Huh. Just chatted in person with someone who's been on #mastodon for a while, now, who honestly thought that all the Mastodon domains were run by Mastodon. And having a different domain was, like, just a vanity thing to look cool. It only came up because they were complaining about an issue they were having, and they were on a smaller server (not naming it for anonymity), so I suggested contacting their server admin about the problem. I was surprised when they answered "Dude nobody at big companies reads those reports. It just all goes to AI or whatever." It took some actual convincing to get them to believe that the server they're on does, in fact, have a living breathing human admin who can be talked to.

Anyway, folks, support your #fediverse server admins and moderators. With money, where you can. They're almost certainly getting messages from users who think that reporting things to an admin here is exactly like reporting stuff to Facebook or Google. IE: screaming at a giant faceless entity who's never going to care or do anything about whatever your problem is.

They're so close. Support @bonfire today and give the #fediverse an early Christmas present 🎁 🔥
https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

there might be another account surge coming up on the #Fediverse

https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/industry-regulation/social-media-age-restrictions/which-platforms-are-age-restricted

#Australia #socialmediaban #SocialMediaMinimumAge #SMMA

@Heliograph we're not even on the radar #Mastodon #fediverse

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Services that Australia eSafety considers will be age-restricted social media platforms: Facebook Instagram Kick Reddit Snapchat Threads TikTok Twitch X (formerly Twitter) YouTube Services that eSafety considers will not be age-restricted social media platforms: Discord GitHub Google Classroom LEGO Play Messenger Pinterest Roblox Steam and Steam Chat WhatsApp YouTube Kids

#Fediverse

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Three panel comic, titled "Probably not how it works". First panel: A woman holds hands with a small boy wearing a baseball cap and a t-shirt with the Apple logo. Boy says "Mommy what's Fediverse?", while pointing at the Fediverse logo. Second panel: Mother says "Don't look at them, Ricky. I don't want you to be influenced by... Oh God no" Third panel: Mother says "Rickyyy". Son says "It is too late, mother I have seen everything". The son is now sparkly, and wearing colorful clothes and heart shaped classes. His pink vest now says: "No to AI", "No to Big Tech", and "Tax the rich". It also has the Palestinian flag, an Antifa patch, and the Linux penguin logo. (Original comic credit: Extra Fabulous Comics. It has been lightly adapted.)

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about #PeerTube, #Loops, #Bandwagon, and other platforms in the #Fediverse that are geared around artists. I might get flamed for this, and you’re welcome to disagree, but I think the network is in dire need of having support for commerce.

Not “Big Capitalism” commerce, but the ability for people to buy and sell things, support projects, and commission their favorite creators to keep making more stuff.

https://deadsuperhero.com/the-fediverse-and-content-creation-monetization/

RE: https://gruene.social/@coba/115628929651501584

Die liebe @coba wünscht sich ein Treffen aller GRÜNEN im Fediverse, die auf der BDK in Hannover sind. Treffpunkt ist am Samstag um 18 Uhr an unserem Stand!

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Netzbegrünung #BDK2025

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague it came up that they have never sat on a cow. Like, not even once in their childhood.

Another colleague listening in admitted they also have never sat on a cow.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a cow.

🐃 🐄 🐮

Have you sat on a cow?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

#OverUnder 044 with @orhun

He's the creator or Ratatui 🐀.

It's a #Rust crate used in many #TUI that you have probably used or seen.

Today, he shares his thoughts on #GUI, #Ghostty, #VPN, #opencode, and, of course the #Ratatouille.

#terminal #shell #opensource #crate #blog #fediverse #mastodon

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-044

Meine IT Datenschutz Liste für alle !! 🔒

auch als PDF:

https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/6Q+0QYc2Wqc6cgA843YfKoxN

@tuxsoulslikegame

#Datenschutz
#Privatsphäre
#sicherheit
#Chatkontrolle
#Linux
#Endof10
#UnplugTrump
#Windows
#AI
#Fediverse
#Mastodon

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ヘイトスピーチを除いた言論の自由って何だろう？

常にアジアのサイトを選ぼう。

そうすれば、投稿やアカウントが誰かに嫌われただけで「消える」ことなく、ものごとをはっきり言ったり、意見が違っても安心だ。

アメリカやヨーロッパなら安全だと思うかもしれないけど、実際はそうじゃない。

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Misskey #PixelFed #PeerTube #Asia

What freedom of speech, but without hate speech?

Always pick an Asian site.

You'll have better odds of being able to call a spade a space, and even disagree with someone, without your post or account going "poof".

You'd think the United States or Europe would be a safe bet. It's not.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Misskey #PixelFed #PeerTube #Asia

Week in Fediverse 2025-11-28

Servers

- tootik v0.20.0
- Ktistec v3.2.1
- NodeBB v4.7.0
- Wafrn v2025.11.01
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.5
- Mitra v4.14.0
- Misskey v2025.11.1
- Omnom v0.8.0
- PieFed v1.3.5
- stegodon: An SSH-first federated blogging platform
- linkblocks: A federated network to bookmark, share and discuss good web pages with your friends

Clients

- Chihu v1.14.0
- Phanpy changelog

Tools and Plugins

- feed2fedi v3.4.0
- FIRES Server v0.7.0
- OwncastLive Panel: A GNOME Shell extension that monitors your favorite Owncast instances and notifies you when they go live

Articles

- Git as Federation Transport — Rethinking How Small Social Networks Talk to Each Other
- Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!
- Fediverse onboarding resources
- Owncast Newsletter November 2025
- Fediverse Report – #144

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019aa829-83b6-d369-eedb-8725125ced7b

Hallo #fediverse ,

mit sofortiger Wirkung trennen wir uns von unserem langjährigen Lieferanten

#conrad Electronics ,
https://conrad.de

weil das Unternehmen Mitglied in folgenden Lobbyvereinen ist:

#familienunternehmer
https://www.familienunternehmer.eu/

UND

#familienunternehmen
https://www.familienunternehmen.de/

Wir sind der Ansicht, dass die Ziele der beiden Vereine/Institutionen
unseren Zielen entgegenstehen.

Dazu gehört: u.a.
#co2reduktion
#Gleichbehandlung
#Steuergerechtigkeit

#taxtherich

Moin #Fediverse und kleine Frage an die #Linux Community - Stichwort Gaming unterm Penguin.... #Bazzite oder #CachyOS oder vielleicht sogar #SteamOS ?

Ich haue #Windows nun von meinem Gamingrechner runter. Schon recht betagter Intel 10900K aber mit ner 4070TI.

Was wuerdet ihr nehmen und warum?

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Ein Computer-Monitor zeigt eine große weiße Schrift auf blauem Hintergrund: „GOODBYE WINDOWS. PERMANENTLY REMOVING OS… PROGRESS: 100%“. Darunter steht kleiner: „Drive Wiped. Ready for new beginning.“ Rechts neben dem Monitor steht ein PC-Gehäuse mit beleuchtetem RGB-Lüfter und einem eingesteckten USB-Stick, der mit „Linux Mint Installer“ beschriftet ist. Auf dem Schreibtisch liegt eine Windows-10-DVD neben Tastatur und Maus.

Be careful what you favourite on Mastodon. An old post can be edited with statements you don’t believe in or of hatred. Third party apps may not refresh the post until you interact with them.

#mastodon #fediverse

I haven’t checked Lemmy for a long time but I wanna get off Reddit again, yet I still need to know how many users are on here. Which lemmy instances are suitable to me, the most popular, and which ones to avoid? For context, im queer, anarchist with DemSoc leaning, and environmentalist. Is there a comprehensive list of all the instances and their main functions? Is the instance I’m on still workable? Any feedback would help, thx. <3

Like-minded, wholesome and frankly fun folks gathered at Casa da Achada, in the maze-like streets of Lisbon’s old town, to collectively share strategies for leaving Big Tech behind when the time comes to build community and organise online.

https://fredrocha.net/2025/11/28/collectively-adopting-alternative-tools-to-big-tech/

#fediverse #mastodon #smallweb #rss

🥳 Say goodbye to #YouTube - we've launched our official channel on #PeerTube!

🔗 Find (and follow) us here: https://video.edu.nl/c/bibliothecaris_channel

We're in the early stages, so expect more videos, refined descriptions, and fine-tuning coming soon.

A big thank you to @SURF for making this possible. This is an exciting step for us 🚀

#DigitalAutonomy #OpenScience #video #Fediverse

Das wunderbare Fediverse-Erklärvideo von Elena Rossini @_elena gibt es jetzt nochmal neu auf Deutsch eingesprochen – und es macht den Einstieg so viel klarer für alle, die bisher dachten, das Fediverse sei „kompliziert“.

Elena zeigt knapp, präzise und mit viel Herz, warum freie, dezentrale soziale Medien wichtig sind und wie unser digitales Miteinander besser gelingen kann.

https://digitalcourage.video/w/p4VBLACzX1sFG1YfVs1JEB

#Fediverse #Erklärvideo #deutsch

@TheDailyBurble

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Dendrobatus_Azureus/115622819270261339

#FediVerse #Mastodon #technology #programming #defederation #moderation #power #donations

@admin

When I joined years ago it was easy. I picked a server at random. I chose the server from the rotating list that you see when you go to Mastodon. It was a server that immediately allowed you to post.

Just like with MMORPG {massive multiplayer online role-playing games}, I knew that I needed accounts on different servers.

So I created other accounts on other servers which had good up times from the beginning.

There was a rotating list you could choose from that you immediately saw, when you were first confronted with a FediVerse.

The default client never adviced you to join mastodon.social on the contrary

From my POV it's still easy. However that can differ for the casual user

#FediVerse #Mastodon #technology #programming #defederation #moderation #power #donations

@guyjantic

There is no one entity who does that {<dis>allowing}

The fact that mastodon.social changed "without warning* the **critical policy** of rotating suggested servers, is highly suspect of a corporate entity pulling strings {read USD / EUR payment}.

This is conjecture, it is not factual, I can't prove it.

The fact however that I'm bringing my mind to that level, means that trust has been broken in the mastodon.social server, which abused the official clients they code, to plug their server, negating the many smaller servers growth.

Mastodon.social has the same weight as any other Federated Server.

We should not have let it come so far. It's become a mammoth that needs to be brought back in line.

Complacency brought us to this level

#FediVerse #Mastodon #technology #programming #defederation #moderation #power #donations

Für alle, denen das vielleicht nicht bewusst ist:
Jeder (text-basierte) FediVerse-Account kann per RSS-Feed abonniert werden.
Das ist elementarer Bestandteil des ActivityPub-Protokolls.
Korrektur:
RSS ist nicht im ActivityPub-Protokoll spezifiziert.
Da habe ich mich vor absenden nicht gut genug informiert, sorry.

"Geschützter Account", "geblockt", spielt alles keine Rolle.
Alles, was ihr (ich auch) hier persönliches, privates, intimes, usw. *öffentlich* schreibt, können sich Personen in ihren RSS-Reader importieren und darüber lesen, inkl. Antworten, die ihr an andere schreibt, inkl. geboostete Beiträge.
(Gilt wohl nicht für Beiträge, die "nur an Folgende" gehen.)

Das FediVerse ist also kein "geschlossener, geschützter Raum", kein "Silo", nicht nur eine App auf eurem Smartphone, sondern u.U. eine (quasi-öffentliche) Web-Anwendung.

Klar, ein "geblockter" Account kann nicht mit eurem Account interagieren, lesen per RSS aber weiterhin.

Egal, ob zB
ard.social/@tagesschau.rss
troet.cafe/@ndaktuell.rss
climatejustice.global/@parents4future.rss

Ich verlinke hier bewusst mal keine privaten Accounts, das könnt ihr selber testen.

Wobei es einzelne Instanzen gibt, bei denen kein RSS aktiviert ist.
Sollte das bei eurer Instanz der Fall sein, könnt ihr ja gerne hier kommentieren.

Vielleicht ja auch interessant für alle, die #NeuHier sind.

#FediVerse #RSS #ActivityPub

Another critical section highlighted

Guarding our Federated Network is critical for the infrastructure.
The change is IMHO not just irresponsible, it's a deliberate concentration of users.

Luckily we can reverse the trend, if needed without the blessings of mastodon.social

#FediVerse #Mastodon #technology #programming #defederation #moderation #power #donations

Meine IT Datenschutz Liste für alle !!
🔒 ♥️

auch als PDF:

https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/UFzlUxW6XNLldSmBtotXBiDH

und in eigener Sache, möchte Ich hier auf meinen kleinen #PeerTube Kanal, aufmerksam machen. 😘
@tuxsoulslikegame

#Datenschutz
#Privatsphäre
#sicherheit
#Chatkontrolle
#Linux
#Endof10
#UnplugTrump
#Windows
#AI
#Fediverse
#Mastodon

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Heute gibt es zum Fruehstueck mal was auf die Ohren 👉 https://share.transistor.fm/s/c63b8efd

Die Story rund um "Die Familienunternehmer" & die #AfD habt ihr vielleicht mitbekommen. Jetzt treten nicht nur Unternehmen wie #Rossmann & #Vorwerk schnell aus, die #Wikipedia Seite des Verbandes erlebt ein Aenderungs-Feuerwerk, welches an ein Liveblogging eines NBA-Spiels erinnert.

Moin #Fediverse & euch einen gesunden Start in diesen Donnerstag.

Wuerde mich freuen, wenn ihr den Beitrag boosten koenntet.

Danke 🙏

Essayez-le MAINTENANT ! Découvrez la puissance de Phanpy sur notre instance BlablaLinux : https://phanpy.blablalinux.be

Rendez votre Fediverse plus léger ! 💡

#BlablaLinux #Fediverse #OpenSource #WebClient

Our democratic public sphere needs open networks!

Together with @offene_netzwerke we demand that public money be invested into Free Software and in open, decentralised infrastructures.

Read our demands (en/de/fr), published this week:
https://offene-netzwerke.eu/forderungen/

#FreeSoftware #PublicCode #OpenSource #Fediverse #EUsummit25 @BMDS

It's Tuesday evening here.
It's cold outside, so I'm already home.
Relaxing with some music.

Have a great [morning, afternoon, evening, night], #BSDCafe
Have a great [morning, afternoon, evening, night], #illumosCafe
Have a great [morning, afternoon, evening, night], #Fediverse

https://song.link/s/7io1erAh1tMxG5VMBC8rVw

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

Sometimes my soul rises and becomes a white cloud drifting across the sky. It watches, lives in the sunlight, stays quiet and, when it feels sorrow, it cries.
Yet the sky above it is, and will always be, bright and blue.

Have a great week, #BSDCafe
Have a great week, #illumosCafe
Have a great week, #Fediverse

#FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Sky #Clouds #NewWeek

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A wide blue sky holds a soft, bright cloud drifting gently above a layer of lighter mist, glowing in the midday light.

🆕 blog! “Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!”

How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.

Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/now-witness-the-power-of-this-fully-operational-fediverse/
⸻
#ActivityPub #BlueSky #fediverse #mastodon #statistics

Week in Fediverse 2025-11-21

Servers

- Bookwyrm v0.8.2
- GoToSocial v0.20.2
- Manyfold v0.129.2
- Mitra v4.13.1
- Mastodon v4.5.2
- Hubzilla v10.6.1
- Misskey v2025.11.0
- tootik v0.19.11
- NodeBB v4.6.2
- PieFed v1.3.3

Clients

- Elk v0.17.0
- Photon v2.2.0
- Voyager v2.40.4
- Blorp v1.10.0
- Fread v1.7.21

For developers

- roboherd v0.1.14
- fediverse-pasture-inputs v0.3.5

Articles

- Fediverse Report – #143

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019a841a-6ed9-3f60-73ef-d558b9db5abb

Week in Fediverse 2025-11-14

Servers

- PieFed v1.3.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v7.6.0
- Ktistec v3.2.0
- Mastodon v4.5.1
- Mitra v4.13.0
- tootik v0.19.9
- Merp Relay v0.4.0
- shops v0.1.4
- Trunk & Tidbits, October 2025 (Mastodon)

Clients

- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.5.2
- Voyager v2.40.3
- Phanpy changelog
- NeoComment: NeoDB Client

Tools and Plugins

- Event Bridge for ActivityPub v1.2.0 (WordPress plugin)
- FIRES Server v0.5.0

For developers

- Schemas one can use to validate objects used in the Fediverse

Protocol

- FEP-22b6: Linking an ActivityPub Object to a HTML page and back

Articles

- Fediverse Report – #142

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019a6010-28f6-7425-c378-064738e621a6

In which, on the occasion of my 3-year migration anniversary and the release of Mastodon 4.5, I assemble all my arguments as to why Mastodon is great and why anyone else on a service that’s becoming less fun/safe/useful should migrate to Mastodon and do it now, in late 2025: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate

#fediverse #migration

…and at night, when everything seems so dark you are starting to get crazy and hopeless, just remember: a new morning will come and a new sun will shine for you.

Have a great week, #BSDCafe
Have a great week, #illumosCafe
Have a great week, #Fediverse

#Photography #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #Sunrise #Sea #Sun #Italy #Italia

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Sunrise by the sea. Everything is orange, the small sun is rising over the sea. What I wanted to express is that sometimes the night can drive you crazy. You can have a disturbed sleep or can’t sleep at all. At night, all your problems seem huge. Sometimes the night is a life phase. But things will improve and a new sun will shine, a new inner light will come and things will sort out.

Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/06/self-hosting-your-mastodon-media-with-seaweedfs/

#FreeBSD #SeaweedFS #Mastodon #ITNotes #Fediverse #Hosting #OwnYourData #RunBSD

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

Have a great week!

I badly need a tiramisu. Meanwhile, a funny photo I just downloaded from... I can't remember, but definitely not mine

#Tiramisu #NewWeek

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A whimsical photo shows miniature construction workers "building" a tiramisu dessert. A toy crane lifts a container of cocoa powder over a large glass dish of tiramisu, while tiny figures on the dessert itself appear to be spreading cocoa and working on a section of ladyfingers with a ladder.

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

Some people I talk to look at me with suspicion, almost disgust, when I say I enjoy coming to the supplier's warehouse to pick up hardware and devices.
You see activity, life, people bustling about to make sure we can get everything we need.
And, to this day, they have always been incredibly kind and extremely helpful.
Sometimes, much of the real world is far from our monitors.

#GoodMorning

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A photo of my supplier's warehouse, shared with other companies.

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

I woke up quite early, I just couldn't sleep anymore. And this caused a positive side effect: I could see a beautiful sunrise from my window.

Have a great day!

#GoodMorning

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A Misty sunrise, as it appears from my window

#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse

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

Today I'm feeling the weight of the week; probably a walk outdoors will help me regain some mental energy. Also because I'll have a lot of things to do this weekend (meaning this afternoon and tomorrow) and I'll need my head - but in a relaxed state.

Have a good weekend!

It's amazing how much energy has been injected into the FediMeteo project by @stefano
I've just surfed to the page and saw this enormous amount of Cities which are now covered

Two Thousand nine hundred and eight cities!

Yes you've read that right 2908 cities.

In order to get a city up and running in the system there's a significant amount of code that Stefano needs to add to the system. He has of course written everything in a modular and scalable manner, but that does not make the work any less.

We should all be thankful for this work that is done so that people from thousands and thousands of cities can see their weather right in the FediVerse.

If your city has not been covered yet, just be patient, like me. Realize how much work Stefano does in his free time in an OpenSource manner.

#Programming #OpenSource #technology #weather #FediMeteo #FediVerse #BSD #UNIX

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The image is a promotional graphic for a weather service called "FediMeteo". The graphic includes a series of colored icons representing different weather conditions: a sun, a cloud with rain, a cloud with snow, and a warning symbol resembling a hurricane or storm. Below the icons, there's text stating "FediMeteo" and "Get started today!". There's also a call to action: "Visit our website to find your city". The text continues with "Get forecasts for 208 cities across 38 countries, delivered right to your timeline". It includes a reminder to "Follow your city's account." Finally, it offers a way to "Enjoy weather updates." There's a website address listed: "https://fedimeteo.com". Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Gemma3:12b 🌱 Energy used: 0.426 Wh