mastodon
While other private services leave Mastodon, we simply ❤️ this community.
And getting close to reaching 30k followers! 🎉🤩
The Fediverse makes me anxious sometimes. It's not always pure joy and bliss, especially as an admin.
Top 5 things that make me anxious here:
1. When people can't just agree to disagree, but have to crucify others or report them because they didn't like what they said - or even start a hateful campaign for it
2. When people endlessly nitpick and dissect otherwise good post
3. When the obscure and dark instances or nostr users find your posts and start posting hateful content because of "free speech"
4. When you get judged if you use the wrong word or even hint towards something that someone doesn't agree on
5. When you make a decision in moderation and any decision pisses off someone - lose-lose situation
It's not daily or often times even monthly, but it happens. I'm glad we mostly get along though.
Blocking, fediblocking, reporting and muting are the most important features here.
Dads.cool and cooler.mom are Hometown Mastodon servers for parents of all kinds, including biological and non-biological parents, foster parents, adoptive parents and people of all gender identities.
You can find out more at https://dads.cool/about and https://cooler.mom/about or contact the admin accounts @alex and @sydney
#FeaturedServer #Parents #Parenting #Children #Kids #Mastodon #Hometown #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
If you had to sum up the purpose of #Mastodon in one sentence, what would it be?
En.osm.town is an independent Mastodon server for people active in the OpenStreetMap community.
This server has been operating since 2018.
You can find out more at https://en.osm.town/about or contact the admin @compass
#FeaturedServer #OpenStreetMap #OSM #Geospatial #GIS #Maps #Mapping #Cartography #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.10 👩🚀
"My Fediverse summer & the top 3 lessons I learned"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-summer-3-lessons/
with shout-outs to: @poliverso @phanpy @ivory @MonaApp @pixelfed @Tusky @MoogleMaestro
#TheFutureIsFederated #blog #tech #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #Fediverse #Mastodon #Wordpress #Friendica #Pixelfed #Lemmy #Kbin #Mbin #Firefish #Ivory #Phanpy
My notes about the account(s) migration from 
#Mastodon to 
#GoToSocial using #slurp.
Spoiler alert: it works!
https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/gotosocial-adventures-migrate-from-mastodon/
Deze pin ik nog even voor niet meer dan veertien dagen:
Indien en voor zover Werknemer zich uit op social media als Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn, enz., zal Werknemer vanaf de datum van totstandkoming van deze
Overeenkomst zich op die media niet langer presenteren als een medewerker van Werkgever. Het zal Werknemer wel zijn toegestaan om op social media aan te
geven dat hij tot de Einddatum in dienst van Werkgever is geweest.
The time has come!
After months of hard work our Mastodon instance now has its own anthem!
Our tireless fellow Fediverse citizens @MiseryPath, @anrichter, @eighty, @Caeri, @virtualwolf @FrankyFire, and @Aarkon created this song. 👏
Check out the metalhead.club song right now at https://music.metalhead.club/metalheadclub-anthem/
The full song is also available there as a high-res download—for a small donation that will help fund our Mastodon server. :-)
A huge thank you to everyone involved—including our designer @bestiaexmachina, who created a great album cover for the song at practically the last minute!
RE: https://e5n.cc/@eallion/116027460905135462
我觉得 #Mastodon 的设计还要改进一下，头像 404 的，要显示一个缺省头像。
I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.
So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/07/05/Choose-Mastodon
Hier mein Update für meine Dienste die ich aktuell anbiete.
https://fulda.social
https://fedihub.space
https://matrix.matrixbox.de
https://echostreamz.com
https://suche.dasnetzundich.de
https://dackelexpress.com
https://tube.fulda.social
Wer mir was in die Urlaubskasse werfen will kann das tun.
https://www.paypal.me/LarsM1980
#Fedimins #mastodon #peertube #Sharkey #Matrix
👋 Hi, #scholars, tell us, why are you on #Mastodon?
🔍 We are researching how and why academics use Mastodon compared to other platforms. Is it key for #academic #discourse?
🔜 We'll launch our #research survey by mid-October, so stay tuned.
📣 Meanwhile: what features of Mastodon do you find most valuable for academic discourse?
And which other questions should we include in our research, you think?
#AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #OpenScience #SocialMedia
Has anyone put together a curated list of #fediverse servers (preferably open source or at least with a public API) that:
- want to be found by the general public (I’m looking for a source of recommendations for a server picker in a client app)
- meet at least some reasonable minimum moderation/reliability standards?
I know #mastodon has joinmastodon.org/servers and pixelfed also has their own curated server list, but is there anything that isn’t software-specific?
Thank you Mastodon.
Just sitting here this morning scrolling through Mastodon and it occurred to be amazed and thankful for a piece of software that just does it's primary function without being bombarded by a bunch of nonsense or sucking up personal information and selling it off. It is really amazing how few things are left in our daily lives that are not crammed full of exploitive junk. Thank you Mastodon for simply existing.
As 2025 starts we can expect a lot of change to many social media platforms with the rise of AI
We will never ever take such steps!
I keep our services running purely by donations from people on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse and sometimes that's a little hard but it is and will be the only way
If you can and want, we can do this together❤️
https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
https://stux.me/donate
It can be different 💪
Hallo zusammen,
unsere Instanz wächst kontinuierlich weiter. Aktuell sind wir 361 aktive Accounts, die gemeinsam bereits 39491 Beiträge verfasst haben. Damit gehören wir zu den etablierten LGBTIQ+ Instanzen im deutschsprachigen Raum.
Ein solches Wachstum bedeutet auch steigende Anforderungen an die Infrastruktur. Server, Speicherplatz für Medien, Backups und die technische Administration erfordern entsprechende Ressourcen. Die laufenden Kosten werden derzeit zum größten Teil privat getragen, einige wenige Nutzerinnen und Nutzer unterstützen bereits mit kleineren Beträgen.
Falls euch diese Instanz als Safe Space wichtig ist und ihr die Möglichkeit habt, würden wir uns über weitere Unterstützung freuen. Alle Informationen zu den Spendenmöglichkeiten findet ihr unter: https://lsbt.me/about (fast ganz unten)
Regelmäßige Beiträge helfen besonders bei der Planbarkeit, aber auch einmalige Unterstützung ist willkommen.
Vielen Dank an alle, die bereits unterstützen, und danke an alle, die Teil dieser Community sind.
#mastodon #fediverse #lgbtiq #trans #gay #lesbian #queer #community #safespace #spende
📢 Diese Woche haben wir einige spannende Persönlichkeiten, Initiativen und Museen aus der Mastodon-Community auf Flipboard vorgestellt!
Falls du es verpasst hast: Du kannst jetzt allen aus dem Fediverse in der Flipboard-App folgen. Wir freuen uns, wichtige Stimmen aus den Bereichen Wissenschaft, Politik, Journalismus, Klima, Kultur und Geschichte dabei zu haben, darunter @dieKadda, @nicholaspotter, @ueckueck, @pneutig, @digiges, @NatureMC, @lenaschimmel, @DerLeiermann, @pfefferle, @histmus und @nszwangsarbeit.
Lade die App herunter, besuche den Fediverse-Tab unter Entdecken und folge diesen Accounts. Ihre Beiträge findest du im neuen Fediverse-Aktivität-Karussell im „Für dich“-Feed.
https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard
#Mastodon #Flipboard #Fediverse #Wissenschaft #Politik #Journalismus #Klima #Tech #Kunst #Kultur #Geschichte
Do you use Flipboard to stay up on the latest news in tech? If so, your experience just got better. Now you can follow people on Threads and Mastodon, like Marques Brownlee, Mark Cuban, David Imel, Kara Swisher, and Taylor Lorenz, right from your Flipboard, and get their latest social posts on all things tech.
Learn more about these new features in this blogpost. And if there's a cool account you'd like us to highlight, let us know in the comments below.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/fediverse-tech-voices-on-flipboard/
#Mastodon #MastodonMigration #Federation #Fediverse #Threads #Flipboard
I’m kinda done with Mastodon. It’s been my main spot, but it’s missing quote posting, which drives me nuts—I just wanna comment on posts without resharing everything! Also, it’s eating up my server’s resources, and I’m running a bunch of stuff on one machine, so I need something that doesn’t hog CPU or disk space.
I used Akkoma with Mangane frontend before and really liked how light and customizable it was. Problem? The database got huge, and I couldn’t find simple tools to clean out old stuff. It was like digging through a messy closet. I’m thinking of trying Akkoma again, but is there a way to keep the database under control?
I’m also looking at Misskey—it seems fun with quote posting and a cool community. But does it use a lot of server resources? How hard is it to back up or move to another server? I’d love Mastodon API support since my clients need it.
#Mastodon #Fediverse #FediPoll #Poll #Akkoma #Pleroma #Misskey
Options: (choose one)
Are you writing a website link in your Mastodon post or profile? If so, remember to include https:// at the beginning so that people can click it!
example.com is written without https:// at the beginning and is just a piece of unclickable text.
https://example.com is written with https:// at the beginning and can be clicked to open its website.
#Fedilab is now ready for the new #Mastodon quote feature.
We opened an issue so accounts can manage the default policy for quotes in their profile and Mastodon devs already added it.
In this process, our main issue was to keep the compatibility of the quote feature that was previously implemented for others software (as they work differently - no policy). Fedilab will be able to detect and support both of them.