Tootfinder

Fascinated at how Wikidata's property constraints push particular models.
The capture of Maduro has different instance values, eg both "military intervention" and "kidnapping" (with a "disputed by" qualifier).
But the (disputed) inclusion then tries to push the use of perpetrator/victim values, rather than a neutral "participant".
(Wikidata property values have highly contextual meanings beyond simple labels... but editors are sti…

And one more Winter clip 🙂 from the #mountains recently.
(I need to feed my peertube instance, otherwise I would question, why I pay for it)
https://video.franzgraf.de/w/qNkKaMEcLWcp…

Just added a “Sign in with Mastodon” example to Kitten’s¹ examples:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/examples/sign-in-with-mastodon
If I have time at some point, I might make it into a tutorial.
Enjoy!
:kitten:💕

robots that only 'mine' 404's and then repeat that ad infinitum.
or scripts that posts on xmlrpc.php which is of course also a 404.
obnoxious robot builders please show some manners and read the ff-ing status code and continue your dirty work on 200's for instance.
bloody idiots.

Does anybody know, by any rare chance, what #Firefox settings might cause CORS errors? Since last week I'm unable to access, for example, a local #Jellyfin instance with Firefox due to this problem, as it causes a lot of CORS errors (same origin policy).
I have already tried changing &quo…

I don't know if it's the entire instance (their about-me page doesn't really describe rules) or just this single individual, but I suggest you defederate or at least block them in advance.

HELLO BLUESKY USERS!
You can follow me over here on Mastodon **but** I won't see your replies and won't be able to follow you back unless you give permission for that…
…which is easy. Just follow this special BlueSky user:
https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy
(1) click on th…

Cryptpad is an interesting platform, you can collaborate, fully encrypted, no BigTech involved, there are already several instances and ofcourse you can start your own one.
#crpytpad

Public instances
Find an instance that suits your needs

In case you want to report this Zionist hasbara account that posted this reply and blocked me, please feel free to.
(This is their new tactic. The anonymous cowards.)
PS. Be careful, they’re on a German instance, they might block you instead if the admins are pro-genocide also (it’s a very common thing in Germany).
#zionism

Timberborn added HTTP support in their latest version. Both sending and receiving requests. Just a URL, no body or anything. But that is enough to have it signal my @… instance about whether I have enough logs or not in stock. On a trigger, it sends a GET request to HA, and HA announces it through a voice satellite:

How To Control Your #Dreams At Night: 3 Secrets From Research
- What are lucid dreams
- How to induce them (for example, waking up two hours earlier than usual and then coming back to sleep)
- How to control them (for instance, using your voice to give instructions to the dream elements)
Keep dreaming!
Source:

How To Control Your Dreams At Night: 3 Secrets From Research - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Wouldn't it be great to be able to control your dreams at night? Well, you can. Scientifically. Here's how...

Incredible. I love the idea of taking checkpoints and the "papers please" mentality, and turning it around on the nazis.
#FuckICE #Minnesota (and yes, this is very much also #TacticalUrbanism

One important thing I need to keep in mind with LibreWolf is that when something does not work I need to check if it works in Firefox.
For instance the TrueNAS shell was not working, and I realized that TrueNAS wasn't broken, LibreWolf was just "protecting" me...
Which again, is a good thing, but it's sometime a bit too much protection for those of us who know what we are doing.

Pretty interesting article, this one.
https://maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkiverse-experiment-and-why-instance-choice-matters/

The Forkiverse Experiment and Why Instance Choice Matters
A reflection on the Forkiverse experiment, why it felt different from day one, and how it changed my view on instance choice in the Fediverse.

“you can just supply an IP address of a MongoDB instance and it’ll start ferreting out in memory things such as database passwords (which are plain text), AWS secret keys etc. The exploit specifically looks for those class of credentials and secrets, too.”
https://doublepulsar.com…

Merry Christmas Day! Have a MongoDB security incident.
Somebody from Elastic Security decided to post an exploit for CVE-2025–14847 on Christmas Day.

Whoa, just set up a wiki.js instance! Slick! Took about 10 minutes. If you're not familiar, see https://js.wiki

⁉️ Hat jemand Bock, Guppe wieder aufleben zu lassen? Es muss sich jemand um Serveraufsetzen und Betrieb kümmern.
https://github.com/immers-space/guppe/issues/119

Guppe(.)org registered: we will donate the domain or will try running the service if some tech folks will help us · Issue #119 · immers-space/guppe
Our nonprofit / NGO runs a very small instance at games(.)ngo. We have benefited from using gup(.)pe over the years to help us engage with other instances more effectively. It is frustrating that s...

"Public AI, Built On Open Source, Is The Way Forward In The EU". -Glyn Moody @…
This seems to opens the door to work on important problems, for instance building a solid climateGPT in Europe.

When you see antisemitic bots like this that spam replies to posts criticising Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, make sure you report and block them.
(They block you after commenting so you can’t act on their post. Unless, that is, you run your own instance like I do and can suspend them.)
But wait, did I just call them antisemitic?
Why yes, conflating Zionism with being Jewish is to state that all Jews support Israel, settler colonialism, apartheid, ethn…

Finally updated my peertube instance to v8: #Yunohost
You can follow my peertube account as well: @…

video.FranzGraf.de
This is the video archive of my hiking and photography adventures. For more content, visit my main website at https://www.franzgraf.de

Dear Fediverse:
What is your main Linux distribution of choice?
Given the limited amount of poll options in my instance, I'll put up a few random popular ones, and will expect much of it being sorted out in the replies ("Other" option.)
Please consider boosting for a larger sample.
#poll

Just a shoutout to @… and @… and the team of this instance. It is great being on a social media platform where I trust the moderators to keep me safe.

thinking about pre-installing a local searxng instance in bog and setting the default search for firefox to it

Now that we've all left Twitter, where do we go to shame companies whose customer support teams (or LLM replacement thereof) have completely shat the bed?
In this instance, fucking Stripe. Again. Who used to be good about 10 years ago and have cruised straight downhill ever since.

Apologies to followers and would-be correspondents on mastodon.social—I've just found a bunch of replies to my posts over the last year that dice.camp filtered out on the basis of instance. I couldn't see them in my client, but stumbled across them accessing Masto via the web.

The last two months I have been typing a relatively short introduction to XBRL from a technical point of view. The need to knows of the XML underneath, how a taxonomy is built and how to create an instance.
Intended audience: developers that have to deal with XBRL.
You can grab a copy here: #xbrl #xml #developers

They'd be renaming anyone these days in the #WWE
Vacant − Vacant Championship
Now a 4-time NXT Champion.
(def. Oba Femi, Samoa Joe, Karrion Kross and Tommaso Ciampa)
#prowrestling

@… thanks, I have my shortlist down to two instances.
I currently lean towards beige.party. because whenever I browse its local live feed alongside mas.to, the beige makes me feel better.
Would you like to suggest any other instance?

I might offend some folks with this poll… but I think it's kind of the elephant in the room, my friends.
Q: Is the biggest problem with #Mastodon in general actually the moderation of its biggest instance: mastodon.social?
This is not directed at anyone personally, rather, it's directed at a toxic culture that I see innocent people/victims posting about over and over again.
(mastodon.social is 300K MAU, next one is 12K)
#Fediverse #Moderation #OpenServers #Bullying #Welcome
Yes
No
Not sure - Everyone is welcome to boost and reply. Join the discussion.

I saw a nice initiative for an european BlueSky instance. I am always wondering why people don't like Mastodon?
For me Bluesky and Mastodon can co-exist but many people disagree 🙂
#eurosky #bluesky #mastodon

eurosky

Our instance is on the list, which is actually nice :)
https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/116043212772197701

OH: I had to pick Engineer because Broker EC2 Instance Herder wasn't an option

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/116043212772197701
In my experience, people who care about accessibility are usually good folks. So if you’re looking for a good Mastodon instance to join, this is likely a good guide.

Wow! I just received a report from another mastodon instance for violating that instance's rule against "Profiting/benefiting from the destruction of the planet and society." That's a little extreme.

Hello all - it's that time again - tomorrow evening, Tue 13 Jan, at 20:00 NZDT, we'll be having our Jan Libre/FOSS meeting at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - anyone welcome to join us. It'll be held on our BigBlueButton instance (thanks to Prodigi.nz for sponsored hosting infrastructure!). We'll …

I just realized the Vivaldi browser has a default sidebar button for Trending from their Mastodon instance.
Which means I've breached containment... :elmo_fire:

Vivaldi Social
Vivaldi Social is part of the Mastodon network and is hosted in Iceland by the makers of Vivaldi Browser. Everyone is welcome to join.

I hate youtube as a service. Especially in recent years, it's getting shittier and shittier and shittier and even shittier.
But DAMN, how I love some of the stuff people put in there.
Like this absolute gem, for instance. https://youtu.be/I4MlC1hCIs4

We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combo of AWS, OVH, and DO to @…, see https://fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit based in Canada and with no US dependencies. Already fe…

FediHost - Managed Fediverse Hosting
FediHost is a managed fediverse hosting service. With a couple of clicks you can be up and running with your own Mastodon or Peertube instance.

So there's a #Mastodon instance for people that are into #math called mathstodon… and that instance allows users to use #LaTeX.
The

Hey everyone,
Gaza Verified is now open again for verification calls in 2026.
The new process for signing up for verification calls uses sign in with Mastodon and should remove the last remaining technical hurdle that was giving some of our friends in Gaza a hard time (adding the verification link to your Mastodon account is not intuitive in the current Mastodon interface). With this new flow, you won’t have to, we do it for you.

In the past few weeks there has been a bot farm hammering small Mastodon instances with requests for what looks like emoji-related assets and the hashtag API.
More specifically, it appears this bot farm has now come for my Mastodon instance, because the number of requests has doubled in the last 24 hours, with a lot of the requests being API requests for a single JSON file.
Even more specifically, looking at data provided by my CDN provider, a lot of the bots appear to be using IP addresses associated with Tencent Singapore.
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

Whoops, MullvadVPN DNS blocker for social media also blocks my own Mastodon instance 😳

Here's a bit of walking from today's hike.
Actually I didn't even want to go that far becasue I assumed it to be covered in snow.
But luckily it was completly free from snow! So I felt save to go.
AND according to Strato's mail, it the 1st anniversary of my #peertube instance! I started is as a fun test. It's not super frequented (okay, my Youtube channel was…

Stupid idea: if you ban your #mastodon instance admins, they won't see that your toots violate the rules, right?

There's a tool that analyses your 2025 hackernews comments through a LLM and give you a summary
Who am I:
The Fediverse Urbanist
A supply-and-demand fundamentalist who divides their time equally between defending housing density and explaining why your social media platform is a centralized prison for bots. You have successfully mapped the entire journey from a car-dependent suburb to a Mastodon instance using only RSS feeds and a burning hatred for high-tariff border …

The Mastodon instance fairmove.net has got a major update today (Postgres database v13 -> v15, Redis 8.2, Mastodon 4.5.6). Your timeline should fill up again soon. Or watch the live feed to be inspired. Happy fediversing!

I think i'll Move to @… (an akkoma instance). Guess I have finally decided to leave Mastodon as my no Github journey.
I'll spend some more time to get used to akkoma. Wish me luck
#fediverse

@… The Vivaldi instance for Mastodon is great. I've used it for about a year.

Just suspended/defederated the zhub.link domain that appears to be a white supremacist/hate speech instance whose admin is going around harassing Palestinians and allies on the fediverse and is/was apparently also hosting an account disseminating CSAM (https://hear-me.social/@admin/11266673170955…

@… Pulled up theforkiverse.com in the kitchen while listening via incognito mode. Thanks for following through on fediverse reporting—fun episode, well explained. A followup might cover all the other fedi app types. You could even stream an episode recording session on Owncast (what’s the worst that could happen? :-) Enjoy your no-algo feed.

@… gaat de huisgenoot zelf hosten of een Shared instance?

This message is intended for Canadian #Mastodon admins who are running public instances large and small. If you are an admin, please share with your counterparts. If you are a member of a Canadian instance, please send this to your admin.
A small group of us (Note: really, really small) are in early discussions on how to encourage our government - individual politicians & federal, provincial, and municipal departments - to move their social media presence to Mastodon. This would involve an awareness campaign targeting politicians, party HQs, and departments/agencies.
We are asking for input from admins to help us create a future state vision for this project, and provide us with advice or ideas on how to bring it to a reality. I will set up a web call within the next 3 weeks and hopefully you can participate. We are not asking you to contribute beyond input. Please DM me and I will add you to the invitees.
#mastoadmin
#MastodonCanada
#MastoCanadaGOV (hashtag for this project)
CC: @…

@… sorry, het was grappig bedoeld. Gezien je zelf op een Shared instance zit was het idee dat je dat sowieso niet zou opzetten. Mijn excuses voor de misplaatste grap.

just looking at my archive of postgresql backups over the past 2 years of my mastodon instance.
In December 2023 just shy of 1 year since spinning it up, the compressed gz file of the database was 600MB.
By Aug 2024 it was 988MB
In April 2025 it was 1500MB
Today it is 1800MB.
That is a 2 user instance. Not small!
#selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade