It's probably less of a problem now that the fediverse is much bigger (than it was 5 years ago). But one of the things I've heard puts newbies off alternative social apps/ networks is too much meta-discussion about development and deployment of the apps/ networks themselves.
Maybe we could agree on a standard way of tagging this stuff (eg #DevMeta)? Then the DevMeta tag could be filtered out by default for newbies.
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Not a day goes by when I'm not yet again convinced the #Fediverse is the *only* solution to the #polycrisis facing the Internet. I'm not saying it solves all the problems, and we've certainly got problems of our own.
Yet any fruitful discussion of "how to fix a broken Internet" which doesn't *start* with Fediverse and #IndieWeb principles right out of the gate is doomed to failure.
The path ahead of us is clear. Let's not keep falling into the trap of trusting capitalism will somehow save us.
I <3 FOSS software. These are my daily drivers:
My PCs: #Arch, #kdelinux, #kde #plasma, #kmail, #librewolf, #darktable, #gwenview, #dolphin, #konsole, #okular, #kate, #kdeconnect ...
My phone: #e_os, lots and lots of #fossify lots of #Nextcloud #fdroid. And a phone running #postmarketos and #plasmamobile.
Maps and navigation: #openstreetmap, #comaps
Selfhosted: #yunohost with a few apps,, #nextcloud
SoMe: #fediverse, #mastodon, #pixelfed, #friendica
Thank you all you insanely nice and competent people making all that available for us all!
I'm only 27 years late to the party, but thanks to a few of you here on Mastodon, I've recently embraced the power of RSS, both as a blogger and a reader 🧐
I <3 FOSS software. These are my daily drivers:
My PCs: #Arch, #kdelinux, #kde #plasma, #kmail, #librewolf, #darktable, #gwenview, #dolphin, #konsole, #okular, #kate, #kdeconnect ...
My phone: #e_os, lots and lots of #fossify lots of #Nextcloud #fdroid. And a phone running #postmarketos and #plasmamobile.
Maps and navigation: #openstreetmap, #comaps
Selfhosted: #yunohost with a few apps,, #nextcloud
SoMe: #fediverse, #mastodon, #pixelfed, #friendica
Thank you all you insanely nice and competent people making all that available for us all!
Not a day goes by when I'm not yet again convinced the #Fediverse is the *only* solution to the #polycrisis facing the Internet. I'm not saying it solves all the problems, and we've certainly got problems of our own.
Yet any fruitful discussion of "how to fix a broken Internet" which doesn't *start* with Fediverse and #IndieWeb principles right out of the gate is doomed to failure.
The path ahead of us is clear. Let's not keep falling into the trap of trusting capitalism will somehow save us.
Boost the change you want to see in the world 🌎 #fediverse #mastodon
Boost the change you want to see in the world 🌎 #fediverse #mastodon
❤️ Thank you @bagder for maintaining #curl since 1998. What would we do without it, how long would it take us, and what code quality would those solutions have without you? Thank you so much! ❤️
...and how on earth would people be able to check the weather forecast without curl? 😉
(Please join me in thanking Daniel, and let others here on the #Fediverse know about your favourite ways of using #curl )
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/116069476046352190
i love the #fediverse because we UNDERSTAND, not just believe, that one of the ways out of this #petromafia #techbros #enshittification #dystopia is Free and Libre Open Source Software.
i have used #LibreOffice since its fork from Open Office. i cannot even remember how long ago that was ―and thanks to Open Office, it’s even longer since i have used MS Office for any of my work and personal use.
Today we're celebrating "I love Free Software day" – saying thanks to all the contributors who make free and open source software (like LibreOffice) possible: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/14/celebrating-i-love-free-software-day/ #foss #freesoftware
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/116069476046352190
i love the #fediverse because we UNDERSTAND, not just believe, that one of the ways out of this #petromafia #techbros #enshittification #dystopia is Free and Libre Open Source Software.
i have used #LibreOffice since its fork from Open Office. i cannot even remember how long ago that was ―and thanks to Open Office, it’s even longer since i have used MS Office for any of my work and personal use.
Today we're celebrating "I love Free Software day" – saying thanks to all the contributors who make free and open source software (like LibreOffice) possible: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/14/celebrating-i-love-free-software-day/ #foss #freesoftware
Die ganze Rede in deutscher Sprache, bereitgestellt von Sascha Pallenberg @pallenberg
Marco #Rubio stellte als US‑Außenminister Forderungen nach wirtschaftlicher Unabhängigkeit durch fossile Energien, US‑IT und Weltraumtourismus sowie geringerer Abhängigkeit von Seltenen Erden und eigener Verteidigung vor. Zugleich verbreitet er extrem rechtsradikale Ideen, von der Klima-Sekte bis zur Remigration.
Partnerschaft ja, aber auf Basis europäischer Entscheidungen.
@Kunze_steffen auch hier im #Fediverse unter @sascha
Media privilege speaking: She uses her column to argue others should not use the venues available to them to speak and be heard.
Also: If we are to judge any medium by the worst it carries, then newspapers as a genre have much to answer for.
Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/14/toxicity-social-media-ethical-racism-misogyny-far-right
@jeffjarvis This journalistic commentary has one big fail: She doesn't mention the #Fediverse / #Mastodon being a real chance against toxic algorithm-driven social media.
And like so many colleagues she doesn't mention any alternatives to #Substack like #Ghost or #Steady.
People who are "just asking questions" and "just sharing their opinion" that nobody asked for are in the minority here.
But until reply controls are implemented by more fediverse platforms, they will continue to ruin the experience of people here, and contribute to our community's negative reputation.
Let's continue to call this stuff out, and when appropriate, also report it.
Listen to #DgarMusic today and help this independent artist on the Fediverse stay inspired!
#Boost for reach!
#Follow for more #Dgar!
#Love #Music on the #Fediverse!
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Now on Bandcamp!
https://dgar.bandcamp.com
And other places!!
https://ffm.bio/dgar
> Pendant la panne AWS, des utilisateurs de lits connectés (!) ont été réveillés car le lit faisait n'importe quoi lorsqu'il n'arrivait pas à joindre le serveur de l'entreprise qui les fabriquait. Ici, la solution n'aurait pas été d'augmenter la disponibilité d'AWS mais de faire des lits qui arrivent à fonctionner, quitte à ce que ce soit en mode un peu dégradé, pendant une coupure de l'accès distant.
Ahlala si seulement on savait faire des lits qui **fonctionnaient** en mode hors ligne… :yay:
@maiwann
Si c'est pour des partouzes fédérés ?
Mieux vaut choisir des lits connecté #Fediverse voyons !
Même si j'y suis depuis quelques mois, quelques subtilités du #fediverse m'échappent encore. Par exemple, comment connaître le compte d'un utilisateur de #pixelfed (et s'y inscrire) à partir de #mastodon sans avoir de compte sur pixelfed ? Cela me paraît étrange de devoir créer un compte sur chaque plateforme pour y découvrir les comptes.
Recently, there was a question by @taylorlorenz about how you explain the Fediverse to someone who doesn't use it.
And usually, what we tend to do is we talk about servers and decentralisation and federation and ActivityPub and all these highly technical concepts.
I've been thinking about it, and all that technical stuff is really impressive work by people far more clever than I'll ever be.
But for me, that technology is a facilitating thing. It's like trying to describe how a bicycle works, rather than why you ride it.
Instead, what the Fediverse is, is a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way.
Which is increasingly a rare thing online.
Almost the entirety of the internet, from SEO on the web to YouTube to TikTok to Spotify to Instagram and X and Facebook, has been turned into a race to game an algorithm designed to sell ads.
What makes the Fedi unique is that it's not that.
And I suspect if you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or GtS, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining it as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a decentralised protocol.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub
