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This is an excellent report by @legoktm on @wikipedia ’s experience on the Fediverse.

Experiences and goals will vary for each organization of course, but there are a lot of interesting things in there that could be helpful to you too!✨

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/@Wikipedia/May_2023

#Wikipedia #Mastodon #Fediverse


I'm preparing a public talk & just popped my #Mastodon handle on the first slide.

It's a good look & I hope to see more of these logos at conferences & events.


Graze for Mastodon 1.4 is live!

:graze: #GrazeForMastodon

✨ Updated visual design and theme selection

🏞️ Expanded link previews

👓 Display image caption (alt text) below images

📂 Rearrange accounts order

🔔 Direct access and separated notifications and messages

🏠 Toolbar updates to show home and incompatible instance(s)

👋 “Follows You” indicator on remote profiles

🧠 Fixed logic for incorrect redirects (Calckey, TikTok, etc)

🏠 Mastodon logo on all instances points to active account home

⚙️ Configurable options and settings

Download at https://graze.jaredzimmerman.com

#feditips #mastodon #mastotips #fediverse #reboost #retoot #opengraph #a11y #themes #customization #calckey


My data visualization project that lets you explore your connections across the fediverse now supports:

- Mastodon
- Friendica
- Pleroma/Akkoma 🆕
- Misskey/Calckey 🆕

Try it here: https://data.stefanbohacek.dev/projects/fediverse

#dataviz #fediverse #mastodon #friendica #misskey #calckey #explore #data


Fediverse And Mastodon Aren't Doomed But... #Mastodon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuDAX0uSgVs


I don’t own chickens. Or any birds for that matter. And even if I did, I probably wouldn’t dress them up as adorable feathered crossing guards.

But sometimes the algorithms for targeted ads on #SocialMedia are so very wrong, they’re simply delightful.

Still, I’m very happy they’re not part of #Mastodon.


Before I leave for my honeymoon I wanted to share what we've been up to at #Mastodon. Here's a new Patreon update!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/may-update-82941004


@Igor Warneck
ach so und selbst auf #Mastodon erkennt man am Screenshot das es #Friendica ist ... dafür ist das Logo Rechts in der oberen Ecke


Wenn Du dazuschreibst auf welcher Plattform, wird es leichter mit der Hilfe. Von #Mastodon aus kann niemand erkennen, das Du #Friendica meinst ^^

cc: @helpers


As we slowly watch cryptocurrency and NFTs get replaced by the next big fad in venture capitalism, AI, I'd just like to thank everyone fighting for a free and open internet. #mastodon #fediverse #indieweb #FreeAndOpenInternet


The only two design choices available aren’t “funnel everyone to mastodon.social” or “present a list of thousands of servers.” The default button could automatically round-robin a large list of servers that are known to be run by good actors. This is a solved problem. The solution is not being used, in this case, because, clearly, mastodon.social does want to grow.

#design #decentralisation #mastodon #fediverse #falseDichotomy


@Each Hit Music @Chris Trottier I've started working on a series of comparison tables for the Join the Fediverse Wiki that currently compares the features of

I may add at least #Socialhome and #FoundKey.

I don't know if I'll ever complete and publish these tables, but it won't be anytime soon because it'll be a whole lot of features in these tables. Also, I'll very likely need help from users of other projects to complete the tables.


We need responsible people to STOP pushing only #Mastodon as this is not helping, just look at the SPAM currently spewing from this process. With this mess we are building a codebase and an instance that are "too big to fail" this is absurdly stupid and not needed.

Please link and talk about the #openweb or the #fediverse to start to compost the mess you are making, thanks.


The is going to be a general backlash in progressive tech and social projects, it would help to compost this mess, for people to not join in this mess making https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/a-place-to-talk-about-spreadmastodon-org-and-wider-issues-that-this-brings-up/3130/23?u=hamishcampbell examples from #mastodon and #XR different but both progressive social projects.


What #mastodon is doing now is going to lead to a lot of mess, duo to people squabbling. This might or might not be a level of mess that negates the vertical move to "simplicity" of a single codebase and a single instance. That would be a waste... and it was the king and his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favourite that are pushing this mess, good not to get confused about this part.


Kudos to the Royal Astronomical Society (@royalastrosoc) for converting all its #journals to #OpenAccess, starting in 2024 — and for having a #Mastodon account.
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/royal-astronomical-society-announces-all-journals-publish-open-access-2024

#astronomy #conversions #flipping #societies


The mess we are making https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/pull/1005
@mastodon mastodon locked as off-topic and limited conversation to collaborators

Because people were saying things like "This PR was not reviewed thoroughly, as #Mastodon is a decentralized way to access the Fediverse, so pushing a specific server is not beneficial for the network."


Murmel updates:

Fixing the last small bugs before we open up our #Mastodon instance for testing in the coming days. Results finally aggregate nicely just like in the Twitter version (see the photo).

Oh, and Murmel is Mastodon too! Feel free to follow @murmel_social for upcoming updates.


@algorithms https://fediview.com can now recommend #mastodon posts based on your personal post history. The #recommendations are generated in real-time and the system is designed to be privacy-respecting.

It's still in beta and https://fediview.com/plus is required for now, but let me know if you would like to help me test it.

#algorithms #nlp


the development of #mastodon has been captured by the #NGO crew for a while now - this is a normal outcome of a good #openweb project going #mainstreaming

The solution to this normal issue is to shift focus to new potential outreach project to balance this shift.

Attacking and PUSHING back HARD at this change has limited and often negative effects.

Do better, only complaining is #BLOCKING


With the #feudalism of #FOSS and #opensurce development, we face the issue of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favourite with a project that goes #mainstreaming like #mastodon is currently.

This is a fundamental "democratic" problem that we don't have a solution for.

Please help to build the #OGB


Running tootctl accounts cull on 400k accounts takes around 8 hours.

Remove remote accounts that no longer exist. Queries every single remote account in the database to determine if it still exists on the origin server, and if it doesn’t, then remove it from the database. Accounts that have had confirmed activity within the last week are excluded from the checks, in case the server is just down.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/#accounts-cull

#mastoadmin #mastodon #admin



We added #Mastodon to Embedly. So now Mastodon links embed more naturally on #Medium and every other service that uses Embedly to handle embeds.
https://blog.medium.com/now-you-can-embed-mastodon-posts-in-medium-stories-99b11d0baa7f


There it is: Germany's second big public broadcaster is teasing, that it will start posting on #Mastodon tomorrow as @ZDF That account has 3200 follower, on #Twitter its 1,4 million.

I'm sure it will start to grow quickly and get a headstart on the other big public broadcaster #ARD, which has labeled its first account a test (@NDR).

Of course it would also be a headstart on the big public broadcasters, that are arguing with #Twitter.

#NPR #PBS #TwitterTakeover #ElonMusk #SocialMedia #BBC


Communication designer Chris Messina, who in 2007 came up with the idea of using hashtags on Twitter, has now left Twitter because of Elon Musk.
The good news: He is now on #mastodon: @chrismessina.

#riptwitter


While #NPR and #PBS have quit #Twitter (without mentioning #Mastodon however), Germany's biggest public broadcaster #ARD and #ZDF are not only already testing their own instances for quite a while (https://dev.ard.social/public/local & https://zdf.social/public/local): The first proper account is now live and posts news articles from northern Germany – @NDR

Let's see, if NPR and PBS find their way here. Oh and where is the #BBC?

#Twitter #TwitterTakeover #ElonMusk #SocialMedia


Paktodon.asia is a server for the Global South, let's welcome them to the Fediverse!

:Fediverse: https://paktodon.asia

Official description: "Paktodon.Asia is the online public square for the Global South - a safe 'azad' mastodon server for ordinary citizens, students, and activists, to share, learn, grow, and collaborate in. Though we are all pakistani, Paktodon.Asia is open to friends from across the world!"

#FeaturedServer #Asia #GlobalSouth #Pakistan #Pakistani #Mastodon #Fediverse


#Twitter copies #mastodon with their emoji in names 😂

Saw this emoji on twitter account and copied it then boom, I'm twitter now


@Gargron

What to say, this is probably the worst smear campaign I have seen for now and I can't say that I'm sorry because people like
@vyr exist cause it's not our fault that they are as they are.

The only thing I would like to ask you is to not even answer this kind of "sh**". It's your precious time and your life and it's up to you in what to invest it.

Give them "cookies" by paying attention and they will never let you go.

Please!
Just ignore and go on, as hard as it is.

#mastodon


I'd love to see these three new official #Mastodon instances:

social.whitehouse.gov
social.senate.gov
social.house.gov

And everyone gets an account during their tenure on their respective instance.


“Among the unexpected sources of support for the magazine was the #fediverse—the collection of decentralized Mastodon servers that soared in popularity following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. Many comments on the GoFundMe page mention that the donors learned about the Observer through #Mastodon—where the Texas Observer was one of the first journalistic outlets to set up its own server, @jamescanup said.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/29/texas-observer-closing-gofundme via Guardian

#TexasNeedsAnObserver #mastodon #journalism


Its really a pleasure using @elk to browse #Mastodon

https://elk.zone/


"Asteroid 2023 DZ2 will pass Earth more than 100,000 miles (161,000 km) away–about half the distance to the Moon–making its close approach at 3:51 p.m. EDT (12:51 p.m. PDT)."

Live cameras catch the action.
T minus 6 minutes.

#mastodon #saturday #Funny #starwars


After a couple of days on #Mastodon I’m very impressed & excited to be part of this growing community! #mastodonmigration

My only humble suggestion is that it needs more tardigrades aka "water bears."

Tardigrades have survived every mass #extinction on Earth since they evolved about a 1/2 billion years ago. There are ~1,300 known species. And millions of years from now, they won’t even notice we’re gone. #SharedPlanet

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