A new release of TootSDK - 20.1.0 📣
https://github.com/TootSDK/TootSDK/releases/tag/20.1.0
What's changed:
- Make TootResponse Sendable when its decoded data is sendable @dale_price
Community contributions are greatly appreciated 🙌
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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
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 #Mastodon
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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)
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/
Ha! You can run an entire Mastodon/Fediverse server on your phone 🤩
I know folks have a lot on their minds, what with *gestures at everything*, but we're running up against the deadline for #Housing. #MutualAidRequest ($425/$700)
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#Whispers of the #Mountain #Stream by Kaye Menner Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:
#spring #wildflowers #mountains #clouds #water #valley #ai #digitalart #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
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Week in Fediverse 2025-10-10
Servers
- Manyfold v0.125.0
- Gush! v0.0.24
- Hubzilla v10.4.4
- GoToSocial v0.20.0
- Mitra v4.11.0
- Misskey v2025.10.0
- PieFed v1.2.5
- Lemmy Development Update September 2025
- Our ideas about Packs (Mastodon)
- Trunk & Tidbits, September 2025 (Mastodon)
- The Official Castopod Plugin Repository
Clients
- Tuba v0.10.3
- Mastodon for iOS v2025.06
- Fread v1.7.11
- Voyager v2.40.1
- Blorp v1.9.24
- Kimis v1.21.183
- Phanpy changelog
Tools and Plugins
- FediTag: Embed a feed of Mastodon posts from one account using a particular hashtag on a website
For developers
- APx v0.18.0
- fediverse-pasture-inputs v0.3.4
- apkit v0.3.2
Articles
- Evolving AltStore PAL
- Interview with John O’Nolan about Ghost 6
- Mobilizon: sharing the events of its communities in the Fediverse
- Fediverse Report – #137
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/0199ab4a-354a-a7f9-2ef9-f7f28e3834e0
new year update on what I'm using: #phanpy and #pl-fe as desktop clients, my own #fedicat and a bit of #IceCubes on iOS, hosting this and other official accounts on #mastohost, account on iosdev.space is super useful for ios dev, random posting on universeodon.com (basically where I started in the #fediverse, in retrospect I would have picked something with a shorter domain), love using #neodb and #bookwyrm, and thanks to all the admins out their hosting my test accounts!
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 
BIG PEERTUBE CO-OP UPDATE:
Last night, I interviewed the final steering committee candidate.
And just like that—it’s official. We now have seven incredible people (plus me) who’ve come together to co-organize this co-op.
Every single person brings something unique—skills, experience, heart—and it honestly feels like we’re assembling a dream team.
This moment is a turning point. We’re no longer just talking about starting a co-op. We are one in the making. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be shaping our mission, vision, and bylaws—the foundation for what will eventually become a fully incorporated BC co-operative.
It’s wild to think how far this idea has come in just two weeks. And we’re only getting started.
#PeerTubeCoop #PeerTube #Cooperative #Fediverse #DigitalCommons
RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/2289eb47-0f39-463d-a056-8568e12e70f3
Attention socialists on the fediverse! Follow my new page dedicated to socialist politics within the United States. This is my own personal page that I will try to update as much as possible!
#fediverse #socialists #socialism #SocialistPolitics #politics
Pdx.social is a Mastodon server for the Portland, Oregon, USA region.
You can find out more at https://pdx.social/about or contact the admin account @admins
#FeaturedServer #Portland #Oregon #PDX #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Sunny.garden is a Mastodon server for indie creators who draw, paint, sculpt, write, design, program, play, sing or build, and anyone else who thinks that sounds like a nice place to be.
This server has a post size of up to 1500 characters.
You can find out more at https://sunny.garden/about or contact the admin @brook
#FeaturedServer #Creatives #Creative #Artists #Art #Design #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
🌞 Hello #fediverse - this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 28F at Logan Airport and visibility is 6mi.
Doctors warn that low vaccination rates have led to a spike in flu cases in Massachusetts.
Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California's first congressional district has died, lowering the GOP margin in the US House.
#OnThisDay in 1540, Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
RE: https://tapbots.social/@ivory/115849434866292703
Ivory is well worth the subscription price, and they just released a smorgasbord of new features.
Support fediverse creators. 
I think I just had THE fediverse moment:
Scrolling through my timeline watching text posts, photos, a peertube video...A short video.
"ah nice MTB video" , I thought. Until I saw the handle: someone@loops. Wait.. I see a loops here. This isn't just a video. This is a video on A DIFFERENT Service. And I can seamlessly interact with it.
A new service just integrated seamlessly into my timeline. No "connect your account", no "extra app", no "extra login", no, it's just there
This is #fediverse
#Loops has entered #beta with #ActivityPub support, allowing users to connect with creators across the #fediverse. This means users can follow and interact with creators on platforms like #Mastodon and #Pixelfed, and vice versa. Loops has implemented several technical features to ensure smooth federation, including a shared inbox, HTTP signatures, and smart content representation. https://blog.joinloops.org/loops-joins-the-fediverse/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
🆘🆘 WHY THIS IS NOT BEING TALKED OUTSIDE OF THE COUNTRY.
WE DESPERATELY NEED HELP.😭🙏🏻📢📢📢👇🏻 Kindly Boost people of #mastodon #fediverse
@carmen_hercar hat gebeten persönliche Symbol fürs Internet mitzubringen.
@melaniebartos mit ihrem Symbol für das Internet und einem besonderen Ort dort, dem #Fediverse. ✨
Das #Plushtodon ist das Maskottchen von #Mastodon 
Dieses Exemplar der @uniinnsbruck hört auf dem Namen Federike. 🤗
#Gum #Blossoms #Corymbia #Summer by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:
https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/gum-blossoms-corymbia-summer-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html
#flowers #australiannative #floral #pink
#flowers #australian #australiannative #floral #pink #gum #gumleaves #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
