little #mastodon protip: due to how posts federate there's no guarantee someone will see a link/video preview when they see your post, especially on small servers. this means that you'll probably want to add some kind of relevant description in the post where you're posting the link, like repeating the headline or quoting a relevant excerpt
@philbetts i'm not 100% sure of the details, but i believe if a post is freshly federated on a server and nobody has interacted with it yet it will not have a preview, and the preview will be fetched upon the first interaction from someone on that server
Between setting up DigitalOcean Spaces [1] for uploaded media and enabling @michael's FediFetcher [2], my experience on a one-person self-hosted Mastodon instance has been greatly improved.
@stefan@gunchleoc unfortunately I don’t think this will happen. Last time it was brought up on GitHub it was roundly rejected, and there is no sign of them reconsidering it.
(Although to be fair they have reconsidered things they were vehemently against in the past, so I wouldn’t rule it out. But it doesn’t appear likely. At least not any time soon)
Do you find the 500 character limit on #Mastodon limiting? I sure do.
I thought I saw somewhere that one or more servers allowed 2000 characters, but that was long ago before I started posting much of anything.
Anyone know what I am referring to?
The max_id, since_id, and min_id parameters in #Mastodon's Timeline API assume that the post ID is a sortable number. (Is this correct?) #Hollo, the #ActivityPub implementation I'm building, uses UUIDs for post IDs internally, so I'm stuck on how to implement a Mastodon-compatible API.
#Mastodon's inability to properly thread through absent messages (e.g. deleted, or not federated because of privacy configurations) is rather obnoxious.
@oblomov it tries to fetch & represent previous context as much as possibile from public sources.
Which is something mastodon standard web ui don't do, unless you go to read the thread from original source instance.
If a middle post is deleted or not public, there's not much we can do.
@luca and that's the problem. But AP has a Tombstone object that represents deleted messages, and this could be used for example to keep threading information (only)
Ok I should really know this but can’t find the setting for the life of me. How do I get a little icon on the bottom right hand corner of my profile picture? #mastoadmin#mastodon just like below
I'm enjoying #mastodon more and more every day. Compared to #bluesky, which only provides a limited amount of features, this instance has granular control of the algorithmic impact of my own posts, explicit opt-in read receipts, and even mini-picture reactions! (I'm still holding out for #memoji support)
The biggest social media transformation is happening in our lives right now, and we shouldn't waste it on inferior platforms who are holding out features and ignoring their principles.
I hope that this trend continues to push out industry forward into making better software, for humans!
Mastodon should allow uploading and posting images when creating polls so the poll can have a visual representation of what the poll is trying to survey.
@simon I tend to just upload images without adding alternative text to the images. I am going to make a better effort to adding ALT text to images on Mastodon.
:mastodon: The Trouble with Forking Mastodon
— @news
"In light of the announcement of Mastodon’s US-based 501c3 Non-Profit, and the reveal of that organization’s board members, there has been backlash from members of the Mastodon community. Some people are even saying that this is the last straw, it’s time for a hard fork of the project!"
if you say you want to continue using your #feediverse server Infrastruktor and your #Mastodon Accounts, I'll quit my job & help this Projekt and its Operations for free for two years
@derPUPE@EU_Commission@EDPS But why should you have to do that? No one who works at the EU Commission (or EDPS or the European Parliament, etc.) works for free and this isn’t about lack of budget. If you were to do that, you should be paid a fair wage.
Mastodon Sprechstunde
am Donnerstag 23.05.2024, 19:30 Uhr!
Du bist #neu#neuhier auf Mastodon? Kein Problem! Wir helfen dir bei den ersten Schritten: Profil einstellen, Sicherheitstipps, Posten und Vernetzung. Sei dabei!
Schwerpunkt der Sprechstunde wird der Umzug des Kontos zu einer anderen Instanz sein.
Eingeladen sind ebenfalls alle, die bereits Erfahrungen mit Mastodon haben und gern ihr Wissen weitergeben wollen.
Wissensaustausch: Deine Kenntnisse im Fediverse und auf Mastodon könnte anderen Teilnehmern sehr nützlich sein, insbesondere denjenigen, die noch neu in der Community sind.
Networking: Dies ist eine hervorragende Gelegenheit, sich mit anderen engagierten Mitgliedern der Gemeinschaft zu vernetzen und neue Kontakte zu knüpfen.
Ideen und Inspiration: Deine Perspektive als erfahrener Benutzer oder Betreiber einer Instanz kann dazu beitragen, innovative Ideen zu fördern und die Zukunft des Fediverse zu gestalten.
Der Link zur Veranstaltung wird dann hier und in meinem Profil 1 Tag vor Beginn gepostet.
Der Raum wird 10 Minuten vor Beginn geöffnet.
Das Online-Treffen wird auf unserem BigBlueButton-Server stattfinden. Du benötigst keine zusätzliche Software, sondern nur einen Browser – vorzugsweise Firefox oder Chrome –, ein Mikrofon (es handelt sich schließlich um eine Sprechstunde) und, wenn du möchtest, eine Webcam. Wir freuen uns auf einen lebhaften Austausch! 🎙️ 🙋♀️
Die Sprechstunde läuft ungefähr so ab. Am Anfang geben alle Tipps und Hinweise für Anfänger und Beginner. Später geht es um Tipps und Hinweise für Instanzbetreiber und Moderatoren. So ein Austausch ist wichtig und notwendig für eine gute Vernetzung untereinander. Es wird nicht ausschließlich um Mastodon gehen. Die Welt von Fediverse ist weitaus größer. Mehr miteinander, als gegeneinander.
Is there a #Mastodon instance dedicated to amateur #running? Races, training, etc.
I need to get some thoughts and opinions on training and racing out of my head. I could post them here, but this instance is primarily dedicated to Free Software. Most of my followers are probably either expecting posts related to that or cybersecurity, math, science, cryptography, etc. IE, not running.
Posting to a fitness-dedicated instance probably makes the most sense. Or setting up a blog.
It is pretty cool to see all the different forks of major fediverse platforms. Just learning about Chuckya, a "soft fork" of glitch-soc, which itself is a fork of Mastodon.
Once again, @RickiTarr asks a question that sets #Mastodon ablaze- in a good way! Whatever your taste in #music, there's bound to be something here you'll love! https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/112428606621284011
RickiTarr@beige.party - Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:
Istnieje jakaś sieć społecznościowa, albo frontend Mastodona, który działa bardziej jak RSS i pozwala mi wyświetlać nieprzeczytane wpisy i oznaczać je jako przeczytane? #Mastodon
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