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Here's a cool Mastodon Android client!
https://news.itsfoss.com/moshidon/
I Think This is the Most Beautiful Mastodon Android Client!
A nice Mastodon experience with this Android app.Ankush Das (It's FOSS News)
as I alluded to yesterday, I actually wrote something about the problem with #fediverse link embeds, how they potentially DDoS servers, and how we can (kinda) fix it.
tl;dr: Link embed fetching cooperatives
https://aumetra.xyz/posts/the-fedi-ddos-problem
The Fediverse has a DDoS problem | aumetra's Scribbles
The Fediverse has a problem with accidentally DDoS-ing remote service. What can we do about it?aumetra.xyz
it's kinda funny that instead of hiring someone to submit a patch for their issue, #itsfoss decided to publish the article about their technical problems
The article reads superficial, like vague request for commercial proposal but for free lol
> #Mastodon instance admins, please fix our computer, or else we'll stop reposting to your social network
Folks, this is not journalism...
IMHO this is not specific to #Mastodon... not even to a federated system.
It could also happen, if an URL of your site would be mentioned for example in an article on an online news portal with a large user base... then starting to visit your site.
So any unusual peak in traffic...
Another temporary solution (instead of blocking Mastodon user-agent) could be blocking all media sent to that agent, to decrease traffic.
I hope there will be a fix sooner than later, this is a really bad side effect of #Mastodon. BTW what about other #fediverse back-ends, same issue?
We need to talk about this! 😟
https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/
Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!
We need to talk about this problem. Should Mastodon step up?Ankush Das (It's FOSS News)
I need the help of #mastodon #philosophers.
Why the f*** would #Putin try to coopt the legacy of Immanuel #Kant?
It's probably not a serious question. Maybe it's just a silly immature dunk on #Germany / #German pride. Or maybe there's something darker in Kant's writings that #Russia thinks supports recent #Russian behavior (I have no reason to believe there is, I'm just openly musing).
Either way it's certainly a bizarre new front in the conflict: #philosophy war.
German Chancellor accuses Putin of misusing philosopher Immanuel Kant's teachings
Europe News: German Chancellor Scholz criticizes Putin for misrepresenting Kant's ideas, contrasting Kant's peace principles with Russia's actions in Ukraine, despTOI World Desk (Times Of India)
@Gargron Question for you, sir. How risky is it to run HEAD for #Mastodon? Is it safe to assume that's what https://mastodon.social is running? If one is brave enough to do that, do you have any advice on how to make upgrades any more efficient?
#neophiliac #eternaltesterofnewthings
#singleuserinstance
Mastodon
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profitMastodon hosted on mastodon.social
Oh, the Founder of Mastodon takes the final and last Step to get more Profit out of it by babbling about something with creating a Non-Profit organization in the US because of their Taxes...🙄
Just my humble opinion on the matter at hand. 😉
#Mastodon #Fediverse #US #Taxes #Money #Profit #NonProfit
@Gargron @roblen
#Mastodon forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/
Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit
As part of our commitment to supporting the growth and operational capabilities of Mastodon, we have established a 501(c)(3) non-profit entity in the United States aimed at facilitating our efforts, including being able to receive tax-deductible U.S.Mastodon Blog
Featured hashtags on Mastodon were originally going to be a really useful feature, but the actual implementation with them off to the side (where trending hashtags usually are) made them totally invisible on the mobile web view and confusing on the desktop view.
They were originally supposed to be above the timeline on a profile (see screenshot). I've started an issue asking for this to be implemented, feel free to join with posts or thumbs if this interests you:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30073
Use Featured Hashtags as content filters displayed immediately above the profile timeline · Issue #30073 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch Put the featured hashtags above the profile timeline as a set of filters, so that people notice them even if they're on a mobile web view, and so that people intuitively understand what they ...GitHub
Warum bekomme ich maximal die Beiträge der letzten beiden Tage angezeigt?
Wenn ich unter Friendica den Account von @Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung rnz.de aufrufe, so sind die ältesten Beiträge dort rund zwei Tage alt. Rufe ich jedoch direkt die Mastodon Seite auf, sehe ich das es da viel mehr und ältere Beiträge gibt. Woran kann das liegen?
#Frage #Friendica #Beiträge #Mastodon #Alte-Beiträge #Sascha #2024-04-25 !Friendica Support
Man muss ja nicht alles nachturnen, was #Mastodon so macht, aber dass man dort nur einen Klick für das Anlegen eines #Lesezeichen:s braucht, hier hingegen jedes Mal (!) fünf, finde ich durchaus nachahmenswert.
Bei der Gelegenheit ließe sich ein Icon auch gleich mit zu den vier anderen gesellen. Ist ja genug Platz.
Hatte ich übrigens vor ~zwei Jahren schon mal angeregt. Verhallte aber ungehört.
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 stuffed toy coming soon
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.Mastodon Blog
Mastodon obviously.
Did you know that Dorsey introduced the Bluesky project back in 2019 while he was still Twitter CEO?
Happy *seventh* anniversary of "Six reasons Mastodon won't survive" to all who celebrate:
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive
Six reasons Mastodon won't survive
The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.Lance Ulanoff (Mashable)
What does it mean to federate your Flipboard profile? In the simplest terms, it means that whatever you curate (aka share) on Flipboard will be "syndicated" out to the fediverse with no extra effort. @miaq tests it out and breaks it down.
https://flipboard.medium.com/what-does-it-mean-to-federate-your-flipboard-profile-cb6f5783957c
#Federation #Fediverse #FediCurious #Curation #Flipboard #Mastodon #SpreadMastodon #Creators
What Does It Mean to Federate Your Flipboard Profile?
Recently, I got my Flipboard profile federated. It’s been fun to try out, and the prospect of reaching a new audience has made me want to be a better steward of the topics I share about. I hope my…Flipboard (Fedi Curious)
@Gargron Interesting, then why is mastodon.social limiting pro-Palestinian accounts?
Activitypub or Atproto ... one item that both Mastodon have in common with Bluesky is amount of "spam" links and accounts boosting those "spammy" accounts
Several "award winning art / photo" profiles I saw had 5 or more links including their pinned post
Win goes to Bluesky since they seem to have better control of that ... for now
#photography #mastodon
#pixelfed #misskey #lemmy #opensource #foss #bluesky #atproto #fediverse #activitypub
We started this account less than 6 months ago. It's going pretty well – thanks to you: 4.2k followers, lots of interactions, questions, and comments. 🎉
A couple of weeks ago, the European Broadcasting Union (#EBU) asked us to write a guest article about our experience with #Mastodon / the #Fediverse, explain the basics, and point out the advantages. " title=""/>
Challenge accepted. 👍
So here's the finished post by @lxplm, hot off the #blog press. ⌨️
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https://www.ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-broadcasters-of-europe-lets-all-join-mastodon
Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon!
In this guest post, Alexander Plaum, Innovation Manager at Deutsche Welle (DW), writes about his team's exceptionally positive experience with microblogging in the Fediverse.www.ebu.ch
Is it possible to obtain it without the elephant and with a green shirt instead of the blue one?
He’s here! The prototype, anyway. He’s big, squishy, and friend-shaped. We’ll try to make him as affordable as possible. You’ll have to wait a couple more months to get one, but we might open pre-orders relatively soon.
#Merchtodon #Plushtodon #Mastodon
Friends, strangers, haters: I have... made hay. Let no one say I haven't committed to the bit.
(Wrote a paper about Asstodon, everyone be kind)
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436
#STS #Mastodon #Commodon #autoethnography #DareIUseTheHashtag #Donkeygate #FirstMonday
The Newcomer’s Guide to Mastodon, from a Crusty Old-Timer
Note: this is a comprehensive guide that addresses a lot of different topics. We hope to answer many questions that newcomers have asked before. This guide gets into the meat and potatoes of what allSean Tilley (We Distribute)
Exactly the same content, posted on the same time, to similar crowd, gets 10x more engagement here than on Twitter, even tho I have 10x less followers here.
Why are people still using Twitter for promotion? And some are paying money thinking they're getting a good deal.
#twitter #mastodon #socialmedia #seo #visibility #posting #content #followers #viral
In our latest #Mastodon for Android release, we're making it easier than ever to share profiles using QR codes, among a number of other usability improvements:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/02/mastodon-for-android-update/
Mastodon for Android update
In our latest Mastodon for Android release, we're making it easier than ever to share profiles using QR codes, among a number of other usability improvements.Mastodon Blog
Been trying this out secretly for the past few weeks — a "catch-up" timeline page. Did whole bunch of iterations, where I myself is the guinea pig, but this time reaching a point where I just got to share it out in the public.
- NOT final design, still very experimental, only on my local machine
- Instead of algo timeline, this is focused on data-grid-like UI for configuring exactly what I want to see.
- This honestly could be another full-fledged app/client by itself 🫠
We pitched BlueSky against Mastodon. See how it fares:
https://itsfoss.com/bluesky-vs-mastodon/
Bluesky vs. Mastodon: Which Twitter Alternative Should You Choose?
Mastodon is one of the most-loved open-source social media platforms. But, what's different with Bluesky? Let us find out here.Ankush Das (It's FOSS)
The official Mastodon Android app now has QR codes for sharing profiles.
Full changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/releases
Releases · mastodon/mastodon-android
Official Android app for Mastodon. Contribute to mastodon/mastodon-android development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Mastodon Has A Serious SPAM Problem
"Over the past week or so there has been a serious spam problem hitting mastodon and rest of the fediverse especially misskey over on the japanese side of things and the story behind it is absolutely wild."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KCwq9e-H5M
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Lemmy #spam #skid #scriptKiddies #DoS #security #openSocialNetworking #misskey #BrodieRobertson #YouTube
PS: if you like Brodie's content, he can also be found on Mastodon: @BrodieOnLinux
Mastodon Has A Serious SPAM Problem
Over the past week or so there has been a serious spam problem hitting mastodon and rest of the fediverse especially misskey over on the japanese side of thi...YouTube
RE: Kuroneko incident
#fediadmins are advised to temporarily disable sign-ups for now, or implement some anti-spam measure to limit signups to not get spammed.
Currently they are targeting #misskey and #mastodon, but other #activitypub servers may soon be targeted.
More details will be posted soon. Stay tuned. #fediblock#fediadmin#fedadmins#mastodadmin#misskeyadmin#cybersecurity#spam
#FediBlock snarfed.org and brid.gy for bridging fediverse folks to Bluesky against their will (and in likely contravention of GDPR in the EU) with typical Silicon Valley techbro sense of entitlement:
“[O]pt in results in far fewer users, and users are critical for a bridge to be useful.”¹
Relevant GitHub issue: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835
¹ https://snarfed.org/2023-11-27_re-introducing-bridgy-fed
HT @homegrown
#bridgy #snarfed #fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #bridging #optOut #optIn #consent #gdpr #eu #SiliconValley #techbros
Opt-out is a terrible default and should be reconsidered · Issue #835 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
It should be pretty obvious that a decentralized network that many use specifically to not be connected to centralized networks houses mostly people who do not wish to have their posts bridged to B...GitHub
We’ve just published an update about this Mastodon trial which has been running for the last 6 months – you can read it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-02-extending-our-mastodon-social-media-trial
We are going to continue our trial here for at least another six months while we share our findings internally and seek more engagement from other BBC teams. We are also planning to start researching ways to publish more BBC content using ActivityPub.
#mastodon #ActivityPub #socialmedia
Because fungal proteins are closer to animal proteins, fungi are an appropriate food for pets and humans. Koji and many fungal proteins contain all 10 canine essential amino acids in greater concentration than cow flesh.
We can grow fungi sustainably, using a fraction of the resources and land needed for cow, pig and chicken flesh - or even fish!
@mastodonindians @algorithm #plantbased #dogs #dogsofmastodon #dogstodon #dogfriendly #veganfortheanimals #mastodon