Some hobbyist hackers have come up with novel ways to connect vintage computers to the Fediverse, and you can run the code yourself.

Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called "impossible early galaxy problem."

Google Play Games for PC which was introduced last year, finally makes its way to India, along with over 120 other regions.

Before the whole Reddit migration I was passively aware of the Fediverse, I thought I somewhat grasped the concept, and had created a Mastodon account, but never really used it....

Drafting and researching in #Emacs, while tooting or searching from the same UI, is incredibly efficient.

To all #readers and lovers of #books (and here there is a sea!) I point out the federated...

It handily beat ChatGPT to the milestone while Twitter traffic is ‘tanking,’ according to Cloudflare CEO....

Those of you not plugged into the Mastodon community may not be aware of the predominant reaction to Instagram Threads. This started when it was merely rumored, reaching a crescendo with reports that Meta had been talking to a few of the larger Mastodon instances under NDA, presumably to encourage them not to “defederate”...

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I see a lot of posts on fediverse trashing reddit, Twitter, spez, musk and so on, and rightfully so. But like it or not, the mass majority of users on the internet still use these sites, and some of us still want to interact with the friends and communities we are a part of on those sites. And there's nothing wrong with that...

When Meta announced Threads, their new Twitter competitor, they claimed in the very first paragraph that it would interoperate with Mastodon and other social networks based on the open-source ActivityPub protocol: The official Mastodon site responded with their own blog post to address frequently asked questions

De Nederlandse overheid is een Mastodon-instance begonnen op het subdomein social.overheid.nl. Het zal gaan om een instance bedoeld voor accounts van de Rijksoverheid, niet voor individuele ambtenaren....

Are you thinking of trying out Mastodon, but feel intimidated by the options? Don't worry, we wrote a comprehensive guide to help you!

So, I know you can do it with a hard link: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/110675621312023933 ....

Mastodon, the decentralized social network, releases critical security update. Update your instance ASAP to prevent potential DoS and RCE attacks.

Howdy folks!...

I'm getting really tired of trying to run away from big tech, only to be ensnared again by the greed and/or naivety of sites who ultimately cave to the whims of big tech....

On Mastodon you are able to export your followers, blocklist, etc and import them to another instance in case you want to move somewhere else for whatever reason....

This may be useful for folks looking to expand their feed. I discovered this on accident and it completely revolutionized my experience on Kbin....

So, weekend tally: The number of active users across Mastodon rose by 294K, and posting activity roughly tripled. Lots of new sign-ups, but also many returning users. Fun times!

Turmoil at Twitter following new limits to the amount of posts users can see appears to be driving a surge in activity at Mastodon, a German rival that prides itself on its decentralised, user-driven structure.

This may have been answered before, but I cannot find a definitive answer to this....