🥳 Say goodbye to #YouTube - we've launched our official channel on #PeerTube!

🔗 Find (and follow) us here: https://video.edu.nl/c/bibliothecaris_channel

We're in the early stages, so expect more videos, refined descriptions, and fine-tuning coming soon.

A big thank you to @SURF for making this possible. This is an exciting step for us 🚀

#DigitalAutonomy #OpenScience #video #Fediverse

Das wunderbare Fediverse-Erklärvideo von Elena Rossini @_elena gibt es jetzt nochmal neu auf Deutsch eingesprochen – und es macht den Einstieg so viel klarer für alle, die bisher dachten, das Fediverse sei „kompliziert“.

Elena zeigt knapp, präzise und mit viel Herz, warum freie, dezentrale soziale Medien wichtig sind und wie unser digitales Miteinander besser gelingen kann.

https://digitalcourage.video/w/p4VBLACzX1sFG1YfVs1JEB

#Fediverse #Erklärvideo #deutsch

@TheDailyBurble

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Dendrobatus_Azureus/115622819270261339

#FediVerse #Mastodon #technology #programming #defederation #moderation #power #donations

@admin

When I joined years ago it was easy. I picked a server at random. I chose the server from the rotating list that you see when you go to Mastodon. It was a server that immediately allowed you to post.

Just like with MMORPG {massive multiplayer online role-playing games}, I knew that I needed accounts on different servers.

So I created other accounts on other servers which had good up times from the beginning.

There was a rotating list you could choose from that you immediately saw, when you were first confronted with a FediVerse.

The default client never adviced you to join mastodon.social on the contrary

From my POV it's still easy. However that can differ for the casual user

#FediVerse #Mastodon #technology #programming #defederation #moderation #power #donations

@guyjantic

There is no one entity who does that {<dis>allowing}

The fact that mastodon.social changed "without warning* the **critical policy** of rotating suggested servers, is highly suspect of a corporate entity pulling strings {read USD / EUR payment}.

This is conjecture, it is not factual, I can't prove it.

The fact however that I'm bringing my mind to that level, means that trust has been broken in the mastodon.social server, which abused the official clients they code, to plug their server, negating the many smaller servers growth.

Mastodon.social has the same weight as any other Federated Server.

We should not have let it come so far. It's become a mammoth that needs to be brought back in line.

Complacency brought us to this level

#FediVerse #Mastodon #technology #programming #defederation #moderation #power #donations

Für alle, denen das vielleicht nicht bewusst ist:
Jeder (text-basierte) FediVerse-Account kann per RSS-Feed abonniert werden.
Das ist elementarer Bestandteil des ActivityPub-Protokolls.
Korrektur:
RSS ist nicht im ActivityPub-Protokoll spezifiziert.
Da habe ich mich vor absenden nicht gut genug informiert, sorry.

"Geschützter Account", "geblockt", spielt alles keine Rolle.
Alles, was ihr (ich auch) hier persönliches, privates, intimes, usw. *öffentlich* schreibt, können sich Personen in ihren RSS-Reader importieren und darüber lesen, inkl. Antworten, die ihr an andere schreibt, inkl. geboostete Beiträge.
(Gilt wohl nicht für Beiträge, die "nur an Folgende" gehen.)

Das FediVerse ist also kein "geschlossener, geschützter Raum", kein "Silo", nicht nur eine App auf eurem Smartphone, sondern u.U. eine (quasi-öffentliche) Web-Anwendung.

Klar, ein "geblockter" Account kann nicht mit eurem Account interagieren, lesen per RSS aber weiterhin.

Egal, ob zB
ard.social/@tagesschau.rss
troet.cafe/@ndaktuell.rss
climatejustice.global/@parents4future.rss

Ich verlinke hier bewusst mal keine privaten Accounts, das könnt ihr selber testen.

Wobei es einzelne Instanzen gibt, bei denen kein RSS aktiviert ist.
Sollte das bei eurer Instanz der Fall sein, könnt ihr ja gerne hier kommentieren.

Vielleicht ja auch interessant für alle, die #NeuHier sind.

#FediVerse #RSS #ActivityPub

Another critical section highlighted

Guarding our Federated Network is critical for the infrastructure.
The change is IMHO not just irresponsible, it's a deliberate concentration of users.

Luckily we can reverse the trend, if needed without the blessings of mastodon.social

#FediVerse #Mastodon #technology #programming #defederation #moderation #power #donations

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auch als PDF:

https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/UFzlUxW6XNLldSmBtotXBiDH

und in eigener Sache, möchte Ich hier auf meinen kleinen #PeerTube Kanal, aufmerksam machen. 😘
@tuxsoulslikegame

#Datenschutz
#Privatsphäre
#sicherheit
#Chatkontrolle
#Linux
#Endof10
#UnplugTrump
#Windows
#AI
#Fediverse
#Mastodon

Alt...

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Heute gibt es zum Fruehstueck mal was auf die Ohren 👉 https://share.transistor.fm/s/c63b8efd

Die Story rund um "Die Familienunternehmer" & die #AfD habt ihr vielleicht mitbekommen. Jetzt treten nicht nur Unternehmen wie #Rossmann & #Vorwerk schnell aus, die #Wikipedia Seite des Verbandes erlebt ein Aenderungs-Feuerwerk, welches an ein Liveblogging eines NBA-Spiels erinnert.

Moin #Fediverse & euch einen gesunden Start in diesen Donnerstag.

Wuerde mich freuen, wenn ihr den Beitrag boosten koenntet.

Danke 🙏

Essayez-le MAINTENANT ! Découvrez la puissance de Phanpy sur notre instance BlablaLinux : https://phanpy.blablalinux.be

Rendez votre Fediverse plus léger ! 💡

#BlablaLinux #Fediverse #OpenSource #WebClient

Our democratic public sphere needs open networks!

Together with @offene_netzwerke we demand that public money be invested into Free Software and in open, decentralised infrastructures.

Read our demands (en/de/fr), published this week:
https://offene-netzwerke.eu/forderungen/

#FreeSoftware #PublicCode #OpenSource #Fediverse #EUsummit25 @BMDS

Just realized my #Mastodon instance posts have a 500-character limit. Tried to find how to change that, and holy fucking code, there are some political and philosophical discussions going on for 6 fucking years already: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/12265

#opensource #foss #fediverse #justwhy

Bonjour le fediverse francophone !

Je lance un petit sondage pour savoir si vous êtes majoritairement à l'aise avec l'anglais en lecture (pour des posts, pas forcément un article mis en lien), ou si vous laissez tomber quand vous croisez des posts en anglais :
#sondage #Francophonie #francophone #anglais #anglophone #lecture #fediverse #langue #traduction

Repouets bienvenus pour rendre le sondage plus représentatif !

It's Tuesday afternoon here.
It's cold outside, so I'm already home.
Relaxing with some music.

Have a great [morning, afternoon, evening, night], #BSDCafe
Have a great [morning, afternoon, evening, night], #illumosCafe
Have a great [morning, afternoon, evening, night], #Fediverse

https://song.link/s/7io1erAh1tMxG5VMBC8rVw

#Music #MastoMusic #MastoRadio #FediMusic #FediRadio #JukeBox

MAGA BASED IN RUSSIA!

MANY, MANY MAGA X Accounts Supporting Trump Based In Eastern EUROPE!

A new update to X that shows the country or region where a user is based has revealed some popular accounts—many of which post wildly partisan support Trump—aren’t even United States-based, though they claim to be American!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump #socialmedia #Fediverse #trending #Trump

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/11/24/these-big-political-x-accounts-apparently-arent-us-based-exposed-by-new-x-update/

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Trump's KGB codename is Krasnov

Hello #Fediverse it is time once again for the #Blog to ask for your favourite album from a particular year. As always you can give as may honourable mentions as you like, just make it clear which one is your overall choice. So in order to determine the album of the year as chosen by users of the Fediverse for 1997, what have you got? (Previous years in following post)

Mastodon, Matrix, ActivityPub, XMPP, ATProto. whatever your flavor of decentralization is, there’s room for you.

Submit your proposal to the Decentralized Communication devroom at FOSDEM before the end of this week!

https://fosdem.org/submit

#FOSDEM #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Some good news! The NOS, our country's main news media channel, will not be posting on X anymore. It's about time. #fediverse

https://over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-plaatst-vanaf-vandaag-geen-nieuwsberichten-meer-op-x/

I remember joining the fediverse and staring at this empty feed, feeling completely lost. Coming from algorithms that constantly fed me content, the silence was disorienting. Like everyone else knew where the party was and I was just standing in an empty room.

So I built @hypebot to fix that. It finds quality trending posts across instances and boosts them to your feed, so you get to discover what's happening across the fediverse without the algorithmic manipulation you left behind.

If your feed feels empty right now, give it a follow. It's there to help.

#Fediverse #FediTips #trending #mastodon #goingdark

I left mainstream platforms completely burned out and found the fediverse, and god it felt like I could finally breathe again without someone tracking every single thing I did.

But even here I kept wondering who actually protects my data when someone comes asking for it, and I realized I didn't want to trust anyone else with that answer.

So I run https://goingdark.social now because I wanted that certainty for myself and my community. When someone demands data or tries to shut down what we talk about, I'm the one who gets to say no and take whatever comes with that.

I pay for this out of pocket because it matters to me, and your admin is probably doing the same thing, maybe a father of three running a server from his home office, a single mom keeping her community safe between work shifts, an older gentleman who remembers what the internet used to feel like before corporations owned everything.

That's how this whole thing works, regular people running small spaces because they care, all of us building something no single company or government can control. We're doing this together and every small instance matters.

Support your local instance admin however you can. They're keeping this alive for all of us.

#Fediverse #Privacy #Decentralization #supportyourlocalinstance #mastodon #socialmedia

@ricci @FediGarden

Sublime thank you for sharing this amazing code!

https://moderation-explorer.online/

#Programming #FediVerse #moderation #explorer #online

Liebes #fediverse kennt evtl. jemand Untersuchung dazu, wieviel traffic / Rechenzentren-Kapazität eigentlich für Leerlauf oder bloßen Komfort drauf geht; lässt sich das solide bestimmen?

Wenn man z.B. sagen würde: ich abonniere eine Streaming-Show, aber ich muss die neueste Folge nicht unmittelbar immer am Release-Tag sehen (Freitags bin ich ohnehin zu kaputt), dann könnte die Folge doch ganz in Ruhe und mit niedrigerer Bandbreite (/Latenz?) auf mein Gerät tröpfeln und da auf mich warten, oder?

mastodon.social has a spammer problem. I have increased my blocks 300% today, all were from mastodon.social.

Perhaps they've always had it and I just didn't see them (due to using Akkoma at the time, which has great spam protection) but now when I'm on other services (Sharkey) it is glaringly obvious the problem is mastodon.social.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

#OverUnder 043 with @jasper

He's a technical director that @florianziegler suggested to me.

I found out that we have many interests in common, such as #fixies, #vim and #cameras.

So, of course, he had to be invited to his series.

Today, he shares his thoughts on #Kaweco Sport, #Airtags, #fixies, split #keyboards, and #crisps.

#books #bookstodon #bicycles #photography #mechanicalKeyboards #fountainPens #blog #fediverse #mastodon

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-043

Sometimes my soul rises and becomes a white cloud drifting across the sky. It watches, lives in the sunlight, stays quiet and, when it feels sorrow, it cries.
Yet the sky above it is, and will always be, bright and blue.

Have a great week, #BSDCafe
Have a great week, #illumosCafe
Have a great week, #Fediverse

#FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Sky #Clouds #NewWeek

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A wide blue sky holds a soft, bright cloud drifting gently above a layer of lighter mist, glowing in the midday light.

Liebes #fediverse,

meine bald 80-jährige Mama leidet an #Vorhofflimmern und soll sich auf Anraten ihres Arztes eine #Fitnessuhr zulegen, die dies und andere Unregelmäßigkeiten ihres Herzens erkennen kann. Sie hat ein iPhone, mit dem sie gut zurecht kommt. Wir haben über eine #Garmin oder eine #AppleWatch nachgedacht, aber keine*r von uns Kindern kennt sich wirklich aus damit.
Habt ihr Erfahrungen oder Tipps?
Tausend Dank vorab 🫶🏻

Does this also apply to the #Fediverse in #Australia 🇦🇺 as well‽

👉🏾 #Meta gives Australian kids 2-week warning to delete accounts as world-first social media age restrictions loom https://www.cbsnews.com/news/australia-social-media-ban-children-meta-warns-kids-delete-accounts/

Good Morning Fediverse!
Finally browsing here after almost a week.

#Coffee #GoodMorning #Aeropress #Weekend #Fediverse

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A little setup making coffee with aeroprres

How far will it go this time?
This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more.
That's #Sharkey, #Misskey, #Pixelfed, #Mbin, #Lemmy, #Friendica, #Hometown, #Akkoma…

If you see it, please share it.

#SocialMedia @fediverse

First results 👇🏼

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GRaph showing the share of shares from Mastodon etc.

🆕 blog! “Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!”

How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.

Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/now-witness-the-power-of-this-fully-operational-fediverse/
⸻
#ActivityPub #BlueSky #fediverse #mastodon #statistics

Ehrliche Analyse über die Situation in der #Ukraine - Es ist erschreckend zu sehen das immer noch so viele dies ignorieren und wir in Europe immer noch den USA hinterherlaufen. Wir müssen uns endlich auf uns selbst konzentrieren. Persönlich vermeide ich so viel US Produkte wie derzeit möglich. #Linux #Foss #Opensource #noBigTech #Fediverse

https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/politik/Was-Jaeger-an-Trumps-Ukraine-Plan-wirklich-beunruhigt-id30055213.html

und

https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/politik/Navidi-Oligarchen-sitzen-in-den-USA-direkt-in-der-Regierung-id30058479.html

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auch als PDF:

https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/6M62aD9+qLS1ojbtcxVi8DLI/

#Datenschutz
#Privatsphäre
#sicherheit
#Chatkontrolle
#Linux
#Endof10
#UnplugTrump
#Windows
#AI
#Fediverse
#Mastodon

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Meine IT Datenschutz Liste für alle !! 2025

@FediGarden #mastodonSocial seems to have become the #twitter of the #fediverse. If the percentage of #badApples is constant, they obviously have the most. It is obviously against the ideals that created the whole thing. Size breeds power, and power corrupts.
#SupportYourLocalInstance! Local with respect to interests, not necessarily geography.

Raw numbers are perhaps not enough to get across just how bad the centralisation of the Fediverse by mastodon.social is. I've done a chart to show this visually, hopefully this will make the situation clearer?

Given the circumstances, getting people to join other servers except mastodon.social would greatly help decentralise the Fediverse. It's no longer big vs medium vs small, it's more like supergiant deathstar mastodon.social vs everyone else 😞

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonSocial

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Graph showing twelve different Mastodon servers with their percentage of the active Fediverse on the Y axis. Mastodon.social has almost 30% of active Fediverse users while all other servers have about 1% or less. Caption under chart says "Largest Mastodon servers vs % of active Fediverse, 21st November 2025, data from FediDB.com" Another caption next to the bar for mastodon.social says "Percentage occupied by mastodon.social is growing! It used to be less than 15%! JoinMastodon.org and official Mastodon apps are STILL promoting mastodon.social!"

Flipping.rocks is a Hometown Mastodon server for people who appreciate arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, fungi etc. and helping other people appreciate them. If you want a general Fediverse home that’s okay too.

This server has a post size of up to 5000 characters.

https://flipping.rocks

You can find out more at https://flipping.rocks/about or contact the admin account @a

#FeaturedServer #Arthropods #Amphibians #Reptiles #Fungi #Hometown #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/now-witness-the-power-of-this-fully-operational-fediverse/

How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.

Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog from each site. It is an imperfect measure - and a vain one - but lets me know where I should be spending my time. No point posting on a network which is just bots talking to each other, right?

Earlier this year I built a stats-counter for my blog. Every time someone clicks from a website which links to my blog, it records that visit in a database. I get to see which blog posts are doing numbers, and where those numbers came from.

Until fairly recently, the Mastodon social network didn't send referer details. I thought that reduced the visibility of the network and lobbied for it to change. As various Mastodon servers upgrade, and admins opt-in, it is becoming more apparent just how much traffic originates from the Fediverse.

Over the last few weeks, here's how many people have clicked from BlueSky and Mastodon to one of my blog posts.

Total

Source

1,607

bsky.app

752

mastodon.social

At first glance, it doesn't look good for our elephantine friends, does it? The butterfly sends over twice the traffic. Game over!

But, of course, while Mastodon.social is the biggest instance - it is far from the only one. What happens if we slide down the long tail? Here's all the Mastodon-ish instances which sent me over 10 clicks.

Total

Source

193

phanpy.social

120

android-app://org.joinmastodon.android/

106

infosec.exchange

62

mas.to

59

mstdn.social

55

social.vivaldi.net

49

wandering.shop

48

fosstodon.org

33

mathstodon.xyz

27

mastodon.online

26

mastodon.scot

24

app.wafrn.net

19

indieweb.social

18

social.lol

17

tech.lgbt

17

toot.wales

16

en.osm.town

16

feditrends.com

14

mstdn.ca

14

piefed.social

12

wetdry.world

11

c.im

11

mastodon.nl

51

Sites sending < 10 clicks

Ah! Add them all up and you get a grand total of 1,773 visitors from Mastodon-powered sites. That's more than BlueSky.

Now, there are some obvious caveats to the data:

• I have a smaller follower count on BlueSky than I do on Mastodon.
• My posts may appeal more to one demographic than another.
• People may have strict privacy controls which suppress the true volume of visitors.
• There's no way to measure how long someone spends reading my posts.
• RSS and newsletter visitors aren't counted.
• Clicks from apps may not always show a referer.
• Some people may be on multiple services.
• Fediverse users can follow the post directly, so don't need to visit the site to read it.

And yet… no matter how you slice it, Fediverse servers are sending as much traffic as BlueSky!

I think this is brilliant. Web services should be able to scale from small to big - and each ActivityPub-powered site helps power the open Internet.

Just for completeness, this is how Reddit, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Lemmy do over the same period:

Total

Source

1,158

reddit.com

585

android-app://com.reddit.frontpage/

76

facebook.com

76

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/

56

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/

52

youtube.com

41

t.co

38

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nsw7f4/til_in_mongolia_instead_of_a_street_address_a/

31

linkedin.com

27

android-app://io.syncapps.lemmy_sync/

27

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nsw7f4/til_in_mongolia_instead_of_a_street_address_a/

22

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1n96ftn/40_years_later_are_bentleys_programming_pearls/

22

lemmy.ca

17

android-app://com.linkedin.android/

16

lemmy.dbzer0.com

14

feddit.org

11

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1n96ftn/40_years_later_are_bentleys_programming_pearls/

10

discuss.tchncs.de

10

l.instagram.com

8

lemmy.blahaj.zone

6

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1m2l84b/considering_making_the_switch_does_google_pay/

6

reddthat.com

If you add up all the Lemmy instances, they send about as much traffic as Facebook and LinkedIn combined. That's not a huge surprise - those platforms hate anyone clicking away to the wider web.

Twitter is basically the Dead Internet. I'm no longer on there, but I do occasionally search it to see who is sharing my posts. The popular posts I write get shared a lot - sometimes by accounts with huge followers - yet there are no comments or retweets and barely and clicks.

I don't do Instagram or Threads, and that might be reflected in their low numbers. But I'm not active on YouTube either - yet people there occasionally link back to me.

Final Thoughts

Firstly, my stats only represent my site. Your site might be very different.

Secondly, I've ignored search engine traffic, big blogs, newsletters, and other sources.

Thirdly, and most importantly, this isn't a competition! The desire for a "winner-takes-all" service is dangerous and disturbing. An ecosystem is at its most vibrant when there are multiple participants each thriving in their own niche.

I want a thousand sites, running a hundred different software stacks, some of which only serve a dozen people, or even a lone participant.

Diversity is strength.

#activitypub #bluesky #fediverse #mastodon #statistics

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Logo for ActivityPub.

Plot twist: TikTok's "secret sauce" is recommendation ML + video encoding (likely ffmpeg like the rest of us).

They built their empire on open source foundations.

We're doing the same with @loops but keeping it open, federated, and yours.

The magic was open source all along.

Who's really disrupting who?

https://joinloops.org/why-loops-matters

#loops #fediverse #tikTok #activityPub

The other day was my 3-year #fediversary, which I missed because I thought it was 3 days later. 🙄

Regardless, Mastodon continues to be the greatest place to be. The wide range of people I’ve connected with, the number of things I’ve learned, staying informed. I love how the people here are generally positive and supportive. I’m always amazed at how engaged people can be about the most obscure topics, which are often fascinating to learn exist. Not that it’s about numbers, but I have more followers here, and I’ve posted nearly twice as much here than in 13 years on the bad place.

The world can be *A LOT* some days, but dropping in on the #fediverse each day always leads to seeing amazing things that people create, which is a reminder that most people aren’t awful. More often than not, my project list is always in danger of expanding as a result.

Keep being awesome, everyone! Especially those of you in the #FreeCAD community.

I think it's time to write an #introduction for this account as well!

I'm Stefano Marinelli, Barista of the illumos Cafe and the BSD Cafe. I'm a technology and open source enthusiast, a strong advocate for #OwnYourData, and against computer monoculture, even when it comes to open source solutions.

I've been active in the #Fediverse for years and am a firm believer in it. I decided to found this Cafe to bring the positive spirit of the BSD Cafe to curious and passionate users of #illumos based operating systems (#OmniOS, #SmartOS, #Tribblix, #OpenIndiana, etc.).

I'll mainly use this account for content related to this instance and illumos-based operating systems, while my account at the BSD Cafe - @stefano@bsd.cafe - remains my primary one.

For more information about the illumos Cafe, you can read the introductory post here: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

#illumosCafe #BSDCafe

Randomly thinking of that glorious moment in time over four years ago when @jz made a poll with three options: R, G, B, and fedi collectively created a color: Fédi-vert.

https://mamot.fr/@jz/106002949694434169

#Fediverse

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Single-color background, a very calm, low-intensity shade of green.

Is there a #Mastodon app for #iOS that have a ”notify me about replies to this post”, just like one can subscribe to notifications for comments on Facebook?

#Fediverse

#hubzilla #fediverse #nomad