Letzte Woche hat sich eine Landeshauptstadt von Mastodon verabschiedet. Der Grund? Man wollte sich auf Plattformen mit mehr Follower:innen und Likes konzentrieren.

Das nehmen wir zum Anlass, hier einmal unseren wunderbaren Präsident:innen und Direktor:innen unserer #Gerichte in #SchleswigHolstein zu danken! Denn die lassen unsere Redaktion nicht nur frei schalten und walten – sie fordern sogar von uns einen Mastodon-Auftritt als datensparsame Alternative ein! #FediFirst #DSGVO #Mastodon #Justiz

Want to support a brilliant Social Web project before the end of the year?

🔥 @bonfire are so close to achieving their funding goal as they look to crowdfund the next phase of development in their democratic, thoughtful, and open, web of interoperable services.

If you're able, we're certain they would love your support.

indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonf…

#Bonfire #Fundraising #SocialWeb #Mastodon #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #Tech #Suppport

Hey everyone,

@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to four families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Ola and lutfi's family (@OlaAndLutfi)
• shahed20 (@shahedgaza)
• Mohammed (@mohammedzakria)
• Ramadan (@Ramadan)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers 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

Hey everyone,

@aseelfromgz and I had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Azez (@azezwaj)
• Saly🍉✌️ (@sallyyii1_5566)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers 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

Hey everyone,

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

They are:

• Ameen.Gaza (@ameengaza)

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

Huh. Just chatted in person with someone who's been on #mastodon for a while, now, who honestly thought that all the Mastodon domains were run by Mastodon. And having a different domain was, like, just a vanity thing to look cool. It only came up because they were complaining about an issue they were having, and they were on a smaller server (not naming it for anonymity), so I suggested contacting their server admin about the problem. I was surprised when they answered "Dude nobody at big companies reads those reports. It just all goes to AI or whatever." It took some actual convincing to get them to believe that the server they're on does, in fact, have a living breathing human admin who can be talked to.

Anyway, folks, support your #fediverse server admins and moderators. With money, where you can. They're almost certainly getting messages from users who think that reporting things to an admin here is exactly like reporting stuff to Facebook or Google. IE: screaming at a giant faceless entity who's never going to care or do anything about whatever your problem is.

- Someone trying to help protect the voices of genocide survivors on the fediverse

- Someone denying the existence of genocide survivors and working to get them banned from Mastodon servers

Some Mastodon server admins: “We literally cannot see a difference between the two.”

You wanna know the difference? You already know who you would want with you when you’re faced with a fascist in a dark alley. Unless, of course, that’s the one character you identify with most in this post.

#fascism #neutrality #appeasement #complicity #mastodon #fediverse #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine

What I see, when someone writes "subtoot"...

And that's one of many reasons I love this community...

#drawing #art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource #subtoot #mastodon #submarine

Hey everyone,

@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• eslam94 (@eslam94)
• Hassan From Gaza 🍉🇵🇸 (@hassangaza299)
• Anghamelkhalil (@anghamrlkhalil)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers 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

Wir starten heute wieder mit unserem jährlichen #Adventskalender mit Themen zu Digitalisierung und Weiterbildung. Jeden Tag tröten wir einen neuen Link oder Hinweis.

Unser Schwerpunkt in Social Media liegt im #Fediverse auf unserem eigenen #Mastodon Server unter social.laaw.nrw

Der Server steht auch Mitarbeitenden aus Mitgliedseinrichtungen der #LAAW.nrw zur Verfügung.

Das Social Media Netzwerk Fediverse wird hier in vier Minuten erklärt bei digitalcourage.

go.laaw.nrw/4k

really, really impressed with posty: a mastodon archive -> html static site generator

it ingests your mastodon archive (post history) as a zip, and barfs out an entire static html site with indices and tags. all servable with any standard web server.

this is super helpful because when i shut down the dialup.cafe instance, there was no easy way to get access to my old posts and images.

it can either be run online here:
posty.1sland.social

or instructions here for running it locally:
codeberg.org/oliphant/posty

#mastoAdmin #mastodon

Hey everyone,

@aseelfromgz and I had the honour of speaking to four families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Mohamed Ismail (@mohamedismail96)
• Zaki (@Zaki)
• ph.roba (@roba_1999)
• Dr mohammed kahlout (@Kahlout94)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers 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

#WordPress ♥️ #Mastodon

#Plushtodon

Last winter's initiative, exactly one year ago 🧣❣️
Now, we need the same efforts to repeat this initiative and buy winter pajamas for the displaced and suffering children of the camp to protect them from this harsh winter❄️🧥😔.

Imagine your child in the place of a child from Gaza. Can you afford this‼️‼️‼️
#gazagenocide #gazasurvival #palestine #mastodon #children #kids #humanrights #humanesocietyamovie #gazaverified #socialmedia #support #freepalestine @aral @fabio
chuffed.org/project/help-mai-a…

Hey everyone,

@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Aya (@rania40)
• Raghda (@Raghadfamily)
• Mahmoud (@mahmoudhamed)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers 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

Hey everyone,

@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Dania (@danyarelkhodari)
• Heba & her husband Tareq and their family (@Tareqziad)
• Wafaa and her two adorable daughters, Sham and Aylul (@wafaagaza1499)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers 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

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.

flipping.rocks

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

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

flipping.rocks

A cozy online home for arthropod enthusiasts, fungi fans, herpers, and other lovers of weird little creatures.

^{Hometown hosted on flipping.rocks}

🚨 attention #Plushtodon fans 🚨

#Mastodon's Mini Plushies have just been released: shop.joinmastodon.org/products…

They come in two colors: Activity Peach and Interoperability Blue - and are absolutely adorable.

I'm only posting this message AFTER purchasing both because these items usually sell out real fast.

My little one tends to claim all my stuff, so it's a good thing they are two. I will negotiate to keep one for me.

Upside is that this official Mastodon merch helps support the team. So go!

Mastodon stuffed toy (mini)

We don't mess about when it comes to plushies. Designed with love and care, our new plushie comes with the soft surface and pleasantly squishy stuffing you've come to expect, but is more portable than ever before, measuring only 20cm in height.

^Mastodon

The PewResearch 2025 poll on Social Media use of adults in the US is out - and #Mastodon doesn't exist? 🤯

#PewResearch #Poll #Statistics #SocialMedia #Social #Tiktok #WhatsApp #Instagram #Bluesky #Threads #Facebook #Youtube #X #Twitter #Reddit #Snapchat #Graph #graphic #PewResearch #TruthSocial #news #Us #USA #Unitedstates #america #americans #results

@elduvelle
That it wasn't less.

I mean, for me #Mastodon is #microblogging first and foremost. And in microblogging, posts are ephemeral and soon forgotten. Personally, I don't really _care_ what I posted a year ago - unless I bookmarked it. And even then, the old posts arent even _gone_ unless the old instance closes down.

But evidently, a very large number of Mastodon users feel very differently about this.

mementomori.social/@juergen_hu…

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 👇🏼

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

Hey folks,

@aseelfromgz and I had the pleasure of welcoming two new families to Gaza Verified today.

They are:

• Nour (@nour_s) – please send her some love as the genocidal Israeli army bombed a position near her home while we were talking
• Saeed (@saeeeed)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, donate to their fundraisers.

You can see a list of our Gaza Verified families who have Chuffed or GoFundMe accounts, sorted by those who’ve received the least in donations over the last seven days, at:

gaza-verified.org/donate/

Nour’s donation link uses PayPal so she’s not on that list, but here’s her fundraiser: paypal.com/donate/?campaign_id…

💕

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

ClimateJustice.social is a Mastodon server for climate justice activists, and those concerned about global warming and the current environmental crisis.

This server has been online since 2020 and has a post size of up to 5000 characters.

climatejustice.social

You can find out more at climatejustice.social/about or contact the admin account @PaulaToThePeople

#FeaturedServer #Environment #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Activism #Green #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Climate Justice Social

Welcome to this Fediverse instance for climate justice activists.

^{Mastodon hosted on climatejustice.social}

Three years ago today I joined #mastodon. While I understood functionally that it is a decentralized social network, I couldn’t have yet appreciated what a truly terrific #community it is. Real #human interaction facilitates connections with people I might not otherwise have opportunities to meet.

Thanks to @Gargron for the visionary development and leadership. 🐘

Hey everyone,

Today, @joynewacc and I had the pleasure of welcoming two new members to the Gaza Verified family.

They are:

• Ahmad (@goodahmad)
• Suad (@suad)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse and contribute to their fundraisers if you can. (And please share this so others can do the same.)

Remember that you can see a list of our members and their fundraisers in one place (ordered by those who have raised the least in the past week) at:

gaza-verified.org/donate/

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

I've been here for years and I still haven't cracked the Fediverse code.

On Twitter I could post "eating cereal" and get 50 bot likes + one crypto bro following me.
Here I can post a 30-second video of my cat trying to fight the vacuum cleaner with the caption "me when someone's instance federates with threads dot net" and… absolute silence. Not even a sympathy boost from the admin who literally pays for the server I'm yelling on 😭

So please, someone finally explain the secret sauce:
Do I need to switch my cat to a vegan gluten-free diet? Do I have to mention systemd negatively in every post? Or is the real trick sacrificing a Raspberry Pi to the old gods of ActivityPub??

#Fediverse #Mastodon #CatsOfMastodon #ActivityPub #SystemdHateClub #PleaseBoostImBeggingYou

Hey everyone,

@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to @Dalla1982 today and would like to welcome her and her family to Gaza Verified.

She’s an architect who, due to the war, has lost her job and must now support her family through donations until some semblance of normal life returns to Gaza.

Please give her a follow and help if you can.

(She doesn’t have her fundraiser on her profile yet but I’ve asked her to add it. Once she does, you will be able to see her on our donate page along with the other families: gaza-verified.org/donate/)

💕

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

After nearly 10 years, Eugen Rochko is stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon.

"There are too many examples of founder egos sabotaging thriving communities, and while I’d like to think myself an exception, I understand why people would prefer better guardrails."

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/…

"I think that taking a step back, realizing this isn’t just mine anymore — now other people are involved, other people are responsible for this — is going to allow me to restore some balance in my life."

techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mast…

#mastodon #fediverse #news

Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch

Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the Executive Director as the company become structured as a nonprofit government by a board.

^{Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)}

Hi everyone,

I had video chats with three people and families from Gaza today and I’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Yazzan (@yazzangaza)
• Hadi (@HadiSamir)
• Abeer (@mmotherps)

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

And remember that you can see the fundraisers of all our members in a single list (ordered by those who have received the fewest donations in the last seven days) at:

gaza-verified.org/donate/

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

Mastodon gGmbH has just issued a new blogpost:

➡️ blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/…

Some highlights:

- Eugen has stepped down as head, his replacement is @mellifluousbox (Eugen will continue as an advisor)

- Mastodon gGmbH and its US-based 501(c)(3) intend to transition to a Belgian non-profit and transfer their assets there

- Eugen has sold his Mastodon-related assets (including the trademark) to the 501(c)(3) for €1 million, these will eventually be transferred to the Belgian non-profit

#Mastodon

Hi ppl 💕After a lot of searching for ways to post videos with kids here, @aral helped me with that🙏🏻.

So here's the first drawing activity I did with the children🤩🎨.
Enjoy watching, and I hope you'll support me so I can do more for them🙈🫶🏻.

Add some love and compassion, and don't forget to give me your opinion✨️.

#palestine #gazagenocide #drawing #artist #children #gazaverified #gazamutualaid #mastodon #socialmedia
vimeo.com/1136849963

Mai Zourob: First drawing activity with Gaza Camp Kids

This video was uploaded on behalf of Mai Zourob, who runs Gaza Camp Kids to help kids in Gaza, when she was having trouble uploading it to Mastodon directly herself…

^Vimeo