I was really excited for the #Fediverse in 2024 and I think that feeling has borne out. Projects have released or started in earnest but so did the influenze of facebook, a long-term genocide and queer violence supporter who have this week changed their terms to expressly permit queerphobic and other vicious harms.
#Pixelfed is getting talked about on TikTok as an alternative to #Instagram.
Almost every video about it has people in the comments saying "Why do I have to pick a server? What does that mean?"
Either people are just dumb beyond help, or we need to do better at onboarding people to the #fediverse.
Edit: I love the ideas and discussions this post is stirring up!
⭐️ Spotlight ⭐️
This week in our Community tab, we've featured these inspiring voices from the fediverse, including experts on everything from British history to the NFL.
@greg_jenner
@Julia
@kateaconger
@noahshachtman
@rkrelentless
@profgalloway
On Flipboard, you can follow interesting topics, trusted content creators, prestige publishers and people from the fediverse.
Download the app here: https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/
Most Fediverse communities operate on donations, and overall our survey participants are not generating enough money to cover costs.
Very few moderators are receiving any compensation for their labour.
This is your reminder to donate to your admin if you’re able to.
Hello #Fediverse! 
I’m here (again) after some time on #Bluesky.
I’ll mainly be over there, but I will poke around here occasionally. 
#Fediverse currently: "Are you a brave dev? Yes, then go for it and hack & slash something together that with luck becomes modestly successful. And enjoy your thing, you lucky bastard" 😅
Fedi must become a heterogeneous interoperable social network where service development is way easier, more inclusive, where services compose / orchestrate / choreograph into solutions that serve people's needs. Add missing social layers full of building blocks, to this technosphere techstack we currently have.
Introducing #BotKit: A #TypeScript framework for creating truly standalone #ActivityPub bots!
Unlike traditional Mastodon bots, BotKit lets you build fully independent #fediverse bots that aren't constrained by platform limits. Create your entire bot in a single TypeScript file using our simple, expressive API.
Currently #Deno-only, with Node.js & Bun support planned. Built on the robust @fedify foundation.
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.12 👩🚀
"Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 2)"
mentioning: @alttexthalloffame @Gargron @FediTips @ivory @IceCubesApp @Tusky @Simx72 @phanpy @jon @mathi_gwithyas @rysiek
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #accessibility #AltText #CW #ContentWarnings #Phanpy #Ivory #Tusky #Mastodon #IceCubes
Skastodon is a Mastodon server for ska musicians, artists, fans, and anyone else in the ska community. We welcome everyone from the ska, punk, reggae, rocksteady, new wave, or other related music fandoms.
You can find out more at https://skastodon.com/about or contact the admins @skastodon & @BrianTransplant
#FeaturedServer #Ska #SkaMusic #Reggae #Rocksteady #Punk #NewWave #Music #Musicians #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Forward-thinking journalists are not letting the “media apocalypse” happen to them. Instead, they’re doing the work that arguably has been most critical all along: building direct connections with their readers. @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler and @ProPublica's @ben join fediverse futurist @mike for a conversation about the discovery and sustainability of quality journalism.
Read more about the episode here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/
Watch and listen at PeerTube here: https://flipboard.video/w/r7z6QY3dm5EqrFmDFkAgPY, or wherever you get your podcasts.
#DotSocial #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #MikeMcCue #SocialMedia #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #ProPublica #404Media
Hello #fediverse - this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 38F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.
The Trump administration slapped #tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China; Mexico has reached a deal to delay them.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's now acting director of USAID, an agency Elon Musk targeted for closure.
Bankrupt hospital chain #Steward is demanding a Mass. food security program give back $100k the company gave them.
Someone asks, “Does the #Fediverse have a #Soundcloud equivalent?”
Yes, there is: #Funkwhale.
Not a whole lot of people use it yet, so give it some love. Or better yet, set up a server if you can so that other people can enjoy it.
https://www.funkwhale.audio/
RE: https://vickerson.me/users/josh/statuses/113858759248045940
This account blocks "Mastodon.Social"
Lack of responsibility by the moderator and the prevalence of spam & hostile accounts and the practice of bad actors makes the instance, as a whole, a threat to other servers and their users on the #fediverse .
Is there an analog for #researchgate in the #Fediverse?
In a way, https://bookwyrm.social/ comes close to this. Bibliometric information like the number of citations might be taken from different sources like #openalex and #wikidata.
Good morning everyone. I hope you all are doing well. Please im really sorry for asking you all for help.. I dont have anyone else to turn to. I dont have relatives and Im living just with my cats.
Please I really need some help just for some basicneeds like catfoood,Drinking water etc. Please anything would be a big help. Thank you so much🥺💖 Please kindlt boost & support if you can 😢🙏🏻
#Fediverse #Mastodon #MutualAid #kindnessmatters #silentsunday #today
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Hey #Fediverse.
If you are using the @surf beta, I’d like get some feedback over the next few hours from y’all. Tell me what you like, what you don’t like. What features you’d like to see added, changed, etc.
Just reply to post with your feedback.
Reason I’m asking is, I have a feedback meeting with @marci and the Surf team.
Datasci.social is a Mastodon server for nice and diverse people who are researching human-centric data science and adjacent topics such as human-centric network science, social data science, urban/geospatial data science, computational social science.
You can find out more at https://datasci.social/about or contact the admin @mszll
#FeaturedServer #DataScience #NetworkScience #Geospatial #SocialScience #Science #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Look, I don't know how to quality-check #fediverse servers & stuff, so take this with whatever quantity of salt makes sense to you - but if you're any kind of #maker & looking for a Fedi video home, there's a place specifically intended for that: @MakerTube 😊
You can read about the instance here 👉 https://makertube.net/about/instance #peertube
To all of those people running, moderating, and maintaining #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, and other #Fediverse instances, no matter how small:
Thank you 
New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 100 (!)
This week's news:
- massive growth for @pixelfed, growing from 20k active users last month to almost 200k active users currently.
- @nodebb has officially launched their #activitypub integration
- Meta will not commit or confirm a timeline for adding account migration to #threads
Thank you to everyone for reading and supporting 100 editions of Last Week in Fediverse!
Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-100/
If you are a #fediverse admin running libraries on #Fedify keep an eye on this: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23221
The free open source forum software NodeBB is now part of the Fediverse. You can now follow and interact with members of NodeBB-powered forums from other Fediverse servers.
For example, their co-founder's account on NodeBB is @julian and you can interact with them from Mastodon etc.
You can follow the latest news about NodeBB at:
➡️ @nodebb
Their official website is at:
If you want technical details see the documentation at:
🌐 The Fediverse is meeting IRL!
FediCon — August 1 & 2 in Vancouver 🇨🇦
Want in? Join the early bird list:
See you there?
#FediCon #Fediverse #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #SocialWeb #DeSo #FeSo #LoSo
Meine Datenschutz und Privatsphäre Übersicht 2025, für die Allgemeinheit 🕵️♂️
Teilen natürlich erbeten ‼️ 
#DSGVO #TDDDG #Datenschutz #Privatsphäre #sicherheit #Verschlüsselung
#encryption #WEtell #SoloKey #NitroKey #Email #Cybersecurity #Pixelfed #Massenűberwachung #Sicherheitspaket
#Google #Metadaten #WhatsApp #Threema #Cryptpad #Signal
#Hateaid #Cyberstalking #Messenger #Browser #Youtube #NewPipe #Chatkontrolle #nichtszuverbergen #ÜberwachungsKapitalismus #Microsoft #Appel #Windows #Linux #Matrix #Mastodon #Friendica #Fediverse #Mastodir #Loops #2FA #Ransomware #Foss #VeraCrypt #HateAid #Coreboot #Volksverpetzer #Netzpolitik #Digitalisierung #FragdenStaat #Shiftphone #OpenSource #GrapheneOS #CCC #Mail #Mullvad #PGP #GnuPG #DNS #Gaming #linuxgaming #Lutris #Protondb #eOS #Enshittification
#Bloatware #TPM #Murena #LiberaPay #GnuTaler #Taler #PreppingforFuture
#FediLZ #BlueLZ #InstaLZ #ThreatModel
#FLOSS #UEFI #Medienkompetenz
auch als PDF:
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/ZWgOiNJnLh7v33Sax11aevTg/
