It feels kind of amazing that I’ve been in the Fediverse for a couple of years now - and this is my third Eurovision here. I love it.

#Eurovision #Fediverse #SocialMedia

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…

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.)

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

mastoart.social

mastoart.social is a creative space for you to share your art and be part of a friendly creative community. A Mastodon instance that's hosted in Germany and runs on 100% green energy.

^{Mastodon hosted on mastoart.social}

3 THINGS I'm grateful for when it comes to the #Fediverse:

1: I (almost) never see any AI slop. I'm subscribed to @404mediaco and I'm constantly horrified by their articles on AI slop - so common on Meta platforms. Not here. So #ThankYouFedi.

2: I'm never force-fed content by people I don't follow – so common in other places where algorithms rule. My time & attention are treated with RESPECT.

3: People here protect the privacy of children / don't post their pics. Consent is BIG. #ThankYouFedi

🗣️ New interview !

@ThibaultMartin of @matrix.org sat down with @NGICommons to discuss the role Matrix plays in building a privacy-respecting, sustainable digital communication infrastructure.

Read more on our website: commons.ngi.eu/2025/05/07/matr…

#Matrix #DigitalCommons #foss #OpenSource #Decentralisation #Privacy #Sustainability #Fediverse

@OpenForumEurope
@openfuture
@martelinnovate
@cnrs
@linuxfoundation
@ngi

Hi everyone on #Fosstodon and the #Fediverse. 👋

I've posted a statement on our hub about the events of the past weeks and how we intend on doing better:

hub.fosstodon.org/fosstodon-co…

Tldr: Sorry about what happened, Fosstodon is committed to being a safe and inclusive space, and we're taking measures to ensure this won't happen again.

Please let me know what you think!

Im Vergleich zum vorigen #Kirchentag scheint mir die Berichterstattung im #FediVerse dieses Mal vielfältiger und wesentlich umfangreicher.

Vielen Dank an alle, die unter dem Hashtag posten!

@kirchentag@kirche.social scheint allerdings nicht mit der Zeit zu gehen, schade ...

#FediKirche

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/…

I'm sorry for the Fosstodon drama. Fosstodon was my second fedi server and there I had a lot of FOSS fun: nice people, good moderators, good topics. I left when my radicalized vision of how world was changing, also thanks to digital/software/tech stuff/hype, became too much abstracted from the "yes but huh, I do not care, any foss is good and that's all" vibe of the instance. But hey, it was me.

The Fosstodon story is another example of how our expectations of fedi aren't aligned with reality. It's not a matter of moderators, server policies, who's federated with whom. It's simply that when a group of people grows beyond a certain number (I think it's in the hundreds not in the thousands), more drama ensues and more often jerks prevail.

In short: it's not the medium, it's the people. Or people dynamics, if you want to feel less harsh. Hidden behind their keyboards, people are jerks when they have the chance. Every bar, getting bigger and bigger, is on the verge to become a jerks bar and maybe then a nazi bar. It just needs someone to become a catalyst for stupidity.

The difference between fedi and corpo social networks is that fedi doesn't want drama: it's divisive and burns moderators out. Corpo socials crave drama because it's engagement. And there are no moderators or nice corpo people to protect.

That's why any debate about "how can fedi win?" makes no sense, for me. If winning is copying the techbros and aiming to get bigger, we have ample proof that bigger instances will gradually become a mess of spam, jerks, bots, misinfo and drama and then - if below a critical self-sustainable mass - collapse. Instances even bigger, will stay the mess they've become. Thinking "oh but this time it's different, we're different" is naive.

In real life, we're praising the beauty of local communities and of communities of interest, and the value of real interactions in smaller groups. This is also a value fedi should underline: bigger is not better, smaller has much more appeal. But, again, it's me.

#fediverse #fosstodon

Angenommen, wir wollten eine Instanz von #Peertube für @heiseonline einrichten, aber als Domain scheidet videos.heise.de aus: Wie in der Form [wort].heise.de sollten wir sie denn amnennen?

#Fediverse #SocialMedia

Takže přátelé a kamarádi - na #VHSky nám dobrovolně a bez mučení začal nahrávat přednášky @Pavel Pisa

Pan Píša učí #PC architekturu na #ČVUT, takže komu chybí na #Fediverse potrava pro mozek, tak tady ji máte! :)

Ještě jednou děkujeme

Linux communities beware of #PewDiePie fans

Regardless of PewDiePie’s personal #politics (which clearly, at the very least are problematic), it is fairly well known by anyone who has been following him for any number of years that the vast majority of his fan base are enthusiastic fascists.

Now #PewDiePie , who’s content centers around PC gaming and Windows, has decided to switch to #Linux and published a video encouraging his followers to do the same. This means a very large number of his #fascist fan base is going to be switching to Linux.

Now many Linux communities are going to be forced to more explicitly choose their politics. Like the parable of the Nazi bar, if the community remains politically neutral, it will become fascist in short order.

A few things to be wary of:

• People asking you not to be “too political” or to “focus on the technology, not the politics” is a classic and highly effective fascist ruse to get moderators to lighten up on fascist elements posting in their community.
• People complaining about free speech rights. The #Internet and the #Fediverse is already a domain where people can speak freely about their politics by running their own server and building their own community with few to no government constraints. You don’t need to compromise on whether fascists have the right to free speech in your community.
• Arguments over your code of conduct (CC) and “safe spaces.” Keep them up-to-date. Research other people’s CCs, learn about the history of why these CCs came to be, learn about what the function of each clause of the code is included and phrased the way it is. These were usually designed to make explicit the fact that a community wants to be a safe space where underprivileged people can feel comfortable expressing themselves, and it is very easy to make people afraid to express themselves. Fascists understand these CCs and the concept of “safe spaces” were explicitly designed to exclude them, and often attack these ideas.

Bartender explains why he swiftly kicks out Nazis even if they're 'not bothering anyone'

Would you want to drink with a Nazi?

^{Tod Perry (Upworthy)}

Bluesky is cancelling accounts when foreign governments ask them to, and Threads is doing adverts soon.

The thing to understand about the corporate public messaging systems is that they do not exist to let you publish or to talk to people. That is not the point of them. That's at best just the bait laid to lure you into their trap.

They exist to make money for the shareholders. That's why Threads exists, that's why Blockchain Inc invested to keep Bluesky running.

Only one network exists in order to let people communicate as the point and reason for it's existence. Only one network has no shareholders and no owners.

Only one is fighting for the user, not the shareholder.

#fediverse

I want to follow everything via ActivityPub/Fedi. For everything else, there's RSS.

#rss #thunderbird #fedi #fediverse #ActivityPub #bsky #BlueSky

Apropos #Kommentare:
#DieEule läuft doch auf einem #WordPress!?
Man könnte sie an das #FediVerse dranhängen.

* Bei neuem Beitrag automatischer Post ins FediVerse
* Kommentarmöglichkeit direkt im bzw. aus dem FediVerse
* FediVerse-Kommentare nativ im WordPress

Der @pfefferle@mastodon.social könnte da bei Fragen vielleicht helfen...

I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click boost.

How come?

I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

#Fediverse #FediHelp #gotosocial #mastohelp

Remember people, the #Fediverse is NOT free.

The software generally is, but there is a team of admins behind the scenes paying for servers for YOU to use. If your admin needs support or has a payment mechanism, consider sending a few bucks if you can. Every little helps.

mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra…
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @stux@mstdn.social

Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)

Attached: 1 image Please consider making a modest donation to @stux@mstdn.social mstdn.social instance. Even if this is not your server, mstdn.social is a critical part of the Mastodon community.

^Mastodon

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

Add warning before posting a media without alt-text · Issue #5644 · mastodon/mastodon

With #117, Mastodon now allows users to add an alternative text to media in order to improve accessibility for visually impaired people. However, many people, including me, too often forget to do s...

^GitHub

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

If I could wave a magic wand and alter the fediverse to give you something you want from it, but can't yet get, what would it be?

#fediverse #AskFedi

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.

🧵

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonWontSurvive

Wahrscheinlich ist es den wenigsten hier aufgefallen, dass ich in der letzten Woche recht still im #Fediverse war. Ursache war ein unachtsamer Autofahrer, der mich letzte Woche bei seinem Linksabiegen vom #Fahrrad geschossen hat. Resultat sind zwei gebrochene Arme und ein Bruch am Halswirbel.

Ich könnte das hier wahrscheinlich heute nicht schreiben, wenn ich keinen #Helm getragen hätte. Darum mein Appell an alle, die mit dem #Rad unterwegs sind:

TRAGT EINEN HELM!

#fedibikes #berlincycling

Hi folks, I'm trying to jumpstart federation on my little gotosocial instance and get a more full feed of things to read and interact with.

I could use your help. If you could boost this, I would appreciate it. If you see this and favorite it, I will follow you if your interests seem to align with mine.

I'm not asking for follows... rather I'm asking for you to help me shout out into the ether that I'M looking for people to follow. My main interests are going to be hashtagged below.

By the way, the way hashtags work here is that currently, if I search, I only see what my server is already knows about... which would mean just the folks I follow, since I'm a single-user instance. Not very helpful 😂

I will also be using one of my apps that can load the main feed from other servers, to see if I see something interesting. If you see a follow from me and come here to check me out... I mean you no harm and I come in peace.

Thanks all!

#linux #fedora #foss #floss #oss #fediverse #raspberrypi #technology #gnome #polymerclay #fantasy #scifi #adventuremotorcycles

🎉 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