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/
mastodon
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.
https://www.
paypal.com/paypalme/nekoow77
#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)
So I've been running my own #Snac instance for the past week and I have to say that I'm actually loving it. It hardly takes up any resources and the inbuilt web interface is easily configurable with nothing more than #CSS .
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.
https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
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.Also not all features work with android / iOS apps but most of the essentials do. I occasionally use #Tusky when I'm not just using the web interface for Snac which I just find easier. I think I will be staying with this fantastic lightweight piece of software and look forward to see what new features get added in the future. A wish would be to have a way of importing followers from Mastodon to Snac, which I think the dev is working on at the moment. Oh and I nearly forgot to say that you can import the CSV file of people that you are following through the command line and it's fairly simple to do too. I'd 100% recommended giving Snac a try if you're looking for a no nonsene lightweight #Fediverse instance.
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
(o meme "this is fine"). Porém, não vão ficar sabendo disso.
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...
Immer noch relativ #NeuHier im #fediverse / #mastodon . Schon paar Jahrzehnte auf diesem Planeten aber versteht immer noch nicht was die hier herrschende Spezies eigentlich für'n Problem hat.
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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
I wonder what the situation is with #Mastodon apps for #Android these days. At one point, the official app was very bare bones, and folks recommended using #Moshidon or #Megalodon for better access to the full Mastodon experience. Is it the same still?
I have been using Moshidon for a while now, and I used to run Tusky. Having checked the last update, Moshidon got updated last summer, the official app a few days ago, and Tusky in September.
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
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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
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I've been testing #snac2 for a few days now, more specificly I want to see if it can replace my #friendica installation that I have been using since 2019. This will be a somewhat longer piece that is also meant to see how Snac copes with longer Markdown formatted text.
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.
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.
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.
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.
⚠️ Threadsフェディバース共有開始注意 ⚠️
ThreadsからはホームTLにて、フォローしたマストドンアカウントの投稿が出てこず!!
そのフォローしているマストドンIDのページに行くと、投稿が見れる（画像）。
その逆、マストドンからはホームTLにフォローしたThreads IDの投稿が出る。
これはThreadsが意図的に行った作り。
正直、悪意に満ちていると思った。
Threads民に、「こうやってつながったから」と改めてマストドンを勧めるにも、マストドンはThreads TLに反映されないという不便な印象を与えているため、難しい。現状、あまりフェディバース共有開始を語るべからず。
進化に期待。
#threads共有 #threads #フェディバース #fediverse #マストドン #mastodon #マストドン宣伝隊
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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
This is a test post to see if #BridgyFed is showing my posts to #Bluesky properly. In lieu of native federation between #Mastodon and Bluesky, this might be pretty cool, if it works as advertised.
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.