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I could use some #FediHelp .

As my long-running readers are probably aware, I schedule a _lot_ of posts in advance. I use @bufferapp for this, and I am largely satisfied with this, except for one thing:

They have a fixed character limit of 500 for posts, and thus I cannot make use of the full 10,000 characters of my instance.

This is bad, since most of my scheduled posts are German folk tales exceeding this character limit, and thus I am forced to use screenshots instead of plain texts - which is terrible from an #accessibility point of view (yes, there are readers that can identify the text, but I'd rather use plain text in the first place). So I am looking for alternatives. Here are my requirements:

- It must have a web interface I can use on my desktop PC - I grew up with proper screens and keyboards, and while I _can_ use a smart phone or tablet for complex stuff, I do not find the experience enjoyable.
- It must have a calendar view instead of being a simple, scrollable list - I often schedule posts weeks in advance, and I want to be able to keep track of what is scheduled.
- It must make full use of the character limits of each instance.
- It must allow for scheduling threads - quite a few of the tales I am posting exceed the 10,000 character limit.
- It must work with #Mastodon . While I am aware that other #Fediverse systems (such as #Friendica ) have scheduling options of their own, switching to an entirely different system is a drastic step that I only want to explore when all other options have been exhausted.

Does anyone have any suggestions?


#Fedi, I need your help.

I'm raising £8,125 to introduce #Leicester to ethical, decentralised platforms like #Mastodon.

I want to:

🚀 Launch a Mastodon instance for local people

👨‍🏫 Run workshops in schools teaching safe social networking

📢 Champion the #fediverse in the indie #media sector

Don’t let #BigTech and #billionaires kill #LocalNews. Can you help us reach our target of 25 new lifetime members by mid-June?

You can join no matter where you live.

Donate: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/join-the-f…


Does anyone use the star button for anything other than marking the toots or replies they've already read?

🤔

#Mastodon


@matt

It doesn't even work with the Mastodon WWW user interface, ironically.

The glyphs aren't in the Roboto WWW font requested by #Mastodon so WWW browsers fall back to whatever font is set locally.

Not only does that in itself make posts look like bad movie ransom notes, but it gets worse: because some fonts intentionally try to make the mathematical symbols distinct from truly boldfaced/italic Latin-1 alphabetic characters.

#Unicode #accessibility


Mastoart.social is a friendly creative Mastodon server that welcomes all skill levels of visual art, crafts, music, writing and more. (AI is not allowed.)

:Fediverse: mastoart.social

Languages on this server include English and German.

You can find out more at mastoart.social/about or contact the admins @artmin, @bestiaexmachina & @Kitty

#FeaturedServer #Creative #Art #VisualArt #Crafts #Music #Writing #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse


For #Accountants and #Bookkeepers of #Mastodon, do most companies use Excel for accounting/bookkeeping? or is quickbooks the main driver? if excel is used, is there some sort of template specifically made for accounting and how would I gain access to it? I'd like to know how to make 4 documents and credit and debit each, statement of financial position, Income statements, Statement of cashflows, and invoices. It would really help because I'm #Blind and Excel is very #Accessible with #ScreenReaders, and I would love to get back into accounting if at all possible, as it was my favorite subject in College and if I could gain employment in that field, I'd gladly do it again. Thank you for your assistance, and if you don't know the answer, please boost for reach.


Who on this #mastodon uses #RSS? I just made 🥯 FeedBagel – feedbagel.com

An RSS feed finder #API that categorises feeds with #AI, and saves them for browsing and searching

any feedback welcome and appreciated! #webdev #design


Did you know that you can hide boosts from people? If your client doesn't support this, pester the devs until they either build it in or quit creating the client. The second one is more likely so meh. Anyway, it's really useful.

Mastodon works on boosts. If you see something cool, you boost it. There are no "posts you may like" mechanisms on Mastodon. There are no algorithms. So, if you want people to see something, you *have* to boost. If some one boosts too much, though, you can hide those boosts, especially if you already follow the source they boost from.

#feditips #accessibility #mastodon #blind


I’m proud to be joining @Mastodon’s Board of Directors to guide and support this important platform.

I believe that #Mastodon and the #Fediverse represent some of the most important advancements in social networking design and technology. They have the potential to reverse the harms wrought by the monolithic social media platforms of yesterday.

But even more than that, Mastodon and the Fediverse can be so much more than what we are against. We have so much potential. I believe in all of our power to build and change the world. We start by building and convening in healthier online communities because our strength together is far more than the sum of our differences. I believe in building technologies that help bring out the best in humanity; I believe in the amazing things we can do and be when we work together.

I love Mastodon. I love what we are and what we will be. Now let’s build a better world together 💞

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/…


#Mastodon has had a nice little uptick in sign-ups and activity from #Taiwan after a facebook post recommending it as an alternative to facebook and Instagram for Taiwanese users went viral on facebook, bringing in about 20K new users over the span of two days to mastodon.social, g0v.social, m.cmx.im and a few more.


One lesson learned from the recent #Fosstodon drama is that one of the biggest limitations of #Mastodon is not being really designed to allow migrating from an instance to another. It would be much nicer if posts were treated more like atomic entities, univocally signed/hashed so to allow users to freely move their content around instances


Alright everyone on #fosstodon, LISTEN UP. @kev and @mike are (presumably) quitting. They've set up an amazing place and built it out into a real community.

Now the question is.. what do we do? I'd really like this server to keep existing. Is anyone interested in continuing Fosstodon with me? :fosstodon:

#foss #opensource #mastodon


🚀 Phanpy byl aktualizován! 🎉
Právě jsme aktualizovali novou verzi Phanpy! 📢 Verze 2025.04.26.0d0fa92
💬 Máte návrhy nebo jste našli chyby v překladu? Lokalizace ještě není kompletní, takže uvítáme jakékoliv návrhy na zlepšení a pomoc s překladem.
phanpy.cz
Big thanks to the developer @cheeaun for his amazing work on the project! 🙌
#Phanpy #Mastodon #Update #Localization #OpenSource




If someone's profile looks blank on here, don't assume it is actually blank. Some accounts, especially newer ones or ones with few followers, may look blank even if they aren't.

There's more info about this, why it happens and how to check what the profile really looks like in the guide:

➡️ fedi.tips/why-does-someones-ac…

You can prevent your own account ever looking blank to anyone by pinning up to five posts or five threads on your profile:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-pin-my-post…

#FediTips #Mastodon


Herzlich willkommen, @hetzner, in meiner kleinen Ecke des Fediverse! 🖥️🌍
Eure Server laufen bei uns schon seit Jahren treu und zuverlässig – da hat nur noch euer Mastodon-Account gefehlt. 🤖
Schön, euch jetzt auch hier zu sehen! 💻🐘
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Hetzner


Why wasn't #Mastodon invented in the London borough of Tooting? I mean really...
Then you could have the default site being tooting.common, yes, let's just invent an entirely new TLD for it.


We need your opinion! 🫵

Hey Tuta Fans 👋 Which socials media platforms would you like to see in your Tuta Contacts?

Let us know in the poll below ❤️

Of course, we'll add #Mastodon

  • Bluesky (38%, 133 votes)
  • Instagram (8%, 28 votes)
  • Other (Let us know which) (61%, 212 votes)
345 voters. Poll end: 4 weeks ago


We need your opinion! 🫵

Hey Tuta Fans 👋 Which socials media platforms would you like to see in your Tuta Contacts?

Let us know in the poll below ❤️

Of course, we'll add #Mastodon

  • Bluesky (0 votes)
  • Instagram (0 votes)
Poll end: 1 month ago


Oh boo hoo! Someone doesn't like the new alt text warning on Mastodon!

> This warning is extremely annoying, I wish I could get rid of it and be allowed to post images without alt text if I want to without being asked every time like every other website. I know it is not ideal for accessibility, but I'm not going to add alt text because the warning tells me too, I'm too busy already procrastinating my life in other ways.

Go cry me a fucking river.

How can we make assholes like this even more mad?

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

#AltText #Mastodon #Fediverse


Возможно, вы грустите из-за того, что lor.sh закрывается.

Но вообще, у этого есть и плюсы.

Например, некоторые его обитатели побежали искать себе варианты для селфхоста. Естественно, как это обычно бывает, незамутнённый взгляд под непривычным углом быстро находит проблемы.

Поэтому, например, @rayslava вон скоро будет чинить плагин для Emacs под Mitra, а мы с @iliazeus уже нашли несколько проблем в GoToSocial и одном веб-клиенте для него и Mastodon.

Так что может lor.sh летом и закроется, но тем самым даст некоторый толчок нашей федеративной экосистеме стать лучше.

Так что налейте мне полстакана да выпьем за лорш и людей, которые там собрались 🍻

#log #LorshMigration #Mastodon #Mitra #GoToSocial #dev #thoughts #optimism #Fediverse


In case you missed it, there are Mastodon apps for retro computers from the 1980s & 90s

:apple_old_logo: Apple II
colino.net/wordpress/en/mastod…

:apple_old_logo: Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X)
github.com/smallsco/macstodon

:commodore: Commodore 64
github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon

:amiga: Commodore Amiga
github.com/BlitterStudio/amido…

:ms_dos: MS-DOS
github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

:IBM: MVS
github.com/mainframed/BREXXTOD…

:Palm_OS: Palm OS
github.com/knickish/heffalump

:windows95: Windows 95
github.com/meyskens/mastodon-f…

#Mastodon #RetroComputing


🎉 We crossed the line of 2000 subscribers 🎉

Thanks everyone! #Mastodon


It's been eight years to the day since Lance Ulanoff, the storied Tech and Social Media Expert and an award-winning tech journalist, decided that Mastodon won't survive because William Shatner couldn't find him on here.

Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives:
rys.io/en/177.html

Please join me in celebrating the annual Mastodon Won't Survive Day, right here on fedi. :blobcatcoffee:

🧵

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonWontSurvive


Jedna z věcí, co mám na Mastodonu fakt rád: filtrování obsahu.

Nechceš vidět nějaký hashtag, slovo nebo frázi?
Stačí si to přidat do filtrů v nastavení.
Bez algoritmů, bez cenzury – čistě podle toho, co si nastavíš ty.

Filtr můžeš nastavit jako dočasný (až na 7 dní) nebo trvalý (nikdy nevyprší).
A navíc si zvolíš, jestli se má příspěvek skrýt úplně, nebo označit varováním.

Typický příklad: nechceš vidět #eurovision nebo #ai? Není problém.
Na pár dní, nebo navždy – ty rozhoduješ.

Tohle je svoboda a kontrola nad obsahem, jak má být.

#mastodon #filtrování #tip #opensource #privacy #tip_mastodon


📢 Aktualizace Mastodon instancí!
Všechny naše Mastodon instance byly aktualizovány na v4.3.7 ✅

🔹 mamutovo.cz
🔹 mastodon.arch-linux.cz
🔹 zpravobot.news
🔧 Pokud narazíte na jakékoli problémy, dejte nám vědět.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…
#Mastodon #Oscloud #Update


Let's give it try:
I maintain my lists of accounts on #Mastodon & in the #Fediverse on GoogleDocs and I won't discuss that. That's just how I know, how to work with the data.
But can someone show me a way, to visualize this data/tables elsewhere? By connecting another software to GoogleDocs so that, others don't have to go to Google? I tried #DataWrapper, but the result is not as good.
Please don't just name a software, but show me a resource that explicitly tells me how to connect it to Sheets.


Interesting #Mastodon bot that turns RSS or Atom feeds into Mastodon accounts: rss-parrot.net/

(Following feeds would also be useful as built-in Mastodon functionality.)


🎉 Die heutige Fediverse-Sprechstunde ist zu Ende.

Ein herzliches Dankeschön geht an @gunchleoc für ihre Ausführungen zu #Peertube inklusive Liveupdate von PeerTube! Wir hatten eine spannende Runde mit vielseitigen Themen, die sowohl für #neuhier als auch für fortgeschrittene Nutzer interessant waren.
Mein Dank gilt auch allen Teilnehmenden der Sprechstunde, die sich aktiv eingebracht und so erneut zu einer gelungenen Veranstaltung beigetragen haben.

🗓️ Der nächste Termin steht bereits fest: Donnerstag 24.04.2025 um 19:30 Uhr
Thema: #Lemmy mit @Ranslite
Weitere Details folgen.

Lang lebe Fediverse! 🚀🌐
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Hubzilla #Friendica #Peertube


Is there any #ActivityPub / #Mastodon URI scheme used in the wild that would allow me to open an ActivityPub account directly in my Android app?

I've seen 'acct' and 'web+ap' mentioned but none seem to be implemented.

The goal is that given a text of "Here is my Mastodon profile acct:daniel@gultsch.social" #Conversations_im can link that directly into #Tusky. (Just like mailto and xmpp URIs open my E-Mail or IM app respectively)

Have @apps or @Tusky considered that? If not why not?


Ahoj Mastodone, tady mě máš!

Tedy samozřejmě pokud se ti nedostává tichých, citlivých a zakřiknutých chlapců a chlapů, tu a tam trousících nějaké to všeobecné, generalizující moudro.

#hello #mastodon