Oh, you're posting "news"? "News" that consists of:

- the most hyperbolic language in the world ever. Ever!
- SHOUTY CAPS
- exclamation marks!!!!!
- all of the above, on a monetized platform that rewards hyperbole, outrage & exclamation

Yeah, no thanks.

#SocialMedia #News #Fediverse

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benpate/116416165885691153

#E2EE is coming to the #Fediverse. Every effort will be made for #Fedilab to be among the first Android clients to support it. Not as a spectator but as an actor, thanks to the beta testers who make early iterations possible. Be ready.

Fedilab Apps boosted

Ben Pate 🤘🏻 » 🌐 2026-04-16
@benpate@mastodon.social

RE: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/116416045056891863

ZOMG! #E2EE news on the Fediverse keeps getting better

The @HolosSocial team is planning to implement the same encryption standard as Mastodon, Bonfire, and Emissary.

When it lands, truly private messages should interoperate between all four platforms. This is an _absolute_win_ for open platforms and open APIs.

#Fedle source code is now available on #Codeberg.

https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedle

It is a daily word game for the #Fediverse that currently supports English and French.

I added a small doc explaining how to submit a new language, which will be automated by a bot once validated.

See
https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedle/src/branch/main/ADD_LANGUAGE.md

Fedle is really new in the Fediverse but you're more than welcome to join the game. Keep sharing :)

Main account: @Fedle

My tiny brain has yet to have been convinced that AI hype is a good thing for the environment, projects it gets foisted upon, creativity, or the human psyche.

Large language models on all corporate levels destroy everything around them.

I've done extensive research; it's so horrific that if crying about it would revert things I would have cried the Amazone river full.

LLMs as companions are bad news for the human Psyche. I have contact with a few victims of these LLMs who would rather {talk to} send strings to a mathematical model then speak to a real person. Serious pshychiatirc intervention is needed

I am going to find out also why massive projects, massive open source projects seem not to care about:

• the wasteland that those LLM driven data centers create
• the fact that we cannot buy
• memory
• ssds
• mechanical spinning hard drives
• full computing and household devices

... for nomal prices, because those critical components have been hijacked by data center underlords who can't even get enough permissions to build all those projects in reality

Part of it we all know, it's the LLM bubble, just like the house bubble in the USA some decades ago. Other part is that those underlords dont want us to owe our hardware anymore, so they can tighten their fascistic lock on the computing population.
Look how they want to force even open source OS to age gate the systems so they can get real ID globally

And I enjoy doing things the hard way

I've always done my projects from the bottom up, Linux when many sources needed to be crosscompiled in the alpha days from DOS, which was fun but tedious.
All current BSD flavours can be done that way too, if you still chose to do so, IIRC

Thank you for your enlightning response

@RussSharek

sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

#LLM #AI #slop #miscreant #hallucinated #kernel #curl #Linux #BSD #investation #StopSlop #noAI #keepass #FediVerse #copilot #GitHub #Bull #kaka

I'm toying with the idea of creating a new #blog but something that is super simple and almost like a daily #journal as means to redirect my posts/usage of #facebook. 📱

I have a very built out website on wordpress already and happy to let it keep exisiting in it's present form. 🖥️

What does the #fediverse suggest as a nice platform that I could create something new on for #blogging ? 🤔

I like the early internet vibes rather than the new overly commercial looking stuff.👍

I always ask similar questions like the following,

What will you do when you discover that the kernel of your favorite Operating System now gets programming assistance in any form of a power guzzling ocean warming large language model?

Will you fork the kernel yourself? Do you have the programming capability

There are a lot of folk who are pissed off at Linus Torvalds, for allowing some of his maintainers to use large language models to assist in finding bugs.

The Head Programmer of the fantastic and Beautiful curl also uses a large language model in some form, to hunt for bugs, because both he and Greg from the Linux kernel, saw that the LLM used on GitHub is now suddenly much better at finding those pesky bugs.

Mind you, the only LLM I like is the one that runs locally on my low powered Android phone. That's a micro LLM

Thanks in advance for your response

@RussSharek

https://github.com/stevelaskaridis/awesome-mobile-llm

#LLM #AI #slop #miscreant #hallucinated #kernel #curl #Linux #BSD #investation #StopSlop #noAI #keepass #FediVerse #copilot #GitHub #Bull #kaka

Okay #fediverse! Your boy needs a new #ThinkPad to install #Linux onto. I want to hear your recommendations. It should be decently modern.

Mandatory minimum:

• CPU: Any decently modern AMD or Intel is fine.
• RAM: 16GB DDR4
• Storage: 512GB NVME SSD
• Display: IPS panel, sRGB @ 60 Hz
• Display resolution: 2560 × 1440
• GPU: Output 1440p resolution and be able to drive online video at 60 fps.
• Connectivity: HDMI, USB-A, USB-C, WiFi 6, Bluetooth

Optional extras:

• Fingerprint reader
• Card reader
• 4G/LTE modem

Maintenance

Upgrading to Mastodon v4.5.9 - might have an intermittent reboot shortly. Sorry about the inconvenience and thank you for bearing with us as always.

#MastoAdmin #OpenBSD #Fediverse #Hackers

I've read it several places, and heard it in YouTube videos, etc., that people don't understand domain names that don't end in dot com/org/net, etc.

I think the existence of the Fediverse disproves that notion.

#TopLevelDomains #Domains #Fediverse

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116398792971354243

#Fedle is now in testing!

A daily word guessing game played directly on the #Fediverse, inspired by #Wordle / #Sutom. Guess the word in 6 attempts, challenge with other instances.

Follow the bot to play:

FR: @Fedle_fr
EN: @Fedle_en

More info: https://fedle.fedilab.app

Still in early testing, so feedback and bug reports welcome! Boosts appreciated. Thank you

Fedilab Apps » 🌐 2026-04-13
@apps@toot.fedilab.app

I have been working on the fediverse word game. It now has a name: #Fedidle (fedi + riddle).

How a day will look:

12:00 UTC: bot posts the word to guess (followers only for better moderation and spoiler prevention)
11:55 UTC next day: game ends, bot posts public results

No time pressure. Play whenever you want. Just finish before 11:55 UTC the next day.

(1/6)

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Screenshot of a Fedle game in progress on Mastodon. The french bot @Fedle_fr displays attempt 2 of 6 with colored letter tiles: green for correct position, yellow for misplaced, and gray for absent. Two guesses are shown: ABSCISSES and ABAISSAIT. 4 attempts remaining.

Hi my name is Lina. I am a 19 years old girl from Canada who loves anime and Animations. I love Pokemon and my favourite is Eevee.

I am a person who hate AI generated content and any autoboosting bots. I am asexual ​​ also I am autistic ​​ and ADHD ​​

#introduction #fediverse #community

What if fediverse instances battled each other in a daily word game?

A bot posts a word to guess. You reply privately. Only real dictionary words accepted. End of day: instances ranked by average score, not size. A tiny instance can top the leaderboard.

Words come from player suggestions. First-try guesses carry less weight to keep it fair.

English only first.

#Fediverse #FLOSS #Wordle

#HolosDiscover will use the "web+ap" scheme to let #Fediverse apps open posts natively. If no app handles it, the link falls back to the browser. #Fedilab already supports this scheme. Any app developer can add support for it too.

Previously: https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issues/5027

Moved to: https://codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/issues/5027

Please boost this poll, I'm doing a serious survey.

Does Yuri impact code quality?

Again, I'm being serious.

(For anyone not aware of Yuri, which I highly doubt since we're on Fedi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_(genre))

#Yuri #Programming #Tech #Technology #Coding #Fediverse

A full fediverse instance running on a simple shared host, in pure PHP, with no external dependencies. That is the idea behind Starling:
https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling/

#fediverse #activitypub #php #opensource

technically not a proper #Introduction, i already have post regarding that but this should have new peeps get to know me better, if you want a proper intro post: https://mastodon.social/@mrmasterkeyboard/116198403588876557

alright, nerdnextdoor's two truths and a lie.

which one is the lie?

#Fun #Fediverse #Mastodon

This is the #Fediverse. Connect with people you like. Block, mute, ignore the people you don’t want in your timeline. You decide. It’s your timeline. Welcome. Enjoy. Do your part. We can build better places, free of algorithms and influencers abusing those centralised methods.

https://makertube.net/w/8JXHYUMhfbHmRHejy5Hux8

git.sr.ht is unstable, builds may have been cancelled, and chat.sr.ht is also impacted.

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2026-04-06-ddos-attack/

#sourcehut #devops #fediverse #opensource

#OverUnder 060 with @eclecticpassions.

Today, she shares her thoughts on the #Indieweb, #terminals, #linux #mint, #perfectionism, #cookies.

She also replied to @rysiek's question.

She also suggested two #books like all the guests.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #opensource #bloggers #mastodon #Desserts #privacy

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-060

EDIT: Thread where this occurred: https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/116306052774186536

Fedi friend of mine @kkarhan@infosec.space got his account suspended because the admin of that instance is an absolute jackass, gave him 7 days to move instances before he suspended him for no reason.

Please, go show him support and follow his new account at @kkarhan@jorts.horse, he's an awesome guy to follow!!

(Also, this should be obvious but do not harass the admin of the infosec instance.)

#Fediverse

This is how I toot.

(Amiga World magazine, March 1988)

#Mastodon #Fediverse

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A soft-toned editorial illustration showing a person standing in a dark room beside a desk with a vintage PC and keyboard, shouting into the space through a megaphone filled with scattered 3.5-inch floppy disks floating like stars in a night sky.

When my posts federate between #Mastodon servers on the #fediverse.

UNIX Review, May 1985.

#UNIX

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Two silhouetted businessmen with computer monitors for heads shaking hands against a layered pink and purple geometric backdrop, briefcases at their sides.

How #BlueSky users describe what using #Mastodon and the #Fediverse is like.

UNIX World, Sept. 1985.

#UNIX #RetroComputing

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A vintage print advertisement for Celerity Computing's C1200 workstation, headlined "Tomorrow's Engineering Tool — Today." Features photos of the beige computer system with a color monitor displaying a 3D CAD rendering of a satellite dish, alongside a person using the keyboard. Body copy touts UNIX 4.2 BSD, 32-bit architecture, and 2.3 million Whetstones/second performance. Contact information for offices in San Diego, Framingham, Houston, Farmington Hills, Woodland Hills, and Santa Clara.

If you ever find yourself curious about the #mastodon reporting process, this is still the most in-depth description of it, start-to-finish, that I've ever come across:

https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2024/09/01/hachyderms-introduction-to-mastodon-moderation-the-report-feature-and-moderator-actions/

includes:
what do the local mods/admins see?
what do the remote mods/admins see if I choose to forward my report there as well?
what does a #moderation queue look like?

(note, this article is from 2024, so it is possible this may look slightly different on newer versions of mastodon)

#meta #fediverse

Hey #Fediverse! See you all at the 1985 California Computer Show.

#UNIX #RetroComputing

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Advertisement for the California Computer Show, May 14th–15th, 1985, 12:00pm–6:00pm, at the Palo Alto Hyatt Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California. "California Computer Show" is written in large pink cursive script with drop shadows over a gray grid pattern. Tagline at the bottom reads: "Northern California's only TWO-DAY event dedicated exclusively to OEMs and sophisticated end users."

When someone asks me what the #Fediverse, #Mastodon or #ActivityPub is I'll use this illustration from UNIX Review, April 1985.

#UNIX

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Illustration showing multiple beige desktop computers floating among clouds in an open sky, connected to each other by thin golden lines forming a network, with one large computer in the foreground emitting a burst of colorful rainbow light rays from its screen.

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a crow it came up that she has never been sat on by a cat. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never been sat on by a cat.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on by a cat.

🐈🐈‍⬛🐱

Have you ever been sat on by a cat?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

Okay #fediverse hit me: I want to juice my personal site/blog and get it away from Wordpress. What are your favourite fedi-connected frameworks/platforms? Self hosting preferred. #blog #indieweb

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.

🏇 🐎 🐴

Have you sat on a horse?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

OpenBSD wasn't able to run snac stable on this machine, it crashed after a few requests with "illegal instruction".

#snac #snac2 #fediverse #activitypub #NetBSD #OpenBSD #retrocomputing #retroserver #retrohardware #pentiumii #pentium2 #oldhardware

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Open 19" 90's rack Case with a green motherboard in it and old grey ribbon cables connected to a dvd drive and a ssd. there are two addon cards in the pci slots and two slot 1 pentium ii cpus with fans installed. The 4:3 screen shows a fastfetch output giving stats of the machine , an htop screen with two cpu usage graphs and snac log

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green motherboard with two pentium ii slot 1 cpus

The time is probably right.

Back in 2022, when I was still using iOS, I wasn’t completely happy with the Fediverse apps that were available. I was mostly using Akkoma, and the interface I liked the most was actually its web UI, even on mobile. So I started playing with Xcode and put together the foundations of an app tailored to my needs.

A lot has changed since then and today we have great alternatives like IceCubes, Mona, Ivory, etc. Each one has strengths and weaknesses though, so I picked up my old project again and kept pushing it forward.

So I’m happy to announce that my app will finally see the light: I’ve been using it for the past few days and, in my spare time, I’m fixing bugs and adding missing features. I’m building it around my own needs, so it doesn’t have to “appeal to everyone”. I wouldn’t call it opinionated, but it’s definitely targeted.

The app will have one key trait: #snac2 support will be a first-class feature, not an incidental one. Many apps, especially on iOS, support snac as a side effect, but the experience is often not optimal. In this case, the choice is deliberate and it strictly follows the Mastodon API support implemented by snac. So snac will work properly (within the limits of the platform, of course).

Among the features already implemented: the app is minimal and lightweight (under 10 MB, including debug code), easy on RAM, and privacy-first (for example it strips EXIF data from media before posting, so the server will never see it). On snac it also cleans up the "Boosted by Aoderelay" messages that appear when using a relay, removes the character limit, and supports posting in Markdown.

I also added support for Apple Intelligence to generate alt text, both for the media I post and for media posted by others that is missing alt text.

Everything is processed locally through Apple APIs and only on supported devices. The results aren't amazing, Apple Intelligence is extremely limited, but in my opinion it's the only privacy-friendly and ethical way to approach it. And of course, you can disable it.

On Mastodon it supports all the main features: lists, quote posts, granular notifications (you can choose what you want for each category), notification grouping, multi-account support, and it works.

It's still missing a few things (block, etc.) and has some bugs, which I’m spotting as I keep using it.
As soon as it's stable enough, I'll invite a few people to test it. I still haven't fully decided how I'll distribute it: an Apple Developer account has a yearly cost, and I hope to reuse it for other projects too. So this app might be paid, with a trial period, but if possible (I still need to check what’s feasible) I'd like it to be free if you connect to one of the BSD Cafe instances, illumos Cafe, or any snac instance, including your own.

I don't know how long it will take before it's ready... but I can already tell you what it will be called.
It already has a name, and it's... MastoBlaster.

This name was chosen for personal reasons, and also because of its similarity to Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder, which even today feels relevant and fitting for the Fediverse.

Stay tuned!

#MastoBlaster #Fediverse #Mastodon #iOS #FediverseApp #Announcement #Apple #snac #snac2 #BSDCafe #illumosCafe

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MastoBlaster, showing my profile on my phone