mastodon

I love how thoughtful the Mastodon blog post about introducing quote posting is. A really interesting way the team could be even more impactful on the open social web would be to share their research findings and the thinking that went into these sorts of features - that's the sort of body of knowledge everyone could learn from. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/

#mastodon #fediverse

This new release of #Mastodon for #AppleII mostly brings you the ability to view pictures and send pictures in DHGR - Double High Graphics Resolution! 560x192 in monochrome, or 140x192 in 16 colors.
You can find it via https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii/

Attached are two examples, courtesy of @GLaG_38 and @8ctobre

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For anyone who might have missed it, the new beta is live on #Testflight!

iCloud sync for favorites is the showcase feature but the new navigation is also *chef’s kiss*

Join the beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/FlIkWPVa

#iOS26 #SwiftUI #fediverse #mastodon

Let's live-toot the adding of quote-posting to #Mastodon for #AppleII, in case it interests some nerds.
First of all, let's detect whether a toot is quotable: https://github.com/colinleroy/a2tools/commit/275c282698a18169fcd0bda3ffbc0af55cbdbfe2
The JSON field `quote_approval.current_user` of a Status entity will either contain `automatic`, `manual`, `denied` or `unsupported_policy`. We'll consider everything but `denied` as quotable.
If the field doesn't exist, for retro-compatibility, we'll use a default `d`.

In the commit you'll see that we compare the first character of that field to `d`, this is much tighter size-wise than an strcmp().

Here's the weekly THU-THU 🐘 #Mastodon / #Fediverse #WatchPartyCalendar 📅 for the dog days of summer

AUG 21-28, 2025

🚨UPDATES, links & details➡️ http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties
⏰ All times US Eastern

NOTE: #EuroKino on Hiatus till Sept.

#scifi #Westerns #Music #Mysteries #Action #Comedy #SilentFilm #Movies #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon #WatchPartyAlert

💐 THANK YOU FELLOW HOSTS 😎 @MatthewTitus88 @MirrorAyako @Taweret @lilymarswrites @analgesicsleep @greenpepper22 @theotherbrook @rsmon77 @bunnyhero

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Musicians.today is a Mastodon server for musicians of all levels, instruments, regions, languages, and genres. You don’t have to be a professional musician to join, but you should at least play an instrument or sing as a hobby.

https://musicians.today

You can find out more at https://musicians.today/about or contact the admin account @cambraca

#FeaturedServer #Musicians #Musician #Music #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Mastodon 再次发布紧急安全更新。
请站长立刻更新。

更新描述为
安全性：修正对远端贴文的检查不足。
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tags/v4.2.7

目前暂时没有公开的安全告知：
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-jhrq-qvrm-qr36

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #Security

@board @board@a.gup.pe

RE: https://tech.lgbt/users/ShadowJonathan/statuses/111940983829390502

I've found 39 Mastodon friends in Pixelfed using @findmyfriends https://findmyfriends.online #pixelfed #mastodon

Mastodon may not be as big as some other social networks. And it may not have as many celebrities & "influencers."

But it sure is a nice place to engage with curious, thoughtful & interesting folks in ways that I haven't experienced elsewhere online.

Rather than a chaotic circus, #Mastodon uniquely feels like a (mostly) friendly neighborhood.

Hello everyone! Gud mrning 2 all of u! I hope ur all doing well! Look, Idk how to put ths on words & Idk if this will b posted, bcoz of weak reception.
But can u guys help me out here pls?My #cat & me is out of food!😫
I've been trying 2 ask 4 Catfood here but ny neighbors mostly have dogfood. I tried giving him lastnight but ddnt ate 'em. I'll be fine by any cannedfood pls #help🙏 :paypal: jinnxshinn@gmail.com

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#mastodon #mutualAidRequest #earthquake #fediverse #catsOfMastodon

Folks on Mastodon, to hide the current deluge of spam:

1. Settings -> Filters
2. Add new filter
3. Add a title (e.g., Spam)
4. Select all the context checkboxes
5. Set Filter Action to Hide Completely
6. Add the following keyword with a hash (#) before it: 診断メーカー

#mastodon #fediverse #spam

🆕 blog! “ActivityPub Server in a Single PHP File”

Any computer program can be designed to run from a single file if you architect it wrong enough! I wanted to create the simplest possible Fediverse server which can be used as an educational tool to show how ActivityPub / Mastodon works. The design goals were: Upload a single PHP file to the server. No […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/activitypub-server-in-a-single-file/
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#ActivityPub #mastodon #php

If you missed the Huge #Mastodon #Music Event on @labr from last week, I’m pleased to announce that the #Dgar and @brothersoul collaboration “LABR Presents Dgar & Brother Soul - Pick & Mix 01” is now available on the “DayconMusic” Podcast!

You can catch it here!

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dayconmusic/episodes/2024-02-17T16_10_05-08_00

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Just wanted to point out, with the ongoing #spam attack on #fediverse / #misskey / #mastodon, this kind of happens on every social network. The only reason you are hearing about it is because #moderation #staff is normal users who use the normal channels to talk about it, and we actually take it way more seriously than the corporate social networks do.

Like, this represents most of the traffic on #Twitter, and they don't seem to care, so it speaks volumes about the fact that you can see us talking about how we don't want that here.

Muten Gorgen liebe #Mastodon-#Community! ❤️

Falls jemand mein neues #YouTube-#Video auf meinem #Kanal noch nicht gesehen haben sollte: Sehr gern jetzt mal vorbeischauen! 🥰

Wie immer dürft ihr sehr gern auch meine bisherigen Videos anschauen 🥰

Selbstverständlich gilt das Gleiche wie auch sonst immer: Liken, kommentieren und weiterpetzen ist natürlich nicht verboten und sogar sehr gern gesehen! 🥰

Komplettmitfahrt auf der vollautomatischen U-Bahnlinie #U3 der #VAG #Nürnberg
https://youtu.be/MjoSSudQjuQ

For over a decade, @Flipboard has been curating the best content around the clock. Today we're taking the next step to making all that excellent curation available to everyone in the Fediverse.

With the federation of @tech you can now follow niche Flipboard Magazines here on Mastodon. To avoid confusion, we're renaming this flipboard.social account to "Flipboard Picks in Tech." We recommend you follow both our Mastodon account and our newly federated Flipboard Magazines for the latest.

Here are just four great new Flipboard Tech Magazines to follow:

Fediverse news: @the-fediverse-tech

AI news: @the-age-of-ai-tech

How-To Tech: @how-to-tech-tech

Reviews: @reviews-tech

#Tech #Technology #Mastodon #Fediverse

Give me that camera so I can exploit you on Mastodon for a change.

#Caturday #mastodon

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https://youtu.be/dFARvO46CSw
⚠️🇺🇦Ukraine’s War Vs. Russia’s Invasion: What’s the difference and why it matters (Anna From Ukraine VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #ICC #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState

Apparently, Tumblr's CEO stepped on his crank and outed himself as a TERF. We does not abide the TERF. No we doesn't.

If you're fleeing #Tumblr and checking out the #fediverse, welcome! I hope you find a home here. You have quite a few options with #Mastodon, #Miskey, #Firefish #Sharkey (I'm posting this from sharkey.world), and the practically thousands of instances within those. Each have their own flavor and features, so don't feel you have to settle on one off the bat. It's not unusual to see new users sign up on one instance, then eventually move to another, then another before they find the community that fits them best.

Here are some guides to help get you started:

Mastodon
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/08/mastodon-quick-start-guide/

Sharkey
https://thefedi.wiki/sharkey/home

Firefish
https://thefedi.wiki/firefish/user/home

Miskey
https://thefedi.wiki/misskey/home


Looking for something more "bloggy"? Bear Blog and Pika are two services offering simple blogging tools with an emphasis on "small blogging". They are unassociated with the major blogging platforms and offer a fresh alternative to them.

Bear Blog
https://bearblog.dev

Pika
https://pika.page

Again, #welcome, and I hope you find your home here in the #fediverse!

ieji.de is a general Mastodon server, with the goal of being the fastest Mastodon server in Europe and with a focus on user privacy, like being usable via the Tor network.

This server has been online since 2017, main languages include English and German.

https://ieji.de

You can find out more at https://ieji.de/about or contact the admin @SolSoCoG

#FeaturedServer #Tor #TorNetwork #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

If I had the money, I'd match every VC investment in #bluesky with one to #mastodon. Make it a fair fight.

And I'd probably also pay some people to clone bluesky but run it on #ActivityPub and call it Twitter since he says that's not the name anymore.

#Fedilab is now ready for the new #Mastodon quote feature.
We opened an issue so accounts can manage the default policy for quotes in their profile and Mastodon devs already added it.

In this process, our main issue was to keep the compatibility of the quote feature that was previously implemented for others software (as they work differently - no policy). Fedilab will be able to detect and support both of them.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35898

I'm gonna lose it tbh if #Misskey got #MRF first than #Mastodon ​​

RE: https://social.chiefgyk3d.com/users/chiefgyk3d/statuses/111969020575167445