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bear with me for a second:
a million reasons, but a big reason the #democrats lost is because the center of gravity for #media has moved to #socialmedia
where the #trolls and #disinfo play. enough dum dums bought the lies
the democrats didn't play that game. because what game can they play in that shit?
it's literally owned by #plutocrats and #fascists
so... how do we fight?
we need our own
and what do we have
#mastodon and the #fediverse
we need to grow like a fucking weed
am i wrong?
Liebe Follower:innen
Liebe Nutzer:innen des #Fediverse
Ich wünsche euch allen da draußen ein frohes und besinnliches Weihnachsfest. 🎄🎅
Ich hätte so viele Wünsche an euch und an die, die meinen mächtig zu sein.
Doch einer sticht wie eine #fediKerze heraus, der Wunsch nach mehr Menschlichkeit in der Welt.
Schaut nicht nur nach euch, nach eurem Vorteil, sondern auch mal nach dem Menschen neben euch, der allein ist, der Hilfe benötigt oder einfach nur ein wenig Zuwendung.
Frohe Weihnachten! 🎄 🎅
We are seeing a nice uptick in Brazilian #fediverse instances enabling #xmpp for their members. They even gave it a funny new nickname: #Xampu (Shampoo in English, but it kinda sounds like you could pronounce XMPP in Brazilian Portuguese).
We are sick and tired of hearing "where is Joe Rogan of the left? Why don't we have #progressive content on TikTok and Insta so Gen-Z can see it?"
We do. There's a ton of them. They reach hundreds to millions of people.
The real issue, is that social media algorithms promote what is popular. And what's popular is garbage. And conservatives are great at making garbage.
Until we crack down on biased algorithms, non-Conservative content will always be sidelined.
SocialOntario.ca is a new Mastodon server for Ontarians and anyone connected to Ontario, Canada.
You can find out more at https://socialontario.ca/about or contact the admin account @Mathew
#FeaturedServer #Ontario #Canada #Canadian #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
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Building something. Bengali flavored. Look out for April 14th.
#fediverse #pitha
It's live.
I've just released my final software update for 2025, which includes 100% fidelity account migrations between #Bandwagon servers.
This long-overdue enhancement means that everyone can take their identity to any other #Emissary server on the #Fediverse. EVERYTHING moves with you.. music uploads, album sales, everything. And, your followers are forwarded to your new address.
There's plenty more, including a 2025 recap, and some plans for 2026 here: https://bandwagon.fm/2025-december
Carrots Delight: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/carrots-delight-lisa-s-baker.html
#carrots #carrot #food #foodart #rootvegetable #vegetables #abstract #abstractart #abstractartwork #art #arte #artwork #painting #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #pastel #colorful #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #creativeToots #artist #artistsonmastodon #kitchendecor #cafe #restaurantdecor #garden #painterly #modernart #contemporaryart
Chef de Paw is ready to take your order. 😂 https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/chef-de-paw-lisa-s-baker.html
#chef #bulldog #dog #englishbulldog #dogs #dogsOfFedi #dogsofmastodon #pup #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #artforhome #artforsale #buyintoart #artprints #canvasprints #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #puzzles #puzzle #kicthenart #kitchendecor #cuteanimals #animals #mammals #cute #baker #cook #restaurant
The year is almost ending.. I ask myself if I could still keep up a fight for 2026. 💔
I'm on the verge of breaking down again coz I might move-out to another apartment, (if I could look & find a petfriendly & cheap boardinghouse) 😔 which is hard & difficult to find these days😓
But anyways sorry for being so negative guys.. i hope you all have a good #SilentSunday 🫂
#Fediverse #Mastodon
https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/libre-opinion/969674/fedivers-lutter-contre-ingerence-etrangere-proteger-notre-democratie? (en français) Translated title: “The Fediverse resists foreign interference and protects our democracy”
🎷🦣 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
Mastodon ought to up their cache game. Months have passed since we’ve renovated our blobcats, yet most instances I come across still show the old ones. :gutkato_malĝojeta:
If the last two look different from the first two to you, you too are being tricked by your cache!
I wonder if there’s something wrong on our side? 
Newly added to my collection - Roses And Sunflowers 2. Available here: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/roses-and-sunflowers-2-lisa-s-baker.html
#rose #roses #sunflower #sunflowers #flower #flowers #floral #floraldesign #art #arte #artwork #wallart #homedecor #buyintoart #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #artforsale #canvasprints #artprints #CreativeToots #red #yellow #beautiful #lovely #pretty #floralart #painting #shopearly #giftideas #artforhome #wallartforsale
Just FYI, just updated the Fedi.Garden website so it now has a different general server as the default suggestion, alongside a couple of other good ones and a link to over 100 other good ones.
This is what people see if they click on "Please suggest a good server":
➡️ https://fedi.garden/i-want-to-join-the-fediverse-but-im-not-sure-which-server-to-choose
I'll keep rotating which server is in the featured position based on a selection of good general servers suitable for beginners. This way the growth will be spread out 🙂
The why and how of backing up your Mastodon data
Why this matters
Recently, the admin of a relatively prominent Mastodon¹ server, med-mastodon.com, decided to stop maintaining the server and shut it down without warning. This is, generally speaking, a terrible thing to do, but I will give the admin the benefit of the doubt and assume that he had some very good reason why he needed to shutdown without giving his users time to export their data or migrate their account to a new server (though as far as I’ve seen he hasn’t shared any such explanation).
Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time this has happened, and it won’t be the last. Even servers whose admins have agreed to follow the Mastodon Server Covenant, which among other things requires server admins to commit to giving users at least 3 months’ warning before shutting down, occasionally go belly-up without warning.
This could happen to your server at any time. Your server admins may be great people, but shit happens. Not only that, but your server’s admins or moderators could decide at any time to suspend or delete your account.
Some people protect themselves from this by self-hosting their own server. That has advantages, but it also has disadvantages, including time and money costs, and so it’s not for everyone. If you’re not interested in self-hosting, but you also don’t want to run the risk of suddenly losing all your Mastodon data, then you should be backing up your data on a regular basis.
How to back stuff up
The most important thing to back up is the list of who you follow; fortunately that’s also the easiest. In the Mastodon web app, go to Preferences, then click “Import and Export” on the left, and click “CSV” to the right of “Follows”.
There you can also download your lists, muted and blocked people and domains, and bookmarks. All of those can be imported into a different Mastodon server using the “Import” page linked on the left.
Set up a reminder to back up this stuff regularly!
The next thing to back up is posts and uploads. If you consider social media transient, you may not care about this, but otherwise, you can periodically click the “Request your archive” button on the export page. You’ll receive a notification when the archive is ready to download.
Note that unlike the CSV files, your posts and media are not easy to upload into a new server. Unless you want to jump through some hoops (see below), you’re just downloading them for reference.
If you’re paying attention, you may have noticed that there’s something important missing above: what about your followers? Can those be backed up? Alas, it’s not easy.
The way it’s supposed to work is when you decide you want to migrate to a new account, you configure your old account to tell your followers automatically what your new account is, and their accounts follow your new account automatically. But obviously, that doesn’t work if your old server goes away with no notice!
I’m not aware of any web tools for backing up your followers (if you know of any, post a reply!), so if this is something you care about, you’re going to need to resort to the command line. Command-line tools that support exporting followers from your server include:
If you’re so inclined, you could also write code to do the export yourself; Mastodon has a rich, well-documented API.
Note that mastodon-archive also supports backing up a bunch of other stuff, so you could use it to set up periodic automated backups of all the data listed above, rather than just followers. Personally, I have mastodon-archive backing up my data automatically every night.
The toot utility mentioned above also supports downloading followed hashtags (“toot tags followed“), which you may also want to back up if following hashtags is a significant part of how you use the fediverse.
What to do with the backed-up data
You pretty much can’t import your old posts
The bad news first: there is no good way to migrate your posts from one server to another. This isn’t just true if the old server goes away; there’s also no good way to copy posts from an existing server to a new one. People have been asking for this for many years but apparently it has not been enough of a priority for the Mastodon developers to implement it.
There’s at least one early-stage effort to build this functionality, and somebody has written a clever tool that server admins can use to do it as long as the old account is still available, but neither of these is a robust general-purpose solution.
You can still browse your exported data, look at the posts in a text editor, write your own code to do stuff with the data, etc. Furthermore. There are a number of tools for viewing and searching through your exported post archive.
How to get your followers back
If your account wasn’t migrated automatically because it disappeared out from under you, then assuming you’ve archived your followers as described above, you’re going to need to reach out to them one by one, let them know what your new account is, and ask them to follow you again.
(If you’re in online fediverse communities where people know you, you can also make a public post about your new account and ask people you know in those communities to boost it. You may need to do this several times to catch everybody, and you might still miss some people.)
If you have a lot of followers, then sending a bunch of DMs one by one to all of them will probably be a drag. You could automate it with toot, but be careful of running afoul of your server’s posting limits; you may get throttled if you post too many DMs too quickly.
Also, keep in mind that some people don’t read DMs at all, or don’t read DMs from people they don’t follow, so everyone may not see your messages asking for them to follow you again.
Restoring followed hashtags
You can use the toot utility (“toot tags follow hashtag“) to restore the followed hashtags from the list you previously exported with toot. Or if there aren’t too many you can just search for them by hand in the web app and then follow them.
Everything else, you can import
The import page in the web app’s preferences can be used to import the CSVs exported from the export page. If you used mastodon-archive or toot or whatever to export the data instead, then you can manually construct a CSV in the correct format for import.
¹This article focuses on Mastodon for clarity, but much of what is written here is applicable to any type of fediverse server.
#fediverse #MastodonEven our cool Dutch weather-god @GerritHiemstra is on the #Fediverse 
What I do love about #Mastodon and the greater #Fediverse, by the way, are the personalities. There *is* a culture here.
Other microblogging sites have a sort of algorithmic supremacy going on where you trade personality for a ticket to the internet celebrity lottery. No individualism. You pick your niche from a set deck and you play the FYP slots.
Meanwhile, everyday I run into someone who's like "hey I'm star-cake. I'm a queer carrot farmer. I collect Soviet-era camera lenses." Amazing.
Exactly one year ago, on 30th December 2024, I laid the foundation of FediMeteo.
I took a VM, installed FreeBSD, and set up the first jail to support Italy. The goal was to create a tool for my own use, support a few countries, and announce it.
Unexpectedly, the enthusiasm was incredible. That pushed me to keep going, support more countries and cities, and turn it into what it is today.
FediMeteo now supports 38 countries and 2,937 cities, with more than 7,700 followers in the Fediverse alone, not counting the many people who follow via RSS feeds or visit the web pages.
If you are curious to read the story and some technical details, you can find it here:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/
Today is also Tuesday, a #ThankYouTuesday, so I want to say thanks to:
* OpenMeteo - @openmeteo - for providing accurate, high quality data, without which FediMeteo would be far less useful
* @grunfink - creator of snac, who made all of this possible using very few resources, on a 4 euro per month VM
* FreeBSD, which thanks to the efficiency of the OS and its jail implementation made it possible to run this service in a stable and efficient way with minimal effort
* FediFollows - @FediFollows - that periodically spreads the word about cities, countries, and the enthusiasm around the project
*All of you*, who suggested, encouraged, corrected, and celebrated this project
And forward toward supporting more countries and other interesting features already in the works.
Happy birthday, FediMeteo! 🎉
#FediMeteo #HappyBirthday #Meteo #Weather #FreeBSD #snac #snac2 #OpenMeteo #Fediverse
Sharing one of my abstract pieces - Orange Sheep Abstract. Have a good one.
Available here: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/orange-sheep-abstract-lisa-s-baker.html
#sheep #animals #animal #farm #farmanimal #farmlife #abstract #abstractart #art #artwork #arte #wallart #homedecor #wallartforsale #artforsale #buyintoart #painting #CreativeToots #mastoart #mastodonart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #giftideas #modern #modernart #contemporary #orange #artforhome #shopearly
