#hubzilla #fediverse #nomad

2025 was huge for the #fediverse

Mad respect to all the devs, artists, and community members making this movement unstoppable

Does anyone have #fediverse or #mastodon stats (preferably from a few different servers) about numbers of bad-faith actors being identified, banned, etc.? I've become pretty interested in this from a methodological point of view. I'm thinking of running some #moderation simulations to explore possibilities in a "calculate some stuff and make some graphs" way. Actually, if someone already did that, I'd be keen to read it.

I'm interested in how to detect "bad eggs," realizing as I think about it that I don't even know all the questions to ask, and this entire line of investigation has some thorny issues I'll need to deal with. I think infosec.exchange might, in some ways, be the perfect server to be on for this, because I am pretty sure that #cybersecurity has huge overlap with this whole domain.

#advice is helpful. #data is even more helpful.

#moderators #BadActors #infosec #socialmedia

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

calling it "X (formerly Twitter)" two years later is driving me insane, like at what point do we just accept reality and move on.

I don't support musk, I don't like what happened to the platform, but it's been two years and we all know what it's called now, what's the point of the disclaimer every single time?

facts matter even when they suck, and the fact is the bird app died in 2022, this is what we got instead, just call it by its name already

#Twitter #SocialMedia #Fediverse #birdsite

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Peter Griffin from Family Guy sitting at a news desk looking annoyed, with a sign behind him reading "WHAT REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS" with two blue gear icons

@alison

And those are the people I want to help. That's what my guide addresses, people who really want help and will accept help. Not people who just want your money. 😉

Of course, that is why those 4 posts are currently my most heated posts. Because there are a lot of scammers here who just want your cash.

#Fediverse #Scam #Fraud #MutualAid

I'm so excited the #Fediverse has passed the "you see other people's posts about the massive outage before you get a chance to post about it yourself" tipping point.
#Cloudflare #outage

Where Pratchett had footnotes, the Fediverse has alt-text.

#Pratchett #TerryPratchett #pterry #fediverse

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This is a photograph of the hugely-missed author Terry Pratchett. He is an older white man, with a trimmed white beard and glasses. He is (as was customary for him) wearing a black hat and on top of the hat there are two starlings. Terry is laughing. Now the whole point about the footnotes and Alt Text is that both of them allow the author to go off at a wild tangent from the original point being made. Pratchett made extensive use of them throughout his writing. A good example would be a discussion about why there might be starlings on his hat, and if that's what he's laughing. I'll assume it is -- after all, who wouldn't want to laugh if their hat had starlings on it -- but it could be anything. Maybe he's giggling at a remembered reference from one of the footnotes in his own books.

@haubles @Mastodon @mellifluousbox @renchap 🎉 Congrats! Great to see the team expanding and fortifying the #fediverse

Weil ich mich frage, ob nur ich so ein digitaler Einsiedler bin.

Kennt ihr Accounts (denen ihr folgt, die euch folgen) des #Fediverse auch im "physischen Leben", also so offline?

Gerne #boost wenn du auch Interesse hast, wie sich das hier so verhält

Hey everyone, we have some pretty big news to share. You might remember that we announced a big restructuring for the Mastodon team earlier this year. Today marks an important milestone in this transition.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb

News and social. One app.

We are incredibly excited and, honestly, really proud to be launching The Bristol Cable iOS app with The Bristol Cable today.

Our mission to unite knowledge sharing communities has never been more apparent as we continue the introduction of our Social Web enabled community apps. This time, with a news flavour! 🗞️

#SocialWeb #BristolCable #Journalism #Fediverse #Mastodon #News #SocialMedia #App

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A graphic showing three screenshots of The Bristol Cable app over text which reads: "Developed by Newsmast Foundation for The Bristol Cable". The images show various screens on the The Bristol Cable app, focusing on local, independent journalism.

#OverUnder 042 with @robb
He's a developer, podcaster, and blogger.

He also created Echofeed, an app that looks great! Just go check it.

Today, he shares his thoughts on #Avengers, #WeekNotes, #Stickers, #BuJo , and #Tacos

He recommended also two books:

- How to lie with statistics
- So you've been publicly shamed

#books #bookstodon #BulletJournalning #blog #fediverse #mastodon

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-042

Expectation: A set of #Fediverse platforms where people engage in debating and talking around a given subject or hyperlink, actions of which imply a quite continuous flow of user-written texts, back and forth among the peers, especially when there's some kind of disagreement.

Reality: texts are there for virtue signaling and circlejerking around the allowed principles of the hive mind, and god forbid someone disagrees with any of said principles by bringing a well-elaborated text containing nuanced takes... People are too lazy to try and argue (and, by extension, promoting debate) so they treat the down arrow as if it were some kind of well-elaborated argument to the matter they're disagreeing with. Then they blame LLMs for taking over the means of human textual production, when themselves are giving away the ability of textual production on a silver plate.

I had several nice and interesting debates and exchanges on #Lemmy (and #threadiverse in general), but, oh, my Goddess, many Lemmy (actually, it's the entire Web) people really suck sometimes due to this lazy behavior of using numeric reactions instead of using the fucking keyboard they got in front of them.

Y U NO USE KEYBOARD?

I'm reading a New York Review of Books article about the Internet and the World Wide Web. The article discusses recent books by Tim Berners-Lee and Cory Doctorow. This paragraph caught my eye. Berners-Lee is the "he" at the start of the passage. Hurrah for Mastodon, I say. #Mastodon #Fediverse #Technology #Internet #SocialMedia #OpenSource

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A quote from an article in the New York Review of Books: "He [Tim Berners-Lee] urges us to walk away from Facebook and X in exchange for “something pro-human”—decentralized platforms like Mastodon, a user-controlled, open-source alternative in the so-called Fediverse. One virtue of the Fediverse, as [Cory] Doctorow also emphasizes, is that users can move freely from one server or community to another without losing their friends and followers.

Today is our third anniversary on Mastodon and the Fediverse for our daily 9PM #HashTagGames.

This past year, #Fediverse players have played over 100,000 game plays.

Including the special games that popup, we have shared over 1100 unique hashtag games since November 16, 2022.

Thank you for joining me every day for our little moment of silliness.

You friend and host,
@paul

See you at 9PM EST, (6PM PT / 2AM GMT / 3AM CET / 1PM AEDT / 2PM NZST) for our new game.

Proudly hosting daily games since November 16, 2022
#Fediverse #Mastodon

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Poster Meme announcing New Game Featured image, large blue hashTag and Text: 9 o'clock Hashtag How to play #HashTagGames Write something awesome, Use the Hashtag, Toot/Post and Repeat! Please Boost Hashtag Games on Mastodon and the entire Fediverse. hosted by @paul@OldFriends.Live Thanks for play our games each night! Every Night, 9PM EST, (6PM PT / 2AM GMT / 3AM CET / 1PM AEDT / 3PM NZST) Proudly hosting daily games since November 16, 2022

#fediverse question: Has anyone written a Bridge between #lemmy, #piefed, #mbin, #kbin, or other fediverse software and #nntp? I have #usenet access, and would be happy to bridge some of the various blindness groups on Usenet onto the fediverse.

@zynaesthesie Und natürlich endet mastodon.id-52849.pro und id-52849.pro auf 172.67.208.214welches im Addressblock 172.64.0.0/13 vom größten #RogueISP, #CloudFlare aka. #ClownFlare, liegt.

• Und ClownFlare doxxen aus Prinzip Leute die #AbuseReports einreichen an deren Kunden, welche Ursache für den Report sind.

• Also ist #AbuseReporting sinnlos und die einzig korrekte Herangehensweise ist #ReportThemBlockThem im #Fediverse sowie Domain Blocklisting.

Ich hab daher jene domain auf meine öffentliche Blocklist gepackt die unter

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/main/drop.domains.block.list.tsv

frei verfügbar ist und von dort in jedes System [egal ob #PiHole oder #pfBlockerNG) importiert und updated werden kann...

Falls dir weitere Domains auffallen lass' es mich wissen...

#Fediverse #WeKeepUsSafe #ITsec #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #Phishing

Week in Fediverse 2025-11-07

Servers

- Gush! v0.0.26
- Manyfold v0.128.0
- Wafrn v2025.10.02
- Hubzilla v10.6
- Ktistec v3.1.3
- Mastodon v4.5
- gancio v1.28.1
- Castopod v1.13.6
- tootik v0.19.8
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.4
- Lemmy Development Update October 2025

Clients

- IceCubesApp v2.0.9
- Mangane v1.18.5
- Tangerine UI for Mastodon v2.5
- Mastodon Bird UI v3.0.0
- PeerTube Mobile v1.2.0
- Voyager v2.40.2
- bleromo: A Windows 98-style Pleroma/Mastodon client

Tools and Plugins

- Poduptime v5.6.0

For developers

- APx v0.20.0
- Fedialgo v1.2.32
- FIRES Server v0.4.0
- NGI0 Progress report #1 (GoActivityPub)

Protocol

- FEP-d8c8: BitTorrent Torrent Objects
- FEP-19b3: Specifying Properties of a Service

Articles

- Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS
- Fediverse Report – #141

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019a3c12-2a12-7683-592d-a0dec77f582e

Hey there #fediverse ! What’s your preferred way of listening/collecting music? Let us know so that we can figure out the best way to get our hand-made music into your ears, if you’ll pardon the expression!

#music #indiemusic #mastomusic #streaming #independentmusic

Three years ago today, we opened the doors to our corner of the Fediverse. 💙

What started as an idea has grown into a friendly space for good conversations, smart humor, and authentic interactions. It’s been amazing watching this community grow with all of you.

Thank you to everyone who’s shared, posted, and made Vivaldi Social part of their online space. You’ve helped shape this community into what it is today.

Here’s to everyone who’s been part of it, and to all the new voices we’ll meet along the way.

Happy 3rd birthday, Vivaldi Social! 🎉

- Team Vivaldi

#VivaldiSocial #Fediverse #Mastodon #Community

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Illustration of the Vivaldi Social mascot Tony and a cheerful yellow Mastodon mascot celebrating three years. They stand beside a large golden number three with a red banner that reads Vivaldi Social Anniversary. Confetti and stars fill the background.

I'm powering through yesterday's covid and flu shots 💀 Perfect time to show you that Moxxi is ready for winter with her jacket and #Fediverse goggles!
🤘@sunguramy

#Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Corgi #CorgisOfMastodon #Mastodogs #DogsOfFediverse #FediDogs #PetsOfMastodon #Photography #DogsOfPixelfed

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Moxxi the corgi is sporting a black puffer jacket and a pair of baby blue Rex Specs dog goggles with white dots. She's sitting and her ears are perked up.

Hi, guys. I broke my Mastodon installation. Next time, I should use a server dedicated solely to Mastodon, lol, because it conflicts with my other apps, lol.

#mastodon #fediverse #selfhosting #devops #tech #technology #fail #learning #decentralisation #server #linux #it #networking #development #coding #sysadmin #openweb #community #troubleshooting #web

Big tech equals big crap

I am happy on the #Fediverse running on free open source software with no billionaire in sight

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

@bogo It's a good idea. But I have there ca. 500 people and almost all of them don't want to move to either #fediverse or #Signal (or any other "rational" messaging system). They are typically non-IT people and use Facebook and WhatsApp (and possibly Instagram or TikTok).

I am collecting other contact information from them (e-mail addresses, phone numbers...), but it's a long-distance run. When done (in the future), I will leave Facebook completely 😎

@woodstock @creativegamingname @phillip @catsalad

and @Vivaldi even keeps a #fediverse server, @mozilla deleted theirs. I fucking hate #mozilla for that. Fucking traitors.

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

#fediverse question. I know I can follow hash-tags, but can I follow groupings of hash-tag, say for instance #linux and #norsktut ? Or #linux but only in a specific language?

One thing I really enjoy here is what I think of as the fedi-follow-dance.

I see post I love. Boost the post. Go to the person's profile, find other posts I love, favorite those posts.

Follow the person.

Then I see in my feed:

⭐ Person favorited:
⭐ Person favorited:
⭐ Person favorited:

➕ Person followed you

#fediverse #SocialPsychology

Ich kann mich noch gut an den Aufschrei erinnern, als #Meta mit der News um die Ecke kam, dass #Threads nun auch ans #Fediverse andockt.

Frage in die Runde: Folgt ihr Accounts von dort?

Ich bin ehrlich gesagt verdammt happy, dass ich grossen Threads Konten via meiner #Mastodon App folgen kann und so nicht auf dieser Zuckerberg-Schleuder aktiv sein muss

Amazing that I can make 200.000 character posts on Friendica

#FediVerse #Friendica #post #max #twohundred #thousand #amazing

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Two hundred thousand characters per post on Friendica

Excellent call by @offene_netzwerke for better public funding for the #Fediverse:

1. #FediverseFund for user-centred development, €30 million annually

2. Anchoring the +1 principle in the work of the governments & public institutions

3. Recognition of non-profit status in the field of decentralised #DigitalInfrastructure

4. Establishment of decentralised, interoperable & cross-sectoral pan-European media platforms with involvement of civil society

https://offene-netzwerke.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Paper_Alliance-Open-Networks-and-Democratic-Public-Sphere_EN-251111-1.pdf

Which #OpenSource #decentralized, group #chat which supports E2E (end-to-end) #encryption is best? #infosec
#fediverse #Matrix #XMPP #Deltachat #privacy #security #OMEMO

✨ New blog post: "Growing My Own Little Fediverse: The Joy of Going Further Down the Rabbit Hole"
Turns out, the future of the internet might just be federated. 💜
https://laurahargreaves.com/growing-my-fediverse/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=autopost

#Fediverse #OpenWeb #SelfHosting #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty