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That’s it for this announcement! Thank you for your attention, ...

2026-05-03T14:18:25Z

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That’s it for this announcement!
Thank you for your attention, take care, and see you next month!

Until then, enjoy the Beginning of summer.
May 5–9: Frogs start singing

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— Timothée

- If you missed the last @npub1cza…d6az, they will shortly ...

2026-05-03T14:18:13Z

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- If you missed the last FediForum (npub1cza…d6az), they will shortly publish video recordings of the speed demos, the fireside chat, and the protocol presentations on their PeerTube channel https://spectra.video/@fediforum

- Tim Chambers (npub1vag…mjkp) and Sean Tilley (npub1zj7…lc9y) wrote an interesting article called “The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card” https://wedistribute.org/2026/04/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux-sins-a-redemption-report-card/

- Elefeed (npub106a…7sjk) is a new clean, privacy-first Mastodon client with organized, tidy feeds that runs entirely in your browser https://mastodon.social/@elefeed/116500605472720810

- @npub17m8…rsw8 covered this announcement in his FR#159 ...

2026-05-03T14:17:10Z

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- Laurens Hof (npub17m8…rsw8) covered this announcement in his FR#159 article https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr159-sovereign-tech-agency-funds-mastodon/, in which he also wrote about the launch of Surf (npub1ekk…vy6m) by Flipboard https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboards-surf-launches-first-social-websites-a-new-model-for-social-media/

- In the next one, Laurens Hof explores “What makes a social network resilient?”: FR#160 – Everyone Wants Servers And Nobody Wants Servers https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr160-everyone-wants-servers-and-nobody-wants-servers/

- @npub13za…8j89 shared recent “behind the scenes of the ...

2026-05-03T14:16:37Z

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- Andy Piper (npub13za…8j89) shared recent “behind the scenes of the code” from the Mastodon team in the last Trunk & Tidbits https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/trunk-tidbits-march-2026/

- He also announced his decision to leave his role as Head of Communications at Mastodon https://macaw.social/@andypiper/116403015255633865

- Mastodon has been awarded a €614k service agreement by the Sovereign Tech Agency (npub1yng…nhrk) to support improvements and updates to Mastodon and the broader software ecosystem https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

:kare_news: Best of Fediverse news - @npub1l2k…6m2l FR#158 – ...

2026-05-03T14:16:03Z

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:kare_news: Best of Fediverse news

- Connected Places (npub1l2k…6m2l) FR#158 – What is Mastodon for? “On AI and place, and how Mastodon gives tools to create communities at the instance level, but people experience ‘place’ at the federation level” https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodon-for/

- Imani (npub1404…fqef) shared, once again, a great article about the process involved in designing Collections for Mastodon https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/designing-collections/

⬆️ Server upgrade: v4.5.9 Changelog: ...

2026-05-03T14:15:38Z

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⬆️ Server upgrade: v4.5.9

Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.9

💛 Special thanks to @npub16jt…2t7m @npub160t…2l6v ...

2026-05-03T14:14:00Z

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💛 Special thanks to Liam (npub16jt…2t7m) Václav Vančura (npub160t…2l6v) Justin Velgos (npub1wtd…f43v) and jfabreguettes (npub1km7…xge5) for their generous donations last month, and to all the regular supporters from Liberapay and Ko-fi: Cecilia Mjausson Huster (npub1x0u…r43m) Amadeus Maximilian (npub1dau…34ue) Téotime Pacreau (npub10kq…tcxc) garyg (npub1zx6…enfg) Anton Moglia (npub1esd…k428) Damien Jorrand (npub143t…mz7j) Stez (npub15dl…c7pc) Chris Wood (npub1m68…5gu9) Jean-Etienne Trapon (npub130m…ryej) Ivo Mynttinen (npub1387…7rfq) Charles Bauer (npub19sh…007d) and the anonymous ones! On behalf of all the members, thank you. If anyone else would like to become a Supporter, here are the links:

:liberapay: https://en.liberapay.com/timotheegoguely/
:kofi: https://ko-fi.com/timotheegoguely

💶 Current year financial status: Total costs: €483 Total ...

2026-05-03T14:13:47Z

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💶 Current year financial status:

Total costs: €483
Total donations: €435 = €181 from Liberapay (+130) + €139 (+87) from Ko-fi + €115 from 2025
Balance: −€48 (+69)

Regarding our dear server, as expected, I needed to upgrade our ...

2026-05-03T14:13:20Z

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Regarding our dear server, as expected, I needed to upgrade our masto.host plan to add one $10 Extra Resources pack, which brings us to a monthly total of $142.80. Let’s take a closer look at all of this.

📊 Server stats:

Monthly active users: 299 (−4)
Halfyear active users: 473 (−5)
Total members: 1,423 (+9)

Total reports: 303 (+2)

Database: 44.97 GB / 48 GB (93.69%)
Media: 191.01 GB / 480 GB (39.79%)

📢 May 2026 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement Dear members, I hope ...

2026-05-03T14:12:41Z

📢 May 2026 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement

Dear members,

I hope everyone is doing well! As for me, I’m swamped with paperwork and work, I broke my left wrist doing a kickflip on Pikselkraft ▪ (npub190g…hcnp)’s cruiser skateboard during his stay here in Strasbourg, but I take comfort in admiring the Virginia creeper that covers the front of my studio, which is looking absolutely stunning this time of year.

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Ok, this is the first time I’ve received a request to create an ...

2026-03-11T13:59:19Z

Ok, this is the first time I’ve received a request to create an account from an AI agent. Are other admins also starting to receive these kinds of requests?

I think I’m going to block all email addresses from agentwire.email

#MastoAdmin #AIagent #NoAI

Thank you for reading! Take care 🩷

2025-12-15T19:02:22Z

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Thank you for reading! Take care 🩷

Thank you, you too! 😊

2025-12-14T22:12:05Z

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Thank you, you too! 😊

That’s it for this last announcement of 2025! Thank you for ...

2025-12-14T21:09:53Z

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That’s it for this last announcement of 2025!
Thank you for your attention, take care, and see you next year!

Until then, enjoy the Greater snow.
December 12–16: Bears start hibernating in their dens

🐻

— Timothée

- PeerTube released version 8 with “a redesigned video player, ...

2025-12-14T21:09:42Z

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- PeerTube released version 8 with “a redesigned video player, an improved experience for importing videos and the ability to share channel management with other accounts” https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-8.0
- Bonfire has crossed their goal for their crowdfunding campaign, raising 30k for maintainance and support for the software https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community
- Mastodon’s shared their November “Trunk & Tidbits” engineering update https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/trunk-tidbits-november-2025/

- [@stegodon](https://stegodon.social/u/stegodon ) is an ...

2025-12-14T21:09:07Z

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- [@stegodon](https://stegodon.social/u/stegodon ) is an SSH-first microblogging server built with Go https://stegodon.social
- WeDistribute’s Sean Tilley (npub1zj7…lc9y) writes about the fediverse and monetization for content creators https://deadsuperhero.com/the-fediverse-and-content-creation-monetization/
- The Fedidb.com website has a year-in-review with some stat overviews for the fediverse https://fedidb.com/year-in-review/2025

- Mastodon partners with WE AID to offer donors tax-deductible ...

2025-12-14T21:08:50Z

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- Mastodon partners with WE AID to offer donors tax-deductible contributions in Germany https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-joins-forces-with-we-aid/
- Loops has published a roadmap of their planned and in-progress features https://joinloops.org/roadmap
- Holos is a new project to run an ActivityPub server on your mobile phone https://holos.social/
- Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/

- WebSocialBR is the first fediverse event that will be held in ...

2025-12-14T21:08:29Z

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- WebSocialBR is the first fediverse event that will be held in Brazil, on December 3rd in Brasília https://websocial.org.br
- The Fireside Fedi (npub16k9…2nry) show talks with [@snarfed.org](https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://snarfed.org/about ) and Anuj Ahooja (npub1zzy…9edy) from @anewsocialmastodon.social and Bridgy Fed https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/3qQznQ68cTadBCCm7FJ1ys
- The WordPress-focused podcast The PublishPress talks with Evan Prodromou (npub1764…nuj0) about how the fediverse and WordPress can be better connected https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M_6jbcI3U0
- Mastodon has some new merch in store https://shop.joinmastodon.org/collections/winter-2025-drop

- The Fedimod FIRES project by independent developer Emelia Smith ...

2025-12-14T21:07:56Z

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- The Fedimod FIRES project by independent developer Emelia Smith is “a protocol and reference server implementation for storing and distributing moderation advisories and recommendations over time for the Fediverse” https://fires.fedimod.org
- A Fedify: ActivityPub server framework (npub1tlf…wz08) tutorial for creating your own federated microblog https://unstable.fedify.dev/tutorial/microblog
- While Masto is transitioning its legal and operational structures, the division of roles within team has evolved—Eugen Rochko is no longer the CEO https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/the-future-is-ours-to-build-together/

:kare_news: Best of Fediverse news (now as a list for greater ...

2025-12-14T21:06:31Z

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:kare_news: Best of Fediverse news (now as a list for greater readability)

- Erin Kissane (npub1sac…kcpe) has written an article on Bonfire, and why building blocks for communities matter https://www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/
- Moved to @bonfire@bonfire.cafe (npub1lzd…urpr) wrote about ‘Matters of care – why maintenance comes first’ https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/matters-of-care-why-maintenance-comes-first/
- Mastodon has updated and simplified the roadmap of what they are working on: Collections(Packs), Institution support, and Better onboarding https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap

💛 I’m very grateful to the 29 supporters from Liberapay and ...

2025-12-14T21:06:10Z

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💛 I’m very grateful to the 29 supporters from Liberapay and the 9 Ko-fi ones. We are close to achieving financial balance! If some of you who haven’t participated yet this year could make a donation this month, I think we can do it.

Just a quick reminder that regular donations, even modest ones, help me to gain more visibility. We need around €130 per month, so that means 65 people giving only €2 each month.
- https://en.liberapay.com/timotheegoguely/
- https://ko-fi.com/timotheegoguely

💶 Current year financial status: Total costs: €1,345 (+129) ...

2025-12-14T21:05:47Z

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💶 Current year financial status:

Total costs: €1,345 (+129)
Total donations: €1,310 = €920 (+213) from Liberapay + €390 (+23) from Ko-fi
Balance: −€35 (+104)

📉 As we crossed our current plan 48 GB limit a few days ago, I ...

2025-12-14T21:05:03Z

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📉 As we crossed our current plan 48 GB limit a few days ago, I asked Hugo Gameiro (npub1r30…8lle) from masto.host to run the `tootctl status remove` command on our server.

And guess what? It cleaned more than 8 GB of data, which allowed me to temporarily downgrade our subscription by removing 1 extra resources add-on! I’ll probably have to add it again in a few weeks, but at least that’s some money saved.

⬆️ Server upgrade: v4.5.3

Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.3

📊 Server stats: Monthly active users: 315 (+19) Halfyear ...

2025-12-14T21:04:19Z

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📊 Server stats:

Monthly active users: 315 (+19)
Halfyear active users: 468 (+7)
Total members: 1,371 (+19)

Total reports: 281 (+2)

Database: 39.86 GB / 44 GB (90.59%)
Media: 159.06 GB / 440 GB (36.15%)

📢 December 2025 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement Dear members, This ...

2025-12-14T21:03:35Z

📢 December 2025 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement

Dear members,

This month is particularly intense for me so far, and I’m a little exhausted to be honest. I’m going to spend the holidays with my family and try to get some rest. I hope you also find time for yourself and your loved ones. But before that, here is December’s announcement, two weeks late. Better late than never!

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That’s it for this announcement! Thank you for your attention, ...

2025-11-07T23:25:11Z

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That’s it for this announcement!
Thank you for your attention, take care, and see you in December.

Until then, enjoy the Beginning of winter.
November 7–11: Camellias bloom

🌸

— Timothée

:kare_news: IFTAS’s @npub1hg6…nwn8 wrote about the fediverse ...

2025-11-07T23:24:53Z

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:kare_news: IFTAS’s jaz :twt: :wales_flag: (npub1hg6…nwn8) wrote about the fediverse and how we can create better social networking places https://jaz.co.uk/2025/10/30/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-million-pickleball-courts/; Hilda Bastian (npub1cjn…05q3) wrote a post about how “A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different” that got popular on the fediverse https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/10/30/a-mastodon-migration-from-bluesky-would-be-different/; Moved to @bonfire@bonfire.cafe (npub1lzd…urpr) has officially launched as version 1.0, and with it, the team has also launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund continued maintenance and the next phase of development https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

:kare_news: An extensive interview with the creators of event ...

2025-11-07T23:24:25Z

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:kare_news: An extensive interview with the creators of event planning app Mobilizon (npub1n38…87gn) https://www.projets-libres.org/en/podcast/open-source-publishers-mobilizon-sharing-the-events-of-its-communities-in-the-fediverse/; “The Solo Instance Problem”, a PeerTube video by FediHost Video (npub1l4j…fppc) in which they talk about some of the challenges for self-hosting a solo instance for the fediverse https://video.fedihost.co/w/gt2QJzod4UKHQ8Z9jb3USB; Ben Werdmuller (npub1lrq…pn8w) gave the keynote speech about “why the open social web matters now” during FediForum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3aYpejuvxU

:kare_news: WeDistribute has published an extensive overview and ...

2025-11-07T23:23:48Z

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:kare_news: WeDistribute has published an extensive overview and review of Wafrn, the Tumblr-like platform that is both on the fediverse as well as on ATProto https://wedistribute.org/2025/10/wafrn-chaotic-good/; Short-form video platform loops (npub1wa2…zalq) has announced it is joining the fediverse https://blog.joinloops.org/loops-joins-the-fediverse/; An excellent overview of last week’s FediForum (npub1cza…d6az) by Richard MacManus (npub1387…vefs) for [@TheNewStack](https://hachyderm.io/@TheNewStack ) https://thenewstack.io/everything-big-starts-small-building-open-social-web-apps/; PeerTube (npub17gp…7p4g) is now officially recognised as a Digital Public Good https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube;

:kare_news: The ActivityPub framework Fedify has gotten a 192K ...

2025-11-07T23:22:50Z

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:kare_news: The ActivityPub framework Fedify has gotten a 192K EUR grant by the Sovereign Tech Fund to further strenghten the ecosystem https://hollo.social/@fedify/0199a579-adb3-7bf5-a8ea-970c8fa91f09; “How Decentralized Social Platforms Grew from Identica to Modern-Day Mastodon”, a podcast interview with Evan Prodromou (npub1764…nuj0) by WordPress-ActivityPub developer Matthias Pfefferle (npub1jwr…7v3w) https://openchannels.fm/how-decentralized-social-platforms-grew-from-identica-to-modern-day-mastodon/; Mastodon Team shared their latest Trunk & Tidbits post on their blog https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/trunk-tidbits-september-2025/

:kare_news: Best of Fediverse news: @npub168y…upza, an ...

2025-11-07T23:22:20Z

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:kare_news: Best of Fediverse news: AltStore (npub168y…upza), an alternative app store for iOS, is joining the fediverse and donating 300k USD to Mastodon, and 200k USD is split across various fediverse projects; Mastodon has shared more information on their upcoming plans to introduce ‘Packs’ to Mastodon https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/; Bounce is a tool by A New Social that will soon allow you to transfer your social graph from Mastodon to Bluesky https://bounce.anew.social

💶 Current year financial status: Total costs: €1216 (+129) ...

2025-11-07T23:21:55Z

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💶 Current year financial status:

Total costs: €1216 (+129)
Total donations: €1074 = €707 (+63) from Liberapay + €367 (+53) from Ko-fi
Balance: −€142 (−13)

💛 If you haven’t contributed yet this year, now is the time! The goal is obviously to try to end the year in balance, and we’re almost there. Thanks again to all the supporters among you, your help is greatly appreciated.
- https://en.liberapay.com/timotheegoguely/
- https://ko-fi.com/timotheegoguely

⬆️ Server upgrade: v4.5.0 Our server is now running the ...

2025-11-07T23:21:25Z

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⬆️ Server upgrade: v4.5.0

Our server is now running the version 4.5 of Mastodon, which introduces the much-anticipated Quote Posts and Fetch All Replies features! Please read their blog post if you want to learn more about all the enhancements of this new version: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/

Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.0

🇩🇪 Speaking of moderation, our team has undergone some ...

2025-11-07T23:21:10Z

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🇩🇪 Speaking of moderation, our team has undergone some changes to avoid redundancies and terms of languages represented and to replace one of our previous moderators who is no longer active here.

So please welcome Amadeus Maximilian (npub1dau…34ue) as our new German-speaking moderator! Did you know that German is the third most active language on our server after English and French?

📢 November 2025 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement Dear members, A ...

2025-11-07T23:20:39Z

📢 November 2025 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement

Dear members,

A week late, here is the announcement for November. The main news this month is the release of version 4.5 of Mastodon and its long-awaited features. Here we go!

📊 Server stats:

Monthly active users: 296 (−24)
Halfyear active users: 461 (−5)
Total members: 1,352 (+19)

Database: 46.73 GB / 48 GB (97.35%)
Media: 165.48 GB / 480 GB (34.48%)

Total reports: 279 (+4)

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🇵🇸 Speaking of support, the first special announcement is ...

2025-10-04T18:15:04Z

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🇵🇸 Speaking of support, the first special announcement is that our server has been listed on the Gaza Verified website as a welcoming and safe space for Palestinians on Mastodon: https://gaza-verified.org/guide/

Thanks to the generosity of the Fediverse community, their Emergency Appeal campaign successfully reached its $40K goal. You can still support their individual fundraisers to help them survive this genocide.

Thank you Joy (npub1nv8…za59) and Aral Balkan (npub1p09…m5vl) for your unwavering determination in setting all this up.

💶 Current year financial status: Total costs: €1087 (+128) ...

2025-10-04T18:09:12Z

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💶 Current year financial status:

Total costs: €1087 (+128)
Total donations: €958 = €644 (+103) from Liberapay + €314 (+13) from Ko-fi
Balance: −€129 (−12)

💛 Thanks again to all our supporters! I have just updated the goals on my Liberapay and Ko-fi pages accordingly:
- https://en.liberapay.com/timotheegoguely/
- https://ko-fi.com/timotheegoguely

📊 Server stats: Monthly active users: 320 (+28) Halfyear ...

2025-10-04T18:08:39Z

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📊 Server stats:

Monthly active users: 320 (+28)
Halfyear active users: 466 (+0)
Total members: 1,333 (+19)

Database: 45.65 GB / 48 GB (95.1%)
Media: 169.12 GB / 480 GB (35.23%)

Total reports: 275 (+8)

⬆️ Server upgrade: v4.4.5

Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.5

📢 October 2025 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement Dear members, I ...

2025-10-04T18:07:56Z

📢 October 2025 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement

Dear members,

I hope everyone is well. The leaves of the gorgeous Virginia creeper at the front of my studio have started to turn red, I have a runny nose, the weather is rainy, and some friends went mushroom picking at the weekend. There’s no doubt about it — autumn is here!

This month, I would like to share two special things with you. But first, let’s take a look at this month’s statistics.

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Oh ok, thanks for the update! @npub18fj…cp9r You're more ...

2025-09-23T13:38:24Z

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Oh ok, thanks for the update!

seengoals (npub18fj…cp9r) You're more than welcome if you want to migrate on mastodon.design, I just undo the suspension of your account nabilgaza (npub1gf4…508c)
I simply wanted to first verify with Aral that someone wasn’t trying to impersonate you.

That’s it for this announcement! Thank you for your attention, ...

2025-09-01T18:27:33Z

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That’s it for this announcement!
Thank you for your attention, take care, and see you in October.

Until then, enjoy the Manageable heat.
August 28–September 1: Heat starts to die down

🔅

— Timothée

:kare_news: @npub1xp0…dse0 is launching a weekly newsletter, ...

2025-09-01T18:27:25Z

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:kare_news: We Distribute (npub1xp0…dse0) is launching a weekly newsletter, Relay, with a roundup of links to all the news around the open social web https://newsletter.wedistribute.org; A preview of what Mastodon’s upcoming quote posting feature will look like https://oisaur.com/@renchap/115068739790243414

:kare_news: @npub1y2r…kvzk founder @npub1hg6…nwn8 wrote a ...

2025-09-01T18:26:44Z

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:kare_news: IFTAS (npub1y2r…kvzk) founder jaz :twt: :wales_flag: (npub1hg6…nwn8) wrote a blog post titled “There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Fediverses.” https://jaz.co.uk/2025/08/14/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-million-fediverses/; CrowdBucks is a new fediverse-native payment platform, that allows for crowdfunding, tipping and more (I tried to setup an account for Admin (npub1a37…erk3), but Stripe Connect is only available for organisations based in Canada or USA for now) https://crowdbucks.fund

:kare_news: A new research paper on the lemmygrad.ml Lemmy ...

2025-09-01T18:26:10Z

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:kare_news: A new research paper on the lemmygrad.ml Lemmy instance, called “Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml” https://arxiv.org/html/2507.23699v1; All of the video’s of the recent FediCon (npub1t20…l7dl) conference have now been published on PeerTube https://spectra.video/c/fedicon_videos/videos; Openvibe (npub1nwk…dgjz), a client that combines Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr and Threads into a single timeline, now also supports RSS, to be both a news and social app at the same time https://mastodon.social/@openvibe/114983163912608593

:kare_news: A list published by Drop News Site contains over 100k ...

2025-09-01T18:25:41Z

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:kare_news: A list published by Drop News Site contains over 100k websites that Meta allegedly has scraped for their data to train their AI, and the list also contains a number of fediverse servers (no trace of mastodon.design, but Designers Éthiques (npub1skr…wzvt) by our member Designers Ethiques (npub1t4h…hgfw) is in the list) https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/is-meta-scraping-the-fediverse-for-ai/; Mastodon shared in their monthly engineering update, Trunks and Tidbits, that the organisation is working on adding Starter Packs https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/08/trunk-tidbits-july-2025/

:kare_news: Best of Fediverse news: Newsletter publishing ...

2025-09-01T18:24:45Z

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:kare_news: Best of Fediverse news:

Newsletter publishing platform Ghost has officially shipped their integration with the social web with update Ghost 6.0 https://ghost.org/changelog/6/; The Mastodon client Pachli (npub1tqy…hjr8) which supports older versions of Android, just published their v3.0 release https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/09/01/3.x-starts-now.html; Quiblr is a client for the Threadiverse https://github.com/Technicolor-Dreamcoat/Quiblr

🧑‍🎨 In addition to this new Supporter badge, I took the ...

2025-09-01T18:23:55Z

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🧑‍🎨 In addition to this new Supporter badge, I took the opportunity to improve the display of a few web interface components like rich text elements and verified links.

All our custom CSS code is available here if you are interested: https://gist.github.com/timotheegoguely/c5d7a97f7a52e215ac8d16d2e094caed

🙏 Here is the list of the 20 current mastodon.design ...

2025-09-01T18:23:23Z

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🙏 Here is the list of the 20 current mastodon.design Supporters I could find (please reach out to me if I forgot you, if you made an anonymous donation and want the badge, or if don’t want any badge):

Stez (npub15dl…c7pc) James Alegría (npub14w4…u2a3) Cecilia Mjausson Huster (npub1x0u…r43m) iantompkins (npub16uv…47gr) garyg (npub1zx6…enfg) Guirec Lefort (npub1mvh…k580) [@ku_mi](https://mastodon.design/@ku_mi ) Anton Moglia (npub1esd…k428) Estelle (npub17df…u430) Ivo Mynttinen (npub1387…7rfq) Violet Bison 🦬 (npub1n30…0xmw) Rainer Klute (npub17mw…62sk) Téotime Pacreau (npub10kq…tcxc) Jean-Rémy Praud (npub1g6e…fx7g) Damien Jorrand (npub143t…mz7j) Tunera Type Foundry (npub1d5g…95wg) jfabreguettes (npub1km7…xge5) Chris Wood (npub1m68…5gu9) Justin Velgos (npub1wtd…f43v) hidemaro (npub1v0j…jxnz)

A huge thank you to all of you!

💛 To thank all our generous members who made a donation this ...

2025-09-01T18:22:09Z

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💛 To thank all our generous members who made a donation this year via Liberapay or Ko-Fi, and especially our monthly patrons who help me gain some financial visibility, I created a new “Supporter” role and assigned it to them!

With a few lines of CSS, I managed to replace the default icon with a heart to hijack the use of this role to turn it into a “Supporter” badge visible on their profile (at least on the Mastodon Web UI).

💶 Current year financial status: Total costs: €959 (+131) ...

2025-09-01T18:20:40Z

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💶 Current year financial status:

Total costs: €959 (+131)
Total donations: €842 = €541 (+29) from Liberapay + €301 (+13) from Ko-fi
Balance: −€117 (−89)

➕ Since we exceeded the 44 GB limit for our database, I had to add an Extra Resources pack on masto.host, increasing our monthly bill to $142.80

📊 Server stats: Monthly active users: 292 (−5) Halfyear ...

2025-09-01T18:19:28Z

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📊 Server stats:

Monthly active users: 292 (−5)
Halfyear active users: 466 (−22)
Total members: 1,314 (+10)

Database: 44.38 GB / 48 GB (92.46%)
Media: 154.1 GB / 480 GB (32.1%)

Total reports: 267 (+7)

⬆️ Server upgrade: v4.4.3

Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.3

📢 September 2025 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement Dear members, ...

2025-09-01T18:18:51Z

📢 September 2025 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement

Dear members,

September is already here, often synonymous with the end of summer vacation and preparations for going back to school or work.

This month, I have a small gift to thank our contributing members, without whom this instance would not exist! But let’s start as usual with the figures for the month.

🧵1/12

That’s it for this announcement! Thank you for your attention, ...

2025-08-04T11:29:13Z

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That’s it for this announcement!
Thank you for your attention, take care, and see you in September.

Until then, enjoy the Greater heat.
August 3–7: Great rains sometimes fall

🌧️

— Timothée

:kare_news: The Event Federation project shares what they’ll be ...

2025-08-04T11:28:57Z

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:kare_news: The Event Federation project shares what they’ll be working on in the future to make events more accessible within the fediverse https://event-federation.eu/2025/06/10/the-work-continues-whats-next/; “delightful fediverse experience” is a curated list of fediverse software that offer decentralized social networking services based on ActivityPub protocols https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/; FediCon (npub1t20…l7dl), a Canadian conference for decentralized social networks and the social web, just started to publish their videos https://spectra.video/c/fedicon_videos/videos

:kare_news: Meta has moved fediverse posts on Threads to a ...

2025-08-04T11:28:17Z

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:kare_news: Meta has moved fediverse posts on Threads to a separate ‘fediverse’ feed without the ability to reply to it https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/threads-expands-open-social-web-integrations-with-fediverse-feed-user-profile-search/; Mastodon announced that Mastodon is now registered as a digital public good https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/mastodon-dpga/; Mastoson also published a post entitled “A nudge to fund our future” on their blog https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/a-nudge-to-fund-our-future/

:kare_news: The team implementing the ActivityPub plugin for ...

2025-08-04T11:27:40Z

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:kare_news: The team implementing the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress has posted a blog with a roadmap what they are working on https://activitypub.blog/2025/06/11/our-2025-roadmap-building-the-future-of-wordpress-federation/; The Social Web Foundation released a draft of their work to implement end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging over ActivityPub https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/06/13/mls-over-activitypub-draft/; Mastodon has made some tweaks to smaller screen layouts on web https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/114693670994299306; Moved to @bonfire@bonfire.cafe (npub1lzd…urpr) is getting close to release https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_social_rc/

:kare_news: Gobo is a client that allows people to post to ...

2025-08-04T11:27:01Z

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:kare_news: Gobo is a client that allows people to post to multiple different platforms, including Mastodon and Bluesky https://spectra.video/w/kMNroBH9V7zaEEdZbQV5bz; The Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm takes your Mastodon timeline and uses various customisable algorithms to create custom clusterings for the post, allowing you to sort your timeline into various different topics https://spectra.video/w/xtZeTuwpYAqPszVBK1uULd

:kare_news: Best of Fediverse news: @npub1cza…d6az has ...

2025-08-04T11:26:08Z

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:kare_news: Best of Fediverse news:

FediForum (npub1cza…d6az) has published the videos of the keynotes and the software demos https://fediforum.org/2025-06/: Christine Lemmer-Webber (npub1urx…v0z4)’s keynote is about how the social media style of the 2010s is no longer good enough https://spectra.video/w/aQgZJDLam35wUcBd23yU2t; [@badgefed](https://badgefed.vocalcat.com/ ) is a platform for issues badges using the Open Badges standard and ActivityPub protocol, where the badges can later be verified cryptographically https://spectra.video/w/cxkx3UjpTnjnpNupSvnvMt

⬆️ Server upgrade: v4.4.2 Changelog: ...

2025-08-04T11:25:34Z

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⬆️ Server upgrade: v4.4.2

Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.2

💶 Current year financial status:

Total costs: €828 (+117)
Total donations: €800 = €512 (+111) from Liberapay + €288 (+61) from Ko-fi
Balance: −€28 (+55)

💛 A huge thank you to all our patrons who donated this month, we are gradually getting closer to financial equilibrium!

📢 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement Dear members, I hope you are ...

2025-08-04T11:25:06Z

📢 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement

Dear members,

I hope you are able to take advantage of the summer to devote some time to yourself, to what fulfills you, and to the people you care about. Here is your monthly information about our instance and the Fediverse.

📊 Server stats:

Monthly active users: 297 (−7)
Halfyear active users: 481 (−30)
Total members: 1,304 (+11)

Database: 43,39 GB / 44 GB (98.61%)
Media: 153.73 GB / 440 GB (35%)

Total reports: 260 (+5)

🧵1/8

Thanks Chris, I’m glad you enjoy reading them!

2025-07-14T14:58:12Z

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Thanks Chris, I’m glad you enjoy reading them!

Thank you Amadeus 🥰 I know that you're one of the few ...

2025-07-13T22:37:16Z

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Thank you Amadeus 🥰
I know that you're one of the few faithful readers!

That’s it for this announcement! Thank you for your attention, ...

2025-07-13T21:58:00Z

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That’s it for this announcement!
Thank you for your attention, take care, and see you in August.

Until then, enjoy the Lesser heat.
July 12–16: First lotus blossoms

🪷

— Timothée

:kare_news: @npub12k0…e2sz has successfully completed their ...

2025-07-13T21:57:38Z

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:kare_news: Framasoft (npub12k0…e2sz) has successfully completed their crowdfunding campaign, raising over €75k https://joinpeertube.org/news/crowdfunding-app-end; Manyfold (npub1wfk…zv38) is a fediverse platform for hosting and sharing 3D printer files, providing an alternative to platforms like Makerworld and Thingiverse https://3dp.chat/@manyfold/114704166841316538; Tim Chambers (npub1vag…mjkp) published “The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix)” https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

:kare_news: Canvas is a yearly fediverse event where people can ...

2025-07-13T21:57:15Z

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:kare_news: Canvas is a yearly fediverse event where people can paint on a shared canvas, one pixel at a time, for 48 hours, and it just started yesterday https://canvas.fediverse.events/?2025; Wanderer is a platform for managing and sharing your hiking, running and biking trails https://wanderer.to; Mastodon shared an update on their strategy for 2025 https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/mastodon-2025/; PieFed is officially out of beta, and has released the v1.0 https://piefed.social/post/956553

:kare_news: Bonfire’s new software lets users build their own ...

2025-07-13T21:56:15Z

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:kare_news: Bonfire’s new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/bonfires-new-software-lets-users-build-their-own-social-communities-free-from-platform-control/; Filmmaker and fediverse evangelist [@_elena](https://mastodon.social/@_elena ) has released her highly anticipated fediverse promotion video https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/; Lemm.ee, one of the biggest Lemmy servers, has been shut down https://lemmy.world/post/30727176; Tom Casavant (npub1a3c…8t0t) Posted to Mastodon 1 Mile Away from an Internet Connection https://tomcasavant.com/i-posted-to-mastodon-1-mile-away-from-an-internet-connection/

:kare_news: Ghost said that their ActivityPub integration will be ...

2025-07-13T21:55:39Z

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:kare_news: Ghost said that their ActivityPub integration will be part of the Ghost 6.0 release https://activitypub.ghost.org/ramping-up-for-expansion/; Splinter is a web app to split a long post into a Mastodon thread https://splinter.hastily.cc; Bounce is a newly-announced tool that allows people to migrate their social graph across protocols https://www.theverge.com/news/678928/bounce-bluesky-mastodon-bridgy-fed-tool-followers; Bandwagon is Bringing Music Sales to the Fediverse https://wedistribute.org/2025/06/bandwagon-music-sales/

:kare_news: Best of Fediverse news: PeerTube released their ...

2025-07-13T21:55:02Z

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:kare_news: Best of Fediverse news:

PeerTube released their latest version, 7.2, with a new design for video management and publication pages https://framapiaf.org/@peertube/114625492443892597; Andy Piper (npub13za…8j89), head of Comms at Mastodon, did a podcast interview about how Mastodon can break social media siloes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ4R4eJzHVs; DAIR (npub1mmf…2mx9) did a livestream about the future of the Black web experience, with Ro from The Bad Space and Rudy Fraser from Blacksky https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2472547406

If you want to know more about all the new features of this minor ...

2025-07-13T21:53:54Z

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If you want to know more about all the new features of this minor version, this blog post is for you: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/mastodon-4.4/

💶 Current year financial status:

Total costs: €711
Total donations: €628 (€401 from Liberapay + €227 from Ko-fi)
Balance: −€83 (−3)

⬆️ Thanks to @npub1r30…8lle, our server has been upgraded ...

2025-07-13T21:52:58Z

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⬆️ Thanks to Hugo Gameiro (npub1r30…8lle), our server has been upgraded to Mastodon v4.4!

I activated one of the new features called “Allow external sites to see your Mastodon server as a traffic source”, which means that, as Tom :damnified: (npub1u0z…6s43) wrote here https://metalhead.club/@thomas/114818655947733518:

> If somebody clicks a link in a Mastodon post, 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. No information about the user!

To reduce a little the time it takes me to draft them and to ...

2025-07-13T21:51:41Z

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To reduce a little the time it takes me to draft them and to spare your attention, I’ve decided to be a little less wordy and merge some sections. Please don’t hesitate to give me feedback, as I sometimes have the feeling that I’m speaking in a vacuum and that almost nobody reads it. Here we go.

📊 Current server stats:

Monthly active users: 304 (+11)
Halfyear active users: 511 (−7)
Total members: 1,293 (+18)

Database: 42.67 GB / 44 GB (97%)
Media: 156.24 GB / 440 GB (35.5%)

📢 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement After a few days hiking and ...

2025-07-13T21:50:51Z

📢 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement

After a few days hiking and camping with some friends in the Alps and Auvergne, and after taking my bearings on my new laptop—a second-hand Framework running Linux—following the death of my long-trusted 12-year-old MacBook Pro, I’m finally taking some time to write this month’s announcement.

🧵1/10

Thanks for your kind words and for being an active member of our ...

2025-01-12T01:25:17Z

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Thanks for your kind words and for being an active member of our community 🥰

Unfortunately, we can't install Tangerine UI on the server because masto.host only allows us to change the admin settings accessible via the web UI, I don't have access to the code.

But you can add the custom CSS for yourself if you use browser extension as it is explained in the documentation!

That’s it for this announcement! Thank you for your attention, ...

2025-01-11T18:19:19Z

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That’s it for this announcement!
Thank you for your attention, and see you next month.

Until then, enjoy the Lesser cold.
January 10–14: Springs thaw

🧊

— Timothée

:kare_news: Mastodon has belatedly published their Annual Report ...

2025-01-11T18:19:07Z

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:kare_news: Mastodon has belatedly published their Annual Report for 2023 https://joinmastodon.org/reports/Mastodon%20Annual%20Report%202023.pdf; Surf is a new app by Flipboard for the open social web that allows people to build their own custom feeds https://about.surf.social; TheIndieBeat.fm is a new radio station for showcasing indie music from the fediverse that will use upcoming fediverse audio platform Bandwagon.fm https://theindiebeat.fm

:kare_news: To conclude this already too long announcement, ...

2025-01-11T18:18:51Z

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:kare_news: To conclude this already too long announcement, let’s end with our usual curation of the best recent Fediverse news: A New Social is a new non-profit organization focused on building cross-protocol tools and services for the open social web https://www.anew.social; PeerTube v7 has officially been released, and the update brings a major redesign https://framablog.org/2024/12/17/peertube-v7-offer-a-complete-makeover-to-your-video-platform/; BLDV’s Mammoth iOS app, sub.club and moth.social servers shut down due to a lack of funding

📱 I also took the time to add a section about third-party apps ...

2025-01-11T18:18:09Z

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📱 I also took the time to add a section about third-party apps for newcomers: https://mastodon.design/about#third-party-apps

If you’d like to try out a new Mastodon desktop or mobile client, I’ve put together a small selection for you, so don’t hesitate to take a look—I personally use Lucas @Moshidon 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 (npub1rx6…pdar) on my Android phone.

Mastodon.design is now definitely part of the #Fedipact – the ...

2025-01-11T18:17:24Z

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Mastodon.design is now definitely part of the #Fedipact – the instances blocking Zuckerberg’s Threads.net: https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v2

📑 If some of you are upset by this decision, I invite you to do your own research and read this page https://freefediverse.org/index.php/Nightmares. Then if you still think that it is unjustified, the good news is that you can simply move to another server.

To inform everyone of this decision, I updated our About page to make our list of Moderated servers public: https://mastodon.design/about

👀 Back in 2023, I asked you what should be our position about ...

2025-01-11T18:16:47Z

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👀 Back in 2023, I asked you what should be our position about Threads, and the “Wait and see” position is the one that received the most votes: https://observablehq.com/@timotheegoguely/2023-mastodon-design-survey#cell-1033.

I also wrote “If it turns out that some of their practices, particularly in terms of moderation, negatively affect certain people and the Fediverse in general, we reserve the right to limit or suspend their server in the future.”

We’ve waited, we observed, and now the time has come: Meta has gone way beyond the limits.

⛔ Speaking of trust and security makes a perfect transition ...

2025-01-11T18:16:20Z

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⛔ Speaking of trust and security makes a perfect transition into why we decided to suspend and defederate from Threads.

This decision is in response to Meta’s recent announcements on the large-scale removal of content moderation rules and third-party fact-checking tools, which deeply affect the safety of LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized communities and contribute to spreading misinformation on a global scale.

#Meta #Threads

🎉 With this small profit of 96€, I donated 16€ back to ...

2025-01-11T18:14:47Z

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🎉 With this small profit of 96€, I donated 16€ back to Mastodon and 12€ to IFTAS, and I’ve set aside the rest for 2025.

I’m proud to say that, thanks to you, our finances were balanced in 2024 and we contributed to the development of Mastodon and a safer and more trustful Fediverse! Congratulations to us!

❤️ Fortunately, the total amount donated by an average of ...

2025-01-11T18:14:16Z

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❤️ Fortunately, the total amount donated by an average of about 34 generous members of our community was 1,419€: 962€ by 28 patrons via Liberapay https://liberapay.com/timotheegoguely + 127€ by 7 people via Ko-fi monthly subscriptions + 330€ via 23 Ko-fi one-time donations: https://ko-fi.com/timotheegoguely/leaderboard

💸 Looking back to 2024, the total cost of mastodon.design was ...

2025-01-11T18:11:57Z

💸 Looking back to 2024, the total cost of mastodon.design was 1,323€: 66€ for our domain name + 1,257€ for our hosting via masto.host.

👥 During my talk, one of the initiatives I mentioned and ...

2024-12-12T15:31:19Z

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👥 During my talk, one of the initiatives I mentioned and joined as a Mastodon server admin is IFTAS (npub1y2r…kvzk), Independent Federated Trust & Safety, who “provides nonprofit support for volunteer social web content moderators, community managers, administrators and more”.

And I am proud to announce that we are now part of IFTAS supporting instances!

https://about.iftas.org/our-supporters/

#IFTAS

💯 One of the reason I missed the previous announcement is that ...

2024-12-12T15:30:48Z

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💯 One of the reason I missed the previous announcement is that I needed to prepare a talk entitle “Techno-governance - Administrating mastodon.design: feedback and ideas for a sustainable Fediverse” for Ethics by Design in Nantes, France, organized by Designers Ethiques (npub1t4h…hgfw).

It took me much longer than expected (my presentation is 100 slides long), but it was very interesting to prepare, and I got great feedback from the people there!

⬆️ @npub1r30…8lle also updated our server, so we are now ...

2024-12-12T15:30:20Z

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⬆️ Hugo Gameiro (npub1r30…8lle) also updated our server, so we are now running on Mastodon v4.3.2 which comes with a lot of fixes.

Here is the full changelog, if you want to know more: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.2

📉 So Hugo ran it, and after 12h, our database size dropped to ...

2024-12-12T15:30:04Z

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📉 So Hugo ran it, and after 12h, our database size dropped to 32.64 GB! This significant reduction allowed me to downgrade our Masto.host plan by removing the extra resources add-on, which in the end allows us to slow down a bit the growth of our monthly costs.

So here are our current server stats:

Database: 32.83 GB / 40 GB (−10.36 GB)
Media: 135.94 GB / 400 GB (−2.06 GB)

🧹 As we were approaching the 44 GB mark, I decided to send a ...

2024-12-12T15:29:29Z

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🧹 As we were approaching the 44 GB mark, I decided to send a message to Hugo (who runs Masto.host (npub18sk…l2gu)) a few days ago to ask him what we could do to reduce our disk space usage.

He proposed to run the `tootctl status remove` command, which cleans up unreferenced statuses from users that nobody follows and that have never been interacted with.

As it is “a computationally heavy procedure”, this command isn’t part of the scheduled maintenance cleaning commands included with our subscription.

📊 Looking at our Masto.host’s current disk space usage, last ...

2024-12-12T15:29:08Z

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📊 Looking at our Masto.host’s current disk space usage, last month we crossed as expected to 40 GB mark so I needed to added 1 extra resources add-on (4 GB database + 40 GB media + 4 Processing Threads):

Database: 43.19 GB / 44 GB (98.16%)
Media: 138 GB / 440 GB (31.36%)

📢 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement I hope everyone is doing well! ...

2024-12-12T15:28:47Z

📢 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement

I hope everyone is doing well! Unfortunately, I didn’t find the time to write the November announcement (more on that below), but here’s the December one!

📈 Even though we’ve welcomed more than 40 new members in the last 2 months, our numbers of active users is still stable: https://fedidb.org/network/instance/mastodon.design

Monthly active users: 320 (+3)
Total members: 1,161 (+45)

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That’s it for this announcement! Thank you for your attention, ...

2024-09-08T16:31:31Z

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That’s it for this announcement!
Thank you for your attention, and see you next month.

Until then, enjoy the White dew.
September 8–12: Dew glistens white on grass

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— Timothée

:kare_news: Turn any Mastodon post into a single line of ...

2024-09-08T16:31:17Z

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:kare_news: Turn any Mastodon post into a single line of embeddable HTML + CSS https://mastodon.social/@Edent/112984729999598513; Fread is a new Mastodon Android app that merges your Mastodon timeline with RSS feeds https://mastodon.social/@box464/112992262296357677; Bandwagon, the upcoming fediverse music sharing platform, is expanding their beta test https://mastodon.social/@benpate/112910851796619173

:kare_news: Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi released their ...

2024-09-08T16:31:04Z

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:kare_news: Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi released their findings on a massive research project about governance of fediverse servers https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings; Bluesky Feed Creator, an external tool for people to build their own custom feeds without having to code, has a major update https://blueskyfeedcreator.com; The first post to the fediverse from space via the International Space Station https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/113001679587930513

:kare_news: Sub.club is a new way to monetise feeds on the ...

2024-09-08T16:30:55Z

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:kare_news: Sub.club is a new way to monetise feeds on the fediverse, with the goal of bringing the creator economy to the fediverse https://sub.club; Bluesky added quite a number of new anti-toxicity features in their most recent app update https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-28-2024-anti-toxicity-features; The WVFRM (Waveform) podcast of popular tech YouTuber MKBHD has a special show about the fediverse, ‘Protocol Wars – The Fediverse Explained!’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R9CWq5CBlk

:kare_news: Let’s end this announcement with the best of the ...

2024-09-08T16:30:43Z

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:kare_news: Let’s end this announcement with the best of the recent Fediverse news: You can use Mastodon on many retro computer systems https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/113074986721579805; Fediverse Report published an easy to read and share PDF file called “Fediverse for Publishers” https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-for-publishers; The ban on X in Brazil caused a massive signup wave to Bluesky https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/30/24232561/brazil-x-ban-sending-people-bluesky

⬆️ While waiting for the official release of the upcoming ...

2024-09-08T16:30:17Z

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⬆️ While waiting for the official release of the upcoming v4.3.0, which is currently in beta.1, our server is now running on Mastodon v4.2.12. For those interested, you can consult the changelog here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.12

:fediverse_light: Following the recent proposal to use the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse by Fediverse Symbol ⁂ (npub1tzj…dfrk), I added 2 new custom emojis (the dark and light circle versions) on our server. Feel free to use it!

📝 I also added a new section to our About page to warn all ...

2024-09-08T16:30:09Z

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📝 I also added a new section to our About page to warn all newcomers about this new server setting: https://mastodon.design/about#content-cache-retention-period

📈 Speaking of new members, let’s have a look at our server’s stats: https://fedidb.org/network/instance/mastodon.design

Monthly active users: 317 (+5)
Total members: 1,108 (+27)

📊 Even if it’s still too early to assess the long-term ...

2024-09-08T16:29:58Z

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📊 Even if it’s still too early to assess the long-term impact of our new Content cache retention policy on the size of our database, here is our current disk space usage:

Database: 37.75 GB / 40 GB (94.38%)
Media: 137 GB / 400 GB (34.25%)

I hope we will not exceed the 40 GB mark, but it’s almost impossible to predict precisely how this will evolve over the coming months. I’ll keep you informed.

🔍 If you want to find all your own posts, posts that mention ...

2024-09-08T16:29:49Z

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🔍 If you want to find all your own posts, posts that mention you, and your favorites older than 2 years old, simply type before:2024-09-01 in:library in Mastodon search bar.

More info about Mastodon advanced search in this guide by Luca Hammer: https://lucahammer.com/2024/04/25/mastodon-advanced-search-guide-and-operators

📢 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement Hope everyone is well! ⏳ As ...

2024-09-08T16:29:15Z

📢 #MastodonDesignAnnouncement

Hope everyone is well!

⏳ As stated is our previous announcement and in the email that everyone should have received, our server Content cache retention is now set to 2 years. As a reminder, this means that no matter if you bookmarked, favourited, or boosted a remote post (a post not from mastodon.design), or even if a post is a remote reply to a local post, all will be deleted once the number of days (730) has been reached, which is irreversible.

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