Tootfinder

Just in case you missed it.
I publish my #hiking and #cycling videos and clips on my own #peertube instance at:

I'm gonna feature @… on my profile cause they made their own instance.
Featuring to encourage more specialized instances by established organizations!
https://www.

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and its possibilities for the BBC.

Does the Wool Industry Drown Sheeps? #AnimalRights

Does the Wool Industry Drown Sheeps?
Wool production is riddled with distressing practices. For instance, in countries like Australia (one of the major wool producers) mulesing, the carving of huge pieces of skin from sheep’s backs to…

I'm really torn. I love me my @…, great people, great model, love to support and use.
Buuuuut, I'd also love to use my own domain so I can truly own my own social. However I’m concerned about a single user instance not seeing all my current interactions.
Any advice from you self-hosters? I'm trying out

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.

oh, is today self-promo day? is that a thing? okay, here goes nothing! please follow @…, it's where i upload all my videos nowadays and you can follow it directly from your instance of choice. also please follow @…

#PSA Since I've just been asked again if I could use more topic-specific accounts and not mix my photography with other topics — Unfortunately, nope! I'm on a single user managed instance and cannot create new accounts on this server nor do I want to create an account for every single topic I'm interested in or posting about. However, you can filter my posts by hashtags, which I'm tr…

The JSON response of translated rules list in Mastodon v4.4 (`/api/v2/instance`) seems to imply that some rules might not be translated.
Judging from admin UI to translate rule, seems to make sense https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/34494
So, one rule is translated, t…

I have already featured "Jason Scott" @… on my profile now as part of the efforts of archive.org to make their own instance.
archive.org gets the fediverse!
https://

"Mokosh," a brave new body horror film from David Cronenberg, starring Lea Seydoux as a conventionally attractive 6-figure earning straight white cis guy who slowly becomes a chopped broke plural it/its pretending to be a lynx on a dedicated mastodon fork instance of like-minded individuals

»The layers of the electronics industry chain are heavily interdependent and long-term strategic advantages can only be achieved when all layers are available and provide state-of-the-art products. Increasing foreign penetration into the European industry chain, accomplished for instance by offering instant profits, decreases its strengths and creates undesirable dependencies.«
–Egon Hörbst, then executive director at Siemens AG Corporate Research, in IEEE Micro, August 1992.

Well this is fun, #Ohio HB96 seems that it would require me to pay to to collect and store your state issued ID if you want to browse Mastodon via this instance.
That's fine, I don't mind spending money which I don't have to collect users' private data including your home address and full legal name. You're fine with giving effectively a complete stranger acro…

Public service announcement:
I am blocking the babka.social instance as the person who runs it (Serge) is a Zionist and a genocide/denier, who conflates being Jewish with being Zionist (“Zionism is a belief that more than 80% of Jews have. Talking about Zionists is talking about Jews.” – https://babka.social/@serge/1151605…

“Artificially complex structures […] pose a number of practical and intellectual problems; man is responsible for their synthesis, regulation, and continued maintenance. In almost no instance can artificial-rational systems be built and left alone. They require continued attention, rebuilding, and repair. Eternal vigilance is the price of artificial complexity.”
—Langdon Winner (1977), Autonomous Technology, p. 183

“Artificially complex structures […] pose a number of practical and intellectual problems; man is responsible for their synthesis, regulation, and continued maintenance. In almost no instance can artificial-rational systems be built and left alone. They require continued attention, rebuilding, and repair. Eternal vigilance is the price of artificial complexity.”
—Langdon Winner (1977), Autonomous Technology, p. 183

“Artificially complex structures […] pose a number of practical and intellectual problems; man is responsible for their synthesis, regulation, and continued maintenance. In almost no instance can artificial-rational systems be built and left alone. They require continued attention, rebuilding, and repair. Eternal vigilance is the price of artificial complexity.”
—Langdon Winner (1977), Autonomous Technology, p. 183

I have seen toots warning about this and wanted to comment on it.
They are impersonating the Mastodon team to require users to ‘verify their account’ and saying that until they do this their account is suspended.
Verification on mastodon is free and you can do it yourself without giving any personal information and it is TOTALLY OPTIONAL.
No server/instance is going to require verification.
I have my verification with my neocities page, on tkz.one, misskey.social and …

If you get a post like this, it is a scam. This particular one targeted many #HashTagGames players and replied to various hashtag game plays but the account has now been blocked by Mastodon.Social.
Mastodon does not do age verification. Check with your instance, report it, etc if you get something like this.
Edit to remove the player that was targeted from the image and to add …

Mastodon 4.4, now available, has a small setting that’s a big deal. See Administration/Server Settings/Discovery, “Allow external sites to see your Mastodon server as a traffic source”.
It means that every time you post a link to a site, that site is going to see as many hits as the number of instances that you have followers on, and those hits are going to be labeled as coming from Mastodon.
This is going to seriously increase Fediverse visibility. Get your instance admin to tur…

but archive.org also made their own instance so now I gotta feature them as well...
#FeaturedProfiles

Related, if I am going to have my own instance how would I choose between mastodon, gotosocial, etc?
https://cosocial.ca/@emd/114690337238365051

In Mastodon v4.4.0 instance owners can enable HTTP referrers.
If somebody clicks a link in a Mastodon post (e.g. to a news article), the link target owner (such as the news site operator) can see that a user from that instance has visited their website.
They do _only_ get the instance domain (e.g. gardenstate.social). No information about the user!
That being said I think gardenstate.social is probably too small to turn this on. Let me know if you feel different!

It is only a matter of time until noem, homan, dhs, ice and potus realize dropping people out of aircraft is cheaper than housing or moving them.
Unless they already have.
Rumors are the US is engaging in death flights. Already there are some known flight paths of ice flights turning around over bodies of water.
The US Congress and international community seem to be the only things that can stop this.

It is so profoundly bizarre to see both:
- The insinuation that coders writ large don’t want to use AI tools and have to be forced
- and the claim that somehow AI is the bee’s knees because all of genX are using it after passing on crypto or whatever.
Both takes are obvious nonsense and this might be the most myopic instance of bubbles I’ve seen so far.

@… Cool, I see you found another instance to join!

TIL that the social.bbc (@…) instance is hosted in Ireland according to @…
…

Walking in the #Schwarzwald :
More to come soon (Proudly served from my own Peertube instance without ads)
https://video.franzgraf.de/w/dGxHeu31jaak8fTrQoXHoX

Fabio is the opposite of a Nazi and I am sick and tired of people WHO ARE OPPOSING A LITERAL GENOCIDE being perpetrated by Israel constantly having to defend themselves from accusations of antisemitism.
The dregs of humanity who are supporting, apologising for, and complicit in Israel’s genocide are the people and instances we should be blocking here not antifascists like Fabio who is spending his time trying to get aid to Palestinians on the ground in Gaza.
Ask yourselves what k…

Fabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.social)
A quick heads up to my followers: after threatening to get me fired @8124 has reported me to the staff of mastodon.social demanding the defederation of my instance accusing me of being a Nazi https...

just discovered https://masto-fe.superseriousbusiness.org/ which you can hook up to a GTS instance but also a mastodon instance, which serves as a nice way to see what mastodon used to look like way back in the day. loving the columns!

Currently working on implementing Matrix's new 'Matrix Authentication Service' for our NZ-based instance... non-trivial. But it's such an impressive system (it's doing far more than competitors like Salesforce Slack and Microsoft Teams).

This is positively insane. They want us to be North Korea.
( I almost posted something that would have correctly had me in trouble with my instance. This will have to do instead. )
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/114971895683076504

Just a quick short Video from our #Cycling today (okay, and I just wanted to upload SOMETHING to my peertube instance :-D)
https://video.franzgraf.de/w/8mjifqy7MbHPPaYWk1bFx8

Isn't it time that the Palestinians are given a safe place to live, to escape potential annihilation? A country to call their own? There are some practically empty areas in the USA – think Wyoming, for instance. Wouldn't that be an idea?

I've been using MacOS for 12 years and still don't understand Spotlight. For instance, I search for this file and it will ONLY show me this backup (~$), NOT the file whose name is… "human-factors-fm.pptx". I'm constantly disappointed. Do I need change a config?

Please understand this:
A "like/star" ⭐️ only notified the person you are interacting with.
A boost 🔁 tells your entire instance that you appreciate something about this share.
Want to help your friends? Use the boost, Luke!

Well that was a bit of a worry. I went to tidy up my #webpage links and happened to notice a #blog post about a film I don't remember watching. It very much looks like my old #wordpress instance had …

My instance is on v4.4.0. Quote post something if your instance allows it, so I could bask in its glory 😀
Also, is the reply fetch supposed to be configurable in the admin section of v4.4.0? I am still using #Substitoot for a quick look before going to the original post to follow the discussion.

I also finally got around to setting up a local Wallabag instance running in a FreeBSD jail on the home server, and applying the requisite hacks to my Kobo to replace its now-gone Pocket support (shakes fist at Mozilla)
https://jqno.nl/post/2025/06/04/reading-b…

Reading blogs on my Kobo e-reader via Wallabag
In which I compare two options for reading blog posts on my e-reader, using the Wallabag read-it-later service.

@… Yeah I have no idea. They’ve not been very good at keeping their instance up I think

“Our method … is somewhat counterintuitive: we actually steer the model toward undesirable persona vectors... The method is loosely analogous to … a vaccine—by giving the model a dose of “evil,” for instance, we make it more resilient to encountering “evil” training data. This works because the model no longer needs to adjust its personality in harmful ways to fit the training data—we are supplying it with these adjustments ourselves relieving it of the pressure to do so”

Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
A paper from Anthropic describing persona vectors and their applications to monitoring and controlling model behavior

Sure, the Fediverse is nerdy and requires you to choose an instance, but at least that makes it too "complicated" for the vice president of a fascist administration to join.

just discovered https://masto-fe.superseriousbusiness.org/ which you can hook up to a GTS instance but also a mastodon instance, which serves as a nice way to see what mastodon used to look like way back in the day. loving the columns!

@… on ATProto it feels like nearly all users are on the same instance anyway and everybody gives their data to Bsky / Blockchain Capital.
Having a few bits separately in a PDS doesn't feel like federation somehow.
However, if someone decides to have an own Mastodon instance for their family/friends/company that is really done.
And if you don't want…

the #MakerTube #PeerTube instance appears to be down currently, @… do you know anything about this?

My Mastodon instance updated UI.😍
It's is more clear and usable...I hate it!😆
[this joke was stolen from Big Bang Theory]

If you mark a Swift class unavailable on older OS versions, and give that class an instance variable which holds a struct that is only defined in the new OS SDK (such as DynamicGenerationSchema or GeneratedContent), calling objc_getClassList() will crash.
Fortunately, the pattern to work around this is pretty easy (though it does impose some runtime overhead):

final var content: GeneratedContent { return contentStorage as! GeneratedContent }
private final le…

@… doing this in the OTEL collector is on my list. But in this case allow listing which device to gather metrics for on the prometheus node exporter. Plus allow listing which metrics to ship to the cloud instance

So, the instance I'm on isn't exactly getting a lot of attention for my artwork, does anyone have recommendations for where I could transfer to instead?

TIL that the social.bbc (@…) instance is hosted in Ireland according to @…
…

Just set up an instance of Uptime Kuma out of spite because Uptime Robot want to quadruple their prices.
1) It's really good! I like it!
2) I know you all hate the LLMs, but compared to having to read and understand the entire fucking Linux network stack all the way to the bottom in order to make a simple change, having Microsoft Co-pilot on hand to walk me through it made it take a couple of hours instead of several days.

I don't like the fact that so much of the traffic on my #Mastodon instance is coming from mastodon.social

According to Dropsitenews Meta is training AI on multiple Lemmy instances. I also saw some mastodon instance in the PDF.
Full article https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower
Full list:

Ah, I figured it out. Classic.
Somewhere else in the project someone is mocking one of my dependencies and overwriting the singleton instance.
So it’s wholly non deterministic whether I get a working or broken dependency at runtime.
The debugger being attached slowed execution of my particular test, making it more likely the offending one had run in parallel before I finished stepping through the code.

The WriteFreely instance at Infosec.press is cool. It ties back to their infosec.exchange mastodon instance. Thinking about how finding a blog space has been a barrier to some of my protects in the past (noblogs is great but is harder to get an account), I wonder what the prospects are for something like that at @…. Is this something that's on the radar?
@… had a handy writeup on this for their server: https://infosec.press/jerry/how-to-user-mastodons-built-on-oauth-provider-as-the-authentication-provider

@… I will! I forget about hashtags because my one-person instance can’t find anything, but I’ll browse them on mastodon.social.

There's a simple way for instance operators to comply: trust your users. Demand that they positively assert that they do not live in North Korea, Iran, Mississippi, etc. as a condition of joining. This creates a legitimate good faith belief that users are not legally barred from the system.
ALSO: No one should ever take advice from me as grounded in legality. I have no legal education beyond what life has forced upon me without my consent, and I am ill-suited to teach.

Is there a way to force a #Mastodon instance to fetch the follower number of an account again? I'm asking, because @… is growing, but the follower number I see stays steady.. (not only here, but on other instances too)

Feeling like moving this account to a GTS instance, would delete my Bsky and bridge it there and make it a one-for-all, but I want something like WP to tweak not GTS. It'd be cool if @… would consider a 10 buck a month plan for something like ClassicPress w/ ActivityPub, I imagine that's pretty light.

FYI: mstdn.ca appears to be down if you’re looking for people on that instance. Chad was having some electrical issues earlier.
Edit: @… is back online!
#mstdnca #mastodon #canada

PSA: Fake verification replies are starting again. Don't fall for them. Best thing you can do is report them as SPAM to your instance and forward to any optional instances with "Fake Mastodon Verification Scam" written in the notes/comments section for the report. Make sure everyone you interact with knows this is going on. Permanent solutions to combat this scam are being implemented to tackle it by the software developers.

Anyone know why I can’t see @…’s account when I do a search for “Nouran” from my Mastodon instance? Can you folks see her profile from yours? If not, any idea why not?
Update: thank you all for checking. Looks like it’s working, just not from my instance for some reason.

there's a specific fedi instance ending in .estate (you've probably seen it if you're a #mastoadmin or #fediadmin) that's been a hub for all sorts of problematic stuff. I have just sent an abuse report to:
- the domain registrar
- the nameserver operator, and
- th…

@… I’ve been self hosting an instance of this for a few years now. I use it almost daily and it really takes me back to growing up I the 90’s!
https://weatherstar.gatewayy.net

Proud of myself today!
Two new wesnoth songs uploaded!
About my GTA5 activity...well it was about damn time I shared some of that and that I started transferring files with real tools instead of workarounds like uploading to another Mastodon instance, then re-uploading...

Please understand this:
A "like/star" ⭐️ only notified the person you are interacting with.
A boost 🔁 tells your entire instance that you appreciate something about this share.
Want to help your friends? Use the boost, Luke!

Just in case you missed it:
I'm publishing my videos on my own #Peertube account / instance:
@…
Mostly short videos about my #Hiking

I think he is trying to say he is an Avenger without realising he is the supervillain.
Also, does he know that while he is torrenting the world libraries into his bank account, you could set up for $10 a month your own Mastodon instance which is ten times better federated than his 'federated' Threads?

UPDATE! They fixed it!
Very sad atm my friend who bridged their account from bluesky isn't found on mastodon.I've added an issue here but I can't figure out what the issue might be.
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1973

ugh, I never know with Mastodon: is it my instance? the webbrowser I use instead of paying for proper software? my computer?
Stop eating messages in my home timeline, whichever you are!!

If you are on mastodon.social please migrate to another instance. Because it's too big 😐
Find another instance
https://fedi.garden

My reason for using (#)FediVideo.
(#)FediVideo is video hosted on the fediverse...so it could be uploaded to Mastodon...or PeerTube...or another fediverse instance that "plays nice" with the ActivityPub protocol.
#FediVideo #ActivityPub

Just had to upgrade my solo instance of hosted Mastodon from the smallest plan (est. 5 active users) to the next size (est. 20 active users), due to database storage exhaustion.
I’m still happy to pay someone else to deal with Ruby, and it’s certainly worth $9/month…
…and I’m also happy when it happens, but this is totally the fault of the network effects of the occasional @…

More and more am I glad this Mastodon instance is not hosted in the United States

@… There was an instance where they more or less did.
My in-laws showed up super early one morning, my wife had had a long and crappy night (Induced pregnancy, so we were in the hospital for almost a week).
The nurses told them that she was having a procedure done and they couldn’t see her until 10, giving her the freedom not to deal with them startin…

My Mastodon instance federates with 26,885 others. Someday, I want to try to answer the question of "How many instances are actually out there?" by checking all 26,885 for who those instances federate with (and probably removing any that don't respond to an http request).

When I wrote my last post above I got an error from my instance that the post was over the 500 character limit. Which is odd, since I have the limit set to 2000 on my instance.
Sure enough, it looks like somewhere along the line I blew away the config files that had been edited to enable the longer posts.
So consider this a test to see if I have correctly re-applied the hack, which is what it is, and completely unnecessarily, in the code for mastodon when this should be a simple switch/option in the admin panel!
(edit: confirmed: 2000 character limit restored)
#selfhost #footiMac #Pixelfed #Mastodon #upgrade #Debian

@… @… I think it’s possible if I want to screw about but it’s unsupported and I currently run this Mastodon instance on it, so I don’t want to take it down for some indeterminate period of time.
When my Zima arrives I’ll migrate eve…

little known fediverse tip: you can follow @PeerTube@<peertube instance> to get a feed of all videos on that instance! for instance, @…'s PeerTube instance is @…

has anyone registered http://:3.social for a fedi instance? is that even possible? if so, it seems like a missed opportunity not to register it…

How will Mastodon/Fedi handle the new UK age verification law? Serious question affecting every instance owner.

I have decided to block mastodon.cloud and would recommend that you consider doing the same.
If you know anyone who currently uses this instance, it may be advisable to encourage them to migrate to another one.
You can read more about the reasoning here: https://social.linux.pizza…

Why does anyone use #icecubesapp on #macOS?
I don't get it?
Your Mastodon-Instance doesn't have a web-ui?

Anyone use Fedihost for their mastodon instance?
I get an error ("something has gone wrong”) when I try to load my instance.
I don't see any info on logs nor how to SSH in to poke around.
Any ideas?
#selfhosting #mastodon

has anyone registered http://:3.social for a fedi instance? is that even possible? if so, it seems like a missed opportunity not to register it…

First sighting on my Mastodon instance of a properly rendered quoted post. It's beautiful and appropriately nerdy.

💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
SUPERWARNING SHOPPINGTONZ
HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY NAUGHTY
AND THE ACCOUNT HAS BEEN
SUSPENDED
YOU ⚠️⚠️MUST CONTACT ANNA501531509523 ON
SOME INSTANCE WITHIN THE NEXT
15 SECONDS⚠️
IF YOU FAIL ⚠️ TO DO THAT YOUR
ACCOUNT WILL BE PERMANENTLY
DELETED
OUR PR PIC IS MASTODON!
WE LEGIT!
OPEN THIS SHADY LINK ⚠️
💥💥💥💥⚠️⚠️💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
iminnocent.null/shoppingcart/buycardboard/buythisbrick/buythiscabbage/we…

i think my pixelfed install has been slowing down #footiMac! I stopped it temporarily just to see if it would help and things sped up and responded immediately. So I may keep my pixelfed instance offline for the foreseeable future. I don't use it anyway. Maybe i'll test it out on my external host rather #footiMac just to take away any multi-hosted issues.
I'm now at 4.4.0 and am now moving to 4.4.1. Should be done shortly!
#Pixelfed #Mastodon #upgrade #Debian

Ok, let's say the reply guys are gone from Mastodon(I don't think they are)...
even if they were gone, there are still spam attacks and they are not hackers, they are simple user accounts spamming the usual youtube clickbait garbage.
Xi Jinping happy face
Trump sad face
on the thumbnail.
Blocked 2 accounts that posted such garbage. This is allowed though on my instance.
I guess users are free to "make content interesting".