If you're recommending Mastodon and the wider Fediverse to organisations, friends, family or colleagues, don't worry if they say no. You have done something really important simply by making them aware of it as an option.

Most people and organisations don't immediately try stuff they hear about. Usually they need to hear it mentioned by a few different sources before they actually try it.

By being one of those sources, you're nudging them closer to actually trying it 👍

#Fediverse #Mastodon

When @heidilifeldman learned that food benefits were to be withheld in the U.S., she wanted to do something about it — and so she turned to the fediverse. She talked to Grapevine, the platform she used to facilitate a Giving Circle that has so far raised $14,000 for food banks, about mobilizing her @Mastodon community to help communities IRL.

https://flip.it/DusXut

#Community #Fundraising #SNAP #Mastodon #Fediverse #FoodBank

The #illumosCafe #Mastodon instance has been upgraded to v4.5.3

#illumosCafeServices #illumosCafeUpdates

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances have been upgraded to v4.5.3

#BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeAnnouncements

Huh. Just chatted in person with someone who's been on #mastodon for a while, now, who honestly thought that all the Mastodon domains were run by Mastodon. And having a different domain was, like, just a vanity thing to look cool. It only came up because they were complaining about an issue they were having, and they were on a smaller server (not naming it for anonymity), so I suggested contacting their server admin about the problem. I was surprised when they answered "Dude nobody at big companies reads those reports. It just all goes to AI or whatever." It took some actual convincing to get them to believe that the server they're on does, in fact, have a living breathing human admin who can be talked to.

Anyway, folks, support your #fediverse server admins and moderators. With money, where you can. They're almost certainly getting messages from users who think that reporting things to an admin here is exactly like reporting stuff to Facebook or Google. IE: screaming at a giant faceless entity who's never going to care or do anything about whatever your problem is.

Das Aktionsbündnis neue #sozialeMedien fordert die #Hochschulen und #Forschungsinstitute auf, die X noch nicht verlassen haben, diesen Schritt nun zum Schutz der #EuropäischenUnion zu tun.

Die Posts des Hauptbesitzers der #X-Plattform zeigen, dass er nicht bereit ist europäisches #Recht anzuerkennen 👇
https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Musk-wettert-nach-Millionenstrafe-gegen-die-EU-id30113377.html

Er stellt sich an die Seite von Antidemokraten weltweit, die die Herrschaft des starken Mannes durchsetzen und die #Demokratie abschaffen wollen.
X ist kein geeignetes Medium für einen sachorientierten und fachlichen Austausch, wie in der #WissKomm gefordert.
Die noch abseits stehenden Institute aus #Forschung, #Wissenschaft und #Lehre sollten den #eXit vollziehen, statt die Plattform durch ihre Mitwirkung zu legitimieren.
Mit #Mastodon steht ein geeignetes Medium für die #Wissenschaftskommunikation zur Verfügung.

#UnisInsFediverse #Presse

Does anyone here use tut as their Mastodon client of choice? Any customization tips? For those not familiar, see <https://tut.anv.nu/>. Forgive the color scheme that thinks its CGA, that's the first thing I fixed.
#Mastodon #askfedi

Does this mean the #Fediverse and #Mastodon are main steam yet? #SNL

We're so glad to hear the WebSocialBR was a hit! 🇧🇷

A huge thanks to everyone who got involved and made it happen.

We're also super excited that our partnership with Ibram-Museus to build a "Museums in the Fediverse" app was announced 🎉

Huge thanks to @josemurilo for introducing our work to WebSocialBR and for putting your presentation into such an amazing blog post👇

https://josemurilo.com/2025/12/05/museums-in-the-fediverse-experiments-with-tainacan-activitypub-and-websocial/

#SocialWeb #WebSocialBR #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Brazil #Museum

Want to support a brilliant Social Web project before the end of the year?

🔥 @bonfire are so close to achieving their funding goal as they look to crowdfund the next phase of development in their democratic, thoughtful, and open, web of interoperable services.

If you're able, we're certain they would love your support.

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

#Bonfire #Fundraising #SocialWeb #Mastodon #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #Tech #Suppport

Mastodon Bird UI support for Mastodon v4.6.0 with CSS properties is coming soon. The theme will also be modularized using SCSS partials to match Mastodon's new style infrastructure.

The build process will include npm scripts and Parcel, making the theme ultra-portable for any Mastodon instance, whether added through the Custom CSS textarea or directly by a Mastodon admin.

I'll also create a simple bash script for Mastodon admins to enable the theme as a selectable option more easily than the current fork-and-cut method.

This is no easy feat, but definitely worth it.

GitHub: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui

Progress in the nightly branch.

#MastodonBirdUI #CSS #OpenSource #MastoAdmin #Theming #BirdUI #Mastodon #BuildInPublic

FreeBSD + BastilleBSD + Mastodon = ❤️

I wrote about running burningboard.net in a fully dual‑stack, multi‑jail FreeBSD deployment.

Clean design, central PF firewall, zero Docker.

https://blog.hofstede.it/migrating-burningboardnet-mastodon-instance-to-a-multi-jail-freebsd-setup/

#freebsd #mastodon #jails #bastillebsd #pf