mastodon
Deliberately friend-sized and friend-shaped, with a soft surface material and soft, squishy stuffing, you will soon be able to have a #Mastodon in your home:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-stuffed-toy-coming-soon/
Catfriends are happy to back at their spot ♥️ I'm glad it ddnt rain even if the clouds are so dark & kind of windy 🥺🙏🏼
Please Need a little kindness & help for some food & cat kibbles 😭😢🙏🏼 
I appreciate it alot thank you everyone.
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#Mastodon #Fediverse #kindnessmatters #today #boost #toot #Caturday #silentsunday #sunday #CatsOfMastodon #Cats
There is a language general setting where you can define which languages you want to read primarily in #Mastodon.
The problem is: nobody cares! Nobody seems to set up their account properly and tell which language they are using.
The result: the language filter doesn't work, and the stream is crowded with so many people writing in languages one can't read.
I am looking at you, east-asian accounts flooding the #fediverse!
It's no fun at all ...
Enquete: #Mastodon deve suportar #EmojiReact? 
Responda "Sim" se acha que já demorou: Mastodon deveria seguir o que #Pleroma / #Akkoma, #Misskey etc. já fazem há tempos. O #Fediverso não é apenas Mastodon.
Responda "Não" se considera que curtir/marcar como favorito ⭐️ já está bom demais e não se importa com continuar a sequer ficar sabendo quando alguém reage com emoji a uma publicação sua.
Options: (choose one)
There are some things that folk used to running #Mastodon might not like. For example it does not show any follower or following numbers to any instances. So people using Mastodon will see 0 followers and 0 following even though those Snac uses may have 100's of followers .
You do get a people tab on the snac interface that is just a list divided into people following you and people you follow but no numbers. This is an intentional design feature by the author @grunfink who stated.
I haven't implemented a simple count of following / followers on purpose; I consider all metrics in network media inherently toxic, because it's a way of comparing the relative success of people. This is also why, as seen from other Fediverse implementations, snac accounts always report 0 / 0 connections.
https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
Alright, I am loving these new Thank You emails for donating to Mastodon. Each one so far has come with a cute little art piece with some mastodon mascots running around.
Donate a few bucks and you can see them, too. :)
In case you missed it, there's a website that makes it as easy as possible to join Mastodon (and other Fedi platforms):
The featured general server changes regularly, and for people who want choice there's a full list of over 100 servers sorted into categories.
All of the servers are listed with permission of their admins, and promise to comply with specific standards of moderation and technical reliability at https://fedi.garden/about-this-site
For once, in an article looking at alternatives to Big Tech the Guardian has acknowledge (and indeed given a half a paragraph to) Mastodon....
Its not the greatest write up but might encourage some more people to join us...
Donphan.social is a Glitch Mastodon server which welcomes enthusiasts of the Pokémon franchise, to talk about it or anything else. Join the federation!
This server has been online since 2018.
You can find out more at https://donphan.social/about or contact the admin account @Siphonay
#FeaturedServer #Pokémon #PocketMonsters #Nintendo #GameFreak #GlitchMastodon #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Wow I accidentally found a mastodon client that can render quotes correctly...
It's Pachli
Other major popular ones haven't been updated to support this. But Pachli seems to be updated pretty frequently lately.
Alaskan.Social is an independent Mastodon server created, moderated and owned by Alaskans:
You can find out more at https://alaskan.social/about or contact the admin account @moderators
cc @alaska
#FeaturedServer #Alaska #Anchorage #Fairbanks #Juneau #AK #Alaskan #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
How to use Mastodon. My experiences so far. Aimed at noobies.
"So if you think a post is interesting or valuable in some way, or silly or stupid, you boost it"
#Mastodon
First things first. Friendica is awesome. It is the everything and the kitchen sink of the Fediverse and does a lot of things right. The only downside I see is the reason why I am looking for an alterantive though. Over time it has become harder and harder to host Friendica on my vserver with 8GB of RAM. I could of course opt for a bigger server, but honestly I am only using a fraction of Friendica's features and would prefer something less demanding.
Snac is lightweight, easiy to install, uses no database and does not even require coockies or Javascript in its Web-UI. I mean, how cool ist that!
Compared to Friendica, its featureset is basic at best. But compared to other Fediverse tools like #mastodon it does not fare so bad. But how usable is it as an alternative to my peronal Friendica use.
The good stuff
Setup is really easy for anyone who has self-hosted any services before. The documentation in manpage format might be old school but it is very complete - read it. If you're on Debian you can even use the package from trixie-backports which is kept very current!
It shows the timeline chronologically but with nested threads. This is the only way that makes sense to me and is exactly what I use in Friendica (where different settings are available). This means every new activity on a thread brings it up again (partly collapsed) so you always see the necessary context to follow conversations. For me this is the most important feature, I would not even have continued testing without it. Snac just does it right!
It has the looks! Well at least after applying some stylesheets. Calling the vanilla install basic would already be an overstatement. But have a look at the styles that are linked from snac's Reaedme. I chose the next.css style and have attached an image of how it looks below. The screenshot is from an Android phone and this works remarkably well, even on mobile (some caveats below)!
It's compatible with Mastodon apps. I have only tested #Fedilab because I use it for other stuff too. Everything just works as expected. Although I have to admit, I like the native Web-UI (next.css) even more.
Long Text with Markdown formatting. 500 character per Toot - No thank you, I am not chatting here!
What is missing (or is it?)
There is only the timeline and you can follow Hashtags, that's it. No Channels, no groups, no theme-specific timelines. But honestly, I did not use any of that on Friendica, mainly for performance reasons. So this is a non-issue for me personally.
Following RSS feeds. This feature I will really miss. In Friendica I could direclty follow Feeds and interact with them from my timeline exactly like with ActivityPub Notes or Articles. I will have to use an external translation service or write my own for that (having written an ActivityPub related tool with tootgroup.py before.)
Message formatting is somewhat less flexible but this post shows what is possible still. Sometimes I like to put images in between paragraphs but not having that is also not a big deal.
Event Calendar. This is not a feature I expect Snac to support but I do use it on Friendica and will have to think about how to replace it.
What could be improved
I love that snac works without Javascript and cookies - that's exactly how I still build my webpages. But there is one usecase where a bit of one or the other would make life much easier - when using the Web-UI on mobile platforms.I have already stated how great the mobile experience is when using the next.css stylesheet. The only downside is that I have to login with username/password again and again, every time the mobile browser is sent to sleep by Android.
Optionally enabling the use of a login cookie would make life much easier. Even better would be enabling Snac to be installed as a Progressive Web App, but I have to admit, I'm not sure how hard or feasible this would be.
Overall, I do not see many shortcomings with Snac. Obviously it offers less features than Friendica, but what it does, it does very well and at least in my view, the important stuff is exactly where it needs to be.
Conclusion
I am pretty impressed with snac. I'll be running my test server for a little bit longer but I do expect replace my Friendica install in the not too distant future.Adding grunfink@comam.es because maybe you're interested. Please don't treat this as a feature-request or even critizism. It's mostly meant as info for people who have not tried snac yet.
Finally, looks like the issue with Mastodon frequently crashing when you open your notifications was fixed.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/issues/919
If anyone else has been having this problem, be sure to update, or reinstall, if you gave up on the app!
Lgbtqia.space is a cute Mastodon server for all LGBTQIA ppl out there that want a caring and safe environment. If you are part of the LGBTQIA community you are very cordially invited to join this server.
You can find out more at https://lgbtqia.space/about or contact the admin account @mcp
#FeaturedServer #LGBTQIA #LGBT #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
We barely got $300 last week in 7 days, and got the funds last minute everyday since Sat to cover a day at a time
We have 4 hrs as of posting this to raise $655 for the week
This is an #urgent #ongoing #MutualAid need
Please #Mastodon help me survive #Poverty I haven't been well enough to self advocate and tried helping others instead
This is where it's landed me because of the hurricanes
No Food, No help
https://ko-fi.com/sabilewsounds/goal
@MutualAidNet @mutualaid @disability @MutualAidVisibility
I refused to join Bluesky and Threads because unlike Mastodon, they are operated by for-profit entities.
Bluesky was founded by Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter and advocated for Muskrat to buy it.
Threads is a Meta company.
No. Way. In. Hell. was I signing up.
I've never regretted joining Mastodon in the years since I left Twitter.
I've had more meaningful engagement here than I ever did after spending over 12 years on the bird site.
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?
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#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers
Hey #39C3!
Tomorrow, Day 3, 14:00, I will spontaneously be hosting a session in the @cbase Fediverse Assembly on “Lessons from a Public University: Bringing Institutions into the Fediverse” and sharing my experiences from the step-by-step approach at the University of Innsbruck, where we have a Mastodon Instance on our servers, SSO-connected, based on a general strategic approach towards open plattforms.
Happy to see a lot of Fediverse fighters!
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/de/event/detail/lessons-from-a-public-university-bringing-institut
To my followers here, a note of both sincere gratitude and apology for my protracted silence. As I posted on May 3 (see the link below), out of the blue and with no notice or explanation from this Mastodon instance, on May 3, I received a spate of notifications that multiple postings of mine had been removed.
This happened on the eve of a trip I was making to see a friend I hadn't seen in eight years.