In its justification, it commits itself to the principles of the #Fediverse and #OpenScience:
"Freie Universität Berlin has been present on Mastodon since December 2022. #Mastodon is part of the decentralized Fediverse network. Compared to large commercial social networks, Mastodon relies on chronological feeds and reduces the algorithmic sorting of posts. This ensures that information is always openly available and reduces the likelihood of so-called filter bubbles forming."
Breaking news is when I really miss Twitter. I have learned about the surprise announcement of the 4 July general election in the UK many times from many channels long before it appears in any form or shape in my Mastodon feeds. It's all right. Maybe Mastodon isn't meant to play that role. But if it is, there's still a long way to go. #news#breaking#mastodon
Discovered yesterday that Masto embeds do not work on our Drupal site -- as in they are not visible on the public facing page, although they appear fine in the back-end editor. Anybody here know what might be the issue? I embed other <iframe> stuff all the time and have never had this problem before. Any and all suggestions welcome. #FediHelp#drupal#mastodon
Beyond my wildest expectations, we blew past the 175€ goal with 1056,01€ for the #germany based food bank "Die Tafel" last Monday within 10 hours of #streaming !
A huge thank you to @Rooki and @FusionWarrior
for their extremely generous donations and the many fine folk from the #fediverse as well as the #mastodon and #gaming communities who helped out and came by.
My community might be small, but boy howdy, is it mighty!
It's been a minute, #Mastodon Alright, I wrote a lil post for the #Obsidian forum on my crusade against #Dataview (not literally; it's a great #plugin ) Here's the link if any are interested:
UI differences are a big factor in the success/failure of decentralised federation of diverse platforms and content
And this seems a good example: bridged #mastodon posts onto #BlueSky which has a lower character limit than Mastodon.
So, just like #lemmy posts on mastodon, you don't get the full content of the post (which ends with an abrupt ellipsis here) and have to take a link to the original platform.
However powerful the underlying protocols, this isn't far from screenshots.
Les JO c'est une arme extraordinaire donnée sur un plateau pour extorquer de la justice et de l'équité au capitalisme et à ses serviteurs gouvernementaux.
Et que voit on ?
Les français allument la télé et regardent passer la flamme.
La grève générale ?
Ah mais non, «faut pas gâcher la fête», pas «mélanger le sport et la politique»
Quand, mais quand, comprendrez-vous que c'est la guerre, mes pauvres nigauds ?
This is how #Mastodon will whitewash their censorship. While #MastodonSocial now actively bans and hides the profiles of people advocating for Palestinian liberation citing “Holocaust inversion” they put someone on their board to appear like they care, who does not in fact, have a mastodon account:
Are there any #mastodon apps that have built-in #gif integration? Giphy now serves an ad before letting you download and I am not here for it :blobfoxsad:
Just a reminder that the whole point of federated social media shouldn't be that you need to be on #Mastodon, AND #Bluesky, AND #Threads, AND whatever other platform
I'm jealous of the little Python logo badge many of y'all have next to your names and many #Python community folks I appreciate (@fedidevs, @ThePSF, and many others) are on fosstodon.
I've been posting on mastodon.social for a while and I have no meaningful complaints though (ever since the servers were upgraded!).
Should I switch to fosstodon.org? (Multiple select voting is allowed)