Your timeline is what you want it to be on fedi. You build it. You MOLD it, like a piece of clay. It takes time. It takes effort. You'll have to mute sometimes. You likely will have to block. Don't give up.
It's worth it. Art. Code. Gaming. Books. Pot Belly Pigs. Death Metal. Whatever your interest, you can find a community here, I promise. Smaller, perhaps, but more connected.
You might even have a real conversation with a human being. Give it a try!
We just published our first video on MakerTube a #PeerTube instance on the #Fediverse.
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Dr. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès presented her decades of promoting and empowerering #ArabicType and typography with her #Khatt foundation.
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The lecture nr.66: https://makertube.net/w/9YVytDumFCstg4Gaef9Mqh
Our account: @lttrspc
Wow! Two days, lots of post-its, one bakfiets, and a sailing ship in the background. The #FediVariety #NOAW #unconference brought together #publicinstitutions and #fediverse enthusiasts in #Amsterdam for #open conversations, shared #roadmaps, and the start of a real #community ! What a crowd! #NodesOnAWeb
Get the #report!!!
Woohoo! It's #hot!
https://www.fedivariety.org/blog/fedivariety-s-unconference
#OpenWeb #SocialWeb #OpenSocialWeb #ActivityPub #JugglingTheFediverse
This is some rad shit.
Go #Fediverse ! (and alternative app stores!)
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
🗣AM ENDING 2025 WITH A BOOST & FAVE
look who just arrived in time to welcome the new year: my THING1 & THING2 in #plushtodon form, #Boost & #Fave.
it was hard to get a good pic of us together by myself, so i hope you don’t mind the potato quality of my tablet’s pics.
i haven’t stopped smiling since i opened the package.
🗣HAPPY NEW #FEDIVERSE YEAR TO YOU ALL
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
Fall #FediForum has wrapped, but if you want to catch up on everything that happened, follow
@tchambers's feed, created with Surf, here:
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jvprse7ptd6b9gccy3m9g547
#SurfFeeds #FediForum #ActivityPub #Fediverse #Federation #OpenSocial
For any scientists or science organizations that may be wanting to make a migration to the open social web, or #fediverse, check out my timely recent post about this world, how to think about it, and how to get started.
If you are fed up with Blue sky, coming to the fediverse is the best way to get #FedUp.
I share valuable resources and expertise in the post, including the excellent @_elena , @paige and @fedihost , and @FediTips
Get started today!
https://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2025/09/28/bridging-science-to-the-fediverse/
Happy New PEERS! We're now on #PeerTube, along with https://jam.coop (@jamcoop) and https://bandwagon.fm(@benpate), under the Fun Music Place banner (also the name of the Discord at https://discord.com/invite/VjKq26raKX where you can often find us chatting about our projects). 🎉🐦⬛
https://tv.gravitons.org/a/funmusicplace
#Music #Videos #FunMusicPlace #Fedi #Fediverse #Federated #FediMusic #JamCoop #BandwagonFM #Mirlo #Musicians
Does anbyody know about an instance of @bonfire, that is open for registration and federated? I would really like to try it out in the wider #Fediverse.
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 #MastodonIn case you missed it, the fediverse is under attack by a Pro-Russian Propaganda Network. You can learn more about it in the blog post from @iftas below.
Here are two things everyone can do to help combat this:
1. If you see an account posting or spamming Telegram links, report it. Many of the accounts are impersonating news outlets — check verification status, the account's follower count, or the outlet's website to confirm if the account is real or fake.
2. Donate to your local mods if you can, or at least give them a big virtual hug and say thanks. They've been working tirelessly around the clock to combat this and deserve our gratitude and support.
Stay safe out there, friends.
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!
Still in need of Drinking Water [water is the very much needed because of the severity of damage happened in the water supply system] Canned Goods, Rice etc.. Please I am humbly asking for your kind support, Small act of kindness is a big help & goes a long way. Help us recover 🙏🏻🥺 Thank you #Fediverse for standing with us in this times of need.
PP Email: [email protected] 🆙 (put a note for my cousin 2 notice)
Right now, I’m in the middle of interviewing steering committee candidates for the potential PeerTube co-op. And one thing stands out about this process:
Every single person I’ve spoken with hasn’t just said, “I want to be a member-owner.” They’ve said, “I want to be a member-owner—and I’m willing to roll up my sleeves, donate my time, and help make this business real.”
In the start-up world, founders spend enormous amounts of time on something called validation—figuring out whether there’s a genuine product-market fit. It’s slow, uncertain work. Even after launch, many founders have to pivot more than once before landing on what people actually want.
Forming a co-op is often described as labour- and capital-intensive—and for good reason. In Canada, you can register a conventional corporation with a single incorporator. But to incorporate a co-operative, you need at least three founding members. You must also agree on bylaws, define your mission and vision, and establish governance and membership structures before anything exists.
Yet this extra effort brings a unique advantage: validation is built in. A co-op exists to serve its member-owners. The people joining are the market. Their participation defines how the product fits. In other words, the process of organizing the co-op doubles as a live test of demand and alignment.
That’s why I’ve been asking every steering committee candidate the same question:
“What do you hope a PeerTube co-op will do for you?”
The answers have been diverse, but a clear pattern has emerged. People want creative freedom. They want fairer terms than YouTube offers. And above all, they want a platform that feels truly theirs—not subject to opaque algorithms or arbitrary policy shifts.
That, I believe, is what authentic product-market fit looks like. In a co-op, the owners and the users are—if not perfectly identical—fundamentally aligned. The market validates itself.
#PeerTubeCoop #PeerTube #Cooperative #Fediverse #DigitalCommons
Fediverse Report 137 - this week's #fediverse news
- @altstore joins the fediverse, and you can interact with apps on the alternative iOS app store now via your fediverse accounts. Altstore also made a 500k USD donation to various fediverse platforms
- @Mastodon is getting Starter Packs, with more details on the design, soliciting feedback
- @anewsocial announced a new version for Bounce, which allows you to transfer your account from the fediverse to #bluesky
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-137/
Happy 2026! 📺 It's the weekly #Mastodon/ #Fediverse #WatchPartyCalendar for Jan. 1-8❄️(Thu-Thu)
⭐️New series for the new year:
#Catitstu - ALIAS
#TVMysteries - NERO WOLFE
#HarryOrwell - HARRY O resumes
📅Details, 🔗& updates ➡️ http://bit.ly/MastodonWatchParties
⏰️All times US Eastern
#Westerns #Music #Mysteries #Action #Comedy #anime #Movies #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon
Thanks for all you do, hosts! @MatthewTitus88 @MirrorAyako @Taweret @analgesicsleep @rsmon77 @hyde
@lilymarswrites
@GrillChill
Ha! You can run an entire Mastodon/Fediverse server on your phone 🤩
All bills for December are paid♥️ Servers, media storage and emails send ✅
Just a little reminder that the #Fediverse is run by volunteers and hardware is mostly paid with donations from our amazing community 
https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost
https://stux.me/donate
https://liberapay.com/mstdn
This amazing network exists because of you all 
