TIL that #EarthFirstJournal is on #Mastodon! And of course, their instance is #KolektivaSocial ! 🌳 🛠️

@EarthFirstJournal

#EarthFirst #NoCompromiseInDefenseOfMotherEarth

For the time being it won't be possible to buy #Mastodon merch from EU countries besides Germany. Only Germany, Switzerland, UK, and USA. And new plushies are coming in like two months. Not ideal.

Using Mastodon
and the Fediverse is an act of rebellion in itself.

By being here,
you are contributing to grow an alternative system that is led by the people and for the people, not for profits.

By being here,
you are encouraging a solution to a deteriorating social climate that thrives on outrage and the monetization of hate.

By being here,
you are participating to the development of a new system that can slowly build a better world.

Thank you for being here 💚

#Mastodon #Fediverse

Poll 🤔👃

Which place do you think smells bad the most?

Vote honestly 😂

#Poll #BoostWelcome #Smell #Funny #RandomThoughts #EverydayLife #Mastodon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/117117221397911074

After hearing feedback from people struggling with #Mastodon’s layout and navigation for a long time I’m really looking forward to these changes. And I’m really impressed with the work @imanijoy has put into researching user needs with surveys, interviews, and round tables. I feel like the community has never been so represented in the design process before. The screenshots are marked “in progress” for a reason though—it’s a process.

Rafael Pérez ☀️ boosted

Mastodon » 🌐 2026-08-18
@Mastodon@mastodon.social

After publishing the results of Discovery Week, we can now give you a first sneak peak at Mastodon 5.0, our next big version. It will bring a new visual look to your screens, a refreshed and calmer layout, as well as a new composer.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/

#mastodon #mastodon5.0

You know what *might* really help reduce spam sign-ups on Mastodon? Let instance admins pick their own security questions.

To register on oslo.town, you must answer: "Hvilket område ligger Barcode?"

To register on toot.wales answer: "Cwblhewch enw'r orsaf drenau ganlynol: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio____"

To register on k-pop.social answer: "Name the missing BTS member: Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and ____"

#Mastodon #mastoAdmin #MastodonAdmin #Moderation

After publishing the results of Discovery Week, we can now give you a first sneak peak at Mastodon 5.0, our next big version. It will bring a new visual look to your screens, a refreshed and calmer layout, as well as a new composer.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/

#mastodon #mastodon5.0

⛔️🇺🇸Donald Trump lashes out at reporters but fails to refute US Senators allegations that he is having an extra-marital affair with Natalie Harp (more) https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/white-house-uproar-cnn-journalist-called-1787042409.html #Ukraine #Press #Kyiv #Odesa #Lviv #Kharkiv #Kherson #Berlin #Brussels #France #Germany #UK #US #PACE #CoE #Paris #Trump #Maga #Mastodon #Democrats #Georgia #Ossoff #America #USA #VOTE2026 #London #Media #News #Headlines #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #ReinstateFederov

Today is kinda gloomy here and also the #fediverse 🥺😓

#tuesday #boost #mutualaidrequest #mastodon

🆕 blog! “Some updates to ActivityBot”

I couple of years ago, I developed ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots. It is a single PHP file which can run an entire ActivityPub server and it is less than 80KB.

It works! You can follow @openbenches to see the latest entries on OpenBenches.org, and @colours for a …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/some-updates-to-activitybot/
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#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #mastodon #php

If you want easy-to-understand help with moving your Mastodon account to a different server, here's a beginner's guide:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

It's got lots of steps because I've tried to make each step as clear and easy to understand as possible.

I've just updated it so the profile editing is now correct for the latest version of Mastodon.

If there's anything else that is unclear or out of date, please let me know and I'll fix it 😅

#FediTips #Mastodon

BOOKS! Ah the smell of old books…my very own psychedelic! #mastodon #fediverse #books #bookstodon #booksky #literature #art #photography #photo #Monday #viral

Does anyone have a link to those comic strips of dinosaurs moving to Mastodon and why? It was beautifully drawn, written in plain language, and compelling.

cc: @mastodonmigration @FediTips

#Mastodon #OnHere

Today's #mastodon frustration:

Click on a hashtag that's generating noise in your t/l. There's a menu option "Mute [hashtag]". What do you expect it to do? Mute the damn hashtag, right?

What does Mastodon actually do? It opens a new tab with your current list of "filters". That's it, everything else is up to you.

#uxfail

We thank everyone who has been able to support our work to get more land where we can grow more food to feed more families.
We are at 4% and the biggest percentage remains uncovered and this means we need more donations than those that we have got.
Any amounted donated today,keeps us growing towards the goal
https://gofund.me/8da0ff4a0

#garden #gardening #sustainability #agriculture #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #climateemergency #Mastodon #Fediverse #linux #Photography #solarpunk

The reason Mastodon (and the wider Fediverse that it is part of) doesn't go down is because all its servers are totally independent. One Fedi server might go down, but that doesn't affect the other servers at all.

That's one of the many advantages of decentralisation, that there is no central point of failure.

Centralised networks go down because they depend on one central organisation's infrastructure.

#Mastodon #Fediverse

Is there a tool for #Mastodon or #fediverse admins yet that will crowdsource identification of problem users?

If a bunch of people in your community are blocking a user or a server or a domain, then it would seem useful for that information to rise to the top automatically for review by the moderators.

Could this turn "blocking is not enough" into "blocking work"?

We’re at 4% of our land fundraising goal—meaning 96% is still uncovered. 🙏🏾 Thank you to everyone who has donated, boosted, and shared our work to help us reach wider communities. We still need you. Every amount strengthens and motivates us toward the goal. Please donate or boost. ❤️
https://gofund.me/8da0ff4a0

#Climate #gardening #food #environment #crowdfunding #solarpunk #solarpunksunday #Mastodon #nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #linux #Fediverse #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary

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I almost had to sell my phone just to so I could get myself checked up, But I was lucky to have some voucher to get an xray & paid the half price of the doctor's fee because i need 2 go back 4 my second check-up next week & pay the other half.

Also I was so broke to get this prescribed antibiotics & sum other unreadable writing of the doctor.
WHAT A PLOT TWIST OF MY LIFE. 🥲🥲

*sighs*😔

#mutualaidrequest #mastodon #urgenthelp #needsupport #influenza #philippines #boost #fediverse #help

i dont know what to do anymore 😢💔 I feel terribly ashame of myself to ask for help again.
and I cant even go outside to get some fresh air, So I have to tear down the Cover in my window and just stood there to have some air. I know this sounds awful but if there's anyone that feel me rn, I could use some hands to help me get through this.

✉️ pypal email: jinnxshinn@gmail.com

Boost this post please 🙏🫂

#mutualAidRequest #silentsunday #influenza #needhelp #mastodon #supportRequest #fediverse

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The image features two hands gently holding one another, accompanied by the inspirational text: "Sometimes the smallest acts of kindness make the biggest difference."

Pls kindly notice my new pinned toot guys🙏🥺😓🧡 Boost is very appreciated 🫂

#silentsunday #NewPinnedPost #weekend #Needhelp #communitysupport #mastodon #boost4reach #fediverse #flu

Heelloo u guys! 👋🥹 I miss y'all🫂 I hope u all have a great #weekend & #silentsunday. I'm kinda better but not 100% fully recovered—still it's a progress.
I went & had a check-up & TYPE B INFLUENZA was the suspect with all of this.. I had to isolate myself and avoid crowded places. Its heartbreaking obviously but dont worry I will definetely be fine & will recover as my doctor says.

So u kno what's hard guys? Take a guess. *sighs*

#mastodon #boost4reach #influenza #sick #needhelp #fediverse

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The image displays a minimal graphic featuring a warm Sunday blessing. It contains the following text:"May your Sunday be filled with love, kindness, happiness, & good vibes. 💕"

i hope this message finds you well.

#mastodon #fediverse #silentsunday

When I Bookmark something, it's just for me.

When I Like something, it's just for me and the person who made the post.

When I boost something, it's because I want to share it with others.

There's no software in the background recording and evaluating my behavior so it can decide the best ads to show me, and what I should see or not see in my feed to increase my engagement.

It's pretty nice not being the product anymore and just enjoying the web again.

#Mastodon & #TwitterMigration FTW

RE: https://mastodon.social/@riverbirchtree/117099674446276439

You made it possible for @joynewacc to leave Gaza and study in Milan. Now you have the chance to reunite her with her sister.

What do you say, Fediverse?

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #fediverse #mastodon

You can search Mastodon for posts in specific languages using the operator "language:" followed by a language code. For example to search Mastodon for posts in French you would include language:fr in your search.

BUT... how do you know the language code to use? Well that's where this guide to Mastodon's language codes comes in handy:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/language-codes-used-by-mastodon

You don't need to memorise these, the idea is just to look up the specific language code you want from the list.

#FediTips #Mastodon

@randahl
A UX improvement proposal on Mastodon?
😮

VADE RETRO SATANA!

👿

#Mastodon

#FensterFreitag

In Gaza, there's nothing but rubble.

You look around, and all that fills your mind are painful memories.

I had a home there, and now I have no shelter.

💔💔

#Gaza #gazaverified #palestine #mastodon #freepalestine
#aphotoaday #photography #family #blackandwhitephotography

My experience so far with microblogging services:

Threads: I'm in a wrong party and don't know what to say. I feel awkward, everyone is so happy with their gym selfies. Everyone asking endless questions and asking things from the algorithm. Lots of people use it like Instagram, every post is a selfie with a meaningless caption. Some are copy-pasting the same sentence over and over again for each line. Endless quote-post memes... What the fuck is this shit I don't even...

Bluesky: A Twitter clone, but still very barebones. Notifications are still not working, there are no hashtags and I don't find any relevant content to me in any of the feeds. It's mostly Facebook-like what's up in life, furry scene and AI photos. No news, no tech/web scene, no nothing. Not to mention it's still invite-only and won't support ActivityPub (yeah I know the reasoning behind that but for me it's mostly bullshit, I look forward to trying bridgy fed).

Mastodon and the Fediverse: Here I'm at home on my own server. Most content, most features. A community is friendly but has also lots of nitpicking, some angry dudes. Still the most safest, most healthy and most customized, but somehow the most hated network elsewhere. "Too techie", they say. "Too difficult", they say. "No algorithm", they say.

Nostr: Kinda promising, but way too obscure, strange and even techier than Mastodon. Too much crypto shit.

Well, that's that. Sometimes I feel like Internet is ruined. But I believe in the open social web movement and I want to see this grow.

In no other place I can write a status update as freely as this, as long as this or with a low bar as this. I LIKE this 100%. The same can't be said in those other places I'm experimenting with out of curiosity. There I'm the weird kid. Here I feel like myself.

#Fediverse #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Bluesky #Threads #Some #Mastodon

If I could have just one feature implemented on #Mastodon it is this:

Whenever we create a multipost thread, Mastodon should display, that each post is part of this thread by adding thread numbers to each post, e.g 1/3, 2/3, 3/3.

I am a bit frustrated by having to add these manually, and if I don't, I get questions from my fellow Mastodonians, indicating they overlook that a post is part of a larger context.

It is not good that Metas commercial product Threads has this feature, and we don't.

🗨️ 👩🏽‍💻 By the way, #mastodon is full of Israelis in all sorts of guises ("Gestalt" is a German word, in case your moronic #US indoctrination #schools haven't enlightened you yet) #education #influencer #trending #topics #manipulation #freedomofspeech

Fight USA's virtual monoculture: There's more to this #world than the monosyllabic nature of dead #machinelanguage
#google

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I am talking with a journalist who has some really deep questions about the #Mastodon codebase. Their questions are now well beyond my depth.

Please PM me if you know the Mastodon codebase (specifically Mastodon, not other ActivityPub implementations) well and would like to go on the record with a journalist regarding technical details about the codebase.

BETTER HALF? #mastodon #fediverse #Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #catlovers #photo #photography #photos #photographie #animalphotography #pets #Friday

MY OLD BOY! 17 years YOUNG! #fediverse #mastodon #Cat #Cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #photo #photography #photos #photographie #photooftheday #photographer #pets #viral #seniorcat

THE INSEPARABLE DUO; OLD PAIRS YOUNG! #mastodon #fediverse #Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #catsofpixelfed #catlife #Catsky #photo #photography #photos #photographie #photooftheday #photographer #viral

RE: https://masto.nu/@greenyouthmovement/117084321531694730

Please donate any amount if unable,boost for your network such that potential people may donate.
Every single donation made,is a step towards getting land which will be training ground for both sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation as it will be providing enough harvests to donate
#crowdfunding #crowdfundrequest #Photography #Mastodon #Fediverse #Economy #food #climatemitigation #USA #donate #environment #agroecology #ecology #nature #NaturePhotography #solarpunksunday

DoomsdaysCW boosted

GREEN YOUTH MOVEMENT » 🌐 2026-08-12
@greenyouthmovement@masto.nu

We thank everyone who has been able to support our work to get more land where we can grow more food to feed more families.
We are at 4% and the biggest percentage remains uncovered and this means we need more donations than those that we have got.
Any amounted donated today,keeps us growing towards the goal
https://gofund.me/8da0ff4a0

#garden #gardening #sustainability #agriculture #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #climateemergency #Mastodon #Fediverse #linux #Photography #solarpunk

LET THE FRIDAY BEGIN! #mastodon #fediverse #fediart #mastoart #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #photo #photography #photos #photographie #photooftheday #photographer #Cat #Cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon #CatsOfFediverse #catsofpixelfed #pets

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A black and white photograph of a bearded man lying next to a mainecoon cat

If you add the "indexable" flag in your ActivityPub actor profile, which content search engines can index your content and show it in search results?

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#indexable

#EvanPoll #poll #ActivityPub #Mastodon #ContentSearch #Search

@me

Mastodon has always done what is best for #Mastodon. Over the years it has received lots and lots of criticism for that. I think the criticism was unwarranted. After all any #FOSS project is totally free to do what is best for it.

The problem is more that the 'fediverse community' if you can speak of that, and esp. the #ActivityPub developer community has let Mastodon get to where it is today, and insufficiently took its own path towards maturing the open standards and technology landscape. Leaving Mastodon forever in the driver's seat. Fediverse is now shaped in Mastodon's image, as a microblogging environment.

To this day #fediverse devs are super scared to break precious "Mastodon-compatibility", not showing the way to "Fediverse-compatibility". It is even unclear what "being part of the fediverse" even means, there's no consensus here.

Anyway, this is just a rant, but my rallying cry for making consolidation impossible is:

Back to open standards! 💪

https://coding.social/blog/grassroots-evolution

YOU’RE LOOKING
AT THE WRONG PARTS 💎

I sometimes wonder what people imagine is going on inside the life of someone with a visible disability.

I walk very strangely. My left arm doesn’t work at all. My hand is contracted into a claw. I do everything one-handed, and that clearly wasn’t covered in this model’s original operating instructions.

From the outside, I suspect it can look like a life dominated by disability.

“Poor bugger.” “What a tragedy.” “Everything must be so difficult?”

Meanwhile, inside my actual life, I’m usually wondering whether the coffee is ready, what ridiculous thing I can write on Mastodon, whether the dogs have been fed, or why everyone on the internet has suddenly gone mad again.

The disability is there, obviously. I cannot drive, and there are many things I cannot do unaided. Other things just take longer, because much of the world appears to have been designed by someone who assumed every human comes with two fully operational hands.

And most people are remarkably unhelpful.

That sounds like a complaint, but it has an unexpected benefit. If you’re disabled, you become bloody good at finding another way. You have to.

Eventually, you stop wondering how something is supposed to be done and work out how you can do it.

That doesn’t make accessibility unnecessary. Quite the opposite. But disabled people often become extremely skilled at adapting because the world gives us plenty of practice.

Disability is not the central event of my consciousness.

I don’t wake up thinking, “Good morning. I am disabled.”

I wake up thinking, “Coffee.”

Most of the time, I’m not experiencing myself as a tragic medical story. I’m just living.

I’ve had decades to become extremely competent at being this particular slightly damaged model of human being. Sometimes other people seem considerably more concerned about my disability than I am.

It’s sweet.

But unnecessary.

The odd thing about a visible disability is that people often see what doesn’t work before they notice the enormous amount that does.

And from inside here?

It’s mostly just Friday.
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@DigitalCoup
#Fediverse #OpenWeb #BigTech
@economics_that_works
#Economics #Housing #CostOfLiving
@meditation
#Meditation #Breathwork

#Disability #DisabledLife #Accessibility #Hemiplegia #Stroke #Life #coffee #human #medical #instructions #tragedy #Mastodon