Recently, there was a question by @taylorlorenz about how you explain the Fediverse to someone who doesn't use it.

And usually, what we tend to do is we talk about servers and decentralisation and federation and ActivityPub and all these highly technical concepts.

I've been thinking about it, and all that technical stuff is really impressive work by people far more clever than I'll ever be.

But for me, that technology is a facilitating thing. It's like trying to describe how a bicycle works, rather than why you ride it.

Instead, what the Fediverse is, is that it's a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way.

Which is increasingly a rare thing online.

Almost the entirety of the internet, from SEO on the web to YouTube to TikTok to Spotify to Instagram and X and Facebook, has been turned into a race to game an algorithm designed to sell ads.

What makes the Fedi unique is that it's not that.

And I suspect if you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or GtS, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining it as algorithm-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a decentralised protocol.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

I'm curious: do you favorite everything that you boost?

I'm guessing most people don't boost everything that they favorite, but the opposite seems possible.

So what are your criteria for liking and/or boosting?

#Mastodon #boosting #liking #SocialMedia

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Today we observe the Saturday of Souls, a day dedicated to honoring and praying for our departed loved ones. With approximately 57 days until Holy Pascha (Easter), we pause in reflection, love, and hope. May their memory be eternal and their souls rest in peace.
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#SaturdayOfSouls #OrthodoxTradition #GreekOrthodox #Faith #MemoryEternal #JohnRoss7 #Mastodon

La mayoría de usuarios están comentando que notaron una mejora importante en el rendimiento de la batería tras actualizar a iOS 26.3., esperemos que iOS 26.4 tenga más mejoras en autonomía

#Apple #Mastodon #iPhone

Coucou les copaines ❤️

Petit message pour vous dire que je participe à un Prix littéraire organisé par Maritza et Léo sur la chaîne Youtube Tatanexua, j'ai fait un post insta pour en parler un petit peu. Si vous êtes intéressés par cet évènement et que vous souhaitez participer en votant pour vos ouvrages favoris, je ne peux que vous inviter à aller sur mon compte Insta accessible dans mon carrd en bio. Si vous voulez découvrir et soutenir mes humbles projets, vous pouvez leur donner une chance de passer aux étapes suivantes de ce Prix en votant pour eux, à la condition qu'ils vous plaisent bien évidemment. Prenez bien soin de vous et à bientôt sur les réseaux ! ✨️

Lukya #writers #mastodon

My dear friends,
My children and I are still waiting for you to support us and help us provide the basics of life.
It has been a long time since we last had a proper meal.
I kindly ask you to help us and provide any support you can.
Sharing this is also important to us.
https://chuffed.org/project/omabood
#mastodon #gazaverified #gaza #donate @gazaverified

I’ve noticed there’s #Mastodon servers for specific regions (Europe, Canada, Australia, etc). Anyone interested in a #California instance?

I see sfba.social and norcal.social but I’m thinking a unified California server would be cool! Or at the very least, a SoCal server should exist…
#poll #mastoadmin #fediverse

WORKSHOP

Am 19. Februar 2026 um 19:00 Uhr findet auf https://meet.olsberg.social der erste Online-Workshop zur Plattform https://olsberg.social statt.

THEMEN

- Was ist olsberg.social?
- Erste Schritte auf olsberg.social.

ANMELDUNG

Signal-Gruppe: https://olsberg.social/signal
oder
E-Mail an info@olsberg.social

Die Einladung darf und soll gerne digital und analog geteilt werden!

#Olsberg #OlsbergSocial #Mastodon #Fediverse #unplugTrump #unplugBigTech

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👀 Tomorrow we will announce a nice Valentine's gift for your brand. Stay tuned!

#brand #branding #mastodon #company #EU #Europe #European

Ich fühle mich echt am falschen Platz im #Mastodon Netzwerk.

On #Mastodon for 6 weeks now. Everyone continues to be welcoming & friendly

I think I’ll delete my other social accounts, General wisdom is that I should use Instagram, TikTok etc to spread the word about things I’m working on (I make a #podcast about stories called The Worst Writer in the World) - but I’ve never found them useful

I'd rather just post pics of my cats

Here’s another - of Norbert exhausted after all the havoc, and Max, wondering where’s the havoc?

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #pets

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Know your roots...

#KnowYourToots #Mastodon #AnnArbor #NaturalHistory

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Did you know that Mastodon is 'No dot Sam' backwards?
#Mastodon

In the #Fediverse there are now
717 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
605 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@LiveScience
@WomensHealthUK
@vanityfair
@Pride
@Gigade

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

Warum kann ich kein Profilbild mehr hochladen?
Wenn ichs versuche, stürzt Mastodon ab.
Gerät: Samsung Tablet, schon was älter.

#mastodon
#fehler
#profilbild
#mastodonproblem

I moved my pinball and retro gaming account @apzpins over today. It was a nice stress test for this instance's hardware and I was glad to see it didn't even break a sweat when pulling all the old followers in.

I also examined the outcome from the #Mastodon image cache clean up script I made earlier. Looking at the picture storage usage graph, it does what I intended.

One curious thing caught my eye in the logs, which was a reaction to tootctl accounts prune:

Error processing 116064247286474491: PG::ForeignKeyViolation: ERROR: insert or update on table "account_stats" violates foreign key constraint "fk_rails_215bb31ff1"
DETAIL: Key (account_id)=(116064247286474491) is not present in table "accounts".

Postgre threw this one. I examined the database structure for some time and came to the conclusion this has to be a very corner case race condition. The referred did not exist and the error was also gone when I ran it again. 🤷

After some web searching I found an old bug report about this which apparently had come to the same conclusion. Seeing that for the first time made me wonder if this was the spot where I had killed the database with Glitch migration. 😆

On #Mastodon there are now
418 verified accounts from #news organizations in
21 languages and on
120 instances.

247 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@uebermedien (GER)
@netzpolitik_feed (GER)
@ndaktuell (GER)
@gatzagagoiena (BAQ)
@sumikai (GER)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

Masto.es - Bienvenidos a masto.es, servidor de Mastodon para hispanohablantes de temática general.

Ampliación del límite de caracteres en una publicación a 2000 caracteres.

https://masto.es

Acerca de: https://masto.es/about
Administrado por: @rober

#FeaturedServer #Español #Hispanohablantes #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

I'm only asking this because I'm curious to know, but is there a Mastodon v5.0.0 remotely in the works right now?

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

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Bonjour j'ai commencé une BD "c'est quoi Mastodon et le Fediverse ?" pour expliquer c'est quoi Mastodon et le Fediverse

Si vous voulez l'utiliser, tant que c'est pas à des fin monétaires c'est ok

Edit: on m'a demandé la licence la voilà

C'est quoi Mastodon et le Fediverse © 2025 by Loy Hena is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

#mastodon #fediverse #BD #bandedessinee #fediverseBdLoy

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Photograph of #Mastodon founder #JoanMastodon from the early 1960s. Mastodon is seen manually transcribing telegraphed toots into the first ever instance (in background). Mastodon gained late fame when she was banned from Twitter while being mistaken with a guy called #JohnMastodon who actually never existed.

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In case you missed it, you don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon.

All links in Mastodon posts count as 23 characters towards your post size limit, no matter how long or short they really are.

I've tried to answer all the common questions about this in a guide:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/you-dont-need-link-shorteners-on-mastodon

If I've missed something please feel free to ask in replies 🙂

#FediTips #Mastodon

Moin,

das #Fediverse ist nicht nur #Mastodon... ich hatte schon einmal exemplarisch weitere fediversale Serversoftware vorgestellt. Hier ein aktualisierter Überblick:

#Mastodon:
https://norden.social/@nick/108967051724048437

#Friendica:
https://norden.social/@nick/108974866450019886

#Pixelfed:
https://norden.social/@nick/108979421954226836

#PeerTube:
https://norden.social/@nick/109007461143897235

#BookWyrm:
https://norden.social/@nick/109053131748638871

#Lemmy:
https://norden.social/@nick/109076465603837769

#Pleroma:
https://norden.social/@nick/109179026461163941

#Misskey
https://norden.social/@nick/109332903910082569

#WriteFreely
https://norden.social/@nick/109398896653068142

#Kennste?