"Wielded well, the master’s tools can maybe be used to smash a few deserving walls [...] But like patient little demons, those tools carry inside them the spirit of their making. They twist in our hands in our moment of need and leave us blistered and bleeding. By serving the needs of the people who made them, they resist the greater work.
We need better tech. We need it to be made in better ways and for better uses, and above all, in and for communities."
The work and thinking of @kissane have been and continue to be a key reference for us.
"The work that comes next for Bonfire—that their funding campaign is about—evolves around the needs of real humans in our exact moment [...] It also, to my absolute delight, foregrounds maintenance—the thing no institutional funder ever wants to help with, because the incentives are for the innovative and new, not the stable and thriving."
Amazing read indeed! It summarizes so beautifully and thoughtfully my feelings about the Fediverse in general and Bonfire in particular, evidencing the direct link between tech, politics and democracy.
It shows the many reasons why I am so happy and honored to be one of these scholars in activity who have been included in the conception of the open science flavour of Bonfire.
Nel pomeriggio di sabato 8 novembre, all’interno del Festival Glocal di Varese, è in programma l’incontro “Social network senza algoritmo, community e informazione locale”, dedicato al @fediverso e al rapporto tra piattaforme digitali, libertà di espressione e giornalismo di prossimità.
L’appuntamento vedrà la partecipazione di @filippodb (admin di Mastodo.uno)
Nel pomeriggio di sabato 25 ottobre, all’interno del Festival Glocal di Varese, è in programma l’incontro “Social network senza algoritmo, community e informazione locale”, dedicato al Fediverso e al rapporto tra piattaforme digitali, libertà di espr…
🔥 Day 1 was incredible! Thank you to everyone who backed the campaign. We’re just €10K from our maintenance goal: the foundation that keeps everything running. Once we achieve it, we’ll shift into stretch goals co-designed with communities and teams: moderation tools, encryption, mutual aid networks, cooperative hosting, native apps, and more… Help us get there: indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonf…
If you want a sense for my development pace, look no further than the rapid patch release rate for https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/pkd-crypto/releases as I find/fix bugs.
Grazie anche a utenti come te @Trames che contribuiscono a mantenerla in ottima forma.
La crescita degli utenti infatti è importante, ma è ancora più importante che si creino relazioni vive e di qualità tra di loro, dentro e fuori dall'istanza!
Quello che posso fare è soprattutto bannare i bot che continuano a iscriversi ed essere a disposizione degli utenti che vogliono conoscere e sperimentare 😅
La qualità delle informazioni che vengono condivise si può toccare con mano scorrendo la timeline locale. Il grafico che ho condiviso parla della crescente fiducia da parte di noi utenti dei confronti di chi gestisce e coordina l'istanza. Chapeu.
@elettrona il bot ha fatto un buon lavoro nei limiti del possibile. Il grafico Mostra una linea che in effetti va ben oltre l'agosto 2025 e arriva fino al mese di novembre, ma non essendoci l'etichetta di novembre 2025 in basso, il bot non è riuscito a capire quale fosse l'ultimo periodo considerato
Diciamo che se aggiungiamo al bot quel minimo di intuito che può portare a leggere il grafico con una certa flessibilità, allora la lettura del grafico diventa interpretabile correttamente. Naturalmente se questo stesso messaggio venisse visto Tra qualche mese, e non si facesse caso alla data di pubblicazione, allora l'equivoco sarebbe nuovamente determinante
@elettrona Amo i numeri e soprattutto la loro rappresentazione grafica. Al di là di qualche momento passato di calo, che può essere fisiologico, i due aspetti che maggiormente attirano la mia attenzione sono la tendenza positiva e, soprattutto, l'ascesa finale — da agosto a ottobre — che è esponenziale e che sembra puntare direttamente al cielo. @macfranc
vabbè, nemmeno io sono giornalista/accademico (ed è rarissimo che scriva più di 500 caratteri) ma @macfranc mi ha gentilmente invitato... (Io scrivo tante cose| ma brevi)
@elettrona ai giornalisti piace stare dove stanno tutti. Mastodon.uno è una scelta molto valida per ottenere un'ampia portata.
Considera poi che se non ci fosse una grande istanza italiana, le conseguenze sarebbero ancora peggiori: Infatti, proprio a causa della volontà di iscriversi sui server più affollati, molti giornalisti gli italiani hanno deciso di iscriversi a mastodon.social, mostrando di non capire assolutamente perché è opportuno avere un account nel fediverso...
Per quanto riguarda l'account di @valigiablu l'unico problema è il fatto che l'account su mastodon è a tutti gli effetti un BOT e raramente risponde a chi lo menziona. Mi sembra che il loro social media manager abbia ormai scelto di presidiare solo Bluesky
@elettrona è una questione molto complessa. Devi infatti tenere conto del fatto che descrivere un'immagine costa tempo ed è uno sforzo in più per la maggior parte di quelli che sono potenti tipo di un social di microblogging che per definizione privilegia la velocità alla lentezza.
Per questo motivo è un tuo diritto sollecitare chi pubblica immagini senza testo alternativo: tra l'altro molti di loro accettano volentieri l'invito e semplicemente non avevano mai pensato che potesse essere utile scrivere il testo alternativo; ma è anche diritto di chi viene sollecitato reagire in maniera stizzita 🤣
Molti amministratori delle istanze più grandi, come mastodon.uno, livellosegreto.it o bida pubblicano ormai periodicamente messaggi di invito ai loro utenti per incentivarli alla pubblicazione di immagini con il testo alternativo, ma questo deve giustamente rimanere al livello di un invito e, se possibile, di un invito non troppo pressante.
È fondamentale accettare il fatto che alcuni utenti preferiscano il modello "scrivi, allega e invia" e che, quando scrivono su mastodon, la loro esperienza non sia stressante
@elettrona @valigiablu a proposito di @valigiablu. Volevo seguire qualche loro podcast durante i miei viaggi in macchina ma vedo che usano Spotify per la trasmissione... Possibile che non possano trasmettere su più piattaforme? Magari anche su una leggermente più etica?
@betelgeuse93 Per motivi etici non userei Spotify neanche sotto tortura. L'app AntennaPod, scaricabile da F-Droid, vede un loro podcast la cui ultima puntata risale al 6 giugno.
@elettrona Probabilmente non sei l'unica persona a preferire ambienti più "raccolti" . L'analogo grafico per la grande istanza Mastodon.Uno di cui parli mostra, su ben altra scala, un notevole calo. @macfranc @valigiablu
While at #sfscon we took the occasion to visit spazio77 resistenzeincirenaica.com/spaz… an anti-fascist space in Bolzano involved in many cool projects in the region. Worth a visit !
Spazio Autogestito 77 è uno spazio indipendente con al centro i valori dell’antifascismo, dell’antirazzismo e dell’antisessismo; un luogo di incontro e mutualismo dove ritrovare l…
Fediverso: è la galassia di servizi alternativi ai social media a cui siamo abituati da anni; vedremo che un alternativa etica esiste e si può usare, con un piccolo sforzo. E che spesso è migliore sotto tanti punti di vista. Sul sito di LinuxTrent trovate copia della presentazione, dettagli e link utili.
Con questo incontro, martedì 10 giugno 2025, si è conclusa la serie di 3 incontri che negli ultimi mesi hanno animato lo sportello Linux presso la Biblioteca civica di Rovereto.
Bonfire Social 1.0 is live! A federated, community‑first social network built on the modular Bonfire toolkit, and it’s only the beginning.
It's time to go beyond microblogging and build apps for community organising, open science, mutual aid, and collective decision‑making. Let's take back the internet with open protocols, consent‑based governance, and portability by design.
Just chipped in as much as I could! i want in on this - looking at this exact moment for Canadian infrastructure options and a handful of civid-tech nerds who want to start a prototype.
I absolutely love the Bonfire team's approach, the modular options, the focus on governance and safety, I hope this translates to support for the crowdfunding campaign!
This is so cool. I've never seen an app with such advanced features - I can allow other accounts to edit my posts. Super excited to see how the fundraiser goes 💫
I'm so proud of you guys, and I'm inspired by your attention to detail in many regards, I think your project will go far and see many new Bonfire servers in the coming months 🚀 ❤️
Is the screen printed art piece already gone? I don't see it in the list of campaign rewards, but with an edition of 250 it seems like there should still be some left, right? 🤔
First I've heard of this project, and I hope you don't mind if I ask a few (really basic) questions about it to see if it's right for me. Is this based on ActivityPub? Does it incorporate existing applications as a sort of aggregator, or it is a new and separate platform?
@scooter it is based on activitypub, its a new platform and it can connect with all the existing applications and aims to bring novel types of activities and experiences into the fediverse
your Elixir ActivityPub library has been on my radar for a while, but unfortunately pulling it in would involve having developers who solicit donations for slop code: github.com/bonfire-networks/bo… in my dependency graph, and I can’t justify that for software that’s meant to serve the marginalized communities currently being harmed by LLMs like the ones you’re using.
Bonfire - tend to your digital life in community. Customise and host your own online space and control your experience at the most granular level. - bonfire-networks/bonfire-app
I apologize. My initial comment was rude; I should not have presumed.
That said, someone else replied below with a link to what appears to be your github. They pointed out an AGENTS.md, which is linked to under .github > copilot-instructions.md
There is, in the same github repo, also a .claude folder with a CLAUDE.md containing extensive instructions, as well as a rubber_duck.chatmode.md.
Were LLM/vibe coding involved in the development of the project? Will they be used in the future?
@nullpotential as you can see from some of the documents you referenced, we sometimes experiment with using LLM tools for "rubber duck" debugging when stuck on a problem, but none of the Bonfire extensions or features have been AI-generated
Could you tell what exactly this is and how it’s different from using Mastodon or so? I don’t mean a/the pitch-story for investors (I could read the lengthy campaign then) but simple facts?
both bonfire social and openscience.network are built on bonfire, they address different needs and have different features and UX. We are now working with communities that needs tools for organising and coordinating (events, decision making, mutual aid, etc) which will result in new extensions that everyone will be able to install and use in their own bonfire app. We're not competing or building a mastodon alternative, we're building tools for communities in the open social web...
We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!)
Mastodon 4.5 brings Quote Post authoring features to everyone. Note that you can manage whether or how your posts are quoted by others, both globally on the new Posting Defaults page, and individually on specific posts. You can also revoke the use of a post. We wrote about this in more detail a few weeks ago: blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/…
The Fediverse feels more vibrant when conversations are buzzing! Mastodon 4.5 fetches replies from other servers to show you more complete conversation threads - another much-anticipated feature.
Server owners can do more to manage and showcase their community. Mastodon 4.5 has settings to define the visibility of different feeds (timelines), and also the ability to set the default landing page to the local feed. There are also new tools for restricting problematic usernames, and improvements in the moderation interface.
We recommend that server owners update their Mastodon installations to bring these improvements to their communities as soon as they can. There are a lot of great updates, now ready for everyone.
We’re happy to announce that Mastodon 4.5 is now ready for prime time! Quote posts, async fetching of replies, server timeline visibility settings, more moderation tools, and lots and lots of other tweaks and improvements.
For a user-focused highlight of these changes, see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/
For changes of particular interest to application developers, see https://blog.joinmastodon.or...
Thank you to all of the contributors to Mastodon 4.5! As always, we also appreciate your donations and support as we continue to build a better social web for everyone.
Oh boy. I'd been wondering, 'When will my Mastodon experience become more like hanging out with the hordes of kids and immature adults on Facebook?' We truly do live in marvelous times.
What does that mean? I understand that emoji are like any other Unicode character, and they are displayed by fonts like any other character, so they do not need any special treatment.
Perhaps I'm a minority but exactly this feature is the most annoying for me because I have to click for something I don't want (acceleration). It's nice to see replies from other servers. But I hate this urge to click in *every* thread. Is there any possibility to disable this clickediclick completely?
While I appreciate the new features, the UX feels like a massive regression to me. Unfortunately mastodon doesn't support different default settings for visiblity of posts (public) and replies (unlisted), and with the new popup dialogue instead of the drop down it takes 3 clicks to change the visibility, plus mouse movement and aiming 🙁
Is this just a change in the web client to fetch the extra replies? Or can other clients, eg @pachli on Android, benefit from this change as well when connected to servers running v4.5?
@chris it is not! When you load someone profile for the first time, it may pull up any existing posts by that person that are already on your server, but usually, it shows their timeline as empty. That information is available on the user's own server; Mastodon just needs to reach out and get it.
Am I the only one who finds the addition of quoting ON THE BOOST BUTTON?!? both annoying and slightly insane.
It is another type of reply - so obviously it should be on the reply button!
Now I have to click twice as much to boost something while browsing, and if I decide to reply with quote I have to NOT click the reply button but click the boost button... what?!?
💛 so excited for the quote posts feature as an affordance. It'll allow more fun & attract more users. To normalize the experience of social media with no ads & no data mining from giant corps FAANG, we need features like this & more!
Good stuff. Been using quote posts in Ivory for a while, glad it’s native now though.
One MAJOR request is to figure out how to ensure pictures and video get passed on 100% of the time. I still get 1/4 of the pictures and videos as blank images and video containers with no way to view the content. Mastodon will never go mass till that’s fixed. I understand why it does that, but normal users only see it as not working.
@robin …. Braucht aber offensichtlich noch Schubse … würde gerne alle taggen können, denen ich was mitteilen möchte … beispielsweise die Gedenkveranstaltung am 9. November in der Holzmindener Lutherkirche …
hm. First Mastodon upgrade ever that has been giving me issues and after following all the steps my server stills says v4.4.8... (peer dependencies, vite build skipped)
Steps to reproduce the problem Trying to update Mastodon Error ... Expected behaviour No Error Actual behaviour Errors Detailed description mastodon@localhost:~/live$ yarn install --immutable ➤ YN0...
La Ville de Blois a déménagé sur une autre instance Mastodon : la sienne, blois.fr ! 🎉
Si vous suiviez la Ville, vous êtes au bon endroit et n’avez rien à faire : votre abonnement a déjà été mis à jour.
Soulignant l’évolution toxique de l’ex-Twitter et de Meta, les élus parisiens ont adopté un vœu des écologistes pour des alternatives aux réseaux sociaux de Musk et Zuckerberg.
Thanks again! to your entire team for the Mastodon project.
Thanks also for providing mastodon.social — an instance open to everyone, one of many, which allowed the Town to create its initial presence!
And thanks to all the people who contributed in any way to Mastodon and to the fediverse (including its technical dependencies !) and make the open web a reality everyday. 👍
I wish my city would do this, rather than try to disseminate information through our local ad-ridden, barely readable, borderline illiterate local rag.
Non tutti sanno che... E' semplicissimo fare un [strong]post (toot)[/strong] sul proprio profilo [url=https://blog.agostinelli.eu/tag:mastodon]#mastodon[/url] con un semplice comando, ad esempio utilizzando [url=https://blog.agostinelli.eu/tag:curl]#curl[
Non tutti sanno che... E' semplicissimo fare un post (toot) sul proprio profilo #mastodon con un semplice comando, ad esempio utilizzando #curl.
Vediamo come fare.
Abilitazione e creazione token
Accedere, con il vostro account, al l'istanza mastodon di riferimento.
Andare su Preferenze (menù a destra)
Andare su Sviluppo (menù a sinistra)
Fare click su Nuova applòicazione
Compilare tutti i campi e concedere almeno i permessi di scrittura post.
Salvare in un luogo sicuro (password manager) quanto generato.
A questo punto possiamo farci un semplice script che prende in input, come parametro, del testo e lo invia per noi.
cat toot.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Verifica che sia stato passato almeno un argomento
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "Errore: devi passare il testo del toot come parametro."
echo "Uso: $0 \"Testo del toot\""
exit 1
fi
# Salva il parametro in una variabile
TOOT="$1"
# Esegui la richiesta POST
curl -s -X POST https://mastodon.uno/api/v1/statuses \
-H "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN_DI_ACCESSO" \
-d "status=$TOOT" \
-d "visibility=public" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN_DI_ACCESSO" \
| jq '.uri'
Ho inserito #jq in fondo con un filtro (che possiamo modificare a nostro piacimento), perché l'output in formato json è abbastanza prolisso
Perché?
A parte che è bello fare il nerd è usare #mastodon da command line, ma la cosa può essere molto utile se la usiamo in abbinata ad altre azioni/comandi. Pensiamo ad esempio ad un integraszione con #forgejo, ad esempio potremmo fare un post (tramite #webook) al termine del nostro workflow.
Un altro esempio è il collegare l'account ad un servizio di monitoraggio come #uptimekuma in questo modo si avrà una pagina che indica ai follower lo stato dei nostri servizi.
Oppure usarlo al termine di un nostro script che preleva i prossimi appuntamenti da un caledario ics.
Insomma, potete integrare l'invio di un toot alla fine di un vostro script custom, il limite a questo punto è solo la fantasia!
Cory Doctorow ha pubblicato sul suo blog un post a proposito dell'annuncio di Amazon che grazie all'uso dell'IA riuscirà a licenziare (fino a) 30000 lavoratori. Qui il testo originale: pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/wor… e qui la traduzione italiana fatta da @kenobit : settimana.kenobit.it/archive/c… e pubblicata nella sua newsletter
diciamo che le big companies contano tutte sul fatto che tutti si affidino all'ai, così lo svantaggio competitivo di affidarsi su una cosa che funziona male o affatto è comune e non ci sono competitor senza ai che possano vincere sugli altri
come sono i dati storici di personale di Amazon? si vede che è solo una variazione fisiologica, ma per comunicazione "AI", con grande beneficio del titolo.
Mastodon adds support for updates of Event objects
I got ask this question a hundred times (as an Mastodon admin, workshop leader, or “Fediverse-mentor”).
“Somethings wrong: why is Mastodon not showing my updated event?”
The answer was simple. Mastodon did not support updates to Event objects or any other objects that it does not natively support, but are converted to a note/status, such as Article. It will soon, though. The code was finally merged into the main branch yesterday.
The main reason was that “Mastodon does pretty arbitrary processing steps to the article before storing it in the database, and those steps are subject to change; if those steps changed between two versions of an article, the changes in processing will also be recorded as edits, misrepresenting them as a change of the underlying article” (Comment by ClearlyClaire).
These reasons are understandable, but I think that the positive aspects of this change far outweigh them. Thank you @Mastodon !
The change itself is rather simple, but I'm not sure how to confidently test for all the edge cases.
Also there is a lot of code duplication, we should find a way to refactor that.
I'd like to mark the start of 2025 with the first message from my self-hosted instance. You may already know me as @_elena@mastodon.social. Well, now I also run my own #ActivityPub microblogging server, thanks to the magic of #YunoHost and #GoToSocial (and #Phanpy, which I'm using to compose this).
I registered this domain – aseachange.com – a looooong time ago but never did anything with it. It was the very first domain name I ever bought, even before securing elenarossini.com (!!!). It was so long ago, but I remember I was inspired by Beck's album Sea Change. seachange[dot]com was taken, so I grabbed Aseachange.
I absolutely love its meaning of profound transformation and I think it's PERFECT for my self-hosted #Fediverse instance and what it represents: independence, empowerment and digital sovereignty.
Ever since setting it up, I've been feeling joyful and hopeful. Everytime I look at myself in the mirror, I think: I'm in control of my own social media platform. And it feels SOOO GOOD.
What do I have in store for 2025? I plan to use this account to post messages about #selfhosting, learning #Linux, privacy and digital sovereignty.
I will also keep posting from my Mastodon account because you don't give a Lamborghini to someone who just passed their driver's license. I barely know what I'm doing here, so I feel a lot safer (for now) keeping my mastodon.social account as well... In case anything goes wrong here. Better safe than sorry!
So, this is my #Introduction and if you've read as far as here I just want to thank the Fediverse for being so amazing and allowing me to connect with people on my own terms. And thank you Fedi people for being so generous and supportive with your superb advice and kind words.
So yesterday I posted the first public message from my self-hosted instance, powered by #GoToSocial (see above).
✨ The good 😊
I was able to export the list of accounts I follow on Mastodon and import them very quickly and easily into the new instance. Ditto for my Mastodon block list. The whole thing took less than 2 minutes.
☔️ The puzzling* 🤔 *I'm not gonna call it "the bad" since I'm LOVING GtS so far
I tagged my Mastodon handle but it didn't turn into a hyperlink and thus I didn't get the mention/notification on Mastodon. I also included the URLs of a couple of my websites (without the https://) and they were rendered in the post as regular text, not hyperlinks.
So, let's try again – for the purposes of testing: – @_elena – elenarossini.com (this time I included the https)
Coming soon to #flohmarkt: FediAuth for any kind of #ActivityPub users. Simply send a DM to a flohmarkt instance you want to login to, and you will be able to create a user and upload small/classified ads.
Questo post viene ripubblicato sulla comunità Lemmy @Che succede nel Fediverso? dalla quale è possibile seguire tutti gli aggiornamenti e le notizie sul #Fediverso
Nel pomeriggio di sabato 8 novembre, all’interno del Festival Glocal di Varese, è in programma l’incontro “Social network senza algoritmo, community e informazione locale”, dedicato al Fediverso e al rapporto tra piattaforme digitali, libertà di espressione e giornalismo di prossimità.
L’appuntamento si terrà alle 18 alla Sala Corsi di Materia (via Confalonieri 5 a Castronno VA) e vedrà la partecipazione di @filippodb ⁂ (amministratore del server Mastodo.uno), @Victor Van Dort (Bologna.one), @Emanuele Cariati (Varese.social) e @Michele Pinto, direttore dei quotidiani Vivere e fondatore di senigallia.one.
Grandi pulizie sul mio account Framapiaf aperto nel 2017: ho cancellato tutti i follower inattivi da almeno un anno.
Risultato sono passato da 992 "seguaci" a 370. Non li ho contati, ma molti degli inattivi avevano proprio 0 attività. Non è sicuramente un dato generalizzabile però...
@luca In parte dipende anche dalla longevità dell'account, ho fatto le pulizie anche sull'altro mio account (contributopia) creato su vivaldi social 3 anni fa e in effetti la percentuale di inattivi si abbassa al 20% circa
Sarebbe comodo un tool per fare le pulizie in automatico , ma almeno io per il momento non ho trovato niente
Pensaci, ma se non scrivi mai, non ha alcun senso che io ti segua. Sto solo sprecando bit inutili e creando legami dispendiosi tra istanze. Io non posso sapere se sei morto oppure se sei solo in sonno, ma questo per me è indifferente.
Aggiungo inoltre, che se sei un utente che vuole rimanere silenzioso o nell'anonimato, è tuo diritto seguirmi, ma è mio diritto negarti il follow o bloccarti. Il mondo è pieno di stalker, di bot IA, di profilatori... Quindi sarà mio diritto eliminare quello che ritengo non utile o addirittura potenzialmente pericoloso?
2) la sospensione degli utenti inattivi da parte degli amministratori
Premesso che il Fediverso è sostanzialmente pubblico, quindi non è necessario creare un account, è chiaro che qualcuno potrebbe decidere di creare un account 99% lurker, anch solo per la comodità di rispondere se capita. Oggi purtroppo il rapporto tra utenti attivi e utenti complessivi si è drammaticamente abbassato (siamo tra 1/10 e 1/20!)
D'altra parte, io - da amministratore - sono libero di decidere se tenere o meno utenti inattivi o utenti lurker (vedi il discorso dello stalker).
Gli utenti non attivi da più di sei mesi potranno essere eliminati senza preavviso
Altri admin come @snow sono ancora più stringenti: non interagisci? Ti elimino perché sicuramente sei un bot.
In altre istanze dalla vocazione generalista invece (sono anche mod di mastodon.uno) siamo più tolleranti ed eliminiamo per direttissima solo i bot (quelli che creano un profilo con la pubblicità in bio, per intenderci) ma purtroppo siamo consapevoli del fatto che un utente inattivo da più di sei mesi molto difficilmente si risveglierà mai dal suo "coma".
Purtroppo eliminare un bot non è un'operazione senza conseguenze; ci sono alcune istanze che esistono solo grazie ai bot.
Guarda per esempio l'immagine con i server Friendica con più utenti (qui il link a fediverse.observer, ma per un problema tecnico di fediverse.observer manca friendica.world che è il server realmente più attivo e "numeroso"): 1) tieni conto che con poliverso.org ho eliminato finora più di 1500 utenti tra bot, spammer e utenti inattivi, e che ne elimino una quarantina al mese. E infatti osserva il rapporto tra utenti attivi e utenti complessivi 2) squeet.me e friendica.vrije-mens.org sono due istanze strapiene di bot, spammer, monnezza e altro, ma risultano in cima alla lista 3) istanze come social.trom.tf, opensocial.at e loma.ml hanno meno utenti attivi di poliverso.org, ma chi guarda solo agli utenti attivi
Ora, poliverso è un'istanza italiana e non è in "concorrenza" con questi server, ma se lo fosse, gli converrebbe eliminare gli utenti inattivi e gli spammer? Allo stesso modo, un account che si iscrive e non fa nulla, viene tecnicamente contato come utente attivo per 30 giorni.
Su Mastodon.uno ne cancelliamo una decina al giorno. Sono account che non spammano, non molestano, ma piazzano solo una bio per aumentare la persistenza web. Potremmo lasciarli lì e non darebbero fastidio a nessuno, ma li cancelliamo per una questione di "igiene". Ma si tratta comunque di trecento utenti attivi al mese che spariscono dalle statistiche. Mastodon.uno lo fa, ma quante altre istanze mondiali tra quelle molto affollate lo fanno?
Scusa il lungo post, ma ho pensato che si potesse cogliere l'occasione per dare una risposta un po' più articolata alla tua domanda
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For the first time, the #Plushtodon will be available in two flavourful colors, and half the size, making it much easier to fit within every household or mode of transport, while maintaining the delightful softness and squishiness that it’s come to b…
@Bright5park Because you need to establish a working relationship with a fulfillment company in the region close to your customers (because almost nobody will pay 30+ EUR for shipping), split your stock between all the regions, register for sales tax in every country you sell to. The overheads would eat any revenue when the total quantity is 1000 units.
@untitaker @Bright5park The stated reason in the blog refers to our decision not to send new stock to our US fulfillment provider that we'd previously used for the last batch.
@gargron I was kidding. But the big ones got sold out, and I suppose the new ones will be sold out eventually, because they are cute, and people like to treat themselves with little things, even more so when the economy is dire(!)
that's interesting.... is it an elephant? I also have thought it is an elephant..... but someone told me it is a mammut, an animal which lived thousands years ago.....
Public communications (via platforms like Mastodon) are much too important to be in the hands of a handful of commercial Big Tech companies. Our team continues to engage in active discussions on these topics. We aim to help media associations to diversify their distribution by encouraging them to join the Fediverse.
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Good panel at "Healthy Online Info Spaces" by invitation of OSCE RFoM. Thanks @Nhelberger@someone.elses.computer for your remark during Q&A. We should connect with @manfredzielinski@mastodon.nl @marleenstikker@waag.
Big tech has proven again and again that they can't be trusted. We must have open source decentralised communication that puts the power in the hands of the community.
Folks, the last update to the iphone client by mastdon isnt a winner. Its a lot slower. And double tapping the home button to go to the top of the messages no longer works. Hope you fix this soon.
@dansup After all, we're in the Fediverse: it's true that it's an environment that recognizes the values of open source, but it also needs to be an environment where everyone respects each other's time. You did well not to give in to "social pressure" and to take all the time you needed: after all, you've saved precious time for anyone who wants to contribute to code improvements in the future.
You kept your word even though some may have doubted it despite the prior evidence of you being a good actor.
Unfortunately I believe it has happened that less ethical devs have misled people that way so the idea in the screenshot isn't entirely wrong. Just missing the part that some people can in fact be trusted more than others.
I imagine you've earned more trust in the eyes of some that used to doubt you now too.
My first contact with Pixelfed in 2022 was somewhat a disaster... First because of my lack of knowledge of the Fediverse and second because of how Pixelfed worked... but the idea of a federated Instagram didn't stop me. I like the fact that there are alternatives.
Years later, with the Pixelfed.es server up and running, the announcement of the OpenSource launch of Loops was something I had to try. Even without federation, I was still curious to try to run it on my own server!
I was lucky to get a good domain to set up my Loops server, and there it is, working perfectly and with the Federation working exactly the way I want it to be... The initial Federation issues were addressed and fixed very quickly and now it's running smoothly. And no, I'm not lying, you can visit Loops.one and check it out if you want to test Loops anytime!
It's clear that Loops still has a long, long way to go, but we at TKZ will continue to bet on, among others, Loops software (and Pixelfed), on an open, inclusive, and accessible Fediverse for everyone.
Anyone who spends any time contributing code online will eventually have interactions with entitled, selfish and lazy users with snarky and unproductive comments trying to diminish their work.
Open source (or don't) your code whenever you want, choose whatever license you feel fits your project, push commits/releases whenever you feel like it, enable/disable the issue tracker as you see fit, you don't owe anyone your time and skills.
We need to talk more about reducing "tone policing" here. I understand you want people to use content warnings, but guess what? They don't have to! If they don't do it, just unfollow them.
But please, don't harass them. That's what drove away our last big wave.
Do whatever you need to feel safe, but harassing people to your standards doesn't make THEM feel safe. Stop it.
I generally agree with the sentiment here, I'd just add that the appropriate use of CWs should be clearly stated in the server rules, and posts breaking them should be reported to the server's admin to handle, rather than a bunch of people from different servers forming a perhaps well-meaning mob and repeating the same message.
What convinced you to start adding alt text to images you post online?
#AltText #accessibility #ImageDescription
[ ] General knowledge about accessibility
[ ] Seeing others do it
[ ] Seeing others talk about it
[ ] Seeing someone get nagged about i…
@stefan I completely agree! If it's part of your server rules then by all means, but it's up to the folks of that server to enforce, not some rando that doesn't like your hashtag.
I'm not saying never use CWs, I'm saying don't lecture people about it.
I do trust that people mean well when they do this, but a big part of the issue, I think, has been the fact that federation hasn't always worked so well before, so when you reply to someone to tell them about how to use CWs or alt text, you might not see 10 other people doing the same.
Would like to suggest combining "tone policing" with how we can make it easier for new users to grasp how every instance can set their own "rules" for their users - often in a CoC and/or ToS.
But within limits, as otherwise risk getting defederated.
Some guidelines on making it easy for users to find someones home instance and the rules it has could also be good. Both for instance admins and users.
@tsvenson the tone of the tone policing matters too. For example, a suggestion that using appropriate hashtags (to help filters) and/or CWs might actually increase reach since people who care about this will only boost properly tagged and/or CWed posts will elicit a different reaction than a shouting match to the tone of «CW YOUR POLITICS, ASSHOLE».
@oblomov @tsvenson I hear you but please remember the curse of the "reply guy" that always asks nicely but still upsets people for the simple reason that they never asked to "be educated"
I've now been a mod on a top 10 instance for half a year. During that time been exposed to quite a few reports. Many that the team have discussed how to handle, where I have learned a ton from my much more experienced team mates.
It has been humbling about so many things needed to make the fediverse a good place. Not just for us who fit in already. Also for many more, including those it will be a challenge adjusting to how things work here - from what they are used to.
I always found CWs to be backwards. How the hell am I supposed to know what is going to set someone off? They should honestly be removed and let readers self-filter.
@blainsmith I don't think it's such a problem, at least I haven't seen it be with the people I follow....
I guess it's a kind gesture to put CW if you know that some people don't want to see/can't see without panic, e.g. spiders. I don't think such warnings are a bad thing in general. Things get bad if done excessively and we all may draw that line in different places. 🤷
Then again I make use of filters a lot to block out posts about politics. I like that I can easily unto filters and read posts anyway.
@thibaultamartin I don't think it matters as many people never use CWs the "right way" so will never be caught properly.
Btw, I'm not saying we should never use CWs there could be some strong content that a server wants to always be me marked. But that's up to server admins to enforce not randos yelling at newcomers
@thibaultamartin OTOH, filters don't work reliably either given how many people have carried over from The Other Places the bad habit of intentionally mistyping names to avoid algorithmic demotion/shadowbanning/etc.
I've already had a few randos in my mentions trying to tell me either:
1) It's ok to correct people if done politely Just because you use polite words doesn't mean it's polite. If you're giving people advice they didn't ask for, you're harassing them.
2) My request was a form of tone policing Asking people to not harass others is not "tone policing", it's basic trust and safety. It's that classic sad defence that "you're intolerant too!" if you call out intolerance.
Normally I wouldn't engage but I feel strongly we need to have this discussion and call out this almost entirely white male issue.
The entire Mastodon team is working really hard to add features to bring in more people, in a safe way. It doesn't do any good if these guys just chase them away!
the distinction we should make is re tagging others, not what you post with nobody tagged. when tagging others, be super considerate. if it might come off as nagging, don't do it.
I want us to be the social media network for everyone, but some do not want us to get bigger and most of those people are the reason this place survived the leanest years. that's tough to deal with. it's a huge conversation, esp when we're the only design that can handle that size well. ugh.
@wjmaggos I appreciate your points, we all want this to be an inclusive, safe place.
My only issue is that giving people advice they didn't ask for, is still aggressive. It doesn't matter if you use nice words.
This needs to be solved at the instance level. Police your instance all you want, get the culture you want there. But leave other instances alone. It just doesn't scale to think you can "fix" the other 10000.
If they're not doing it the way you want, then unfollow them
but I also want a place where people disagree without being disagreeable. I want people to interact here like they would IRL. I want to be corrected sometimes. I want to see stuff I think is wrong or untrue sometimes. it's harder without many of the social cues we have IRL but trying to make this a place where we never see something upsetting won't be good either. it's very much like the web + email. it should be open but not annoying or people won't use it.
@wjmaggos As an old white guy, I've had a personal journey here. It's taken me awhile to understand that being comfortable with being corrected is a privileged place. To see that others didn't have this same comfort level was a big step, but it was also difficult to see how correcting people without being asked is an intrusion. It may be welcome some of the time, but it's still an intrusion.
But this is a very general point. I'm just saying to do this over CWs just feels so unnecessary.
@Scott Jenson I completely agree. I always try to make it clear to users of my forums that they shouldn't object to the way other users post. Users can report any rule violations to us moderators either through the integrated reporting system or by direct message. If they don't receive a satisfactory response, they can mute or block that user. But they shouldn't harass other users, otherwise the social Fediverse will be under such pressure that only the troublemakers will remain.
Starts:Saturday October 25, 2025 @ 10:30 AM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Finishes:Saturday October 25, 2025 @ 7:45 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Sabato 25 ottobre 2025 torna il Linux Day: una giornata di divulgazione e confronto dedicata non solo a Linux e al software libero, ma a tutto ciò che significa "aperto" e "libero" nel mondo digitale.
Parleremo di programmazione, cloud, sicurezza, ma anche di come la tecnologia influenzi la nostra società, i nostri diritti e le nostre comunità. Discuteremo di software, hardware, cultura libera, open data, privacy e libertà digitali.
La manifestazione è aperta a tutti, dai programmatori agli attivisti ai semplici curiosi. L'obiettivo è creare un ponte tra chi sviluppa la tecnologia e chi la usa ogni giorno per costruire una società più consapevole.
Quest'anno siamo felici di ospitare diversi LUG dalla Toscana per una giornata di condivisione e apprendimento.
Il Linux Day Prato si svolgerà sabato 25 ottobre 2025 al PRISMA (Via Galcianese 34/B, Prato). Il programma prevede due tracce parallele: Generale e Tecnica, con momenti in plenario.
Per maggiori dettagli vi invitiamo a visitare il sito dedicato day.linux.prato.it/
Una giornata di talk e incontri per esplorare come il software libero, la cultura aperta e gli open data costruiscono una società più giusta e consapevole.
@strk Nel fine settimana riesco a spostarmi, non so se magari riusciamo a organizzarci e se riesco a raggiungervi con i mezzi pubblici, o magari qualcuno mi viene a prendere alla stazione più vicina.
Sabato 25 ottobre 2025 torna il Linux Day: una giornata di divulgazione e confronto dedicata non solo a Linux e al software libero, ma a tutto ciò che significa "aperto" e "libero" nel mondo digitale.
Parleremo di programmazione, cloud, sicurezza, ma anche di come la tecnologia influenzi la nostra società, i nostri diritti e le nostre comunità. Discuteremo di software, hardware, cultura libera, open data, privacy e libertà digitali.
La manifestazione è aperta a tutti, dai programmatori agli attivisti ai semplici curiosi. L'obiettivo è creare un ponte tra chi sviluppa la tecnologia e chi la usa ogni giorno per costruire una società più consapevole.
Quest'anno siamo felici di ospitare diversi LUG dalla Toscana per una giornata di condivisione e apprendimento.
Il Linux Day Prato si svolgerà sabato 25 ottobre 2025 al PRISMA (Via Galcianese 34/B, Prato). Il programma prevede due tracce parallele: Generale e Tecnica, con momenti in plenario.
Per maggiori dettagli vi invitiamo a visitare il sito dedicato day.linux.prato.it/
Frugando in un mio vecchio blog quasi dimenticato ho ritrovato questo testo della maestra Cristina Mecenero, tratto dal sito ormai scomparso di Retescuole.
Il testo, che ha più di 15 anni mi sembra ancora attualissimo.
La decentralizzazione consente una maggiore personalizzazione nel modo in cui ogni server viene moderato e gestito, inclusa la gestione della privacy dei dati. Allo stesso tempo, la mancanza di una supervisione centrale implica che nessuno sia realmente "responsabile" dell'ecosistema dei server nel suo complesso.
Nel recente articolo di Sohyeon Hwang, Priyanka Nanayakkara e Yan Shvartzshnaider, Trust and Friction: Negotiating How Information Flows Through Decentralized Social Media (pre-print qui ), abbiamo intervistato amministratori e membri del server (n=23) per esaminare sia ciò che spinge le persone a considerare i server della community come custodi affidabili dei dati delle persone , sia le nuove sfide per la privacy che derivano da un'infrastruttura decentralizzata
Ecco un riassunto;
I protocolli decentralizzati dei social media consentono agli utenti di interagire tra loro su server indipendenti e ospitati dagli utenti (ovvero istanze) mentre si autogovernano. Questo modello di governance dei social media basato sulla comunità apre nuove opportunità per un processo decisionale personalizzato sui flussi di informazioni, ovvero quali dati degli utenti vengono condivisi, con chi e quando, e, di conseguenza, per la protezione della privacy degli utenti. Per comprendere meglio come la governance della comunità modella le aspettative sulla privacy sui social media decentralizzati, abbiamo condotto un'intervista semi-strutturata con 23 utenti di Fediverse, un social network decentralizzato. I nostri risultati illustrano fattori importanti che influenzano la comprensione dei flussi di informazioni da parte di una comunità, come le regole e gli sforzi proattivi degli amministratori percepiti come affidabili. Evidenziamo le "frizioni di governance" tra le comunità che sollevano nuovi rischi per la privacy dovuti a incompatibilità di valori, pratiche di sicurezza e software. I nostri risultati evidenziano le sfide uniche dei social media decentralizzati, suggeriscono opportunità di progettazione per affrontare le frizioni e delineano il ruolo del processo decisionale partecipativo per realizzare il pieno potenziale della decentralizzazione.
Se la segui puoi leggere tutte le discussioni italiane sul Fediverso che vengono pubblicate su di essa. Se invece vuoi pubblicare da Mastodon un thread su quella comunità, puoi menzionarla in un nuovo messaggio e la prima riga del tuo post diventerà il titolo della discussione.
Bonfire Open Science is now @ORCID_Org certified as a Manuscript Submission System provider 🎉
This opens new possibilities for turning conversations into citable, #FAIR and permanent research objects. But what should be archived? How does this affect scientific discourse?
FYI for all researchers who have an account on the OSN test instance: it has now moved to sandbox.openscience.network, with all profiles and data preserved, and the old URLs should still work and be redirected to the new location. We simple didn't want this instance to become synonymous with "the" open science network, which should be decentralised, but it will continue to be used for meta discussions and co-design.
@ccamara that instance is currently invite-only for people who want to be involved in co-designing and testing the tools, if that's you just let us know!
I'd definitely want to do it! How should I do it? (Actually, I ve been meaning to write you so long ago, because I love what you're building here and the way you're doing it, but I'm not sure how to do it or what can I do)
great series of questions in that post. In my experience, social media is a great way to escape the formality of scholarly publishing, getting at the subtext and things left unsaid in a published work. Not trying to burst your bubble, but my prediction is that treating posts as scholarly outputs will make them more formal and less meaningful with regard to what I just described. Also, could you not cite a post before this?
Can't speak for everyone involved but the intention isn't necessarily to publish "social media" discussions as they typically look, but to expand "social networking" to new types of collaborative exploration/production of science. E.g. you could imagine a qualitative researcher asking a specific question (maybe using circles and boundaries to target it to a specific audience) and collecting in depth responses (instead of using a survey tool or conducting one-on-one conversations)
as a qualitative researcher myself, this potential use case raises red flags to be honest. Interviews and surveys are well established for good reasons, ie they allow for controlled study design, have boundaries that enable consent conditions to be communicated clearly, enable clearer communication between researchers and subjects, etc. One can imagine all they want, but in practice I don’t think this will enhance empirical qualitative research as a data collection platform
Fair enough, we're not scientists ourselves, and as mentioned in the blog post we don't claim to have the answers. We've just built some prototypes based on suggestions from a few researchers involved so far, and are extending an invitation to join in answering these questions, and in co-designing and experimenting with the tools. There's no reason the checks and balances available with survey tools can't be built into this for example.
Fine del supporto a Windows 10: dopo quella di Framasoft, ecco la posizione di April ,un altro dei pilastri nella promozione e nella difesa del software libero. Addio Windows, benvenuto software libero, ecco la traduzione italiana: blogz.zaclys.com/nilocram/addi… #SoftwareLibero #April #EndOf10 #Linux #traduzioni
Framablog ha pubblicato un articolo semplice e chiaro per spiegare cosa succede con la fine del supporto a Windows 10 da parte di Microsoft, quali sono le conseguenze economiche e ambientali e quali sono le alternative.
Forse avete sentito parlare della fine del supporto di Windows 10 senza prestare particolare attenzione, oppure vi state chiedendo se questo vi riguarda. Facciamo il punto della situazione. Questa...
We're excited to announce that @altstore has joined the fediverse! Their innovative implementation of ActivityPub allows you to follow updates from your favorite apps, demonstrating a new way to bring more apps to the open social web.
We extend our heartfelt gratitude for their generous donation, in support of our mission to create an open and safe social internet.
Hey, does AltStore have its own Mastodon server as the TechCrunch article references (the link seems dead)? Also noticed that Mastodon GmbH Managed Hosting page links AltStore. Is this up and running? Still planned?
🔬 With Bonfire's upcoming Open Science Network 1.0, you can archive fediverse conversations to #zenodo (and compatible repositories like works.hcommons.org from @hello) and obtain a #DOI.
Every participant becomes a credited co-author, and @ORCID_Org integration can automatically publish it to your profile as well.
Join in co-designing community-owned infrastructure for open science! 🔥
We send a DM to each participant to notify them, so they can withdraw or give consent (and optionally add their ORCID ID to link their profile). We could also integrate this with the new consent-based quoting so that you can give/deny consent to quote to certain circles in advance: bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonf…
Bonfire’s latest release puts data portability (moving and taking your data with you) and anti-enshittification (avoiding manipulative platform tricks) front and center.
Withdrawing would have the effect of publishing a new version on Zenodo, not ideal but probably also how giving consent after publication would have to work anyway...
looks great! Agree with the comments about consent from co-authors but if I am not mistaken author metadata can be edited on Zenodo w/o publishing a new version. So that's an option even if someone withraws consent after providing it at the beginning. Btw which repositories would be considered compatible? And how do you plan to handle post deletion? That's hard to do on Zenodo (requires manual approval from Zenodo iirc)
We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.) As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community. Read this blog post about our approach and let us know what you think!
Is the main scenario really just onboarding here? I like the idea of curated lists of accounts on a certain topic. Something that may be updated regularly. Something like the lists feature but sharable. Maybe similar to OPML.
As for the wording, "Parades" better fit the mastodonte metaphor than "Packs". What's of interest to me is more about agency and privacy. How to make sure people can know when they are part of one (especially if the thing has been created on another instance)? Suspend or remove themselves from it? Communicate with the thing's owner?
@markhughes we have an open issue on GitHub about this, explaining the reasons and constraints of this choice. We are listening to ideas on how to solve this in a good way, feel free to contribute there: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i… @Mastodon
Pitch We've recently introduced a change to the boosting experience on on recent nightly versions (which have been deployed on Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online), wherein the Boost icon button op...
This addresses the consent aspect but doesn't have anything to say about how it skews the power dynamics. What happened on Bluesky was that getting included into a few packs was a "lottery win" and people gave little Oscar acceptance speeches to their tens of thousands of new followers, while people who had happened to not be included in this or that pack were bitter about their exclusion
@tomw Exactly my experience on #Bsky! There, it's a horrible elitist system that favours influencers and gives them even more votes. No chance for people who cover multiple topics (packs prefer one topic only-people) or are unknown. And you have to annoy people begging so that they give you a chance. At least on B., connected to the algorithms, it's on the way to #enshittification. I would like to consider this danger.
The first two things that come to my mind are that I'm pleased we can choose to opt-out of being included, and the way hashtags work on here is most satisfying and I'd like to see it continued.
It would be nice to be able to browse through such “albums.” So far, it’s been challenging to discover accounts by focus or interest. “Packs” brings to mind stray dogs, but also piles of material, so I suppose it depends on personal perspective.
If not “packs” then maybe “sets?” I’d be hesitant to obscure the meaning too much for the sake of thematics, the simpler the better.
Something else that they did that helped with onboarding was to create shareable lists (called feeds) that are for certain topics based on words and tags within posts. I know we can search topics via words or tags, but a topic of interest being a click or two away vs manually entering the search terms is powerful, almost like a subreddit but not.
based on how this played out on bsky, I urge you to reconsider this feature. At minimum you need controls to opt out of packs entirely at the account level. They very easily became a vector for abuse or unwanted attention and confused replies.
I'd just like to suggest you plan ahead and make any lists of users for any purpose useable/tranformable for any other purpose -- vs on bluesky sharter packs and feeds were different somehow and not exchangeable. Also keep a user list of changes to their account, so they know what happened, and the ablity to UNDO.
For the quick start part of it, maybe users during onboarding (say in the app) could pick starter packs first, and then be recommended instances partly based on what the people in their chosen starter packs are using?
You're interested in anarchist starter packs, here's some anarchist instances for you. Of french lierature or cycling or whatever.
It has some matthews effect potential, but I don't think it's a terrible idea.
this is the greatest feature this platform could ever have, since I've been making curated and private lists for people to follow and sending them those manually every time they join the platform. Awesome feature, will greatly be used! 🕊️
I hate this idea. I like Mastodon because it's NOT like corporate social media.
Having an empty timeline until you find people to follow is not a problem that needs solving; people are just too used to being spoon fed by the algorithm.
If you add this feature, please allow people to opt out of being added to starter packs.
I like the direction you’re taking here and I look forward to seeing how this works out. One idea: would a “starter pack” of hashtags be a thing that would make sense? I really appreciate the ability to follow hashtags; maybe that could be a way to help on board new folks: “Not sure *who* to follow? Follow your favorite hashtags and find your people!”
This is a good idea in principle but how will you safeguard against spamming?
On a server like social, which has open signups with no verification or human checking, it would be a spammer's delight. Create an account, follow all the "packs" and let rip.
Users will be notified when they are included in a Pack. Unlike on Bluesky, where users wishing to remove themselves from a Starter Pack [...] users on Mastodon will have a more neutral mechanism to remove themselves from a Pack they do not wish to be part of. (note: we implemented something similar with the Quote Posts feature, where an original post can be removed from a quote post; this same idea would flow through to Packs).
This has to be a "user curated" feature. You could potentially do something automated like add the accounts with the most followers, but you can't determine how legitimate the follower count is. It could be an account followed by a bunch of crap accounts.
I think there should be a button on every user's public profile that people can click if they think the account should be recommended in a pack. Maybe limit the vote to instance members, or send suggestions to the admins for submit.
@chad @alphapuggle "Starter pack" is an established term in trading card games, I guess that's where it came from. It will also make it easier for people coming here from BlueSky to have the same terminology.
Also, Mastodon is only part of the Fediverse, so we shouldn't use elephant-specific terminology.
🔥 Did you know you can fully customize your Bonfire sidebar? Pick the feeds you want, reorder everything, move sections around. Don't let the power of the default dictate your experience, make the interface adapt to your needs! See the video: tella.tv/video/ivans-video-063… And see you at #Fediforum later today! #enshittification #UX #defaults
Is there a bonfire instance we can test on/try out? Like one that’s just for testing new features, testing bonfire for the first time, etc. rather than having to run our own…
Puntuale come sempre è uscito ieri su Framablog il KhrysPresso, pieno di cose interessanti da leggere: framablog.org/2025/10/06/khrys…
Per comincare; uno studio di ShiftProject (in francese) sull'impatto ambientale dell'intelligenza artificiale generativa, qui la sintesi: theshiftproject.org/app/upload…;
Comme chaque lundi, un coup d’œil dans le rétroviseur pour découvrir les informations que vous avez peut-être ratées la semaine dernière. Tous les liens listés ci-dessous sont a priori...
In June, we proposed new Terms of Service for registered users of on our mastodon.social and mastodon.online servers. We did not do enough to consider the full impact of the terms, and the community was very clear that we needed to reconsider.
We've done that over the past few months. Today, we're posting an alternative set of terms, along with an opportunity for the community to provide feedback.
Background Mastodon gGmbH operates two Mastodon servers, mastodon.social and mastodon.online, under the jurisdiction of German law. In June 2025, we proposed to implement new Terms of Service that ...
I just read about Microsoft changing their customer contracts with the promise to protect their rights. And It thought: What kind of a contract is it, when one side can change it as they like? Shouldn't a contract be something, both sides agree upon? In this case the change was for the better. But they can change it in any way and their customers have practically no way of saying no. I think it's good, that Mastodon discusses these ground rules with their users. The result will be so much better!
We appreciate that certain politicians have recently admitted their naivete in entrusting the voices of their governments to corporate / for-profit social media.
Well they could have a presence in the fediverse as well as wherever else they have accounts already. I've told my local council to have their emergency announcements on more than Meta and Twitter, but it falls on deaf ears.
even better: They should host their own. Our governments should be proficient in managing public IT infrastructure. The knowledge should be internal, not external.
You’re making sense, but there’s s better brighter goal further along the road from here, brother.
@gimulnautti you're absolutely right (and that would be the best outcome) and we also offer support services for those that want to operate their own. blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/…
We're offering hosting, support and moderation services, to establish a more sustainable financial base while we continue to build a better social web.
One thing that politicians should really consider is creating their own instance to give them complete control of their messaging and build their public image.
Think about the benefit that Trump has gained from Truth Social.
By posting things on their own social media site they can draw interest from the media to their posts in a way that is superior to just riding other platforms.
how quickly would their instance be muted on mastodon.social after they come out in defense of the Palestinian people against the genocide perpetrated by Netanyahu's government?
I am planning to shut down this account and abandon social media for a while.
I have canceled myself to try to help as many as possible lately, and supported everyone against slanderous accusations directed at them.
That ended up with my account being limited on mastodon.social with no notice, no explanation and no appeal, while anonymous genocide denialists, trolls and nasty people who tried to halt fundraising for Gaza are still allowed to act under a blanket of absolute impunity.
I can't even communicate effectively with new accounts in need from Gaza if my profile is hidden on the main instance.
I'll keep cheering for @aral and @joynewacc from the sidelines, they're doing an amazing job, and I'll keep supporting accounts from Gaza, because it's the right thing to do.
Just not here, and away from the spotlights - also for my own safety.
I may be back one day, I don't know if on Nostr, or some other platform that has already taken into account the fact that the admin of the largest instance of a decentralized network can also be an asshole who has the power to cut you from your own network and those you're trying to help, even when you run your own instance.
@oblomov I am pro-Israel and the war on Hamas. Yes, I am a Christian. I know my views are not popular with many folks on the Fediverse, but I'm not fishing for followers.
That being said, I agree with @Mastodon that the Fediverse is a far more suitable place for government social media (especially self-hosted instances). I also agree with you @oblomov, that mainstream instances will silence people. #SelfHost people!
so basically you’re bragging about the initiative that @aral and @joynewacc have set up (with support from me behind the lines), putting our own names and surnames next to it, taking all the risks and all the threats on ourselves, while repeatedly shielding anonymous ultra-Zionist accounts that reported for antisemitism even AI-generated caricatures, and kept throwing mud on Gaza Verified, to the point of calling even the victims of a genocide that you were supposed to protect on your own instancescammers or antisemitic (sample 1, sample 2) for daring to compare the death that Israel brought upon them to the one that the Nazis brought upon Jews?
And then you muted MY profile instead of theirs, despite the widespread condemnation against those vile attacks, and despite me being actually one of the guys working on Gaza Verified?
Can you please confirm that the reports from those pro-genocide trolls constituted the grounds for your actions against my account?
You know right that because of your absolute incompetence at moderating a platform that is trying to handle an already delicate humanitarian initiative you have ended up with newly registered users from Gaza on your instance that were crying for help, even tagged me, and they couldn’t see my replies because they weren’t following me?
You know right that you may have to cut some lifelines there, because both Aral and Joy were busy in these days and couldn’t respond to all the requests?
You know right that you’ve silenced the guy who set up the Gaza archive for this initiative, to make sure that all of the content uploaded by the verified accounts is persisted even if some admins decide to kick them out, and the guy who uncovered some Gaza scams on your instance in July whose claims you were too lazy to verify?
And then you also have the guts of bragging about OUR initiative despite the damage you’re doing to it, just because you’re responding to a couple of questions from Aral?
How much credibility do you think you have left?
How much are you going to lie in our own face while taking undeserved credit and silencing the voices trying to save as many lives as possible?
p.s. It’d be great if someone could take a screenshot or a quote of this post and paste it to @staff. Those guys have silenced my account and they’re even ignoring emails from me and Aral, so I’m not sure if they can even see what I write to them.
@rzeta0 Criticizing Israel has always been allowed. We also have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to racism, including antisemitism, not only due to our values but our local jurisdiction (Germany). Thanks again for reaching out about this. We’re always looking to improve moderation on mastodon.social, and your input helps us do that.
@rzeta0 Hi Tariq, we appreciate you reaching out about this and understand your frustration. We are deeply saddened by the loss of human life in Gaza and condemn the ongoing genocide perpetrated by Israel. We also strongly support Aral's work on Gaza-Verified.org.
@hipsterelectron @lahosken well, maybe I just want to be optimistic, but they are referring to big Us commercial giants "where the rule is to insult others if one wants to be popular."
@lahosken macron identified US social networks as a risk to democracy a couple days ago lemonde.fr/en/international/ar… it was in the context of building up independent capacity for military action and he specifically identified user anonymity as problematic, neither of which i suspect the mastodon project agrees with
because currently the vast majority of accounts from Gaza is registered there. Which means:
They are currently exposed to regular harassment and defamation from malicious actors on the main instance that have been acting with impunity for years
We can’t respond to their calls for help if we are muted, unless they already follow us
yeah, really, Who Made Who, Who Owns Who, I don't think we have a party in action that wants to rattle ALL the knuckleheads, on BOTH sides, and put THEM in a cage, so the rest of the people on earth can get back to taking a hard stab at enjoying a life on THIS planet. WTAF. They're so outnumbered, I don't understand.
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Bonfire’s latest release puts data portability (moving and taking your data with you) and anti-enshittification (avoiding manipulative platform tricks) front and center.
Bonfire’s latest release puts data portability (moving and taking your data with you) and anti-enshittification (avoiding manipulative platform tricks) front and center.
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@matherion @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe we are in the process of releasing the open science network 1.0rc and publishing a dedicated website... happy to have a quick chat when you're available to share with you what we did and roadmap
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in reply to Bonfire • • •The work and thinking of @kissane have been and continue to be a key reference for us.
"The work that comes next for Bonfire—that their funding campaign is about—evolves around the needs of real humans in our exact moment
[...] It also, to my absolute delight, foregrounds maintenance—the thing no institutional funder ever wants to help with, because the incentives are for the innovative and new, not the stable and thriving."
Such an amazing read, thanks ❤️
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in reply to Bonfire • • •Amazing read indeed! It summarizes so beautifully and thoughtfully my feelings about the Fediverse in general and Bonfire in particular, evidencing the direct link between tech, politics and democracy.
It shows the many reasons why I am so happy and honored to be one of these scholars in activity who have been included in the conception of the open science flavour of Bonfire.
Thank you for the writing, @kissane
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