It’s been a minute since I have been in the #mastodon world.

I was diagnosed with stage 2 grade 2 clear cell renal carcinoma. I’m 32 years old and soon to be 33. I was given the “go home and don’t come back convo” from my oncologist which is great.

My first scans on May 31st were clean, and my next ones are October 31st. Would love to connect with other #cancer folks here if there are any.

If this doesn’t apply to you, that’s fine, but boost if you can ❤️👏🏻❗️

#cancer #youngadultcancer

Manually managing the domains you block is absolutely no substitute for actually good moderation tools, where #Mastodon has a lot of work to do.

But in the meantime, if your instance doesn't have a good blocklist, you can upload this CSV to your "Domain blocking list" at example.social/settings/imports to block some of the worst instances:

https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/branch/main/blocklists/mastodon/_unified_tier0_blocklist.csv

blocklists/blocklists/mastodon/_unified_tier0_blocklist.csv at main

blocklists - Blocklists

^Codeberg.org

Found 11 new servers and 19 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

21,394 servers checked. 14,114,616 Total Users with 0 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

mstdn.snyman.info a #mastodon server from United States
moshpit.zip a #mastodon server from Portugal
m.yyilmaz.com.tr a #mastodon server from Türkiye
www.supixi.jp a #misskey server from Japan
mi.lilalm.site a #misskey server from Private
fedi.transgender.ing a #sharkey server from United Kingdom
subspacewagon.systems a #mastodon server from Portugal
pleroma.caligula-sea.net a #pleroma server from Japan
social.fa-fo.de a #mastodon server from Poland
social.partial.fail a #gotosocial server from Luxembourg
autisticats.xyz a #hometown server from United States

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

Found 11 new servers and 16 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

21,400 servers checked. 14,114,616 Total Users with 0 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

moshpit.zip a #mastodon server from Portugal
mstdn.snyman.info a #mastodon server from United States
m.yyilmaz.com.tr a #mastodon server from Türkiye
www.supixi.jp a #misskey server from Japan
mi.lilalm.site a #misskey server from Private
fedi.transgender.ing a #sharkey server from United Kingdom
subspacewagon.systems a #mastodon server from Portugal
pleroma.caligula-sea.net a #pleroma server from Japan
social.fa-fo.de a #mastodon server from Poland
social.partial.fail a #gotosocial server from Luxembourg
autisticats.xyz a #hometown server from United States

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

Found 11 new servers and 10 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

21,405 servers checked. 14,132,135 Total Users with 0 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

mstdn.snyman.info a #mastodon server from United States
moshpit.zip a #mastodon server from Portugal
m.yyilmaz.com.tr a #mastodon server from Türkiye
mi.lilalm.site a #misskey server from Private
www.supixi.jp a #misskey server from Japan
fedi.transgender.ing a #sharkey server from United Kingdom
subspacewagon.systems a #mastodon server from Portugal
pleroma.caligula-sea.net a #pleroma server from Japan
social.fa-fo.de a #mastodon server from Poland
social.partial.fail a #gotosocial server from Luxembourg
autisticats.xyz a #hometown server from United States

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

ICYMI: yesterday I published the 6th post in my series #TheFutureIsFederated, showing how interoperability works between #Mastodon & #Pixelfed. In short: it feels like magic 🪄✨

An excerpt:
« The Fediverse has so much potential and is so much more sophisticated than anything made available by Meta, TikTok and X. But more importantly: not only is it technically superior, it is also ethical and user-centric. »

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-1-mastodon-pixelfed-2/

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #blog #socialmedia #FOSS

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 1: Mastodon ↔️ Pixelfed)

The secret ingredient of the Fediverse is the ActivityPub protocol and how it allows networks to talk to each other. See the magic in action!

^{Elena Rossini}

Found 9 new servers and 8 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

21,405 servers checked. 14,132,135 Total Users with 0 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

m.yyilmaz.com.tr a #mastodon server from Türkiye
www.supixi.jp a #misskey server from Japan
mi.lilalm.site a #misskey server from Private
fedi.transgender.ing a #sharkey server from United Kingdom
subspacewagon.systems a #mastodon server from Portugal
pleroma.caligula-sea.net a #pleroma server from Japan
social.fa-fo.de a #mastodon server from Poland
social.partial.fail a #gotosocial server from Luxembourg
autisticats.xyz a #hometown server from United States

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

So #fediverse #mastodon peeps...remember when we posted that breaking news about the alleged leak of #Twitter's whitelist via Oktr (which has a lot of contradictions) and how Twitter handled the misinformation in the most red flag way possible?

Thanks to how badly #X is coded it keeps getting worse.

More updates to come.

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.6 👩‍🚀

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 1: #Mastodon ↔️ #Pixelfed )

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-1-mastodon-pixelfed-2/

with shout-outs to @phanpy @tapbots @ivory @Tusky @dansup

✨ and special thanks to @evan @cwebber for your work on #ActivityPub, the magic protocol that is making all this possible ✨

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #RebelAlliance

"On X, you can say transphobic, homophobic, racist, misogynistic slurs with very little consequence."

@saskia went back to Twitter / X this week as part of our mission to help the people who are still over there join better alternatives.

She put her findings into a blog but we warn you, it's not good news.

https://forbetter.ghost.io/mojo-dojo-casa-house-x-masculinity/

#Twitter #Mastodon #Fediverse #ElonMusk #TwitterIsDead

Mojo Dojo Casa House: X & Masculinity

Say goodbye to the Twitter you knew, Musk's X is stomping on the grave. I've recently had the displeasure of going back to X (aka Twitter), a platform that continues to turn further and further from the light it once was.

^{Saskia (FORbetter)}

Decentralization and self-hosting is the future of the internet.

Build communities, promote, make connections.

We don’t need “big tech.” They need us.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #selfhosting

For a long time I struggled with myself to not seem like a bully and someone who spreads hate and then I realized I am not alone, there is already a petition 👇🏼👇🏼

https://www.change.org/p/disqualify-convicted-child-rapist-steven-van-de-velde-from-the-olympics
⬆️

Here is my contribution
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND SHARE IF YOU AGREE

YOU ARE FREE TO COPY IT OUT AND POST IT ON YOUR ACCOUNT TOO

#ioc #olympics #olympicgames #humanity #social #socialmedia #YouWinAgainSi #mastodon #fediverse #rape #no #olympics2024 #paris2024 #question #betterworld #GiveThemAVoice #news

So I'm not alone with this impression. For an estimated 3 days, it wasn't just about blocking. I also reported accounts because they were spreading hate, disinformation, and propaganda that reminded me badly of Russian or MAGA provenance, including many climate change deniers. Some accounts were suspended quickly by the moderators.

It's important to report these trolls because in the Fediverse, they can get isolated.
Seems to be organised ...

#trolls #Mastodon #haters #propaganda

Found 4 new servers and 5 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

21,406 servers checked. 14,132,135 Total Users with 0 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

pleroma.caligula-sea.net a #pleroma server from Japan
social.fa-fo.de a #mastodon server from Poland
social.partial.fail a #gotosocial server from Luxembourg
autisticats.xyz a #hometown server from United States

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

You #fediverse #mastodon peeps are INSANE!

Thank you for your favs and retweets on the most popular (and controversial) post on here.

Follow up post soon, meet ups resume September in New Jersey.

@defcon

Some fediverse platforms* let you add links to your profile in dedicated fields, and also verify them. Do you have/use this feature?

* eg: Mastodon: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification
and Friendica: https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/verify_homepage

#fediverse #mastodon #VerifiedLinks #verified #SocialMedia #poll

• Yes, I have a few verified links (38%, 50 votes)
• I have one verified link (40%, 52 votes)
• I have this feature, but don't use it (18%, 24 votes)
• I don't have this feature (2%, 3 votes)

Follow-up question. Which approach do you prefer?

#fediverse #mastodon #verification #verified #SocialMedia #poll

• Verify which domains you own (100%, 4 votes)
• Let the platform verify who you are (0%, 0 votes)
• There's a better way! (leave a comment) (0%, 0 votes)
• Not sure (0%, 0 votes)

Hey @IceCubesApp ; one thing that's absolutely awful when posting is adding tags; iOS' keyboard stashes the `#` key behind two taps which annoys me every time.

I don't have any good suggestions for how to make this better. A (#) widget in the toot UI with a pop-up auto-complete text field?

#ios #toot #mastodon

Good morning #mastodon wow I wasn’t expecting the love and support from so many #cancer folks on here. Thank you to everyone who reached out, commented, or boosted 🫶🏻with that being said, can I ask a question?

I have found that humor has been a way for me to cope with cancer dx, do those of you that have cancer agree, disagree, or don’t care? I was thinking of posting some of my humor content on here.

• Agree (0 votes)
• Disagree (0 votes)
• Don’t care (0 votes)

I'm pretty annoyed by the campaign name "Mastodon for Harris"

I HIGHLY doubt it's *just* Mastodon users donating...😒unless that's what you want? Only mastodon users?🤨

Fediverse is more than just mastodon.

Stop this crap. Thanks.

#Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon

Just realized this is my 5th #Mastodon server since 2017. 2 died, 1 wouldn't let me say "Bitcoin", 1 was just too modded and censored to even let me follow bird.makeup or nostr.pub accounts.

I think c.im strikes the perfect balance for me between moderation and tolerance.

To each, his/her/their own in the #fediverse. Everyone can find a place here, even if it takes you 7 years and 5 tries.

Here are some #Mastodon or #Fediverse terms I thought of:

Super Instance: A fedi instance that has amassed a very high number of users (mastodon and the official app really wants you to join their flagship super instance)

Mega Instance: A fedi instance where the size is so large it has more users than mastodon does in all of it's instances combined (Thanks to bridgyfed, bluesky is pretty much a fediverse mega instance)

Inner fediverse: the weirder part of fedi, mostly non-mastodon instances but sometimes forks like glitch or hometown. (I recently moved to the inner fediverse after getting bored of mastodon)

will leave it at three for now.

The fediverse is making the news.

"Over the last two days users from the social media service Mastodon have started a campaign which has raised over $250,000 for VP Harris."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/25/2257916/-Mastodon-users-donate-a-quarter-million-dollars-in-2-days-for-VP-Harris-MastodonForHarris

#fediverse #mastodon #MastodonForHarris

Mastodon users donate a quarter million dollars in 2 days for VP Harris #MastodonForHarris

Over the last two days users from the social media service Mastodon have started a campaign which has raised over $250,000 for VP Harris. User Heidi Li Feldman started the modest campaign on ActBlue two days ago, with a humble goal of one thousand...

^{Daily Kos}

Freeradical.zone is a Mastodon server for infosec and privacy and technology and leftward politics and cats and dogs and…

https://freeradical.zone

Find out more at https://freeradical.zone/about or contact their admin @tek

#FeaturedServer #InfoSec #Privacy #Tech #Technology #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Free Radical

Infosec and privacy and technology and leftward politics and cats and dogs and...

^{Mastodon hosted on freeradical.zone}

Most people try to escape Twitter but we're going back 👀

As a nonprofit committed to helping people find social media that works better for them and to growing the Fediverse and wider Social Web - it's our role to show people who don't want to support Musk's platform that there are alternatives.

We've been working on Threads & Bluesky in a similar way, encouraging federation, but now we're ready to really get our hands dirty. Wish us luck.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia

Just a reminder:
#Mastodon does not = the #Fediverse!

Mastodon is just one part of the Fediverse. Certainly a large part, but it's not the entire Fediverse.

We don't say that Facebook is all of social media, or that Google is the whole of the internet.

Mastodon is just one of the many blocks that make up the vast network that is the Fediverse.

Now you can move along. :)

Let me say this and let me say this clearly. If a platform is coding in allowances for #antiblack verbage, that's a terrible platform. There's no ifs, buts or maybes.

Trying to then recreate the same circumstances here that allow for that is senseless. If you want to empower minorities on #mastodon, you need to create communities elsewhere. Centralising on a single instance is shooting yourself in the foot.

If you want social media equality…
If you want social media progression…
If you want to overthrow the system…
If you aren't in the one percent…
If you are different…
If you are the same…
If you are fighting…
If you are an ally…
…GET THE FUCK OFF THE HUGE INSTANCES AND ERODE THAT POWER!

Centralisation Never, Decentralisation Now!

Found 15 new servers and 26 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

21,392 servers checked. 14,189,214 Total Users with 1,027,189 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

rss.ponder.cat a #lemmy server from United Kingdom
coliss.fenslaw.nl a #bookwyrm server from Germany
owncast.popey.com a #owncast server from Germany
mastodonsmeade.social a #mastodon server from Germany
lz.tobskep.com a #mastodon server from United States
collage.sutty.nl a #sutty-distributed-press server from Canada
caekis.love a #pleroma server from United States
misskey.comefrom.stream a #misskey server from Private
pleroma.ruby2sday.net a #pleroma server from Private
mstdn.moimeme.ca a #mastodon server from Private
patamiel.xyz a #pleroma server from Germany
yottasky.xsns.jp a #misskey server from Japan
yiffi.es a #akkoma server from Luxembourg
blog.autumn64.xyz a #writefreely server from United States
blogo.autumn64.xyz a #writefreely server from United States

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

i run my own site, i know c++

i wish it was easier to understand and get into fediverse stuff

if i want to learn how to make something, publish something, all the tutorial start with "here are 30 technologies you've never heard of, throw them all together on a server and configure it in the 'standard way' then you're done!"

does anyone have any suggestions?

#fediverse #mastodon

#Biden moments away from addressing the nation on his decision to stand down from the 2024 #election.

If you think he has earned a beer for ~50 years of public service, donate $5 to help elect VP #Harris (and show #Mastodon is worth looking at)!

Or, you know, a six-pack for $30. 😇

@heidilifeldman has started this #MastodonForHarris ActBlue fundraiser and it is blowing past expectations, approaching $200,000 as we speak!

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

#uspol #politics #uspolitics

#Mastodon is a microcosm of world power. White men think its the best thing since sliced bread.

Women and minorities disappear without a trace.

So no complaints.