Happy *seventh* anniversary of "Six reasons Mastodon won't survive" to all who celebrate:
mashable.com/article/mastodon-…

#Fediverse #Mastodon

If you’re on mastodon.social, I would highly recommend that you switch to a different server that protects its people instead of exposing them to a well-known bad actor like Facebook/Meta via Threads.

For alternatives, see: fedipact.veganism.social

And remember that Mastodon is not the fediverse. The fediverse is much more than just Mastodon and definitely more so than mastodon.social and Mastodon gGmbH.

#mastodonSocial #mastodonGGMBH #mastodon #fediverse #threads #facebook #meta

Ja tinc creada la classe Python per a connectar a l'API de #Matrix (em sento com si fos Neo 😂).
La classe inclou, per ara, tres mètodes:
- obtenir informació d'un usuari ✅
- registrar un nou usuari ✅
- llistar usuaris
Els mètodes amb ✅ funcionen perfectament. Encara no he provat el que llista els usuaris.
Ja he alliberat el projecte sencer:

codeberg.org/spla/matrix

Aquest codi permet als usuaris locals d'un servidor #Mastodon registrar-se ells mateixos en un servidor Matrix/Synapse.

matrix

Mastodon's bot that register server's users to Matrix network

^Codeberg.org

Have you seen @nextcloud AI Assistant 2.0?

You can now chat about your own documents and data, use GPU acceleration, transcribe audio with Whisper, use your own LLMs, and a ton more integrations and new features.

All #open-source 😀

Boosts appreciated 🙏

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-r…

#AI #mastodon #Linux #Foss #OSS

It looks like you can now view anyone’s Threads profile from Mastodon and Pixelfed instances that federate with them.

If you’re a Mastodon user wanting to block Threads, or a Mastodon server admin looking not only to block Threads from federating to your server but also block all inbound and outbound traffic (data scrapers, loads of traffic overwhelming small servers) from all their IP addresses, I wrote a guide that can help:

mastodon.moule.world/users/MOU…

#Threads #Fediverse #Mastodon #PixelFed

Just realized one of my favorite place is the perfect Fediverse IRL café

• Lofi hip hop music
• Multicultural
• Random mismatched furniture
• A copy of “Das Kapital” on display
• Library with free to take books
• Gender neutral bathroom
• "Barista antifascista" stickers

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Berlin

Mám tady základ role pro ansible github.com/Vitexus/mastodon_se… a uvítal bych spolupráci.

Cílem je, aby to umělo mastodon server nainstalovat, zkonfigurovat a zakutalizovat.

#ansible #Mastodon #Automatizace

GitHub - Vitexus/mastodon_server: Mastodon Server ansible role

Mastodon Server ansible role. Contribute to Vitexus/mastodon_server development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Dear mastodon.social, why are you hiding/limiting @LALegault’s account?

Is it policy on mastodon.social to hide/limit pro-Palestinian / anti-genocide accounts?

(Someone there wanna check my account also, just in case?)

CC @Gargron

#mastodon #mastodonSocial #israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #censorship liberal.city/@wjmaggos/1119988…

Regular Fediverse federation check.

According to @fedidb (fedidb.org) 22,37% of monthly active Fediverse users are currently on mastodon.social.

I very much welcome the upcoming Mastodon feature that closes registrations if the mods and admins abandon the server (no activity for a week), but when do we finally close servers automatically that have 10k active users?

I'll post about this somewhat regularly under #FederationCheck, but if someone wants to automate that with a bot feel free.

#Fediverse #FediverseMeta #federation #MastodonSocial #Mastodon

Yes, #Mastodon supports #HCaptcha, but HCaptcha mines details of some of us with disabilities by asking us to sign up with an email address to, as they put it, 'get an accessibility cookie.' If you use that service, it is a bad time for many. HCaptcha is not my friend.
Edit: For reasons why I categorically state HCaptcha is evil, see this post I made in response to someone else. People have quite rightly asked me to clarify my stance, so here it is: universeodon.com/@FreakyFwoof/…

Andre Louis

2024-02-19 07:18:12

@craftxbox It's evil, because *only* if you're blind or unable to complete the visual captcha, do they require your email address.
'Oh, let's be another corporation, but we're niche and specific. We only want email addresses of those who are blind/visually impaired, so we could, at our discretion, spam them with blindness-specific products or services that our visual users would never see, as they never had to provide an email address.'
When you go to the chemist (drug store or whatever it's called today) to buy, oh I dono, tampons, do you have to give them your email address because you're a woman?
Nope. Very, very definitely nope, but because I'm blind, I have to give some nameless, faceless company my address, to have a cookie that hardly ever works anyway at the best of times, and even when it does, is now tracking me across any site with *their* version of so-called captcha?
No. Absolutely not. Get the hell out with that.

Internationalise The Fediverse
shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/inter…

We live in the future now. It is OK to use Unicode everywhere.

It seems bizarre to me that modern Internet services sometimes "forget" that there's a world outside the Anglosphere. Some people have the temerity to speak foreign languages! And some of those languages have accents on their letters!! Even worse, some don't use English letters at all!!!

A decade ago, I was miffed that GitHub only supported some ASCII characters in its project names. There's no technical reason why your repo can't be called "ഹലോ വേൾഡ്".

Similarly, I'm frustrated that Mastodon (the largest ActivityPub service) doesn't allow Unicode usernames and has resisted efforts to change.

So I built a small ActivityPub server which publishes content from an Actor called @你好@i18n.viii.fi - it is only a demo account, but it works!

Some ActivityPub clients report that they are able to follow it and receive messages from it. Others - like Mastodon - simply can't see anything from it. Take a look at the replies on Mastodon to see which services work. You can also see some of its posts on the Fediverse.

What Does The Fox Spec Say?

The ActivityPub specification says:

Building an international base of users is important in a federated network.
Internationalization

I can't find anything in the specifications which limits what languages a username can be written in. But there are a few clues scattered about.

The user's @ name is defined by preferredUsername which is:

A short username which may be used to refer to the actor, with no uniqueness guarantees.
4.1 Actor objects

There's nothing in there about what scripts it can contain. However, later on, the spec says:

Properties containing natural language values, such as name, preferredUsername, or summary, make use of natural language support defined in ActivityStreams.
4. Actors

So it is expected that a preferred username could be written in multiple scripts. Which implies that the default need not be limited to A-Z0-9.

The ActivityStreams specification talks about language mapping.

Finally, the ActivityPub specification has some examples on non-Latin text in names.

So, I think that it is acceptable for usernames to be written in a variety of non-Latin scripts.

But What About...?

There are usually a few objections to "Unicode Everywhere" zealots like me. I'd like to forestall any arguments.

What about homograph attacks?

Well, what about them? ASCII has plenty of similar looking characters. I doubt most people would notice when a capital i is replaced by a lower L - and vice-versa. Similarly the kerning issue of an r and n looking like an m is well known. Are mixed language homographs more dangerous? I don't think so.

What if people make names that can't be typed?

Well, what if they do? Maybe not being found by people who can't type your language is a feature, not a bug. But, anyway, clients can let users search for other people, or copy and paste their names.

What about weird "Zalgo" text?

It is up to a client to decide how they want to render text input. The "problems" of strange Unicode combinations are well known. This is not a hard computer-science problem.

What about bi-directional text?

The spec makes clear this is allowed.

Do people even want a username in their own script?

I have no evidence for this. But I bet you'd get pretty frustrated if you had to switch keyboard just to type your own name, wouldn't you? In any case, why can't I have a username of @😉

What's Next?

If you build ActivityPub software, give some thought to the billions of people who don't have names which easily fit into ASCII.

If your software can see @你好@i18n.viii.fi and its posts, please let me know.

shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/inter…

#ActivityPub #fediverse #i18n #mastodon #unicode

I'd like to run an instance with non-ASCII usernames · Issue #8417 · mastodon/mastodon

Mastodon usernames are currently restricted to Latin characters. I'd like to have the option to run an instance which allows usernames like "莎士比亚". I'm not saying that it should be mandatory that e...

^GitHub

We’ve just published an update about this Mastodon trial which has been running for the last 6 months – you can read it here: bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-02-exte…

We are going to continue our trial here for at least another six months while we share our findings internally and seek more engagement from other BBC teams. We are also planning to start researching ways to publish more BBC content using ActivityPub.

#mastodon #ActivityPub #socialmedia

Some cool #Firefox add-ons for improving #Mastodon:

Simplified Federation: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
Automatically take you to your home instance when you try to follow people from a page on another instance.

StreetPass: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
Automatically discovers mastodon accounts on any web page you visit. Keeps a list so you can browse accounts at your convenience.

Substitoot: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
Fill in missing replies, boost/favorite counts, profile pages.

Mastodon – Simplified Federation! – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Mastodon – Simplified Federation! for Firefox. Simplifies following or interacting with other users on remote Mastodon instances in the Fediverse.

^{addons.mozilla.org}

Uz nejakou dobu pouzivam na @wrksart klienta phanpy.social. Je hodne minimalisticky. Krade IP z pokemonu, mastodon pokemon, ha, genialni! Hodne veci mi vadi.

Ale jeho naprosta killer feature a duvod, proc si ho pro doom scrolling hudby a dalsiho umeni na WRKS necham, je vizualni oddeleni boostu od originalnich postu.

Vubec nechapu, proc to jeste nema kazdy klient. UX je uplny no-brainer. Obri timeline neskutecne zprehledni.

#mastodon #phanpy #ux #app

Phanpy

Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

^{phanpy.social}

At long last, the Thunderbird blog now has a "Share To Mastodon" button!

A hearty round of applause and eternal thanks to @micah, @oopsallnaps, and @devmount for making it happen 💙

#Mastodon #Community #OpenSource

Here’s what people are saying about #Dgar’s moon-rock song “It’s Always Monday On The Moon”.

“Tasty!”
~ Rev. Watt deFalk, O.C.D.

“awesome…”
~ karin Sorenby

“I aways enjoy it!”
~ Maj1

“It's well-written and fun…”
~ Steve’s Place

“…it's outta this WORLD!!”
~ x.Félix_de_Fomento.x

“Yeah. We had that last week.”
~ Clara Listensprechen

“I never been there.”
~ Ken Dillermand

“Wha??? When did NASA ever go to the moon?”
~ ideaPDish

“I've got a gimp in the back room...”
~ Nuki writes Erotica in ur Feed

So what are you waiting for? Check out the song that’s taking #Mastodon by storm!

It’s Always Monday On The Moon
~ Dgar

Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/dgarmusic/its-a…

Everywhere else: songwhip.com/dgar/its-always-m…

It's Always Monday On The Moon by Dgar

Listen to "It's Always Monday On The Moon" by Dgar on any music platform - Free smart music links by Songwhip

^{Dgar (Songwhip)}

"Mastodon: Diebstahl beliebiger Identitäten im föderierten Kurznachrichtendienst" 😬

Die Versionen 3.5.17, 4.0.13, 4.1.13 und 4.2.5 beheben die Sicherheitslücke. 👇

heise.de/news/Mastodon-Diebsta…

#mastodon #security #vulnerability #schwachstelle #sicherheit

Mastodon: Diebstahl beliebiger Identitäten im föderierten Kurznachrichtendienst

In einem knappen Sicherheitshinweis lassen die Entwickler eine Bombe platzen: Angreifer können jeden beliebigen Account übernehmen und fälschen.

^{Dr. Christopher Kunz (heise online)}

Appreciation toot for everyone on #Mastodon following, interacting, and being awesome on this platform and helping grow the federated community.

You get one wool heart each.

Hey #fediverse,

Can y'all Please tell #NPR about #mastodon, #activityPub (and #Matrix!), please?

No really.. They're literally asking for it,

npr.org/2024/01/11/1223974976/…

Ok, I could be reading too much into it, but it really would be nice if maybe I wasn't the only one that mentioned maybe it's something they should look into?

kthx,
- A. Rando

Im Januar 2024 richtete das Aktionsb. neue Soziale Medien einen offenen Brief an die Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (#HRK). Darin werden die #Hochschulen in Deutschland aufgefordert, ihre X/Twitter-Präsenzen zu beenden und stattdessen auf dezentrale Plattformen im #Fediverse wie #Mastodon umzusteigen. Diese seien besser geeignet, den Regeln eines demokratischen und nachhaltigen Miteinanders zu entsprechen. Ich bin Erstunterzeichner des offenen Briefs! Mitmachen. 👇

openpetition.de/petition/onlin…

@neuSoM

The free fediverses should focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety

privacy.thenexus.today/free-fe…

(Part 2 of "Strategies for the free fediverses")

#fediverse #mastodon #fedipact @fediversenews

The free fediverses should focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety

Part 2 of Strategies for the free fediverses

^{Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)}

Výborná prezentace z #OpenAlt o #Fediverse a #Mastodon od @sesivany

Pokud budete sdílet dál, dovolím si rovnou doplnit:

* Je možné sledovat i hashtagy
* Pro vyhledávání uživatelů je dobrý FediSearch fedisearch.skorpil.cz od @stepan
* V ČR běží také instance #Piráti mastodon.pirati.cz a na vlastním železe

invidious.cz/watch?v=xsfSpCNfg…

People

Search people on Fediverse

^{fedisearch.skorpil.cz}

"I noticed that the vanilla mastodon server uses Ruby on Rails; and they picked Puma as their rack server which is a poor choice. I experimented by setting up a VM with common VPS specs and tested a single line change in the Gemfile and got massive performance and efficiency increases"
reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments…

#Mastodon #MastodonDev

Hey #lawfedi friends, every day a new person in #law or #legal adjacent fields joints the #fediverse and isn't aware of Lawstodon - the legal community directory for #Mastodon (and eventually the fediverse more broadly).

Feel free to add yourself, claim your profile, etc. I have been using it when I send recommendations for folks looking for practitioners in specific practice areas and it works a treat!

@law

lawstodon.org

Lawstodon | Find Lawyers and the Legal Community on Mastodon | #LawFedi #Lawstodon

Lawstodon.org is a directory of lawyers, attorneys and the legal community on Mastodon. #LawFedi #Lawstodon

^{www.lawstodon.org}

My #FediPact 2.0 website tool is now available for your anti-fascist viewing pleasure!

Please share this around so I can finallly go to sleep 😫. I know people wanted to see it.

Servers not listed just had no readily-available data for me to grab.

fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2

#Threads #Meta #FediPact #Zuckerberg #Mastodon #Lemmy #Firefish

#Fedipact - The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net

An interactive list to see which ActivityPub (Matodon, Lemmy, FireFish, etc) instances are federating with Threads.net

^{fedipact.veganism.social}

The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.

#Threads #Mastodon #Krita #MastoArt #Meta

@openuk I'd love to see this Mastodon profile up here stateofopencon.com/advisory-bo…

Even better, I'd love to see the links to their Mastodon accounts.

We really have no idea how much longer Twitter (or X) will exist.

@fwd50 has already leveraged it this year.

Plus, #Mastodon is #OpenSource so ...

Advisory Board - 2024 - State of Open Conference 24

Advisory Board Alex Edwards Global Account Director, Onalytica Twitter Read Bio Amanda Kamin Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Digital Catapult Twitter Read Bio Ana Jimenez OSPO Program Manager at TODO Group, Linux Foundation Twitter Read B…

^{State of Open Conference 24}

According to this, I am currently ranked 213 among the most followed peeps on #Mastodon: most-followed-masotodon-accoun…

Crazy!

@heluecht @one @sascha

Bei #Pleroma sind mir neulich schon Unterschiede in der Implementation im Vergleich zu #Mastodon aufgefallen (an anderer Stelle).

Wenn #Pleroma #ActivityPub "erweitert", würde es die Kompatibilität zum Standard brechen...!?!

Hi there, fedi,

Did you know you can use your fedi account to #voice #chat with followers or other fedizens? The software is called #audon (for #audio on #mastodon I guess) and works pretty well.

And if you're the sort of fedi person who likes DIY and self-hosting, the project is free software so you can do that, too. Give it a shot, if voice is something that interests you at all.

Try it on audon.space/

Audon

Audio spaces for Mastodon

^{Audon hosted on audon.space}