Hey @MonaApp - I really love the app, been using it since launch. Ever considered having an option for full width text and images vs. having the empty space?

#mastodon #fediverse

@sozialkaufhaus_mainz

Herzlich willkommen bei #Mastodon bzw. im #Fediverse 👍 🙂

@UFC

Herzlich willkommen bei #Mastodon bzw. im #Fediverse 👍🙂

Updating Mastodon: 20 minutes
Updating snac2: 2 minutes

#fediverse #mastodon #snac #snac2 #activitypub

Mastodon's latest version has the ability to fetch missing replies from a conversation (under an experimental flag, not enabled by default).

This is a big deal, especially for smaller instances. Mastodon joins other platforms - of which I know of: Streams, GoToSocial, IceShrimp.NET and Bonfire - that pull back replies on request.

The hard work on the backend is done, and now there needs to be a discussion about how this interaction works as part of the user experience.

#Mastodon #Fediverse

Paar spannende Updates #mastodon

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/mastodon-4.4/

Mastodon ist jetzt offiziell „Digital Public Good“ – also digitales öffentliches Gut – und steht damit auf einer UN-Liste neben Projekten wie Wikipedia oder LibreOffice. Das Fediverse bekommt damit Rückenwind als gemeinwohlorientierte Alternative zu Big Tech. Anerkannt wurde Mastodon von der Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA), einer Initiative der UN. Die Kriterien: Open Source, Datenschutz, kein Konzerninteresse. Für alle, die digital unabhängig und demokratisch kommunizieren wollen, ist das ein starkes Signal.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #DigitalPublicGood #UN #DigitaleDemokratie #BigTechAlternativen

https://blog.campact.de/2025/06/mastodon-ist-als-digitales-oeffentliches-gut-anerkannt/

But as things are right now, Mastodon and its religiously faithful followers can and do declare Mastodon and the way things are done on and by Mastodon the one and only valid standard. They even declare anything that works differently from Mastodon broken. And they can easily get away with it.

In fact, if certain Fediverse server applications preferred compliance with actual standards to compatibility with Mastodon, it's them who'd be on the losing side whereas Mastodon, where probably over 99% of all content are from within Mastodon itself, won't lose anything. Not unless all those that are perceived as add-ons to Mastodon (Pixelfed, PeerTube, Ghost, Flipboard etc.) follow suit.

But seriously, even if Flipboard changed its ways and went for actual standards compliance even if that meant breaking compatibility with Mastodon, then Mastodon wouldn't be convinced that following standards rather than forcing its own "standards" upon everyone is the better way to go. Rather, Flipboard and Mastodon would accuse each other of being broken by design.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Standards

#xmpp #Mastodon

@HauptstadtCanicross @anne_lienchen

Willkommen bei #Mastodon bzw. im #Fediverse 👍 🙂

@Simon27

Herzlich willkommen bei #Mastodon bzw. im #Fediverse 👍 🙂

My relay instance for the #Fediverse evolved in a great way - more than 120 instances are already connected to boost your posts across the Fediverse.

If you're running #snac / #snac2, #Mastodon, #Pleroma or any other software on the #ActivityPub protocol that supports relay instances - feel free to join the relay! Hopefully #GoToSocial also supports relay services soon! Of course #IPv6 is supported (for IPV6 only instances).

https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

#opensource #relay #ipv6 #community #homelab

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Screenshot of the overview page of fedi-relay.gyptazy.com showing more than 120 connected instances for a federated network within the Fediverse.

@slowrunner.dirk

Herzlich willkommen bei #Mastodon bzw. im #Fediverse 👍 🙂

@sefedin

Herzlich willkommen bei #Mastodon bzw. im #Fediverse 👍 🙂

The #Fediverse is growing and we're welcoming more and more new single user instances but #federation can become challenging.

With #Relay instances, single user and smaller instances can quickly become federated and grow which is supported by many Fediverse applications like #snac #snac2 #Mastodon #Pleroma etc.

More information at:
https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

#fedi #community #fediworld #federated #opensource #fedirelay

You might be interested in
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/01/29/improving-snac-performance-with-nginx-proxy-cache/
Seems this solves the 499 ngnix issue.
A bit caching if big payloads.

#snac2 #Mastodon #fediverse

I have it in my name field in #mastodon at nerdculture.de so it can definitely work in mastodon.if it is added at all. https://nerdculture.de/@menel

But it doesn't work with my current main profile with #snac but I love that I can add custom emojis there at all.

Short-Form Video length & size limits on different social-media platforms:

• Akkoma — size 16MB
• Bluesky — 180sec
• GoldFish — ?
• Instagram — 90sec
• Loops — 60sec
• Mastodon — size 99MB
• Misskey — size 250MB
• Pleroma — size 16MB
• TikTok — 600sec
• Threads — 300sec
• Twitter — 140sec, size 512MB
• Vidzy — 180sec, size 99MB
• YouTube — 180sec

#Akkoma #Bluesky #GoldFish #Instagram #Loops #Mastodon #Misskey #Pleroma #TikTok #Threads #Twitter #Vidzy #YouTube #ShortVideos #SocialMedia

Et vous, vous prenez lequel ? #coffee #morning #hello #bonjour #mastodon #bonnejournee

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Illustration humoristique représentant six hiboux anthropomorphiques, chacun incarnant un type de buveur de café avec des expressions et des styles distincts. En haut, un hibou blanc souriant représente 'Decaf' (décaféiné), un hibou brun ébouriffé illustre 'Half-Caf' (moitié caféiné), et un hibou aux sourcils froncés et aux yeux perçants symbolise 'Regular' (café normal). En bas, un hibou sombre et renfrogné représente 'Irish Coffee' (café irlandais), un hibou aux yeux exorbités incarne 'Espresso', et un petit hibou aux pupilles dilatées figure 'Double Espresso'. Le texte en haut de l’image joue sur un jeu de mots : 'A Hoo’s Hoo of Coffee Drinkers' (jeu de mots avec 'Who’s Who', signifiant 'Qui est qui', et 'hoo', rappelant le cri du hibou.

@joec

Welcome to #Mastodon/the #Fediverse 👍🙂

Where are the links to #Loops -videos here (#Mastodon, other #fediverse)? Saw a linked #kitten video today. Kay... BUT WE NEED MOAR!!!

Mich erreichen sehr viele positive Rückmeldungen zu meiner Social-Media-Auszeit! Vielen ❤ Dank dafür!

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/in-eigener-sache-warum-social-media-gerade-nichts-fuer-mich-ist/

#fediverse #mastodon #auszeit #bluesky #ichbindannmalweg

We're not only building Pixelfed, but also Loops, a TikTok alternative!

We need your support now more than ever, please spread the word about our Kickstarter!

The future is federated, and belongs to the people.

Boost if you agree ✨

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

#pixelfed #loops #fediverse #mastodon #kickstarter

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Loops app screenshot

Ich brauche mal #Fedihilfe

Bekannte von mir haben einen #Mastodon-Account. Mit diesem Account haben sie sich auch bei #Pixelfed angemeldet.
Nach meinem Verständnis sollte doch jetzt ein Toot, der ein Bild enthält auch immer auf Pixelfed gepostet werden, oder?!

ODER?😳

Stickers

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025 #SocialWebFOSDEM #Fediverse #Friendica #Hubzilla #Mastodon

"the Mastodon in the room"

— @matt

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025 #SocialWebFOSDEM #Fediverse #Mastodon #WriteFreely

Aus eher traurigen Gründen schaue ich mir mal wieder genauer @MonaApp an. Diese geteilte Ansicht ist ja völlig crazy 🙃 #mastodon #ios

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Geteilte Ansicht in der Mona-App

Global Switch Day. February 1st 2025.

Spread the word.

#mastodon #pixelfed #signal #friendica #peertube #loops

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A grid of six promotional panels for 'Global Switch Day' on February 1st, 2025, each showing a transition between social media platforms: X (formerly Twitter) to Mastodon Instagram to Pixelfed WhatsApp to Signal Facebook to Friendica YouTube to PeerTube TikTok to Loops.video Each panel uses distinctive brand colors and includes platform logos connected by arrows, suggesting a migration from mainstream to alternative social media platforms.

#HowTo install & run #snac on #FreeBSD - run your own #ActivityPub instance in the #Fediverse!

In the last days I often got asked about #snac / #snac2 as an alternative to #Mastodon and I can highly recommend it! I few months ago, I already wrote a HowTo about setting snac up on a FreeBSD instance - might be worth to share again :) if you’re using snac, you might also want to use my relay service at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com to make your posts more visible in the Fediworld.

#opensource #fediverse #fediworld #alternatives #community #FreeBSD #RUNBSD #BoxyBSD #activitypub #mastodon #relay #community #federated

https://gyptazy.com/install-snac2-on-freebsd-an-activitypub-instance-for-the-fediverse/

Just a few days ago, I lunched my new relay service for the #Fediverse and I'm really happy to see that there're already many ones connected to - more than 50 instances in just a few days!

But what makes me even really happy is to see, that my service [2] also gets linked in the release notes of #snac [1] / #snac2 - and I can recommend the usage of relay services (it doesn't matter which one!) to everyone. It provides more content from connected instances to you, but also brings your posts - from your local instance - up to other ones within the federated network where it can get much easier distributed around other instances.

#snac is the perfect way to host an own fediverse instance. Using the #ActivityPub protocol allows you to connect to all other instances. With the integrated #Mastodon API, you can also use most of your usual clients or web clients. Snac is light, fast, does not require any database and follows the KISS way - which the most of us BSD people are living. With relay services, it's the perfect match for singe-user instances and @grunfink is always open for ideas and to help! It does not always need to be #Mastodon, #GoToSocial etc!

And if you're using any other software, you may still benefit by using relay services. And if you're still looking for a guide, howto setup snac2 on #FreeBSD, my howto [3] might help you out.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
[2]: https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com
[3]: https://gyptazy.com/install-snac2-on-freebsd-an-activitypub-instance-for-the-fediverse/

#community #opensource #development #coding #c #clang #homelab #hosting #BSD #RUNBSD #Howto

Mastodon continues their iconic streak of fediverse innovation with their fediscovery project.

I look forward to working with @Mastodon to bring better discovery and search to Pixelfed and Loops.

This is the magic of the fediverse, no amount of VC funding could compete.

https://www.fediscovery.org

#mastodon #fediscovery

#CrazyFediverseAnalogies