Ohai.social is a fast, secure and up-to-date general Mastodon server where everyone is welcome.
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I have a mastodon question for people more into activitypub than I am:
Is there any project where you can host your own instance of something that's *like* old deviantart, but also activitypub compatible?
So like, the ability to follow and be followed, plus uploading images, but also a customisable gallery of those images, and customisable homepage for users?
Just thought you Fedi folk would like to see what they're saying at the other place, now that Bsky's CEO had a public crash out.
#Mastodon #FediVerse #BlueSky
Two Fediverse clients I like are Elk and Phanpy, but both had the same issue: the inability to filter "replies" and "boosts" from the timeline. For me this is essential. I can't keep up with my timeline, and if I also see replies to posts unrelated to what I follow, it just becomes chaos. So I tried to implement these filters and opened a PR.
The Elk developers have already merged it into the main branch, so we should soon see the two hide options appear in Elk. Hopefully the same will happen in Phanpy as well, because this greatly improves the experience on two excellent Fediverse tools, which are also compatible with snac.
https://github.com/elk-zone/elk/pull/3482
Mountains.social is a Mastodon server focusing on hiking, mountaineering, climbing, backpacking and the outdoors.
This server has a post size of up to 2362 characters.
You can find out more at https://mountains.social/about or contact the admin @bergmeister
#FeaturedServer #Mountains #Climbing #Mountaineering #Hiking #Backpacking #Outdoors #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
The realization has been dawning on me that social media "is not real life".
* Governments would greatly benefit from running social media bots -- so, expect their presence.
* Most social media shows you what it thinks you want to see, not what's common -- on those sites (not #Mastodon, thankfully!), expect integrated bias.
This means that:
*You can't safely get a idea of what people think or what's going on in the world by looking at social media.*
Datasci.social is a Mastodon server for researchers & practitioners in human-centric data science, including network science, social data science, computational social science, geospatial data science etc.
You can find out more at https://datasci.social/about or contact the admin @mszll
#FeaturedServer #DataScience #DataSci #NetworkScience #SocialDataScience #Geospatial #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Is anyone still running a copy of the "Mastodon Users" bot?
@usercount, @mastodonusercount, and @mastodonusercount@lou.lt have stopped posting, and the server @mastodonusercount@bitcoinhackers.org was on has shut down.
⚠️⚠️👻 ⚠️⚠️
WAKE UP EVERYONE we got a new masto.nyc banner that just dropped- Halloween edition! 🎃
Credit as always goes to @MK (now on the fediverse!) for the awesome work!
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Meine IT Datenschutz Liste für alle !! 
(mit einer kleinen änderung im Rahmen des 39C3 )
auch als PDF:
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/OvG6JWXMQCU9sxYIZDwam2TC
( Transparenz:
Ich bin beruflich kein IT Mensch, diese Liste war ursprünglich für ,, La famiglia ,,
und stellt nur ein HobbyProjekt da, mir sind die Themen aber wichtig, daher Teile Ich Meine Informationen gerne mit euch )
#Datenschutz
#Privatsphäre
#Sicherheit
#Verschlüsselung
#Chatkontrolle
#Linux
#Windows
#Windows10
#Endof10
#Windows11
#Betriebssystem
#Supportende
#Gaming
#Browser
#Firefox
#Fediverse
#Mastodon
#Suchmaschine
#Passwortmanager
#Informationssicherheit
#YouTube
#Werbeblocker
#2FA
#eMail
#Messenger
#UnplugTrump
#UnplugBigtech
#BigTech
#AI
#GraniteAct
#CloudAct #Fisa
#Meta
#Facebook
#TikTok
#Instagram
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🐘 Nový web Mamutovo.cz je online!
@cynik_obecny připravil přehlednou stránku 👉 https://about.mamutovo.cz , kde najdete informace o instanci Mamutovo.cz, odkazy na služby, kontakty a první návody pro uživatele.
🌱 Web vzniká jako komunitní projekt propojený s Oscloudem a bude se dál rozšiřovat — přibydou další tipy, návody a zajímavosti ze svět #fediverse .
📣 Pomozte nám o Mamutovu dát vědět! Sdílejte odkaz dál, ať se o naší komunitě dozví co nejvíce lidí.
Každé zmínění, boost nebo odkaz na web pomůže. 💚
"We believe that these kinds of user-generated, curated collections could help people to find their tribe more quickly when they join the Fediverse.
At the same time, envisioning a similar feature that prioritises user consent, and works across a constellation of independent servers, is no small feat."
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/
DJs.social is a Mastodon server for DJs of any kind, be it in the club, radio, mobile sound-systems, livestreaming etc.
You can find out more at https://djs.social/about or contact the admin @luka
#FeaturedServer #DJs #DJ #DiscJockey #Clubbing #Radio #SoundSystem #Livestreaming #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
The new #Mastodon team is starting to hit its stride! We're about to ship Quote Posts in 4.5 and our next release (4.6) will have (Starter)Packs (name tdb). It's fun to see our momentum building!
We reviewed the design today at #FediForum and the FEP is available for public feedback.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/
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Meine IT sicherheitsListe Oktober 2025
für alle !! 👍 💻
auch als PDF Datei:
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/2bQv3BySx8ecs9VfE4QlqnDZ/
#Datenschutz
#Privatsphäre
#Sicherheit
#Verschlüsselung
#Chatkontrolle
#Linux
#Windows
#Betriebssystem
#Gaming
#Browser
#Fediverse
#Mastodon
#Suchmaschine
#Passwortmanager
#YouTube
#Werbeblocker
#Werbung
#2FA
#eMail
#Messenger
#UnplugTrump
#UnplugBigtech
#BigTech
#Meta
#Facebook
#TikTok
The year is almost ending.. I ask myself if I could still keep up a fight for 2026. 💔
I'm on the verge of breaking down again coz I might move-out to another apartment, (if I could look & find a petfriendly & cheap boardinghouse) 😔 which is hard & difficult to find these days😓
But anyways sorry for being so negative guys.. i hope you all have a good #SilentSunday 🫂
#Fediverse #Mastodon
HELLO PEOPLE OF #Mastodon & #Fediverse PLEASE I NEED UR HELP. 🫂😔😭
PLS I DONT WANT TO LOSE MY APARTMENT BACK AGAIN.
HELP ME OUT 🙏🫂
$285/$0
Looking for testers for a new Mastodon TUI.
tooi is a re-implementation of the TUI included with toot, using a more modern framework which is easier to work with. It supports most features `toot tui` does, and some new ones too.
tooi is set to replace `toot tui` which has proven to be troublesome to support and extend.
I'm thrilled about the launch of @altstore's support for ActivityPub. Welcome to the fediverse!
This integration will enable you to follow updates from your favorite apps and their developers right here on your fediverse timeline.
You can see their server's local timeline here, to get an idea of what that looks like: https://explore.alt.store/public/local
To me, this represents an innovative and exciting new way to spread the social web to new and different kinds of apps and services. What should we make social next??
And a heartfelt thank you from the @Mastodon team to AltStore for their generous donation 💞
Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕?
Mein letztes #Schaubild in 2025 behandelt die Gefahren von Konzern - #Neurohacking für den zwischenmenschlichen #Dialog.
Es basiert auf meinem KIT-Reader von letztem Jahr mit einem #Mastodon - Eingangszitat von @afelia (S. 7): „Was uns wirklich die #Demokratie kosten wird, ist die #Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie.“
Als besserer Weg wird das nicht-kommerzielle #Fediversum vorgestellt.
Die Textquelle als pdf hier: https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/files/2024-12-01-KITDigitaleAufmerksamkeitsoekonomieEthikBlumeWS2425.pdf
The why and how of backing up your Mastodon data
Why this matters
Recently, the admin of a relatively prominent Mastodon¹ server, med-mastodon.com, decided to stop maintaining the server and shut it down without warning. This is, generally speaking, a terrible thing to do, but I will give the admin the benefit of the doubt and assume that he had some very good reason why he needed to shutdown without giving his users time to export their data or migrate their account to a new server (though as far as I’ve seen he hasn’t shared any such explanation).
Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time this has happened, and it won’t be the last. Even servers whose admins have agreed to follow the Mastodon Server Covenant, which among other things requires server admins to commit to giving users at least 3 months’ warning before shutting down, occasionally go belly-up without warning.
This could happen to your server at any time. Your server admins may be great people, but shit happens. Not only that, but your server’s admins or moderators could decide at any time to suspend or delete your account.
Some people protect themselves from this by self-hosting their own server. That has advantages, but it also has disadvantages, including time and money costs, and so it’s not for everyone. If you’re not interested in self-hosting, but you also don’t want to run the risk of suddenly losing all your Mastodon data, then you should be backing up your data on a regular basis.
How to back stuff up
The most important thing to back up is the list of who you follow; fortunately that’s also the easiest. In the Mastodon web app, go to Preferences, then click “Import and Export” on the left, and click “CSV” to the right of “Follows”.
There you can also download your lists, muted and blocked people and domains, and bookmarks. All of those can be imported into a different Mastodon server using the “Import” page linked on the left.
Set up a reminder to back up this stuff regularly!
The next thing to back up is posts and uploads. If you consider social media transient, you may not care about this, but otherwise, you can periodically click the “Request your archive” button on the export page. You’ll receive a notification when the archive is ready to download.
Note that unlike the CSV files, your posts and media are not easy to upload into a new server. Unless you want to jump through some hoops (see below), you’re just downloading them for reference.
If you’re paying attention, you may have noticed that there’s something important missing above: what about your followers? Can those be backed up? Alas, it’s not easy.
The way it’s supposed to work is when you decide you want to migrate to a new account, you configure your old account to tell your followers automatically what your new account is, and their accounts follow your new account automatically. But obviously, that doesn’t work if your old server goes away with no notice!
I’m not aware of any web tools for backing up your followers (if you know of any, post a reply!), so if this is something you care about, you’re going to need to resort to the command line. Command-line tools that support exporting followers from your server include:
If you’re so inclined, you could also write code to do the export yourself; Mastodon has a rich, well-documented API.
Note that mastodon-archive also supports backing up a bunch of other stuff, so you could use it to set up periodic automated backups of all the data listed above, rather than just followers. Personally, I have mastodon-archive backing up my data automatically every night.
The toot utility mentioned above also supports downloading followed hashtags (“toot tags followed“), which you may also want to back up if following hashtags is a significant part of how you use the fediverse.
What to do with the backed-up data
You pretty much can’t import your old posts
The bad news first: there is no good way to migrate your posts from one server to another. This isn’t just true if the old server goes away; there’s also no good way to copy posts from an existing server to a new one. People have been asking for this for many years but apparently it has not been enough of a priority for the Mastodon developers to implement it.
There’s at least one early-stage effort to build this functionality, and somebody has written a clever tool that server admins can use to do it as long as the old account is still available, but neither of these is a robust general-purpose solution.
You can still browse your exported data, look at the posts in a text editor, write your own code to do stuff with the data, etc. Furthermore. There are a number of tools for viewing and searching through your exported post archive.
How to get your followers back
If your account wasn’t migrated automatically because it disappeared out from under you, then assuming you’ve archived your followers as described above, you’re going to need to reach out to them one by one, let them know what your new account is, and ask them to follow you again.
(If you’re in online fediverse communities where people know you, you can also make a public post about your new account and ask people you know in those communities to boost it. You may need to do this several times to catch everybody, and you might still miss some people.)
If you have a lot of followers, then sending a bunch of DMs one by one to all of them will probably be a drag. You could automate it with toot, but be careful of running afoul of your server’s posting limits; you may get throttled if you post too many DMs too quickly.
Also, keep in mind that some people don’t read DMs at all, or don’t read DMs from people they don’t follow, so everyone may not see your messages asking for them to follow you again.
Restoring followed hashtags
You can use the toot utility (“toot tags follow hashtag“) to restore the followed hashtags from the list you previously exported with toot. Or if there aren’t too many you can just search for them by hand in the web app and then follow them.
Everything else, you can import
The import page in the web app’s preferences can be used to import the CSVs exported from the export page. If you used mastodon-archive or toot or whatever to export the data instead, then you can manually construct a CSV in the correct format for import.
¹This article focuses on Mastodon for clarity, but much of what is written here is applicable to any type of fediverse server.
#fediverse #Mastodon
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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.
Welcome to the fediverse family, AltStore!
Posted on the #blog:
It’s cool that #Mastodon is intentionally working on technical design concepts for #Fediverse “starter packs” and seeking user feedback. 👏
I have a very specific opinion about this, so I emailed the following to their feedback address. I wonder if you’ve suffered the same issue I have in dealing with starter packs on, ahem, some other network! 😅
https://jaredwhite.com/links/20251008/mastodon-starter-packs
Raphus.social is a safe and inclusive Mastodon server for open minded people interested in technology, open source, games, and other general geekery. (In case you are wondering, Raphus is the Latin for the dodo bird.)
This server has a post size of up to 1024 characters.
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