Mastodon boost/fav/reply #bookmarklet idea:

Add following bookmarklet, named eg. "boost/fav/reply" to your browser bookmark toolbar:

javascript:(function() {location='https://mastodon.social/search?q=' + location.toString();})()

Just change mastodon.social for your actual home instance, where you are logged in all the time. Eg. for me it is:

javascript:(function() {location='https://f.cz/search?q=' + location.toString();})()

If you are viewing original URL of ActivityPub status outside of your instance, which means, that you are not logged in and cannot boost, fav or reply, clicking on this bookmarklet will just open the same status "locally", where you are logged in.

Tested in #Firefox at least with #Mastodon and #Friendica statuses and it seems to work as intended. I used to copy+paste URL to my home instance search box, but this is single click solution.

I wonder if there is way for web site to offer you installing bookmarklet automagically (it would be probably insecure?)

Feedback welcome.

Mastodon.bd is finally up and running.

It’s the first Bangladesh-focused Mastodon instance on the fediverse. I’ve been wanting to see something like this exist for a long time, so it feels good to finally put it online.

Even though the focus is Bangladesh, the instance is open to everyone, regardless of where you’re from.

#bangladesh #fediverse #mastodon #asia #dhaka

Tags.pub tries to solve this by boosting posts with hashtags. For example when you use the hashtag #mastodon, it will be boosted by @mastodon . If you're interested in that hashtag you can follow that account to see all those boosted posts.

If you don't like your posts boosted by tags.pub, check how to opt out here: https://tags.pub/#optout
If you think this is a bad idea, or have other thoughts about it, let me know.

More info: https://tags.pub… (2/3)

Me ha llegado la camiseta de #mastodon que compré. Viene con una pegatina .

@Gargron

@stux Opportunity knocks for #Mastodon to - get this - *add* e2ee on DMs.

When someone asks me what the #Fediverse, #Mastodon or #ActivityPub is I'll use this illustration from UNIX Review, April 1985.

#UNIX

@shoq @airbagmoments I get very little engagement here on #Mastodon . Always have. And there have been other problems, too. Tribalism, mostly.

But I believe in the promise of this place, so I stick around. I just stopped being concerned with counts, and post what I feel like. I do the same over on #Bluesky.

If you've recently joined the fediverse, and are maybe on a smaller server, things might feel a bit isolated.

Fediverse does require a little more effort compared to traditional social media. This is where the community has really stepped in and created some great tools, like these bots that share trending posts from servers across the fediverse.

https://fedidevs.com/s/ODI5/

Here are a few more tips and resources for filling up your home feed:

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-join-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/#who-to-follow

#fediverse #FediverseTips #mastodon #MastodonTips

Me ha llegado la camiseta de #mastodon que compré. Viene con una pegatina .

@Gargron

Hallo #Mastodon hallo #Fediverse! Gibt es einen deutschen Guide, wie Organisationen (NGOs) auf Mastodon durchstarten können?

Danke!

キタキツネ

#tokyocameraclub #東京カメラ部
#mastodon #マストドン

every morning 1 - 5 bots sign up at the same time. I could fix this by closing signup or requiring approvals but I both don't want to and want to be included in the upcoming mastodon local instance sign up program.

Once https://gardenstate.social is in the program I only expect bot signup to increase.

So I'm finally working on a tool to check and auto silence or ban accounts.

What are your top indicators a new account is a bot?

#mastodon

The amount of disinformation, deep fakes, and other misdirection I hear about from friends and relatives that they get from traditional social media is insane.

They have to tell me about it because I am almost always completely unaware, even though I am “on the Internet” just as much if not more than them.

This is a deep advantage of using Mastodon/the Fediverse right now. And it is not because fake stuff doesn’t exist here.

It is just not automatically sent to me by every owner, bot, and user. And if it is, it is generally swatted down hard.

#fediverse #mastodon #realInformation

#Mastodon turns one decade old on Monday!

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v0.1.0

The amount of disinformation, deep fakes, and other misdirection I hear about from friends and relatives that they get from traditional social media is insane.

They have to tell me about it because I am almost always completely unaware, even though I am “on the Internet” just as much if not more than them.

This is a deep advantage of using Mastodon/the Fediverse right now. And it is not because fake stuff doesn’t exist here.

It is just not automatically sent to me by every owner, bot, and user. And if it is, it is generally swatted down hard.

#fediverse #mastodon #realInformation

#Mastodon turns one decade old on Monday!

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v0.1.0

Is it just me or is Mastodon getting to be a slightly angrier place?

Even up to a year ago I feel that most replies were people having respectful, intelligent conversations, but more and more these days I'm seeing angry Twitter-style insults (someone even quote-tooted one of my more innocent posts calling me an assclown, which is an insult that I've never heard before but think is really sweet).

What's going on?

#mastodon

*Unpopular opinions:*
The #Internet needs a "Great Reboot", IMHO, where:
- #Mastodon is the new IRC, X, Threads, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and Facebook
- #Deltachat is the new email and two-way email mailing list
- #RSS is the new one-way email mailing list
- static content generators (say, #Hugo, #Jekyll, etc) are the new web CMS'. No CDN, as they're so lightweight.
- #XMPP is the new #Discord - and no encryption is used in groups
- #Flarum is the new goto for a persisting, searchable support forum
- #Signal is for encrypted 1-to-1 chats and encrypted group chats (when none of the above suffice), as they get the encryption right in a very reliable way *for the group chat* (despite being a centralized service).

#OpenSource

We are #Ikiya and we are finally on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse !

We are a small #Japanese shop located in Treviso, near Venice, and we focus on bringing to Italy a selection of Japanese teas (such as #matcha), ingredients for your recipes, kimono and haori, handmade pottery and much more.

We would like to start leaving mainstream social media for good to connect with our customers in a different way, and this is our first step towards a better communication.

Happy to be here!

#introduction