I find it utterly unfair that Bluesky is now booming, the press is talking about it a lot, while Mastodon _is_ decentralized, older, provides more features, and is based on standards. Why people keep rejecting these techs? Why the choice is rarely made in favor of simple, standard-based, open, community-driven solutions?

This isn’t my project but I think it is an interesting question. What makes these solutions appealing or not?

#mastodon #bluesky

Being responsible and careful is a necessity when you carry 70% of installed software by user count.

If we roughly implement things or release stuff without properly testing it and finding rough edges, we risk breaking or making worse, the Fediverse experience for 70% of all its users — that's a huge responsibility.

Trust and safety *must* be considered, protocol design and interoperability with other software is a must, not a nice to have.

#Mastodon

We need to lead which sometimes results in needing to slow down feature development to ensure all aspects are considered.

Yes, sometimes big regressions make it in, but they're usually something to be avoided at all costs, and we prioritise fixing a bunch of bugs & performance issues.

And yes, there's our own internal issues with how we work that slows us down, but there's a lot of work going into improving that situation too.

#Mastodon

“I'm leaving Twitter. Tried to stay, but the atmosphere has just become too toxic.”
- Stephen King

"Even the Master of Horror can't stomach what has become of Twitter (X) since right-wing fascist Elon Musk bought the company."
- Aure

#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews #Musk #Twitter #Mastodon #bluesky #Threads #Fediverse

Mark Hamill joined Bluesky.
Stephen King joined Threads.
The Fediverse has Linus Torvalds and Tim Berners-Lee.

#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Bluesky #Threads #Mastodon

Just a reminder: everything you do on social media is public. Even if you delete a post on your instance, it can still exist on other instances, in the cache of search engines or private databases.

#Bluesky #Mastodon #Fediverse #decentralisation

Bahaha, I just realised the red box I'm seeing around lots of images is custom CSS for shaming people who don't add alt-text to their images. Mildly annoying, but worth it.

Tidy play, FediScience @admin! Other instances should pick up this practice.

fediscience.org/custom.css

#mastodon #altText #accessibility

@eco_amandine

Good point. Mastodon's Lists feature could evolve by including two options:

- Lists are currently private. There should be an option to make them public / sharable via a URL.

- Everyone should get an opt-in option in their Privacy settings to say "Allow my profile to be listed on Public lists"

That way it doesn't break the existing list functionality, but also allows people to not be included to lists that can be shared.

cc. @Rainer @Gargron

#Mastodon #MastoDev #Lists

@eco_amandine

Of course, there is already a very active thread on Public / Sharable lists on the Mastodon GitHub:

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

cc. @Rainer @Gargron

#Mastodon #MastoDev #GitHub #Lists #PublicLists #StarterPack

Shared/Collaborative User Lists · Issue #18292 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch Instance-bound (I'm assuming federation-wide implementation would be extremely difficult) shared user lists primarily associated with the creator's account. A rudimentary administrative privi...

^GitHub

Yes. But we don't need to call them "starter packs" - they're just public lists.
Twitter had that too, you could see 1) which lists you're on and 2) which lists someone is following (as long as they were public) and you could follow them. Great feature that is unfortunately absent on #Mastodon simply because the lists are private.

#Lists #StarterPacks

So, this is cool 👇

The newest post from @tomgauld.bsky.social was shared ~600 times on #Bluesky. But thanks to @bsky.brid.gy it was also shared 250 times on #Mastodon.

(But because most of the accounts here aren't bridged, #TomGauld doesn't even know about this.)

How to add a share to #mastodon button to the #inoreader #rss reader

inoreader.com/blog/2022/11/wil…

Will Mastodon replace Twitter? See for yourself with Inoreader!

If you were among the first to take a break from Twitter after Elon Musk’s turbulent takeover, we have exciting news – Inoreader...

^Inoreader

Is there a #Mastodon #API endpoint for importing accounts to follow? And does it accept data other than in a CSV?

Wondering if a Starter Pack-like "Follow All" button could be created here.

There appears to be a bug in the user icons displayed in the web version of mastodon v4.3.1 on the notifications page. The same user icon can show up multiple times.

This has happened on many of my posts for the past few days.

@john #mastodon #mastodonbugs #mastodonSuggestions #mastodonSupport

I may well do a bug report, but in case I forget I'm making this post.

Found 4 new servers and 8 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

22,768 servers checked. 15,846,939 Total Users with 1,087,371 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

cunny.beauty a #akkoma server from United States
acuaskey.xyz a #cherrypick server from Japan
phibernet.org a #snac server from Poland
toot.kiwi a #mastodon server from New Zealand

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

"I can't be an influencer on Mastodon" is a feature, not a bug.

#socialMedia #Mastodon

on a decentralized network, all the posts have to be pulled together (and managed somewhat) for you somewhere.

#bluesky / #ATproto does it with the relay they control. #ActivityPub / #mastodon does it via the server your account is on. #nostr lets you use multiple relays but then your client also does some of it afaik.

the question seems to be how much of that work do people want to do themselves vs sharing the cost and time involved. what are the tradeoffs in freedom and control? #SocialWeb

This world can often make living in it so difficult

A world
that worships the privileged
Condemns the poor
Defends injustice
Stokes hatred
Thinks that weakness cannot also be strength
Doesn't want to give hope to the hopeless

and often I see that it just doesn't get better, despite so many efforts and good people

I really can't understand it sometimes

#YouWinAgainSi #writing #world #betterworld #democracy #freedom #mastodon #fediverse #justice #humanrights #humanity #hope

And the Fediverse for all the cool people.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#mastodon #fediverse #bluesky #threads #instagram #facebook #tiktok #socialmedia

cbsnews.com/chicago/news/misog…

"#Misogynistic #social posts, #bullying of #women and #girls have spiked since #election"

We need to make #Mastodon a #sanctuary

Mastodon has delivered excellence with no #algorithms and good #moderation (I've met a few bad mods- it's #decentralized, to be expected. Also some of the best mods I've ever met are here)

But, it has to get a grip on the #replyguy problem

Everyone knows this, #BlackMastodon and #QueerMastodon have been vocal on the issue for a long time

Misogynistic social posts, bullying of women and girls have spiked since election

^{Andrew Ramos (CBS Chicago)}

Found 11 new servers and 22 servers died off since 7 hours ago.

22,766 servers checked. 15,846,939 Total Users with 1,082,526 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

social.chrisco.me a #gotosocial server from United States
social.diamondtin.com a #mastodon server from United States
moo.chat a #mastodon server from Private
fedi.bakermatic.xyz a #mastodon server from United States
miss.pankeeki.art a #misskey server from Private
spaceman.engineer a #mastodon server from Portugal
c.izfk.org a #cherrypick server from Private
littletimemachine.com a #wordpress server from Private
social.datalust.co a #mastodon server from France
misskey.laruyan.moe a #misskey server from Private
fishandbits.es a #wordpress server from The Netherlands

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

Disappointed #X users are going to #Bluesky instead of #Mastodon

People like what is closest to what they are already using. #Mastodon is laid gratuitously different in terms of buttons to push and links to click. People who left #Twitter earlier didn't like that and left.

The crowds are different.

The prime content providers are staying on #X. Some are going to #BlueSky. Some are reposting here with #bots

Then there is the ridiculous size limit on toots on many servers

Oh happy day! Not only is it Friday, one of the nicest days of the week, it’s also Vivaldi Social’s birthday. 🎉 We’ve now been on Mastodon for two wholesome years.

We choose to do things that make your experience on the web better and we wholeheartedly believe that Vivaldi Social does just that. We want to provide a platform where people can join in on the smart, funny, and empathetic conversations taking place all over the Fediverse.

The only thing we wish for our two-year birthday is for more people to experience the power of the Fediverse, so make sure you tell a friend about Vivaldi Social today!

Here’s to many more years!

With love,
Team Vivaldi

#Vivaldi #VivaldiSocial #Birthday #Mastodon #Fediverse

I've just shared my story on why I've left other social media for the Fediverse at the Guardian.

theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…

Perhaps more people could tell them about this place? Maybe some of it will be published allowing more people to discover the Fediverse.

#TheGuardian #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource #Tech #TechPolicy #Internet #Media #Journalism

Tell us: have you migrated between social media platforms recently?

We would like to hear from people who have recently switched social media platforms about their reasons why

^{Guardian community team (The Guardian)}