mastodon

May 2026 be the year we can finally use some #Markdown for our posts on #Mastodon. 9 years since it was first discussed [1], never really rejected nor endorsed by @MastodonEngineering – It is about time to finally add it now. Boost if you agree ;)

[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/761

Ready to travel to Brussels... Meet Masti at the #mastodon booth in Building F! #FOSDEM #plushtodon

Mathstodon.xyz is a Mastodon server for people who love mathematics. We have LaTeX rendering in the web interface!

This server has a post size of up to 1729 characters, and has been online since 2017.

https://mathstodon.xyz

You can find out more at https://mathstodon.xyz/about or contact the admin @christianp

#FeaturedServer #Mathematics #Maths #Math #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

I've found 69 Mastodon friends in Pixelfed using @findmyfriends https://findmyfriends.online #pixelfed #mastodon

Does anyone know if mastodon broadcasts replies to posts?

I (possibly naively) assumed I'd catch an ActivityPub `Create` event on my server when someone replied to a post created on my server, but nothing's arriving 🤷

How are people learning about replies to their posts? What am I doing wrong?

#mastodon #activitypub

Can I ask a favour?

If you see someone who is asking for help using this place, and if no one else is helping them, could you tag me into the conversation and/or link to my website https://fedi.tips?

I'm trying to provide unofficial tech support for people using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I'm especially keen to help new people who want easy-to-understand advice, but they won't see me and I won't see them unless someone tags me.

Thanks 🙏

#FediTips #Fediverse #Mastodon

Niagara.social is a Mastodon Hometown server based in the Niagara region in Ontario, Canada.

This server has a post size of up to 1500 characters.

https://niagara.social

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

#FeaturedServer #Niagara #Ontario #Canada #Mastodon #HometownMastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Exquisite.social is a general Glitch Mastodon server with a slight focus on technology, privacy and *BSD. We are here to play and make friends in a supportive atmosphere.

This server has a post size of up to 2500 characters.

https://exquisite.social

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

#FeaturedServer #Technology #Privacy #BSD #GlitchMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

I've been testing #snac2 for a few days now, more specificly I want to see if it can replace my #friendica installation that I have been using since 2019. This will be a somewhat longer piece that is also meant to see how Snac copes with longer Markdown formatted text.

Friendica

First things first. Friendica is awesome. It is the everything and the kitchen sink of the Fediverse and does a lot of things right. The only downside I see is the reason why I am looking for an alterantive though. Over time it has become harder and harder to host Friendica on my vserver with 8GB of RAM. I could of course opt for a bigger server, but honestly I am only using a fraction of Friendica's features and would prefer something less demanding.

Snac

Snac is lightweight, easiy to install, uses no database and does not even require coockies or Javascript in its Web-UI. I mean, how cool ist that!

Compared to Friendica, its featureset is basic at best. But compared to other Fediverse tools like #mastodon it does not fare so bad. But how usable is it as an alternative to my peronal Friendica use.

The good stuff

• Setup is really easy for anyone who has self-hosted any services before. The documentation in manpage format might be old school but it is very complete - read it. If you're on Debian you can even use the package from trixie-backports which is kept very current!

• It shows the timeline chronologically but with nested threads. This is the only way that makes sense to me and is exactly what I use in Friendica (where different settings are available). This means every new activity on a thread brings it up again (partly collapsed) so you always see the necessary context to follow conversations. For me this is the most important feature, I would not even have continued testing without it. Snac just does it right!

• It has the looks! Well at least after applying some stylesheets. Calling the vanilla install basic would already be an overstatement. But have a look at the styles that are linked from snac's Reaedme. I chose the next.css style and have attached an image of how it looks below. The screenshot is from an Android phone and this works remarkably well, even on mobile (some caveats below)!

• It's compatible with Mastodon apps. I have only tested #Fedilab because I use it for other stuff too. Everything just works as expected. Although I have to admit, I like the native Web-UI (next.css) even more.

• Long Text with Markdown formatting. 500 character per Toot - No thank you, I am not chatting here!

What is missing (or is it?)

• There is only the timeline and you can follow Hashtags, that's it. No Channels, no groups, no theme-specific timelines. But honestly, I did not use any of that on Friendica, mainly for performance reasons. So this is a non-issue for me personally.

• Following RSS feeds. This feature I will really miss. In Friendica I could direclty follow Feeds and interact with them from my timeline exactly like with ActivityPub Notes or Articles. I will have to use an external translation service or write my own for that (having written an ActivityPub related tool with tootgroup.py before.)

• Message formatting is somewhat less flexible but this post shows what is possible still. Sometimes I like to put images in between paragraphs but not having that is also not a big deal.

• Event Calendar. This is not a feature I expect Snac to support but I do use it on Friendica and will have to think about how to replace it.

What could be improved

I love that snac works without Javascript and cookies - that's exactly how I still build my webpages. But there is one usecase where a bit of one or the other would make life much easier - when using the Web-UI on mobile platforms.

I have already stated how great the mobile experience is when using the next.css stylesheet. The only downside is that I have to login with username/password again and again, every time the mobile browser is sent to sleep by Android.

Optionally enabling the use of a login cookie would make life much easier. Even better would be enabling Snac to be installed as a Progressive Web App, but I have to admit, I'm not sure how hard or feasible this would be.

Overall, I do not see many shortcomings with Snac. Obviously it offers less features than Friendica, but what it does, it does very well and at least in my view, the important stuff is exactly where it needs to be.

Conclusion

I am pretty impressed with snac. I'll be running my test server for a little bit longer but I do expect replace my Friendica install in the not too distant future.

Adding grunfink@comam.es because maybe you're interested. Please don't treat this as a feature-request or even critizism. It's mostly meant as info for people who have not tried snac yet.

PL-FE is a web front end for #Fediverse services inc #Mastodon by @mkljczk that:
- does update timeline upon new posts but doesn't blank timeline & jump to top like regular Masto does now (for me at least)
- free-libre
- up to date
- full featured
- suitable for narrow, single-column use (e.g. during #WatchParty)
- Bonus: can schedule posts or save draft for later

Found via https://joinmastodon.org/apps
- https://pl.mkljczk.pl/
- https://codeberg.org/mkljczk/pl-fe

#PLFE

Veganism Social is a Mastodon server for vegans to make friends and interact with the wider Fediverse.

This server has a post size of up to 10,000 characters.

https://veganism.social

You can find out more at https://veganism.social/about or contact the admin @nm

#FeaturedServer #Vegan #Veganism #Vegans #AnimalRights #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

This year I'll be at #FOSDEM26 too. I'll be at the #Mastodon stand selling you pins and stickers. Please drop by, say hi, and buy our stuff, I don't want to have to carry it back.

And remember to live, laugh, and federate.

#FOSDEM

Thinking about a new domain+project...

Anyone have the TL;DR; on self hosted fediverse software?

Mastodon vs Snac vs Pleroma vs ?

I'm looking for something that is super low maintenance and lightweight / easy on resources but as full featured as practical within those constraints.

Something easy to tune re: post lengths and media types would be cool too. A "text first" platform is desired.

I've run Mastodon in the past and it's like fishing with nukes for this use case.

What's out there?

#Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #web #selfHosting #SelfHosted

New Mastodon Release

v4.6.4

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.4

#Mastodon #Mastoadmin

Mapstodon.space is a Mastodon server for cartography & geospatial professionals and enthusiasts. Ask questions, share your maps, chat around, enjoy the emojis!

https://mapstodon.space

You can find out more at https://mapstodon.space/about or contact the admin @jeremy

#FeaturedServer #Maps #Mapping #Cartography #Geospatial #GIS #Geography #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1

El tiempo pasa y usuario a usuario y toot a toot, la red social Mastodon, acaba de cumplir 10 años. 🎂

Por muchos años más, para que esta red social libre y descentralizada siga evolucionando y continúe dando libertad al usuario para elegir donde quiere estar e interactuar, con cualquier otra red perteneciente al Fediverso. 🦣

#Mastodon #redsocial #socialmedia #SoftwareLibre #opensource

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

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

#Mastodon #NeoDB #Fediverse #ActivityPub

🎷🦣 Mastoshare update — improved set instance page UX.

Now it shows buttons for popular instances and a drop-down for known instances (using @fedidb)

Set your home instance now, so mastoshare links will open seamlessly — https://mastoshare.link/set-instance?next=home

#mastodon #fediverse #mastoshare #opensource #buildinpublic #frontend #webdev

I joined #mastodon last week, on a whim, with no idea what to expect

Minutes later, I was welcomed by @dillyd which has never happened on any other platform and was a wonderful introduction. So I posted a couple pictures of my #cats, and found, to my surprise, people reacting and interacting

Maybe it's because I'm not fighting an algorithm, or maybe I just found a place where folks truly appreciate cats. Either way, I'm very happy to be here, and I hope you're prepared for more cat pictures

Marky Mark still hasn't updated the old Threads.net domain in the #Fediverse to the new Threads.com

Guess his superintelligence wasn't up to the challenge 🤖

On a side note: If #Meta wants a product to be "cool", @zuck should not wear it! 😎

❌ #Demeta now: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeMeta

#threads #ai #facebook #it #humor #mastodon #markzuckerberg #profile #joke #threadsnet #threadscom #tech #socialmedia #domain #online #internet #it #update #funny #superintelligence #zuck #artificialintelligence #ki

Greetings! 📺 It's the weekly #Mastodon/ #Fediverse #WatchPartyCalendar for Jan. 8-15 (Thu-Thu)

⭐️New:
#Catitstu - ALIAS
#SPNwatchparty - SUPERNATURAL weekdays st 5pm ET

📅Details, 🔗& updates ➡️ http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties
⏰️All times US Eastern

#Westerns #Music #Mysteries #Action #Comedy #anime #Movies #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon

Thank🐑 hosts! @MatthewTitus88 @MirrorAyako @Taweret @analgesicsleep @rsmon77 @hyde
@lilymarswrites
@GrillChill @greenpepper22 @kamikat @JanineFromPgh @bunnyhero

Fool! Doctor Doom toots as he pleases!

#toot #mastodon #johnmastodon #doctordoom #doom #fantasticfour

Dass ich mit dem Bloggen hier auf Mastodon & auf "Spektrum der Wissenschaft" nicht aufgebe, hat einen tieferen Grund: Ich beobachte den Blog-Wagenheber-Effekt bei mir & bei vielen hier mit großer Begeisterung und sehr viel Hoffnung.

In der Akademie für politische Bildung Tutzing hatte ich nun erstmals öffentlich darüber gesprochen. Und heute auch dazu gebloggt.

#BlogWagenheberEffekt #Bloggen #Bildung #Mastodon #Spektrum #NaturdesGlaubens #Wissenschaft #Dialog #Lernen #Medien #Hoffnung #Friedensenergien #Wohlstandsenergien #Solarpunk https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/hoffnung-fuer-die-wissenschaft-der-dialogische-blog-wagenheber-effekt-im-fediversum/

A shout-out to the developers behind https://columnly.social! especially @dansup ❤️
It’s great to see people building and contributing to the Fediverse. Every independent project adds to the diversity of our social web and reminds us that the internet can be shaped by communities, creativity, and collaboration; not just big corporations.
Thank you to everyone who puts their time and skills into building a more open social web. Your work matters!
#Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenSource #IndieWeb #FOSS

Fra vores egen 'lille' verden 😀

Til søndagens første #cryptohagen i 2026 rundede @cryptohagen 900 følgere her på #Mastodon - det er flere end vi havde på den gamle Twitter infosec kanal - inden vi flyttede over i maj 2022

Tak til alle der er med👋

info: https://cryptohagen.dk/ (+ English version) - og lidt om de +10 år https://cryptohagen.dk/10aar.html