To people who love publishing pictures and videos, #HolosSocial allows you to connect your S3 or WebDAV cloud so your media are served directly from your own storage across the Fediverse.
As a direct consequence, there is no size limit and videos are automatically transcoded by your device (from 854p to 1920p depending on your choice).
Every feature in #Holos is built toward full independence on the #Fediverse.

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

there’s a lot of bullshit with the “but where are the Black people”.
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352800579635299

if the #fediverse isn’t like corporate “social media” built for surveillance; then stop trying to use Mastodon to stalk people.

BIPOC come to the fediverse to not be the target of the WHITE GAZE. they come to the fediverse to be whatever the fuck they want to be.

BIPOC are here, using their personas of choice, cuz they’re NOT here for you to stalk them.

🧵…

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

RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352800579635299

There are valid reasons why AI companies and tech bros are not welcome here, as well as people who are defending them or trying to rationalize the use of bourgeois technology that is unethical, causing the rapid issues of AI vandals running rampant, AI bots that scraps data to be trained without permission, use of AI by companies to do mass layoff and therefore the higher count of unemployment, AI "artist" that clutter streaming platforms, and more problems.

#fediverse #mastodon #tech #ai

Scott Jenson » 🌐 2026-04-05
@scottjenson@social.coop

As this conversation is spiraling a bit I want to make a few things clear:
1. I'd like Mastodon to be MORE inclusive and bring in more voices
2. Some people don't seem to want that
3. This is core problem to solve: How do we let more in, but not "pollute" your feed?
4. The solution is NOT "gatekeeping", revelling in the fact that AI journalists aren't welcome
5. This is the same reason we lost "Black Twitter" when it came over in 2022

Yes, a lot of you don't want AI posts in your feed (or pick any other topic) but the solution isn't to keep "AI People" from joining Mastodon, any more than it is keeping marginalized communities off of Mastodon.

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

Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

#Fediverse #Mastodon

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.

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116341643066810900

Also worth reminding (in addition to below tips): The only way a post can propagate on the fediverse is via social means, i.e. via boosting it... Likes are more or less a nod to the author that the message was appreciated, but has ZERO impact on other people learning about it. If we want to encourage more good/quality posts on here, share them, boost them! This is especially important for posts/content from smaller instances (or single user ones, like mine) where there's no one else on the local timeline. Boosting content from these small instances is literally the only way to reach _any_ people outside their direct followers...

(This is not a complaint, just pure observation, boosting rates (percentages) of my posts have severely dropped over here over the past 4-5 months. Of course, I'm assuming it's first and foremost a me problem, but I'm not sure if that's all there is to it...)

#Fediverse #Mastodon #BoostingIsSharing

Fedi.Tips » 🌐 2026-04-03 / 2026-04-03
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

Sorting out the difference between favouriting and bookmarking on Mastodon:

⭐ Favourites are the equivalent of likes. When you favourite a post it lets the post's author know you liked it.

🔖 Bookmarks are a private way of keeping track of posts that you want to read later. When you bookmark a post, only you know about the bookmark. The author of the post does not know.

Lots more info including questions answered about this topic in the guide at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/favourites-vs-bookmarks-in-mastodon

#FediTips #Mastodon

I come out to see that the marvelous @lisamelton@mastodon.social gave it a boost! Thank you Lisa!

Then I went to check on my VPS and it is showing:

load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.05

New #snac instance survived a Lisa boost. Yay! (Lisa Melton Boost Certified)

#fediverse

is the best #fediverse #selfhosted solution still #GoToSocial ?

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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