I'm looking for a lightweight single account fedi server that's suitable for a small company wanting a fedi presence on their own domain. Any suggestions for projects I should look at? #askfedi
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The #Fediverse is a decentralised world, but some things have established themselves in my timeline over the years. So as a refresher, here a few hashtags you could use, feel free to add more in the replies.
#FediHire when you are looking for a job
#FediGive when you have something to give away or donate
#FediBlock If you want to warn others of accounts/instances to block
#Caturday Needs no explanation ;)
#SelfHost to discuss running your own online stuff
#AskFedi #FediHelp to ask stuff
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Curious what brings you here to fedi / Open Web? 💖 #askfedi #crissyPolls
Options:
Does anyone here use tut as their Mastodon client of choice? Any customization tips? For those not familiar, see <https://tut.anv.nu/>. Forgive the color scheme that thinks its CGA, that's the first thing I fixed.
#Mastodon #askfedi
It seems since my mastodon instance got updated that up arrow no longer moves to next toot in my timeline, but instead slightly scrolls it up. Purposefully changed, known regression?
Which #fediverse #activitypub server is the easiest to run in #docker?
I'd like to test my own AP software without littering the live network
Fediverse friends and acquaintances:
when self-hosting a service, what do you prefer?
I need your help to improve the developer experience (DevX) of #badgefed. #fediverse #askfedi #mastodon #activitypub
Options:
Besides Phanpy and Enafore , what are some other good choices to access the fediverse from snac account?
#askmastodon #askfedi
#askmastodon #askfedi
I would love to hear how everyone found the fediverse and how you found the instance / server that you are on?
#askfedi #askmastodon #server
#askfedi #askmastodon #server
Dear Fedi Hive Mind:
Is there a word for a societal pressure, a zeitgeist, of pretending to be happy & successful & without problems such that anything contradicting that is not so much swept under the rug as bulldozed over? & not so much on the parts of individuals & family or friend groups; but seemingly as the operational policy of whole towns & communities?
I *think* there's a word for this; but the more I think about the concept, the more elusive that word seems.
Thank you so much.
#AskFedi
#HiveMind
#Thesaurus
#Fedisaurus
#WhatsThatWord
#OnTheTipOfMyTongue
Fediverse AOTY List – So Fedi, what albums got your attention in 2025? 🎧 🎶
Once again we’re compiling a Fediverse-wide, community-sourced Albums-of-The-Year (AOTY) list, of the albums – from any year – that rocked our worlds and got us through the last 12 months!
About 60 of us joined in last year and people seemed to like the idea of doing another round this year, so here we are! The call is open from now until the end of the year, then around New Years I’ll do up a blog post on the 1001 Other Albums site with the final list, complete with links to find the albums. You in?
The Rules:
1) Anyone with an account in the Fediverse can participate. I’ll include each submitter’s username in the final list, leaving off the instance unless asked to keep it in.
2) Reply/DM to this post with your top album(s) of the year, to a MAXIMUM of 3 per person. I also accept emails (johnmastodon@1001otheralbums.com) if you include your Fediverse username. You can also reply to the parallel toot on the automated account https://linernotes.club/@1001otheralbums.com@1001otheralbums.com.
👉 “Top” is absolutely however you want to define it – favourite, most listened to, most personally important, most thought about, most surprising find, representative of an artist you really got into, etc.👈
👉 “Of the year” does NOT have to mean the album was released in 2025. Your submissions can come from ANY year, so long as it was key in your 2025 listening.👈
3) The final list won’t be ranked or voted on, and will simply be ordered alphabetically. Multiple entries for the same album are most welcome and will be noted in the final list.
4) Notes/reasons for your picks aren’t necessary but totally welcome and, if included with your submission, I’ll probably put them in the footnotes like last year.
Feel free to boost this as widely as possible, I'd love as many people to join in as would like.
In the meantime, we’ll continue going through our 1001 Other Albums list and will have a handful of regular spotlights before the final Fedi AOTY list is posted. Also, a reminder that we're doing a Fedi-sourced blog post on January 8 celebrating the 10th anniversary of Bowie's Blackstar album - check out the pinned toot for details if you'd like to join in on that as well! 😎
Until then, hope you’re all enjoying AOTY season and (re)finding some great albums to get you through the rest of the year.
#AOTY #AOTY2025 #AskFedi #BestOf2025 #YearInReview #music #1001OtherAlbums
FOSDEM 2026 Social Web Speakers
I have been trying to create a list for #fosdem26 and realized that (ironically) most of the people in the socialweb track ... does not have a fediverse account listed there.
I am also at fault, btw, so shame to me.
If you know someone who is presenting at #fosdem26 please send them my way. I will update this thread with the list of confirmed speakers.
The Fosdem 26 social web track List:
@pfefferle
@andypiper
@andypiper@flipboard.com
@evan @evanprodromou
@haubles
@mapache
@darius
@bjoernsta
@django
@resieguen
@openforfuture
@iusondemand
@cwebber
@tsyesika
@zzepposs
@melaniebartos
@Pepijn
@Floppy
@tobias
@mayel
@ivan
@hongminhee
@samvie
@benpate
@neiman
@hongminhee@hollo.social
Social Web Track
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/social-web/
Boosts are also appreciated!
P.S. Special thanks to @liaizon for the suggestions.
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Share a strategy (any kind) you use to calm yourself down when you are catastrophizing, and why you think it works for you.
#MentalHealth #AuDHD #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic @autistics #ChronicIllness #Disability #AskFedi #Boost4Reach #ChronicPain
I am running #FreeBSD RELEASE 15.0 with #pkg for package management, no #ports at all. It appeared to me that the Joe's Window Manager port, x11-wm/jwm, was built without #SVG image support by default. However svg files are actually widely used by multiple icon themes, meaning that many of them will not work under #JWM . Should I simply compile it manually out of ports tree? I mean getting the ports tree is not difficult but setting up #poudriere and all just for one package seems tedious. Are there any other simpler waysnto achieve this?
#AskFedi #BSD #RunBSD #unix #WM
#AskFedi #BSD #RunBSD #unix #WM
So at the encouragement of some of my audiobook narrator friends, I will publish some of my private journals. One I am trying to fix was recovered from an email message, but the person's email client inserted strange line breaks when sending it back to me. I tried to correct these line breaks, only for everything to end up all on 1 line. Dialog. Action. Everything. Is there a way I can use regular expressions to correct this a bit easier? At least half way there? I write in Markdown. #PlainText #AskFedi
Hey all,
I have a friend who's been trying to get on Mastodon but tells me that it doesn't seem to play well with screen readers. I know there are plenty of people on the fedi who do use screen readers, but I have no experience with them myself, so I can't really direct him.
Can someone who does use a #ScreenReader point me in the direction of some resources that might be useful?
#AskFedi #a11y
Since November 28th of this year I've received 22 spam emails with the same title "Let's start getting to know each other." (with the period at the end) from senders with names like Ellie, Emily, Harper, Olivia, and Aria. I haven't been able to find information about an ongoing scam like this. Has anyone else been seeing this one?
(I'm not asking for advice about dealing with spam. SpamAssassin has this one well in hand. I'm just curious if anyone else has been seeing spam like this).
#spam #email #AskFedi
(I'm not asking for advice about dealing with spam. SpamAssassin has this one well in hand. I'm just curious if anyone else has been seeing spam like this).
#spam #email #AskFedi
I've been looking for an app that assists with forming habits. Not a task list. But something that pushes you to stick to a routine.
I tried an app called Finch, but it was...cloyingly cutesy and I just couldn't take it. It had pay for play gamification and that's a big no from me.
Also tried HabitKit and it was the opposite - no direction at all.
I'm happy to pay a subscription fee, or host something myself - just looking for recommendations.
If you have a potentially (probably) dying SSD with BTRFS on it, would you rather:
1. Try to copy out data first
2. Try to use BTRFS repair utilities first, and then try to copy data
For reference this is from a used Thinkpad X390 which lately has been running extremely slowly and now not being able to boot properly (not reaching login screen). btrfs check found some errors (but FS was in use), UEFI diagnostic found no errors with the disk nor other hardware.
Is anybody using NFS mount over a 1GBe link? I'm thinking about separating compute and storage but my network is 1GBe. I would leave VM root disks and e.g. databases local and only mount e.g. #nextcloud data dir over the network.
Trying a new kind of coffee beans this morning with aeropress but it turned out rather sour ...
What could I do differently... Hmmm