What I'd like to see in the Fediverse or Mastodon built-in is an user controlled feed like FediAlgo. Chronological feed is nice, but I find myself using the Explore feature a lot and wanting more.

Current ongoing discussions:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33098
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/3782#issuecomment-2539744891

#Fediverse #Algorithm #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

🎄 You’re invited to the #OpenSocialWeb Holiday Party! 🎉

✨ Celebrate the magic of social media from real people - no ads, no algorithms, no influencers.

Explore platforms like #Mastodon, #PixelFed, and #Lemmy. It’s social media the way it should be. About you.

Come see our communities holiday cheer for yourself:
🌟 https://mastodon.social/tags/Happyholidays
🌟 https://pixelfed.social/i/web/hashtag/happyholidays

No signups, no apps - just real connections. 🎁

#Fediverse #SocialMedia #bluesky #threads #HappyHolidays

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A festive holiday invitation with red and green decorative elements. At the top, it says: “You are invited” in green text, followed by “Holiday Party” in large, festive red script. Below, the text reads: “Celebrate the magic of social media from real people, not algorithms or influencers.” In bold red, it highlights: “Open Social Web (the ‘Fediverse’).” A yellow box features links: •mastodon.social/tags/Happyholidays •pixelfed.social/i/web/hashtag/happyholidays The bottom text reads: “Come see what user-owned social looks like! No signups or apps!” with decorative holiday graphics of reindeer, gingerbread people, and ornaments surrounding the design.

@dansup

#Loops, #Mastodon, #Peertube or #Lemmy are really nice. But without any algorithm to at least sort the content by topic, I have to admit the #Fediverse is really hard to use.

The discover page on Loops shows this in a very drastic way. There is nothing, you need to search for usernames.

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27188

Two of three GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks passed, which is a good sign; hopefully the others will pass without issues.

As usual, it's up to others with commit access to merge it!

Thanks again for your and others' continued improvements to snac! Specifically I noticed shout outs to nowster and Shamar in the RELEASE_NOTES.md and I seem to recall watching the discourse about the PID locking suggested and discussed rather collaboratively too!

(My apologies for the delay. The Makefile was slightly modified, which in turn broke the $files/Makefile.patch applied by MacPorts so I needed to rework that which took me a bit longer than usual given other work obligations I have had today.

Though not a concern for upstream, for MacPorts users I also noticed the following warning when running % port test:

"Warning: violation by /opt/local/man
Warning: snac violates the layout of the ports-filesystems!
Warning: Please fix or indicate this misbehavior (if it is intended), it will be an error in future releases!"

Though, it appears as if the man pages are where I think they should be for MacPorts? I have never seen that Warning before, so my guess is something about MacPorts intended prescriptive behavior has been changed but I am not exactly certain what the expected behavior is supposed to be now? I will look into it further, but hopefully it isn't a concern for users at the moment; just thought I would mention it for the sake of being thorough!

However, it's entirely possible I messed something up too; so if others with greater wisdom than I see that Warning and know what to do to correct it, or if they encounter any other issues with MacPorts' snac, others are more than welcome to submit Pull Requests with improvements! Or feel free to open up an issue on MacPorts Trac instance at https://trac.macports.org and I'll look into it.)

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither#NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27028/

2 out of 3 of GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks have passed (and the third is running and hopefully will as well).

As in the past, I don't have commit access, so it's up to someone else to merge it.

Thank you for the continued improvements and bug fixes!

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither#NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

Ich habe mir in meiner #Mastodon-#Pause eine #Kamera gekauft. (Übersprungshandlung würde wohl der kluge @tomatensson dazu sagen…) und war damit aber vor der Arbeit (muss da gleich hin) noch im #BotanischerGartenRostock (Kasusfehlerhashtag!) und habe u.A. dieses #Eichhörnchen / diesen #Katteiker noch fotografiert und wollte ihn mit euch teilen... Habt einen guten Tag!

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Ein Eichhörnchen sitzt in einer Tanne auf einem Ast. Man sieht den weißen Bauch. Es kuckt nach leicht rechts. Sieht sehr süß aus. Und hat rotes Fell.

Ich bin wieder da, #Moin! 😊
I'm back.
Ick bün all wedder t'rüg!

Vielleicht vertell ich demnächst so Eindrücke aus meiner #Mastodon -#Pause...
Oder so...
Schönen Abend euch erstmal! 💚

I have paused dev on my Starter Kit project APSKA for 1 week to focus on @loops and @pixelfed

I noticed that Mastodon and others are working on them now, so I will circle back in a week when I have time to bring it to fruition, if my colleagues haven't shipped yet.

#starterKits #fediverse #mastodon

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26783

GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are currently running (two are queued. Hopefully those will go smoothly, but I know at least one of them in particular seems to take an awfully long time recently).

Thanks again to you and other snac contributors for continuing to improve what continues to be my favorite ActivityPub implementation!

Oh, also since this PR was merged: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26633 It appears as if snac is now building correctly on older versions of OS X that were throwing up errors in under "Port Health" from https://ports.macports.org/port/snac/details/ I do have older Mac systems, but wasn't testing on much older OS versions, so I kind of turned a blind eye to the errors that IIRC were showing up on OS X High Sierra back through Lion? Those seem to be working now too! (Though again, I haven't tested such systems personally and won't dig through my storage unit to exhume old hardware of mine to do so for the foreseeable short term future).

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26709

2 out of 3 of the GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks passed so far, which is a good sign.

I don't have commit access, so it's up to someone else to merge it.

As in the past, thank you and to other snac contributors for the continued improvements!

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

Macht die #Mastodon App auf #Android nur bei mir Probleme? Stürzt quasi bei jeder Aktion ab.

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26605

GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are running (2 of 3 have passed already which is a good sign).

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

Thank you again for your continued improvements (and also, thanks for not releasing on a Friday! The slacker in me is still 8 hours behind up stream, maybe I can blame time zones? ;)

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces

while my browser has trouble to deal with starlink for a few weeks now (i often have to refresh a page directly after sending a request so it goes through), the social.tchncs.de #mastodon instance is perfectly snappy for me.
however for a few days now, some users report very long loadtimes or media not loading at all.
i was unable to identify issues so far and could not spot references for ratelimits in the logs.
are there known routing issues to hetzner or something perhaps? #mastoadmin

Two years ago today, I wrote my first post on #Mastodon after lurking for months. I was welcomed in torrent of kindness, and am pleased to report my initial impression has held true.

I've found community among people who love #Running, #Cycling, #Ottawa, #Horror, and #FilmMaking here (among others).

We still have so much work to do to make this a better, safer place for all.

I have learned so much from so many.

Support your server! Thank you all.
https://mastodon.social/@WTL/109317218691202344

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26287

GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are progressing (3 out of 4 passed, which is a good sign; I guess MacPorts recently started checking 4 OS versions on GitHub automatically instead of 3 so this is taking a bit longer than I am accustomed to, it seems as if the macos-15 checks in particular are sluggish, maybe that system is overloaded?).

Regardless, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

Neat to see more Mastodon migration improvements! I think I saw one person already boast of successes of migrating their followers to a snac instance!

Thank you for your hard work and continuing to make my favorite ActivityPub implementation even better!

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded #NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit #snacAnnounces