RE: https://s.dfaria.eu/@df/33898543700666368

This is interesting and the dev confirmed that #MastoBlaster works with #Starling

I'll create a test instance to try it.

#Fediverse

Fritange boosted

Domingos Faria » 🌐 2026-05-23
@df@s.dfaria.eu

#Starling is a lightweight #PHP #fediverse server you can install by just copying files over FTP to a shared host. No PostgreSQL, no workers, no DevOps. Owning your data with #ActivityPub can be much simpler than with #ATProtocol. Have you tried it?
https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling

#Starling is a lightweight #PHP #fediverse server you can install by just copying files over FTP to a shared host. No PostgreSQL, no workers, no DevOps. Owning your data with #ActivityPub can be much simpler than with #ATProtocol. Have you tried it?
https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling

BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

This is a major release that merges several different development branches I've been working on, bringing together a lot of moving parts into a single build. A long, sleepless night…

Here is what changed:

• Full Drafts Support: A complete end-to-end draft flow. It includes auto-save, the ability to edit existing drafts, and a smart cancel confirmation that either discards a new draft or restores the original state if you were editing. It supports replies, quotes, polls, and media metadata.

• Trending Posts: Added a new trending timeline type with proper offset pagination support.

• Timeline Position Improvements: Added extra protection to stop SwiftUI from overwriting your saved scroll position when the view disappears or goes to the background. If a saved post can't be found in the cache, the app will now try a direct status fetch before giving up.

• UI & Navigation Fixes: Tapping Content Warnings (CW), "Show Filtered Post", or "Show More" now goes through an inline-action guard, fixing the bug where tapping them would accidentally trigger row navigation into the thread. Filtered posts also get proper bottom padding so the list separator doesn't sit on top of the button.

• Instance Compatibility & Tweaks: Added customizable timeout settings for slower instances (like snac on older hardware). I also fixed the 405 error when setting alt text on GoToSocial, and updated marker sync to strictly align with Mastodon’s documented form shape.

• Testing focus: I've implemented search fixes ensuring queries stay locked to the account you are searching from. If you are on GoToSocial, please test this thoroughly and let me know how it behaves. Since this build is the result of a massive merge, keep an eye out for any regressions.

relay.pmth.us is live and open. Any ActivityPub instance (Misskey, Mastodon, Pleroma, Akkoma, GoToSocial, others) can subscribe with no pre-approval and start pulling our timeline. Three days in: blocklist is public, shota.house and lolicon.monster blocked on day one, every cartoon-CSAM instance we encounter goes the same way. If you self-host and want denser federation, point your relay subscription at https://relay.pmth.us . #fediverse #selfhost #activitypub

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Week in Fediverse 2026-05-22

Servers

- Gush! v0.0.37
- Stegodon v1.8.5
- Iceshrimp.NET v2026.1.1-beta
- Iceshrimp v2026.5.1
- Hollo v0.9.0
- Mastodon v4.5.10
- PeerTube v8.1.6
- Sharkey v2025.4.7
- Hubzilla v11.2.1
- Friendica v2026.05
- Ktistec v3.3.9
- Smithereen v1.0.0
- Vernissage Server v1.38.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v8.3.0
- Misskey v2026.5.4
- tootik v0.22.2
- NeoDB v0.14.4
- Open beta testing for Lemmy 1.0.0
- Trunk & Tidbits, April 2026
- XMPP/ActivityPub Bridge: Chat between XMPP and the Fediverse
- Cookifed: A free and federated recipes management app and cooking social network

Clients

- Nicolium v0.3.0
- Fedilab v3.40.1
- Aria v1.5.1
- Blorp v1.14.0
- Impressia v3.2.0
- Holos v1.6.0

Tools and Plugins

- Analytodon: Analytics for Mastodon

For developers

- Fedify v2.2.3
- BotKit v0.4.2

Protocol

- Basic Profile for Social API Servers
- FEP-baf5: Administrator Collection

Articles

- the may 2026 fedi software vulnerability
- Never Lose a Toot Again: Full-Text Search for Your Mastodon Feed

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019e2d21-c15d-7653-a6d5-f476dcc0559d

Would you write about your personal life on the #Fediverse? To what point? Please, feel free to comment ☺️

#writer #writing #privacy

If you believe in the #Fediverse :

- post here
- bring your friends and family here
- tell companies, governments and creators to post here
- pay for your instance
- pay for your software

Do one thing every day. The Fediverse is worth fighting for.

JOURNAL
jai été obligé de rappeler à la modestie aujourd'hui
un des élèves avancé qui se mêle d'humilité des moins avancés j'aime pas ça
j'ai dû lui rappeler que son savoir ne lui permet de dominer personne parceque en réalité il sait pas grand chose et même on rencontre toujours plus fort que soi
j'aime pas ça parceque ça me force à prendre une attitude dominatrice mais il avait besoin de ça
il a vu comment je suis pas gentille avec un boken et que c'est idiot rouler les mecaniques quand on sait meme pas se défendre et que je peux faire mal sans bouger beaucoup
je tiens à une bonne ambiance et surtout que les élèves s'entraident et pas se mesurent dans une compétition stupide
il y en a meilleurs et plus avancés que d'autre mais aucun n'est expert aucun n'a a se reclamer d'aucune supériorité
ils sont tous mes eleves aussi importants pour moi les uns que les autres débutant ou confirmé ils sont mes eleves à égalité
je consacre autant d'attention au uns comme aux autres et j'aimerais qu'ils en fassent autant
dans l'ensemble cest ce qui arrive puis de temps en temps il faut rappeler les règles cest tout et si j'enseigne pas la competition ni la violence le kenjutsu c'est pas une discipline de frime, mais un apprentissage de rigueur de controle de soi et d'humilité

maintenant dodo
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Like the previous article on Grassroots fediverse evolution, this is a long blog post, so I provided an article summary to be TL;DR'ed 😊

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #ActivityPub #fediverse

Alt...

Article summary: - We cocreate our future together, yet our rushed modern society holds us back from contributing where it matters most. - The Paradox of emergence stands in the way of seeing how our two cents of investment contributes to solving wicked problems. - FOSS and fediverse projects must be more holistically considered to anticipate and address likely huge negative outcomes in-the-large. - Fediverse is the ideal diverse environment where people can further their own dreams in concert with others, and follow shared vision. - For fediverse to become the Future of Social networking we must overcome the fragmentation and division caused by specialization. - Hedonic peer production provides the means to do so, based on the SEE model for Sustainable ecosystem evolution (see diagram above). - We must foster our ability to truly listen to others, to be able to fight the root cause of Hypercapitalism at inter-personal relationship level. - Cross-pollination enables knowledge brokering and innovation based on individual needs, assets we can provide, shared values we hold dear. - To give shape to Hedonic peer production on the social web, SX defines “Joyful creation”, a formula and vision for inclusive cocreation. - Sustainable ecosystem evolution aims for the emergence of a commons based value economy where participants exchange services. - Purposeful social networking that induces prosocial behavior is key to the transition from an attention to an online Intention economy.

Why do I have to
keep asking myself
why the hell there are
so many sociopaths and narcissists
in the world?

Please don't take this too seriously
or maybe you should?

#mastodon #fediverse #poll #thoughts

When it comes to dreaming and #vision I'd like to thank @elena who dares to #dream, and whom I quoted in my article.

And the many people who work tirelessly to foster #cohesion, increasing the connectedness of our social fabric. Cross-pollinators. In my previous blog post on Grassroots #fediverse I already genuinely thanked whom I called "the pillars grassroots standardization" @evan and @silverpill

This is such important work. In that article I make many points which are unfortunately misunderstood by people as criticism, while it is the opposite. I admire all the fabulous work people are doing and have done over the years to bring #fedi where it is today.

But I argue that to really go next-level, to #ReimagineSocial, and enter the Future of Social networking, we must be able to take more holistic approaches to glue our fragmented online spaces together, and forge a #SocialWeb that is #inclusive to more people, so they can chime in with their 2 cents of #contribution to the whole.

@uriel

Yes! Good example of cross-pollination. Social dynamics in our FOSS movement are particularly fascinating and up for some major reflection on how to elevate #FOSS practices. As the field right now is inherently unsustainable.

Nice serendipity in you saying "standing on the shoulders of giants" as I just tooted to @janriemer about a sociologist that wrote the literal book with that name..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116617175577189050

It follows discussion on "uncomfortable questions" about unintended consequences of our actions in-the-large i.e. what emerge at societal scale from individuals who think they are doing the good thing. The outcome might not be good, and FOSS movement might reflect their role on emergence of #BigTech and #AI. Today there is nothing, nothing at all, that withholds Big Tech and AI to say "thank you" and capture the #fediverse as their oyster, and we'll be complicit to bringing both yet even closer to our skin.

We must be able to operate more in unison and coordination.

🫧 Social coding commons » 🔓 2026-05-22
@smallcircles@social.coop

@janriemer

Your post led me through a tour on the subject matter, and via the footnotes on the Wikipedia page I bumbed into a synopsis of the work of Robert K. Merton that is quite usable for incorporating with Social experience design, especially as it applies to our chaotic fediverse commons.

At the top of the blog post I just published I quoted your post and a text from the synopsis that relates to these "uncomfortable questions" we must nonetheless ask ourselves.

But the interesting part is about how to align Goals with Means, and the division into various groups based on how that is done. I will need more time to ponder these things, and nerd-snipe myself to follow the many branches this veers off on..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116617059823805932

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_K._Merton#Clarifying_functional_analysis

🫧 Social coding commons boosted

🫧 Social coding commons » 🌐 2026-05-22
@smallcircles@social.coop

Fedizens, we dream! ✊

But what do we dream about? How do our dreams relate, where do they overlap? Might we realize them together? Turn our online places into a delightful commons of cross-pollination and cocreation? How can we make progress towards forging a better world together, and sustain that progress? Can we turn our collaborative efforts into much more than the sum of their constituent parts, and move on shared vision into a brighter future together?

Questions, questions.

In my previous blog post on Shared responsible ownership I claimed that a commons can be 🔥 ignited, and become unstoppable as it realizes positive societal impact. Able to withstand the corrosive forces of Hypercapitalism that seek to corrupt it.

Revolutionary evolution is possible! ✊

#Fediverse is the perfect environment to make this happen. We laid the foundations already. We have soil, so now we can blossom. 🌻

Fedizens, let's dream! ✊

https://coding.social/blog/fediverse-of-dreams

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #ActivityPub

Fedizens, we dream! ✊

But what do we dream about? How do our dreams relate, where do they overlap? Might we realize them together? Turn our online places into a delightful commons of cross-pollination and cocreation? How can we make progress towards forging a better world together, and sustain that progress? Can we turn our collaborative efforts into much more than the sum of their constituent parts, and move on shared vision into a brighter future together?

Questions, questions.

In my previous blog post on Shared responsible ownership I claimed that a commons can be 🔥 ignited, and become unstoppable as it realizes positive societal impact. Able to withstand the corrosive forces of Hypercapitalism that seek to corrupt it.

Revolutionary evolution is possible! ✊

#Fediverse is the perfect environment to make this happen. We laid the foundations already. We have soil, so now we can blossom. 🌻

Fedizens, let's dream! ✊

https://coding.social/blog/fediverse-of-dreams

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #ActivityPub

It's the internet, people. It's OUR internet. Just because we decided to trust Google to not be evil doesn't mean that Google decides the future of the internet. We may very well have lost The Web, but we still can make the Internet of People. Decentralised. Unownable ;) Being here on the #Fediverse is part of that.

#AlwayswTheOptimist

Mastodon - bin unter Linux von Hyperspace auf Tokodon gewechselt und bisher sehr zufrieden. Benachrichtigungen / Erwähnungen sind besser gelöst, und die Suche funktioniert besser.

Leider wurde auf mastodon.social die globale timeline deaktiviert. Das finde ich etwas unglücklich. Um daran trotzdem "teilnehmen" zu können, habe ich auf nrw.social einen weiteren Account eingerichtet. Freiheit durch Optionen 😀

#mastodon #fediverse #sozialenetzwerke #tokodon #hyperspace #linux

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

Sur Hubzilla, Streams et Forte, on propose à la personne avec qui on souhaite être en relation de nous suivre. La question posée est «Acceptes-tu de recevoir mes publications?». On demande d’abord à être suivi, avant d’éventuellement être suivi en retour.

C’est subtil, hein?

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

Autre détail un peu surprenant, si sur mon compte hébergé sur une instance snac je me fais bloquer par quelqu’un, je recevrai une notification m’informant que j’ai été  bloqué, et par qui. Pas sûr que ce soit une super idée.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

En gros, si depuis mon compte sur une instance respectueuse des standards, en particulier de la gestion de l’activité Block, je peux décider de bloquer un autre compte, si l’instance qui héberge ce dernier décide de ne pas en tenir compte, je ne parviendrai pas au résultat attendu.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

L’exemple dont je me suis servi est applicable à Mastodon, et certainement à la plus grande majorité des plateformes logicielles existantes, mais peut-on considérer qu’on est totalement à l’abri d’instances gérées par des personnes moins scrupuleuses? Pas sûr.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

Parce qu’en réalité, lorsque mon bloqué publie quelque chose, sa publication sera toujours envoyée vers mon instance, et c’est à cette dernière qu’il appartient de ne pas la transmettre vers mon compte. De même, mes publications à moi seront toujours envoyées à l’instance de mon bloqué, et c’est à elle qu’il incombe de ne pas les lui transmettre.

Vous voyez en quoi ça peut être problématique, ou pas?

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blocage #snac #Mastodon #Streams #Hubzilla #Forte

If you’d like to support the project and have a little free time, I’d really appreciate your help with translations. Every contribution makes a difference. 🤩

The translations have already been pre-translated automatically, so the main task is to review and approve them. Once all language translations are approved, the new version of the app will be released to production.

You can join the translation team here:
https://crowdin.com/project/vernissageweb

#Vernissage #Translation #OpenSource #Fediverse

New @Vivaldi for your computer!

This time a lot of focus is on the design. At the same time we make it easier for you to see how flexible Vivaldi can be with layouts.

Let me know what you think! Still the only browser with a Mastodon Instance and a built in Mastodon (Vivaldi Social) panel!

#Vivaldi #Browser #Windows #Macos #Linux #Computer #Technology #Fediverse #Mastodon #BigTech #EU #Norway #Iceland #Europa

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-8-0/

BONJOUR LE #fediverse

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Irgend ein politischer Tröt zu #Windows ist total schlecht, #Linux gut, #KI ganz schlimm, die Welt schlecht, die #AfD muss auch noch mit rein und #Antifa. #Fediverse

JOURNAL
On est rentrées
pas yrop tard parceque A doit aller bosser demain matin
moi jre travaille pas 😅
donc dodo
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙

@wordsmith

Definitely. It's a very consumery mindset. I don't need #fedi to replace RSS. I'm here to talk to interesting folks.

The conventional wisdom of posting on and searching several hashtags that interest you and finding friends that way is still the best advice, IMO.

And, self-own, I guess, but I've already muted 2-3 of the most prolific political Mastodon accounts, because they never interact with anybody, and only post frustrating-but-necessary-and-true takes on the horrible conditions of the day.

I ain't here for that.

And I'm not here for folks who view the #fediverse as a place to promulgate their ideas, and not interact, learn, and grow.

That's why I'm here, and this place has been a huge part of my life for the past four years. 💗

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

#OverUnder 066 with @markarayner

Today, he shares his thoughts on #post-apocalyptic fiction, #Batman, #cybernetics, #Zombies, and molecular #gastronomy.

He also replied to @kev's question.

Like every week, we got #books recommendations.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #novels #fiction #bloggers #mastodon #movies #food #superheroes #comics #scifi

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-066

JOURNAL
c'est l'heure des filles sages
demain faut se lever
faut assumer le métro et les heures de dôjô
faut être en forme quand même
surtout avec la chaleur qui arrive même avec la clim
ma cherie faut que elle soit fraiche et rose dans son tailleur ministère
irréprochable
ça rigole pas avec takaichi
en tant que étrangère on lui laissera rien passer
meme ses collègues qui font semblant d'être aimables
je connais les japonais
on dit rien mais on regarde et on juge

donc dodo
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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:

• kifah from gaza (@Kifah_pal)
• تامر وافي (@tamer_2003_)

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

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Mastodon has changed the way it previews a linked NeoDB collection:
- before, the middle of the cover image & the title in large text
- now, like a quote post, with the poster's info & first few lines of small text. No title, no cover image.

As perhaps the only person regularly posting NeoDB collections on Mastodon (& someone who has changed the design of NeoDB collection cover images for better preview on Mastodon), I'm not sure I approve! 😅

#Mastodon #NeoDB #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Alt...

New-style preview by Mastodon of NeoDB collection: lots of text, no title or cover image

Alt...

Old-style Mastodon preview of NeoDB collection: central part of cover image, collection title.

I put together a quick guide on how to make your website or a blog "fediverse-ready": verify your website or a blog, and show an author tag when someone shares a link to it.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/make-your-website-or-blog-fediverse-ready/

Hope you'll find this useful!

#fediverse #mastodon #verification #verified

It would appear Twitter / X is now rolling out limits on free accounts.

50 post daily with 200 replies.

If you see a wave of new users, this could explain why.

#Twitter #X #Fediverse #Mastodon #Misskey #ActivityPub

Alt...

X account limits: Direct messages: 500 per day. Posts: 50 original posts and 200 replies per day for unverified accounts. Account email changes: 4 per hour. Following: 400 per day, with additional rules for aggressive behavior. Once following 5,000 accounts, further follows are limited by account-specific ratios

New blog post: #GoToSocial self-hosting tutorial, with #Guix and Guix Deploy, of course. Get it while it's hot. :)

https://fabionatali.com/posts/gotosocial-self-hosting-tutorial/

#Fediverse #SelfHosting

Hooo @LeMuseum qui promeu le #fediverse sur son compte Instagram 👏 https://www.instagram.com/p/DYfApaVDigz/

et il y a même de la pub pour @admin

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:

• Mohammed Nasman🇵🇸 (@Nesman0)
• Sharif (@Sharif2027)
• Majd Qasem (@majdqasem)

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

Happy 18th anniversary to the very first fediverse post, courtesy of @evan!

https://web.archive.org/web/20080618164355/http://identi.ca/notice/1

https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg

#fediverse #identica #anniversary #FirstPost

Alt...

A screenshot of the first fediverse post from Evan Prodromou dated May 18, 2008, posted on the early fediverse platform Identica. The text of the post, "This is my first post.", is next to a photo of smiling Evan, wearing a hat, and looking sharp. Below the post is a partial list of people who liked and shared the post.

BONJOUR DE L'OCÉAN LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

@paco @ricci

I'm trying out #Fediverse event platform Gath.io , which creates an .ics feed for calendar apps. Import that & it can keep you up-to-date on #ReMonsterdon

https://gath.io/group/PYapolhInbuZbA4NKxjRt

Dear #fediverse friends - does anyone have solar panels attached to their fence and use it to generate electricity (and be happy to share an image or two)?

I'm working on a website to document different types of #stealthsolar and don't have any images of #solarpanels on fences.

#solarpunk #guerillaPV

JOURNAL
on va dormir
demain on part pour l'océan il va faire chaud on va se baigner on partira tôt par le bus
A ne va pas au ministère lundi donc on rentrera que lundi soir
deux jours pour jouer les poissons
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Help! I curated my fedi timeline so well, it is now more addictive than any algorithm ever was!
What do?

Please, everyone just post bad, like you're on Twitter for a while, so i can put the damn phone down :D

#fediverse #firstworldproblems

WHHAAAAAAAATTT ?????

https://podcast.univ-lyon1.fr/@webradioinfectio, c'est sur le #fediverse !!

[edit: erreur du lien]

@terabyterex @cm0002 Yeh, two things I'm starting to really dislike about the #fediverse are epitomised in this post: the need for click-bait to get attention and the disconnect (double in this case) between the original source (a news site) and the appearance of matter in a generic information browser. This is almost as bad as embedded advertising.

1/2

@terabyterex @cm0002

Ultimately the #fediverse needs to solve the problem of maintaining context in postings. I'm not sure what the real solution is, but I think #lemmy in particular needs work doing on the #activitypub side of things.

2/2

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116580467609307864

#Fediverse, please make the magic happen and help this reach people who can offer advice or support.

Luc, prolétaire boosted

Fedilab Apps » 🌐 2026-05-15
@apps@toot.fedilab.app

I'm comfortable building and designing projects, but I'm honestly bad at promoting them.
I tried a donation call once for a new Mac, but after two hours I felt uncomfortable asking while Holos and my iOS work weren't mature enough to justify it. I closed the campaign and refunded the donors. Ironically, donations came later, on their own, with kind messages, covering about 10% of the computer budget.
(1/3)

Poll: do pictures of wildlife need a content warning?

#poll #wildlife #fediverse

Are there any plans to implement encryption for private messages using a public key attached to the Fediverse account?

I understand that the metadata would not be encrypted, but that would be more than sufficient for many use cases. The decentralised nature of the Fediverse is a major advantage in the fight against censorship.

#Fediverse #Encryption #Privacy #E2EE

ping @evan

Week in Fediverse 2026-05-15

Servers

- PieFed v1.6.23
- Hollo v0.8.3
- Ktistec v3.3.8
- Wafrn v2026.05.01
- snac v2.92
- Mitra v5.3.0
- Iceshrimp v2026.4.2
- Hollo v0.8.4
- Vernissage v1.37.0
- Bonfire v1.0.3
- Hometown v1.2.1
- tootik v0.22.1
- NeoDB v0.14.2
- NodeBB v4.11.3
- PieFed v1.6.23
- Wanderer v0.19.0
- Aktor: A headless, Mastodon-compatible ActivityPub server

Clients

- FediLab v3.40.0
- tooi v0.25.0
- Holos v1.5.6
- Phanpy changelog
- lemmy-tray: Read lemmy posts in system tray

Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v7.1.18
- slurp v1.1.1

For developers

- BotKit v0.4.1

Articles

- There Are a Million Fediverses. Some of Them Are Louder than Others

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019de52a-a351-7ee2-a48b-7306090edfe6

@publicspaces will have a pre-conference unconference on June 4th.

This unconference is an open invitation to discuss & forge relationships between people involved with the #OpenSocialWeb. From app builder & protocol architects to advocates, sysadmins, moderators, community organisers & more. Let's forge bonds across cultures, protocols & apps!

Admission free, registration required:
https://tickets.publicspaces.net/publicspaces/pubconf2026/

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #ATProto #Matrix #OpenSource #PublicSpaces #PubConf2026

FediSuite

500 characters can be a brutal limit. You have a thought, you start writing, and suddenly you are two sentences short. So you trim, rephrase, throw out important nuance. Or you cut the post up by hand and post it as a thread, which is annoying and easy to mess up. FediSuite splits your longer texts automatically into clean threads, at paragraph, sentence or word boundaries, with a preview, in the order you actually want to see. You write freely, the tool takes care of the splitting.

#FediSuite #Fediverse #Mastodon #FediTips #ContentCreator
https://www.fedisuite.com

FediSuite

The Fediverse tells you very little about your own account. Mastodon shows a follower count, Pixelfed shows likes, PeerTube shows views. How your account is actually developing, which posts moved something, whether you are growing or whether engagement just dropped, you cannot really see anywhere. Until now. That is exactly why I built FediSuite. The dashboard gives you daily engagement, follower growth, your top posts and your real engagement rate. All from your own data, no algorithm in between, no ad network in the background.

#FediSuite #Fediverse #Analytics #Mastodon #SocialMedia
https://www.fedisuite.com

Sing us s a song, you're the Barista man!

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

https://song.link/y/gxEPV4kolz0

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

@eco-g I realised that in general English people are sticking more on big tech platforms than other Europeans.
I see it in my own English family and friends. They’re all on #Facebook , #Instagram, #Twitter, #TikTok. They use it on a daily base. The only messengers in use are #WhatsApp and Facebook messenger.
I tried to bring them over to use #Threema or #Signal instead. No success at all. Not one single contact moved to one of these. Even not as a 2nd option.
I asked them to try #Mastodon instead of Twitter. #Friendica instead of Facebook. #Pixelfed instead of Instagram. #Loops instead of TikTok. No chance. Even the argument that they don’t need to use all of these platforms as they’re all part of the #Fediverse and users on different platforms can interact with each other didn’t work.

Also they’re all using #Windows. Only one is trying to use #Linux now. Stick on the known things seems to matter more than #privacy.

I gave up.

Social.dykes.ca is a GoToSocial server for LGBTQIA+ people on the Fediverse.

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

https://social.dykes.ca

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

#FeaturedServer #LGBTQIA #GoToSocial #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Cet après-midi 16h, c’est la première de mon émission « Position Absolue » sur @stationstation_radio
Position Absolue est un radio zine des résistances numériques et des réseaux poétiques. Mon invitée sera @doriane et j’ai vraiment hâte de l’entendre et de m’entretenir avec elle sur nos amours techno-poétiques partagés.
Aussi au menu, de la musique 100% dénichée sur la #fediverse, des expériences d’images volantes, de l’analyse de netart radiophonique et d’autres surprises.
Tune in 16:00 sur https://stationstation.fr/
Page de l’émission https://pa.oo8.be/

#radio #stationstation #netart #numerique

Alt...

A visual with radio Station Station header, introducing the guest Doriane to the show “Position Absolue”. The visual shows a profile with a speech bubble, both with circular arrows inside, looping within each other.

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Position Absolue logo, with “Position Absolue” set in times-like font, black on yellow, centered. And a portrait of me on top left corner, with my eyes replaced by checked HTML checkboxes.

Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!

UPDATE: I have created an account for updates and other information on FediMeteo - follow the account @admin to stay updated!

UPDATE: Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland have just been added

Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.

FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.

You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).

Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, – with many more regions coming soon!

FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.

Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
https://fedimeteo.com

Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️

FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.

#FediMeteo #Announcements #FreeBSD #FediMeteo #WeatherForecasts #Weather #Meteo #snac #Fediverse #Mastodon

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

222 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@memeorandum (ENG)
@weddingweiser (GER)
@freezenet (ENG)
@Stadtkind (GER)
@mf_newsdigest (ENG)

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

Built by @mho

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

Local weather updates for Cyprus are now available directly in the Fediverse.

You can follow dedicated accounts for 24 cities and places across the island, including Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos, Famagusta, Kyrenia, Troodos, Ayia Napa, Protaras and more.

Cyprus is covered in English, keeping forecasts neutral, geographic and consistent with other FediMeteo instances for sensitive or multilingual areas.

Main page: https://cy.fedimeteo.com/

Follow your nearest local account and get regular weather updates in your Fediverse timeline.

Available cities and places:

Ayia Napa - @ayia_napa@cy.fedimeteo.com
Dali - @dali@cy.fedimeteo.com
Famagusta - @famagusta@cy.fedimeteo.com
Kato Pyrgos - @kato_pyrgos@cy.fedimeteo.com
Kyrenia - @kyrenia@cy.fedimeteo.com
Lapithos - @lapithos@cy.fedimeteo.com
Larnaca - @larnaca@cy.fedimeteo.com
Lefkara - @lefkara@cy.fedimeteo.com
Limassol - @limassol@cy.fedimeteo.com
Morphou - @morphou@cy.fedimeteo.com
Nicosia - @nicosia@cy.fedimeteo.com
Omodos - @omodos@cy.fedimeteo.com
Paphos - @paphos@cy.fedimeteo.com
Paralimni - @paralimni@cy.fedimeteo.com
Peyia - @peyia@cy.fedimeteo.com
Pissouri - @pissouri@cy.fedimeteo.com
Polis - @polis@cy.fedimeteo.com
Pomos - @pomos@cy.fedimeteo.com
Protaras - @protaras@cy.fedimeteo.com
Rizokarpaso - @rizokarpaso@cy.fedimeteo.com
Strovolos - @strovolos@cy.fedimeteo.com
Trikomo - @trikomo@cy.fedimeteo.com
Troodos - @troodos@cy.fedimeteo.com
Zygi - @zygi@cy.fedimeteo.com

#FediMeteo #Cyprus #Weather #Fediverse #FediMeteoAnnouncements #FediMeteoCoverage

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 Fathi Abo Alrous (@mhammedft)

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

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
le ciel se couvre l'orage approche et je suis en tennis et robe d'été
😅
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

All projects that I maintain are visible at https://tom79.dev/

#UntrackMe 2.0 reached F-Droid today after nearly 4 years of inactivity.

#Fedle reached more than 2k games played on the #Fediverse (I didn't expect that for a dev for fun).

Thank you for using them :)

Updated: List of Helpful Mastodon Resources

- Add Connected Places
- Add delightful fediverse clients
- Add delightful fediverse deveopment
- Add delightful fediverse experience
- Remove orphan link

Handmade list of resources for the federated social network Mastodon covering, how to use, find an instance, find people, tools and more.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/list-mastodon-resources/

#blog #mastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub #100DaysToOffload

@homegrown

Already got this bookmarked but I hadn't checked it in a while. Good to see new things there, e.g. FediProfile. I already have a Linksta.cc page of links (FLOSS, self-hostable but *not* ActivityPub AFAIK).

And checking now, Linksta.cc is down (again) so I guess time to try FediProfile 😁

https://hub.vocalcat.com/klu9

#Fediverse

There are a LOT of Fediverse projects out there!

If you're a techy person interested in self-hosting Fediverse platforms, you might like to check out the "Delightful Fediverse" list which tries to feature every Fediverse project available:

🌱 https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-experience

(It's worth noting the meaning of the emoji next to project names, as the status of different projects varies.)

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #SelfHosting #FOSS

"I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, just someone who spent 20 years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in 1996."

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

#Fediverse #Journalism #Internet

I have a new #fediverse tinfoil hat conspiracy theory -- these weird bot accounts that keep following me that are VERY INTO some specific thing (I got a Toby Keith one yesterday and something about bible study the day before) are designed for you to block them.

Whoever is making these bots can kinda 'inverse profile' your tastes / preferences by which bots you block.

Here's the #FAF stance on LLM moderation on the #fediverse: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/68757445

tl;dr: We don't use LLMs, nor do we plan to.

Do not believe disinformation. This is what actually happened and what we believe.

#lemmy #GenAI #LLMs

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:

• Osama Al-Shawaf (@osamaayman595)
• Hilal (@Hilalgazayafa)

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

#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse

Day after day after day I pop onto my feed and discover a world of joy, kindness, beauty, wisdom and insight. I learn about ant farms, whittling wood, sunsets in the Baltic, bees in Bavaria, film baths in Bath, pottery in Portland, and just loads more.

I get to see all the things that make you smile, and that makes me smile too. I get to see what matters to you folks. And I am reminded that there are so many good people in the world who really do care about this planet and the creatures we share it with.

I am a better person for being here, and that's because the rest of you are here too.

#Thankyou #Fediverse

Applauding @admin for taking a strong, well-argued stand on this.

Can we get more admins onboard?

#fediverse #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins

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Screenshot of a Mastodon server's server rules: Don’t police others’ use of CWs, alt text, or tags Whilst we have some guidelines around when to use CWs, alt text, and tags, we only have one rule about them: Use CWs for adult or NSFW content. You can politely ask other people to use specific CWs, alt text, or tags that you prefer, as long as you don’t state your preferences as absolute rules or requirements. This is especially important when marginalised people speak about their experiences of marginalisation. For example, if you are not BIPOC, don’t tell BIPOC to hide their experiences of racism behind CWs.

6️⃣ @matdevdug hat ein Loblied auf die fehlende Aufregung im #Fediverse geschrieben. Er berichtet über die ruhige Schönheit eines Platzes, auf dem die Leute einfach das Teilen, was sie wissen. Er freut sich über fehlende Werbung undkünstliche Aufregung. Und geniesst, wenn jemand mit 20 Jahren in Arktischer Politik nachts um 2 einen Thread schreibt, weil er sein Wissen teilen will.

Und schliesst mit den Worten:

«Das ist das Internet, welches mir 1996 versprochen wurde!»

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

»Indigo brings the open social web to one app« https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/indigo-brings-the-open-social-web-to-one-app/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

I know blind people that willingly don't describe their images on Facebook.

I know blind people, actually, the majority of blind people, that *love* cloud based LLMs and can't stand any critique of the shitty people behind the tool, let alone the companies.

I know blind people that want TTS narrating audiobooks and audio description for everyone instead of humans.

I know blind people that sincerely believe audiobooks should *never* be used in an educational setting because Braille is better so audiobooks should *never* be used in an educational setting.

I know blind people that argue against having audio description and against accessibility because we should be fully independent.

Sighted people must understand that in the blind community especially, there's a *LOT* of blind people and even otherwise disabled people that *hate* all this “PC nonsense” PC is political correctness, but they're arguing against their own interests.

It happens in my own gay community too so instead of listening to blind people that hate other blind people, why not listen to a collective of blind people/other disabled people working to better local or digital environments.

I honestly didn't like the Against Access article when it came out, and I certainly don't like this quote being used to argue *against* access/accessibility instead of participating in an ongoing conversation about an optional filter.

Disagree with the filter all you want but *don't use another disabled person's shortsightedness to take away my access.* https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29496#issuecomment-4429977820 #Accessibility #AltText #A11y #Disability #Blind #Mastodon #Fediverse

Hey everyone,

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

They are:

• Ibrahim_fayez (@Ibrahim_fayez)
• Hazem Al-Assar🇵🇸🍉 (@Hazem)
• Rania Gaza🇵🇸🇵🇸💔 (@rania_gaza09)

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

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

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

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

#fediverse #JoinTheFediverse #zine

@Bibliothecaris

It is wonderful you are active on the #fediverse and are pondering these questions. Going #POSSE is already a huge step in the right direction.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

PS. The share buttons under the article to either Facebook or LinkedIn stood out to me, given the subject matter :)

Fedifreu.de - Diese Mastodon-Instanz wird vom überregionalen netzaktivistischen Zusammenhang Datenfreude betrieben. Dazu zählen u.a. die Gruppen Datenpunks und Kleindatenverein.

https://fedifreu.de

Über: https://fedifreu.de/about
Verwaltet von: @admin

#FeaturedServer #Datenpunks #Netzaktivistischen #Deutsch #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

• Light on resources. I can run this on a potato if I wanted and it would run great (I'm not, but I could.)
• Backups are easy. Tar up the directory. Done.
• Migrations are easy. Install nginx, build snac, untar backup. Done.
• Quirky web interface. It takes a little to get used to it, but it is very functional and it's got character. I thought I would use Phanpy with it more, but I'm not. I enjoy the snac web interface.
• Works (mostly) with Mastodon clients.
• No crazy caching of photos, avatars and other media. This is a really big deal because my disk usage is so much lower than when I ran Mastodon.
• No database. NO DATABASE. So good.
• Fast. snac is really fast doing everything. It's nice.
• @grunfink@comam.es is awesome. Friendly and responsive.

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

FediLearns Classifieds is a pretty neat project from @inherentlee that lets you find people offering to teach various skills.

And you can submit a listing yourself!

https://fedilearns.fyi

#fediverse #FediLearns

#OverUnder 065 with @kev

Today, he shares his thoughts on #Cloudflare, #Casio, #Mozilla, #Tesla, and goat #cheese.

He also replied to @jp's question.

Like every week, we got #books recommendations.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #watches #opensource #bloggers #mastodon #privacy

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-065

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:

• Fahmi From Gaza 🇵🇸 (@fahmigaza)
• taqwa (@taqwasaied)
• (@Saveeleen)

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

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

@paul_ipv6 This is Blue Ribbon 🎀 #fediverse content..
@ramsey @TheBreadmonkey

The fediverse needs a name change.

Everytime I try to explain somebody about the social network and mention 'the fediverse' they get the idea of a gamerworld, or hacker space or some group of internet frikkis.

If the fediverse wants to grow, it needs to have a more general name which doesn't connect to anything.

How about 'Fediv'? The .org name is still untaken.

#fediv #fediverse

BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

RE: https://poliversity.it/@devconf/116549350437622576

La DevConf sarà un evento davvero interessante, ricco di interventi stimolanti.

Il programma prevede argomenti a tutto tondo, con una particolare attenzione al Fediverse e alle tecnologie di comunicazione libera.

Personalmente presenterò #FediMeteo, raccontando come è nato, perché, come è fatto, a chi è rivolto, alla libertà dietro il progetto stesso. E ad una truffa.

Stay tuned!

https://devconf.it/2026/programma.html

#DevConf #DevConfItalia #IT #SysAdmin #Fediverso #Fediverse #OwnYourData

AodeRelay boosted

DevConf Italia » 🌐 2026-05-10
@devconf@poliversity.it

📢 Siete pronti per il DevConf Italia?

🚩 A Pavia, il 7 e 8 Luglio del 2026, presso il Learning Space Cravino in Via Agostino Bassi 2 si terrà il primo convegno nazionale, a cadenza biennale, denominato Dev. Conference Italia.
Verranno affrontati numerosi temi quali: sicurezza, sviluppo applicazioni, didattica, fediverso, libertà e sovranità digitali che potete trovare sul programma.

@devconf@citiverse.it

Venite a scoprire di cosa parleremo, vi aspettiamo numerosi!

https://devconf.it

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locandina ufficiale

Happy Sunday, #BSDCafe
Happy Sunday, #illumosCafe
Happy Sunday, #Fediverse

I'm dismantling a small Kubernetes cluster and converting everything into FreeBSD jails. From 3 VMs to 1 smaller one, better performance, easier maintenance.

Do we really need a truck to carry a single pizza?

#RunBSD #FreeBSD

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

After having a post go "fedi-viral" (100+ boosts), I can better empathize with what @veronica and @TechConnectify have been complaining about WRT behavior on #fedi.

I've mostly gotten positive comments from people I already knew. One or two replies were a bit odd. One was seriously bonkers: bad enough to make me report, mute the entire instance, and block.

That's rare for me. I'm very much a live-and-let-live kind of guy (that's a privilege, I know), and I happily interact with people whom I disagree with sharply on some issues, and I have mutuals that honestly hate each others' guts. 😄

The #fediverse still has a moderation problem, and the fact that 99% of its users may not encounter it doesn't mean it's not there.

So thankful for the vigilant, too-often-thankless (or worse) work of instance admins and some of the more clever fedi clients in keeping the amount of craziness down.

I like the fact that @pachli has an option to warn or hide posts from new accounts. I think that should be a feature of all #fedi server software. I'd also like to see less of a trust-by-default model for federation. It would be neat to have some kind of a credit score for instances, and the ability to share those scores, such that a highly-rated instance rating another instance as being very poor would have a heavier weight than a new or poorly-rated instance giving that same instance a high rating.

All that is way beyond what #ActivityPub was intended to do initially, I'm sure. I'm hoping the fedi can grow towards being a safer place for all, and I'm certain that's what nearly everybody wants. It's just a question of how to do so. And that's not a five dollar question. ;)

Edit: updated Veronica's mention to her new account.

Since I broke my phone and don't have any #podcasts on it, Which new podcasts do you recommend? #fediverse #mastodon

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

In daily life, if you talk to someone, you have the right to remember what was said, right?

And if you don't possess photographic memory, you have the right to take notes, keep record, maintain a diary, yes?

And no one has the right to order you to forget your memories, or under normal circumstances to destroy your notes?

So if you have a single-person #fediverse instance, it is okay then to ignore #ActivityPub Delete requests to erase your memory of online public conversations you had with others?

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #PersonalSocialNetworking

Hello Fediverse!

We are pleased to be joining the Federated Universe today, with this new Mastodon account! 🐢

We are Lockdown Systems,
a worker-owned collective building freedom and privacy technologies to inform the public, fight surveillance, and empower people to take back control of their own data.

Our projects include:
🐦️ @cyd
🧅 OnionShare
🧊 ICE Detention Map
🥚 And more to come!

To learn more about our collective, you can visit our website at: https://lockdown.systems

We're excited to start sharing our work with the Fediverse! 🎉

#Fediverse #Mastodon #LockdownSystems #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy #OpenSource

Besides Mapstodon.Space, I've set up an instance of wanderer, a decentralized, self-hosted trail database software (think Strava/Komoot alternative on the Fediverse!).

Due to a slow but steady growth, it was struggling recently with a low-spec infra (a Raspberry Pi). I've migrated the instance on a machine with much better specs and it runs way more smoothly now.

Come give it a go at https://trails.mapper.space!

#wandererTo #wanderer #strava #komoot #fediverse

Actually, here’s what I really think is lacking: a hide post moderation option in Mastodon.

Instead of deleting posts, moderators should be able to hide posts.

Posts that are hidden by moderators should keep their place in the timeline but state publicly that they were hidden by moderators.

(Servers other than the originating server must treat hidden posts as otherwise deleted and remove their local cache of the content. This is no different to the existing social contact for federated deletes.)

The server should also clearly communicate to the person in question (this can be automated) that their post has been hidden and that they can challenge the decision via regular channels by filing an appeal. (And, if they don’t like the moderation, they can move to a different server, etc., as per usual.)

That would feel much better to me than deleting a post outright and it can be combined with a moderation policy that promises not to delete or edit other people’s posts.

It would also allow for an appeal process and the possible reinstatement of a post should it be found that a moderation error has occurred.

CC @staff @haubles

#mastodon #moderation #fediverse #postDeletion #postHiding #authorship #censorship #ownership

Right, fediverse, let me know what you think. Long-form comments also welcome.

Mastodon instance moderators should…

#mastodon #fediverse #moderation #postDeletion

RE: https://veganism.social/@Geri/116537676967800066

Folks, just a quick warning: If you’re against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, avoid mastodon.online.

They deleted two of Geri’s posts.

Geri is a wonderful activist and an inspiration from the UK who has braved arrest to shine a light on Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

Do give her a follow on her new account as she lost quite a few followers during the migration.

Also, to our friends in Gaza, please don’t create accounts on this server.

#mastodon #fediverse #moderation #censorship #mastodonOnline #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #GazaVerified #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

Totts » 🌐 2026-05-08 / 2026-05-08
@Geri@veganism.social

@aral @david_chisnall mastodon.online - they were criticisms of the the media not mentioning the Muslim being stabbed at that event and thereby framing it exclusively as antisemitism. But hey ho.

I emphasised the abhorrent nature of AS in my post but concluded how further posts may be viewed

Yesterday, we attended the Barclays Annual General Meeting and made a nuisance of ourselves

https://www.instagram.com/stories/palestinesolidarityuk/3891812423648727454?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=MXgxNGtteTg1bWEzNQ==

So I hasn’t realised that Mastodon GmbH (mastodon.social) also runs mastodon.online.

This is troubling, to say the least.

#mastodon #fediverse #federation #censorship #mastodonOnline #mastodonSocial #mastodonGmbH

…Not least of all because the same company that runs the largest Mastodon instance runs more than one instance (why?)

But also the moderation policy that allows for the deletion of people’s posts. (Not even limiting the account or suspending it and asking the person who wrote the post to delete it but moderators outright deleting other people’s posts themselves. That sets a very dangerous precedent.)

#mastodon #fediverse #federation #censorship #mastodonOnline #mastodonSocial #mastodonGmbH

Finally migrating from mamot.fr, 10y after (!) finally leaving La Quadrature du Net, an organisation that doesn't represent me, doesn't make me dream, and doesn't really have much left to do with the causes, the fights and the modes of action for which we co-created it for in the first place.... yet that people still more often than not associate me with today!

It was about time, and I hope this transition helps make things clearer...

#fediverse #migration

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

In daily life, if you talk to someone, you have the right to remember what was said, right?

And if you don't possess photographic memory, you have the right to take notes, keep record, maintain a diary, yes?

And no one has the right to order you to forget your memories, or under normal circumstances to destroy your notes?

So if you have a single-person #fediverse instance, it is okay then to ignore #ActivityPub Delete requests to erase your memory of online public conversations you had with others?

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #PersonalSocialNetworking

Updated: List of Helpful Mastodon Resources

- Add RSS Tooter
- Add Masto Reader

Handmade list of resources for the federated social network Mastodon covering, how to use, find an instance, find people, tools and more.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/list-mastodon-resources/

#blog #mastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub #100DaysToOffload

Week in Fediverse 2026-05-08

Servers

- Vernissage v1.35.0
- Pleroma v2.10.2
- Funkwhale v2.0.2
- Betula v1.7.0
- Hollo v0.8.2
- Akkoma v2026.05
- Ktistec v3.3.7
- NodeBB v4.11.0
- Misskey v2026.5.1
- Ties v0.2.1
- PieFed v1.6.21
- Lemmy Development Update April 2026

Clients

- Nicolium v0.2.1
- Fedilab v3.39.0
- Pachli v3.6.1
- Mastodon for Android v2.12.0
- Coho v1.0
- PixelDroid v1.0.beta42
- Blorp v1.13.0
- Mitra Mini v0.4.0
- Holos v1.5.5

Tools and Plugins

- Fediverse Redirect v1.15.1

For developers

- APx v0.23.0

Articles

- Join the fediverse! zine
- A Bridge to Somewhere: How to Link Your Mastodon, Bluesky, or Other Federated Accounts

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019de52a-a351-7ee2-a48b-7306090edfe6

Enfin migré de mamot.fr, 10 ans après (!) avoir formellement quitté La Quadrature du Net, une organisation qui ne me représente pas, ne me fait pas rêver et surtout n'a plus grand chose à voir avec les causes, les combats et les modes d'actions pour lesquels nous l'avions co-créée en 2008.... et pourtant avec laquelle l'on m'associe encore régulièrement à ce jour... (!)

Il etait grand temps, et j'espère que cette transition aidera à clarifier les choses!

Bonjour, piaille.fr! <3

#fediverse #migration

Bonjour #fediverse! ☕️🥐

Alt...

Me with a croissant in front of a sign pointing towards the A1 highway in Paris, France

RE: https://veganism.social/@Geri/116537676967800066

Folks, just a quick warning: If you’re against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, avoid mastodon.online.

They deleted two of Geri’s posts.

Geri is a wonderful activist and an inspiration from the UK who has braved arrest to shine a light on Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

Do give her a follow on her new account as she lost quite a few followers during the migration.

Also, to our friends in Gaza, please don’t create accounts on this server.

#mastodon #fediverse #moderation #censorship #mastodonOnline #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #GazaVerified #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

Totts » 🌐 2026-05-08 / 2026-05-08
@Geri@veganism.social

@aral @david_chisnall mastodon.online - they were criticisms of the the media not mentioning the Muslim being stabbed at that event and thereby framing it exclusively as antisemitism. But hey ho.

I emphasised the abhorrent nature of AS in my post but concluded how further posts may be viewed

Yesterday, we attended the Barclays Annual General Meeting and made a nuisance of ourselves

https://www.instagram.com/stories/palestinesolidarityuk/3891812423648727454?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=MXgxNGtteTg1bWEzNQ==

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
🐬❤️🧡💛💚💙💜⛵❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🐬

#Vim carnival submissions about #PKM.

I hoped to get more people involved, but that wasn’t the case. Perhaps the next one will be 😅.

I loved @malin' mapping:

inoremap <C-l> <c-g>u<Esc>[s1z=`]a<c-g>u

I'll let you find what it does

#neovim #plaintext #notes #carnivals #fediverse #mastodon #editors #opensource #indieweb #BSD #linux

https://lazybea.rs/vim-carnival-202605

I sincerely love you weirdos. <3

#Fediverse #Mastodon #GoToSocial #snac #snac2 #honk #meme #AVIF

Edit: added transparency to image. Scratch that, GtS seems to not like transparency in AVIF, so I restored the original and uploaded a black background variant as well

Alt...

"X all the Y" guy: I want an amazing community of noble-minded people to study ethics with and change the world!! Pawn Stars with the faces of the fediverse logo, the mastodon logo, and the logos for snac2 GoToSocial, and Honk in the background: Best we can do is a bunch of cool weirdos with similar nerdy interests "X all the Y" guy's reply: I'll take it!!! (light background)

Alt...

"X all the Y" guy: I want an amazing community of noble-minded people to study ethics with and change the world!! Pawn Stars with the faces of the fediverse logo, the mastodon logo, and the logos for snac2 GoToSocial, and Honk in the background: Best we can do is a bunch of cool weirdos with similar nerdy interests "X all the Y" guy's reply: I'll take it!!! (dark background)

"What's on your mind?"
The Fedi post box asks.
I try to think,
The hardest of tasks!
I could say something clever,
Or write a shitpost or two,
I could post a picture,
Or ask Fedi "How are you?"
The cursor blinks,
It lies in wait
For me to choose
My Fedi fate.
I take a breath,
And I begin
To write the post
That I'm now in.
Alright, that's done
Thanks for reading... So, um
I hoped you liked
My Fedi post poem.

#poetry #Fediverse #silly

I am loving that someone who follows me's profile in French 🇫🇷 starts with "Je shitposte ..." and I wonder if/how the verb shitposter (?) declines? Je shitposte, implies ...

Tu shitpostes
Il/elle shitposte
Nous shitpostons
Vous shitpostez
Ils/elles ... etc?

#French #Fediverse #Francais

Oh cool. If you're on mastodon.social, you get to try Collections already.

#mastodon #collections #StarterPacks #fediverse

Alt...

A screenshot of an empty Collections page titled "Your Collections", with a drawing of a mastodon, smiling and greeting you. The text says: Showcase your favorite accounts Collections are curated lists of accounts to help others discover more of the Fediverse. There are also two tabs visible: "Created by you", which is selected, and "Featuring you". On the right side is a user menu with options such as Home, Trending, and more, with the Collections menu item selected and shown with a logo that consists of a triangle shape on top of a square and a circle.

BONJOUR de l'océan LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Hi #fediverse, I wanna do a #fediask

Are there any #peertube channel still active about #physics, #biology, #space or any #science and recommended for me to follow?

It is not utopia. It is full of spam, abandoned servers, broken clients, hostile nodes, strange old commands, half-maintained software, and people arguing in plain text about things no normal person should care about.
But it has one enormous advantage over the platforms that replaced it in your imagination.
No one owns it.
They could be describing #mastodon or the #fediverse. They’re describing the old Internet. The good one.
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

We’re kicking off a new series: Community Spotlights.

Through these stories, we celebrate the people who make the #SocialWeb a wonderful place to connect.

Our first subjects are @Tzipporah & @Yehuda, the grandfather & grandkid duo that admin #TurtleIsland, a server focused on building community with Native/Indigenous people, other BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) people, and allies.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/05/community-spotlight-tzipporah-and-yehuda-of-turtle-island-social/

#Mastodon #Fediverse

Ich habe mal wieder den Erklärbär gemacht: Warum auf dem Kuketz-Blog nicht automatisch der technisch nerdigste Messenger (bspw. Delta Chat, SimpleX) empfohlen wird, sondern der, der realistisch ins Leben von Jutta und Bernd passt.

Digitale Selbstbestimmung beginnt nicht mit Überforderung, sondern mit einem machbaren ersten Schritt raus aus WhatsApp. 👇

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/warum-signal-fuer-whatsapp-aussteiger-die-bessere-wahl-ist/

#Messenger #WhatsApp #Signal #Fediverse #FediLZ

Nun fühle ich mich nicht mehr #neuhier, aber dennoch oft etwas allein unter Nerds.

Alle, die gern wissen wollen, wie meine Reise ins #Fediverse begann und verlief; was ich mag und vermisse, lade ich ein, auf das einen Blick zu werfen, was ich am Montag bei der #2MR dazu erzählt habe.

Ich freue mich auf Euer Feedback!

https://watch.2mr.social/w/4E8TuBh4J1mX6sFyTLXAA6

(Danke an @kingconsult und das Team von der #2MR)

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 #Punk #Reggae #Rocksteady #NewWave #Goth #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

JOURNAL
on est rentrées parcle detnier métro ou alirs juste avant dernier
c'était duper ce soir
on était toutes les sept
ca déménage
quand c'est ça on a menu spécial avec 7 sortes de poissons
cest le patron qui a inventé ça pour nous
lectruc c'est ça donne soif
😅
ça colle une sacrée ambiance forcément
yôko qui boit pas beaucoup est rentrée en taxi avec ka chan
elle etait sérieusement badaouet
😝
maintenant on va au lit
demain on travaille pas jusque mardi prochain
cest golden week même si on prend en route
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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

It's raining. I'm at my desk, just doing the usual. So many things to catch up on.

It all feels a bit like a dream.

Hope you have a great day, too!

#GoodMorning

I wrote what Mastodon actually feels like from the inside of a specific community — not the structural case (that was part 1), but what shared context does to what you can write.

some of it is easy to show:

→ a post on mastodon.scot about independence referendum discourse doesn't explain what the SNP is. the community already has that context. the post can start further into the argument.

→ on infosec.exchange, a CVE drops and technical analysis starts within minutes. precision norms mean vague claims get corrected — not hostilely, but by people who think carefully about what can and can't be asserted.

the pattern: when a community already knows what you know, you can start further into whatever you're trying to say.

part 2 of exploring mastodon:
→ https://federatedmind.com/mastodon-community-texture/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=exploring-mastodon-2

#Mastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenWeb #IndieWeb

What I've listened to, watched, read, and did in April.

Many good #movies! Watched also #Paradise, #DareDevil, #TheBoys, and other #TVShows!

I read two books, and started a new one..

A couple of new #OverUnder posts!

And a good list of links

This is Day 40 of the #100DaysToOffload challenge.

#podcast #movies #books #blogging #blog #fediverse #linkdump #indieweb #blogging #linkdump

https://lazybea.rs/april-26

SPD, Grüne und Linke verlassen X – und empfehlen ihren Mitgliedern als Alternative: Bluesky. Eine zentralisierte Plattform, die einem US-Unternehmen gehört, auf der man den Betreibern genauso ausgeliefert ist wie zuvor Elon Musk. Der Wechsel von einem proprietären Silo zum nächsten ist kein Fortschritt, sondern die gleiche Abhängigkeit mit neuem Logo.

Das Fediverse existiert. Mastodon existiert. Dezentral, offen, ohne einzelnen Eigentümer, der morgen die Spielregeln ändert. Aber nein – drei Parteien, die digitale Souveränität befürworten, landen ausgerechnet auf Bluesky.

#WirVerlassenX ist als Hashtag gut gemeint. Schade, dass man beim Nachdenken über das »Wohin« schon aufgehört hat.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky

/kuk

@adele a ajouté la localisation en français (ainsi que en, es et de) dans son client web #Fediverse léger #SmolFedi

C'est une appli web écrite en php, sans javascript côté client et qui fonctionne plutôt bien. La dernière version, en français si ça vous intéresse, est vraiment pas mal. Ça s'installe sur n'importe quelle stack web PHP/sqlite. Vous pouvez y jeter un œil sur l'instance de demo : https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/

Code source : https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

where are you buying your #HardDrives in #Europe? #disks #hardware #mastodon #fediverse #linux #BSD

#SmolFedi is a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse web client written in PHP.

v1.2.6 is available

• Localized in English, German, Spanish and French 🌍
• Add Explore page: trending posts, trending hashtags, trending links, and suggested accounts
• Add scheduled post feature

Source/download

Demo instance

#smolweb #fediverse #nojs

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:

• Mohammed (@Mohammedmorjan)
• Doaa Gaza (@doaa_gaza)

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

#OverUnder 064 with @jp

Today, he shares his thoughts on #Ray-Ban and its #AI, #Kobo, #Keychron #keyboards, #Vinyl, and #cupcakes.

He also replied to @michaelharley's question.

Like every week, we got #books recommendations.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #desserts #glasses #opensource #MechanicalKeyboards #bloggers #mastodon #music #privacy

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-064

Nun auch schriftlich und mit weiteren Eindruecken.

Zum 5. #diday habe ich meine liebsten 3 #Linux Distributionen abgefruehstueck und via @info hier 👉 https://www.metacheles.de/drei-linux-distributionen-die-euch-den-umstieg-leicht-machen-digital-independence-day-5/ zusammengefasst.

Von #Mint ueber #pop_os zu #cachyos

Und als Bonus gibt es noch den Grund, warum ich ueberhaupt nach #Taiwan gekommen bin & sich mein Leben so gewandelt hat.. es lag tatsaechlich an meinem eigenen Linux-Derivat, welches wir vor ueber 20 Jahren veroeffentlicht hatten.

Gerne boosten.

Danke #Fediverse 🙏

Looking for #opensource #linux #fediverse #mastodon people in #Ireland #Eire - #hackerspaces included ... anybody out there?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AwetTesfaiesus/116514953039588679

As some of you have already guessed: the progressive parties in German politics (and the social democrats 😉) have jointly decided to leave the manipulative and abusive cesspit that twitter has turned into. I‘m very happy and also a little proud of this.
If you want want to do me a favor, be ready to welcome an influx of mildly woke people.
#xit #fediverse

Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB » 🌐 2026-05-04
@AwetTesfaiesus@mastodon.social

It’s still under news embargo, but maybe watch out for some good news going up today at 09:00. it’s been a long time coming!
#diday #fediverse #twix

It’s still under news embargo, but maybe watch out for some good news going up today at 09:00. it’s been a long time coming!
#diday #fediverse #twix

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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

RE: https://23.social/@leyrer/116504864453089197

Thanks for the fascinating read, @leyrer

My main take-away is: *we* are the Cannibal Internet. The people running the #Fediverse on a shoe-string budget, not for profit. The #xmpp servers hosted in basements from #solarpunk energy. The artists posting their works here, with no greed-driven "algorithms". And we are growing bigger and bigger!

Debacle boosted

leyrer » 🌐 2026-05-02
@leyrer@23.social

… the author looks at contemporary horror movies and argues that monsters work like mirrors. They reflect whatever sociopolitical anxiety is boiling underneath—economic precarity, environmental collapse, the feeling that the whole system wants you dead.

https://networkcultures.org/blog/2026/04/29/in-search-of-the-cannibal-internet/

Alt...

The [book] index itself works as a roadmap to how fictional horror captures and presents to us the horrors of capitalism. - Work Hates You: Antiwork Horror and Value Theory - Love Hates You: Feminist Anticapitalist Horror and Social Reproduction Theory - Nature Hates You: Psychedelic Eco-horror and Ecological Marxism - The Neighborhood Hates You: New Black Horror and Uneven Development - Commodities Hate You: Mass- Culture Horror and Commodity Forms - The Family Hates You: Elevated Horror and Family Abolition - Feelings Hate You: Therapeutic Horror and Emotion Work

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

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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

Week in Fediverse 2026-05-01

Servers

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

Clients

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

For developers

- Fedify v2.2.0

Articles

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

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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

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

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

“Inside Chernobyl With Ben Fogle” on Channel 5

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

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

@synlogic4242

> localfirst.

I wonder if people know how to have fun with a computer without social media, let alone without the web in general, let alone without the internet in general. Some of the most fun I've had recently was dinking around with #Plan9 with nothing more than a bunch of manpages and the occasional web lookup via #Mothra (a web browser who's capabilities closely match #Dillo — very web 1.0)

Shameless plug(s):
https://rldane.space/i-loved-computers-before-the-internet-was-a-thing.html
https://rldane.space/web-10-is-unironically-going-great.html

> text-bias. terminals, CLIs, shells.

I love the fact that plain text has more or less won. Markdown. JSON. XML, umm, yeah. XD

> Markdown.

MARK the FRICK [DOWWWWWWWWN]
I was literally writing Uni class notes in MS Word until I discovered Markdown (not until after abandoning grad school, sadly). When I learned about it, I was like,

"This is a UNIX system, I know thi—"

*COUGH*

I mean,

"This is basically just #WikkaWiki or early #TiddlyWiki markdown! I already know this!!"

And I've loved it ever since, like 7 years, now.

> decentralized. p2p. e2ee. no surveillance supported, allowed or even possible.

The glazed-eyed look when I tell people that their security cameras could be e2ee'd, that they didn't have to give some creepy corpo a 24/7 view into their kids bedrooms.
Mein gott

> middle finger to the rentier & grifter class.

Thank God for the #fediverse for teaching me terms like "grifter," "rent-seeking," and the like. Y'all have ruined this Texas boy 🤣

I was talking to my aunt a few months ago, and this totally white lady raised by conservative Christians said, "Man, capitalism just ruins everything!"

My immediate response: "DEAR GOD, [NAME], THEY HAVE RUINED YOU!!!" 😂

> anti-AI caltrops the norm.

YAS. I wanna see TONS of anti-AI honeypots ;)
There needs to be a service called amislopornot.com that lets you punch in a git repo URL and tells you if there's any agents.md, claude, or copilot contributions. #Fedi, make this happen! 😆

> return to compute efficiency (where every pixel, character, cycle and bit is precious and not to be wasted -- unless its for sake of funny cat videos, and even that the only exception. ok also dogs in costumes. no other exceptions. maybe a re-binge of Firefly. literally no other exceptions, however. unless Minecraft has new skins avail. again: last possible exception.

Make .GIF for still images again. It was never meant to be used for animations. 😥
The fact that you can effortlessly convert an animated GIF to mp4 in like a few seconds with ffmpeg, shave off no less than half the storage with no perceptible loss of quality (on a highly dithered image, to boot!) really tells you it's just not meant for that.

> the important point is to aspire to be a vegan even while mouth stuffed with fresh bacon.)

This is the last sentence that EVER needs be writ.
Literature is now declared COMPLETE.
I have a B.S. in Literary Studies, I have the auttorritaah!!!

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:

• Hanan Mahmoud Gaza🇵🇸 (@hananmahmoudgaza)

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

Which Android masto clients allow quote boosting? Elk and Tusky appear not to.

#fediverse #android

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
bon week-end de 1er mai
ici cest pas férié
on est des travailleuses nous
😁
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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

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

Thank you @dpnash !

David Gerard boosted

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On the #Fediverse everyone has a voice and no-one has a veto over all Fedinauts. #GoodNight as I am tired after hard work but also delighted to be a part of the Internet of People the way it should be.

JOURNAL
Qu'est ce que c'est un restau cher st chic ?
cest un endroit ou on peut prenfte son temps pour manger comme en france
on se sent pas obligées de vider les lieux dès la dernière bouchée avalée parceque il y a la queue
cest un endroit où à la fin on demande qu'on nous appele un taxi et quand il est arrivé on vient doucement nous prévenir et un type vient vous reculer votre chaise
je parle pas du prix qu'on nous sert dans un plateau parceque ça fait honte
mais ma princesse voulait fêter la fin de mon suivi psychiatrique et elle sait que j'adore scandaleusement ces petits mais coûteux coups de luxe.
maintenant il est très tard demain cinderella retrouve pas son carosse mais sa citrouille et faudra aller bosser
A restera à la maison

BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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

https://jointhefediverse.net

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

#fediverse #SocialMedia #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #JoinTheFediverse

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
la vie est belle
je n'ai plus besoin de psys
🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

@cnes

Hé bien c'est le moment pour vous de militer auprès de numerique.gouv.fr (qui que ce soit derrière) pour monter une instance peertube de la même façon que l'instance mastodon a été créée 🤗

Comme dit déjà : peertube est à yt ce que mastodon est à X, avec le grooooos avantage que les interactions "ici-masto" avec les vidéos "là-bas-peertube" seront possibles. #fediverse rulz.

Cela dit, continuez à partager ce que vous voulez, tant que les liens ne sont pas masqués derrière d'obscure url. On clique en connaissance de cause.

What kind of moderation features, that don't already exist here, would you like to see on the Fediverse; or which do exist that you'd like to see improve?

#Fediverse #AskFedi #FediAdmin #Moderation #FOSS

Character study of the GoToSocial sloth, a future new member, when I'll be drawing the group of mascots of the Fediverse.

Directly inspired by the GotoSocial logo by @Anna − CC-BY-SA 4.0 https://gotosocial.org/

#krita #ArtWithOpenSource #MastoArt
#GoToSocial #Fediverse #activitypub

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A digital sheet of concept with four time the same character: a tiny cute sloth. First post is happy with a little heart nearby their head. A pose expresses surprise. Another full body pose shows the sloth in a three, curious. Last pose is about the sloth eating leaves and being happy excited about it.

The Gamers’ Tavern is a Glitch Mastodon server 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 account @alex

#FeaturedServer #Gamers #Gaming #VideoGames #Mastodon #GlitchMastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

JOURNAL
connaissez vous cette fille qui se réveille tard part en catastrophe et oublie son téléphone ?
C'est moi
eh oui
😅
on va dormir demain on a pas de réveil mais la journée a été fatigante pour les deux ici
Ma Princesse a rencontré La ministre takahichi en personne
super bien passé
elle voulait la feliciter personnellement pour une analyse qu'elle avait donné qui s'est révélée parfaitement juste
elle lui a même demandé ce quelle pensait des mesures en préparation pour limiter la présence des étrangers au japon
A a fait fait une vraie réponse de japonaise pour eviter les questions gênantes ça a beaucoup plu
elle a de l'humour la pm on dirait
elle l'a aussi félicitée pour son japonais quasiment de native
elle a ajouté en douce
c'est vrai que vous vivez avec une vraie japonaise
voilà
je suis une vraie japonaise
je repondrai à vos messages demain on en peux plus.
mais
JE VOUS AIME TRÈS FORT !
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse !
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Hey fedi hive mind, do you remember an article, it was either about Mastodon specifically, or fediverse in general.

It talked about how we're a small community of mostly happy people, and, rhetorically, asked something like: How do you monetize happy people? Or people who are not miserable.

EDIT: Thank you @petes_bread_eqn_xls!

https://mastodo.neoliber.al/@petes_bread_eqn_xls/116484208814261730

https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/

#AskFedi #fediverse

The @fsfe offers an easy way to share #FreeSoftware news within the #fediverse and other channels through the share buttons at the end of the pages. See e.g. https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260420-01.en.html

Hope that helps to make it easy for your to share important work and balance the at least to a small degree the high budgets of those no the other side of our work.

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Screenshot of Share Menu at the end of the mentioned page.

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Screenshot of Share Menu at the end of the mentioned page with the field for the Fediverse instance.

For those who have questions about #Holos. I've seen a lot written recently, and since the project is young, it's normal that things stay ambiguous or get misunderstood. This is a thread, with one post per remark most often read, and a direct answer.

#HolosSocial #Fediverse #ActivityPub

The #Pixel is gone!

#mobile #smartphone #GrapheneOS #privacy #fediverse

https://lazybea.rs/the-pixel-is-gone

#100DaysToOffload 38/100

💙 Print sale on my small prints (up to A4)! Set up & calibrated my new printer, so I am looking to test it out.

Mastodon discount of 20%, for my #fediverse family

A5 - £8, $14.11, €12.13
A4 - £18, $28.02, €24.08
8x10in - £16, $25.24, €21.69

All includes free postage!

Enter MASTOFAM code at checkout for your 20%off discount

Want more than one? Use code 3FOR2 for get...well....3 for the price of two.

Codes stack, use both 💙

https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/shop/custom-made-art/fine-art-print-small/

#MastoArt #BuyArt #Prints #Photographer

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test print with 6 lost places

Are you baffled by strange slang on here like "toot" or "boost" or "John Mastodon"? These and many other terms are explained in this guide:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/what-are-toots-what-are-boosts-what-are-cws-what-are-instances-what-is-birdsite

If there's a term missing from the guide, please post it in the replies.

#FediTips #Fediverse

Hey everyone,

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

They are:

• Batool (@batoolgaza)

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116459091174948912

Look at these two beautiful examples of #Ghost in production!

And yes, you can "earn money" like on #SubStack

George & Washy's blog:
https://catblog.net

My own personal site:
https://stux.me

Bonus.. they also Federate in the #Fediverse! @meow

pvergain (framapiaf) boosted

Elena Rossini 🌈 » 🌐 2026-04-24
@_elena@mastodon.social

A routine reminder that it's always a good idea to boycott #Substack.

We have long known that it platforms and profits from Nazi publications. And now: #manosphere influencers with multiple accusations of serious crimes... so much so that there is a dedicated Wikipedia page about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_the_Tate_brothers

No problem for #Substack though! They happily take a 10% cut from all paid subscriptions.

There are many great alternatives to SS: Ghost, Buttondown, beehiiv, Patreon... no more excuses

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a screenshot of the Substack page for Andrew Tate with a window on top that reads: "Andrew Tate is a Substack Bestseller" and below: Andrew Tate is #8 Rising in News with hundreds of paid subscribers

BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

@jwildeboer

& I fucking love it💙

i am so happy i landed here. i had heard of Mastodon when i got on bsky bc i wanted to be part of the resistance to this fascist regime

but when they booted me for celebrating the death of a racist, fascist bigot & I came to the #fediverse, i couldn't be happier!

IN OTHER NEWS

just #blocked a rando using #peertube because:

1. i have no idea why peertube people are landing on my timeline. i don't follow them. they haven't been boosted by people i follow. their posts have no hashtag am following. how the fuck are these people ending up on my timeline?!?!?

2. 🗣FFS STOP MAKING THOSE YOUTUBE MINSTREL FACES
why the fuck come to the #fediverse with the fucking shuffle & dance minstrelcy of that horrible mister beast? STOP IT!

NEGL am enjoying writing my little #divorcedBirds stories. it was one of my favorite subreddits and i love that i can try my hand at such shenanigans with all the wonderful nature photographers we have in the #fediverse.