Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/…
My next chapter with Mastodon
Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.Mastodon Blog
I'm super-excited that the #LinuxOnMobile stand will be returning to #FOSDEM in 2026!
Last year we had an amazing experience meeting fellow enthusiasts and newcomers alike.
This year we plan to have even more phones, devices and distros for you to play with.
We're not the only FOSS/mobile stand and with any luck we'll be close together like last year.
fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-11-1…
#FOSDEM26 #FossOnMobile #MobileLinux #Mobian #SailfishOS #Linmob #NemoMobile #postmarketOs #AsteroidOS
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New Report Exposes How Global Banks and Investors Are Still “Banking on Biodiversity Collapse” — Coalition Calls for Financial Regulation to Halt Deforestation - Rainforest Action Network
São Paulo, Brazil – As world leaders will soon convene in Brazil for COP30, a new report from the Forests & Finance Coalition reveals that finance for sectors driving tropical...Rainforest Action Network
So there was this really great Youtube video that came out over the weekend about why a lot of modern movies just don't feel "real" anymore and generally kind of look terrible.
Anyhow in other news I just saw the trailer for the live action Moana remake.
youtube.com/watch?v=tvwPKBXEOK…
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Polish PM says railway explosion was 'unprecedented act of sabotage'
Looks Like Russian Backed Sabotage Against Poland
#OurModernTimes #Poland #RussianSabotage #CrimesByCriminalNation #BringPutinToTheHagueForTrial #WarcrimesOfPutin
Poland rail explosion: PM says blast was 'unprecedented act of sabotage'
Authorities say the blast happened on a line leading to the border with Ukraine.Sarah Rainsford (BBC News)
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It’s here! 🚨 Nextcloud's Channel Partner Program will
✅ Boost partner activities
✅ Streamline processes
✅ Promote further international growth
The channel is part of our commitment to invest €250 million in #DigitalSovereignty by 2030.
👉 nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-c…
Nextcloud Channel Partner Program: expanding collaboration with channel sales - Nextcloud
Nextcloud Channel Partner Program enables our partners further and helps organizations worldwide get started with Nextcloud more easily.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
Mesa 25.3.0 released with lots of Linux graphics driver improvements gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/mesa…
#Mesa #Linux #OpenSource #LinuxGaming
Mesa 25.3.0 released with lots of Linux graphics driver improvements
Just as the weekend arrived, Mesa 25.3.0 was released as the latest new-feature upgrade for open source Linux graphics drivers.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
VKD3D-Proton 3.0 brings FSR4 support, shader backend rewrite, lots of bug fixes and performance upgrades gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/vkd3…
#Proton #Linux #SteamOS #OpenSource
VKD3D-Proton 3.0 brings FSR4 support, shader backend rewrite, lots of bug fixes and performance upgrades
VKD3D-Proton is one of the secret ingredients for Proton to make so many Windows games work well on Linux / SteamOS with a new 3.0 release out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Forestrike is a martial arts roguelite like no other where you see the future gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/fore…
#Forestrike #IndieGames #PCGaming
Forestrike is a martial arts roguelite like no other where you see the future
Using the power of Foresight, in the 2D martial arts roguelite Forestrike you can see how each fight will go down, and it's really damn good.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Don’t know why, but this post made me think of the GNU copypasta:
I’d just like to interject for a moment.
What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux . . . 
United Power seeks “hyperlocal” energy for Colorado customers after dumping longtime supplier
coloradosun.com/2025/11/17/uni…
United Power seeks "hyperlocal" energy for Colorado customers after dumping longtime supplier
Brighton-based co-op is building a portfolio of suppliers after paying $627M to leave Tri-State Generation and Transmission AssociationDana Coffield (The Colorado Sun)
Below the Crown is an curious brew of chess and dungeon crawling out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/belo…
#BelowtheCrown #IndieGames #PCGaming
Below the Crown is an curious brew of chess and dungeon crawling out now
Out now in Early Access, from the minds that gave us the excellent Duskers, Below the Crown is a mixture of chess-like pieces and moves in a dungeon crawler.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive split with Cities: Skylines going to a new developer gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/colo…
#Paradox #ColossalOrder #Gaming #PCGaming #CitiesSkylines
Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive split with Cities: Skylines going to a new developer
Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive have ended their partnership on Cities: Skylines, with it moving onto a new developer.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Veil is a neat extension for GNOME users. 👇
itsfoss.com/veil-gnome-extensi…
Clean Up Your GNOME Panel With This New Extension
Hide unwanted panel icons automatically with Veil.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
The Many Sins of House Ocampo is one to watch for point and click mystery adventure fans gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-…
#TheManySinsofHouseOcampo #IndieGames #AdventureGames #PCGaming
The Many Sins of House Ocampo is one to watch for point and click mystery adventure fans
The Many Sins of House Ocampo is a new announcement from the developers of If On A Winter's Night Four Travelers and it looks great.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Timing is everything in the fast-paced arcade racer Wild Horse Racing - try the demo now gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/timi…
#WildHorseRacing #IndieGames #Gaming #Demo
Timing is everything in the fast-paced arcade racer Wild Horse Racing - try the demo now
If you love arcade-styled retro racing games, Wild Horse Racing looks like it could be good fun and there's a demo available with Linux support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Nightdive recently showed off Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster footage in a dev diary video gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/nigh…
#Outlaws #Nightdive #PCGaming #FPS #RetroGaming
Nightdive recently showed off Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster footage in a dev diary video
Looking forward to the next remaster from Nightdive? They recently put up a new dev diary video for Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster to show it off.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Check out the demo for top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood now on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/chec…
#Shroomwood #IndieGames #Roguelike #PCGaming #Linux #Demo
Check out the demo for top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood now on Steam
A fresh demo for you to try this week, as the top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood has a Linux build available for you to shoot your way through.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Cozy 3D food puzzler UMAMI has launched on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/cozy…
#UMAMI #IndieGames #Gaming #Linux
Cozy 3D food puzzler UMAMI has launched on Steam
Need a new chill puzzle game? UMAMI from indie studio Mimmox has arrived with Linux support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Snapchat did something interesting recently.
itsfoss.com/news/snapchat-open…
Snapchat Opens Valdi Framework to Developers After 8 Years of Internal Use
Enters a crowded UI framework market.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Bernie Sanders doing his thing!
youtube.com/shorts/yALFQl5KgbM
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This is an interactive billionaire migration map. Some surprises. Many "Oh of course" migratory destinations. Discover what insights you will.
wesleystubenbord.com/viz/billi…
Billionaire Migration: An Interactive Map
An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,106 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.wesleystubenbord.com
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Write Markdown on Linux without typing syntax!
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Can't Recall the Syntax? Try These WYSIWYG Markdown Editors on Linux
With WYSIWYG editors, you get a toolbar that you can use to create formatted text easily. This way, you can create Markdown documents without typing the Markdown syntax.Community (It's FOSS)
Level up your terminal with Rust tools that outshine classic Linux commands. 🔥
itsfoss.com/rust-alternative-c…
Better Than Original? 14 Rust-based Alternative CLI Tools to Classic Linux Commands
Hyped on the Rust wagon? How about using these Rust-based, modern, easier to use, better-looking alternatives to the classic Linux commands.Neville Ondara (It's FOSS)
Firefox is getting a new AI-powered feature! 🤖
itsfoss.com/news/mozilla-ai-wi…
Mozilla Unveils Plans for New 'AI Window' Browsing Mode in Firefox, Opens Signups
Planned browsing mode will let users chat with an AI assistant while surfing the web.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
This is Arlo. He's 3-years old and blind. He has been overlooked for adoption again and again, despite being extremely sweet and very confident! Could you or someone you know give this handsome boy a forever home? He's at Another Chance Animal Rescue in Sanford, Maine. For more information, call 207-229-1846 and ask for Debbie. Please boost to help spread the word and let's find Arlo the loving home he deserves. Thank you!
#CatsOfMastodon #Maine #NewHampshire #AdoptDontShop #Caturday #Cats
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Thanks for all that you have done.
Because of Mastodon, I am reading, writing, and staying up to date on world events again.
Walt Baldwin
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •.@Gargron por mi te puedes ir lejos y no volver-
#Mastodon no es mas que otra red de las redes del fediverso que desaparecerá y surgiran de nuevas al lado de las que ya hay, mastodon se metió en el fediverse, siendo una calcomania de Twitter y wsin #GNUsocial nunca hubiera sido nada, sin el #fediverse y ahora parece ser segun ustedes que mastodon hizó al fediverse y NO-
#fediverse >> fediverse.party/
Mastodon solo es un pedacito del fediverse-
No se dice eso en las migraciones
- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks
fediverse.partyLety Does Stuff
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Dear @Gargron, thank you so much for your huge participation in creating this place we all love so much.
All the best for you and your family! 💐
Jeri Dansky
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Joining everyone else in saying, "Thank you for Mastodon." You created something very special, and I hope you're proud.
And I admire you for realizing it was time to step down (while still staying engaged), for your own mental health.
jenbanim
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •you accomplished something monumental here, Mr. Rochko.
You helped give the world back control of their social media, their very memories, from the clutches of the multinational corporations.
You've helped to rebuild a decentralized internet - the way it was always meant to be.
Someday, your name will be up there with Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Wozniak, and Larry Page, as one of the visionaries that helped connect the world together.
... we're just not there, quite yet.
But your work, here, will pave the way for that to happen. You've helped DEMOCRATIZE the internet. Now any schlub (like me) that's half-competent with computers and can get their hands on an old "throw-away" hunk of metal and plastic can spin up their own little server and connect to a larger social world.
And be found.
Thank you, Mr. Rochko, for helping free us, and for helping connect us.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I hope you can have a relaxing holiday to celebrate your new role. Yay, now you have a whole crew to share the load.
Thank you for all your hard work so far keeping it all together.
Barijaona Ramaholimihaso
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Many of your decisions can be criticized, as can most human beings', but you had to take decisions and critic should not come from a position of entitlement nor go beyond what's fair.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Any comment regarding the amount of money you’re getting for what we understood to be a non-profit?
heise.de/news/Mastodon-Gruende…
Mastodon: Gründer macht Chefposten frei und bekommt eine Million Euro
Martin Holland (heise online)M. Grégoire
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •thank you for your work
I was delighted to see that you will get a significant compensation for all your effort and contributions over these years 👍
Micha
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •thanks for being awesome. You were so hands on with an issue, minuscule issue that I had related to Mastodon. You replied and took care of it right away.
Thank you for what you have done and looking forward to the next things you’re working on.
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