Did you know you can track network statistics from across the Fediverse?

On FediDB, you can see federated server statistics as well as an overview of the entire network.

As January begins to come to a close, why not check it out to get a peek into how much the Fediverse will grow over 2026? 📈

fedidb.com/

#SocialWeb #Fediverse #SocialMedia #FediGrowth #FediDB #Mastodon #Decentralised #Decentralized

Proof that we live in hell.

@ubuntu #snap @itsfoss #microsoft #windows #copilot #ai #artificialintelligence #fediverse #mastodon #ubuntu #linux

Hello #Mastodon - I need advice

When I signed up 3 weeks ago, I joined a server without knowing what I was doing. Some have suggested that I might be better on another, but I am lost and confused

What are the benefits of moving? What are the benefits of staying?

And if I do move, where should I go? I know nothing - so your subjective recommendations & insights would be much appreciated

P.S. Here’s a picture of my cat, Max, looking confused - like me

#fediverse #cats #CatsOfMastodon

My first 2 weeks on #mastodon have been a breath of fresh air. I can't wait to explore more of this amazing world called the #fediverse .
A bit late #silentsunday but I wanted to contribute anyway.

[Dolomiti, summer 2020, sunrise: an amazing view from Bec de Roces, Arabba]

#hiking #dolomiti #mountains #mountainmonday @hiking@lemmy.world @hiking@fedigroups.social

As a pacifist, what I love most about the Fediverse is how it feels like a shared search for peace. We have Caturday, when everyone posts cat pictures every Saturday. There's Mosstodon, which is all about sharing beautiful photos of moss and nature. And we have SilentSunday, where people post calm outdoor and nature photos. Even with all the chaos in the world, the Fediverse has a way of calming my mind.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia

There are currently videos circulating that may disturb some people. Unfortunately, some of them do not come with a warning or find their way onto your timeline in other ways.

You would probably prefer not to see such videos when scrolling through your timeline again. Or other posts, for that matter.
In the attached video, I show you how to hide these posts from your timeline.

First, you need to define a filter that hides something completely.
Then you can go to the post and apply this filter to it. This hides the post without you having to mute or block the sender.
Think about your mental health.

#Fediverse #Forkiverse #Mastodon #Filter #MentalHealth #Tutorial

Would you like your public Mastodon posts to be as easy as possible for people to discover? If so, you might want to opt into "full text search". This will make your public posts show up in search results a lot more easily.

There's a step-by-step guide on how to activate it and answers to lots of questions about it at:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-opt-into-or…

If you don't activate it, your public posts will still be searchable but only by hashtag.

#FediTips #Mastodon

How do I opt into full text search on Mastodon? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

End of my 3rd week on #Mastodon

I've not experienced social media like this before. People seeing my posts? And replying? Madness! And no robot deciding that my #cats won’t infuriate anyone and so hiding them?

The people here have been super nice too. Sharing their own cats, giving me helpful tips, and replying with positivity. You're a real likeable bunch of weirdos

So I'll probably stick around, if that's okay….?

Here's another picture of Max sleeping... OR IS HE?

#CatsOfMastodon #pets

Finally!

A browser with a default sidebar that does NOT contain any AI bullshit but rather a #Mastodon tab!

Keep it up @Vivaldi

Hey everyone,

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

They are:

• Hadeel Ahmed (@hadeel_2026)
• Dr. Abed From Gaza🇵🇸 (@abed_in_gaza123)
• RANA SAMIR (@rana83)

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

Just an occasional reminder that disabling replies is the #1 requested feature from Mastodon.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

(EDIT: Direct link, in case the above doesn't work for you: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…)

Limiting who can reply is also worth giving a thumbs-up to, currently at #10.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

#mastodon #fediverse #ReplyControls #SocialMedia #TrustAndSafety

“Disable replies” feature

Most blogging systems and some social networks like Dribbble (possibly Instagram?) have a “disable comments/replies” feature. I wonder if it could be of use in Mastodon? Adding a “Disable replies” ...

^{nclm (GitHub)}

For the last decade, the #EU has been funding #Mastodon #KDE #Phosh #Nextcloud #OnlyOffice #PixelFed, #Libreoffice, #CryptPad, #Kdenlive, #Lemmy and many other Open Source projects you know and love through its #NextGenerationInternet programme.

But now that programme is ending and they are thinking about its successor.

They want to hear from you on what it should look like: Share your feedback to make sure the Commission keep funding amazing Open Source projects!

[JM]ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r…

Check it from @iwwnyc Learn #Linux at The Interference Archive in Brooklyn, NYC this Saturday, Jan 24th at 5:30 PM EST:

@defcon @itsfoss @gamingonlinux @linuxfoundation @fsf @privacyguides #foss #mastodon #fediverse

Hey everyone,

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

They are:

• (@noornoor1996)
• Hamed Hamouda Sharab (@Hamed1987)

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

Uppdaterat inlägget "Hur funkar mastodon" med hänvisning till @konstellationen :s fantastiska guider.
blog.folkdata.se/nya-kontinent…

wiki.konstellationen.org/sv/gu…

#mastodon #konstellationen

”Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W”

What is this? Identification, photo validation?

When the Fediverse is already here?

This is going to be DOA

#w #x #mastodon #fediverse #chatcontrol #europe #EUPOL #technology

cybernews.com/tech/europe-soci…

Vi har uppdaterat till den senaste versionen av Mastodon, v4.5.5

I huvudsak säkerhetspatchar denna gång.

Stötta vårt arbete:

patreon.com/mastodonnu

ko-fi.com/mastodonnu

liberapay.com/mastodonnu

Swish 0720 311 657

Vipps +46 72 031 16 57

Mer detaljer om uppdateringen finns här: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

#mastodonnu #support #upgrade #mastodon

Release v4.5.5 · mastodon/mastodon

Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrad...

^GitHub

Welcome to what we like to call Schrodinger's Tech Politics where all political platforms are valid but let's now attack an entire political concept.

Brought to you by the @web3privacy chat.

If this is the future of #foss, #security and #privacy, we're fucked.

@fosdem #fosdem #fediverse #mastodon

Did you know you can follow PeerTube accounts directly from Mastodon?

Just copy a PeerTube account address (like @coreyartus) and paste it into Mastodon’s search box.

Their videos will appear in your timeline, and you can interact with them just like any Mastodon post—like, comment, and boost! It’s a seamless way to enjoy video content without leaving Mastodon. #Fediverse #PeerTube #Mastodon”

fedi.tips/how-do-i-use-peertub…

How do I use PeerTube? How do I follow PeerTube accounts from Mastodon? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

Hey everyone,

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

They are:

• ahmedwaj🍉🍉 (@ahmedwaj)
• Om seila🍉🇵🇸 (@om__seila)

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

Mastodon has almost every feature you could think of, but one thing I'd love to see in the future is the ability to attach a video and an image to the same post.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Allow posts to have mixed media attachments (images AND video/audio)

Pitch Currently, it's not possible to create posts that contain both images and other forms of media, such as video or audio. Attempting to do so results in an error message, such as "Cannot attach...

^{davidcelis (GitHub)}

Mastodon.Radio is a Mastodon server for radio enthusiasts including the Amateur (Ham) Radio community, anyone interested in Shortwave Listening (SWL), etc. Come join us and talk radio, technology, and more!

mastodon.radio

You can find out more at mastodon.radio/about or contact the admin account @M0YNG

#FeaturedServer #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #Radio #SWL #Shortwave #ShortwaveRadio #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Mastodon.Radio

Mastodon.Radio is a space for the Amateur (Ham) Radio community, anyone interested in Shortwave Listening (SWL), etc. Come join us and talk radio, technology, and more!

^{Mastodon hosted on mastodon.radio}

How It Started: I'm voting for #Trump because he will be the #crypto President and will finally untether our institutions from the fiat banks so we can have an endless line going up to the moon!

How's It Going: 🤡

#fediverse #mastodon #blockchain #web3

Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.

I've refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade:

- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)
- Native signal handling for log rotation
- Correct PID tracking & status reporting.

I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:

codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src…

I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they're working great so far!

❤️ 🦣

#FreeBSD #Mastodon #SelfHosting #mastoadmin #runbsd #OpenSource

It was great having a video call with @josschuurmans - nice to meet you! We chatted for almost two hours about open source.

Here are some of the tools we discussed that could also benefit our Mastodon community (I've mentioned them before, but here they are again):

FediAlgo, a fully customizable timeline algorithm that frees you from the tyranny of reverse chronological order
github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/f…

Fediway, a new recommendation engine for Mastodon that aims to replace the main feed for those who prefer a more algorithmic approach
github.com/fediway/fediway

Plausible, cookieless analytics
github.com/plausible/analytics

Sill, monitors your Bluesky and Mastodon feeds to find the most popular links in your network
github.com/TylerFisher/sill
sill.social

I'm always eager to try new apps, tools, and open source software - there's an app for everything!

#OpenSource #Community #Mastodon #SelfHosted #Algorithm

GitHub - TylerFisher/sill: Find the most popular links from your Mastodon/Bluesky networks

Find the most popular links from your Mastodon/Bluesky networks - TylerFisher/sill

^GitHub

🎤 JOURNALISTS ON MASTODON

As part of my master thesis I am researching how journalists have embraced Mastodon and the Fediverse.

If you identify as a journalist, please take some minutes to fill out this questionnaire:

cloud.disroot.org/apps/forms/s…

The questionnaire is designed to respect your anonymity & privacy.

You can also help by boosting or sending this post to other people. Thank you!

#journalism #journalist #journalists #jouralistsonmastodon #media #reporter #mastodon #fediverse #fedi