Här kom beviset för att all den här hysterin kring åldersverifiering för att ”skydda barnen” bara är ett sätt att mata Palantir och uppnå total kontroll över dig och dina förehavanden.

pcgamer.com/software/platforms…

#palantir #technology #mastodon #discord #ageverification #PeterThiel #svpol #EUPOL

On #Mastodon for 6 weeks now. Everyone continues to be welcoming & friendly

I think I’ll delete my other social accounts, General wisdom is that I should use Instagram, TikTok etc to spread the word about things I’m working on (I make a #podcast about stories called The Worst Writer in the World) - but I’ve never found them useful

I'd rather just post pics of my cats

Here’s another - of Norbert exhausted after all the havoc, and Max, wondering where’s the havoc?

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #pets

It seems this issue has resurrected, or resumed

My entire point (all the noise notwithstanding) focused on

Default opt-in versus default opt-out

This is an agent --> recipient transaction

Default opt-in: the recipient is opted into (and participates in) the agent's action whether the recipient --> knows of <-- the action or not

Default opt-out: the recipient is opted out of (and cannot participate in) the action whether the recipient --> knows of <-- the action or not

Neither default opt-in nor default opt-out have any logical meaning if THE RECIPIENT DOES NOT KNOW OF THE AGENT in advance

Here is one of the oldest prior discussions I participated in on Github with Ryan (snarfed) Barrett re: bridgy-fed back starting in February of 2024

Read all of it; it's very long

Here: github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/…

With that, I'm out

Y'all have fun, eh?

#HolosDiscover #HolosIndex #Mastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Opt in/out prompt

If you do implement some sort of opt-in system, I don't want a new notification every time someone follows me. I use fediverse software that supports both public and private posts. If I post it pub...

^{WisTex (GitHub)}

It’s officially been over 3 years since I’ve started on Mastodon. Rather then talk about what’s so great I figured I’d just list stuff I haven’t seen:

- I haven’t had any posts from people I don’t follow

- I haven’t been served ads for items I’ve spoke about near my phone or for that matter any ads at all

- I haven’t been served random articles similar to one article I clicked on out of curiosity like two years ago

- I haven’t been asked to upgrade or subscribe to anything

- I haven’t had AI shoved down my throat or have had AI slop dumped on me.

- I do not have bot accounts randomly messaging me

It’s better here and I don’t know why anyone would go anywhere else ..

#mastodon #socialmedia #meow

Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now

It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!

You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!

#Mastodon is really amazing

Pretty sure I don't have to say this but let's just be clear..

On #Mastodon we DO NOT WANT your ID or any other PERSONAL verification!

You can even use a disposable email if you like!❤️

#PRIVACY MATTERS!

#Discord

Which EU country will be the first to officially move its public institutions to a national Mastodon instance, bringing political debate to the Fediverse and away from disinformation platforms like X?

We know some national-level instances already exist (e.g. in Germany). The question is: who will make it a political decision, not just a technical one?

If you think of another country, add it in the comments 👇

#LeaveX #EU #Democracy #Mastodon #Fediverse

• Ireland (18%, 37 votes)
• Austria (4%, 9 votes)
• France (53%, 111 votes)
• Germany (23%, 49 votes)

Hey everyone,

@casey and @rania40 had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Diala Awad (@dialaawad)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their account, and donate to their fundraiser if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

Is there any reason why the official Mastodon app (I use Android) is NOT showing a warning, if you try to post a picture without ALT-TEXT?

@apps does a great UX job here and reminds me, every time I forget to add an alt text.

If needed, I can add a feature request / bug ticket.

@Mastodon @haubles @Gargron

#alttext #mastodon #ux

There is one thing above all else that we should remember in the Epstein scandal:
The victims and their right to justice.

Epstein also teaches us that the death of the perpetrator does not end the suffering of the victims and their right to justice.

We will never do justice to the victims if we all just stand by and gawk at who had contact with Epstein.

1/2

#mastodon #fediverse #YouWinAgainSi #world #justice #epstein #epsteinfiles #human #woman #victims #violence #GiveThemAVoice

Julkaisin elämäni ensimmäisen repon 😱

Mastodon Feed Widget for KDE Plasma 6
github.com/mustikkasoppa/kde-m…

#GitHub #Mastodon #linux #kde

GitHub - mustikkasoppa/kde-mastodon-feed: Mastodon home timeline widget for KDE Plasma 6.

Mastodon home timeline widget for KDE Plasma 6. Contribute to mustikkasoppa/kde-mastodon-feed development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

This will be the last #Mastodon post that will be bridged to #Bsky!

Choosing another protocol, okay sure we can work with that. But hosting and even verifying criminal orgs like #ICE is just a spit in the face

Almost everything is PUBLIC on Bsky, It's not a viable decentralized alternative, since hosting it all yourself would bankrupt almost anyone

So if you want to keep following me, please do join the #Fediverse mstdn.social/invite/C3pBKk4Y

Or better, host your own!
fediverse.party

- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks

Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.

^{fediverse.party}

If you're looking for #managed #mastodon #hosting owned and hosted in the #EU, check out @mastohost.

Portugal based, EU infrastructure, geek-operated.

Plans start at 6EUR / month and its operator Hugo just migrated and updated my single-user instance without any fuss.

➡️ masto.host

Masto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting

Masto.host was built from the ground up to make running a Mastodon instance easy.

^Masto.host

From @MaggieMayhem BlueSky:

Epstein went to @defcon at least in 2018 & was monitoring the event for years.

Special shoutout to Vincenzo Iozzo who offered to get tickets for Epstein + “4 girsl” in 2016 & stated he could to introduce him to @thedarktangent in 2018

justice.gov/epstein/files/Data…

justice.gov/epstein/files/Data…

#epstine #epstinefiles #jefferyepstein #fediverse #mastodon #defcon

(Vincenzo is allegedly the former
@crowdstrike senior director &
@blackhatevents board member in the files.)

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

^{www.justice.gov}

We added our Vivaldi Social server to the Fediverse on November 15th 2022. We are still, I believe, the only browser company that is fully behind the Fediverse. It is something we are very proud of! The Fediverse is the natural alternative to Big Tech social media, just like, IMHO, Vivaldi is the natural alternative to Big Tech browsers.

#Vivaldi #Fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #SocialMedia #AI #Meta #Facebook #Instagram

vivaldi.com/blog/news/vivaldi-…

Vivaldi Social, a new instance on Mastodon. | Vivaldi Browser

Vivaldi Social, our Mastodon instance, is your gateway to reliable, big-tech-free social networking

^{Jon von Tetzchner (Vivaldi Technologies)}

HOLY SHIT

xcancel.com/MikeBenzCyber/stat…

#epstein #epstienfiles #Israel #palentir #fediverse #mastodon

Would you like to create posts longer than 500 characters on Mastodon?

You can have longer posts by moving your account to a server that offers longer posts. I've done a list of well-run reliable servers with larger post sizes at:

fedi.garden/tag/larger-post-si…

If you're not sure how to move your account to a different server, there's a step-by-step guide at fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…

#FediTips #Mastodon

Larger Post Size | Fedi.Garden – An easy way to join Mastodon and the Fediverse

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.garden

We are ready to roll! Today, we're at the very first #DigitalAutonomy Fair at the @universityofgroningen!

Come by our booth, learn all about #PeerTube, #Mastodon, and about the @SURF instance social.edu.nl.
Create an account, get a sticker and please form a queue to cuddle our #plushtodon.

I think it’s time to have a list of Zionist, pro-genocide Mastodon servers on Gaza Verified, just like we have a list of servers friendly to Palestinians suffering through genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and settler colonialism so our friends in Gaza – and anyone with even a sliver of a conscience – can know which parts of the fediverse to avoid.

I’ll add that to my endless todo list, then, shall I?

#israel #zionism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialsm #Gaza #Palestine #mastodon #fediverse #complicity

Can a #Mastodon specialist enlighten me?

Yesterday my host, @mastohost sent me an email to tell me that my media storage was full (which surprised me, especially because I very recently started automatically deleting my oldest posts to avoid just this). Today, rummaging through the admin, I found this very surprising graph in #Sidekiq
What could this be? Or is it the deletion of old posts that triggered that spike in processes? But if old posts have been deleted, why is the media storage full?

I've been on #Mastodon for a month now, and I’ve just been posting pics of my #cats

A lot of people have interacted, and everyone's been kind and friendly

And I noticed, any time I have a sneaky look at one of your profiles, it's all anti-fascist! Trans rights! BLM! Anti-capitalist! Feminist! etc.

Which is another reason I love it here

Is it the cat pictures that bring out the kind and progressive people? Is there a connection? Or am I just lucky?

Molly thinks I'm lucky

#CatsOfMastodon

Yes, I've set the "Filter" languages, not just "Interface" language.
(Preferences > Other > Public Timelines > Filter languages)

And many of the posts in undesired languages (in my case, 95% German) have been quite long, hundreds of characters.

I wonder if following a hashtag trumps/bypasses the language filter.

#Mastodon #MastodonHelp

I'd like to be able to follow hashtags without seeing posts in languages I don't understand that also use those hashtags.

#Mastodon language settings don't help with that & after having a timeline 30-35% in languages I don't know, I've ended up muting hundreds (maybe thousands now) of accounts.

In fact, I've started looking at my alt account's timeline (exquisite.social) first because Mastodon's lack of hashtag migration means my timeline there is only people I follow, & only afterwards going to my original account (ohai.social) that includes followed hashtag posts.

#MastodonHelp

Is your Mastodon timeline too empty or too full? Are you seeing stuff you don't want to, and missing stuff you do want to see? Is your timeline overwhelmed by someone who shares too many posts?

These and lots more timeline problems are solved in the "How to customise your Mastodon timeline" guide:

➡️ fedi.tips/does-mastodon-and-th…

#FediTips #Mastodon

Does Mastodon and the Fediverse use algorithms? How do I customise what’s in my timeline if there’s no algorithm? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

After the nice presentations of @haubles and @andypiper, I've asked them, "How can a grassroots movement like the Fediverse compete with social networks like BlueSky that have the resources to travel to Brussels every other week?"

I also mentioned the @leavex campaign, which makes it easier for us to contact politicians and ask them to leave X and possibly join us. And how some politicians are already asking to remove their names from the group of politicians still on X.

I'm glad I could meet @_elena again and discuss these issues.

#FOSDEM #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #EU #Democracy

Hey everyone,

@aral and @joynewacc had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• N-srat (@NsratR)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their account, and donate to their fundraiser if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

yup

#corporate "#journalism"

we are on #mastodon/ #fediverse because the profit motive in corporate #socialMedia means privacy defilement, free reign for bigotry/ ignorance, and #algorithm manipulation by #plutocracy agendas

the same applies to the #news #media:

#ventureCapital takes over dying traditional media outlets and puts right wing goons in the managing editor positions

we have nonprofit news (#NPR, #ProPublica, #TheGuardian, etc)

trust them

all else: beware

Together with Mario Birkholz of @neuSoM fame, I have written an article about Mastodon and the Fediverse in the journal of the German Physical Society: pro-physik.de/zeitschriften/do…

It's free to read but in German. Let's hope that @DPGPhysik's move to the Fediverse will inspire other scientific societies and universities to follow!

#physics #mastodon #fediverse #academicchatter #wisskomm #physik

RE: mastodon.cupertino.social/@ste…

What I’d like to create is a community of people who value civil exchange, but without the fanboysm. If Apple does something we don't like, we need to be free to say so and discuss it. If they do something we like, great!

That way - who knows? - maybe we can bring people over to the Fediverse who are currently stuck on toxic social platforms simply because they don't want to miss out on news, info, or conversations with other enthusiasts. After all, the Fediverse is already home to brilliant minds like Lisa Melton - @lisamelton and Jen Simmons - @jensimmons - people who share our passion for Apple just as much as they value the freedom of a decentralized web.

I’ll be opening the doors to this instance very soon.

I can't do this alone; I can only do it with the help of all the wonderful people populating the Fediverse who want to shake off algorithmic hate and build something beautiful.
Something human.

#Apple #CupertinoSocial #Fediverse #Mastodon #Community #CommunityBuilding

Yeah it doesn't look like its open source, you should try the FLOSS loops.video its the most like tiktok on the fediverse and it allows people on mastodon and other fediverse platforms to follow you

Proprietary code means anti user every time, they are just another company looking to monetize your participation, loops is different because its community owned and run

#FLOSS #TikTok #LoopsVideo #Loops #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource