One of the worst misfeatures of #Mastodon from a safety angle: If you get an abusive reply to your post, you can't remove it even by blocking the person. Even after blocking, your server still shows the abusive reply to everyone else.

There has been a patch ready to fix this for 2 years, 6 months, and 1 day. @Gargron has not approved it, and has provided *zero* explanation for why he will not allow it to be merged.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…

Hide subthreads by blocked users when looking at a post's descendants by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #18468 · mastodon/mastodon

This is about the server not returning known subthreads started by people blocked by the post's author, not the viewer. e.g., if we have A → B → C → D → E, where a → b means “b replies to a”, a...

^GitHub

Für Interessierte an #LiboriSocial haben wir unter start.libori.social eine Willkommens-Seite eingerichtet, die den Start auf #Mastodon und im #Fediverse erleichtern soll.

Schaut gerne mal rein. 😁 🦚

#NeuHier

Lidi: Stýská se mi po "starých sociálních sítích". Žádnej algoritmus, žádný AI, prostě jenom tajmlajna mých kamarádů!

#mastodon : 👋🏼

Lidi: Tak se uklidníme, jo?

This afternoon, an acquaintance joined a Mastodon instance and asked me which "celebrities" are present in the Fediverse, as if it were important to determine the value of a social network based on that.

I told him that the most important user in the Fediverse is him. Just as it’s you, reading this. Someone who has decided to interact with others freely. Who has chosen to trust their administrator (or create their own instance) more than they trust those who run traditional, monolithic, centralized social networks.

So, I want to thank all the friends of BSD Cafe, whether local or not, for being here and making this place what it is. And I thank all my friends in the Fediverse, who make my timeline lively, interesting, intelligent, fun, and thought-provoking - every day, at any time.

#BSDCafe #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialNetworks #SocialMedia #Community #Trust #OpenSource #DigitalFreedom #JoinTheFediverse

"I can't be an influencer on Mastodon" is a feature, not a bug.

#socialMedia #Mastodon

#Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark 💪

We already joined a long time ago. Follow us ➡️ bsky.app/profile/tutaprivacy.b…

But we also ❤️ it here on #Mastodon; actually it's our favorite. 🤫

Things I noticed that are different between #bluesky and #mastodon

Blue sky: hey this person is here from #birdsite follow them now!

Mastodon: welcome here's the keys, you know about hashtags cause that's gonna be important for you

Blue sky: we got away welcome all our friends

Mastodon: oh cool, you're here

Blue sky: I am so unique!

Mastodon: we have sheepherders have you met them? There cool people

Blue sky: *shows all the pets*

Mastodon: *shows all the pets*

Beginning to believe that @Gargron doesn't want me contributing to #mastodon — he's now partially recreated three of my pull requests that I've worked on.

My PRs didn't ship because I needed feedback from the team who were busy.

Like, I'm happy to spend the time and money to contribute to Mastodon, but it's horrifically rude to just redo someone's work when they've put a tonne of work into doing something.

He's also done this to me in the past in 2018 with the report management tools.

Say, Bluesky has public lists of accounts that users curate which helps a ton with onboarding. We have lists too, but only you can see your own lists.

Am I missing something? This seems a pretty obvious feature that only needs a minor code change? Or am I missing something and can I see other people's lists?

#Mastodon

This account recently turned two years old. I'm one of the many emigrees from Twitter that started to dabble with Mastodon in November 2022 in the wake of the Musk take over.

My account on Twitter isn't *that* old either, only starting in early 2022. I had long thought to close my account there when reaching 1000 followers here (I have almost 3000 on Twitter), but this consideration changed recently after Mark Nelson convinced me during the Luxembourg pro-nuclear event two weeks ago.

I'll first observe that my followerbase has been growing much slower than I first anticipated and perhaps hoped. I just hit 650 and this has several causes. One is that people on Mastodon perhaps just don't care, following degrowth logics. Maybe my style of posting also doesn't 'connect', but most importantly, I think, is that the mass adoption of Mastodon and the wider fediverse hasn't happened yet.

Many that tried Mastodon in the November 2022 wave, weren't prepared that they needed to put in some work to get a filled timeline, due to a lack of algorithm serving as an onboarding mechanism. Most people just don't care and rejoined Twitter/X or, later, Threads.

This mass adoption can still happen, probably via the route of Threads fully implementing ActivityPub (still pending after 1.5 year...). Either way, Mastodon et al are still a very safe bet if we look further into the future. It can only grow on the long term, say a decade.

But for now, the 'Twitter bubble' regarding accounts posting on energy, politicians, journalists, even many people on the far left don't care about setting up shop on the fediverse... yet. As an activist aiming to influence to get nuclear energy wider adoption, this is a hindrance to my primary function of caring at all about social media.

For now, I'll remain on Twitter, be it that I'll post more 'strategically', in line with my goals. The fediverse is still my long term bet. We just started this journey, on towards a future of an open web!

#Mastodon #MastodonMigration

Hello everyone!

I write my bachelor's thesis about Mastodon as an alternative social network and how its users perceive the platform.

I would be gratful if you would participate in my survey:
(The link is deactivated now)

It only takes 10-15 minutes and would help me a lot.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

In case you want to support me, you can repost the access link, which would also help me.

Thank you!

#MediaStudies #AlternativeMedia #Mastodon #Survey

Poll: What are you looking for in the fediverse?

(You can check more than one response ... and if you've got other suggestions, leave them in a reply!)

#mastodon #fediverse

• A Twitter replacement (36%, 21 votes)
• A place to stay in touch with friends (35%, 20 votes)
• A place to meet new people (61%, 35 votes)
• Discussions on technical topics (70%, 40 votes)
• Music, photography, art, books, and other creative stuff (54%, 31 votes)
• Potential job opportunities (19%, 11 votes)
• Promoting my music, photography, writing, art, etc (15%, 9 votes)
• Breaking news (40%, 23 votes)
• Mutual aid (19%, 11 votes)
• A social network that's not run by a corporation making money from my data (89%, 51 votes)

Poll: how would you describe Mastodon and the migration from Twitter that started in late 2022 after the acquisition?

(You can check more than one reponse. Or, if you've got other descriptions, please leave them in the comments)

For my take, see Mastodon could have leaned into what it's good at

@fediversenews

#mastodon #fediverse

Mastodon, two years later

A continuation of Mastodon: a partial history

^{Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)}

• A success (37%, 20 votes)
• A failure (1%, 1 vote)
• A missed opportunity (37%, 20 votes)
• Progress (38%, 21 votes)
• Better than expected (35%, 19 votes)
• A disappointment (11%, 6 votes)
• It's too early to know (9%, 5 votes)
• Other (please leave a comment) (1%, 1 vote)

Mastodon, two years later

privacy.thenexus.today/mastodo…

A continuation of Mastodon: a partial history

#mastodon #fediverse

Mastodon, two years later

A continuation of Mastodon: a partial history

^{Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)}

oh hey there buddy!

#mastodon #fediverse #Plushtodon

Increasingly convinced that people shouldn't run a #Mastodon instance for others to rely on unless they:
1. use a specialised, managed hosting service; or
2. legitimately want to learn about the gory details of how federation works, managing and scaling a large Ruby on Rails application, tuning a database server and background task runner, orchestrating careful back-ups, setting up an alert system, and many more things.

Those can be extremely useful things to learn, but it's becoming clear that it isn't as relatively uninvolved as, say, throwing WordPress on a server to run a low-traffic blog. And those are only the technical tasks.

A couple years ago I opened a thread to add #AltText on #Mastodon banners and profile pictures. Now detailed todos are being posted. Is there anyone who could help in this case?

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
#a11y #Acessibility

Add ALT-Tag to banner and profile pictures and make the value editable for acessiblility reasons · Issue #10313 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch The banner and profile picts on the profile site has no ALT or ARIA tags. Blind people can't get information about the content of this images. Motivation Additional text information for image...

^GitHub

The wait is over*—The #Mastodon stuffed toy is now available for purchase in the EU! Other regions to come later. Share your pictures with the #Plushtodon hashtag!

shop.joinmastodon.org/products…

About 2.5 years ago, dozens profiles on some supposedly "free speech" #Mastodon fedi were blocked for a few posts like this one. I was one of them.
The fact that it's now a book is called vindication against some nazi friendly admins

Despite Chrystia #Freeland’s denials, her grandfather was complicit in the Nazi #genocide
A new book provides the most authoritative study of Mykhailo Chomiak and the history of #Ukrainian_Nazis in #Canada

breachmedia.ca/chrystia-freela…

Despite Chrystia Freeland’s denials, her grandfather was complicit in the Nazi genocide ⋆ The Breach

A new book provides the most authoritative study of Mykhailo Chomiak and the history of Ukrainian Nazis in Canada

^{Peter McFarlane (The Breach)}

Which Global Superpower do you trust most to maintain a mutual peace and invest in a sustainable future?

#Mastodon

• USA (22%, 8 votes)
• China (77%, 28 votes)
• Russia (0%, 0 votes)

A very long shot once again on the #Fediverse and #Mastodon but I keep trying because I desperately wish that one day it'll give me better answers to niche questions than Tiktok and Google.

Calling all #Sudanese. What's your recipe for fit-fit? I received a container of it, made by a bunch of dudes from #Sudan (They know my cousin, I swear they're not just randos), and I refuse to believe that they have the best recipe. Google gives me Ethiopian recipes, which are vastly different from what I had tonight. I found one recipe that I don't really trust.

So, do you eat it raw?
Do you include lungs and livers? What about kidneys?
How much peanut butter do you add?

There's an underwhelming number of sources for sudanese recipes online, I guess for very understandable reasons, but dang, I have a feeling those guys can't really cook and I must know how their elders made it.

OK, es ist (fast) Wochenende und wieder Zeit für ein Experiment – diesmal zum Mitmachen 😉:
Welcher der beiden nachfolgenden Posts sieht für euch besser aus und auf welchen würdet ihr eher klicken.

Gerne schön weit teilen, damit das von vielen und mit den unterschiedlichsten Clients gesehen wird.

Wenn der Unterschied besonders groß ist, gerne auch mit Screenshots antworten. Danke!

#Mastodon #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Apps

• Post 1 (mit generierter Preview) (75%, 57 votes)
• Post 2 (mit Titelbild als Anhang) (25%, 19 votes)

Ich finde den neuen Eingabebereich der Weboberfläche für Mastodon 4.3.0 nur so semi … ich habe den Zoom der Seite auf 125% stehen, und wenn ich dann einen längeren Text tippe, gibt es einen doppelten Scrollbalken.

Schade, dass es mal wieder für die Barrierefreheit und die Usbabilty außerhalb der Geräte der Entwickelnden nicht gerreicht hat.

#Mastodon #Barrierefreihei #Weboberläche #Zoom

There better be a way to tell Mastodon I never want to be notified of quotes. How hard is this for others to understand? I don’t want to be notified if anybody quotes me, at all! To me, quotes are seen as a passive aggressive form of interaction and if you can’t message me directly/mention me directly, I simply just don’t want to interact with you if you’re going to quote me.

With the 4.3 release complete, we’re turning our focus to 4.4, which will include:

Quote Posts: We are resuming work on this long-awaited feature, and it will be our main focus for the rest of the year.
Block list improvements: We are evaluating several improvements, including subscribing to external blocklists and offering an optional default “worst of the worst” blocklist for new Mastodon installs. We’re also exploring ways for operators to approve blocks from external lists.
Post Parsing: We’re experimenting with potentially changing to a new parser for posts, which will be more modular and enable features like basic text formatting.

From Mastodon’s latest post. #Fediverse #Mastodon

All you #Mastodon sysadmins who upgraded to Mastodon 4.3.0: Have you noticed that after you dutifully upgraded the #Yarn dependency to version 4, a message like this scrolled by:

$ yarn install --immutable<br>➤ YN0065: Yarn will periodically gather anonymous telemetry: https://yarnpkg.com/advanced/telemetry<br>➤ YN0065: Run yarn config set --home enableTelemetry 0 to disable<br>

yarn config set --home enableTelemetry 0<br>

#MastoAdmin #telemetry

Co je nového ve verzi Mastodon 4.3: Vylepšení a nové funkce

arch-linux.cz/co-je-noveho-ve-…

#mastodon