I don't know exactly what 'going viral' on #Mastodon is, but I certainly think that when a post shows
'Boosted 201 times
Favorited 131 times'
that's pretty up there.
Probably the most I've had on a post that I'm aware of.
It's a music post from my other account.
hear-me.social/@Onj/1156902183…

Onj 🎶

2025-12-09 15:03:57

Here's a collection of free-to-use short music for any kind of project imaginable. I've been working on this project for over 10 years on and off, and it's a labour of love.
Whether you're doing work for TV, Radio, Film, your next podcast or university assignment that requires something to intro or outro it, there should be something for you.

1141 items, 726 MB download and over 8.5 hours of music.
No AI was used (or harmed) in the making of this collection.

If you feel so inclined, please do boost for reach. Many thanks.
onj.me/shorts

Andre Louis - FreakyFwoof Shorts - AudioPlayer

^onj.me

Škoda, že oficiální Mastodon appka pořád nemá UnifiedPush.
Na čistém profilu v GrapheneOS bez Google Play Services jsou pak notifikace mrtvé. 😔

Naštěstí Tusky a Fedilab to podporují, takže můžu použít i náš ntfy server: ntfy.arch-linux.cz
#oscloud #mastodon

I’ve been diving into the Mona 7 upgrade controversy, specifically the requirement for Mona 6 Pro users to buy a "Bridge Upgrade" to Pro Max ($10) in the old app just to unlock the *privilege* of buying the Ultra One-Time Purchase ($20) in the new app.

While a developer is absolutely allowed to release a new App ID and charge for it (that is standard practice), this specific "Bridge Purchase" mechanism appears to violate Apple's App Store Review Guidelines in two critical ways.

If you are frustrated by this, here is the technical breakdown of why this flow is likely non-compliant:

1. Violation of Guideline 3.1.1 (In-App Purchase Mechanics)
The core rule of IAP is that purchases must be for content/features *consumed within the app*.

Guideline 3.1.1 states: "Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality... Apps and their metadata may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than in-app purchase."

By forcing users to buy an upgrade in Mona 6 (App A) specifically to unlock a price tier in Mona 7 (App B), the developer is effectively selling a "coupon" or "license key" for a different app.
* The $10 spent in Mona 6 is not primarily for Mona 6 features (since the user is abandoning that app for Mona 7); it is a fee paid in App A to modify the behavior of App B.
* Apple historically rejects apps that sell access to other apps. The "Loyalty Discount" should be native to Mona 7 (e.g., detecting the Mona 6 receipt), not gatekept behind a fresh paywall in a deprecated binary.

2. Violation of Guideline 2.3 (Accurate Metadata & Misleading Terms)
This is the "Bait and Switch" clause.

Guideline 2.3.1 states: "Customers should know what they’re getting when they download or buy your app... Don’t include any hidden or undocumented features in your app."

When users bought Mona 6 Pro as a "One-Time Purchase," the reasonable expectation was a perpetual license for that major version. By creating a *new* tier (Pro Max) and retroactively declaring it the *only* tier eligible for future loyalty benefits, the developer has obfuscated the value of the original purchase.
* Forcing a user to upgrade a "dead" product (Mona 6) to access the "live" product (Mona 7) is a "Junk Fee" structure that confuses the purchase flow and misleads users about the true cost of the upgrade ($11.99 original + $10 bridge + $20 new app = $41.99 total, vs the advertised $20).

The Bottom Line:
The developer has every right to charge $20 for Mona 7. They do NOT have the right to force you to spend $10 in Mona 6 to "unlock" that button.

If this flow remains, it sets a dangerous precedent where developers can tax users in legacy apps to gatekeep access to new ones. The "Loyalty Offer" should be available to *all* paid Mona 6 users, or the upgrade path should be handled entirely within Mona 7.

#MonaApp #AppStore #iOSDev #TechPolicy #Mastodon

Are there any #mastodon clients which are (in other of importance)

- keyboard driven with Vim like key bindings,
- has nice UI (doesn't matter if it is TUI or GUI),
- display images,
- has native Linux version (I'll survive even Electron),
- remembers position in timeline?

Features like multi column would be great, but after trying many, I'm becoming more modest with my expectations :)

Thanks for tips and boosts.

General curiosity mastodon question here.

- since a few weeks there is a 15-30 seconds delay in loading the first page after the landing page.

Anyone?

#mastodon #question

Huh. Just chatted in person with someone who's been on #mastodon for a while, now, who honestly thought that all the Mastodon domains were run by Mastodon. And having a different domain was, like, just a vanity thing to look cool. It only came up because they were complaining about an issue they were having, and they were on a smaller server (not naming it for anonymity), so I suggested contacting their server admin about the problem. I was surprised when they answered "Dude nobody at big companies reads those reports. It just all goes to AI or whatever." It took some actual convincing to get them to believe that the server they're on does, in fact, have a living breathing human admin who can be talked to.

Anyway, folks, support your #fediverse server admins and moderators. With money, where you can. They're almost certainly getting messages from users who think that reporting things to an admin here is exactly like reporting stuff to Facebook or Google. IE: screaming at a giant faceless entity who's never going to care or do anything about whatever your problem is.

Is it me, or is the new #Mastodon #quote feature the MOST USELESS tool ever to be designed? It overloads a button, making you take an extra tap to boost, not to mention having to read and target a new menu with a finger or a mouse? In case you didn't know, it is hidden under the boost button in the Web UI. It allows you to quote a whole toot, annotate the quote, and ask, if necessary, if the poster will allow you to do so. The poster can revoke permission.

...to quote something, copy and paste only the content you need. Be sure to include the user's handle if you want to attribute the quote.

Nobody that would abuse quoting, that is would misappropriate or twist a toot's meaning, would use the feature. They will copy and paste. This leaves the remainder of the community doing an extra tap, with the extra dexterity required for potentially challenged users, while trying to figure out why they would use the feature in the first place.

Boost for Sample Size when you vote, please!

#BoostingIsSharing #poll

#fediverse #write #author #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #writingCommunity

• I've used the quote feature and like it. (33%, 20 votes)
• I've used the quote feature and don't like it. (6%, 4 votes)
• I've not used the quote feature. (35%, 21 votes)
• What quote feature? (16%, 10 votes)
• I left a comment. (6%, 4 votes)

Fun fact: I bought my own social network at around the same time Elon bought his.

#Mastodon #ActivityPub

Self-hosted Delta Chat?

I've been thinking more about the hurtle of getting friends and family to use federated/self-hosted services. One of the issues to onboarding is people not "getting" the idea of picking an instance. This has led, in part, to "default" instances, like mastadon.social, that grow so large it almost defeates the idea.

I've been thinking that I really wish #DeltaChat had a web client. I have had a MUCH more difficult time getting folks to try that out than even #fediverse SNS. But I was thinking how the heck are you going to pull that off without @delta having to host the overhead for a robust web client and possibly host a gigantic server system that has to grow exponentially to keep everyone's email from all the possible email providers, really defeating the goal of their project.

This morning, I thought of a possible solution to both problems. What if you have a built-in transfer requirement. So you start with a default, say pleb.joinmastodon.org or noob.delta.chat and after a certain time (3 months or something) you have to either transfer to a new instance, including hosting your own client for in browser decryption web access to your encrypted mail chats or your account (in the case of #mastodon) or web client access (in the case of Delta Chat) is shut off.

Do you think this could work?

@delta_chat

How far will it go this time?
This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more.
That's #Sharkey, #Misskey, #Pixelfed, #Mbin, #Lemmy, #Friendica, #Hometown, #Akkoma…

If you see it, please share it.

#SocialMedia !fediverse@piefed.social

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/…

A good argument for #Mastodon from @timbray

tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20…

Time to Migrate

^{ongoing by Tim Bray}

Die @ev_akademiker@kirche.social pflegen ihren #Mastodon Account sehr gut, finde ich.
Dazu interessante Themen.

#ZurFeierDesSonntags #FediKirche

Just because it works under your very limited and controlled lab conditions, doesn't mean it will work just as well under real-life conditions.

A few may remember the summer of 2024 when (streams) rolled out FEP-171b. It broke federation in every imaginable way because, as it turned out later, (streams) suddenly confused the many different IDs it had to juggle. Granted, the byproduct of trying to fix this was Forte, the first Fediverse server software to provide nomadic identity via nothing but ActivityPub.

Now Hubzilla rolled out FEP-e232. And there's breakage again. Not quite as badly, but in places that really hurt.

So the talk of the town in the Fediverse is Mastodon 4.5 introducing quote-posts. (Mastodon 4.5 allegedly introducing quote-posts to the Fediverse, and how that's wrong, is another story.)

Interestingly, almost at the same time, Hubzilla 10.6 was rolled out. Money quote from the announcement:

• Implement FEP-e232 (object links) for quote posts

FEP-e232 Object Links in practice usually = "quote-posts like Misskey" = linking to the original with "RE:" before the link.

Apparently, rather than what Hubzilla had been doing since 2012 when it was still Red. What Friendica has been doing since its own inception in 2010. Namely insert a dumb copy of the quoted post into the quoting post.

While (streams) and Forte have been supporting FEP-e232 under the bonnet for quite a while while still quote-posting with dumb copies, Hubzilla has decided to go all the way and replace the old-fashioned Friendica way of quote-posting entirely with the Misskey way that's all the rage in the Fediverse now.

Yes, this has its advantages. If the original is edited, then the edit (in theory) is reflected in all posts that quote-post it.

But here on Hubzilla, this switch causes trouble.

Mastodon rolled out rendering support for Misskey-style quote-posts before rolling out quote-posts themselves, so those Mastodon servers that can't render these quote-posts are hopelessly outdated.

Hubzilla, on the other hand, rolled out Misskey-style quote-posts with version 10.6 while 10.4 and older can't even render Misskey-style quote-posts, not even when they come straight from a *key. In this regard, it would have been smarter to first make sure that Hubzilla renders this kind of quote-posts, then wait for a few minor releases and then change the way Hubzilla quote-posts.

You may see this as just a minor nuisance. But on top of that, it breaks Hubzilla's forums.

See, Hubzilla's forums are based on quote-posts. You start a new thread by DM'ing to a forum, and the forum will automatically share (quote-post) your start post to all forum members. If it's a private, limited-access forum, only the forum members are permitted to see the post with your quoted post in it.

I guess it's kind of obvious that this can only work by quote-posting a dumb copy of the start post unless a few more stops are being pulled.

Now, however, forums on Hubzilla 10.6 quote-post start posts by linking to the original. Remember that the original is a DM to the forum. As in only the forum is permitted to see it. You can click the link to the original all you want. But unless you run the forum, Hubzilla will not let you see it, not even with all the OpenWebAuth magic sign-on that you have on yourself as a Hubzilla user. In fact, I'd be very worried if I could see it now.

If there was even only one active forum on one of the two public hubs that run development versions, this critical bug would have popped up earlier and been fixed before it would have hit a release. But apparently, nobody is crazy enough to run a forum on a dev-grade hub, not to mention how few active Hubzilla forums there are in the first place. Seriously, I wonder if there's any feedback coming from the two dev hubs because I never see any hit the Support Forum. Does it all go straight to Framagit?

Good thing hubzilla.org is still running Hubzilla 10.4. hubzilla.org is not only the official Hubzilla website, it's actually a Hubzilla hub itself. The official Hubzilla website is built on a Hubzilla channel, using the Webpages app. And hubzilla.org is home of the Hubzilla Support Forum. It would have been a disaster, had this forum been broken, too.

I guess there's a hotfix due now, even if it means reverting FEP-e232 support (although changing the permissions of a DM to a forum channel would do the trick, and looking at how (streams) and Forte do it would be even smarter). And I hope it'll come before hubzilla.org is upgraded to 10.6.

By the way, while it's at it, maybe Hubzilla could also permanently set that GoToSocial/Mastodon flag that allows being quote-posted. I mean, if you come to a place that has been able to quote-post for a whopping 13 years, that can quote-post any public content from anywhere in the Fediverse with zero resistance, and that has no control over whether or not your stuff can be quote-posted (other than not posting in public), it's safe to assume that you're okay with your stuff being quote-posted anyway.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Misskey #GoToSocial #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Forums #Groups #FediverseGroups #FediGroups #FEP_e232

fep/fep/e232/fep-e232.md at main

fep - Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

^Codeberg.org

TIL that the president of Signal believes that people who run Mastodon and/or Matrix servers do so "in most cases" on hyperscaler* infrastructure.

This is my Mastodon server. And its UPS. And its networked KVM for when things get really hairy.

It's also my Matrix server. And Nextcloud. And Git. And Home-Assistant. And Jellyfin. And SearXNG. And Peertube.

When people objected to her claims, she doubled down and proclaimed condescendingly that we "don't have a clear understanding of this space".

TIL that I don't feel confident in recommending people to use Signal. Something's very off here.

*) "hyperscaler" basically means the big cloud infra providers with provisioning APIs that allow you to scale your resources up/down automatically with usage

#Signal #Mastodon #Matrix #SelfHosting

🦣 Před dvěma lety napadlo @fabia_man založit vlastní instanci.
Robin přišel s názvem Mamutovo – a od té doby má fediverse o jednoho mamuta navíc 😄

Dnes je mamutovo.cz pevnou součástí @oscloud 💚
Od té doby se s @cynik_obecny snažíme, aby Mamutovo bylo vždy na nejnovější verzi a běželo tak, jak má.

🎂 Happy Birthday, Mamutovo!

#mastodon #oscloud #fediverse #mamutovo

#Mastodon, yesterday there was an influx of support on #IndigenousPeoplesDay for #SabiLewSounds & family

That support abruptly stopped last night, as the day came to a close

Please don't reserve support of the needs & pleas of those who are #Indigenous to a single day

#Society is built upon their oppression & that of their ancestors

#Fascism continues to target them as dangers of #ICE & being predisposed to #Poverty & #Disability continues

#SettlerSaturday #HelpFolksLive2025

❌ Big Techs like Musk's X do not need to own the monopoly.

✅ Luckily there are better Twitter alternatives.

👉🏼 In today's guide we take a look at the best ones so that you can say NO to big tech.

tuta.com/blog/twitter-alternat…

#Mastodon #BlueSky #X #BigTech

Y'know, I think people like the Jimmy Truths dude serve as an example of the shortcomings of #Fediverse moderation. This dude has likely made like, hundreds of accounts on dozens of instances, but all the instance owners can do is suspend his account. It's gotten to the point where the dude now keeps coming back with usernames and posts mocking the admins for being unable to permanently remove him, often on the same instance repeatedly.

Larger companies can do things like send cease and desist letters, contact his ISP, hardware ban him, etc a lot easier. They simply have more resources to deal with really tenacious harassers than the average instance admin does. I'm not a networking expert, but I wish there was a way to actually deal with guys like this because as the Fediverse grows in popularity, it's likely more users like this guy will crop up.

I can imagine it being pretty easy for bad actors to focus their attention on a single instance and overwhelm it if there's enough of them. Or people like this dude so persistent and obnoxious that it wears the often volunteer staff down over a long stretch of time.

There seriously needs to be focus put on improving moderation tools for Mastodon before we get to that point.

#Fedi #FediModeration #Moderation #FediTalk #Mastodon

What do you use for Mastodon on Android?

Looking for client that can do multi accounts, remote timeline pinning, remote hashtag feed pinning, drafts, threads auto split and maybe does not look like trash.

Basically I am looking for something as close to @MonaApp as possible.

I tried Fedilab but it is not even close. Phanpy, although a web app is actually great. Now looking for a native app that does as good.

#AskFedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #Android

There’s an accessibility bug on Mastodon: you cannot add custom alt text to your profile or header image. This means people using screen readers can’t know what these images show, so important info is missing for visually impaired users. ♿

Please help by upvoting and commenting on the issue so it gets more attention from developers 👇

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

Let’s make Mastodon more inclusive for everyone! 🤗

CC @Mastodon

#Accessibility #Mastodon #Inclusion #OpenSource

Accessibility bug: Cannot add alt text to profile and header images

Pitch In the public profile edit section of the Mastodon web interface, it is not possible to set alternative text (alt text) for the profile picture and header image. Right now, both images have a...

^{pauloxnet (GitHub)}

🐘 Nový web Mamutovo.cz je online!

@cynik_obecny připravil přehlednou stránku 👉 about.mamutovo.cz , kde najdete informace o instanci Mamutovo.cz, odkazy na služby, kontakty a první návody pro uživatele.

🌱 Web vzniká jako komunitní projekt propojený s Oscloudem a bude se dál rozšiřovat — přibydou další tipy, návody a zajímavosti ze svět #fediverse .

📣 Pomozte nám o Mamutovu dát vědět! Sdílejte odkaz dál, ať se o naší komunitě dozví co nejvíce lidí.
Každé zmínění, boost nebo odkaz na web pomůže. 💚

#Mamutovo #Oscloud #CzechFedi #Mastodon

💻 📱 🤖
Bots exist on social media. It's often difficult to know if we are simply having a disagreement with a real person or a bot so here's an article what might help us Spot a Bot.

#Bot #Troll #SocialMedia #Computer #Internet #Fediverse #Mastodon

snopes.com/articles/435482/spo…

Snopes Tips: How to Spot Social Media Bots

Bots are used for a variety of reasons online, from boosting follower counts to interfering in political elections.

^{Madison Dapcevich (Snopes.com)}