mastodon
Every once in a while (a few months maybe?) I pop back here and try to search for something I'm interested in, to see if there's any posts to like, discussion to jump in, or someone cool to follow.
Most of the time, search results nothing. Like today, searching for "crime and punishment" (the book) returns like... less than 10 posts?
It's been 10 years I've been trying to like it here, but it's hard. #mastodon
Does anyone have recommendations for a Mastodon fork that doesn't require visitors to enable JavaScript to view basic content? The JavaScript dependency is a security risk and user hostile. Visitors should not be required to enable JavaScript when simply visiting a Mastodon server. Plus, the recommendation to use a native app doesn't even work for all Mastodon/ActivityPub instances.
Also, the requirement for JavaScript makes the Mastodon development team seem incompetent. They can't even make a basic web site that doesn't require JavaScript. I could do that when I was in middle school.
>To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript. Alternatively, try one of the native apps for Mastodon for your platform.
#Lazyweb When I want to spin up my own #Fediverse instance that supports #Markdown when composing a post and that can handle my significant amount of followers with a seamless migration from my current #Mastodon instance, which #ActivityPub Implementation would you use? Ideally it should be a simple rootless container setup that JustWorks™ with podman. Perfection would be a single, self-contained container without the need to spin up several ones for databases or other stuff.
Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now 
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing 
RE: https://writing.exchange/@hiisikoloart/117059611297916781
Please share this post and the one beneath it so I can prove to my fellow indie authors that Mastodon has the spirit and the community I have been telling them about.
They keep resisting coming here but maybe if they can see that you guys love art, whether it is written, drawn, knitted, or carved, they would join the wonderful communities here. (:
#FediHelp #Mastodon #Bookstodon #Fedibooks #Fantasy #FantasyBook #Preorder #BookPreorder #eBook #Anthology #DarkFantasy #GrimDarkFantasy #Fairytale
Something no one addressed yet: #ATmosphere posts are not indexable by search engines. It should be as it will help increase exposure of the network.
The same can be said with #Fediverse posts. I only see #Threads indexed.
#Bluesky #Mastodon #SocialWeb #OpenSocial
“Look, just fucking use Mastodon already” by @arilin
🔗 https://giants-club.net/articles/just-use-mastodon/
> Who could have predicted Bluesky could ever have run that risk? I mean, apart from everyone warning us that it was launched by weirdo alt-right blockchain-shilling AI-loving shitbird Jack Dorsey, and that their current CEO came from a weirdo alt-right blockchain-shilling AI-loving shitbird background. You know. Besides them.
⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2026/06/18/look-just-fucking-use-mastodon-already/
After Bluesky, Threads, and so on, the whole #WSocial thing is another reminder that it was never about the #Fediverse being "too complicated" or "just for nerds".
A bafflingly large amount of people genuinely only act on a gut feeling telling them that only commercial products with fancy marketing owned by a for-profit corporation can be trustworthy, 'official' and 'legal', for the lack of a better word.
If something is a commercial offering by a competent-looking, rich family man in a suit, it's clearly an official, legal, trustworthy product. You can be proud of using such a fancy-looking service.
When they see a community-run open-source project or a grassroots initiative, their first instinct is that it must be shady, illegal, complicated, broken or predatory in some way. It's probably some aftermarket grey area bootleg made by weird tech nerds, political groups with an ulterior motive, conspiracy theorists or some naive teenage hackers. They'd also be embarrassed for using it in front of their peers and neighbours; who uses some free back-alley software, are you poor or something?
The same people are the reason why Google is using the word 'sideloading', why scammers love wearing fancy suits, why people suddenly act childishly helpless in front of LibreOffice, or why DIY HRT is so demonised.
They trust any kind of 'official approval' over their own senses. If someone does something that isn't 'approved', they're a bad person or clearly endangering themselves and others. No idea why exactly, but psh, it must be wrong somehow, or everyone would do it, right?
If people on the Fediverse understood that the whole "it's all so complicated and clunky" thing is just a thinly veiled excuse for a general disdain for non-commercial software, we could finally stop making all our software imitate their corporate equivalents in a futile attempt to appease people who never gave us a chance in the first place.
You'll never convince them to treat it in good faith no matter how much effort or money you put into UX or 'ease of use'. All you're doing is making the software worse, e. g. through things like dot-social, verified accounts or begging brands, corporations and politicians to join and give your product some kind of 'official' validation.
So I usually hate sending over bluesky links anywhere since I'm not a fan, but Rob Ricci highlights some important distinctions between #activitypub and #atproto
Fundamentally, activitypub is designed to be useful with a partial view of the network. (Narrowing down to #mastodon here) Likes are communicated, mentions are communicated, and so on.
Over at atproto land, you have no option but to write to your repo, and so you have no choice but to view the entire network to say, find replies and such (narrowing to #bluesky here). So the only way you can get your data is to read the network and filter it yourself, or have someone else do it for you, which doesn't solve the problem, only shift it.
Looking forward to the day #Mastodon gets a native toot scheduling UI so I can tell all my offline friends, dates, and lovers to check my profile at the exact right time, ordering everyone to buy me cookies so I can have an endless stream of cookies arriving at my place. #Fediverse
📺 It's the weekly #Mastodon/ #Fediverse #WatchPartyCalendar screencaps for May 21-28 (Thu-Thu), including #MemorialDay weekend
⭐️NEW: #ReMonsterdon (Sundays)
📅Updates &🔗s at the live calendar http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties
⏰️All times US Eastern
#Westerns #Music #Mysteries #Action #Comedy #anime #Movies #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon #WatchParty
Thanks to the hosts! 🎉 @MatthewTitus88 @MirrorAyako @Taweret @analgesicsleep @rsmon77 @hyde @greenpepper22 @kamikat @lilymarswrites @LisaMarieBowman @klu9
I've been communicating with a person on the #Mastodon team about some #Accessibility stuff related to #AltText and I am loving their communication style. Confirms everything, so nothing is misunderstood, but not in a defensive way. I wish I could say more, but I am excited for the 5.0 release! I believe the team is shifting to a more community based approach which I really like. I've been here for many, many, many, years, and I am really loving this more intersectional development approach the team appears to be striving for.
👋 Le 5 mars dernier, nous diffusions ici-même et pendant dix jours un sondage destiné à mieux connaître vos attentes quant aux institutions culturelles présentes sur Mastodon et le fediverse.
Vous aviez été très nombreux.se.s à le relayer, au total 1412 personnes y ont répondu ! 😱 Merci infiniment ! C'est au-delà de toutes nos attentes.
💫 Les résultats sont maintenant disponibles dans la Doc' de reseauCulture.fr!
👉 https://doc.reseauculture.fr/doc/enquete-mastodonfediverse-la-culture-et-vous-5ZhVBEOHxj
Bonne lecture ! ✌️
I really wanted to do this game/look4moots activity but always hesitant & thinking not many people will engage or worst being ignored at all 
which ended me sobbing in the corner *cries*
So shall we do this? Game! Mechanics is so simple #ENGAGEMENT is 🔑 1 Like/♥ = 1 Answer. I'll definetely will follow all unique & amazing 👥 that I'll engage with (in the future also counts) game? I heard #mastodon have a great #community & great people too.🦋
John Mastodon is about to call a Monday morning meeting.
Who is bringing beverages this week? 🧃
RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/116642140413811784
This is not ok - @stux should be able to visit festivals.
I am not even on his mastodon instance @mstdn but I am going to donate and hope you will too, ''
RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/116642140413811784
Maar goed, gaan we nu even zorgen dat @stux , de beheerder die de op 1 na grootste Mastodon-server in de lucht houdt, naar alle festivals kan gaan, die hij maar wil en dat hij iedere maand zijn kosten voor de servers kan betalen, zonder te hoeven schooien, of niet?
Doneer, liefst per maand:
Run your own decentralized social platform on shared hosting or a tiny VPS WITHOUT Redis, PostgreSQL, or complex infrastructure.
What it makes so special to me? It looks awesome, comes with a great admin web interface and does not require a VPS instance where it can also be operated on a cheap shared hosting systems. By the given requirements, it also easily runs on a #RaspberryPI and all kind of systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #Illumos and more!
This all makes it perfect to everyone and even beginners to run their own instance. With relay support (e.g., fedi-relay.gyptazy.com) it even can consume and post content over non-directly connected instances in the #fediworld!
Kudos to the author of Starling: @df
More information:
GitHub project: https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling
My blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/starling-simple-fediverse-server/
#fedi #fediwall #opensource #decentralized #social #socialmedia #alternatives #mastodon
Here's Mastodon's Executive Director @mellifluousbox and Flipboard CEO @mike on Mastodon’s first decade, and what's ahead.
"So what I'm most excited right now is [...] we are celebrating our 10 years this year, and basically to think of what would it take for Mastodon, not only to still exist in 10 years [but also to become] a much better version of what Mastodon is right now[.]"
https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/felix-hlatky
via @Flipboard
#drogieFedi Szukam osoby chętnej do przejęcia tłumaczenia na język polski aplikacji Pachli, klienta Mastodona dla Androida.
Sam właściwie przestałem używać Pachli (przestawiłem się na PWA z Phanpy), więc i motywacja do dalszej pracy nad nim bardzo się mi zmniejszyła, tym bardziej, że i tak mam sporo pracy przy innych tłumaczeniach.
Techniczna strona przekładu jest dość prosta, bo odbywa się w wygodnym interfejsie Weblate¹, który opisałem na blogu².
Apka aktualnie jest spolszczona w 100%, więc cała praca to przekładanie raz na jakiś czas nowych ciągów, które się pojawiają w trakcie rozwoju.
Nowe wersje Pachli wychodzą zawsze pod koniec miesiąca, a trochę wcześniej można sprawdzić nowe teksty w wersji rozwojowej Pachli Current³, dostępnej w Google Play, co pozwala na poznanie kontekstu, w jakim występują.
Jeżeli ktoś się zdecyduje, to chętnie pomogę i odpowiem na pytania związane z tłumaczeniem.
¹ https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/pachli/-/pl/
² https://horodecki.net/2026/04/09/tlumaczenie-wolnego-i-otwartego-oprogramowania/
³ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.pachli.current
#tłumaczenie #Pachli #Android #klient #Mastodon #aplikacja #przekład #Fediwersum
I have been on #Fediverse for about a little bit over a year and a half now.
After about three weeks over at #Bluesky, I decided to set myself up with a #Mastodon and a #Pixelfed account despite felt technically intimidated by the whole Fediverse thing. And I’m glad I went for it—enjoy the vibes, the different communities, especially the #Wordle community, and the people!!!
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