<p>littleFedi: a Fediverse Server That Doesn't Need a Data Centre</p><p>I was fifteen, and there were no BBSes in my city. So every call was long distance, once a day, sometimes twice. I'd start the dialer and wait for that sound - the handshake, the negotiation, the hiss settling into a carrier - and then I was connected to a computer sitting in somebody's bedroom, a few hundred kilometres away. I was a co-sysop of a local board and a national moderator of a FidoNet area. None of my friends understood what I was doing, and they'd stopped asking to avoid an incomprehensible monologue. But I liked it, and that was enough for me.</p><p>Here's the thing about that computer in someone's bedroom. There was no data centre. No domain, no certificate authority, no hosting provider, no cloud. Just a machine, a phone line, and a person who'd decided to run it. If you wanted to reach it, you called it.</p><p>Now look at what it takes today to put a small server on the network so other people can talk to it. A public address, which most home connections no longer have. A domain, which you rent. A certificate, which somebody has to issue you. And, increasingly, a VPS somewhere, because the software won't fit on the hardware you already own.</p><p>We've added a lot of infrastructure between two people who just want to talk. That's what littleFedi is about.</p><p>What it is</p><p>A single Go binary. No Ruby, no Sidekiq, no Redis, no separate worker processes to babysit. You run init, answer a few questions, and you've got a working instance. It speaks ActivityPub, and it speaks the Mastodon client API well enough that existing apps just work.</p><p>It also runs on hardware that would make Mastodon - or even Akkoma - struggle. Most software in this space assumes a VPS with a few gigabytes of RAM and a database server next to it. We assumed a Raspberry Pi Zero W behind a home router. There's a low_power mode that tunes memory use, image decoding and thumbnail generation for exactly that kind of box, and it's tested on that kind of box, not just on a fast dev machine.</p><p>In spirit this puts littleFedi close to <a href="https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2" rel="nofollow">snac</a>, which I've always liked a lot. Same conviction: a personal server shouldn't need a fleet of services behind it.</p><p>Federating without a public address</p><p>littleMesh is the part I'm most attached to, and it's the part that goes back to the modem.</p><p>Your instance generates an Ed25519 key pair. That key is its identity - the node's address is derived from the public key, so reaching that address means reaching the holder of that key and nobody else. No registrar, no certificate authority, nobody to ask permission from.</p><p>A small set of public lighthouse nodes help two instances find each other. Once they're introduced, the traffic runs over a second TLS session pinned to both node IDs. The lighthouse copies encrypted bytes back and forth. It never sees plaintext, and it can't impersonate either side. And if the two nodes can reach each other directly, they drop the relay after the introduction and talk peer to peer.</p><p>Which is, more or less, calling the BBS directly. Just without the phone bill.</p><p>The gateway into ordinary HTTPS</p><p>Mastodon and other regular servers can't resolve a mesh address on their own. There's no domain and no certificate for them to find.</p><p>That's what the optional HTTPS gateway is for. A lighthouse operator can run one alongside the relay, and it bridges the mesh into ordinary HTTPS for the rest of the web. The gateway has to terminate TLS to do that, so it can technically see the traffic passing through it. Which is exactly why it's a separate, opt-in piece and not something every node exposes by default.</p><p>It has two independent settings: one controls what the gateway lets ordinary internet visitors reach at all, and a second one applies again at the destination node. Left at their defaults, both allow only federation traffic - ActivityPub delivery, discovery, public media. Web login, API and media proxy stay closed unless an operator deliberately opens them.</p><p>Mesh peers talking to each other directly never touch the gateway at all. That exposure only applies to the bridge into the wider web. And all of this can be self-hosted.</p><p>Chronological timelines</p><p>Timelines are chronological. Nothing gets reordered by an engagement model.</p><p>If you want something closer to "what did I miss", there's a separate /catchup page you visit on purpose. It ranks posts using signals your own instance already has - how many people you follow boosted something, whether it continues a conversation you took part in. No external popularity score, no telemetry, nothing leaves the machine. You press "mark as read", it moves a divider, and that's the only thing it remembers.</p><p>Self-expiring posts</p><p>You can set a post to expire, with its own timer, instead of a fixed instance-wide setting.</p><p>This isn't a client-side trick that hides the post from view. The expiry goes on the same durable job queue that runs the rest of littleFedi's background work, so the deletion survives restarts and isn't lost if the process happens to be down at the moment the timer fires. When it does fire, the post is deleted and a real Delete activity goes out to everyone who received it - so it actually disappears from remote instances too, not just locally. Editing the post before then can push the timer back or cancel it.</p><p>Static blogs, with real threaded replies</p><p>littleFedi can take a Fediverse post and publish it as a page on a plain static blog, with its own Atom feed and permalinks that don't move even if you edit the post later. No JavaScript, no database hit on page load.</p><p>The part I find more interesting is that the replies aren't left out. If the author turns the option on, littleFedi pulls the public replies that were actually federated to the post, threads them the same way the timeline does, and bakes the whole tree into the generated HTML at build time. So a blog post can show a real comment thread, in the same static file, with the same guarantee as the rest of the page - no JavaScript, no live queries. Only public and unlisted replies qualify, obviously. Anything followers-only or direct never enters the picture.</p><p>Why it looks like this</p><p>This isn't minimalism for its own sake. It's about how many people simply can't run their own server today, because the requirements are too steep. The hardware, the ops complexity, or just needing a domain and a public address before you can start. We're trying to remove those barriers one at a time, while still shipping a real, federating, reasonably complete server: polls, quotes, scheduled posts, MFA, PostgreSQL and S3 if you want to scale up later.</p><p>I've <a href="https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/23/taking-a-semi-truck-to-buy-salad-my-manifesto-for-simple-computing/" rel="nofollow">written before</a> about taking a semi-truck to buy salad. Hardware keeps getting more expensive and the software running on it keeps asking for more of it every year. That's backwards. If the machines cost more, the operational cost of what sits on them should go down, not up. Same with complexity: the default direction is to keep adding it, and we'd rather strip it out.</p><p>And there's the other half, which is closer to why any of us are doing this at all. It's the same thing that drew me to snac and to the way <a href="https://comam.es/snac/grunfink" rel="nofollow">grunfink</a> works on it, and the same thing that had me dialing a stranger's computer at fifteen. People building tools so that people can talk to each other. Nothing more dressed up than that. We'd rather show the servers running, talk about the Pi sitting in the corner, share a tiramisu photo if it comes up. The joy in this was never about the money it brings in. It's about what we end up building, humanly, because of it.</p><p>It's beta software, still short of a first release, and I'd rather say that plainly than oversell it. But it runs, and it federates. That's the part I wanted to write about.</p><p><a href="/tags/littlefedi/" rel="tag">#littleFedi</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a></p>
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<p>Funding <a href="/tags/quest/" rel="tag">#quest</a>...</p><p>Despite support from our NOAW <a href="/tags/unconference/" rel="tag">#unconference</a> attendees sponsors and partnership with the criticalinfralab.net (<a href="/tags/uva/" rel="tag">#uva</a>, <a href="/tags/uu/" rel="tag">#uu</a>), our <a href="/tags/scaledem/" rel="tag">#ScaleDem</a> Piloting 2026 (<a href="/tags/euhorizon/" rel="tag">#EUhorizon</a>) <a href="/tags/application/" rel="tag">#application</a> <a href="/tags/call/" rel="tag">#call</a> got rejected… <br>;(</p><p>—Suggestions of <a href="/tags/grant/" rel="tag">#grant</a> <a href="/tags/fund/" rel="tag">#fund</a> to drop our <a href="/tags/proposal/" rel="tag">#proposal</a>? Check out <a href="/tags/blueprint/" rel="tag">#blueprint</a>, <a href="/tags/plan/" rel="tag">#plan</a>, etc here: <a href="https://www.fedivariety.org/blog/scaling-open-social-media" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.fedivariety.org/blog/scaling-open-social-media"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.fedivariety.org/blog/scali</span><span class="invisible">ng-open-social-media</span></a></p><p>Please boost! <br>Thanks!</p><p><a href="/tags/jugglingthefediverse/" rel="tag">#jugglingthefediverse</a> <a href="/tags/fedivariety/" rel="tag">#fedivariety</a> <a href="/tags/opensocialweb/" rel="tag">#opensocialweb</a> <a href="/tags/socials/" rel="tag">#socials</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/civictech/" rel="tag">#CivicTech</a> <a href="/tags/digitaldemocracy/" rel="tag">#DigitalDemocracy</a> <a href="/tags/openweb/" rel="tag">#OpenWeb</a> <a href="/tags/opensocial/" rel="tag">#OpenSocial</a> <a href="/tags/bummer/" rel="tag">#bummer</a></p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/116999079831534200" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/116999079831534200"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/1169</span><span class="invisible">99079831534200</span></a></p><p>Have you taken the <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>iftas</span></a></span> Social Web Operations Survey yet? 🧐 There's only one day left! </p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/socialweb/" rel="tag">#socialWeb</a> <a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#MastoAdmin</a></p>
Trump and Netanyahu spent a Washington photo op arguing over who is israel's "number one friend." The same week, israeli jets destroyed a mosque and displacement tents in Gaza City, killing one Palestinian and wounding a dozen more, under a ceasefire both men call a diplomatic win. The people living under that same imperial weight are named and reachable in this week's list below. Give directly.
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<p>Because I wanted a way to syndicate my stuff to the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> without having comments on my website, I’m syndicating a different way.</p><p>You can follow Sightless Scribbles Syndicated multiple ways.</p><p>The Wordpress way, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://blindjournalist.wordpress.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>blindjournalist.wordpress.com</span></a></span></p><p>The WriteFreely way, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://write.as/weirdwriter/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>weirdwriter</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a></p>
<p>Sounds interesting<br>Good idea</p><p><a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/berniesanders/" rel="tag">#bernieSanders</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/artist/" rel="tag">#artist</a></p>
<p>What many people misunderstand about hosting your own content (like this social media instance) is thinking we somehow NEED a big audience or Big Tech involvement. </p><p>I'm perfectly fine if the world faded away and it was just the thousand of us here. It's like the early days of the web when we had small forums, nobody missed Reddit back then. Federation is a big plus, not a requirement.</p><p>It's the same with websites or IRC for me. I know people use Discord, but I still stick to IRC even if there are only about a hundred of us left. I know people use AI now and website visitors are dropping, but who cares? I still keep doing it for those who like to read.</p><p>I don't need the whole world involved for this to feel worthwhile. It's mine, I own it, and I host it for as long as I breathe. After that, it won't matter to me anymore, but I hope other admins keep things running the way I did.</p><p><a href="/tags/selfhosted/" rel="tag">#SelfHosted</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/openweb/" rel="tag">#OpenWeb</a> <a href="/tags/socialweb/" rel="tag">#SocialWeb</a></p>
Running a small or single user instance in the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a>? Get connected to other instances by a relay!<br><br>I just adjusted my relay instance which now also finally supports <a href="/tags/gotosocial/" rel="tag">#GoToSocial</a>! Of course, it also supports Pleroma, snac, Mastodon, littlefedi, starling and many other ones!<br><br>With relays, your own posted content gets distributed to all connected instances, as well you get the content all other instances. Currently, mostly tech related instances are connected, focusing on <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a>, <a href="/tags/proxmox/" rel="tag">#Proxmox</a>, <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> / <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a>, <a href="/tags/ipv6/" rel="tag">#IPv6</a> and many other things!<br><br>More information at: <a href="https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fedi-relay.gyptazy.com</a><br><br><a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a> <a href="/tags/fedi/" rel="tag">#fedi</a> <a href="/tags/fediwall/" rel="tag">#fediwall</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a> <a href="/tags/activitypubrelay/" rel="tag">#activitypubrelay</a> <a href="/tags/relay/" rel="tag">#relay</a> <a href="/tags/social/" rel="tag">#social</a> <a href="/tags/snac/" rel="tag">#snac</a> <a href="/tags/snac2/" rel="tag">#snac2</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/gts/" rel="tag">#gts</a> <a href="/tags/gotosocial/" rel="tag">#gotosocial</a> <a href="/tags/littlefedi/" rel="tag">#littlefedi</a> <a href="/tags/pleroma/" rel="tag">#pleroma</a> <a href="/tags/misskey/" rel="tag">#misskey</a> <a href="/tags/services/" rel="tag">#services</a> <a href="/tags/devops/" rel="tag">#devops</a> <a href="/tags/starling/" rel="tag">#starling</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a><br>
<p>What would happen to your timeline if mastodon.social went away?</p><p>(Reposting my tool that helps you figure this out.)</p><p>mastodon.social is the biggest server on the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> , with over 21% of accounts, and an even higher percentage of <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> accounts.</p><p>But what does that mean to you, personally? Let's say it went away tomorrow - (assuming you aren't on it yourself), how much of your timeline would vanish?</p><p>In my case, it turns out - not a lot, actually! The biggest sources of posts that I see are (1) a very small instance that doesn't even federate with much of the Fediverse, but many of my friends are there, (2) my own instance, (3) a large tech-focused instance that is still much smaller than mastodon.social. The big guy is only 5% of the post I've seen recently.</p><p>But this might be different for you!</p><p>Find out for yourself at <a href="https://moderation-explorer.online/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>moderation-explorer.online/</a> . Use 'advanced mode' to see this analysis, since you need to log into see your actual feed.</p><p>You might even decide to try moving to an instance that you're more connected to?</p><p>(It's explained more on the site, but all the work happens in your browser, I don't see your identity, auth tokens, posts that get loaded, none of it.)</p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/117082499715551480" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/117082499715551480"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">caneandable.social/@WeirdWrite</span><span class="invisible">r/117082499715551480</span></a></p><p>People are giving up too easily. Indieweb protocols are both simple and beautiful. They are for techies right now, but we have to keep pushing to make them more widely accessible.</p><p><a href="https://khleedril.org/blog/2026-08-14--pro-indieweb.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="khleedril.org/blog/2026-08-14--pro-indieweb.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">khleedril.org/blog/2026-08-14-</span><span class="invisible">-pro-indieweb.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/indieweb/" rel="tag">#indieweb</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/webdev/" rel="tag">#webdev</a></p>
<p>Yay! Cleaned up a lot of my IFTTT postings, so I'll be using a *lot* more CW's moving forward, but I hope this makes the IFTTT postings easier to share. <a href="/tags/ifttt/" rel="tag">#IFTTT</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a></p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://mstdn.social/@rootsandcalluses/117087261918768609" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mstdn.social/@rootsandcalluses/117087261918768609"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.social/@rootsandcalluses</span><span class="invisible">/117087261918768609</span></a></p><p>This time, people may start asking themselves: Which organizations or projects can we actually trust? </p><p>And honestly, there is no easy answer when some so-called projects based in Uganda are turning out to be scams.</p><p>What a shame for those of us from Uganda who are genuinely trying to do good work.</p><p><a href="/tags/uganda/" rel="tag">#Uganda</a> <a href="/tags/africa/" rel="tag">#Africa</a> <a href="/tags/scam/" rel="tag">#scam</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a></p>
<p>Hi everyone,</p><p>We are aware of a Gaza Verified member who has made multiple other accounts and is sending what appear to be automated direct messages.</p><p>We have spoken to him and asked him to delete these accounts and stop the automated messages by end of today and to confirm that he understands that this behaviour damages the reputation of the hundreds of other Palestinians on Gaza Verified and Gaza Verified itself and to promise not to do so in the future.</p><p>We apologise if you’ve been contacted in this way. Our verification verifies that someone is a Palestinian from Gaza. It is not a character reference (we can no more vouch for the character of every Palestinian than we can for the character of every USian). However, we have rules clearly set in our guide (<a href="https://gaza-verified.org/guide" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gaza-verified.org/guide</a>) and these are there to protect the accounts of our friends from Gaza from being reported and thus limited/suspended.</p><p>So, please, if you need to mute or block an account, do so. If you’re a server admin and you notice mass automated messages, you’re well within your rights to limit or suspend an account but if it’s not automated, please contact us so we can talk to them and explain why what they’re doing isn’t in their long term interests. Many of you already do and I thank you for it.</p><p>Please also realise that there are hundreds of Palestinians who are Gaza verified and they are all suffering through genocide and many are watching their families starve or die due to lack of access to modern medicine (again, because Israel has bombed all the hospitals and doesn’t let aid through as part of its ongoing genocide).</p><p>In many Western countries, our governments are directly complicit and, many times, profiting from Israel’s genocide.</p><p>Whatever you do, please don’t judge the entirety of something by the actions of a few and please try and keep things – namely Internet etiquette and genocide – in perspective and ask yourselves what you would do if you were in their shoes.</p><p><a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/gazaverified/" rel="tag">#GazaVerified</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a></p>
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<p>Week in Fediverse 2026-08-14</p><p>Servers</p><p>- <a href="https://meta.akkoma.dev/t/akkoma-stable-2026-08-searching-for-rubies/951" rel="nofollow">Akkoma v2026.08</a><br>- <a href="https://blog.writefreely.org/version-0-17-2" rel="nofollow">WriteFreely v0.17.2</a><br>- <a href="https://codeberg.org/wafrn/wafrn/releases/tag/2026.08.03" rel="nofollow">Wafrn v2026.08.03</a><br>- <a href="https://mitra.social/objects/019ff184-17c2-72a2-9c84-fcb897cedd25" rel="nofollow">Mitra v5.9.0</a><br>- <a href="https://epiktistes.com/ktistec/release/3.11.0" rel="nofollow">Ktistec v3.11.0</a><br>- <a href="https://github.com/fedify-dev/hollo/releases/tag/0.9.11" rel="nofollow">Hollo v0.9.11</a><br>- <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.6" rel="nofollow">Mastodon v4.6.6</a><br>- <a href="https://forum.statler.ws/item/89800083-fb12-4a07-8abc-ae5592b40406" rel="nofollow">Forte v26.8.11</a><br>- <a href="https://github.com/lowercasename/gathio/releases/tag/v1.6.4" rel="nofollow">gathio v1.6.4</a><br>- <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/9.2.2" rel="nofollow">ActivityPub for WordPress v9.2.2</a><br>- <a href="https://github.com/neodb-social/neodb/releases/tag/0.17.6" rel="nofollow">NeoDB v0.17.6</a><br>- <a href="https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/releases/tag/v4.15.0" rel="nofollow">NodeBB v4.15.0</a><br>- <a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/trunk-tidbits-july-2026/" rel="nofollow">Trunk & Tidbits, July 2026</a> (Mastodon)</p><p>Clients</p><p>- <a href="https://github.com/poppingmoon/aria/releases/tag/v1.5.11" rel="nofollow">Aria v1.5.11</a><br>- <a href="https://github.com/ihateblueb/snowdrop" rel="nofollow">Snowdrop: Multiplatform client for Mastodon API compatable Fediverse software</a></p><p>Tools and Plugins</p><p>- <a href="https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/releases/tag/v8.1.1" rel="nofollow">FediFetcher v9.1.1</a></p><p>For developers</p><p>- <a href="https://gitlab.com/fedipub/fedipub/-/blob/v0.9.0/CHANGELOG.md" rel="nofollow">Fedipub v0.9.0</a><br>- <a href="https://marius.federated.id/posts/2026/august/progress-report-6ish" rel="nofollow">Library progress report - August 2026</a> (GoActivityPub)</p><p>Protocol</p><p>- <a href="https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/e4de/" rel="nofollow">FEP-e4de: Closing Registration on Unattended Servers</a><br>- <a href="https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/633c/" rel="nofollow">FEP-633c: Guardians</a></p><p>Articles</p><p>- <a href="https://vernissage.photos/news/7671702156419795339" rel="nofollow">Deploying your own Vernissage instance</a></p><p>-----</p><p><a href="/tags/weekinfediverse/" rel="tag">#WeekInFediverse</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a></p><p>Previous edition: <a href="https://mitra.social/objects/019fde3b-670e-7793-9180-6d8d0ddca40a" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mitra.social/objects/019fde3b-670e-7793-9180-6d8d0ddca40a"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mitra.social/objects/019fde3b-</span><span class="invisible">670e-7793-9180-6d8d0ddca40a</span></a></p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/117095740060037054" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="toot.fedilab.app/@apps/117095740060037054"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">toot.fedilab.app/@apps/1170957</span><span class="invisible">40060037054</span></a></p><p>Tom, the creator of <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>apps</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>HolosSocial</span></a></span> has started a new project:<br>It's called Fedihood<br><a href="https://FediHood.social" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>FediHood.social</a> </p><p>It connects people by location, and topic, so you can find people near you by topic.</p><p>You can find me there too: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedihood.social/@joergi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joergi</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#feDIVERSE</a> <a href="/tags/fedihood/" rel="tag">#fedihood</a> <a href="/tags/fedi/" rel="tag">#fedi</a> <a href="/tags/holosocial/" rel="tag">#HoloSocial</a> <a href="/tags/fedilab/" rel="tag">#fedilab</a></p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@riverbirchtree/117099674446276439" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@riverbirchtree/117099674446276439"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@riverbirchtre</span><span class="invisible">e/117099674446276439</span></a></p><p>You made it possible for <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@joynewacc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joynewacc</span></a></span> to leave Gaza and study in Milan. Now you have the chance to reunite her with her sister.</p><p>What do you say, Fediverse?</p><p><a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> <a href="/tags/gazaverified/" rel="tag">#GazaVerified</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a></p>
<p>Being active on the Fediverse always reminds me that the world never stops. </p><p>Whenever I drop in, there is always a friend to connect with somewhere that is waking up, having a break from work or just relaxing after dinner. </p><p>This chance to connect with anyone, anytime and anywhere just blows me away.</p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/gratitude/" rel="tag">#gratitude</a></p>
<p>„If the Social Web isn't just for nerds, why are we saying stuff like this to newcomers:</p><p>Okay, so the fediverse is like, a bunch of interconnected servers, all talking to each other. They all use the same open protocol, so the whole network is interoperable, and anybody can self-host their own new server whenever they want. You can get on the fediverse through any server. We call these servers »instances«. If you wanna join fedi, you can just go to this website and pick an instance to sign up through. All the instances are referred to by names like mastodon.social, because we like to use domain names for some reason.</p><p>(...)</p><p>We must keep this in mind when trying to sell the Social Web to people. Normal people don't know what »federated« means — they didn't watch Star Trek, they just think you're a cop. Normal people really don't know what a protocol is, or what interoperability means. Stop talking like this. I also don't know why we're using the word »instance« to refer to servers. Server is literally easier to understand even for tech people. Even better than server would be »site«, which is the terminology that I tend to use.</p><p>Here's a better explanation of the Social Web that actually communicates the idea to a normal person:</p><p>The Social Web is like social media away from Big Tech. Instead of being a walled garden where you're trapped, the Social Web is like a bunch of different social media websites connected together. You can pick any site to sign up with, and then you can follow people who signed up on other sites too, so it kind of forms one big network, or online space. If you wanna sign up, you can make a Mastodon account (Mastodon is like, one of the categories/types of sites on the Social Web) at this website. You can use the default option, or pick a different »instance« (site) if you want, too. It doesn't really matter which site you decide to sign up with, since you can always change your mind and move to a different one later.“</p><p>Interesting text, via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WeirdWriter</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://riverseeber.net/blog/post/a-reasonable-analysis-of-the-social-web/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="riverseeber.net/blog/post/a-reasonable-analysis-of-the-social-web/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">riverseeber.net/blog/post/a-re</span><span class="invisible">asonable-analysis-of-the-social-web/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/opensocialweb/" rel="tag">#OpenSocialWeb</a> <a href="/tags/nontechies/" rel="tag">#NonTechies</a></p>
<p>Puca with my new pedal </p><p><a href="/tags/caturday/" rel="tag">#caturday</a> <a href="/tags/cat/" rel="tag">#cat</a> <a href="/tags/cats/" rel="tag">#cats</a> <a href="/tags/catsoffedi/" rel="tag">#catsoffedi</a> <a href="/tags/meow/" rel="tag">#meow</a> <a href="/tags/kitty/" rel="tag">#kitty</a> <a href="/tags/kitten/" rel="tag">#kitten</a> <a href="/tags/furry/" rel="tag">#furry</a> <a href="/tags/pets/" rel="tag">#pets</a> <a href="/tags/fedi/" rel="tag">#fedi</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/samedichat/" rel="tag">#SamediChat</a> <a href="/tags/chat/" rel="tag">#chat</a> <a href="/tags/chats/" rel="tag">#chats</a> <a href="/tags/miaou/" rel="tag">#miaou</a> <a href="/tags/minou/" rel="tag">#minou</a> <a href="/tags/chaton/" rel="tag">#chaton</a> <a href="/tags/animaux/" rel="tag">#animaux</a></p>
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<p>Mode chat</p><p><a href="/tags/caturday/" rel="tag">#caturday</a> <a href="/tags/cat/" rel="tag">#cat</a> <a href="/tags/cats/" rel="tag">#cats</a> <a href="/tags/catsoffedi/" rel="tag">#catsoffedi</a> <a href="/tags/meow/" rel="tag">#meow</a> <a href="/tags/kitty/" rel="tag">#kitty</a> <a href="/tags/kitten/" rel="tag">#kitten</a> <a href="/tags/furry/" rel="tag">#furry</a> <a href="/tags/pets/" rel="tag">#pets</a> <a href="/tags/fedi/" rel="tag">#fedi</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/samedichat/" rel="tag">#SamediChat</a> <a href="/tags/chat/" rel="tag">#chat</a> <a href="/tags/chats/" rel="tag">#chats</a> <a href="/tags/miaou/" rel="tag">#miaou</a> <a href="/tags/minou/" rel="tag">#minou</a> <a href="/tags/chaton/" rel="tag">#chaton</a> <a href="/tags/animaux/" rel="tag">#animaux</a></p>
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<p>PAULINE HANSON’S TALENT:<br>TURNING FEAR INTO VOTES 💎</p><p>I watched a YouTube video today called: Why Did America Choose a White Supremacist for President?</p><p>What struck me was not simply what it said about America. It was what it might be saying about us.</p><p>America did not suddenly wake up one morning and become Trumpist. The ground was prepared. People were genuinely struggling. Housing was difficult. Wages were inadequate. Communities were changing. People were frightened, angry and increasingly distrustful of institutions.</p><p>Then along came a political movement with a wonderfully simple explanation: YOUR LIFE IS HARD BECAUSE OF THOSE PEOPLE.</p><p>Immigrants. Black people. Muslims. Women. Queer people. “Woke” people. Elites. Foreigners. Anyone except the economic and political systems that are actually producing much of the insecurity.</p><p>That is the bit Australians should be watching.</p><p>Because our problems are real too. Housing really is unaffordable. People are really struggling with food, electricity, and rent. Young people really are wondering whether they will ever own a home. Regional communities really do feel neglected.</p><p>And when people are frightened and angry, there is enormous political power in giving them somebody to blame.</p><p>One Nation understands this. Pauline Hanson is now talking about a “monocultural” Australia. One Nation talks about putting “Australians first” and increasingly presents immigration and multiculturalism as explanations for problems Australians can see and feel every day.</p><p>And people are listening.</p><p>One Nation is no longer some amusing little protest party on the edge of Australian politics. Recent polling has put it at roughly a quarter or more of the national primary vote.</p><p>That should get our attention.</p><p>But there is an even greater danger. Trumpism is not really a political party. It is a political method.</p><p>Create grievance. Find an enemy. Tell people their country has been stolen from them. Promise to give it back. Attack institutions that get in the way. Keep people angry enough that they stop asking who is actually benefiting.</p><p>One Nation may currently be the most obvious Australian vehicle for that politics. But if Labor or the Coalition begin copying it because they are frightened of losing votes, the infection spreads far beyond One Nation.</p><p>Australia is not America. Our history is different. Our institutions are different. Our political culture is different.</p><p>But we are not magically immune to fear, racism, resentment or demagoguery.</p><p>America should not simply be something we stare at in disbelief. It should be a warning.</p><p>This stuff does not arrive wearing a sign saying:</p><p>FASCISM STARTS MONDAY.</p><p>It arrives saying:</p><p>I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU’RE ANGRY.</p><p>And then it quietly tells you who to hate.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@DigitalCoup" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DigitalCoup</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>economics_that_works</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@meditation" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>meditation</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/QRvjkt9p_eI?si=59Oo8P7Pk4dUL4FT" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="youtu.be/QRvjkt9p_eI?si=59Oo8P7Pk4dUL4FT"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/QRvjkt9p_eI?si=59Oo8P</span><span class="invisible">7Pk4dUL4FT</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/australia/" rel="tag">#Australia</a> <a href="/tags/onenation/" rel="tag">#OneNation</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/openweb/" rel="tag">#OpenWeb</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="/tags/paulinehanson/" rel="tag">#PaulineHanson</a> <a href="/tags/trumpism/" rel="tag">#Trumpism</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#Democracy</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/people/" rel="tag">#people</a> <a href="/tags/anger/" rel="tag">#anger</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#FASCISM</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/youtube/" rel="tag">#YouTube</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#Economics</a> <a href="/tags/housing/" rel="tag">#Housing</a> <a href="/tags/costofliving/" rel="tag">#CostOfLiving</a> <a href="/tags/meditation/" rel="tag">#Meditation</a> <a href="/tags/breathwork/" rel="tag">#Breathwork</a></p>
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<p>YOU’RE LOOKING<br>AT THE WRONG PARTS 💎</p><p>I sometimes wonder what people imagine is going on inside the life of someone with a visible disability.</p><p>I walk very strangely. My left arm doesn’t work at all. My hand is contracted into a claw. I do everything one-handed, and that clearly wasn’t covered in this model’s original operating instructions.</p><p>From the outside, I suspect it can look like a life dominated by disability.</p><p>“Poor bugger.” “What a tragedy.” “Everything must be so difficult?”</p><p>Meanwhile, inside my actual life, I’m usually wondering whether the coffee is ready, what ridiculous thing I can write on Mastodon, whether the dogs have been fed, or why everyone on the internet has suddenly gone mad again.</p><p>The disability is there, obviously. I cannot drive, and there are many things I cannot do unaided. Other things just take longer, because much of the world appears to have been designed by someone who assumed every human comes with two fully operational hands.</p><p>And most people are remarkably unhelpful.</p><p>That sounds like a complaint, but it has an unexpected benefit. If you’re disabled, you become bloody good at finding another way. You have to.</p><p>Eventually, you stop wondering how something is supposed to be done and work out how you can do it.</p><p>That doesn’t make accessibility unnecessary. Quite the opposite. But disabled people often become extremely skilled at adapting because the world gives us plenty of practice.</p><p>Disability is not the central event of my consciousness.</p><p>I don’t wake up thinking, “Good morning. I am disabled.”</p><p>I wake up thinking, “Coffee.”</p><p>Most of the time, I’m not experiencing myself as a tragic medical story. I’m just living.</p><p>I’ve had decades to become extremely competent at being this particular slightly damaged model of human being. Sometimes other people seem considerably more concerned about my disability than I am.</p><p>It’s sweet.</p><p>But unnecessary.</p><p>The odd thing about a visible disability is that people often see what doesn’t work before they notice the enormous amount that does.</p><p>And from inside here?</p><p>It’s mostly just Friday.<br>_____________________</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@DigitalCoup" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DigitalCoup</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/openweb/" rel="tag">#OpenWeb</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>economics_that_works</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#Economics</a> <a href="/tags/housing/" rel="tag">#Housing</a> <a href="/tags/costofliving/" rel="tag">#CostOfLiving</a><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@meditation" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>meditation</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/meditation/" rel="tag">#Meditation</a> <a href="/tags/breathwork/" rel="tag">#Breathwork</a></p><p><a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#Disability</a> <a href="/tags/disabledlife/" rel="tag">#DisabledLife</a> <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#Accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/hemiplegia/" rel="tag">#Hemiplegia</a> <a href="/tags/stroke/" rel="tag">#Stroke</a> <a href="/tags/life/" rel="tag">#Life</a> <a href="/tags/coffee/" rel="tag">#coffee</a> <a href="/tags/human/" rel="tag">#human</a> <a href="/tags/medical/" rel="tag">#medical</a> <a href="/tags/instructions/" rel="tag">#instructions</a> <a href="/tags/tragedy/" rel="tag">#tragedy</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a></p>
<p>DEATH, GOD, & <br>A VERY SMALL SPIDER 💎</p><p>I am increasingly aware that I will leave this world. I don’t know when. I don’t know how. Perhaps within the next decade. Perhaps sooner. Who knows.</p><p>And strangely, there is less fear in that now. Most of the fear seems to belong to what I imagine is unknown.</p><p>If death is simply the end of Robin and the end of this consciousness, then there will be nobody there to be bothered by it. It will simply be over. And if there is something beyond this life, another realm, another dimension, another form of consciousness, then I suppose I will recognise it when I get there.</p><p>I don’t know. And I am quite happy not knowing.</p><p>Human beings have created manifold books, religions and pictures of God, spirit, heaven, continuation and eternity. Perhaps some of them point towards something true. Perhaps some are simply beautiful ways of comforting ourselves in the face of death.</p><p>But every picture I can make of what comes next is still a picture being made here.</p><p>I don’t want to manufacture comfort. I want clarity. I want to meet whatever happens without having already decided what it is supposed to look like.</p><p>Maybe there is something. Maybe there is nothing. Either way, reality does not require my opinion.</p><p>And while I am sitting here contemplating this enormous mystery, a tiny spider appears beside me. He is absurdly small. I stop, look at him, laugh, and decide he can stay.</p><p>And suddenly, there it all is. Death. Consciousness. God. Eternity. And a tiny spider wandering across my morning.</p><p>The fire is on. The coffee is good. People are interacting with things I have written. The spider is minding his own business.</p><p>Life has not stopped being ordinary just because I know it ends. I rather like that.</p><p>None of it means anything until I give it meaning. And this morning, the meaning I choose is very simple.</p><p>Gratitude.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@DigitalCoup" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DigitalCoup</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>economics_that_works</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@meditation" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>meditation</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@3goodthings" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>3goodthings</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/death/" rel="tag">#death</a> <a href="/tags/mortality/" rel="tag">#mortality</a> <a href="/tags/afterlife/" rel="tag">#afterlife</a> <a href="/tags/consciousness/" rel="tag">#consciousness</a> <a href="/tags/spirituality/" rel="tag">#spirituality</a> <a href="/tags/acim/" rel="tag">#ACIM</a> <a href="/tags/clarity/" rel="tag">#clarity</a> <a href="/tags/gratitude/" rel="tag">#gratitude</a> <a href="/tags/presence/" rel="tag">#presence</a> <a href="/tags/ordinarylife/" rel="tag">#ordinarylife</a> <a href="/tags/mystery/" rel="tag">#mystery</a> <a href="/tags/life/" rel="tag">#life</a> <a href="/tags/openweb/" rel="tag">#openweb</a> <a href="/tags/human/" rel="tag">#human</a> <a href="/tags/person/" rel="tag">#person</a> <a href="/tags/spider/" rel="tag">#spider</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#Economics</a> <a href="/tags/housing/" rel="tag">#Housing</a> <a href="/tags/costofliving/" rel="tag">#CostOfLiving</a>
<a href="/tags/meditation/" rel="tag">#Meditation</a> <a href="/tags/breathwork/" rel="tag">#Breathwork</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/openweb/" rel="tag">#OpenWeb</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a></p>
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<p>FediSuite - Your Fediverse Management Platform</p><p>Version 1.6.2 released!</p><p>Changes</p><p>The list of posts written in FediSuite is now split and switchable via button tabs between: Scheduled Posts, Published Posts, and Failed Posts. Each of these lists can be filtered.<br>Collapsing the sidebar previously hid the submenu under "Admin Area." This has been fixed.</p><p>Version 1.6.1 already brought a complete redesign of FediSuite.</p><p>If you like FediSuite and think this project deserves a bit of support, feel free to show it with toots and boosts across the Fediverse! Of course, there's also the option of financial support. Just use the yellow buttons in the FediSuite app or on the FediSuite website! Thank you very much!</p><p>--> <a href="https://www.fedisuite.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.fedisuite.com</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fsfe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fsfe</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/fedisuite/" rel="tag">#fedisuite</a> <a href="/tags/newversion/" rel="tag">#newversion</a> <a href="/tags/newrelease/" rel="tag">#newrelease</a> <a href="/tags/redesign/" rel="tag">#redesign</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/friendica/" rel="tag">#friendica</a> <a href="/tags/pixelfed/" rel="tag">#pixelfed</a> <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#peertube</a> <a href="/tags/loops/" rel="tag">#loops</a> <a href="/tags/misskey/" rel="tag">#misskey</a> <a href="/tags/bizzfed/" rel="tag">#bizzfed</a> <a href="/tags/vernissage/" rel="tag">#vernissage</a> <a href="/tags/fsfe/" rel="tag">#fsfe</a></p>
<p>Hello fellow members of the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> via <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a></p><p>I've got two <a href="/tags/youtube/" rel="tag">#YouTube</a> shorts for you to partake upon in order to support <a href="/tags/mutualaidefforts/" rel="tag">#MutualAidEfforts</a></p><p>1st my friend Romane (I mispronounced their name, forgive me) who is food insecure while trying to build funds to get out of a toxic environment</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CatC9D9BUuo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/shorts/CatC9D9BUuo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/shorts/CatC9D9</span><span class="invisible">BUuo</span></a></p><p>2nd is for me a caretaker facing housing insecurity and food insecurity</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qjt7zxSma40" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/shorts/Qjt7zxSma40"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/shorts/Qjt7zxS</span><span class="invisible">ma40</span></a></p><p>Pls engage as able and if you can contribute otherwise pls do</p>