fediverse

Mastodon, we wrote this because we love you and care about you. People have been saying a lot of things, and we need to get the facts right.

Probably going to be obvious that I never post here, but the article at https://www.newsweek.com/american-animal-rescue-shelters-breaking-point-1846274]() details the woes animal shelters face after the pandemic. Surprisingly, it isn't the return of COVID pets that is driving the high population of animals languishing in...

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Have you ever wanted to download all the custom emojis from another Mastodon server? I have....

On Mastodon, Followers-only posts are only visible to your followers – and to admins of any instances your followers on. But if you haven’t turned on “approve followes”, anybody who’s logged in to an instance you haven’t blocked can follow you and get access to your followers-only posts....

The fediverse is growing, with millions of users sprawling across the network. But with user growth also comes an increase in non-profits, brands, public figures, and analytics products....

I think they are leaving out something quite important in this blog post - nobody is using their real names here....

A large corporate shopping mall settles in a nice neighborhood with small local run shops and community centers. The new shopping mall says ‘if we settle here, more people will come, and you all will benefit’. A few years later all small shops are bankrupt and the community is destroyed. What remains is a barren corporate...

Federated Code forges have been an ongoing development for some time, but their introduction could provide a way to connect many different projects and organizations across the web, using the ActivityPub-based ForgeFed spec.

An Android app for Meta’s federated Twitter competitor was accidentally leaked, and people are already datamining it for clues.

Fediverse game jams have been a thing for a while, but this one seems to have a decent amount of people interested in joining in. It could be a really fun way for a lot of creatives and programmers in the fediverse to work together and build fun experiences that reflect on themes of our shared space.

I’m not sure if this is appropriate to post here, but this may have a significant impact on The Fediverse if it causes migration?

Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm to help our authors, publications and readers find a home in the fediverse. Mastodon is an emerging force for good in social media and we are excited to join this community.

Does anyone know what this thing is? Some kind of decentralized, open source, anti-establishment, etc platform aiming to be an alternative to twitter, but we plebs aren’t allowed to see or participate in the development process or even see any source repositories yet....

A very nice app that displays the feed in the “post + comments” way rather than in a microblogging manner.