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📊 Global Mastodon Statistics Update
📅 Data Period: 2026-05-16
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I've just updated my #Snac instance to version 2.83 👍 🎉
You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
A simple, minimalistic and well documented #ActivityPub instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.
#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse
You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
A simple, minimalistic and well documented #ActivityPub instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.
#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse
Mastodon.Radio is a Mastodon server for radio enthusiasts including the Amateur (Ham) Radio community, anyone interested in Shortwave Listening (SWL), etc. Come join us and talk radio, technology, and more!
This server has been online since 2018.
You can find out more at https://mastodon.radio/about or contact the admin @M0YNG
#FeaturedServer #Radio #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #SWL #Shortwave #ShortwaveListening #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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There's a renewed conversation around the lack of options for migrating post history when you move to a new Mastodon server.
And seeing a few people mentioning how this can be a reason for folks to give up on the fediverse when their server shuts down, I hope the Mastodon team will prioritize this.
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Instapix.org is a general purpose Pixelfed server for photos, images and videos, with the main languages being English and German.
You can find out more on the https://instapix.org website by clicking the "About" tab.
Instapix.org is run by the Fediverse Foundation, the same people who host climatejustice.social and many other good servers. More info at https://fediverse.foundation/en/
#FeaturedServer #Pixelfed #Fediverse #FreeFediverse #Deutsch
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I can confirm that #Tuba is an excellent #Fediverse client for Linux and BSD users on #snac2. It's also great for Mastodon, #GoToSocial, etc.
Welcome everyone! Today I'm joined by Daniel Supernault / @dansup, creator of Pixelfed and Loops, two very different bets on what ethical social platforms can be. You're invited to follow along, or participate directly, by using #Fediverse. Your questions and observations are part of the signal.
Inkwell - a multi-tenant long-form writing platform for the fediverse (open source, FEP-b2b8)
According to @tchambers's My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions:
Fedify will power the federation layer for at least one mid-sized social platform (500K+ users) that adds ActivityPub support in 2026. The “build vs. buy” calculation for federation shifts decisively toward “just use Fedify.”
We're honored by this recognition and will keep working hard to make #ActivityPub adoption easier for everyone. Thank you, Tim!
On Tuesday, Feb 3 at 4PM Pacific, I'll be hosting a public, tough-but-fair Mastodon interview with Daniel Supernault / @dansup
We'll dig into Pixelfed and Loops: design tradeoffs, moderation, federation strain, sustainability, and what success actually costs. No pile-ons, no fluff.
Follow along and participate.
<p>This is our biggest release yet, including more finished tasks than any of our previous ones. Below is a summary of the highlights: </p>
<h3>What’s new</h3>
<p><a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1523426/labelling-or-hiding-ai-generated-content" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Posts & communities can be labelled as AI-generated</a> and people can choose to hide all posts tagged that way. Very similar to how NSFW works. </p>
<p><a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1523157/what-if-stack-overflow-except-federated" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Comments can be marked as an Answer</a>, like on StackOverflow. </p>
<p><a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api/p/1596518/emoji-reactions-in-the-piefed-api" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">React to posts and comments with an emoji</a>. </p>
<p>Hide an individual post from yourself, without blocking the author. </p>
<p>PieFed is now in the Yunohost app store, making initial setup easier. </p>
<p>When banned from a remote instance you cannot make local-only posts in their communities. </p>
<p>Honeypot to automatically IP ban badly-behaved crawlers. </p>
<p><a href="https://lemmy-federate.com" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">https://lemmy-federate.com</a> integration, making PieFed communities get more exposure. </p>
<p>“Share on Mastodon” menu item on posts. </p>
<p>Vastly improve docs for new developers, see <a href="https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/developer_docs" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/docs/developer_docs</a>. </p>
<p>Language selection is more visible during post creation. </p>
<p>Tag clouds can also be viewed as a list of tags. </p>
<p>View post/comment markdown. </p>
<p>Bot accounts are not included in community statistics. </p>
<p>Footnote support in markdown. </p>
<p>Polish translation. </p>
<p>Better HTTP caching, which <a href="https://join.piefed.social/2025/11/22/reducing-piefeds-dependence-on-cloudflare/" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">reduces dependence on Cloudflare</a>. </p>
<h3>Bugs</h3>
<p>Passkey fixes. </p>
<p>Polls can now have up to 15 options. </p>
<p>User profile performance improved. </p>
<p>Don’t allow bypassing minimum username length and post title with whitespace. </p>
<p>Polls and Events can no longer be posted into Lemmy communities. </p>
<h3>API</h3>
<p>Additional user settings can be set through the api, including Extra Fields. </p>
<p>Fetch url metadata. </p>
<p>Sort comments by controversial. </p>
<p>Comment search now works. </p>
<p>Hashtags. </p>
<p>Events. </p>
<p>Polls. </p>
<p>Emoji reactions on posts and comments. </p>
<p>See <a href="https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">https://piefed.social/c/piefed_api</a> for more details. </p>
<h3>To upgrade</h3>
<p>To upgrade from 1.3.x: </p>
<pre><code>git pull
git checkout v1.4.x
./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh
</code></pre>
<p>There is a big database migration that will take a few minutes to run. How long will vary depending on how old your instance is - older instances will have more content to process. It took ~25 minutes on piefed.social so expect it to be less than that. </p>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<p>PieFed is free and open-source software while operating without any advertising, monetization, or reliance on venture capital. Your donations are vital in supporting the PieFed development effort, allowing us to expand and enhance PieFed with new features. </p>
<p>Donations can be made via <a href="https://www.patreon.com/PieFed" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Patreon</a>, <a href="https://liberapay.com/PieFed/" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Liberapay</a> or <a href="https://ko-fi.com/piefed" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Ko-fi</a>.</p>
Calles mojadas | Wet Streets.
#street #reflections #wetstreets #streetphotography #streetphoto #urbanphotography #urbanexplorer #urbanphoto #architecture #city #cityexploration #cityexplorer #reflection #fotografia #photography #photo #photographer #PhotoOfTheDay #PicOfTheDay #pixelfed #fediverse #architecturephotography
#street #reflections #wetstreets #streetphotography #streetphoto #urbanphotography #urbanexplorer #urbanphoto #architecture #city #cityexploration #cityexplorer #reflection #fotografia #photography #photo #photographer #PhotoOfTheDay #PicOfTheDay #pixelfed #fediverse #architecturephotography
Deploy your own #Fediverse instance with #Snac
https://rochacbruno.com/deploy-your-own-fediverse-instance-with-snac.html
https://rochacbruno.com/deploy-your-own-fediverse-instance-with-snac.html
#ActivityPub support in #Madblog
https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/article/Madblog-federated-blogging-from-markdown
I am glad to announce that Madblog has now officially joined the #Fediverse family.
If you want to test it out, search for this URL on your Fediverse client.
Madblog has already supported #Webmentions for the past couple of weeks, allowing your blog posts to be mentioned by other sites with Webmentions support (WordPress, Lemmy, HackerNews…) and get those mentions directly rendered on your page.
It now adds ActivityPub support too, using #Pubby, another little Python library that I’ve put together myself (just like Webmentions) as a mean to quickly plug ActivityPub support to any Python Web app.
Webmentions and Pubby follow similar principles and implement a similar API, and you can easily use them to add federation support to your existing Web applications - a single bind_webmentions or bind_activitypub call to your existing Flask/FastAPI/Tornado application should suffice for most of the cases.
Madblog may have now become the easiest way to publish a federated blog - and perhaps the only way that doesn’t require a database, everything is based on plain Markdown files.
If you have a registered domain and a certificate, then hosting your federated blog is now just a matter of:
mkdir -p ~/madblog/markdown
cat <<EOF > ~/madblog/markdown/hello-world.md
# My first post
This is my first post on [Madblog](https://git.fabiomanganiello.com/madblog)!
EOF
docker run -it \
-p 8000:8000 \
-v "$HOME/madblog:/data" \
quay.io/blacklight/madblogAnd Markdown files can be hosted wherever you like - a Git folder, an Obsidian Vault, a Nextcloud Notes installation, a folder on your phone synchronized over SyncThing…
Federation support is also at a quite advanced state compared to e.g. #WriteFreely. It currently supports:
Interactions rendered on the articles: if you like, boost, quote or reply to an article, all interactions are rendered directly at the bottom of the article (interactions with WriteFreely through federated accounts were kind of lost in the void instead)
Guestbook support (optional): mentions to the federated Madblog handle that are not in response to articles are now rendered on a separate
/guestbookrouteEmail notifications: all interactions can have email notifications
Support for quotes, also on Mastodon
Support for mentions, just drop a
@joe@example.comin your Markdown file and Joe will get a notificationSupport for hashtag federation
Support for split-domain configurations, you can host your blog on
blog.example.combut have a Fediverse handle like@blog@example.com. Search by direct post URL on Mastodon will work with both casesSupport for custom profile fields, all rendered on Mastodon, with verification support
Support for moderation, either through blocklist or allowlist, with support for rules on handles/usernames, URLs, domains or regular expressions
A partial (but comprehensive for the provided features) implementation of the Mastodon API
If you want you can follow both the profiles of my blogs - they are now both federated:
My personal blog: @fabio (it used to run WriteFreely before, so if you followed it you may need to unfollow it and re-follow it)
The #Platypush blog: @blog
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I turned a tiny #Mac mini into my own #Mastodon server—secure, low‑maintenance, and running like a dream. Here’s the full build, from #Docker to #Cloudflare Tunnel, and why #SelfHosting doesn’t have to be a headache.
On the occasion of the International Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society, where a joint effort is happening right now to connect existing #fediverse accounts and to invite more members of the community to participate, here is a starter pack of accounts with a relation to Astronomy in Germany:
Are you all already following each other? Did you just get started and want to ask to be included, too? Would you like to suggest further additions to the starter pack? Are you discovering accounts in the list whose introductions should get boosted around a lot more? Are astronomy aficionados out there finding this list useful?
#Starterpack #FediFollows #Astronomy #Astrodon #AG2025Goerlitz #GermanAstroSoc #Space
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Fedifreu.de - Diese Mastodon-Instanz wird vom überregionalen netzaktivistischen Zusammenhang Datenfreude betrieben. Dazu zählen u.a. die Gruppen Datenpunks und Kleindatenverein.
Über: https://fedifreu.de/about
Verwaltet von: @admin
#FeaturedServer #Deutsch #Glitch #Mastodon #GlitchMastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
#snac is a pretty cool #fediverse #activitypub server software!
Super lightweight, no database, easy to set-up.
I will not replace my main #mastodon instance with it, but i really have some other use cases for it, for example some bots or so.
And from what I saw, the code also is pretty nice to learn things from it. (me, a c programming noob)
Edit: Totally dumb of me to NOT post the Git repo in the first place 🤦♂️
https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
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Mastodon style quoteposts now supported by Micro.blog
https://www.manton.org/2025/09/22/mastodon-quote-posts-in-microblog.html #fediverse