Three years ago today, we opened the doors to our corner of the Fediverse. 💙

What started as an idea has grown into a friendly space for good conversations, smart humor, and authentic interactions. It’s been amazing watching this community grow with all of you.

Thank you to everyone who’s shared, posted, and made Vivaldi Social part of their online space. You’ve helped shape this community into what it is today.

Here’s to everyone who’s been part of it, and to all the new voices we’ll meet along the way.

Happy 3rd birthday, Vivaldi Social! 🎉

- Team Vivaldi

#VivaldiSocial #Fediverse #Mastodon #Community

WIRED: Would you welcome president Trump if he was debating joining bluesky?

@jay.bsky.team: Yeah, #bluesky is for everyone.

...

I understand that #ATproto should be for everyone, but decentralization means you don't have to allow everyone on your server. They can run their own and everyone can decide how to deal with that. The company doesn't need to make these decisions. She knows this.

I doubt @Gargron would welcome him on #mastodon infrastructure.

bsky.app/profile/homelandgov.b…

@carmen_hercar hat gebeten persönliche Symbol fürs Internet mitzubringen.

@melaniebartos mit ihrem Symbol für das Internet und einem besonderen Ort dort, dem #Fediverse. ✨

Das #Plushtodon ist das Maskottchen von #Mastodon " title=""/> Dieses Exemplar der @uniinnsbruck hört auf dem Namen Federike. 🤗

@wuv

Our #Plushtodon is now in charge of hallway morale. So far, doing great. 🐘

#Mastodon #Photography #Office #Plushies #Oslo

🌊 🦣 🙏

#plushtodon #mastodon #fediverse

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

#Caturday #mastodon

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 colino.net/wordpress/en/mastod…

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

Here it is! Our metalhead.club public advert in Wacken!

Thank you very much @MountainWizard for checking it out!

If you're in Wacken today or in the next few days: Find our advert at Hauptstraße 33 and maybe take a selfie? 😉

(are we the first Mastodon instance that has publicly deployed an advert?)

#woa #wacken #metal #metalheadclub #festival #mastodon

Mastodon is adding a way for people to donate.

news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-in-a…

#mastodon #privacy

Mastodon Wants Funding and Won't Mind Nudging You for Donation

This small change could help support Mastodon.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

Is there a way to remove "Trending now" from the settings so that the column I get in this is not something to be scrolled? It looks terrible on deck mode @vmstan with half scrollable, half stuck there (the trending hashtags).

vmst.io/deck/getting-started

@Gargron

#mastodon

vmst·io

Mastodon for respectful technologists, geeks and nerds of every type and stripe.

^{Mastodon hosted on vmst.io}

Is #cve_2025_6019 an option for you?

(Edit: had to remove the / variant, #Mastodon doesn't do nested-obsidian-style variants either 😀

In ihrer Sonderausgabe „Die besten Einfälle des 21. Jahrhunderts“ beschreibt die #zeit auch #mastodon .
Das ist dann die Rubrik „Die besten digitalen Begleiter […]“.

Zitat:
„[…] bis heute versprüht Mastodon den spröden Charme der Informatik-AG eines kleinstädtischen Gymnasiums. Und trotzdem ist das Netzwerk eine Hoffnungsmaschine für alle, die an ein anderes, besseres Internet glauben […]“

Kann man so stehenlassen, denke ich. Mich freut die Erwähnung.

@Gargron zur Info.

"Vermissen Sie das #Twitter von damals?"

Danke @afelia ❤ #Mastodon

Hoy retomamos esta serie de testimonios sobre la experiencia en el #fediverso

#Mastodon mucho más que una alternativa a...

sursiendo.org/2022/11/mastodon…

Mastodon: mucho más que una alternativa a… | Sursiendo

Ante una nueva oleada migratoria usuaries de Mastodon nos cuentan su experiencia habitando una red social libre y descentralizada.

^{sursiendo (Sursiendo)}

I’m proud to be joining @Mastodon’s Board of Directors to guide and support this important platform.

I believe that #Mastodon and the #Fediverse represent some of the most important advancements in social networking design and technology. They have the potential to reverse the harms wrought by the monolithic social media platforms of yesterday.

But even more than that, Mastodon and the Fediverse can be so much more than what we are against. We have so much potential. I believe in all of our power to build and change the world. We start by building and convening in healthier online communities because our strength together is far more than the sum of our differences. I believe in building technologies that help bring out the best in humanity; I believe in the amazing things we can do and be when we work together.

I love Mastodon. I love what we are and what we will be. Now let’s build a better world together 💞

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/…

@evan

any chance of getting #DemocracyNow on the fedi? at least an account but maybe a #mastodon server for staff or a #peertube or #owncast site for video...

the great promise of the #SocialWeb imo is that we can address the Chomsky concerns re attention. that the people not money can finally determine what info, ideas and art go viral. seems perfectly in line with the DN mission.

@mondoweiss is blazing the trail for establishing true indy media for the dissident left here.

Every time i read in the announcements something like "Events and team news" I'm hopping to see something like "there are events now in Mastodon".
But then i realize it's just there events 😢

Events are really the thing, why I'm still using Facebook

#Mastodon

Ich habe gerade den "Leitfaden für den Instanz-Betrieb im dezentralen Netzwerk - Datenschutz bei Mastodon" von gefunden.
Dieser gibt neben grundsätzlichen Informationen auf was Instanzbetreiber achten müssen, vor allem auch eine sehr praktische Sammlung an Musterdokumenten unter CC BY-ND 4.0-Lizenz. Ihr könnt es also für euere Instanzen anpassen und nutzen.

Auch relevant für @Friendica Admins / @Friendica Support

Auf einem abstrakten Niveau sind die Anforderungen, die wir beschreiben, auch auf andere Plattformen des Fediverse übertragbar. Dennoch gibt es einige Aspekte, die von der konkreten Plattform und Software-Implementierung abhängen. So sind zum Beispiel die Möglichkeiten, rechtliche Texte einzubinden und anzuzeigen, unterschiedlich.

Danke@DS_Stiftung@social.bund.de

stiftungdatenschutz.org/praxis…

#impressum #dsgvo #fediverse #friendica #mastodon #tos #deutschland #datenschutz

Praktische Umsetzung und Musterdokumente

Die Stiftung Datenschutz wurde im Januar 2013 von der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als Stiftung privaten Rechts gegründet. Sie ist gemeinnützig und verfolgt keine gewerblichen Interessen.

^{stiftungdatenschutz.org}

Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.

We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.

URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.

Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites 🌐

action.openrightsgroup.org/sav…

#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #fediverse #ukpolitics #ukpol #activitypub #mastodon #netplurality

Save our sites - Write to your MP

Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act.

^{Open Rights Group}

We at Vivaldi are the only browser company with a Mastodon server. We have chosen to support the Fediverse in every way we can. We will continue to do so as we need options away from Big Tech.

social.vivaldi.net/

#Vivaldi @Vivaldi #Mastodon #fediverse

Vivaldi Social

Vivaldi Social is part of the Mastodon network and is hosted in Iceland by the makers of Vivaldi Browser. Everyone is welcome to join.

^{Mastodon hosted on Vivaldi Social}

Bringing this highly requested feature to #Mastodon and the fediverse is not as trivial as some might think, but quote posts are coming. Here is our latest write-up about our progress:

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/…