mastodon

#mastodon how the hell do I get my website link to be verified? I have tried following the instructions properly. But it simply doesn't look green like it does for others! Please help me.

An open scrollable feed of fediverse hashtags I find interesting that are visible from my fedi instance https://fedi.txw.ca/feed/

#fediverse #mastodon #akkoma

I learned that the default #mastodon collection limit is 10 and that as admin you can change it by editing roles.

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I enjoy watching these movies vicariously through the #Monsterdon toots. Backbone of the #mastodon.

I think the only #Fediverse apps that could comply with age verification laws (as they have the tools available) are #Threads & #WordPress (I believe commercial plugins are available for the latter).

Age verification tech is best handled by experienced third-party apps (for security reasons), but #Mississippi does not understand the risk & cost factors for complying with their law.

👉🏾 #Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws/

adding a copy #mastodon collection feature

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I know VPNs exist, but if there was an option in the Mastodon admin interface to only allow new users to register if they have an IP-address that resolves to Norway... that would get rid of 99% of spam sign-ups and I would probably open registration (as opposed to requiring approval).

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #Administrators #Allheimen #Fediverse #Norway #Norge #MastodonFeedback

1/n OK about to start dipping my toes into the world of #selfhosting.

Reasons.
My disappointment with the new #Mastodon web UI just reminds me of the many issues of using the "cloud", that is having your stuff on someone else's server.

My disappointment with those working on the new UI sound just like any other UX developer in a big oligarch owned company who are not going to go back or not make any significant improvements to their beloved concept.

Time to jump ship?

With the latest #Mastodon update hopefully the spam waves will stop

Accounts that haven't been used in some time and want to login get an email confirm first

This should alert people with taken over accounts

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.4

Happy Almost-ween🎃
#WatchPartyCalendar
Oct 22-29 #Mastodon / #Fediverse

📅details/updates: http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties

HIATUS:
#Comedon till 11/15

NEW(ish):
#SatMat w/ @analgesicsleep 🧛🏻

#SusansCinemaStash spooky films (Sun) 📺 w/ @GrillChill

#WickedWed 👻 w/ @kamikat

#anime #scifi #mystery #horror #westerns #Action #comedy #music #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon

Thx o hosts!🧟 @Taweret @MirrorAyako @hyde @LisaMarieBowman @lilymarswrites @AlsoPaisleyCat @klu9 @rsmon77 @MatthewTitus88 @JanineFromPgh

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Das Fediverse ist größer als Mastodon - Teaser zum Talk auf der nook am 20. Novmeber 2026

Am 20. November 2026, ab 21:15 Uhr halte ich einen Vortrag zum Thema "Das #Fediverse ist mehr als #Mastodon - 3 Fediverse-Projekte, von denen ihr vermutlich noch nicht gehört habt". In meinem kleinen Teaser kündige ich an, was wir zusammen besprechen werden. Schaut gern rein und bei der @nook in #Lübeck vorbei.

https://video.dresden.network/w/dizSDxosbq3VaSKE52iEvJ

#PeerTube #Castopod #Bookwyrm #nook26 #nook2026

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RE: https://cyberplace.social/@notkawaii_irl/117473648700323363

Hello🫂👋🏼Sorry_for_reposting_this_again🥺Incase_others_have_missed_my_post,but_first_THANK_Ü_to
everyone_boosted_and_reached_out_their_kind_thoughts🫶U_guys_are_amazing💗
UPDATE:Water_slowly_working.
Still_No_Electricity_but_some_areas_already_have.
Just_gotta_wait_when_our_area_will.Pls_kindly_boost_and
read_my_post/note.It_helps_with_visibility.Thank_you_truly🫂

paypal📨claviix44@zohomail.com

#MutualAidRequest
#communitysupport
#helpinghand
#Philippines
#mastodon
#fediverse

A shout-out to the developers behind https://columnly.social! especially @dansup ❤️
It’s great to see people building and contributing to the Fediverse. Every independent project adds to the diversity of our social web and reminds us that the internet can be shaped by communities, creativity, and collaboration; not just big corporations.
Thank you to everyone who puts their time and skills into building a more open social web. Your work matters!
#Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenSource #IndieWeb #FOSS

24 days without any support for my family.
We can no longer afford to meet even our most basic daily needs.
We need you, our friends, to please support my family.
The least you can do is quote my posts and share them again, hoping they reach someone who can ease our suffering and offer us support.
#gazaverified #mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #freepalestine #trump #gazahelp #mastodon @peopleunitedbehavioralhealth
#gaza #genocide #palestine #iran
@aral
https://chuffed.org/project/179868-help-baraa-age-14-survive-study-again-in-gaza

Are you looking for a Mastodon/Fediverse server to join or move to that has a long track record of being online? You can find a human-curated list of good, reliable servers sorted by year of founding at:

https://fedi.garden/servers-sorted-by-founding-year

All of the servers listed are compatible with the seven points at https://fedi.garden/about-this-site

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Introducing Iconfactory Tapestry 2. Reply, quote and even post directly to Mastodon and Bluesky from Tapestry! Attach photos & videos to your posts, create polls, hashtags, an improved Mac app and so much more.

This is the update you've wanted from day one. Free to try, learn all about it.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2026/09/iconfactory-tapestry-2-0-what-youve-always-wanted/

#TapestryApp #Fediverse #OpenWeb #Bluesky #Mastodon

The wait is over*—The #Mastodon stuffed toy is now available for purchase in the EU! Other regions to come later. Share your pictures with the #Plushtodon hashtag!

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-plushie

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I cannot get over how bad the new #Mastodon UI is. I was quite positive on the mockups they shared previously and do like the fact that the compose window is floating and so I can see the post that I’m replying to. Except I can’t move or resize it. And, when I type a lot, the text field doesn’t get a scroll bar, it just pushes the top of the popup off the screen.

But it took me several minutes yesterday to find the reply button. That is not an exaggeration. Why? Two reasons:

First, I have been using Internet-connected computers now for over 30 years. In that time, almost everything I’ve used that has a ‘reply’ button (including the previous version of the Mastodon web UI) has used some variant of an arrow to the left to mark the reply button. I was looking for a left arrow and there is no such thing anywhere in the UI. Do not break established UI conventions for no reasons.

The other reason is not unique to Mastodon and is a result of ‘UX designers’ pushing everyone who had a basic knowledge of cognitive and behavioural psychology out of UI design. There is no visual cue about which things are click/tappable UI elements. Except when there is. For example, this compose popup has a blue border on the thing I can type text in and a button of the same colour for the publish button. But every other thing I can interact with in the popup is the same white-line-drawing-on-a-black-background style, whether it’s an indicator or a control. The reply button is also the number-of-comments indicator and there’s nothing to tell me that it’s a button. Note that UIs from the early ‘90s didn’t have this problem, it isn’t that we don’t know how to do this well, it’s that some muppets at Google decided to ignore decades of usability research and other people decided to copy them. If Google ran off a cliff, you’d follow them, wouldn’t you?

On top of all of that, the UI on my iPad screen (web browser full screen) now uses less than 60% of the width for the content. The side bar is massive, can’t be hidden, and is mostly empty space. It’s a web UI. I haven’t done web design seriously for 25 years and I know how to make them scale down to small devices. The only way you’d ever ship something like this is if you’ve never hit the ‘responsive design’ menu item in the developer menu and asked ‘what does my web layout look like on a small display?’ It’s literally under a minute to test a variety of display sizes.

A load of common operations now require additional taps (for example, marking all notifications as read, a thing I do multiple times a day, now requires a … and then another tap, whereas previously it was a single tap). This is what happens when you don’t actually measure UI use.

But, worst of all is the reason why this was inflicted on me. My instance admin did an update to get a security fix. Never, ever, ever ship security fixes and UI changes (even UI improvements) in the same release. Any UI change will negatively impact at least some users in the short term. By combining them you are training users to not apply software updates for security because they may break usability. After you’ve done that, every exploit of one of your users as a result of running an unpatched vulnerable version is your fault (big tech companies are guilty of this repeatedly. Don’t copy the worst of big tech).

EDIT: Oh, and a bunch of UI elements are now smaller than my fingertip, which makes hitting them on a touchscreen hard.

EDIT2: Oh, and the ‘share’ button is now using the icon other apps use for ‘forward message’ and not the icon that everything else uses for share.

Habt Ihr es eigentlich schon gemerkt, #Mastodon ist so ähnlich wie enteignetes und vergesellschaftetes #Twitter - nur noch viel geiler und ohne #Elon oder #blackrock .

Und das alles auch noch ohne permanente menschliche Dramen und Abgründe wie in diesem #Kapitalismus.

Fetzt für mich.

To me, #Mastodon is by far the best social medium. But even the best can always get better. Here are four features, I would love to see:

1. Sharing more than 4 photos in a post.
2. Fast way to accept alttexts suggested by others.
3. Formalised way to append factual information to disinformation posts.
4. The ability to share longer, formatted texts.
5. A standardised way to display a user's country of residence for those who wish to do so.

What would you like to see?

うちのシマシマのベストショット写真を見返してたんだけど、我が猫ながら割と名前負けしてないなあと…

シマシマ:本名「美男(びお)」

#mastodon
#fedibird
#cat
#ねこ

Worldwide shipping is now available 🌍
You can now order physical copies of my manga and other merchandise from my online shop!

Check it out here: 👉https://redpinfactory.stores.jp

The printed manga is available in the original Japanese edition 🇯🇵

Thank you for all your support so far! 💛

#illustration #manga #mastoart #art #creativetoots #mastodon #fedibird

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It's amazing to see #Mastodon and the #Fediverse recommended more but in turn Bluesky is also named as a "good alternative"

I would like to argue it's not;

If the company behind Bsky decides to stop and shut down their services, your self-hosted PDS can't do anything anymore without all infrastructure needed

Ofc one could self-host this but this is a true nightmare and far from a good solution

So yeah, I feel moving to Bluesky is just moving the problem, it's not a solution

Im so happy to be alive in these amazing times. History is being written all over the world. 👏💖
https://loops.video/v/iXT5P4_GAk
#mastodon #fediverse #norge #planetearth #protest