We're excited to share the results from Mastodon's first #DiscoveryWeek! In case you missed it, earlier this year our Head of Design @imanijoy arranged a week of workshops and surveys to get to know you, learn about your needs and wants, and discover how you're using (and want to use) Mastodon […]

@benpate so, I've heard the beginning of this koan before. Are you going to kill the Fediverse? https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/474/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linji_Yixuan#Iconoclasm

FOSSY 2026 | Presentation: If You Meet the Fediverse on the Road...

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Does anyone know what's going on with pawoo.net? Seems like a DNS blackout. https://dnschecker.org/#A/pawoo.net

Doing my end of semester dance https://open.spotify.com/track/7ItpUlCUwTRyiXZ0YclPQ7

Dry the Rain

The Beta Band · The Three E.P.'s · Song · 1998

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Just a heads-up, I might not be able to respond for the next week as we’re heading to #FediCon!

I'm done with class for the summer! I get to go do other things with my free time for the next luxurious 2.5 weeks.

TIL that in Mastodon any post with a #hashtag will show up in search results for that hashtag regardless of whether the user opted into search, but posts containing the word "full-text" (no hash sign) will only appear in searches for "full-text" if the user opted into search. That seems like a […]

I'm really looking forward to #fedicon2026 !

"The time machine is ready. You may use it to cause the most good you can think of in the world." "Oh, that's easy. I'll go back and-" "Anything except that. Paradoxically, it's almost guaranteed to cause your own nonexistence." "Oh, okay. Then I'll go back to 1990, break into Nintendo […]

#VoteForAbdul

This is a really interesting paper. I'm reading it for my Modern Internet Research Methods course at #GeorgiaTech. https://research.facebook.com/publications/deep-entity-classification-abusive-account-detection-for-online-social-networks/ #NetworkScience #Meta #DeepEntityClassification

Most of the world’s 1.3 billion black people are banned from even visiting the US. In addition, those who aren't banned face steep, racist fees not charged to non-black people, particularly white people. That's what they mean by #MAGA […]

My whole weekend is dedicated to getting homework done for Monday morning. 😞

August is the hardest month in the Northern hemisphere because we have to live each day fully and appreciate it in the moment and we don't know how to do that.

It is an honour to have been interviewed on behalf of the @drfed team for @APC's _Building a Free Internet of the Future_ series. https://www.apc.org/en/news/drfed-reducing-complexity-and-enabling-more-people-shape-fediverse

DrFed on reducing complexity and enabling more people to shape the Fediverse

DrFed is a web-based platform for developing and debugging implementations of ActivityPub – an open standard and protocol for decentralised networking. A team of four people from East Asia is developing DrFed. We interviewed one of them, Hong Minhee, regarding openness, tech, technical specs, the Fediverse’s strengths and limits, language barriers to decentralisation, and far more.

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Does life in #Montreal just mean you have fruit flies in your house all summer? Every year I freeze my compost, put away fruit, put recycling outside, have traps and there are literally always a few of them in the house. Today I was pouring boiling water in my drain thinking that might fix it […]

Friends, what #hashtag should I follow to get updates about DWeb Cascadia 2026? https://dwebyvr.org/camp/

I like this paper. #OnlineHateAndHarassment #TrustAndSafety https://kumarde.com/papers/abuse_sok.pdf

Now following @gencon

I went to see the #fireworks in #montreal tonight. We have a fireworks festival that goes all summer; 1-2 fireworks shows per week. They close the big bridge at the centre of town so people can watch from the bridge. Right after these pictures three girls walked […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

#FreePalestine #FeedGaza #CeasefireNow

**📢 #GazaVerified archive updates** I’ve dedicated a bit of time to fix a couple of issues on the gaza-verified archive as well as implement some long-standing feature requests. * Filter out inactive accounts. As the initiative progressed, some accounts were suspended, deleted, moved or […]

They should change the title of the Fediverse Feed to People Who Are Doing It Wrong so everyone feels more comfortable being a reply guy.

I love going to #FediverseNight at #FouLab. It was a great night tonight; a mix of new people and old people. The format is really fun; about half the people are nose-down writing code or admining servers, and the other half are chatting and hanging out. You can drift into a conversation if you […]

Welcome to the Fediverse @axiologist !

The Chokecherries will be ripe by next week sometime. #photography #nature #rural #berries #wildberries

Is there an #ActivityPub plugin for #Mailman so you can follow a mailing list?

Reminder: Telling people - especially strangers - who are being harassed online to "just ignore it" is, at best, not at all helpful.