ESCAPE THE META CAGE IN ONE HEROIC LEAP.

Just start opening the door.

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia #Fediverse #people #DEPENDENCE #Messenger

If you are a fan of RSS feeds and RSS feed readers, you might like to know about RSS features on the Fediverse. You can follow:

- Mastodon accounts' public posts via RSS
- Hashtag search results on Mastodon via RSS
- PeerTube channels through RSS
- RSS feeds within Mastodon, Friendica etc

More info about all these in this guide:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/following-mastodon-and-fediverse-accounts-through-rss

#FediTips #RSS #Fediverse

After a way longer delay than we planned, we finally can present our new #news search:
#TroetNews and #TootNews are our demonstrators for #fediverse news search based on our upcoming SUMA-Kit.
Try out our German language version at:
https://troet.suma-lab.de
or our English version at:
https://toot.suma-lab.de

Especially the English version currently has very few results. This will improve while we continue adding more fediverse servers to both versions.

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Screenshot of our news search engine. Searching for "Hitze", the german term for heat. It's showing two results from German news sites regarding the current extreme temperatures.

Strangers

I keep a terminal window open most evenings, more out of habit than need, tailing the access log of one of the littleFedi test instances while I think about something else entirely. That's how I noticed it the first time: a fetch from a Threads host, correct in every way ActivityPub asks it to be, asking for someone's outbox.

Nothing wrong with it, technically. And yet I sat there for a while, thinking about the person behind that account, and whether they'd have wanted a company that size reading what they wrote, simply because the protocol says anyone can ask.

So we built a way to say no, but only to strangers, not to friends.

An instance still federates in the open by default, the way ActivityPub expects, because that's what almost everyone wants and I wasn't going to take it away from them. What changed is that an admin can now flip to an exact-host allowlist, from the console or from the command line, and it happens immediately, the switch is simply true the moment you set it. Once it's true, reads on posts, on the followers list, on the outbox, all start asking for a signature, and only the hosts you've named get an answer back. Discovery stays open regardless, because a peer that doesn't know you exist yet still needs a way to find out, before it can even be told no.

I went back and forth for a long time on what should happen to a peer once you remove them, or once you switch the whole instance back to open. In the end nothing gets deleted, not the account, not the relationship, not a single post or piece of media or anything cached from them. Traffic stops, that's all. I've never liked the idea that moderation means destroying what someone wrote, as if the words themselves were the problem and not who gets to see them.

There's a list, if you want it, of the big commercial names, the ones like Threads that started this whole conversation. It updates once a day over HTTPS, quietly, and if the update fails it just keeps yesterday's copy instead of leaving your instance with nothing. But whatever an admin decided on purpose always wins. Allow someone by hand and the list can't undo it. Suspend someone by hand and even an allow can't undo that either.

If you're bringing a block list with you from somewhere else, plain text works, CSV works, and so does the Mastodon export with all its fields, severity and everything. Ten thousand rows at most, checked before a single one is written, and you get to look at what's about to happen before it happens.

One thing I'll admit, since it will trip someone up eventually: matching is on the exact host. A peer that splits its actors and its inboxes across different addresses needs every one of them on the list, not just the one that looks like the main domain. It's the kind of mistake that fails closed instead of open, which is the direction I'd rather be wrong in, but it's still a mistake waiting to happen, so it's the first thing in the documentation.

I still think about that line in the log sometimes. A small server should get to say no to a stranger.

Now it can.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse

Look, this is not complicated.
Not indexing #fediverse content without explicit opt-in means some people knowingly don't have access to a feature they want, i.e., a comprehensive index of other people's content they can search.
Indexing #fediverse content without explicit opt-in means some people's privacy is unknowingly violated so they can't do anything about it.
Your _desire_ for the content to be indexed doesn't trump other users' _right_ to privacy.
#privacy
1/2

Look, this is not complicated.
Not indexing #fediverse content without explicit opt-in means some people knowingly don't have access to a feature they want, i.e., a comprehensive index of other people's content they can search.
Indexing #fediverse content without explicit opt-in means some people's privacy is unknowingly violated so they can't do anything about it.
Your _desire_ for the content to be indexed doesn't trump other users' _right_ to privacy.
#privacy
1/2

More and more of you are joining #FediHood, currently the only #Fediverse software that lets you build a local timeline with people posting around you.

You choose how far around you the timeline reaches, and which topics you want to see.

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Map view of FediHood showing the number of people per country in Europe, with the distance slider (around 1700 km) to display everyone around.

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Map view of FediHood zoomed in, showing how many people are around, grouped by region as you get closer, with a slider to choose the distance.

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Nearby, Discover and Following tabs, with Nearby selected, a filter button and an adjustable distance slider set to 60 km, to filter a timeline that matches what I want to see. Everything can be adjusted.

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Nearby timeline in FediHood with the filter menu open, showing the topics you can pick to filter what you see.

#flock #deflock #mastodon #fediverse #surveillance

https://noalprs.com/

@deflocktheusa

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A. Parody of the the pre-standardized USA flag called "Don't tread on me" with the same yellow background, but with the words "don't spy on me" instead and it is a outline of Jimothy who is a weirdly shaped raccoon standing on grass using a saw to topple a pole that has an array of flock surveillance cameras on top of it.

Relax.

You are on the #Fediverse! No haunting advertisements, no algorithm that keeps track of what you do, no collection of data on each click or tap 🫆

Just humans having a good time connecting the good 'ol way

No pressure 💆

• Loads #Fediverse notifications
• @Tusky whimpers
• Phone bursts into flames
• Spacetime folds in on itself
• I'm playing Pasur with Dave Bowman in the hotel room at the end of time
• The unnerving space fetus is keeping score
• Captain Picard's 42 palms are simultaneously placed on his forehead
• The universe is singing its song to me:
  "Oooolwayyyz look on the broight soide of loife....!"

#Hellthreadia

@twizzay, I feel this toot was worthy of you.

Meine IT Datenschutz Liste, 🔒

https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/lQQI+qPoqSFOfNRXiso+fY11

#Datenschatz
#Privatsphäre
#Sicherheit
#Überwachung
#Medienkompetenz
#Chatkontrolle
#Smartphone
#Linux
#FDroid
#DiDay
#Messenger
#eMail
#Gaming
#KeepAndroidOpen
#Internet
#2FA
#Mastodon
#Fediverse

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Meine IT Datenschutz Liste

Attention please! (Clears his throat).

Seeing that the Pixelfed.social server was receiving spam and scam accounts, I decided to switch server. Imagine my surprise when I discovered... I couldn't. You can't migrate a Pixelfed.social profile to another instance. Apparently, this has been the case for over a year, by other complaints I've seen.

The lead developer has said something like they're working on fixing it, but it's been like this for a while...

I asked @pixelfed for an explanation several days ago. They've posted things, but they haven't answered to me.

Meanwhile, they've disabled one of the main features of the Fediverse on the largest (and "official") #Pixelfed server.

In other words, they're holding all their users hostage, which goes against the philosophy of the #Fediverse.

What's more, Pixelfed has a function to export your data. However, exporting posts always fails.

I thought, well, at least I can import the people I follow. Nope, because the only import tool they've designed is one for importing your Instagram account. Disabled on the main Pixelfed.social server, by the way.

I even started to think it was because they were one version behind the server I wanted to move to (which would be strange, since it's the main server).

Well, no, they have the same version. But you can only migrate your account INTO Pixelfed.social, not the other way, OUT of Pixelfed.social. That makes the whole thing crystal clear to me.

In short: NEVER create an account on Pixelfed.social, or you'll be held hostage. I recommend another servers (Luzeed, Fotolibre, for example). And there's also @vernissage for sharing photos.

You can all follow me again at this account: @andrewblasco@luzeed.org. Because of course, without account migration, you lose all your followers 🤷🏽‍♂️

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221397911074

"We hope that these changes provide a strong foundation for what’s to come — this is only the beginning!"

And I'm here for it!

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

#mastodon #fediverse

Decided to hop on https://fedihood.social and see what it's like. Seems like a fun concept! Those of you who feel comfortable joining totally should (you can use a pseudonymous acct if you like).

It seems to be largely lacking in users still. I would love to see this thing take off in a real way!

#tech #activityPub #fediverse #socialWeb

@ploum

What is bad in #fediverse been niche ?

There’s always that returning question: why is the #fediverse so niche?

We always find technical explanations like "usability" or "social circles".

From my tests with my students, the number one reason is the lack of content about #football.

One of my student was really excited by the prospect of using #peertube. I showed him Sepia Search and the first thing he did was to type "football".

Try it for yourself!

People only need elebrity gossips and football to be able to use the Fediverse.

Identi.ca is the first #fediverse site and the precursor to status.net.

in 2008 i was running my own Identi.ca server; which i used as a bridge between my mobile tech, drupal sites and the early Twitter and Facebook.

so i fediversed waaaaaay before it was cool, as in, almost 20 years ago.

@randulo

> 2027 prediction

- death valley level #global heat
- grid collapse
- severe if not critical #food supply issues
- #war war iv
- #ram now costs more than a volvo
- sars-cov-27 (the reckoning)
- aliens dip out and leave
- rust is no longer socially acceptable
- #fediverse hasn't reached interopo

This week @CrazyBlue is my guest for the #OverUnder 079

He shares his thoughts about #Bluesky, #SteamMachine, #FPS, #violence in #videogames, and #FishAndChips

He also replied to @readbeanicecream's question.

And, like every week, we got a recommendation for two #books.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #food #blogging #writing #gaming #games

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-079

The sad, yet fascinating thing about our job is that when done right, nobody notices.

Have a great start to the week, #BSDCafe!
Have a great start to the week, #illumosCafe!
Have a great start to the week, #Fediverse!

Wait, what? 👀

59k followers on the Fediverse?! Make it 60k! 😻

Go #Fediverse

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Screenshot of the Tutanota Mastodon profile with 59k followers

#Présentation 6/6
Pourquoi on est sur le #fediverse  ?
La comm c'est pas notre fort depuis le début. Parfois il y a des résident·es motivé·es, et parfois ce truc est laissé de coté. Là ça fait un an que c'est quasi à zéro.
Tiens les stages se remplissent pas, faut les annuler, mais que ce passe-t-il donc ?
La question revient régulièrement, communiquer sur #fb ? Boooooof.
Alors on se lance ici, en espérant que ça percole un peu vers les réseaux #gafam
On envisage de compléter notre compte Mastodon par un Pixelfed et un Friendica. Vous en pensez quoi ?

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Partie réseaux sociaux du site web de la Ferme Légère

Week in Fediverse 2026-08-14

Servers

- Akkoma v2026.08
- WriteFreely v0.17.2
- Wafrn v2026.08.03
- Mitra v5.9.0
- Ktistec v3.11.0
- Hollo v0.9.11
- Mastodon v4.6.6
- Forte v26.8.11
- gathio v1.6.4
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.2.2
- NeoDB v0.17.6
- NodeBB v4.15.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, July 2026 (Mastodon)

Clients

- Aria v1.5.11
- Snowdrop: Multiplatform client for Mastodon API compatable Fediverse software

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v9.1.1

For developers

- Fedipub v0.9.0
- Library progress report - August 2026 (GoActivityPub)

Protocol

- FEP-e4de: Closing Registration on Unattended Servers
- FEP-633c: Guardians

Articles

- Deploying your own Vernissage instance

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019fde3b-670e-7793-9180-6d8d0ddca40a

Feedback about #FediHood is greatly appreciated. This is a small, unpretentious #Fediverse project. But it seems that the idea of linking #OpenStreetMap to discover content near you was something missing here. It was designed to never use a GPS. It warns you when your city is too small and suggests the biggest one around. Topics and language allow you to get tailored content. I will introduce the #ActivityPub Event used by #Mobilizon for the event topic.

Thank you for using and sharing.

The reason Mastodon (and the wider Fediverse that it is part of) doesn't go down is because all its servers are totally independent. One Fedi server might go down, but that doesn't affect the other servers at all.

That's one of the many advantages of decentralisation, that there is no central point of failure.

Centralised networks go down because they depend on one central organisation's infrastructure.

#Mastodon #Fediverse

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/117095740060037054

Tom, the creator of @apps and @HolosSocial has started a new project:
It's called Fedihood
https://FediHood.social

It connects people by location, and topic, so you can find people near you by topic.

You can find me there too: @joergi@fedihood.social

#feDIVERSE #fedihood #fedi #HoloSocial #fedilab

Is it OK to write code that does new things on the Fediverse?

#EvanPoll #poll #ActivityPub #Fediverse

Quick, Bluesky is down, tell your friends about your favorite fediverse server!

Don't confuse them with techy jargon, unless they care about that stuff. Just tell them why you picked the server you're on, and that they can sign up and follow and talk to people on other servers.

https://downdetector.com/status/bluesky/

#fediverse

What do you prefer when it comes to your social media accounts and when following others?

Do you have one account for screaming into the void and sharing your art, photography, videos, music and so on or do you have separate accounts?

#SocialMedia #Fediverse #askFedi #Mastodon #Pixelfed #PeerTube #Loops #Friendica #poll

Falls mich noch irgendwer auf der @FrOSCon sucht, bis zu meinem Talk 13:45 Uhr hänge ich noch beim #XMPP-Stand rum (außer irgendwann eine kleine Mittagspause).

Und wenn wir schon beim Thema sind: Ich halte nachher nochmal einen Talk :D Sogar mit kleinem Teaser:

Der Reichweitenmythos debunked - Trailer zum Talk auf der FrOSCon am 16. August 2026

https://video.dresden.network/w/pu1DzFNzeTtpPCee4MPyee

#FrOSCon #FrOSCon2026 #FrOSCon21 #Fediverse

RE: https://mastodon.social/@riverbirchtree/117099674446276439

You made it possible for @joynewacc to leave Gaza and study in Milan. Now you have the chance to reunite her with her sister.

What do you say, Fediverse?

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #fediverse #mastodon

Vous savez que le #fediverse insiste particulièrement sur l’ajout d’un "alt text" pour décrire les images, afin d’être plus accessibles, essentiellement pour les mal-voyants.

Le truc marrant c’est que j’ai une vision excellente mais que je me suis surpris à lire très souvent les alt-text pour avoir plus de contexte ou pour comprendre un truc qui semblait m’échapper.

Bref, les alt-text dans les images, c’est vachement utile, continuez !

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:

• Hadeel In Gaza 🙏🇵🇸 (@hadeelgaza)

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

Good morning !

Today is the Camp CHATONS 2026, 70 people are regrouped in Troyes, in France.

What are kittens ?

CHATONS – kittens in french – is the Collective of Hosters Alternative, Transparent, Open, Neutral and Solidarity.

This collective aims to bring together structures offering free, ethical and decentralised online services in order to allow users to quickly find alternatives that respect their data and privacy to the services offered by GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft).

CHATONS is a collective initiated by the association Framasoft in 2016 following the success of its campaign De-google-ify Internet.

Some may already know that i’m part of the CHATONS. My kittens S2S, sign to sign, we purpose free software service to deaf community : https://peertube.s2s.video

You may already know some Kittens : yunohost, framasoft (peertube), zaclys, tedomum…

I hope i can share some of our french meeting related to the fediverse. We will probably have to translate them in english.

The kittens will celebrate their 10 years birthday. We will present several free software, share our ideas against big tech, talk about technical stuff and party !

See ya !

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A table full of stickers : wikipedia, anarchist symbol with keyboard, lgtbqia+ flag

Hello #fediverse!

We built an opt-in directory of people you can follow, organized by topics.

It's not limited to Pixelfed, most fedi software is supported!

Brilliantly simple, you need to add the #fedi22 hashtag to your bio, and any other hashtags in your bio are converted into topics that people can find you by.

Consent-driven discovery is possible ❤️

https://fediverse.info/people?topics=photography

#PeopleDirectory #ConsentDrivenDiscovery

Just to update you all, this is the reply we just got.

Apologies again for any messages you might have received in the past couple of days.

#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #fediverse #mastodon

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Sorry for the late reply, and I'm truly sorry for the inconvenience this has caused. To answer your question directly: yes, I will delete all of my other accounts by the end of today. I stopped messaging people directly yesterday, and I understand now that keeping multiple accounts, even when linked to the same verified campaign, undermines the purpose of verification and creates confusion. That was not my intention, and I take your concerns seriously.

Hi everyone,

We are aware of a Gaza Verified member who has made multiple other accounts and is sending what appear to be automated direct messages.

We have spoken to him and asked him to delete these accounts and stop the automated messages by end of today and to confirm that he understands that this behaviour damages the reputation of the hundreds of other Palestinians on Gaza Verified and Gaza Verified itself and to promise not to do so in the future.

We apologise if you’ve been contacted in this way. Our verification verifies that someone is a Palestinian from Gaza. It is not a character reference (we can no more vouch for the character of every Palestinian than we can for the character of every USian). However, we have rules clearly set in our guide (https://gaza-verified.org/guide) and these are there to protect the accounts of our friends from Gaza from being reported and thus limited/suspended.

So, please, if you need to mute or block an account, do so. If you’re a server admin and you notice mass automated messages, you’re well within your rights to limit or suspend an account but if it’s not automated, please contact us so we can talk to them and explain why what they’re doing isn’t in their long term interests. Many of you already do and I thank you for it.

Please also realise that there are hundreds of Palestinians who are Gaza verified and they are all suffering through genocide and many are watching their families starve or die due to lack of access to modern medicine (again, because Israel has bombed all the hospitals and doesn’t let aid through as part of its ongoing genocide).

In many Western countries, our governments are directly complicit and, many times, profiting from Israel’s genocide.

Whatever you do, please don’t judge the entirety of something by the actions of a few and please try and keep things – namely Internet etiquette and genocide – in perspective and ask yourselves what you would do if you were in their shoes.

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #mastodon #fediverse

@me

Mastodon has always done what is best for #Mastodon. Over the years it has received lots and lots of criticism for that. I think the criticism was unwarranted. After all any #FOSS project is totally free to do what is best for it.

The problem is more that the 'fediverse community' if you can speak of that, and esp. the #ActivityPub developer community has let Mastodon get to where it is today, and insufficiently took its own path towards maturing the open standards and technology landscape. Leaving Mastodon forever in the driver's seat. Fediverse is now shaped in Mastodon's image, as a microblogging environment.

To this day #fediverse devs are super scared to break precious "Mastodon-compatibility", not showing the way to "Fediverse-compatibility". It is even unclear what "being part of the fediverse" even means, there's no consensus here.

Anyway, this is just a rant, but my rallying cry for making consolidation impossible is:

Back to open standards! 💪

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution

What would happen to your timeline if mastodon.social went away?

(Reposting my tool that helps you figure this out.)

mastodon.social is the biggest server on the #fediverse , with over 21% of accounts, and an even higher percentage of #Mastodon accounts.

But what does that mean to you, personally? Let's say it went away tomorrow - (assuming you aren't on it yourself), how much of your timeline would vanish?

In my case, it turns out - not a lot, actually! The biggest sources of posts that I see are (1) a very small instance that doesn't even federate with much of the Fediverse, but many of my friends are there, (2) my own instance, (3) a large tech-focused instance that is still much smaller than mastodon.social. The big guy is only 5% of the post I've seen recently.

But this might be different for you!

Find out for yourself at https://moderation-explorer.online/ . Use 'advanced mode' to see this analysis, since you need to log into see your actual feed.

You might even decide to try moving to an instance that you're more connected to?

(It's explained more on the site, but all the work happens in your browser, I don't see your identity, auth tokens, posts that get loaded, none of it.)

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Image summarizing the last 800 messages on my Mastodon feed. types.pl is the top one, with 17%. Mastodon.social is fourth, at 5% of posts.

Zeroes.ca is a COVID-aware Mastodon server hosted in Canada, open to people from anywhere in the world. Misinfo, disinfo and bad faith content is not permitted.

This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters and up to 8 poll options.

https://zeroes.ca

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

#FeaturedServer #Covid #Covid19 #Canada #Mastodon #Glitch #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Just had to block a server called FSEBUGOUTZONE (https://fsebugoutzone.org/) ("Free speech extemists") after noticing a user who interacted with a post I made explained in his bio that he left twitter because Elon wouldn't let him use racial slurs.

Seems like that's the general vibe of that server, so in the blocklist it goes.

Everyone has the right to speak, but I also have the right not to listen.

#racism #fediverse #fediblock

GNOME is now on PeerTube! Follow @gnome@tube.kockatoo.org on your Peertube instace (or any other Fediverse instance!) to get all the good stuff. You can already watch our recent GUADEC videos there!

Become a friend of GNOME to support future GUADECs 👉️ https://donate.gnome.org

#PeerTube #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Fedi

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:

• Mohammed Jamil in Gaza 🕊️🍉 (@hamoudjamil26)

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

I just adjusted my relay instance which now also finally supports #GoToSocial! Of course, it also supports Pleroma, snac, Mastodon, littlefedi, starling and many other ones!

With relays, your own posted content gets distributed to all connected instances, as well you get the content all other instances. Currently, mostly tech related instances are connected, focusing on #Linux, #Proxmox, #BSD / #FreeBSD, #IPv6 and many other things!

More information at: https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

#socialmedia #fedi #fediwall #fediverse #activitypub #activitypubrelay #relay #social #snac #snac2 #mastodon #gts #gotosocial #littlefedi #pleroma #misskey #services #devops #starling #tech

I self-host now: this account runs on my own server and my own domain, @mbr

The old instance is shutting down and the auto-migration only carried a fraction of you across. If you can read this, you're already in the right place.

Everyone else has to re-follow by hand. Please BOOST this to help me get back everyone :)

SPREAD THE CODE
PRAISE THE CODE

#Fediverse #SelfHosted #Mastodon #mbr #masterbootrecord

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MBR logo in ASCII art by aNSt / Impure!ASCII

I wonder whether I can get all 5 folk on the #Fediverse to vote today?

[Tips hat to mega star @LoganFive ]

Gancio is a free open source community notice board that can be self-hosted and is part of the Fediverse. You can find out more at:

➡️ https://gancio.org

There is a demo server at https://demo.gancio.org

Gancio can be self-hosted through YunoHost at https://apps.yunohost.org/app/gancio or if you're techy there are manual installation instructions at https://gancio.org/install

There's also an official project account to follow at @gancio

#Gancio #Fediverse #ActivityPub #SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

UPDATE: we're so-o-o-o close to 200 signatories y'all! Latest count: 196

Only 4 more people to go, then we can confidently and truthfully say there are *hundreds* of software developers who write code by hand.

I think we can do that #Fediverse. What do you think?

https://handcraftedcode.org/

Let your voices be heard!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@leavex/115984704986143008

Our little prize experiment didn’t take off, so we’ll be giving away the books and Plushtodon during #FediDay, on September 11-13 at c-base in Berlin.

We’ll have a short presentation followed by a workshop on Friday, the 11th. More details soon. :)

There are still tickets available: https://berlinfedi.day

@berlinfediday @cbase @digiges

#Berlin #Plushtodon #Fediverse #Democracy #LeaveX

delightful-humane-design is a curated list of humane design/tech resources for designers, developers, practitioners and researchers.

Humane design principles form the very basis of Fediverse as we know it. The list covers principles, articles, tools, other lists and more.

Source: https://codeberg.org/delightful-commons/delightful-humane-design

Website (thanks to @smallcircles): https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-humane-design/

#Fediverse #HumaneDesign #HumaneTech #Codeberg

#FediHood is now available!

Talk with people near you. A local chat on the #Fediverse where you share only your city, never your exact location. You adjust your timeline with distance and topic filters.

It's in early beta and web only for now. It connects to the whole Fediverse, and you can send #E2EE DMs between FediHood and Holos users. The source code will be published soon. Don't hesitate to share!

Instance: https://fedihood.social

From where you are reading this message?

#FediWorldTour #Fediverse #Mastodon

Hey everyone,

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

They are:

• (@1bilalassad)
• mahmoudemawy (@mahmoudemawy)
• (@Salahaldinahmedhor)

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

#fediverse #lyon #mastapero #mobilizon Un petit apéro au parc entre partisans du fédiverse, ça vous tente? Plus d'infos sur Mobilizon https://keskonfai.fr/events/aeb8de3e-ecd8-4de1-91c7-00e053aaec5e

I'm really happy that https://Fediverse.info now has a trusted team of admins to help manage this fediverse resource!

https://fediverse.info/team

#Fediverse #FediverseInfo

Find real people to follow across the fediverse with similar interests!*

Linux: https://fediverse.info/people?topics=linux

Art: https://fediverse.info/people?topics=art

Nature: https://fediverse.info/people?topics=nature

* - People have consented and self-submitted themselves, via the #fedi22 hashtag in bios, you can verify that yourself. Long live consent driven discovery ❤️

#Fediverse #FediverseInfo #PeopleDirectory

Another step closer to release!

The official website is now live at https://littlefedi.org/ with documentation and project details.

Take a look and let me know what you think!

#littleFedi #Fediverse

Another step closer to release!

The official website is now live at https://littlefedi.org/ with documentation and project details.

Take a look and let me know what you think!

#littleFedi #Fediverse

Dear #fediverse friends, I HAVE SUCH AN EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!!

🥳🥳 Per Oct 1st, I'll be starting as Head of GovTech at the best #opensource company: @openproject 🥳🥳

And best of all, it's a 100% remote role, SO I'LL FINALLY GET TO MOVE ABROAD 😭🌞

It's bittersweet leaving @BZKopensource . I've had a great time there with @bo , @PeterGiskes , @marlenabcn , @johan , @manfredzielinski , @tomootes and many others. Fortunately we'll still see each other at conferences ❤️

Blog: https://ginaplat.com/en/posts/20260810-goodbye-ospo-hello-openproject/

Big hopes for littleFedi | shom.dev https://shom.dev/posts/20260808_big-hopes-for-littlefedi/ #Fediverse #GoToSocial

Sur les matins tranquilles, j'aime dire #bonjour 👋

Du coup, j'utilise le terme #mastonautes (je suis de la vieille école 😜 )

Par contre, depuis que le réseau #Mastodon a pris de l'ampleur, d'autres types d'instances utilisant #Activitypub se sont greffées dessus pour accroître cette fédération pour devenir le #Fédiverse.

1/2

This week @readbeanicecream is my guest for the #OverUnder 078

He shares his thoughts on #Pandoc, #Ghostty, #PKM, #diary, and #Flammkuchen..

He also replied to @alex's question.

And, like every week, we got a recommendation for two #books.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #journaling #plaintext #food #blogging #writing
#blaugust2026 #blaugust
https://lazybea.rs/ovr-078

Good night, Fediverse.
May the glow of this moon and the peace of this sea soothe and illuminate your life, even when the light is dim and the path ahead of you seems dark.

#Photography #Photo #Sea #Goodnight #Fediverse

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A bright moon glows in a deep night sky, casting a shimmering ribbon of silver light across calm, dark waters. On the left, a rugged breakwater of pale, moonlit stones extends into the tranquil sea, where quiet figures sit peacefully under the vast night horizon.

I've seen anecdotal evidence suggesting a bit of a migration back to #twitter. Organizations (Mozilla, prominently) and individuals whom I respect that previously left for the #fediverse and/or #bluesky are have announced a return to the platform in recent days/weeks. I cannot explain it, but they seem to suggest that the people they want to reach or with whom they want to engage are there.
I am disappointed. But what else is new. 🙁

„If the Social Web isn't just for nerds, why are we saying stuff like this to newcomers:

Okay, so the fediverse is like, a bunch of interconnected servers, all talking to each other. They all use the same open protocol, so the whole network is interoperable, and anybody can self-host their own new server whenever they want. You can get on the fediverse through any server. We call these servers »instances«. If you wanna join fedi, you can just go to this website and pick an instance to sign up through. All the instances are referred to by names like mastodon.social, because we like to use domain names for some reason.

(...)

We must keep this in mind when trying to sell the Social Web to people. Normal people don't know what »federated« means — they didn't watch Star Trek, they just think you're a cop. Normal people really don't know what a protocol is, or what interoperability means. Stop talking like this. I also don't know why we're using the word »instance« to refer to servers. Server is literally easier to understand even for tech people. Even better than server would be »site«, which is the terminology that I tend to use.

Here's a better explanation of the Social Web that actually communicates the idea to a normal person:

The Social Web is like social media away from Big Tech. Instead of being a walled garden where you're trapped, the Social Web is like a bunch of different social media websites connected together. You can pick any site to sign up with, and then you can follow people who signed up on other sites too, so it kind of forms one big network, or online space. If you wanna sign up, you can make a Mastodon account (Mastodon is like, one of the categories/types of sites on the Social Web) at this website. You can use the default option, or pick a different »instance« (site) if you want, too. It doesn't really matter which site you decide to sign up with, since you can always change your mind and move to a different one later.“

Interesting text, via @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social

https://riverseeber.net/blog/post/a-reasonable-analysis-of-the-social-web/

#Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb #NonTechies

Good morning Fedi friends!

A routine reminder that @oscl has a #Fediverse track this year: you can submit your proposals for talks up to August 23rd.

Apply here:

🔗 : https://pretalx.com/open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/cfp

I'm honored and excited to help organize this with the amazing @Gina 🦸‍♀️

Come join us! 🚀

📍 Belval, Luxembourg
📆 Wednesday October 7th, 2026

#OSCL26 #DigitalSovereignty

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:

• 🇵🇸💔 Ôm Mãlëk🇵🇸🙏 (@ommalek)
• Mahmoud Abusweireh (@mahmoudsw)

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

THEODORE ROOSEVELT SHOT BY CRANK IN MILWAUKEE STREET

#content_review #unix_surrealism #fediverse #loops #mastodon #lemmy #art #mastoart #javascript #cats #snac

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Funhole Content Review FEDIVERSE I HAVE A DREAM 'you need to enable javascript to run this this app.' How to make it big? You don't @mmtmm pls sponsor me How to get more boosts? Cats. so many rabbits LOOPY CONSPIRACY - Who is behind the manufactured fame of a tiktok clone nobody asked for? THE C BANSHEE: What is snac and should you be worried? FEDIVERSE MENACE: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? hackers.town: Is nowhere safe? ONE FREE ANTI-SLOP KITTO THE LIST: 50.000 mastodon addresses to avoid if you don't like illegal content.

Het leuke aan de #Fediverse (waar Mastodon ook onderdeel van is) is dat er steeds nieuwe oplossingen bij komen, die aanhaken in het grotere geheel. Vaak zijn het proefballonnen en komt het merendeel niet echt van de grond.

Ben nu #littleFedi van @stefano aan het testen en kan oprecht zeggen: wow 🤯

Het zou een lichtgewicht implementatie moeten zijn en de software is nog in de testfase, maar voelt nu al beter in elkaar gezet dan Mastodon. Supervriendelijke interface, focus op de dingen die er daadwerkelijk toe doen zodat je minder ruis hebt. Gelijktijdig heeft het een geweldige optie voor kennisdeling, zoals een ingebouwde blog. Zo kun je "vlugge" posts maken (inclusief self-destruct per bericht!), maar ook zaken die je voor de langere termijn wil bewaren, opslaan als blogpost.

Veel software: 😡 🤮
littleFedi: 😍

Dit is hoe software hoort te zijn: focus, simpel, handige opties.

Helaas is het nog "invite-only", maar voor iedereen die overweegt om een eigen installatie op te willen zetten, hou littleFedi in de gaten.

Bij deze meteen een test om te zien als ik naar mijn eigen profiel link:

https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@mboelen

Tiny reminder that it's important
to boost posts on Mastodon!

Liking only will not help a post being seen more. Boosting will! ✨

Boost the posts you want others to see. Add hashtags to your posts to help others find them.

This is the Fediverse way

#Mastodon #Fediverse

LGBTQIA.space is a cute Mastodon server for all LGBTQIA+ ppl out there that want a caring and safe environment. If you are part of the LGBTQIA+ community you are very cordially invited to join this server.

This server has a post size of up to 10,000 characters and up to 16 poll options.

https://lgbtqia.space

You can find out more at https://lgbtqia.space/about or contact the admin account @mcp

#FeaturedServer #LGBTQIA #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Everyone loves text formatting, but not everyone loves Markdown.

We've got you covered.

I'm merging a branch that includes a WYSIWYG editor, which will translate the output directly into Markdown.
No more tags to remember when writing your next post (or blog post), just a convenient, predictable editor.

What do you think?

#littleFedi #Fediverse

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Screenshot of the littlefedi post composer interface, showing a WYSIWYG editor tab selected under the "Visuale" option.

littleFedi media management

Are you worried that your low-power device will be overwhelmed by external media caching?

Don't worry, we've already thought of that!

littleFedi offers 4 media management options:

• "No caching, no proxying": Media is fetched directly by the user from the originating instance.
• "Proxy only mode" (like this instance): The instance proxies requests so media is always served to the user through it. The originating instance will never see littleFedi users' requests.
• "Lazy caching mode": Requests are proxied and then cached locally, so subsequent requests are served directly from the local cache.
• "Full caching mode": Similar to Mastodon, it fetches and stores media locally as soon as it is processed by the instance.

For both caching modes, you can store media locally or use an external S3-compatible service. Moving between storage types is supported natively, without needing external tools like rclone.

#littleFedi #Fediverse

Bashing people on X is all the rage but dont skip on Insta, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc.

Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-caught-paying-nazis-to-post-on-facebook

> An investigation found that Meta has been paying prominent neo-Nazi accounts to post on Facebook through its invite-only monetization program.

#Nazism #fediverse #fascism #socialMedia #socialNetwork #technology

New littleFedi build on littleOne

littleFedi 26.08.09 - the changes in this build compared with the previous
deployment.

Followed hashtags in the main navigation

Your followed hashtags are now one click away: a Hashtags entry (with a
hashtag icon) has been added to the desktop navigation bar and the mobile
account menu, pointing at /tags. The label is translated in every supported
language.

Blog posts show a link back to their permalink

Posts that have been published to the blog now carry a small Blog chip in
the status meta line. It links to the post's readable permalink
(/@user/blog/<slug>/) and works on timestamps and boosts, so readers can jump
straight from the timeline to the polished blog version of a long post.

Status meta line reworked

Every marker on a status - visibility, language, blog chip, expiry - is now
rendered as the same uniform chip in a single wrapping flex row, instead of a
mix of right-aligned inline boxes. Posts that carry several markers read as one
neat line rather than a ragged stack. The Ink and Roost themes were adjusted to
match.

Robustness: orphaned-account posts no longer break the page

Previously a post whose author account no longer resolves (a purged account, or
a partially hydrated cache entry) could fail the whole timeline render. Now any
status - including the target of a boost - whose author is missing is silently
skipped. Covered by a new test.

Icon updates

• Catch-up view and its navigation entries now use a VHS icon instead of the
  old sparkle (thank you for the suggestion, @shom@littleone.littlefedi.social ).
• The "redraft" action gets a proper undo icon.
• The Appearance and Blog appearance settings sections get a palette
  icon.
• New hashtag icon for the navigation.

Blog theming fixes

• Proper spacing restored for non-paragraph content in the post body: headings,
  bullet/numbered lists, horizontal rules and code blocks now breathe instead of
  collapsing against each other.
• A post with a single attachment now renders a full-width figure (the old
  grid left a small thumbnail stranded at the left edge).
• The "View or reply in the Fediverse" link is now consistently styled.
• Ledger theme: long code lines scroll inside their block instead of
  breaking out past the reading measure.
• Marginalia theme: the thread link, replies and pager now align to the text
  column on wide screens, and print output was cleaned up.

If you publish a blog, regenerate it so the fixes apply: Settings → Blog
appearance → Rebuild blog now. The blog's style.css is assembled at build
time, so it only picks up these changes when you rebuild.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse

To say I am excited about #LittleFedi software would be an understatement. What I am seeing from @stefano and the team breaks new barriers for entering in, and participating in, the #Fediverse. Can't wait to test on a self hosted Pi at home. If successful, I shall migrate my long established Mastodon cloud instance to it and serve all from home on local hardware.

We definitely need more peace.

Have a great Sunday, #Fediverse!

AodeRelay boosted

Prof. Sam Lawler » 🌐 2026-08-09
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

Sending peace

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Some pretty clouds and pinkish sunset sky reflected in a weed-filled small lake. There are some dead trees on the far side and bright green grass that's reflected in the water, along with the clouds above.

I've been heavily poking at littleFedi by @stefano and quite excited about it.

I wrote about it in another Blaugust attempt: Big hopes for littleFedi. Also available on my test account ​@shom@littleone.littlefedi.social's post/blog.

#littleFedi #Blaugust #Fediverse #Selfhosting

RE: https://beige.party/@maxleibman/117062741464572533

In the #rewilding of the #fediverse, digital pruning—and the occasional managed burns—are just good ecosystem sustainability and applied infohygiene.

Asking the #Fediverse: do you know if there's a #PeerTube channel that will publish the #Fedicon talks?

Great day at #Fedicon yesterday. I met lots of new people from the #ActivityPub community. I've always thought that #XMPP and the #Fediverse are ideologically well-aligned, and that our developer communities should talk to each other more. In that regard, it was a big success.

Stefano Marinelli (creator of the excellent FediMeteo) is working on a new type of lightweight Fediverse server called "littleFedi".