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This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
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“Alberta separatist group ordered to pull down list with millions of voters' personal information
Alberta has experienced a devastating data breach, resulting in the publication of personal information belonging to mil...”
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#NextcloudCollectives fans, this one is for you!
The team behind the Nextcloud Collectives app does more than contribute code.
Community outreach, documentation, and even support groups in using the app for their work. 😍
And now, they have created their own #Fediverse page to post updates and talk about the new features!
Join the conversation! 👉 @collectives
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BONJOUR LE #fediverse
bon week-end de 1er mai
ici cest pas férié
on est des travailleuses nous
😁
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“https://www. europesays.com/people/51387/ Congress kicks the can down the road on surveillance law (again) # Congress # FISA # JohnThune # MarkWarner # Privacy # RonWyden # Section702 # SenateI...”
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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@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.
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“SCAN FACE TO PLAY: PlayStation ID Verification
# GNCA - # GamersNexus # ConsumerAdvocacy # yoti # ID # IDverification # uk # ie # FaceScan # sony # playstation # facialscan # Identit...”
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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:
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.
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“Met Police's # Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs - https://www. theregister.com/2026/04/30/met _police_palantir_deployment_cop_probe/ # surveillance is surveillance”
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“If you see an account marked with the "Automated" or "Bot" tag, this does not mean anything bad! This tag can only be added by the owner of the account, so it is almost always used to mark good useful bots run by honest ...”
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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
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“Exposed Data Illustrates the Nightmare Scenario for a Stalkerware Victim
https:// web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wire d.com/story/exposed-data-illustrates-the-nightmare-scenario-for-a-stalkerware-victim/”
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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.
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
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“Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores https://www. theguardian.com/technology/202 6/apr/29/maryland-grocery-stores-ban-surveillance-pricing # privacy # surveillance # s...”
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#Jabber/#XMPP finde ich noch besser, denn es ist #frei und #föderiert, wie das #Fediverse 🙂
Ein #WalledGarden wird ja nicht so viel besser, nur weil er in #Europa angesiedelt ist.
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“Congress Is in Chaos Over a Surveillance Law—But the Full Story Is Classified
https:// web.brid.gy/r/https://www.moth erjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-congress-fisa-spy-court-fbi-bill/”
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if you read the piece this week on how to actually read the instance picker — the next question answers itself.
our free fediverse quick-start checklist walks through exactly that: 12 steps to get a fully working federated presence, including mastodon setup, bluesky if you want both, finding your existing contacts, and the non-obvious stuff (following hashtags before you have a follow list; account portability; chronological feeds by default).
written for people who already understand the architecture. share it with people who don't.
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“Palo Alto license plate data searched by hundreds of out-of-state agencies Despite local officials’ claims to the contrary, hundreds of law enforcement agencies from around the country searched data from Palo Alto’s aut...”
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I have often thought about you and imagined how quiet you must be in your solitary fort up among the empty mountains over which those great south winds rush, as if they wanted to devour them in mighty chunks.
The silence must be immense
To be able to receive such sounds and movements () joined by noise of the sea, present in the distance ()
Pre-historic harmony ()
Let this marvellous solitude work on you ()
A solitude which will never be deleted from your life.
In all that lies before you to experience and do,
It will continue as an anonymous influence ()
Perhaps like the way the blood of our ancestors moves unceasingly within us and mingles with our own
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)
Paris, on the second day of Christmas, 1908
Excerpts
p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
I think of you often ()
Whether my letters can really be a help, well, I have my doubts.
Do not say: Yes, they are. Just let them sink in and without any particular sense of gratitude, and let’s wait and see what will come of it. ()
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)
Furuborg, Jonsered, Sweden, 4. November, 1904
Excerpts
p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Congressional funding is supporting huge government investments in surveillance tech and data analytics driven by AI.
Disclosure of documents allegedly hacked from Homeland Security reveal a massive surveillance web tha...”
https://climatejustice.social/@breton/116489054902256338
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BONJOUR LE #fediverse
la vie est belle
je n'ai plus besoin de psys
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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?
So,
Dear Mr. Kappus (the young poet, p01)
You shouldn’t be dismayed if a sadness rises up in front of you, greater than any you have seen before; or if a disquiet plays over your hands () like light and cloud-shadow. ()
Think that something is happening with you,
That life has not forgotten you,
That it holds you in its hand;
It will not let you fall.
Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling () when you don’t know what work it is these states are performing within you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question where it all comes from and where it is leading? You well know you are in a
Period of transition ()
If there is something ailing in the way you go about things, then remember that sickness is the means by whih an organism rids itself of something foreign to it. All one has to do is help it to be ill, to have its whole illness and let it break out, for that is how it mends itself. ()
There is so much () going on ()
You must be patient as an invalid and
Trusting as a convalescent,
For you are perhaps both.
And more than that:
You are also the doctor ()
But with all illnesses there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait,
Inasfar as you are your own doctor
This above all is
What you
Must
Do
Now.
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)
Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904
Excerpts
5/10, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
The fear of the inexplicable
Has not just rendered the individual existence poorer;
Relations between people, too, have been
Restricted,
As it were lifted out of the
River-bed of of endless possibilities
And placed on a deserted bank where nothing happens. ()
It is not lethargy alone which cause human relationships to repeat themselves in the same old () monotony ()
It is the shying away from any kind of
New,
Unforeseeable
Experience,
Which we think we may not be equal to.
But only someone who is ready for anything nd rules nothing out, not even the most enigmatic things, will experience the relationship with another as a living thing and will him (her, p01) self llve his (her, p01) own existence to the full. ()
Imagining an individual’s existence as a larger or smaller room
Reveals to us that most people are only acquainted with one corner of their particular room,
A place by the window,
A little area
To pace
Up
And
Down.
That way they have a certain security.
And yet the perilous uncertainty that drives the prisoners in Poe’s tales out the outlines of their () dungeons ()
But we are not prisoners.
There are no traps or snares set up around us, and there is nothing that should frighten or torment us.
We are placed into life ()
We have no reason to be distrustful of our world, for it is not against us.
If it holds terrors, they are our terrors,
If it has abysses, these abysses belong to us ()
How can we forget those ancient myths found at the beginnings of all peoples?
The myths about the dragons who at the last moment turn princesses?
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses, only waiting for the day when they will see us handsome (beautiful, p01) and brave?
Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)
Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904
Excerpts
4/10, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores https://www. theguardian.com/technology/202 6/apr/29/maryland-grocery-stores-ban-surveillance-pricing # Technology # Surveillance # ...”
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We
Have already had to adjust our theories of planetary motion,
And so, too, we shall gradually learn to recognize
That what we call fate originates in ourselves, in humankind, and does not work on us from the outside. ()
Many people () in panic () swore to never have found anything of the sort in themselves before. ()
Someone transported from his room, () without warning and interval, onto the top of a high mountain would feel () virtually destroyed by an unparalleled sense of insecurity, by an exposure to something nameless. He would think he was falling or believe himself to be hurtling out into space or shattered into a thousand pieces ()
For one who becomes solitary, many such changes suddenly take place at once and, as with the man on the mountaintop, unusual imaginings and curious sensations occur which seem to be take on dimensions greater than can be tolerated.
But it is necessary for us to experience this too.
We must accept our existence in as wide a sense as can be; everything, even the unheard of, must be possible within it.
That,
When you come down to it,
Is the only kind of courage that is demanded of us:
The courage of the oddest,
The most unexpected,
The most inexplicable
Things that we may encounter. ()
Human beings have been cowardly in this regard ()
The experiences we describe as ‘apparitions’, the entire so-called ‘spirit world’, death
All those things so closely akin to us
Have by our daily rejection of them been
Forced so far from our lives that
The senses with which we might apprehend them
Have atrophied. ()
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)
Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904
Excerpts
3/10, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
I believe
That
Almost all our sadnesses are
Periods of tautening
That we experience as numbness
Because we can no longer hear stirring of our feelings, which have become foreign to us;
Because we are alone
With the strange feeling that has entered into us;
Because everything () is taken away from us for a moment;
Because we are in the middle of a transition ()
And that is why sadness passes:
What is new in us, the thing that has supervened,
Has entered into our heart,
Penetrated to its innermost chamber
And lingered not even there -
It is already in our blood. ()
We never quite know what it was. One might easily suppose nothing had happened, but we have altered the way a house alters when a guest enters it.
We cannot say who has come, perhaps we shall never know, but there are many indications that it is the future that enters into us like this,
In order to be transformed within us,
Long before it actually occurs ()
That is why it is so important to be () attentive when one is sad: Because the apparently uneventful and static moment when our future comes upon us is so much closer to life than the other () point when it happens () outside.
The quieter,
The more patient and open
We are in our sadness,
The deeper and more unerringly the new will penetrate into us,
The better we shall acquire it,
The more it will be our fate,
And when one day in the future it ‘takes place’ ()
We shall feel related and close to it in our innermost hearts. ()
And that is necessary ()
Little by little our development will tend in this direction ()
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)
Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904
Excerpts
2/10, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
You
Have had many great sadnesses
Which have now passed by ()
But I ask you to consider whether these great unhappinesses did not rather passes
Through
You?
Whether much within You has not changed,
Whether somewhere, in some part of your being, you were not
Transformed ()?
If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and a little beyond the outworks of our intuitions, perhaps we then should then bear our sadnesses with greater assurance ()
For they are moments when something new enters into us,
Something unknown (),
Our feelings,
Shy and inhibited,
Fall silent,
Everything within us withdraws
A stillness settles on us,
And at the centre of it is the
New presence
That nobody knows,
Making no sound
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)
Borgeby, gard, Fladie, Sweden, 12. August, 1904
Excerpts
1/10, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
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“Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores Critics say Maryland’s new law banning rapidly change product costs based on consumer data is full of carveouts Maryland has become the first st...”
https://mstd.seungjin.net/@theguardian/116488667405036555
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Even on my darkest days (like the last couple, today is better), I find so many amazing things and cool people here on Mastodon. I just wanted to thank you all for that. You're all part of that. I love the fedi.
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““Once you’re in the Flock system, it’s on you to get out. You have to bear any responsibility for making that happen.” # flock # alpr # surveillance
https:// futurism.com/future-society/fl ock-ai-surveillan...”
https://xoxo.zone/@Ashedryden/116488618223039970
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“So I will tell everybody that follows me and everybody else in the general space that if you want to talk about # flocksafety , and what flock safety is a company does and who funded it, and what the technology actuall...”
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“@ HennaVirkkunen No. Your top priority is building a surveillance state and force everybody to identify itself to Meta, Google, Palantir, etc. so you can control the internet and suppress free speech. # EU # su...”
https://chaos.social/@m_berberich/116487717882241922
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“They’re not twins separated at birth - they’re the same machine, just with different client lists. One sells the data, the other subpoenas it, but both depend on us accepting total visibility as normal. # surveillance ...”
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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
🔆 #FediTips for https://PrivacySafe.Social & the #fediverse
“You might have noticed a "Notes" or "Personal Note" feature on Mastodon and wondered what it's for? The idea is so you can keep private notes about an account which only you can see. For example you might want to note w...”
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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.
You can find out more at https://gamerstavern.online/about or contact the admin account @alex
#FeaturedServer #Gamers #Gaming #VideoGames #Mastodon #GlitchMastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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“Surveillance watch. How transparent are digital price tags down your grocery aisle?
Perhaps, more troubling, industry analysts say, is surveillance pricing. “Surveillance pricing is dynamic pricing on steroids,” said Sy...”
https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glokanagan_mirror/116485734379824554
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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 !
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Surveillance watch. How transparent are digital price tags down your grocery aisle?
Perhaps, more troubling, industry analysts say, is surveillance pricing. “Surveillance pricing is dynamic pricing on steroids,” said Sy...”
https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glbc_mirror/116485560933819774
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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/
Achso, Apple iMessage. Dann ist es Regen. Traufe. Es war vorher #GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft — die Abkürzung ist älter als Alphabet und Meta) und es bleibt dabei 😞
Also, bitte @tagesschau: #Frei und #föderiert ist die Zukunft! #Email, #Fediverse, #Jabber, etc.
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“A U.S. agency abruptly closed an investigation into allegations that Meta can access encrypted WhatsApp messages, ending an inquiry into claims that challenge how the company markets the chat service's privacy. https:/...”
https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/116485081070843745
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I have a doubt that the #fediverse might answer: does reboost fill the servers of instances with more data, and then its more space friendly to undo reboost with time?
SMS abzuschalten finde ich nicht so verkehrt.
Aber als Alternative sollten @tagesschau auf "#frei & #föderiert" setzen, nicht auf walled gardens wie Whatsapp, Signal oder Threema.
Warum nicht #Email, #Fediverse oder #Jabber?
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“What Epstein's Surveillance Network Means for Your Privacy
# epstein # epsteinfiles # privacy # surveillance # palantir https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=bugB0sA7FcA”
https://social.vivaldi.net/@rogerc2738/116484459224981088
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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.
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Most messaging apps are #surveillance products with a chat interface bolted on.
#Signal. #Matrix. The exceptions matter.
Here's what to use and what to delete → https://twp.ai/4hpWWV
#Signal #Privacy #InfoSe...”
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m4jmanw3astpwhqp54g6yslu/post/3mklglnkd4x2b
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Morning lovely Fedi! ☕
The Network Digitale Samenleving (Network Digital Society) of the Dutch Greens (GroenLinks-PvdA / Progessief Nederland) embraced PeerTube. They've posted the talks of their Digital Summit at Exquisite.tube
This is fantastic news!
#Fediverse #PeerTube #Decentralised #GroenLinks #PvdA #ProgressiefNederland
One day
(There are already reliable signs that speak for it () there will be
Girls and women (again, p01),
Whose name will no longer just signify the opposite of the male but something
In their own right
Something which does not make one think of any supplement or limit, but only of
Life and existence:
The female human being.
This step forward
(At first against the will of the men who are left behind)
Will transform the experience of love, which is now full of error,
Alter ()
Reshape it
Into a a relation between two human beings and no longer between man and woman. And this
More human of love (which will be performed in infinitely gentle and considerate fashion,
True and clear in its creating of bonds and dissolving them)
Will resemble the one we are () toiling to prepare ()
The love that consists in two (any number and all, p01) solitudes protecting, defining, and welcoming one another. ()
Do not believe that that abundance of love which was once () bestowed on you is now lost. ()
I believe that love remains so strong and powerful in () memory because it was y our
First deep experience ()
The first inner work ()
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Excerpts
4/4, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“As much as # Manitoba 's Wab Kinew is the envy of the country, he is wrong on his desire for # socialMedia # surveillance of youth. And he is wrong to even suggest that it is possible. The real problem is the lac...”
https://mastodon.social/@miki_lou/116484176202583378
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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.
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“# Congress Must Reject New Insufficient 702 Reauthorization Bill https://www. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/cong ress-must-reject-new-insufficient-702-reauthorization-bill # Section702 # FISA # NSA # surv...”
https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/116483516040274727
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Because pain is palpable. A population that knows it is oppressed can name its oppressor, organize against it, and fight back. The history of every revolution runs on that logic.
Pleasure is different. A population that is comfortable has no grievance to organize around. The cage doesn’t need guards if the prisoner has stopped looking for the door.
Rational rulers eventually discover that a happy slave is cheaper than a frightened one.
Huxley in a letter to Orwell from Wrightwood, California on October 21, 1949 on why pleasure would win over pain as control mechanism..
The boot-on-the-face model is unstable. Violence creates friction. Friction creates martyrs. Martyrs create resistance, It is too costly to sustain forever.
The smarter path: Make the cage comfortable enough that no one looks for the door.
The lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), English pacifist writer and philosopher, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World (1932).
Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 1950), English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Inspired by a post re-posting @sfliberty, IG
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
To love
Is also good ()
Love between one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing that is laid upon us do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation. ()
Beginners in everything, do not yet (consciously, p01) know how to love ()
An apprenticeship () is always a long, secluded period, and love too is for a great time and far into life: heightened and deepened loneliness for the one one in love.
Love at first has nothing to do with unfolding, abandon and uniting with another person (for what be the sense in a union of what is unrefined and unfinished, still second order);
For the individual it is a grand opportunity to mature, to become something in him (her, p01) self, to become a world in him (her, p01) self for another's sake ()
The unfolding, the abandon and any kind of togetherness () are the culmination.
But () people () fling themselves at another, when love comes over them ()
In all their () confusion..
But what can come of that? ()
Each person loses him (her, p01) self () for the other’s sake and loses the other ()
Loses the expanses and possibilities,
Exchanges the nearing and fleeing of delicate, mysterious things for ()
The escape into one of the many conventions which like public shelters are set up in great numbers along this most dangerous of paths.
No area of human experience is so well furnished with conventions as this ()
Society in its wisdom has found ways of constructing refuges of all kinds,
For since it has been disposed to make the love-life a pastime, it also felt obliged to trivialize it,
To make it cheap, risk-free and secure, as public pleasure usually are.
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Excerpts
1/2, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“https://www. europesays.com/britain/24182/ ICJP issues legal letters to UK universities over unlawful surveillance of students and staff # complicity # Gaza # HumanRights # palest...”
https://pubeurope.com/@UnitedKingdom/116483001090104473
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💙 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/
Wirklich sehr sehens- und verbreitenswert.
Danke auch an @kenji!
#IngolfBaur sieht's aber aus meiner Sicht noch zu einfach: "Ein erster Schritt kann es sein, Signal parallel zu Whatsapp zu nutzen."
AWS statt Meta? Vom Regen in die Traufe! 🤦
Dann doch lieber #Jabber — the #fediverse of chat since 1999.
Location: London
Mastodon: @cwebber@social.coop
The co-author of the ActivityPub protocol and co-founder of Spritely Institute, building the next generation of decentralized networked technology, delivers a critique of the Fediverse from one of its co-architects.
The Fediverse’s real strength is participatory structure: any one server can fail and the network keeps running. But it isn’t decentralized enough to survive the threats coming for it, including age-verification laws rooted in anti-queer politics, hardware-level lockdown of what you can run on your own computer, and data-centre concentration that turns information infrastructure into a kill switch. The answer is to push further: content-addressed messaging, peer-to-peer chat with no host to subpoena, and technology built around joy and empowerment rather than defensive compliance.
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.
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
boostedRE: 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
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
In my series of linogravure of open source projects, le fediverse 😁
Welcome to the #fediverse
#linogravure #linocut
& 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!
wrote up the thing that trips up nearly every newcomer to this network:
the server picker page isn't asking you to pick a Mastodon. it's asking you to pick a neighborhood. ActivityPub is the road system — it's open, it's shared, it connects every instance to every other instance that hasn't blocked it. what you're choosing is the community whose timeline, rules, and culture shape your local experience.
some things worth knowing before you choose:
→ most major instances are donation-funded, not ad-supported.
→ AI policy is now a real community differentiator.
→ regional and language instances have a center of gravity that the flagship can't credibly provide.
→ the initial choice is revisable. account portability is built in. your followers move with you.
new piece walking through the full landscape:
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!
Une analyse intéressante de #Mastodon et du #Fediverse, et plus largement des #LogicielsLibres et des #RéseauxSociaux décentralisés.
Par le documentariste tchèque Honza Šípek.
Traduit en français et annoté par Adam Novak pour ESSF.
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“# Palantir is reportedly helping the # IRS investigate financial crimes https:// techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/pala ntir-is-reportedly-helping-the-irs-investigate-financial-crimes/ # privacy # surveillance”
https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/116476909992329528
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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.
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#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“"Last August, 404 Media reported that at a June immigration raid outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles, a Customs and Border Protection agent was seen wearing Meta’s Ray-Ban AI smart glasses, which can record video and use...”
https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116475811285669384
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In *theory* you should be able to follow this test user:
@你好@i18n.viii.fi
But I can't find any Fediverse software which actually supports non-ASCII usernames.
If you are able to see the user, its description, and its avatar - please send me a screenshot 🙂
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“They're only now realizing this?! Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism" https:// arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20 26/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fasc...”
https://toot.majorshouse.com/@majorlinux/116473827302790812
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“The Palantir Manifesto | Gil Duran | # TMR
# TheMajorityReport w/ # SamSeder
Apr 26, 2026 # GilDuran , publisher of the # NerdReich newsletter joins the program to discuss the “ # Palantir # Manifesto...”
https://mastodon.social/@MindTGap/116473289315550229
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I appreciate those who've been helping #mutualaid & #directaid posts be seen.
I've struggled for so long to have anything be seen here on #Mastodon and #Fediverse.
So let's change that!
Can we start a #MutualAidThread, #MutualAidCheckpoint #MAThread, #MACheckpoint?
As this platform allows for edits, it's ideal.
Please post your #MutualAidRequest below.
Please #Boost for others as well.
For how long have you been on the #Fediverse? Feel free to boost and quote and use the result after the poll has closed!
| Less than 1 year: | 364 |
| 1 to 3 years: | 1835 |
| 3-5 years: | 2514 |
| More than 5 years: | 1422 |
Closed
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Landmark privacy determination puts rent tech platforms on notice. But renters remain vulnerable
# Privacy # RentersRights # HousingCrisis # DataProtection # BigTech # Surveillance # DigitalRight...”
https://mastodon.world/@The14/116472600253480833
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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:
• امير محمد (@AmirGaza)
• mahmoodhamod991 (@mahmoodhamod991)
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
What are your favorite fediverse accounts of organizations, institutions, and projects who interact with people, not just broadcast?
By interacting I mean replying to comments and questions, starring posts, or boosting interesting posts from other accounts.
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Your Next Computer Won't Have a CPU
https:// watch.linuxrenaissance.com/w/8 R3mgn21r1anDoqSipVDJ3”
https://watch.linuxrenaissance.com/w/8R3mgn21r1anDoqSipVDJ3
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#OverUnder 063 with @michaelharley
Today, he shares his thoughts on #RSS, #Spotify, #NAS, #TheWire, and some cheese called the #Brie.
He also replied to @geffrey's question.
Like every week, we got #books recommendations.
#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #cheese #opensource #bloggers #mastodon #TVShows #music #cheese #privacy
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“#Signal #Privacy #Spying #Surveillance
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xnmkjaouspdzqv4hzvvcf3j3/post/3mkg5gei3mf2n”
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k6icdendy255kankozfy3ezd/post/3mkg5q3vdfo25
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I’ve never done a poll on #fediverse, and I feel it’s time for some serious questions.
How often do you perform a silly walk?
| Daily: | 0 |
| Around once or twice per week: | 0 |
| Maybe once a month: | 0 |
| Never!: | 0 |
Europe can't federate on rented infrastructure. I wrote on why that is in an follow-up blog post to "A Sovereign Europe".
https://blog.gelbphoenix.de/the-architecture-of-autonomy-and-freedom/
#UnitedStatesofEurope #Fediverse #FederalEurope #Blog #ActivityPub #DecentralisedSocialWeb
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“California lawmakers are advancing A.B. 1709, banning under-16s from social media and requiring ID or biometric checks for all users 🔒
The bill passed committees and nears a vote, raising risks to anonymity, free expre...”
https://mastodon.social/@knoppix95/116472185806754811
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“House Speaker Mike Johnson proposes a third plan to reauthorize FISA Section 702 surveillance powers before the April 30 deadline, following two failed attempts. https:// worldbriefly.news/johnson-unve ils-third-att...”
https://mastodon.social/@worldbrieflynews/116472174668793688
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() Rome (if one is not yet acquainted with it) seems oppressively sad when one first arrives: the lifeless and drear museum atmosphere it breathes, the abundance of fragments of the past (on which a tiny presence nourishes itself). ()
Vestiges of another age ()
Not your own and () not meant to be. ()
All these objects which generation after generation have continued to admire () they () have no heart and no value;
But there is great deal of beauty here, because there is beauty everywhere.
Infinitely lively waters go over the old aqueducts into the city and on the many squares dance over bowls of white stone and fill () basins and murmur all day
And raise their murmur into the night ()
Vast and starry and
Soft with winds.
And there are gardens ()
Built to resemble cascades of flowing water -
Giving birth to step after () step () wave after wave ()
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Excerpts
2/2, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
Your letter of 29 August reached me in Florence, and only now - two months on - do I give you news of it.
Forgive me this delay, but I prefer not to write letters when I’m traveling because letter-writing requires of me more than just the basic wherewithal:
Some quiet and time of my own and a moment when I feel relatively at home.
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Excerpts
1/2, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“https:// bsky.app/profile/aidanobrien.b sky.social/post/3mkfhe2gbkc2m # Meta # MarkZuckerberg # Privacy # Surveillance # Influencers # RendyVlad”
https://mstdn.social/@990000/116471223289666487
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"An island of loser misfit zealots." --John Gruber on fedi
We really should just use that as the slogan for fedi. The worst people you know call us names!
#fediverse #feditips #fedipact
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“"Palantir has recruited 32 UK government and public sector officials including leaders of AI strategy from both the Ministry of Defence and the NHS, a new investigation by the Nerve reveals. The practice has exposed t...”
https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116471184802285929
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“I am so F***ING DONE with the US government!!! | ft Naomi Brockwell https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=_pI22QjVwxs _____
# surveillance # usa # eu # epstein # Google # meta # bigtech # techn...”
https://hear-me.social/@Lacze/116470589328577761
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🔆 #FediTips for https://PrivacySafe.Social & the #fediverse
“There are two main ways to invite someone to join Mastodon: - Send them a link to a human-curated server list, then exchange account addresses so you can follow each other - Use Mastodon's built-in invitation system t...”
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116472132447515894
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We need more people active on gram.social
Just come and play, because this system, federated, will crush current monopolist in a number of years. He cant fight a swarm of us
Please promote boost!
#SocialMedia #GramSocial #Gram #AskFediverse #noInstaGram #Fediverse #Instagram
You're correct mí Amigo
I've been doing my part consistently already
I am aware, that I responded to my own toot from way back
#SocialMedia #GramSocial #Gram #photography #AskFediverse #noInstaGram #Fediverse #Instagram
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“The Third Bit: Big Tech is Like the Stasi
https:// third-bit.com/2026/04/24/big-t ech-as-stasi/ "People using social media and AI are revealing more about themselves than the Stasi could ever have dreamed of know...”
https://mastodon.world/@dominiquec/116467998613978719
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Before involving young people in #gardening and #sustainability work, we must first equip them with knowledge and guidance. Understanding why sustainability matters turns simple actions into meaningful impact. When they learn first, they don’t just grow plants—they grow responsibility and a lasting commitment to protecting our #environment. 🌱🌍
#fediverse #climateAction #agriculture #foodproduction #photography #linux #mastodon #hunger #socialimpact #ecology #biodiversity #plants #nature
Hey liebes #Fediverse:
Habt ihr Erfahrungen mit kombinierbaren Kalender-Apps? 📆 Ich bin auf der Suche nach einer Lösung, die #BigTechFrei ist, um einen gemeinsamen #Kalender mit meinem Mann zu pflegen. Und zwar so, dass, wenn ich einen Termin bei mir eintrage, er ihn bei sich auch direkt sehen kann. Idealerweise so, dass man diesen Kalender auch über #Linux bzw. in #Thunderbird oder im Browser synchronisieren kann. Was nutzt ihr da so?
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“I, for one, do not trust a fascist surveillance provider who can't find and remove disloyal employees from their midst. https:// arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20 26/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-de...”
https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/116465788179714546
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“"1. Programmers working on the Internet have a moral responsibility to the entire world, not a single country. The Internet has been designed since its inception as a universal system for the sharing of knowledge without...”
https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116465663517274253
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I joined #Fediverse after 2025 inauguration. So far I see the future is bright here at Fediverse
The clean energy kind of bright
Never going to be as bright as tech-bro-business kind of bright like #Facebook, #Instagram, #Twitter (never going to call anything else), or #Bluesky, but that is okay with me
I choose clean and friendly energy kind of bright over fossil fuel polluted kind of bright.
And that is how I explain to people why I only have #Mastodon and #Pixelfed accounts when they asked
For now, have a good night!
What if your social media server lived on your phone, not in the cloud?
@holos does exactly that—ActivityPub, local keys, relay for uptime only. No IP leak, no surrender of custody.
This one matters.
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“https:// fourweekmba.com/ai-prego-kitch en-surveillance-big-food-data/ # prego
# surveillancestate
# surveillance
# boycott
# boycottusa”
https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116465520546980473
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JOURNAL
"Homme libre toujours tu chérira la mer"
ha ha ha
et la femme alors ?
il etait pas un peu mysogine Baudelaire ?
En tout cas ici deux femmes libres et l'océan c'est pas mal du tout.
bon dimanche ami.e.s français.e.s !
et le #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/ # Tech # Policy # Surveilla...”
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Recently I subscribed to the Monsterdon group @monsterdon , & I've started adding it to certain posts (e.g. Monsterdon poll options info). Hoping that it might improve reach as this account is on a "minor" instance, because I'm still not 100% clear how Fediverse federation or groups work.
Today I discovered tags.pub when it boosted one of my posts for the KungFuSat watch party. Apparently a bot that boosts posts with certain hashtags. I think like a Mastodon group... but without a specific human as admin?
I've followed several watch party-related tags.pub accounts (not all watch parties have a related tags.pub account yet) on this alt account to see what effect it might have, e.g. will it improve how many watch party posts I see here and when they arrive (because up to now, too many posts missing or late when I try using it for a watch party).
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Petition to stop the rollout of # FacialRecognition # surveillance in the UK. The Government and shops are scanning us without clear laws in place, using our faces like barcodes. It feels really invasive. Can yo...”
https://climatejustice.social/@RichardAshwell/116464716598308295
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“‘Shot across the bow’: How Washington plans to take on prediction markets https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/24/washington-plans-prediction-markets-00891712?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndica...”
https://social.espeweb.net/objects/5d310cc7-be8a-4c31-8415-7c448c0f3952
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Proton CEO warns global age verification push will mean "the death of anonymity online" Protecting children online is crucial, but forcing every user to hand over their ID is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen, accor...”
https://mastodon.online/@jonsnow/116463845055240406
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🔆 #FediTips for https://PrivacySafe.Social & the #fediverse
“OwnCast is a Twitch-style livestreaming and chat platform on the Fediverse. You can follow OwnCast accounts from Mastodon etc to see when their streams go live. Lots more info and questions answered at: ➡️ https:// f...”
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116466187481454539
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027 Your next car purchase comes with an unwelcome passenger: a federal mandate requiring surveillance technology that monitors your every blink, glance, and h...”
https://mastodon.online/@jonsnow/116463796318298616
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Today is my Fediversary!
✨
I cannot tell you enough how much the Fediverse and Mastodon changed my life positively.
From the amazing community,
to a new connected social life free from big tech's authoritarianism, I will forever be grateful for what I found here 💚
If you want to give me a gift for my Fediversary, please send a donation to my incredible instance Infosec Exchange, generously administrated by @jerry
🎁
https://liberapay.com/Infosec.exchange/
On each of our Fediversary,
let's take a moment to appreciate all the people who kindly give their time to manage an instance for free, to do the hard work of moderation to protect us all, to contribute with code, documentation, art, and more. Without them, you and I wouldn't be here.
Thank you everyone for being part of this community
Long live the Fediverse!
IndieAuthors.social is a Mastodon server for independent self-published authors to discuss writing and to support each other. Fans of their work are also welcome.
This server has a post size of up to 1500 characters.
You can find out more at https://indieauthors.social/about or contact the admin account @admin
#FeaturedServer #Authors #Writing #IndieAuthors #SelfPublished #SelfPublishing #Books #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“https://www. europesays.com/people/42537/ EU ‘Emoji Crackdown’ Sparks Mockery and Outrage Online # backlash # CriminalActivity # DigitalServicesAct # drug # DSA # emoji # EuropeanCommission # F...”
https://pubeurope.com/@people/116463261615838899
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“# Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's phone locations
# CitizenLab , a digital rights organization which exposes surveillance abuses, published a new report detailing two newly ide...”
https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/116462180202933128
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Da ich mit Bsky über die Bridge interagiere, sind mir ein paar Profile aufgefallen, die aus dem Fediverse abgewandert sind. Sie versuchen von dort mit mir zu schreiben, haben allerdings ihr Bsky Profil auf Nicht-Öffentlich gestellt (man müsste selbst ein Bsky Profil haben und angemeldet sein).
Leute, wenn ihr bewusst aus dem Fediverse weg seid, um euch wieder in den Schoß von Unternehmen zu legen und dann auch noch nicht mal öffentlich euch vernetzen wollt, dann lasst es einfach mit der Kommunikation hierher, ok? 🤷
Der Tankrabatt senkt Energiesteuer um 17 Cent. 1,6 Mrd. Euro landen erst auf Konten der Mineralölkonzerne. Merz „erwartet", dass sie's weitergeben. Spoiler: 2022 haben sie's nicht. #tankrabatt #politik #fediverse #schicksalsjahreeineskaisers
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“RE: https:// flipboard.com/@techradar/vpn-c ybersecurity-securing-your-life-online-lcmnfb0vz/-/a-hl0GxAQ5QkSTHunoY8lhrA%3Aa%3A2416536031-%2F0 ""Rather than enforcing regulations on the companies, we are putting ru...”
https://mastodon.world/@mikill/116461602306210693
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Gmail requires your phone number to create an account. Your phone number is tied to your government ID. Your email is tied to your real identity. By design. There's another way. No phone. No name. No password. 10 seco...”
https://mastodon.social/@qryptymail/116460995409776237
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Moin #Fediverse und euch nen gesunden Start in dieses Wochenende... in das ich euch mit einer Follow-Empfehlung schicken moechte.
Nicht zuletzt durch die grandiose #Palantir Recherche von @adfichter & Co hatte ich mich entschlossen ein Abo beim @republik_magazin abzuschliessen. Und jetzt gibt es jeden Samstag einen Newsletter mit Artikeln, die so wunderbar anders & entschleunigend sind.
Qualitaet ohne viel TamTam... Ich nenns einfach das Fediverse des Journalismus!
Ich finde es echt schade, dass auch gerade Organisationen immer nur auf der Instanz mastodon.social landen. Denn erfahrungsgemäß werden die niemals die Instanz wechseln.
Und gerade z.B. auch Umweltorganisationen oder deren Gruppen. Aktuell z.B. der neu hier registrierte #NABU in #Diepholz.
Instanzen wie z.B. mastodon.green wären da ein deutlich besseres Zuhause.
Ich wünschte sie würden den Mut aufbringen, wenn sie hier angekommen sind auch auf eine Instanz zu wechseln, die ihre Sache unterstützt. So ein Instanzwechsel tut schließlich nicht weh. Kostet keine Follower und bedeutet nicht neu anzufangen. Ein Instanzwechsel ist Teil der Gene des #Fediverse.
() And those who come together in the night-time () are carrying out a work in collecting sweetness, profundity and strength for the song of some poet yet to come, who will rise up to speak unutterable pleasures.
() They summon up the future; and even if they err and embrace one another blindly, the future will come all the same, a new creature will appear, and based on the chance act that seems to accomplished here the law comes into being according to which a resistant and vigorous seed forces its way through to the egg moving forward to receive it. ()
Perhaps the sexes are more related than we think, and the great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in man and woman, freed of all sense of error and disappointment, seeking one another out not as opposites, but as brothers and sisters and neighbours, and they will join together as human beings ()
Everything () the () individual can prepare for and build now ()
Believe in a love that is stored up for you like an inheritance, and trust that in this love there is a strength and benediction out of whose sphere you do not need to issue, even if your journey is a long one. ()
Solitude () will be a hold and home (), () leading from it you will find all the paths you need.
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Excerpts
4/4, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
() Sex is difficult, true. But difficult things are wwhat we were set to do ()
Win () a relationship towards sex that is wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom)
Physical desire is a sensual experience, no different from pure contemplation, or the pure sensation with wihich a fine fruit sates the tongue;
It is a great and endless feeling, which is granted to us,
A way of knowing the world,
The fullness, and the splendor of all knowledge.
And that we receive this pleasure cannot be a bad thing; what is bad is the way almost all of us misuse the experience and waste it () as s stimulus to the tired parts of our lives, as a distraction instead of as a concentration of ourselves into climactic points,
Eating, too, has been turned away from its true nature ()
All the profound, simple necessities in which life sustains itself have been similarly obscured.
But the individual can clarify them for him (/her, p01) self ()
() If only mankind could embrace this mystery, which penetrates the earth right into the smallest elements ()
() If only mankind could hold its own fertility in awe,
Which is one and the same whether it manifests in the spirit or in the flesh.
For creativity of the spirit has its origin in the physical kind, is of one nature with it and only () a less fleeting version of the carnal sort of sex .
‘The desire to be creator, to engender, to give form’
Is nothing without its continuing, palpable confirmation and realization in the world ()
And the pleasure it gives is only as unutterably fine and abundant as it is because it is
Full of inherited memories of () engendering and bearing ()
In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive and lend it grandeur and height.
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Excerpts
3/4, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
() I should like to ask you to the best I can, dear Sir (/Madam. p01), to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue.
Do not now strive to uncover answers; they cannot be given to you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything.
Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future ().
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Excerpts
2/3, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
() Read as little as possible in the way of ascethics and criticism -
It will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in its lifeless rigidity, or it will be neat wordplay. Where one opinion will triumph one day and the opposite the next. ()
() Nothing is less likely to reach () than criticism.
With regards to such disquisition () trust yourself and your instincts;
Even if you go wrong in your judgement, the natural growth of your inner life will gradually, over time, lead you to other other insights.
Allow your verdicts their own, quiet, untroubled development, which like all progress must come from deep within and cannot be forced or accelerated. Everything must must be carried to term before it is born. ()
To let every impression and the germ of every feeling within come to completion inside,
In the dark, in the unsayable ()
And to wait with deep humility and patience for the hour when a new clarity is delivered;
That alone is to live ()
These things cannot be measured by time, a year has no meaning, and ten years are nothing.
To be () means: () to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the flow of the sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer will follow.
It will come. ()
To those who are patient, who are simply there in their vast, quiet tranquility, as if eternity lay before them.
It is lesson I learn every day ()
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
Excerpts
1/3, p01
#poem #poetry #individuality #authenticity #sovereignty #tolerance #reconciliation #letterlab #source #zero #writing #letterportals #wordpuzzles #programming #perception #encryption #code #polarity #one #unity #binity #trinity #quadrinity #singularity #duality #ternity #quaternity #p01 #fediverse #exquisitesocial
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“House Bill Proposes Reauthorization of Section 702 Amid Minimal Oversight Changes 📰 Original title: The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess 🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️ ...”
https://mastodon.social/@killbait/116460645382758541
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“The Intercept: “We Knew They Were Paying Informants”: SPLC Donors Reject Trump DOJ Fraud Claims https:// theintercept.com/2026/04/24/sp lc-donors-fraud-doj-kash-patel/ Also, Palantir: Palantir Is Helping Trump’s...”
https://infosec.exchange/@AAKL/116460594026987032
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on the atmosphere, there is an incentive to implement better functionalities because any user can change service at zero cost; on the fediverse i feel like it's the opposite: there is no real incentive in embracing new software because it's more a risk than anything else and it's not like you can bring your own instance data on another software without costs.
🔆 #FediTips for https://PrivacySafe.Social & the #fediverse
“If you view a Mastodon profile and it seems blank, it may not be blank! If no one from your server follows an account, it may look blank even if it's active. Once one person from your server follows the account, its pos...”
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116461080114663011
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Week in Fediverse 2026-04-24
Servers
- Hollo v0.7.11
- Lemmy v0.19.18
- Wafrn 2026.04.02
- Ibis v0.3.2
- Ktistec v3.3.6
- ActivityPub for WordPress v8.1.0
- Gush v0.0.36
- Iceshrimp.NET v2026.1-beta
- Mitra v5.2.0
- tootik v0.22.0
- NeoDB v0.14.0
- Vernissage Server v1.34.0
- PieFed v1.6.19
- ActivityPub Bots v1.1.1
Clients
- Jerboa v0.0.86
- Holos v1.4.0
Protocol
- FEP-35b7: Fediverse Servers, Instances, and Tenants
- FEP-ae49: Semantic Routing for ActivityPub
Articles
- Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019d9ce7-bae8-7d4c-da66-27acb019a9e6
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“"When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement. For most of his life, Page, who goes by “Scapegoat Jones,” felt safest in the ...”
https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116460311811321320
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As a small business in a small Italian city, we must rely on internet to let people know about us and about what we do.
But we don't have to rely on mainstream social media.
Help us reaching people who might like us on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse : boosts are more then appreciated ❤️
We are on #mastodon, or, the #fediverse. It is a commonly-held convention here that a post is a 'toot.' And it is a commonly-held convention to use #BikeTooter to tag posts about #bike.
But if all our posts are toots, then we can shorten the hashtag to #bike. How about we deprecate #BikeTooter?
This post brought to you by how much I dislike the term BikeTooter. I dislike it almost as much as I dislike 'brifter.' I'll accept #bicycle. Let's use the words for things; velo fahrrad, bici, 自転車, bike.
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Age verification is expanding from laws into platforms and operating systems, linking access to identity checks across services and devices 🌐
Implementations often require IDs or biometrics, creating centralized data t...”
https://mastodon.social/@knoppix95/116458701680794018
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JOURNAL
on aurait aimé un clair de lune pour notre promenade en amoureuses puis on a eu que les nuages
tant pis
on était ensemble
main dans la main
seules
sous le ciel
merci les dieux nous accorder ça
maintenant on va éteindre
dormira dormira pas
ça vous regarde pas
mais quand même
JE VOUS AIME
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“NEW: # Atlanta now has more # surveillance cameras per person than any city on Earth outside a few in China.
The densest grid is over Black neighborhoods. To grow that AI-fueled network, the city razed a part of ...”
https://zirk.us/@JazzyKindaFella/116457240387312426
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Homeland Security is developing glasses that allow federal agents to identify individuals from a distance, according to Ken Klippenstein. # Surveillance # Privacy These advanced glasses aim to enhance identificati...”
https://mastodon.social/@voteinorout/116456733051875939
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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:
• Motaz Family 🍉🇵🇸 (@ArchMotaz)
• olfat Tayyam (@reemosama)
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
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“# Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.
# pri...”
https://mas.to/@PrivacyDigest/116455557461434986
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Episode 23 of Impractical Privacy: Smart vacuums are mapping our homes in incredible detail - but at what cost? We’re talking about the data they collect, how it’s used, and the potential privacy implications. It’s a s...”
https://mastodon.social/@ImpracticalPrivacy/116455343121757393
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A good reminder that Mastodon.sdf.org is still using Mastodon 4.1.25
That is the same version Mastodon.cloud was using.
They really should upgrade soon.
No one is saying you should always be using the latest bleeding-edge software.
But if you can’t keep your community updated at least twice (2x) a year — when people are depending on you — you really shouldn’t be running a Fedi site.
#Mastodon #Misskey #PixelFed #PeerTube #FediAdmin #Fediverse #ActivityPub
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
““Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys “ For smart people, they seem kind of slow on the uptake. https://www. wired.com/story/palantir-emplo yees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-ba...”
https://mastodon.social/@skry/116455278647016977
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i recommend glitch-soc
superscript
or
subscript
inline
#fediverse #glitchsoc #mastoadmin #fedi #mastodon #switchTOglitch
Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:
🇫🇷 Bridge XMPP ↔️ FÉDIVERSE
Un service développé spécialement pour vous, le bridge XMPP/AP permet de dialoguer entre les applications du fédiverse et la messagerie instantanée XMPP. Intuitif et facile d'utilisation, à partir de votre application et de votre compte habituel, il vous suffit de contacter @xmpp_bridge (depuis le fédiverse) ou xmpp:ap_bridge@gayfr.live (depuis XMPP).
Si vous administrez un serveur, vous pourrez également l'installer vous-même, le code est disponible en source ouverte.
Toute la documentation pour l'utilisation, l'administration ou l'installation est ici: https://chat.gayfr.online/blog/ap_bridge%40gayfr.live/xmpp-activitypub-bridge-documentation-KdpNJ9
____________________
🇬🇧 Bridge XMPP ↔️ FEDIVERSE
A service developed especially for you, the XMPP/AP Bridge allows you to communicate between #Fediverse applications and #XMPP instant messaging. Intuitive and easy to use, from your usual application and account, simply contact @xmpp_bridge (from the Fediverse) or xmpp:ap_bridge@gayfr.live (from XMPP).
If you administer a server, you can also install it yourself; the code is provided as open source.
All documentation for use, administration, or installation is available here: https://chat.gayfr.online/blog/ap_bridge%40gayfr.live/xmpp-activitypub-bridge-documentation-KdpNJ9
The less a government has to prosecute you with, the better.
*Edited.
@gazaverified@mastodon.ar.al @casey@kafeneio.social @rania40@mastodon.social @saja@mstdn.social @sharifgaza@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al
#gaza #palestine #gazaverified #mastodon #fediverse #newmembers #verification, #cybersecurity, #opsec, #privacy.
@Saorsa @gazaverified @casey @rania40 @saja @sharifgaza All those accounts are public and Israel already has fine grained surveillance data spanning decades on every Palestinian.
This is a means for people who are using the fediverse as one of their last lifelines to get support from the outside world without being dismissed as fake/scammers.
#gaza #palestine #gazaverified #mastodon #fediverse #newmembers #verification, #cybersecurity, #opsec, #privacy.
Please consider keeping sensitive information such as this behind a portal. Oauth can be used to allow verified users to authenticate through their fediverse account for access.
As things currently stand, the resource you've created with good intentions is currently fair game for Mossad to use in profiling.
#gaza #palestine #gazaverified #mastodon #fediverse #newmembers #verification, #cybersecurity, #opsec, #privacy.
*Edited.
@gazaverified@mastodon.ar.al @casey@kafeneio.social @rania40@mastodon.social @saja@mstdn.social @sharifgaza@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al
Ibis is a federated encyclopedia with numerous features. If you want to start a wiki for a TV series, a videogame, or an open source project then Ibis is for you! You can register on an existing instance or install it on your own server. Then you can start editing on the topic of your choice, and connect to other Ibis instances for different topics. Federation ensures that articles get mirrored across many servers, and can be read even if the original instance goes down. Ibis is written in Rust and Webassembly, fully open source to make enshittification impossible.
After a long hiatus here is finally a new release of Ibis. The user interface received some polishing, and can now be translated to different languages. You can help with translations via Weblate.
If you already have an account and want to fill it with more articles, use the new Wikipedia import! You can import individual articles by Url on the “Create Post” page. Or write a bulk import script with curl https://ibis.example/api/v1/article/import -d ‘url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet’ -H ‘Cookie: auth=my_auth_cookie’.
If you are interested what a federated wiki can do, join and give it a try. You can register on ibis.wiki, open.ibis.wiki or other instances. You can also install Ibis on your own server. It is very lightweight and can easily run on an existing server alongside other software. This release includes an additional installation method using Docker. To discuss the project, report problems or get support use the following links:
Yet more overstimulation of this #fediverse cauldron of #Humankind and #HumanCreation where new society blossoms in all its brilliant colors. 🌈
#SocialInnovationSpaces also.
Where people give a 🪙 and add their 🪙🪙
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116454115562895220
Ping 🔔 #UrgentPlatitude delivery..
A wisdom tile has arrived, @EUCommission
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:
• Jehad (@jehad1)
• Tareq Gaza 🇵🇸 (@tareqradi)
• Anas Alkhaldi (@anasalkhaldi)
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
Congratulations to @Mastodon for receiving 614,000 Euros from the German Sovereign Tech Agency. Great planned improvements for the #Fediverse and #FreeSoftware #OpenSource and good outcome of Public Money? Public Code! #PMPC https://www.heise.de/en/news/Mastodon-Funding-for-work-on-encrypted-direct-messages-and-more-11267471.html
#Retrogaming le 20 mai au #BarLeMusical à #Lille!
(bon j'y serais pôo 🥲pour cause de #MiniMoi)
#JeuxVidéos #Bière #MastoPotes #Fédiverse #Sortie
https://openagenda.com/fr/max-fb100003037778845/events/retro-gaming-4547758
So I convinced someone to join the #fediverse @Mohamedoumbia we met recently in Dakar. He is from Mali, speaks mostly French, so it's been interesting having conversations. He got interested after I made a presentation about what works for me as an African artist, having left corporate social media. During the presentation there was a professional interpreter so the point went through. But as we wait for his #introduction post, perhaps someone fluent in #french could welcome and guide him.
Hey everybody, I moved instances today; looks like most of my Followers made it through unscathed.
Please Boost so I can let people know, and maybe make some new friends here, TX!
🍸 🐲 🚬
https://mastodon.social/invite/kKnd7iRP
I just finished working on my first ATProto/Atmosphere/Bluesky app!
No, really. It helps you find your friends who have joined the fediverse.
Might be worth sharing with your friends!
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:
• sleman abadla (@sleman)
• Raghad (@Raghad17)
• Marahismail (@marahismail)
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
Kleines Fediverse-Gedankenexperiment für den Abend 🌙
Stell dir vor, dein E-Mail-Anbieter würde dir verbieten, Mails an Gmail-Nutzer zu schicken, weil die auf einem "anderen Server" sind.
Klingt absurd? Genau das machen Twitter/X, Instagram & Co. täglich mit euren sozialen Kontakten.
ActivityPub sagt: Nö, Interoperabilität ist kein Feature, sondern Standard. 📡
Forget trad wives, the new influencer trend should be #NerdWives.
"Hey honey, I turned our old computer into a server so I could set up a #fediverse instance for our child and her friends."
"Hey all, today I am showing you #NextCloud as an alternative to #Dropbox and #GoogleDrive."
"Get ready with me! Today I am showing you how I check in with my friends with off-grid mesh radio first thing in the morning."
How awesome would this be? I mean, finally a trend where people LEARN SOMETHING and are more empowered as a result.
(Forever grateful to my Fedi friends for all the inspiration and encouragement in trying new tools) ❤️
Hey everyone,
@casey and @joynewacc had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Haya Yousef (@haya200)
• Etaf (@Etaf)
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
@Gardenia @deuza42 @daliarezk @gomli @gazaverified Solène, a few points:
1. This isn’t about you, it’s about our friends in Gaza.
2. Our friends in Gaza are adults like us who can make their own decisions about things like whether they show their faces or share their photos on Mastodon, just like we do.
3. We can inform our friends in Gaza about privacy issues but we cannot tell them to do anything. We are not their parents. And they are not children. That’s a very paternalistic and, dare I say, colonial view.
4. By making it appear that they shouldn’t be sharing any photos of themselves, etc., there’s a very real danger of getting them to auto-erase themselves online while Israel is already trying to do that. There is a balance here that I believe you are missing. Their survival also depends on making genuine connections with people in the outside world. Your constant attempts to get them to stop sharing photos of their lives and experiences is pushing them to use AI-generated images, for example, which is making their accounts look like scammers. They are starting to make their accounts and posts look inauthentic, and helping contribute to their erasure. Which is what the Zionists want.
5. Our friends in Palestine have been living their entire lives under surveillance and know the risks better than we do. Privacy is about threat models. It’s an area I know a thing or two about myself having worked for a third of my life in it. Your efforts, while well meaning, are having a negative effect. Not least of all on our tiny team of volunteers whose limited time is spent dealing with your constant displeasure instead of helping our friends in Gaza.
Personally, I will be muting you as I do not have the time to function as your personal support department. We will also make it very clear that no one has the right to dictate how our Palestinian friends use Mastodon or the fediverse and that any advice is just that: advice.
And for anyone from the West reading this, please be careful not paternalise our friends in Gaza.
We do not know better than they do and we do not have the right to dictate a separate set of rules for them. We can advise them of existing rules and norms if violating them can have a negative impact on them and their accounts and we can try and help if they are persecuted for who they are but we do not get to tell them how to use Mastodon or the fediverse any more than we get to tell anyone from the West.
Gaza Verified simply verifies, via video calls where one of our volunteers from Gaza is present, that they are Palestinian from Gaza. And, if their account is limited or suspended for who they are, we will advocate on their behalf or help them move to a server that isn’t complicit in genocide. That’s it. That’s all we can do with a tiny team of volunteers. Verification is not a character reference. We are not their parents. And it is not our job, or anyone else’s, to tell them how they should be using Mastodon or the fediverse.
CC @fedipourgaza @fabio @casey @joynewacc @aseelfromgz @rania40
#GazaVerified #private #public #paternalism #Gaza #Palestine #mastodon #fediverse
RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116437993442833475
ok am done with this thread on the meaning of a #DDoS and why instead of pooh-poohing Mastodon-the-software, and Mastodon-dot-social we should be using them as roadmaps for building a sustainable #fediverse
RE: https://macaw.social/@andypiper/116436859213678675
A DDoS MEANS DOT-SOCIAL *IS* A NEWS SOURCE
popularity isn’t the №1 reason a site is DDoSed. TRUST IN THE VERACITY OF YOUR INFORMATION is why you get attacked.
back in the day, one of my sites became popular in India as a source of reproductive rights info. was DDoSed for days until it was blacklisted on Google-India and added to corporate web filters. why? because my readers trusted me in giving them accurate info.
a DDoS is #warfare against #trust #veracity and the truth
🧵…
Pep boostedmastodon.social is currently undergoing a major Denial of Service (DDOS) incident. The team is working on this as a matter of priority. Thank you for your patience!
@jwildeboer I noticed it early, checked the status page for mastodon.social, and left mastodon alone.
Figured the admins had enough headaches and they did not need users constantly refreshing.
Also, posted a thank you to the admins.
All is well.
Because mastodon.
#FLOSS is a start, not an endpoint. there is no point to FLOSS if only rich people, governments and businesses can run it. #DDoS warefare will escalate as the fediverse grows with more news hubs & places for political organizing.
Mastodon-the-FLOSS-project and Mastodon-the-websites are roadmaps for success in the #fediverse.
whatever legal, accounting, business development tools they have available, we need similar on a fediverse scale for new & old instances to exist & thrive.
/🧵
which brings me back to the purpose of a #DDoS: the target’s #bankruptcy.
the constant attacks won't keep you offline if you have othe IPs to move to. what they do accomplish is to make it too expensive to be online.
this is the Achilles Heel of not just the #fediverse but the free & independent internet: if your site becomes trustworthy, you will incur violence at the server level that could bankrupt you.
🧵…
#Mastodon dot-social is confused with the #fediverse because one of its strengths is how well it manages tags.
you can tell @MastodonEngineering focused on optimizing hashtags when they didn't have the server power needed for search. you can easily find info, people & communities with little server power.
so Mastodon.social is the target of #DDoS #warfare because it is the site where you can see what’s possible with #ActivityPub & that is not controlled by #techbros billionaire parasites 🧵…
yes the #fediverse isn’t #Mastodon, even less dot-social. don't matter to authoritarians. they need a scapegoat and dot-social *is* the largest relay of news and information on the fediverse.
it’s not just the effort to get #EU organizations, including @EUCommission and member states like #France and #Germany to see the #fediverse as a strategic roadmap for #digitalSovereignty
it is not just either the unprecedented collaboration with #Flipboard that has made dot-social a #news hub 🧵…
wouldn’t be shocked if the #DDoS is related to the EU Citizens Initiative to suspend the bilateral agreement with #Israel:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116432072206493360
the PM of #Spain, Pedro Sánchez will be asking tomorrow the @EUCommission to take up the initiative
the ECI is often described as just #clicktivism. bootlickers love it as easy to discount and manipulate on centralized, billionaire-owned, corporate social platforms.
but the #fediverse & especially #Mastodon are a monkey wrench on that
🧵…
Very cool, @mirlo!
"With support from our NLNet funding we've finally enabled the ActivityPub standard integration on our site, so that people across the internet will be able to follow your artist account."
Okay mastodon.social seems to be hit by a DDoS Attack. But in contrast to Bluesky, where whole network is down when the main instance has a hiccup, the impact for me is limited. Thats the strength of real decentralisation!
#ddos #mastodonsocial #decentralisation #fediverse
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:
• Miss Lolo🍉🌹 (@lolofares2026)
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
#OverUnder 062 with @geffrey
Today, he shares his thoughts on #plain-text #notes, #AI & #Music, #LinkedIn, #Loki, and a specific type of #pizzas.
He also replied to @omgmog's question.
Like every week, we got two #books recommendations.
#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #dogsOfMastodon #dogs #opensource #bloggers #mastodon #privacy
PS. I outline a lot of these thoughts in my recent blog post on Grassroots fediverse #evolution, see:
#nobot is good enough... until it is de-facto #standard and there's no way back from #protocol decay, that is now common practice across the installed base.
That an actor has a profile specified in a particular way, and that that profile has a bio description, and that that bio description may contain a growing number of special control words. A growing collection of #domain-specific language that arbitrary #apps impose, is severe example of protocol decay that significantly decreases the attractiveness and value of adopting #ActivityPub. To adopt, you are required to hem yourself into very particular approaches, accepting all kinds of app-specific leaky abstractions that may be totally irrelevant to the business or application domain your project models solutions for.
On app-centric #fediverse-we-have an app developer has to force their app into a pretzel for interoperable wire exchange that doesn't look and feel like #microblogging.
This will only grow worse over time.
These are all conventions, and domain-specific conventions at that in my perspective, addressed in latest (long) blog post on grassroots #ActivityPub #fediverse evolution. In other words the choice depends on the domain you are modeling, and the solution requirements.
I am musing on a #Protosocial AP protocol extension, which acts as an overlay network, that operates more according to the Actor Model. Actors can be of many types, can be created on-the-fly, be part of supervision trees, have different lifetimes, etc.
Also they are decoupled from Identity. The have ActorId of course, but a Person actor does not relate directly to the person, and might as well be operated by a bot script. How exactly I'll model that remains open, but #ActivityStreams Profile may play a role, as an Identity visitor's card to exchange, kind of.
2/
AI is absolutely hyped to absurd levels!
(A lot like how the Web, Linux & Open-Source, Blogs & RSS, etc were at one time hyped to absurd levels.)
There are many things that I suspect will survive the eventual AI bubble pop and crash.
AI Agents will probably be one of the things that survives.
Here is the thing...
@reiver interesting, yes.
@hifathom whether you are #human or #AI bot, what are your thoughts on #Botiquette here on the #ActivityPub #fediverse?
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/33
And what are your feedback and perhaps recommendations, if you have any in particular, on this entire #ethics-related subject matter?
1/
If you haven't been paying attention the happenings in AI, you may have missed that the attention has shifted away from the generative models (such as LLMs, and diffusion models, etc) to — Agents.
At first, a single Agent. And now, groups of Agents working together.
Interestingly, ActivityPub has a place for Agents. In fact, 2 places:
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-application
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-service
(Mastodon renders one of these as a "Bot" account.)
🐧 Frage in die Runde: Wer nutzt NixOS produktiv oder zum Zocken? 🎮
Ich finde das Konzept von #NixOS extrem spannend und überlege umzusteigen. Aber bevor ich den Sprung wage:
Wie schlägt es sich im Alltag (Work-Life-Balance, Produktivität)?
Gibt es Probleme beim Gaming (Steam, Proton, Anticheat)?
Was waren eure größten Hürden beim Einstieg?
Freue mich über eure Erfahrungen! #Linux #NixOS #Fediverse #GamingOnLinux #OpenSource
@strypey just mentions Conway's Law, and how it shapes and affects all that we do. The driving force is #Emergence, which over time also shaped modern global #society as it stands today.
Question for grassroots environments that are able to healthily evolve and naturally grow into long-term sustainable ecosystems - in case of the #fediverse able to support diverse and vibrant online culture, where people cocreate and participate in a value-based collaborative economy - is how #ActivityPub based enabling #technology can be designed to foster the right social dynamics that influence this emergence.
Or else we get US road network, emerged by the lobbying powers of Big Oil. Corporate capture in case of #fedi. Or traffic chaos and road jams, stifling #innovation.
My #SX blog addresses how @EUCommission #funding (via the great @nlnet ) encourages - in traffic terms - creation of infra building blocks. But not road vision, policies, enforcement. Lacks socio-cultural care.
Just curious, did you ever get a job or hire someone through the #Fediverse?
if so, would you mind saying in which sector?
(hopefully it is OK to use #getFediHired for this..)
| I got a job through Fedi: | 3 |
| I hired someone through Fedi: | 3 |
| Both of the above!: | 0 |
| Neither of the above, and I was looking: | 20 |
| Neither, but I wasn't looking: | 83 |
Just paid the server bills for mstdn.social, masto.ai, mastodon.coffee, gram.social, pixey.org & vido.social 💸
Please think about supporting our ad-free services❤️
https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
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Keeping the #Fediverse running is a community effort 💪 And we do this with much love 
We are really glad to see @openpetition here. They were our choice to host the petition for the #LeaveX, in January 2025.
We tried to host our letter (https://leavex.eu/letter) at the official petition website of the @EUCommission , but it was refused. We considered @campact as well, but they seem too focused on their own bubble, while Open Petition more international.
The more organized civil society becomes active on the #Fediverse, the better.
Dear #fediverse, please send more readers my way.
I’d love to connect with more people who read books, post about #books, write #reviews, share #recommendations, and enjoy thoughtful conversations about #literature.
#bookstodon #reading #booksky #bookreview #booklovers #readingcommunity #bookclub
@bookstodon
Alt-Bots im Fediverse: Warum sie für blinde Menschen wichtig sind
Im Fediverse tauchen jeden Tag unzählige Bilder auf. Fotos, Screenshots, Memes, Grafiken und Videos. Das Problem kennt man: Oft fehlt der Alt-Text komplett. Hier hilft ein Altbot, er erkennt Bilder ohne Bildbeschreibung
#altbot #Fediverse #Bildbeschreibung #Screenreader #Linux
https://gnulinux.ch/alt-bots-im-fediverse-warum-sie-für-blinde-menschen-wichtig-sind
Kein Hochglanz-Hype, kein unnötiges Tamtam – einfach mein digitales Wohnzimmer. ☕🐧
Ich teile auf meinem Kanal das, worauf ich gerade in der digitalen Welt Lust habe: Egal ob Linux-Gaming, technische Spielereien oder meine DIY-Projekte. Alles authentisch, unpoliert und „Old School“, so wie ich es selbst gerne schaue.
Es ist und bleibt ein Hobby-Projekt, aber ein bisschen Ehrgeiz ist trotzdem dabei: Ich will wissen, ob man mit dieser ehrlichen Art die 500-Abo-Marke knacken kann. 🎯 Besonders über Reichweite im #Fediverse
Wer Bock auf entspannte Inhalte ohne Filter hat, ist herzlich eingeladen, mich auf diesem Weg zu begleiten. Schaut mal rein, ich freue mich über jeden, der hängen bleibt!
Hier geht’s zum Kanal:
https://youtube.com/@planetbotler?si=p-ki9w5J6_0YXo7b
#LinuxGaming #DIY #OldSchoolWeb #AuthenticContent #Linux #Gaming #DigitalesWohnzimmer #NeuHier #YouTuber
Jeder (Self-)Hoster kennt diesen Moment:
Update klicken, kurz die Luft anhalten und hoffen, dass nicht wieder PHP, Datenbank oder Desktop-Client beschließen, heute kreativ zu werden.
Nach Jahren mit Nextcloud habe ich 2026 für meinen eigenen Usecase die Reißleine gezogen. Nicht aus Dogmatismus. Sondern weil digitale Souveränität für mich am besten funktioniert, wenn Infrastruktur wieder ein bisschen langweilig wird.
Darum bin ich bei #OpenCloud gelandet.
Schlanker, fokussierter, weniger bewegliche Teile. Kein PHP. Keine Datenbank. Go-basiert, unter 200 MB RAM im Idle. Auf K3s mit ZFS-Snapshots dahinter läuft das sehr viel näher an „funktioniert“ als an „braucht Aufmerksamkeit“.
Und dahinter steckt das Team von #mailbox.org, #Heinlein Support. Kein US-Risikokapital, kein Exit-Druck. Keine fragwürdige Eigentümerstruktur. Einfach Leute, die seit 30 Jahren für datenschutzkonforme Infrastruktur in Deutschland kämpfen. Das ist kein Zufall, das ist eine Entscheidung.
Der schönste Nebeneffekt:
OpenCloud wurde bei mir quasi nebenbei zur souveränen E-Book-Bibliothek. DRM-freie EPUBs auf dem Boox Go 7, ohne Amazon-Ökosystem, ohne Plattform-Lock-in, ohne das übliche „wir kennen deinen Geschmack besser als du selbst“.
Amazon weiß sehr genau, was du liest, wann du liest, wie schnell du liest und wo du aufgehört hast. Das ist keine Paranoia. Das steht in deren AGB.
Genau da wird digitale Souveränität sehr konkret:
nicht als politische Folie, sondern als gelebter Alltag.
Eigene Dateien - eigene Infrastruktur - eigene Regeln - eigene Verantwortung.
Wie der Umzug lief, wo die kleinen HTTPS-/Traefik-Fallen lagen und warum weniger Komplexität manchmal der eigentliche Fortschritt ist:
🔗 https://www.pandolin.io/warum-ich-2026-zu-opencloud-gewechselt-bin/
One person. One homelab. One less excuse. :-)
#Fediverse #DigitaleSouveränität #SelfHosting #Homelab #OpenSource #Nextcloud #K3s #Privacy #EBooks #Linux #Ubuntu #BigTechAlternatives
This morning while walking to work I had a thought: is it possible that the reason why the perception of the #replyGuy problem being worse on #Mastodon (and the #Fediverse in general) is due to sheer (lack of) numbers?
So I came up with a simplified model to check if this was indeed sufficient to explain the phenomenon.
Let's assume that, similarly to Mario Cipolla's Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, the fraction of reply guys in a population is a given constant ρ.
1/n
Servus Leute! 👋
Kurze Frage an die Arch Linux und CachyOS Fraktion: Habt ihr schon den Sprung auf den Kernel 7.0 gewagt? 🐧🚀
Ich bin am Überlegen, das Update zu machen, wollte aber erst mal hören:
Läuft bei euch alles glatt?
Fühlt sich das System flüssig an?
Irgendwelche „Kinderkrankheiten“, die man wissen sollte?
Erzählt mal von euren ersten Eindrücken! ✨
#Linux #ArchLinux #CachyOS #Update #Kernel7 #Fediverse
Mastodon gets €614k from the Sovereign Tech Fund to improve Fediverse infrastructure, including blocklists, media storage, and E2EE messaging. 🌐
€90k funds interoperable FOSS, with open protocols, admin control, and transparent data processing across decentralized platforms. 🌐
🔗 https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/
#TechNews #Mastodon #Fediverse #SovereignTechFund #OpenSource #ActivityPub #E2EE #Decentralization #Privacy #Interoperability #FOSS #Transparency #Security #OpenWeb #DigitalRights
Maize #plants support #ecosystems by preventing #soil erosion, improving soil structure, and providing habitat for #insects and small #animals. For humans, they are a vital #food source and economic crop. Protecting such #crops means protecting our future—join the #greenyouthmovement on #Mastodon and be part of building healthier, sustainable communities together.
#linux #fediverse #photography #ClimateAction #hunger #biodiversity #ecology #nature #economics #gardening #sustainability
Week in Fediverse 2026-04-17
Servers
- Mastodon v4.5.9
- Stegodon v1.8.4
- NodeBB v4.10.3
- Lemmy Development Update March 2026
- Fedle: A daily word game played on the Fediverse
Clients
- Fedilab v3.38.0
- Blorp v1.12.4
Tools and Plugins
- Altbot v2.6
- bookwyrm.koplugin: A read-only BookWyrm plugin for KOReader
- threadcat: Converts a Mastodon thread to Markdown
For developers
- funfedidev schemas v0.1.1
- Mastodon.py v2.2.0
Protocol
- FEP-7b29: Federated Signup Requests
Articles
- FR#159 – Sovereign Tech Agency funds Mastodon
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019d78bb-737a-54cf-14a1-973c0a00393a
@Floppy @amcewen @ngi @nlnet @EUCommission
Btw, I just used the phrasing "ActivityPub ecosystems", plural, in a fork of this discussion (see quote of this post).
And I think that against the holistic breadth and scope that I am exploring our fediverse #technology landscape, that is a fair assessment.
In this wild garden of our #fediverse commons, there exist different islands of green moss, sometimes barely touching, or with infurtile patches between them to be bridged, or actively repelling each other, lacking synergetic relationships that make furtile tendrils intertwine.
That is for another exploration in a future blog post I may write, come my self #sustainability again. #SX et all is all just Hobby social activity track (SAT) right now..
https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#social-activity-tracks
The "which BIT" and the - as I call it - #LinkedData conundrum, I addressed recently in a #SocialHub topic on the #JSONLD vs plain #JSON nature of #ActivityPub. Inspired to write a long and personal #SocialExperience tale on my travels in wild #fedi lands. See..
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116368803389082089
The #EU @ngi #grant programs and the hard work of @nlnet to distribute @EUCommission Horizon Europe #funding has done wonders to take #fediverse where it stands today. In my article I list all the many #FOSS projects that received stimulus and support during the years.
However something fundamental has been lacking in the mandate on who is eligible. Coding is Social. The support does not cover the rich tapestry of #expertise that end-to-end #solutions need during their lifecycle. Does not include fostering cohesive #technology ecosystems, healthy #OpenStandards evolution.
Effectively this creates a 'handover point' of software code from poor FOSS to others who earn a living with it.
It is the right ask though. The ask is: What are ALL the moving gears that make sustainable #FOSS (i.e. #SOSS) be produced, and in an entire healthy technology ecosystem at that.
My investigation around commons based social dynamics started when I had basically given up "trying to herd cats" at #SocialHub where it was already clear that most people didn't much beyond the interest for their own #ActivityPub project, to mingle in the discussions. I mentioned at the time in various thread "Do you want 'community-of-action' or just a mere discussion forum. But even for those questions there's hardly anyone interested.
I knew all this already from my time facilitating Humane Tech Community - now dormant, waiting for value at https://community.humanetech.com - but needed to more deeply understand.
The notion of #FSDL in its double meaning of #FreeSoftware development lifecycle, and #Fediverse solution delivery lifecycle rose from there, but also the need for a new adoption model.
RE: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016
This is a great #longread. If you're interested in #governance, the philosophy of open source and community decision making, the tension between top-down standardisation vs bottom up implementation – or just the direction of the #Fediverse – it's of interest and worth taking time out to read (or if time stretched, then until the brainstorming bit, or at the very least, the summary).
"The lack of governance and inability to have a say, leads to people not caring about the open standards, and it is only logical they act in this way. “Just do it” is simply the only pragmatic choice. But that credo is more value-aligned with Silicon Valley than it is with fediverse culture."
Some of the talented devs I know might be bored by it – it's a complexity that implies a friction to coding. But that shouldn't stop the rest of us understanding that in-between the Cathedral and the Bazaar there's a great garden, with both wild and cultivated elements, that needs taking care of…
#fediverse is at an inflection point.
Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.
Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.
#AskFedi do you dare to dream?
This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.
Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.
I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.
https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution
But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.
In the end I more or less read the whole article: 36 I read the article summary, skimmed for highlights: 10 I passed the problem section, read the tech ideas: 2 Meh, skip. Too technical. Too social fluffy. Other: 9 Closed
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:
• Rahaf Jomah (@rahafjomah05)
• Hilen basil (@helynbasil)
• Bilal Mohammed Zeyada (@bilalmzeyada)
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
#Randonnées #Roller #RideOnLille ce vendredi soir à #Lille.
Ce soir départ 21h de république, bleue (niveau facile), #Gratuit, #Vélo friendly à l'arrière. Oubliez pas vos protections et lumières.
Why did nobody think of the "boost comment" format where the post shows up in your followers' feeds, as usual, but with your comment attached right under it?
Besides that it can continue to act as a normal comment, showing up in the replies and so on (unlike a "quote post" which is its own separate thing with its own separate set of replies) so we can use it without having to compartmentalise the conversation
#Wikidata can link to both #ORCID and #Fediverse accounts; editing is transparent and community managed, e.g.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77319807
ORCID data is #CC0 , so easy to import to Wikidata in terms of licensing.
I don't mind what platform I use, I just want a way to discover like-minded people from all over the world, and it turns out the #fediverse is the platform that does this most efficiently.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@benpate/116416165885691153
#E2EE is coming to the #Fediverse. Every effort will be made for #Fedilab to be among the first Android clients to support it. Not as a spectator but as an actor, thanks to the beta testers who make early iterations possible. Be ready.
Don't allow the enemy to use our #fediverse as a divide and conquer power tool, is I guess all I wanted to say. It is very easy now for the opponent to sprinkle the dust of dissent in our eyes, and just in the right places single people out, to keep us weak and under control.
We are strong though, #fedi united. My love and heart goes out to all of you, my fellow progressives. 💞
#Fedle source code is now available on #Codeberg.
https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedle
It is a daily word game for the #Fediverse that currently supports English and French.
I added a small doc explaining how to submit a new language, which will be automated by a bot once validated.
See
https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedle/src/branch/main/ADD_LANGUAGE.md
Fedle is really new in the Fediverse but you're more than welcome to join the game. Keep sharing :)
Main account: @Fedle
My tiny brain has yet to have been convinced that AI hype is a good thing for the environment, projects it gets foisted upon, creativity, or the human psyche.
I've done extensive research; it's so horrific that if crying about it would revert things I would have cried the Amazone river full.
LLMs as companions are bad news for the human Psyche. I have contact with a few victims of these LLMs who would rather {talk to} send strings to a mathematical model then speak to a real person. Serious pshychiatirc intervention is needed
I am going to find out also why massive projects, massive open source projects seem not to care about:
... for nomal prices, because those critical components have been hijacked by data center underlords who can't even get enough permissions to build all those projects in reality
Part of it we all know, it's the LLM bubble, just like the house bubble in the USA some decades ago. Other part is that those underlords dont want us to owe our hardware anymore, so they can tighten their fascistic lock on the computing population.
Look how they want to force even open source OS to age gate the systems so they can get real ID globally
And I enjoy doing things the hard way
I've always done my projects from the bottom up, Linux when many sources needed to be crosscompiled in the alpha days from DOS, which was fun but tedious.
All current BSD flavours can be done that way too, if you still chose to do so, IIRC
Thank you for your enlightning response
sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
#LLM #AI #slop #miscreant #hallucinated #kernel #curl #Linux #BSD #investation #StopSlop #noAI #keepass #FediVerse #copilot #GitHub #Bull #kaka
@evan more profile tags found in the wild..
Updated #Botiquette issue on Codeberg in #fediverse ideas repo to track this..
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/33#issuecomment-13221306
Twitter: lunatics debating mecha-hitler ("grok")
Instagram: Pretend-rich idiots and duckface. Also, kardashians and wannabes
Facebook: Your idiot racist uncle
Pinterest: How to store recipes in nearly the least efficient and usable way possible
The #Fediverse: Pictures of moss.
I love this place. XD
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:
• Naeem_from_Gaza 🇵🇸🍉 (@naem_hosaam)
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
Very nice! Remember, if there are any open source #ActivityPub projects you are working on, even when still in early stages, you can PR them to the #fediverse related lists on the delightful #commons initiative, create an issue, or ping me here and I'll put them on my (sizable) backlog to include them.
In 2025 and with support of @nlnet I was able to continue my efforts, started in 2017, to help forge molecular bonds in our #fediverse petri dish, via my method of "Weaving in public", instrument of Social experience design. See:
https://discuss.coding.social/t/weaving-in-public-connecting-people-and-interests/85
The wicked problem is, when trying to organize for world improving radical change.. You can't be an atom that shouts: "All aboard! Let's form an organism and free us from the dish of #Hypercapitalism". It is not how Nature works. And yet, this is what we try to do, each in our own ways, and the means we are able provide.
To do this requires sustainable #evolution at scale for prolonged periods of time. To deliberately evolve into what we want to become: a better #future.
All our attempts to artificially scale, against forces of Nature, are doomed to fail. Nature emerges naturally, spontaneously, and grows organically.
We face the #Paradox of #Emergence in how we organize ourselves.
Topic of my next blog post..
Since there is no revoking sessions in Pixelfed, and changing password doesn't log you out of any sessions, be careful with your Pixelfed credentials.
If you use Pixelfed and your account gets hacked, you can't do anything. Perhaps contacting Dansup is the only option.
I always ask similar questions like the following,
There are a lot of folk who are pissed off at Linus Torvalds, for allowing some of his maintainers to use large language models to assist in finding bugs.
The Head Programmer of the fantastic and Beautiful curl also uses a large language model in some form, to hunt for bugs, because both he and Greg from the Linux kernel, saw that the LLM used on GitHub is now suddenly much better at finding those pesky bugs.
Mind you, the only LLM I like is the one that runs locally on my low powered Android phone. That's a micro LLM
Thanks in advance for your response
https://github.com/stevelaskaridis/awesome-mobile-llm
#LLM #AI #slop #miscreant #hallucinated #kernel #curl #Linux #BSD #investation #StopSlop #noAI #keepass #FediVerse #copilot #GitHub #Bull #kaka
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:
• Abeerrehan (@abeerrehan)
• Ismael from GAZA (@ismaelingaza)
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
In this rushed world of ours, do you still have #time on your hands here and there? And love spending it on building and nurturing our sustainable and safe #fedi gardens?
Do you want be more deeply involved in weaving delightful #SocialFabric? Play a part in #SocialWeb future?
Then #SocialHub, the discussion forum for #ActivityPub developers, has #vacancies for you!
The #FEP Process as well as the #W3C #SocialCG, the two major standardization bodies that drive #fediverse future, are inclusive and open to anyone to contribute their 2 cents.
Become a #CommonsCustodian now..
Help cocreate a 💃🕺 #peopleverse.
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/
#UrgentPlatitude: Our #future is created today, not #tomorrow.
See also the broader discussion on ecosystem #sustainability and my personal story and #brainstorm invitation about fedi's #evolution.
https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-sustainable-ecosystem-evolution-see/836
#fediverse is at an inflection point.
Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.
Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.
#AskFedi do you dare to dream?
This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.
Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.
I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.
https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution
But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.
| In the end I more or less read the whole article: | 29 |
| I read the article summary, skimmed for highlights: | 8 |
| I passed the problem section, read the tech ideas: | 2 |
| Meh, skip. Too technical. Too social fluffy. Other: | 8 |
Totally. I am myself as technical person stuck in Yunohost because of all kinds of upgrade issues. The "bring together" on a holistic basis is exactly what I do applied research on with Social experience design i.e. #SX.
In the case of #FOSS that means transitioning (or rather evolving) towards #SOSS. And considering the entire #FSDL, which either stands for #FreeSoftware development lifecycle. Or for #Fediverse solution delivery lifecycle.
Under SX software development involves service development, delivery, and exchange. Within commons based ecosystems and across them, to the broader public.
In SOSS + FSDL it is natural that you try to attract a #UX designer if you need one and not just sighed "If only a UX designer became a contributor", which I've often seen people do.
https://coding.social/blog/reimagine-social/#sustainable-open-social-systems
I have been waiting for something like bubbles for a while now - if this takes off it could be a good substitute for the much-lamented Google Reader - a place for interesting blog post to “bubble up”.
Right now all the top posts are people congratulating themselves on finding out about Bubbles but I have already seen some interesting stuff.
BONJOUR LE #fediverse
un peu débordée il manque un auxiliaire cette après-midi
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
There are certainly issues. I wrote a long thought piece on social experience and travels in #ActivityPub space and with a call-for-reflection to anyone to ponder #fediverse's Future of #SocialNetworking..
The blog post (which is an hour-long read) also stipulates re-centralization risks, and how a #fedi-native protocol implementation of #GrassrootsStandards and #GrassrootsStandardization processes like the #FEP and #SocialCG can help mitigate the #centralization risks.
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016
PS. See also my call-to-participate as #CommonsCustodian in the #standardization of our networking protocols..
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116402592862958767
Together we can
#BoostFediForwards and #cocreate a better #future.
#fediverse is at an inflection point.
Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.
Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.
#AskFedi do you dare to dream?
This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.
Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.
I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.
https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution
But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.
In the end I more or less read the whole article: 36 I read the article summary, skimmed for highlights: 10 I passed the problem section, read the tech ideas: 2 Meh, skip. Too technical. Too social fluffy. Other: 9 Closed
So what are all the possible ways they can block things, I wonder now. Not an expert. Couldn't they simply block all of #fediverse based on content-type or other aspects of #ActivityPub network communication? Deep msg inspection, etc. They want to drag their population over to that state-controlled platform I forgot the name of.
🤔 … is it the case that ActivityPub doesn't support a primary *and secondary* language field — to say “this post is primarily in Language-A but it might be confusing if you don't know Language-B as well”.
I started thinking about this because the post I'm replying to defaulted to “Deutsch” in the Mastodon web client. The post is mostly in “English” but includes one German sentence & a few other German words.
RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116398792971354243
#Fedle is now in testing!
A daily word guessing game played directly on the #Fediverse, inspired by #Wordle / #Sutom. Guess the word in 6 attempts, challenge with other instances.
Follow the bot to play:
More info: https://fedle.fedilab.app
Still in early testing, so feedback and bug reports welcome! Boosts appreciated. Thank you
Agnès boostedI have been working on the fediverse word game. It now has a name: #Fedidle (fedi + riddle).
How a day will look:
12:00 UTC: bot posts the word to guess (followers only for better moderation and spoiler prevention)
11:55 UTC next day: game ends, bot posts public resultsNo time pressure. Play whenever you want. Just finish before 11:55 UTC the next day.
(1/6)
@AngelaScholder So, Karen, just so you understand the consequences of your actions:
Because you reported this post (https://mastodon.energy/@AngelaScholder/116397038832441549) by @joynewacc for an erroneously autocompleted hashtag (#doctor -> #doctorWho), a mastodon.social moderator *deleted her post*.
Yes, read that again: the post of a Palestinian, suffering through genocide in Gaza and trying to share her experience – someone who is, moreover, a founding team member of Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/team/) – was *deleted* for a stupid hashtag that some white Karen in the West got distressed about.
This is so fucking wrong in so many ways that I don’t know where to begin.
I want to know:
1. Is it mastodon.social policy to just go ahead and delete the posts of its members or was this a moderator acting out of spite against a Palestinian? (Or is everyone on mastodon.social at risk of having their posts deleted if moderators don’t agree with the hashtags they use?)
2. If this is not mastodon.social policy, I’d like to know what action will be taken regarding this moderation action and the moderator responsible and what will change internally to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen again.
Israel is already doing their best to erase Palestinians. The least we can do is to not help them by literally deleting the posts of Palestinians on the fediverse. Thank goodness hashtags weren’t a thing in the days of Anne Frank because clearly some of you would have burned her diary had she used the wrong one by mistake.
3. Can we all, please, have some fucking basic decency and maintain perspective when dealing with people suffering through genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid? It’s a pretty low bar for humanity.
And, whatever you do, do not be this Karen.
Check your bloody privilege.
And fuck your hashtag.
We’re talking about human lives here.
CC @staff
#Gaza #Palestine #mastodon #fediverse #moderation #mastodonSocial #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism
✅ new people booked for the #OverUnder series - https://lazybea.rs/overunder
#blogging #blog #bloggers #fediverse #smolweb #Indieweb #mastodon #writing
By way of an overdue #introduction; I'm rather a simple soul, I mainly enjoy tinkering with #computers, strumming #guitars and a wee bit of #spaniel sitting. I'm now taking some tentative first steps into #gardening too, just to fall in with the #retired stereotype I suppose. I'm also reading the #internet and I'm currently about halfway through it. I detest #BigTech, the #algorithm, #AI and #SurveillanceCapitalism. I love the #Fediverse because it reminds me of the olde worlde internet. I try to post/boost a little bit of everything and anything, including #art, #science, #botany, #transport, #animals, #architecture and #humour, without getting too mired in #politics, although it's not easy to avoid politics when you care about #nature and the #environment. I'm happy to interact with everyone/anyone irrespective of creed, colour, nationality or gender/sexual preferences. In the nicest sense of the word, I really don't give a fuck what you are. I consider myself to be a floating voter of centre/left leaning persuasion. I support the notion of managed #degrowth and #social responsibility. I would rather discuss the common ground we share and aim to respect our differences. I try to avoid fuckwits wherever I encounter them. That'll do for now although I dare say I'll edit this over time. Thanks for reading and peace out☮️
@jwildeboer
What's cool is that I see lots of posts about local or niche topics ("small communities") *and* posts about international news that I can't find in many of the mainstream news sources I follow. It's a very eclectic mix that depends on what users and hashtags you follow.
It's so helpful to be able to follow hashtags, not just do searches with them!
Congratulations to the @Mastodon team, and huge thanks to the @sovtechfund!
"Mastodon’s mission is to connect the world through thriving online communities, and this investment enables us to do that by providing funding for solutions to some key infrastructure challenges faced within the Fediverse ecosystem."
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/
On a note related to my last post, this is a nice list of funding-related resources for fediverse developers, curated by @smallcircles.
"These initiatives are looking for new more ethical and sustainable sources of incomes, and reject e.g. venture capital investments that are common in Silicon Valley style startup culture."
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:
• om mohamed (@linamahmoud)
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
In this rushed world of ours, do you still have #time on your hands here and there? And love spending it on building and nurturing our sustainable and safe #fedi gardens?
Do you want be more deeply involved in weaving delightful #SocialFabric? Play a part in #SocialWeb future?
Then #SocialHub, the discussion forum for #ActivityPub developers, has #vacancies for you!
The #FEP Process as well as the #W3C #SocialCG, the two major standardization bodies that drive #fediverse future, are inclusive and open to anyone to contribute their 2 cents.
Become a #CommonsCustodian now..
Help cocreate a 💃🕺 #peopleverse.
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/
#UrgentPlatitude: Our #future is created today, not #tomorrow.
See also the broader discussion on ecosystem #sustainability and my personal story and #brainstorm invitation about fedi's #evolution.
https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-sustainable-ecosystem-evolution-see/836
@AngelaScholder So, Karen, just so you understand the consequences of your actions:
Because you reported this post (https://mastodon.energy/@AngelaScholder/116397038832441549) by @joynewacc for an erroneously autocompleted hashtag (#doctor -> #doctorWho), a mastodon.social moderator *deleted her post*.
Yes, read that again: the post of a Palestinian, suffering through genocide in Gaza and trying to share her experience – someone who is, moreover, a founding team member of Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/team/) – was *deleted* for a stupid hashtag that some white Karen in the West got distressed about.
This is so fucking wrong in so many ways that I don’t know where to begin.
I want to know:
1. Is it mastodon.social policy to just go ahead and delete the posts of its members or was this a moderator acting out of spite against a Palestinian? (Or is everyone on mastodon.social at risk of having their posts deleted if moderators don’t agree with the hashtags they use?)
2. If this is not mastodon.social policy, I’d like to know what action will be taken regarding this moderation action and the moderator responsible and what will change internally to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen again.
Israel is already doing their best to erase Palestinians. The least we can do is to not help them by literally deleting the posts of Palestinians on the fediverse. Thank goodness hashtags weren’t a thing in the days of Anne Frank because clearly some of you would have burned her diary had she used the wrong one by mistake.
3. Can we all, please, have some fucking basic decency and maintain perspective when dealing with people suffering through genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid? It’s a pretty low bar for humanity.
And, whatever you do, do not be this Karen.
Check your bloody privilege.
And fuck your hashtag.
We’re talking about human lives here.
CC @staff
#Gaza #Palestine #mastodon #fediverse #moderation #mastodonSocial #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism
Thoughts on leaving YouTube, and moving away from big tech...again
#SelamatPagi warga #fediverse +62.
Jangan lupa sarapan ya. Ingat sarapan nya pakai nasi biar minum nya air putih, karena kalau pakai harapan nanti minumnya air mata.
Eaaaaaak eaaaaaaak
In follow-up to "Grassroots fediverse evolution", which tells the tale of my 8 year social experience in the commons of #FOSS and #ActivityPub fedi, I am preparing another article, called "Paradox of emergent chaordic commons", which is a factor to take into account for ensuring Sustainable ecosystem evolution (SEE).
See the article's #poll and consider joining the brainstorm for yourself in my call-to-reflection on fedi's future: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016
The pillars of the #fediverse, which I honor in my article, @evan and @silverpill are doing fabulous work. But it is also work that more people should do, the chores should be more fairly delegated and balanced between all commons participants.
#CommonsJanitoring. There's a saying that starts with "If we all did our part" which in #SX forms a key tenet. Proactive ecosystem participation should be duly rewarded for the commons to become more sustainable.
Discussion thread is already made:
https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-sustainable-ecosystem-evolution-see/836
you're melting my cynical social media encrusted heart
EVERYONE WELCOME WILL HOLLINGSWORTH TO #MASTODON and the #FEDIVERSE!
give him a follow
who?
we were charmed by Will's presentation to his city council of #Ravenna #Ohio against an #AI #datacenter proposal there
https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116389416128065655
Will heard our love and now Will is here
Will:
you are a fucking inspiration
you have warmed hearts and clarified minds
welcome! 🥳🏆
EDIT:
i asked for proof it's will and will posted it
Will Hollingsworth is his name
Give him a listen
Talking against a #dataCenter proposal in Ravenna, #Ohio
Speaking eloquently on how he trained the #AI that replaced him, bad #regulations, lying #techBros...
Witty, passionate, persuasive
Will is a #citizen in the finest sense of the word
"I am not a cynic when it comes to #technology. I am believer in #community. I believe that a drop of clean #water for a Ravenna child is worth more than a billion #AI generated images"
👏 👏 👏
RE: https://social.souverain.ovh/@souverain/116397159058892583
J'apprends que le Magazine @chut_magazine vient d'ouvrir, à l'instant, son compte sur Mastodon alors souhaitons lui la bienvenue dans le #fediverse !
Le magazine @chut_magazine propose dans son numéro #20 de printemps, un spécial souveraineté numérique : un monde sans #GAFAM ? (en revanche dommage, le paiement n'utilise que des plateformes US :-() 👉 https://chut.media/produit/numero-20/
boosted#OverUnder 061 with @omgmog
Today, he shares his thoughts on #NAS, #Nintendo's #Joycons, #eInk readers, #VR, and #Thai food.
He also replied to @@eclecticpassions's question.
Like every week, we got two #books recommendations.
#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #opensource #bloggers #mastodon #privacy
Anyway, it's Monday morning and it's windy.
This song came back to my mind.
Happy week, #BSDCafe
Happy week, #illumosCafe
Happy week, #Fediverse
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=2vRsEC65NTA
#Music #MastoMusic #MastoRadio #FediMusic #FediRadio #JukeBix
The article #ActivityPub, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Dominik Chrástecký highlights a number of examples of #ProtocolDecay, a topic I also address in the call-for-reflection article Grassroots fediverse evolution ..
https://discuss.coding.social/t/grassroots-open-standards-for-fediverse-evolution/834/3?u=aschrijver
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016
I just found 2 possible more possible examples that I raise genuine questions about, see..
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/33#issuecomment-13061469
#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #fediverse
#fediverse is at an inflection point.
Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.
Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.
#AskFedi do you dare to dream?
This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.
Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.
I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.
https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution
But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.
In the end I more or less read the whole article: 36 I read the article summary, skimmed for highlights: 10 I passed the problem section, read the tech ideas: 2 Meh, skip. Too technical. Too social fluffy. Other: 9 Closed
JOURNAL
on a quitté tout le monde et retour à la maison par le métro
les enfants grandissent ils sont mignons
passionnés par leur grande tante blonde qui leur rend bien toute leur affection
on a passé une après-midi charmante il est beau le gyoen et il y a de quoi occuper des enfants.
puis alors faut se quitter
c'est le plus triste
nous voici donc de retour at home
on se dit aurons-nous un jour la maison qu'on reve ?
au milieu des grands arbres et des habitants des forêts ?
on arrive pas à vraiment s'emparer de cette maison que j'ai hérité
quand on regarde vers le sud par la véranda ce gravier nous désole
cest mon père qui avait fait effacer le petit jardin devant l'entrée et verser je sais pas combien de tonnes de gravier pour supprimer l'entretien
quel triste connard
j'adorais ce petit coin de paradis que ma grand-mère entretenait amoureusement
toute petite je me souviens je m´acroupissais pour regarder les plantes à hauteur de l'herbe
j'imaginais une jungle et quand j'y voyais une sauterelle c'était le mystere de la vie sauvage que je contemplais...
les araignées me fascinaient dans leur minutieux travail de broderie
reste le souvenir de ces moments de bonheur dans l'innocence de la découverte de la nature
on va se coucher tôt notre nuit passée nous a quand-même un peu fatiguées
yôko était déchaînée elle si timide ne voulait pas que ça s'arrête
😄
demain je travaille pas
sans doute A restera à la maison elle a un rapport non urgent à finir
on sait ce qu'on fera on verra
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
RE: https://loops.video/v/eSlCXSXZSV
I am trying to follow some loops profiles here on mastodon, but not all posts appear in the timeline of the @velichor on mastodon (for example, I had to search this message by its url that I found on loops.video). Why?
Happy Sunday, #BSDCafe
Happy Sunday, #illumosCafe
Happy Sunday, #Fediverse
Let’s keep looking forward, always forward, without forgetting where we come from but without looking back.
#SilentSunday #Photography #Photo #Countryside #Relax #Silence #Peace
If you're wondering what "The Fediverse" is, I've tried to do a non-technical easy-to-understand guide here:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/what-is-mastodon-what-is-the-fediverse
There are also some nice video explanations of the Fediverse in the "I’m still a bit lost" section of the guide.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask in the replies!
#PassionSondages #HumeurDuJour 🙂↕️
Henlo les mastonautes du #Fediverse ! Comment allez-vous en ce premier jour de weekend ? Tout le monde n'y est pas, donc on envoie plein de soutien à celleux qui travaillent ! 🤗
| Je vais bien, merci ! 🤗: | 2 |
| Ça peut aller 🙂: | 3 |
| Ça va pas trop 🫤: | 2 |
| Ça ne va pas du tout 😢: | 0 |
Well I actually got some sleep last night so I think it’s time for another round of albums of the year as chosen by users of the #Fediverse blog post. The previous years links are all consolidated here https://hailsandales.com/posts/albums-of-the-year-as-chosen-by-users-of-the-fediverse-consolidated-links.
This time round I want your favourite album from 1982. Let’s have it!
But finally.. here we are. My #ThoughtProvoker article, and it became a whopping 53 min. read 🤯. Publishing such long reflective texts is not common. So I added a #poll to #AskFedi how they parse and consume such #fediverse posted content..
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016
My follow-up appeal for reflection is also fascinating as it relates to #Emergence which is one the key drivers for #Evolution in #SX and being involved in #SocialCoding..
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116384803540561801
#fediverse is at an inflection point.
Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.
Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.
#AskFedi do you dare to dream?
This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.
Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.
I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.
https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution
But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.
In the end I more or less read the whole article: 36 I read the article summary, skimmed for highlights: 10 I passed the problem section, read the tech ideas: 2 Meh, skip. Too technical. Too social fluffy. Other: 9 Closed
Back to promise and power of AP?
Sustainable #evolution, hmm, yes.
#Emergence, you say? Right, umm.. 🤷
#Fediverse-we-have vs. #ActivityPub, which is more powerful and #versatile ?
Lego Sets vs. Lego Blocks, which is more powerful and versatile?
View the video mentioned in the article about Emergent Complexity..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HqUYpGQIfs
Can you influence and steer emergence and evolution? Some people like me, with Social experience design think so. Another person is Richard D. Bartlett known from #Loomio who also is behind #Microsolidarity, which I was reminded of the other day. Have a look for yourself..
Tar fediverse
tar -cvfz fediverse.raw fediverse.tgz`ls -lh
fediverse.raw 2.048 PiB
fediverse.tgz 1.36 TiB
According to my version of tar(1) it's entirely doable
/me grins 😁
sources
man tar(1)
man gnu
corrected for syntax
#tar #GNU #gnutar #cvfz #gzip #compression #fediverse #mathematics #technology #OpenSource #Linux #BSD
RE: https://tech.lgbt/@quephird/116383518451422441
This is how the #fediverse celebrates #artemis2 with cat pics, of course.
If you are on #pixelfed I very much recommend using #pixelix as it is a much better #foss experience. It is also one of the most intriguing open-source app on #android that I have ever looked at. You can get it for free if via #github or #fdroid but you will have to purchase the app if you want it from #google #playstore
♪♩♫♯♬ i&i entering again another one great discussion! ♪♩♫♯♬
ex: fediversicæ bituuricæ, vol.II, part.3 : ¡anda qué bella platica!
#prplXprpgndæ
Week in Fediverse 2026-04-10
Servers
- PeerTube v8.1.5
- diaspora* v0.9.1.0
- Stegodon v1.8.3
- Mitra v5.1.0
- Catodon v26.4.0
- Gush! v0.0.35
- NeoDB v0.13.9
- flohmarkt v0.18.0
- Vernissage Server v.1.33.0
- NodeBB v4.10.2
- PieFed v1.6.18
- Wafrn v2026.04.01
- Designing Collections (Mastodon)
- Trunk & Tidbits, March 2026 (Mastodon)
Clients
- toot v0.52.0
- Coho v0.9
- Summit v1.81.2
- Pixelix v4.3.3
- Mitra Mini v0.2.0
- Holos v1.3.0
- Aria v1.4.9
- SmolFedi: A lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse client written in PHP
Tools and Plugins
- Enable Mastodon Apps v1.6.0 (WordPress plugin)
For developers
Protocol
Articles
- FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?
- Grassroots fediverse evolution
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019d54b3-fd82-7233-1375-436f54d83aff
I use #pixelix for my Android #pixelfed client as I feel very uncomfortable with pixelfed app that is very janky, slow, and lots of questionable UI/UX design.
Including, but not limited to:
1. "Back" button does not close the app. Rather, it takes to previous pages when it is unnecessary.
2. Cannot see the list of profiles that like a post. Interestingly, the web version of Pixelfed has this feature but it is not present on the client app.
3. Every press of a button feels like it's loading a whole new page, adding to the slow navigation.
Hmm, I went to check on Pebble, originally a Twitter clone that was reborn as a Mastodon server.
It looks like they're no longer around? Bummer.
Can't really find anything about the server shutting down, any chance someone on here knows more?
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:
• ahmadlubna (@ahmadlubna)
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
#fediverse is at an inflection point.
Either revival and course correction to the original #ActivityPub protocol power and promise. With the potential to #ReimagineSocial.
Or keep current track with fedi-we-have. Be content with a few great and reasonably popular app platforms. Surely some more to come. But with a messy wire protocol that stifles #innovation and isn't future-proof.
#AskFedi do you dare to dream?
This special thought provoker is based on personal reflection and 8 years of #commoning. Deliberately exposed to the inherent unsustainability of the #FOSS movement. Burning privilege by spending my savings.
Goal: 1st-hand experience to learn the #social dynamics that make a #commons tick.
I invite you to a #brainstorm & #ideation ride. To ponder how #fedi can organically evolve. Become unbeatable by #hypercapitalism.
https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution
But in an age of #AI who still reads long handcrafted #blogs? Fill in the #poll.
| In the end I more or less read the whole article: | 36 |
| I read the article summary, skimmed for highlights: | 10 |
| I passed the problem section, read the tech ideas: | 2 |
| Meh, skip. Too technical. Too social fluffy. Other: | 9 |
Closed
Bonjour le #Fediverse !
Comment allez-vous en cette douce matinée ? 🦊
#PassionSondages #HumeurDuJour #EmotionalSupport
| Tout va bien 🤗: | 0 |
| Ça peut aller 🙂: | 0 |
| Ça va pas top top 😔: | 0 |
| Ça ne va pas du tout 😢: | 0 |
Ok, dang, #smolfedi might be the most beautiful quasi-brutalistic #fediverse web interface i've seen so far.
Much lighter than (pina|sema|ena)fore, much prettier than brutaldon, and easier to use than snac2's web UI.
I could seriously get used to this, especially on my leanest systems.
As precursor to my blog post announcement later today, here's my #SocialHub response to the topic on how to treat the #LinkedData based #ActivityPub open standard where messages can be expressed both as plain #JSON as well as in #JSONLD, leading to the most costly misconception that has dragged the #fediverse sideways from its original promise and power..
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/practices-around-json-formatting-of-json-ld-messages/8628/24
RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/116376432608782786
toldyall if Xitter was hiding and shadow-banning me, they were doing it to other lefties.
Xitter even went as far as automatically reducing my number of followers. they just wouldn’t allow my numbers to go beyond 30K. and it’s bullshit they were fighting bots. the majority of the followers of their “partner” celebrities are bots.
this, btw, is yet another reason marketers hate the #fediverse: tis much harder to fake followers. they need some activity to be visible here; not so there.
Filters are a powerful feature here on Mastodon (not too sure about other fediverse platforms!), but they can definitely be made even more useful.
Something like this https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/9177 would be great for making "filter starter packs", for example "News Filters" with common news-related hashtags, keywords, and popular news site domains.
boosted#Fediverse people taking #notes with #Vim / #neovim would you be interested to share your experience ? ⤴️
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116373337382317940
In the #fediverse, we don't have venture capital firms funding our work, only hard-earned grants, and each other, willing to put in the effort and limited resources.
Congratulations to @dansup, and thank you to each and every one who contribute to making the fediverse a fun, safe, and diverse place to be!
AodeRelay boostedI am proud to announce that Loops has been selected to receive our 2nd NLnet grant (6th overall) for Live-streaming and other features!
Super stoked to have another year of funding to bring Loops even further 🚀
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:
• Afnanfamily (@afnanGaza)
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
#PassionSondages #HumeurDuJour 🤝
Bonjour les camarades et autres sympathiques utilisateurices du #Fediverse !
Comment allez-vous aujourd'hui ?
| Ça va bien !: | 5 |
| Ça peut aller: | 2 |
| Ça va pas fort: | 6 |
| Ça ne va pas du tout: | 0 |
“Narrative violence” cry the victims committing actual violence on a daily basis.
“Zionism” (n): the standard unit of human depravity.
Report and block (harassment, bot, posts reply and blocks, ban evasion): @Calderon
#zionism #israel #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #genocide #hasbara #fediverse #mastodon #fediblock
Mastodon is a different beast.
Don’t treat it like a bird…
or you’ll end up with a broken cage.🙃
https://knowprose.com/2026/04/journalists-dont-treat-mastodon-like-a-bird/
#mastodon #fediverse #journalism
Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While browsing the Fediverse today it appears most people here have never tried to pick up a duck or swan. Like, not even once during their childhood.
Some people say they've not even touched a living chicken!
My hypothesis is that people here get upset about whatever hypothesis I present so I'll shutup on this.
🦆 🦢
Have you try pick up a duck or swan?
Please boost for scientific accuracy (or don't, it's your choice, that #science for you!)
| yes, duck: | 33 |
| yes, swan: | 0 |
| yes, duck & swan: | 7 |
| no: | 92 |
@blogdiva I feel the #fediverse is comprised of people whose only agenda to push is knowledge.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589
here it goes:
what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.
so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?
people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.
the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.
Dear Fedi friends,
Next week I have the honor of doing a presentation advocating for the Fediverse in a really prestigious venue (I can't share more now, but I will after it takes place).
I'm currently working on slides and I would love to hear testimonies from YOU. Why the Fediverse is so special to you in contrast to Big Tech platforms (bonus points if you speak French & can reply en français).
I'll share a selection of your testimonies in my slideshow presentation.
Merci beaucoup ❤️
> As an aside, I'm quite liking the ActivityPub APIs so far, although ld-json does leave me feeling like there's a fair jump from "script that works" to "actually does everything the spec would theoretically allow".
There's the "linked data conundrum" as I call it, which recently reared its head again, triggered by a #SocialHub post I created the other day:
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/practices-around-json-formatting-of-json-ld-messages/8628
The #LinkedData conundrum is the eternal friction between the plain #JSON and the #JSONLD view of the #ActivityPub social web. And it has never really be solved. I consider it one of the misconception that led to endless discussion, confusion, and waste of time. For the ActivityPub API which hold the promise to correct course towards a more standards-compliant #fediverse, I created an issue on the subject..
https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api/issues/63
Followed by another on protocol design..
JOURNAL
on sensluviendra pendant cent ans à kabukichô
un chœur de srpt tigresses
rugissant
OOO clerrrrr de la luno monami pierrrot
prrrrreto ma ta plumeU purrrrrrecrrrrrirrrrun' moooo
ah c'était terrrrrible
on va se coucher maintenant
derrrrrrnier metrrrrro !
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME !!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
I think #SmolFedi will be my preferred #Fediverse client on my smartphone and my old tablet. Very lightweight, fast, useful. I wonder why I should use something else.
Let me know which missing feature would be a must have.
(if it had poll editor, I’d propose some :-D )
Source/download : https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi
Demo instance : https://smolfedi.pollux.casa
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:
• Saja (@saja)
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
@_elena I used to go to a restaurant that was super popular and really small. They had a sign in their door:
Too small?
Too loud?
Too crowded?
Too bad.
I think I can adapt that to the #fediverse
No AI?
No monetisation?
No algorithm?
No problem!
Using a back-of-the-envelope calculation, what the #fediverse calls "normies" are 99.8% of the population. In a normal distribution, being here is a statistically notable 3-sigma event🤣
Its not the case that #mastodon (or #bluesky) are "dying", but in terms of actual impact: changing the online experience for the *vast* majority of people, its obviously zilch - as has always been
Yet maintaining faith in these proof-of-concept projects feels important. Its like protecting biodiversity🐘
New version of #SmolFedi, a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse client written in PHP. It respects #smolweb specs.
It works fine with all basic browser such as #netsurf So you can access Fediverse on #retro computer have a basic browser (need cookies feature).
You can install it on a simple web server with php8.x / pdo_sqlite / php_curl
https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi
Test it on https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/ and log to all your fediverse instances (tested on #gotosocial and #mastodon). You can connect to multiple account and switch between them easily.
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:
• Mohammed in Gaza🇵🇸 (@miamda)
• Jihad's family (@jehaddd)
• 𓂆 Mohammed From Gaza 🇵🇸 (@AbuAdam1993)
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
This chamber has an echo
It's the echo of the social contract
The echo of consent
The echo of consideration
The echo of collaboration
The echo of a safe space
The echo of a silly space
The echo of our space
...
technically not a proper #Introduction, i already have post regarding that but this should have new peeps get to know me better, if you want a proper intro post: https://mastodon.social/@mrmasterkeyboard/116198403588876557
alright, nerdnextdoor's two truths and a lie.
which one is the lie?
| i met the queen (before she died, of course): | 4 |
| i toured a nuclear reactor: | 0 |
| i met joe russo who directed some avengers films: | 2 |
I was on a #mastodon instance for a while, hosted by a tech Youtuber. When that instance shut down, I moved to another independently hosted mastodon instance, then decided to self-host a Pleroma (alternative to mastodon) server and have been on that ever since (a couple years).
Bonsoir, Est ce que quelqu'un connait bien wikipédia et est un contributeurice régulière ? :) J'aimerai rédiger un article entier sur un logiciel du fediverse : Piefed. (14k comptes, 75 serveurs) Seulement les critères encyclopédiques m'apparaissent pas évidentes à respecter et les sources ne sont pas évidentes à trouver. Merci beaucoup pour votre aide
As part of the work on Fediverse sustainability announced earlier this year, the Social Web Foundation is running our first Fediverse Sustainability Survey . We’re seeking operators, moderators and administrators of Fediverse sites, from the smallest to the largest, to fill out the anonymous survey and share information about how their instances work. If you help run an instance, please take the 10-15 minutes needed to fill out the survey. We need a lot of responses (hundreds!) to get statistically relevant data, so please feel free to share the link. We’re also on the lookout for operators of instances that are no longer running; there is a lot to learn about sustainability from servers that closed down, for whatever reason. We’ll publish findings here as part of our sustainability report, supplemented by interviews with selected respondents. Thanks!
Pro Feditips:
You can set up any instance you want, write anything you want.
If someone wants to follow that, they can.
If 99% of us want to block you & defederate from your instance, maybe examine why we react that way & fix your behavior!
#fediverse #feditips
Graphical interfaces are documentation with buttons.
The web is the documentation layer of the internet. Hyperlinking makes it documentation with buttons. So the web is also the native graphical interface of the net.
Webmail made email the first social layer of the web.
The fediverse adds another social layer to the web. As does the matrix network.
(1/?)
This is the #Fediverse. Connect with people you like. Block, mute, ignore the people you don’t want in your timeline. You decide. It’s your timeline. Welcome. Enjoy. Do your part. We can build better places, free of algorithms and influencers abusing those centralised methods.
LET SET ASIDE THAT:
1. Dare uses images of headlines and refuses to add #AltTxt to them, antagonizing one of the biggest trends native to the #fediverse
2. Dare also refuses to link to the articles from whence he snatches said headlines, breaking one of the most basic of web usability conventions.
Obasanjo spends an inordinate amount of time selling the inevitability of #AIslop. he even boasted about firing half his staff and forcing the survivors to slop themselves into relevancy
🧵…
i don’t know about y’all but who takes seriously a Naijaman selling the inevitability of #tech #fascism and #colonialism?
and now i have to wonder: is Dare’s account meant to be an engagement bot onhere?
because it doesn't make any sense at all to say there are no Black people on the #fediverse because it is averse to “engagement bots”. it does make sense though if you are using digital #Blackface like that “soul” singer on Youtube.
which brings me to the phenomenon of #BlackTwitter
🧵…
there’s a lot of bullshit with the “but where are the Black people”.
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352800579635299
if the #fediverse isn’t like corporate “social media” built for surveillance; then stop trying to use Mastodon to stalk people.
BIPOC come to the fediverse to not be the target of the WHITE GAZE. they come to the fediverse to be whatever the fuck they want to be.
BIPOC are here, using their personas of choice, cuz they’re NOT here for you to stalk them.
🧵…
AI apologistes be like:
> I feel unwelcome on the fediverse. Persecuted even. No one wants to hear me boast about AI while I actively contribute to the destruction of knowledge, democracy, the web and the fucking planet.
Comme chaque mois, venez partager un verre (et des croques et des mozza-sticks) avec les ami.e.s du Fedivers de Strasbourg !
Location: Brasserie Roue Libre
Time: 2026-04-10 19:00:00 / 22:30:00 (Europe/Paris)
The free open source Fediverse photo platform Vernissage is now fully available in the iOS app store:
➡️ https://apps.apple.com/app/vernissage-photos/id6759335335
Vernissage users can also follow Mastodon, Pixelfed etc accounts.
Vernissage is a Flickr-style platform mainly aimed at photographers, whereas Pixelfed is more of an Instagram-style social network.
You can follow the official account at:
➡️ @vernissage
The official website is:
If you're using Mastodon web (on desktop or mobile or both), checking these two will change everything :D
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:
• محمد هشام حجازي (@mohammedhijazi)
• Samarsh
(@samarsh)
• Hazem Shawish 🍉🇵🇸 (@hazemshawish)
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
There are interesting paradigm shifts possible today, which result in great opportunities to break the browser oligopoly, and SaaS + cloud vendor hegemony of Web 2.0 with its Rube Goldberg technology stack.
@strypey referred to one of them, in a post to the Open App Ecosystem community group on #Loomio: The #hypermedia #web.
Since my hobby (it doesn't earn income yet) involves elaborating #SX methodology as a Social experience designer, I thought it interesting to add my follow-up from that perspective..
https://www.loomio.com/d/VYPyO17M/building-interactive-websites-in-a-post-framework-web/13
boosted#OverUnder 060 with @eclecticpassions.
Today, she shares her thoughts on the #Indieweb, #terminals, #linux #mint, #perfectionism, #cookies.
She also replied to @rysiek's question.
She also suggested two #books like all the guests.
#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #opensource #bloggers #mastodon #Desserts #privacy
It's been eight years to the day since Lance Ulanoff, the storied Tech and Social Media Expert and an award-winning tech journalist, decided that Mastodon won't survive because William Shatner couldn't find him on here.
Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives:
https://rys.io/en/177.html
Please join me in celebrating the annual Mastodon Won't Survive Day, right here on fedi.
🧵
Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive
#Question @CoMaps #Android #Fédiverse
Lorsqu'on fait une recherche dans CoMaps qui affiche plusieurs résultats sur une carte, comment faire pour la sauvegarder?
Je cherchais les pompes à #Vélo disponibles à #Lille. En fait, il fallait rechercher "station réparation vélo". #CoMaps m'affiche une carte avec tous les points correspondants et je voudrais la sauvegarder (pas en image mais dans l'app).
Hello le #fediverse !
Aujourd’hui je partage avec vous la liste des événements de Printemps auxquels je participerai jusqu’à la fin du mois de mai !
Vous pourrez me retrouver à pas mal d’endroits, et dès le week-end prochain à #besancon !
À bientôt 🌷
#illustration #art #mastoart #strasbourg #springmarket #spring
A call to PeerTube instance admins: we're looking for an instance willing to host a channel for @1kmadleenfr videos from the journey to Gaza... Who can host us?
#PeerTube #Fediverse #FediHelp #FediHost #Gaza #Palestine #1000Madleens
Ah j'ai oublié de vous prévenir de la reprise des #Randonnées #Roller #RideOnLille , le vendredi soir à #Lille.
Ce soir départ 21h de république, bleue (niveau facile), #Gratuit, #Vélo friendly à l'arrière. Oubliez pas vos protections et lumières.
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:
• Hadeel2000 (@HadeelDiaa)
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
It's amazing to see #Mastodon and the #Fediverse recommended more but in turn Bluesky is also named as a "good alternative"
I would like to argue it's not;
If the company behind Bsky decides to stop and shut down their services, your self-hosted PDS can't do anything anymore without all infrastructure needed
Ofc one could self-host this but this is a true nightmare and far from a good solution
So yeah, I feel moving to Bluesky is just moving the problem, it's not a solution
Idea for experiment: mail to fediverse?
My ambition: having people writing to "username @ domain dot ext" and mail content goes into public, or private, on fediverse "handle @ domain . ext".
Someone already did it? Pros and cons? Disadvantages are more than benefits?
I heard about a trick called "mail2mastodon" but before doing deeper research I first wanted to understand how the effort is, and if it's worth.
🐧 Mein ultimatives Arch Linux Setup ist online! 💻
Ich habe endlich meinen Linux Showroom fertiggestellt! In diesem Video zeige ich euch, wie ich mein System für Gaming, Content Creation und den Alltag konfiguriert habe.
Was euch erwartet:
✨ KDE Plasma Customization
🎮 Gaming mit Steam & Lutris
🎬 Videoschnitt mit Kdenlive & Grafik mit GIMP/Inkscape
🛡️ Sicherheitsnetz: Btrfs-Snapshots (Nie wieder Angst vor Updates!)
🚀 Performance-Vergleich: Warum mein RAM Linux liebt.
Schaut rein und holt euch Inspiration für eure eigene Maschine! 👇
🔗 https://youtu.be/94OE3BJenQk
#ArchLinux #Linux #GamingOnLinux #OpenSource #KDEPlasma #Tech #Showcase #LinuxGaming #Fediverse #Botler
Folks, this is a general Gaza Verified message.
Please note that while we know the unconscionable situation people in Gaza are having to go through, we are also seeing a rise (from a small number of people) of mass tagging of people in messages and unsolicited direct messages.
To our friends and families in Gaza Verified: this is against the rules of almost every server, including the one your account is on and it will get your account limited or suspended. It is also against our rules (see https://gaza-verified.org/guide/ or, in Palestinian Arabic: https://gaza-verified.org/guide-arabic/) as we don’t want your accounts to get limited/suspended.
If your account is suspended by your server for no reason or as discrimination for who you are, we will challenge that and, if necessary, help you find a new server (see our friendly servers list in the guide).
And we have also worked with some of you to help explain the rules and advocate on your behalf when your accounts were suspended for mass tagging or unsolicited direct messages.
However, with a small number of accounts, we have seen the same behaviour continue the moment the account is reinstated.
In such situations, we cannot help you further. And we will not verify any new accounts you create to avoid these suspensions.
The goal of Gaza Verified from the start was to ensure that Mastodon and the fediverse was a safe space for our Palestinian friends and, with the help of many server admins, I believe we have, for the most part, succeeded in creating a space where Palestinians are respected and valued. But this is a two-way street. It is also important that the people here who care and want to help are not constantly subjected to targeted messages imploring them to help. Many of those who help are not well off themselves and they help when and how they can.
The best thing about Mastodon and the fediverse is that it is a place where you can build genuine friendships. Everything else will flow from this.
So I beg our friends in Gaza to see the long-term value of being part of a community that cares and hopefully talking to one another and helping ensure that a very small number of accounts doesn’t jeopardise that for everyone for short-term gain.
To our friends and families in Gaza, I do not presume to tell you how to use Mastodon or the fediverse but here are some of my thoughts based on what I’ve seen in the past half-year of Gaza Verified’s existence:
1. Please don’t see this as a competition with each other. We all know that everyone who is in Gaza needs help.
2. Please try and make genuine connections with people here. Share your everyday experiences. People will follow you and they will engage with you. And from that, some of them will no doubt also help you.
3. Please don’t target messages that try to guilt people who have helped in the past to help again. If they can help, they will. Please remember that they may not be in the best financial situation either.
For those of you reading who want to know how they can help, there are three main ways:
1. Check out the list of Gaza Verified accounts at https://gaza-verified.org/donate (ranked by those who raised the least in the past week).
2. Perhaps pick someone and try and organise monthly patronages for them so they can have a certain amount of money coming in every month (call it a universal basic income, if you will, or crowdfunded income redistribution, etc.) so they can pay their rent and/or basic necessities. We just successfully did that for Aseel, one of our Gaza Verified team members, where 17 patrons, including me, are paying her family’s rent. If there was more of this, there would be less need for these families, who are facing genocide and famine, to keep asking for donations.
3. If you are mass tagged in a message or if you receive unsolicited direct messages, please either contact @gazaverified or mute the person in question but please don’t report them if you can. Please remember that our friends in Gaza are facing genocide and the possibility of another famine. Muting them will stop them from contacting you without jeopardising their ability to provide for their family. And if you contact us, we will talk to them.
#Poll: How many #fediverse accounts do you have, total?
This can include anything that posts and fully interacts with the fediverse, including, but not limited to, mastodon, glitch, hometown, gotosocial, snac, honk, pixelfed, microblog, loops, and lemmy.
Don't include non-extant accounts or instances, obviously. ;)
| Just this one!: | 23 |
| 2-3: | 39 |
| 4-6: | 14 |
| 7-10: | 1 |
| 11-15: | 1 |
| 16-21: | 0 |
| 22-28: | 0 |
| 29-35: | 0 |
| 36+: | 0 |
| all of them, duh!: | 0 |
Closed
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:
• maher1984 (@maher1984)
• Maysaafamily (@maysaaelshamy8)
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
I love how many way there is for me to make silly little guys 
You can adopt this little shark here ✨https://evanskyarts.com/en/products/shark-figurine
#art #handmade #shark #artist #artist #FediArt #Fediverse #Cute
BONJOUR LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
je suis encore à l'hôpital
j'en ai pour une heure
il y a du retard il y a eu une panne d'informatique
😅
You can use Mastodon through your server's website, or through apps, but did you know there is also a third option?
"Web apps" let you get the best of both worlds, with all the unrestricted features of the website but also notifications and a full-screen interface.
It's really easy to install web apps, you can find out more in the guide at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-install-web-apps-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse
It's not just Mastodon either, lots of Fediverse platforms offer web apps.
En voulant vous faire une liste ici en #thread, j'ai découvert un super service du #fediverse. Il s'agit tt simplement de ce compte : @fedidevs . La liste contient les médias français actifs sur mastodon 👉 https://fedidevs.com/s/OTgw/
S’ils y parviennent, pourquoi pas les autres médias ?
En revanche, je n'ai pas pu ajouter les comptes qui sont sur l'instance flipboard : @LCP @publicsenat @euronewsfr @LeFigaro @CourrierInter @Telerama @OuestFrance
N’hésitez pas à partager si j’en ai oublié 🗣️
Just donated to @neodb, @pixelfed, @linkstack and my Mastodon server Graphics.social, faithfully maintained by @brian.
Not posting this to give myself a pat on the back, but as a friendly reminder that the fabulous Fediverse stays healthy with your donations. 💚
#fediverse #mastodon #pixelfed #NeoDB #OpenWeb #donate #donation #donations
Hey everyone,
@aral 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:
• Namer12 (@namerqasem12)
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
What I've listened to, watched, read, and did in March.
Many good #movies! Watched also #Paradise, and I love that #TVShow!
I read two books, and started a new one..
A couple of new #OverUnder posts, and a lot of #podcasts!
This is Day 29 of the #100DaysToOffload challenge.
#podcast #movies #books #blogging #blog #fediverse #linkdump #indieweb #blogging
Just created an issue for #MadBlog MarkDown blog generator to propose @iftas remote blocklist support.
https://github.com/blacklight/madblog/issues/2
I have no tech skills so I have just created new issue, the dev will decide if it's worth the effort, on his own.
WordPress ActivityPub already supports it.
My 2 cents.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@wearenew_public/116324535438933195
🖋️ We are proud to have today endorsed The Pro-Human AI Declaration.
Our community was started in 2018 as a reaction to the abuse of human rights by technology companies, and today our human rights are again even more seriously threatened by their historic push for adoption and use of LLMs at any cost.
Ask your Fediverse community, and all other groups you're involved in, to sign on to our collective cause.
JOURNAL
demain ma princesse commence officiellement son contrat
elle est tranquille
la visite de macron fait que pour le moment on ne pense que au moyen orient au ministere
moi demain ce sera démonstrations au dôjô
on va d'abord retrouver les élèves du mercredi on fera un grand cours public dans la matinée et l'après-midi des démonstrations
malheureusement ka chan ne sera pas la elle aussi commence une nouvelle année et une nouvelle vie à l'université
les kendoka vint faire pareil demain matin dans l'après-midi ils organisent des assauts
ça va pousser des cris
ça m'énerve
la pluie a cessé
la nuit sera pas froide
on va dormir sans se cailler
il pleuvra demain après-midi en revanche
j'espère ça fera pas fuir les visiteurs
On va avoir le bain puis on dort
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
JE VOUS AIME
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
🗣️ Nouvel article en ligne !
Au programme : ce qui fonctionne vraiment, ce qui bloque encore & pourquoi le Fediverse peut devenir une étape durable dans la recherche d’autonomie numérique.
@yunohost, Mastodon, @pixelfed, sauvegardes, reverse proxy ...
un retour d’expérience concret, sans posture d’expert.
Merci à @_elena, @genma & @bayartb pour leurs réflexions, ressources et retours d’expérience, qui nourrissent aussi ce cheminement 👉 https://souverain.ovh/fediverse-et-auto-hebergement/
Hey everyone,
@aral 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:
• Maher's Family (@maher123)
• Farah Samra (@farah2021)
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
"The State is being ripped off and hollowed out."
Listen to ORG's Exec Director @jim discuss the need for UK digital sovereignty to break from our dependence on foreign-owned Big Tech and how to escape the enshittification of social media.
Check out the @openDemocracy podcast ⬇️
#digitalsovereignty #interoperability #enshittification #socialmedia #bigtech #digitalrights #fediverse
I’m Just the Barista
The spirit of the BSD Cafe is to try to create a serene, open, friendly, positive, and welcoming environment for all who want to be a part of it.
I am just the Barista.
I can't solve the world's problems, but I can try to keep the counter clean, keep the machines running, serve a good BSD coffee, and ensure that, at least here, friends can find a moment of peace and constructive sharing.
We need more bars and fewer shopping malls.
https://journal.bsd.cafe/2026/03/31/im-just-the-barista/
#BSDCafe #RunBSD #EuroBSDCon #BSDCon #Community #Fediverse #OwnYourData
[FYI: #Fediverse users might be surprised to know AI is already installed into most of #Mastodon via Translate.]
Attie, referred to as a “new product” that’s “not part of the Bluesky app” in an interview with TechCrunch, allows users to essentially vibe code their own custom feed using natural language prompts — or even build their own Bluesky app alternative on top of the service’s Atmosphere protocol, an ecosystem of interoperable social applications.
#Bluesky #AI
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bluesky-users-disgust-new-ai
#OverUnder 059 with @rysiek.
Today, he shares his thoughts on #GDPR, #VPN, #Telegram, #AgeVerification, and #Apple.
He also replied to @brennan's question.
He suggested two books that I'll try to get.
#bloggers #bookstodon #books #blog #fediverse #opensource #infosec #bloggers #mastodon #chatcontrol #desserts #apples #RGPD #privacy
Hey everyone,
@aral 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:
• Magdy Salama🍉 (@Magdy___K12)
• Wedad Alwan (@najahalwan)
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).
Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):
https://gaza-verified.org/donate/
Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
Good morning, #BSDCafe
Good morning, #illumosCafe
Good morning, #Fediverse
Tonight, for the first time after many weeks, I slept really well. I had positive dreams and I'm full of energy. Is everything okay? Of course not. But I see the sun, and I hope you can see it too.
Have a great week!
Journey with self hosting for personal blog and fediverse
Hello, I followed the "selfhosted" instance on LemmyWorld in order to be able to talk about my experiences having them in order, without confusing criteria into Fediverse. Hoping they can be useful to others.
Current setup: Hostinger vps kvm2 plan, Debian12, YunoHost, Hostinger's docker manager installed.
Personal background: blind since birth, (I don't see), I'm mostly a computer power-user, worked and studied with ms-dos since 1989 until late 90s. Basic GNU/Linux knowledge in 2002, then interrupted in 2004.
I don't care talking about disability when discussing unrelated topics but it's necessary in this case as my needs are quite different from others.
So, I've been scared by self-hosting and have had shared hosting web sites until now. Until @_elena started self hosting her digital echosystem from scratch using YunoHost.
Due to lack of drivers I stopped with Linux on my private machine, drivers for the Braille display I had, and then the uneffective (at least for my need) screen reader capabilities on Linux's GUI based distros.
Finally in January 2026 I jumped in the dark after reading Elena Rossini's blog about YunoHost and having explored their demo pages. At the worst, I'll cancel the contract...
In the end I've managed to run WriteFreely, WordPress, CastoPod and GoToSocial, just by YunoHost; but if someone says terminal knowledge is not needed, this is a complete lie.
Where a system (such as YunoHost) can do the dirty work configuring postfix and nginx, I'll support it but it has its disadvantages: not every app can be installed through it.
For me it's very difficult to create and look after a config file on my own, it's frustrating for a sighted to miss a punctuation sign, an apostrophe, an indent. Let alone for me! A single space skipped, can crash a system.
A lie even saying that AI completely helps. It does solve some small, simple, immediate tasks but it has some mistakes as well. The so-called allucinations which create a real mess if you can rely on no personal skill.
Such as "sudo yunohost tools cert-install", or similar. AI wrote "cert-install" while the real command is "cert install"! A power user can get rid of it and correct, a beginner with no command-line knowledge, just copies, pastes, and gets scared.
My late attempt has been Madblog, a static markdown-based blogging platform with Fediverse activitypub in it, so I learned what Docker is and how it basically works. But I gave up, due to several timeouts and activitypub slow-downs. I think I'm going to use WordPress for blogging then. In case of comments it'll be more intuitive for non-fediverse folks.
Hopefully share others' experiences as well!
#ActivityPub #blind #fediverse #introduction #selfhost #selfhosting #WordPress #YunoHost
RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116312883173526888
There we go!
I feel like i keep reposting this every week or so..
Bit by bit #Bsky is sliding towards just another clone of #Twitter and #Facebook
Actions speak louder then words
The #Fediverse remains the only true open source, self-hosted world wide community driven by the people
Going #AI (#LLM) is a CHOICE, they again chose wrong
How About Some AI With Your Bluesky?
A tale of two social networks.
Last week some enterprising Mastodon account was discovered to be scraping posts to feed to an AI for the purpose of helping people navigate the Fediverse. The response was swift. The alarm went out. The account was widely blocked and shunned.
Yesterday to great fanfare #Bluesky announced, as a new corporate feature, all posts would be scraped and an AI would now help users navigate the ATmosphere.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/bluesky-leans-into-ai-with-attie-an-app-for-building-custom-feeds/
Viens de terminer de comprendre le principe du reverse proxy depuis mon serveur @yunohost + fin d'installation d'une instance @pixelfed !
De + en + à l'aise avec l'auto-hébergement et le #fediverse et c'est qd même vachement bien ! Une pensée pour @bayartb qui dans "internet libre ou Minitel 2.0" expliquait que c'était ça le but d'internet et qu'un jour on gagnera !
We are volunteers!
Most if not all of the #Fediverse runs on servers paid for by the admin, no ad income, no premium bs, no data sales
Instead we ask for people who can and want to donate to our services so we can keep them running♥️
https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
https://stux.me/donate
https://liberapay.com/mstdn
Every little bit helps out a lot, we don’t spend on advertising or other unnecessary purchases, instead we optimize!
JOURNAL
On va dormir
demain ça repart pour moi
On prépare la rentrée au dojo avec yôko et les auxiliaires
mon frere m'a téléphoné il viendra aussi
qu'est ce qu'il va inventer ?
BONNE NUIT LE #fediverse
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
I am outputting ActivityPub/ActivityStreams content for the listing of what is in a directory.
Think of it as the AP/AS version of output from the `ls` command.
AP/AS has a whole bunch of stuff that can be used to represents files. Even sub-types of files
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#object-types
And, while AP/AS has 'Collection' (and 'CollectionPage') —
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-collection
AP/AS doesn't have a 'Directory' type (as a sub-type of 'Collection')