If you're running a Mastodon server of any size, you might want to follow the official Mastodon Engineering account:

➡️ @MastodonEngineering

The account is run by the Mastodon developers, and provides news about important software updates.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Are you a Mastodon Admin?
#Poll #Mastodon #Admin #Multichoice

@amministratore
@stux

• Yes. Here's my plushy (0%, 0 votes)
• Unsure (0%, 0 votes)
• No, is it painful? (100%, 2 votes)
• Other (0%, 0 votes)

RE: mastodon.uno/@amministratore/1…

Looks like there’s a Mastodon identity verification scam going around.

Good rule of thumb: if a web site asks you to verify your identity, you close that browser tab.

The scam letter looks like this (thanks to @amministratore):

***

We detected suspicious activity on your account and have temporarily restricted access. Your new posts are currently visible only to you. To restore full access, please complete the verification process using the link below:

🔗 ‪<shortened link removed but you can report UPDATENOTIFICATION.CLICK to globaldomaingroup.com/report-a… for it to be taken down>

If you do not verify within 24 hours, your account may be deleted for guideline violations. Successful verification will grant you a badge to enhance your visibility.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

The Support Team

***

Do NOT click any links if you receive such a message and inform your server admin.

#mastodon #scam #updateNotificationClick #fediverse #warning

:mastodon: mastodon admin (@amministratore@mastodon.uno)

Allegato: 1 immagine 🚨 ATTENZIONE! 🚨 Stanno diffondendo messaggi accompagnati da infografiche dall’aspetto professionale create per far sembrare legittima una presunta procedura di verifica dell’account.

^{:mastodon: mastodon admin (Mastodon Uno Social - Italia)}

It's time for our first Server Spotlight!

We want to help people find their communities across the #fediverse so we're featuring servers here on this account.

First up: The Mended Drum, a home for fans of all things Sir Terry Pratchett.

It is said that if you stay on The Mended Drum long enough, you'll meet every hero on the server: mendeddrum.org/directory

(keep an eye on your horse, though 😉)

#FeaturedServer #CommunitySpotlight #Mastodon #SocialWeb #GNUTerryPratchett

The Mended Drum

This is the Mended Drum, Discworlds best known disreputable tavern.

^{Mastodon hosted on mendeddrum.org}

Mastodon has a built-in system to prevent you seeing the same post boosted again and again. However, it allows boosts to reappear if 40 other posts have passed through your main timeline, and this is why you may see the same boost repeated.

As the Fediverse is now much busier, Mastodon's devs are raising this number to 80 other posts (technical details are at github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…). This should hopefully be in the next update.

(Thanks to @nitrml for pointing this out 🙏 )

#FediTips #Mastodon

Change reblogs to be deduplicated within the last 80 posts instead of the last 40 by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #39784 · mastodon/mastodon

Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - Change reblogs to be deduplicated within the last 80 posts instead of the last 40 by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #39784 · mastodon/mastodon

^GitHub

Mastodon wish feature: Being able to mute notifications from replies to replies, without muting notifications from replies to the original post. That'd be fantastic! 🫣🔕

#Mastodon

- That's what i ihink when i see YouTube-Links here. Everybody who posted these on Mastodon, hasn't understand the Fediverse.

Invidious is one click away with a Download-Option. I can't recall the last time i didn't find something.

Are you guys waiting for a kiss where the sun doesn't shine? Ok then.. 💋

#fediverse #mastodon #invidious

If you're following someone who posts interesting stuff but boosts way too often, you can mute just their boosts:

1. Go to the account's profile page
2. Click the ⋯ button
3. Click "Hide Boosts"

Their own posts will continue appearing in your timeline as normal, but their boosts won't.

#FediTips #Mastodon #Boosts

In the #Fediverse there are now
717 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
585 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@TexasMonthly
@NewYorker
@eldiarioes
@quartz
@LiveScience

Find the whole list on:
➡️ fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview…

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

Media in the Fediverse

^{All verified accounts by media organizations available from the Fediverse}

Here's a tip for #Mastodon admins to manage spammy (likely AI-generated) account requests:

a lot of those seem to come from disposable emails. The mastodon admin menu allows you to block specific email domains. So if you're getting obvious spam from specific domains (this list tells you if they're disposable) you can block the domain. This has definitely helped with our spammy account requests (and we warn people in the account request text box that disposable emails will not be accepted).

#MastodonAdmin

disposable-email-domains/disposable_email_blocklist.conf at main · disposable-email-domains/disposable-email-domains

a list of disposable email domains. Contribute to disposable-email-domains/disposable-email-domains development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Do you want to write posts that are longer than 500 characters? If so you might want to consider moving your account to a server that supports longer posts.

Here's a list of good, reliable servers that let you write longer posts:

➡️ fedi.garden/tag/larger-post-si…

(All the servers on this list are compatible with the points at fedi.garden/about-this-site )

Here's an easy-to-understand step-by-step guide on how to transfer your account to another server:

➡️ fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…

#FediTips #Mastodon

About this site | Fedi.Garden – An easy way to join Mastodon and the Fediverse

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.garden

Very interesting preprint by @pettertornberg comparing the language indicators for content sharing on different social media platforms. On Mastodon (not sure how much content from the wider Fediverse was included), reasoning and nuance were most strongly associated with boosting. On X, insult, identity attack, and toxicity are rewarded instead. Bluesky doesn't seem to have particularly strong language indicators for sharing content.

arxiv.org/abs/2607.04220

#fediverse #mastodon

The Politics Attention Makes: Platform Media Logic and the Mediatization of Politics

Empirical research on social media and politics has primarily treated platforms as distributive systems that expose users to particular messages.

^arXiv.org

Introducing CLEANR® 2.0*: now for Mastodon and the fediverse. Our moderators are hard at work silencing and suspending accounts of Gazans from Palestine.

CLEANR® 2.0: making virtual ethnic cleansing a reality. Because life’s too short to see injustice™

* 100% of proceeds go to supporting Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

** CLEANR® 1.0 still available from medium.com/slackjaw/homelessne…

#mastodon #fediverse #zionism #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism

"Ich glaube"

Ich denke es ist ein recht passables Gedicht geworden
Ok ein bisschen melancholisch ist es schon

Bin mal gespannt was ihr so meint

#mastodon #fediverse #mastoart #YouWinAgainSi #schreiben #gedicht #poesie #prosa #lyrik #gedanken #welt

I frequently find myself explaining, often to people I don’t know, why it is that my online home is on #Mastodon, why I’m putting time and effort into building and running an instance, and why those are the best choices.

So here’s my latest effort to pull all the arguments I use together in a coherent sequence: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20…

Mastodon, The Only Good Choice

^{ongoing by Tim Bray}

There are really important reasons why the Fediverse (including Mastodon) is spread out on thousands of fully independent servers:

➡️ fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse…

There are also really important reasons why servers don't store every post from every other server:

➡️ fedi.tips/why-arent-all-mastod…

The weird quirks of the Fediverse (including Mastodon) are designed this way specifically to keep the network under the control of ordinary people and grassroots communities.

#FediTips #Fediverse #Mastodon

Why aren’t all Mastodon and Fediverse posts and accounts automatically visible from all servers? | 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 @rania40 had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• em mahmoud (@emmahmoud)
• Hadura (@haduraaa)

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

You guys know what to do: report and block this genocide-complicit zionist hasbara account.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #hasbara #fediverse #mastodon #sockPuppet

If you want to try @rolle`s #MastodonBirdUI theme along with the "for you" feed algorithm, here is a guide how to run it locally in containers. The setup is suitable for testing and developing. Have fun!

Of course you can also use other version images if you just want to try out podman.

help.mementomori.social/try-bi…

#podman #mastodon #containers

Running mastodon with BirdUI in containers — Mementomori.social help

Mementomori.social runs BirdUI theme for mastodon. If you want to try out what it looks like in your environment, or develop or perhaps switch using it, there is containerized way to easily (?) do so. It is described in this doc.

^{help.mementomori.social}

RE: mastodon.world/@G4Media/116856…

Romanian is one of the Romance languages i haven’t studied that have always been difficult to decipher due to its Cyrillic-esque orthography.

am learning to read it with #Mastodon’s translation feature.

humans #network thru #languages. if you want to grow the #fediverse, you must make it easy to translate what dazzles yet cannot be easily read.

yet another reason to love @Gargron’s vision of what the platform could be and the elegantly forward thinking work of the @MastodonEngineering team.

G4Media 📰 (@G4Media@mastodon.world)

Attached: 2 images Șeful pentru compania Palantir îl acuză pe Papa Leon că e agent chinez, după ce pontiful a cerut reglementarea strictă a inteligenței artificiale la nivel mondial. Afirmația a stârnit râsetele publicului.

^{G4Media 📰 (Mastodon)}

Vi har uppdaterat till den senaste versionen av Mastodon, v4.6.3

Denna version innehåller ett antal buggfixar.

Stort tack till er som stöttar vårt arbete! 🤗

patreon.com/mastodonnu

ko-fi.com/mastodonnu

liberapay.com/mastodonnu

Swish 0720 311 657

Vipps +46 72 031 16 57

Detaljer finns här: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

#mastodonnu
#support
#upgrade
#mastodon
#patreon
#kofi

Release v4.6.3 · 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

Hey @lemonde !
Quand vous faites un article sur les "réseaux sociaux Européens", oublier #mastodon, ça frole l'incompétence.
Quant à mentionner positivement W, faites votre travail de journalistes, regardez les investigations d' @_elena

lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2026…

Stux, my love, the Fediverse has a freeloading problem that is going to have to be addressed. It's not sustainable.

It's time for *all* instances to start telling their members if they don't give at least $5 a month, their account will be suspended, and 30 days after that, it will be deleted.

There is nobody who can afford internet access that can't afford $5 a month.

(If someone is REALLY in bad shape they can apply for a *temporary* deferment from donating.)

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Alright, crash course to #mastodon hosting basics. It's been long in my mind to try #MastodonBirdUI in #container. @michael kindly added container build workflow to get fresh images every time @rolle makes a new release. Today I learned #traefik and made it load balance birdUI running on #podman. Lot of new things for me, but eventually it works. I'll drop the configs somewhere once I have the time if someone wants to try. And if you already run mastodon from containers, you can easily try birdUI with the new images.

github.com/orgs/mementomori-so…

RE: mastodon.social/@davatron5000/…

#MASTODON: come for the shitposts, leave radicalized by a book about birds ✊🏽📗🪿

There's a trend in #SouthKorea called " #dopamine sites"

Fake shopping websites for deriving pleasure just choosing and ordering

"One popular site, FoodNeverComes, mimics a food delivery app where you can compare menu items, read reviews, pick your favorites, fill your cart, and even watch a virtual courier make progress toward your house on a live map"

I would never waste time online for a dopamine hit... Oh! Someone gave me a favorite on #Mastodon!

psychologytoday.com/us/blog/po…

#psychology

South Korea's viral "dopamine sites" show the rewards of simulated experiences.

South Korea’s viral trend of fake consumer sites is providing some users with comfort and connection by rewarding anticipation. But is there a cost?

^{Pamela B. Rutledge Ph.D., M.B.A. (Psychology Today)}

#MustRead: “The #Mastodon audience feels very into what they’re doing, for better or worse. There are an awful lot of posts about things I don’t really need: Linux, the fediverse itself…, and so on. But there are also posts about moss and windows and gardening and niche interests, tons of furries and queer people, and a general sense of #counterculture I think lost from mainstream platforms. In other words it's the sort of stuff that feels like #myInternet.”

gfsc.community/why-we-disconti…

Why we discontinued our Mastodon server

After three years of running our Fediverse server, we're shutting it down. Not because we've given up on the Fediverse, but because it isn't safe or sustainable enough for a community org like ours to run a server on a shoestring.

^{Dr Kim Foale (Geeks for Social Change)}

Pubkey in NYC is airing a documentary about #julianassange on Saturday, June 27th:

@wikileaks@mastodon.social @wikileaks@mastodon.cloud @hopeconf @defcon #fediverse #mastodon

luma.com/pubkey-9ztl