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Post-mortem of the September 2 outage
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Matrix
On 2nd September 2025 the matrix.org homeserver suffered a ~24h outage.
During routine maintenance to increase disk capacity, the primary database failed, and we fell back to the secondary. In attempting to restore the original primary, we lost the secondary-turned-primary rendering matrix.org unava
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Mastodon 4.5 for Developers
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Mastodon
Mastodon 4.5 is almost ready. We just released the first (and hopefully only) release candidate, and the final release should be coming along very soon. This is once again a good time to highlight some of the new features and changes that are important to anyone building on top of Mastodon and its A
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A fond farewell from Managing Director Robin Riley
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Matrix
After 2 years serving as the first Managing Director of the Matrix.org Foundation, it’s time to open a new chapter. Amandine already touched on it in the Matrix Conference keynote, but personal matters meant I’ve had to bring this change forward. I’ll be winding down and closing out my time here bef
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boriken.social
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Fedi.Garden
Boriken.social es una instancia de Mastodon para la comunidad boricua en el archipiélago y en la diáspora. El propósito principal de Borikén Social es facilitar la migración de más usuarios hispanoparlantes al fediverso. Queremos proveer un espacio ajeno de lo … Continue reading →
This Week in Matrix 2025-10-24
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Matrix
🔗Matrix Conference 2025 - The Matrix State of the Union
Today's Matrix Live:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2y8qtRLgalQ
Alternatively you can find it on media.ccc.de at https://media.ccc.de/v/matrix-conf-2025-74977-the-matrix-state-of-the-union.
🔗Matrix Conference Recordings
Beyond the
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Plushtodon Mini
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Mastodon
Last year, we launched our first batch of plushies, and our community has embraced the #Plushtodon literally and figuratively. It sold out in Europe within a few weeks. Sadly, that means a lot of you missed out on the chance to get one. We’ve listened to your feedback and decided to bring the creatu
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Matrix for Public Sector: DINUM joins the Foundation as we launch a new forum!
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Matrix
🔗DINUM becoming the first government to join the Matrix.org Foundation
Today DINUM, the French Interministerial Digital Directorate, has officially announced that they were joining the Matrix.org Foundation as a Silver member and becomes the first government to join the Matrix.org Foundation!
This
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Niagara.social
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Fedi.Garden
Mastodon Hometown server based in the Niagara region in Ontario, Canada. This server has a post size of up to 1500 characters. Website: niagara.social ⧉ Server type: Hometown MastodonLanguage: EnglishFounded: June 2023
This Week in Matrix 2025-10-10
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Matrix
🔗Dept of Social Good 🙆
Denise announces
Element has joined other European organisations in an open letter to European leaders on the latest developments regarding Chat Control.
We are concerned that the Danish Presidency’s current proposal on the Regulation for Child Sexual Abuse could introduce
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Trunk & Tidbits, September 2025
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Mastodon
Hello! September was an exciting month, as we started to enable the ability to create Quote Posts on mastodon.social and mastodon.online (and, they also started to show up on other servers that run nightly builds of Mastodon). Coming to stable releases, very soon now!
Releases
In September, we made
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Our ideas about Packs
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Mastodon
Background
Mastodon’s timeline doesn’t rely on dopamine-driven algorithms – it is chronological and consent-based, showing only posts from accounts you (the person using Mastodon) have followed.
This focus on privacy and conscious consumption is what leads many people to join the Fediverse in the fi
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Service offerings from Mastodon
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Mastodon
In a recent post, we shared that one of our priorities for 2025 is to establish a more sustainable financial base for the Mastodon organisation.
In 2024, Mastodon gGmbH took over hosting of the European Commission’s Mastodon service. We also signed a support contract with the state of Schleswig-Hols
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The Gamer’s Tavern Blog Server
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Fedi.Garden
Write Freely server for gamers to set up their own blogs on the Fediverse. Run by The Gamer’s Tavern, providing gamers a cozy and safe home to play together. The same people also run a Mastodon server, a PeerTube server, … Continue reading →
Photo Mode Gamer’s Tavern
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Fedi.Garden
Glitch Pixelfed server for gamers to post photos and images. Run by The Gamer’s Tavern, providing gamers a cozy and safe home to play together. The same people also run a Mastodon server, a PeerTube server, a Write Freely server … Continue reading →
Lemmy Release v0.19.13
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Lemmy.World
Lemmy Release v0.19.13
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is ea
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PeerTube v7.3 is out!
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PeerTube
[v1.8.4] Security Release, API improvements
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Mbin
This is mainly a security release with some additional changes to the API and improvements to the dead instance handling. Details about the security fix will be provided once all instances are updated to a patched release. The only affected release is v1.8.3...
Maintaining activitypub.rocks going forward
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ActivityPub
Hi all, this is Johannes Ernst, in my role as the lead
of the website task force of the
Social Web Community Group
in the W3C.As Christine just announced in another post, she is stepping down as the maintainer of
this site. Maintenance of activitypub.rocks is passing to SWICG.We are
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Handing off activitypub.rocks to the ActivityPub community
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ActivityPub
Hello everyone, Christine Lemmer-Webber here. I'm here to hand off
this humble website, built and maintained by myself but, to be honest,
not updated or stewarded nearly as well as I could have, to the
broader ActivityPub community and the
W3C Social Web Community Group
in particular. Which is why I
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I support!
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Lemmy.World
submitted by ooli3 to politicalmemes188 points | 20 comments
Big Balls Clapped
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Lemmy.World
submitted by Sweetpeaches69 to lemmyshitpost171 points | 34 comments
White House Backs Off 'Hostile Takeover' of D.C. Police
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Lemmy.World
submitted by Stamau123 to news179 points | 31 commentshttps://time.com/7310140/dc-national-guard-federal-police/he White House has backed off plans for a full takeover of the D.C. police force and will allow for the city’s police chief to remain in charge after a judge indicated they would block the
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[...] Steve Wozniak [75th birthday]: "I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are n
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Lemmy.World
submitted by alessandro to pcgaming425 points | 63 commentshttps://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/on-his-75th-birthday-apple-legend-steve-wozniak-pops-up-in-a-comment-thread-about-his-bad-decision-to-sell-his-stock-in-the-80s-with-a-devastatingly-zen-reply-i-gave-all-my-apple-wealth-away-because-we
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Tube Free
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Fedi.Garden
Tube Free is a general video hosting server intended to help on-boarding for PeerTube. Backed by BT Free, a non-profit dedicated to digital privacy rights, advocacy and consulting. Website: tubefree.org ⧉ Server type: PeerTubeLanguage: EnglishFounded: May 2025
[v1.8.3] Federation improvements, lots of progress
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Mbin
With this release we fixed a lot of user concerns and federation issues. We also got rid of a big blocker in improving our federation features which can and will be actively worked on in the near future....
The application crowdfunding was a success!
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PeerTube
App crowdfunding — Let's go live!
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PeerTube
Flutter application development: feedback (2/2)
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PeerTube
Flutter application development: feedback (1/2)
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PeerTube
[v1.8.2] Docker rework, bug fixes
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Mbin
This release is a bit earlier than usual. The reason for it is our major rewrite of the docker setup. Other than that we have a few bug fixes and translation updates....
[v1.8.1] Light themes updated, inline previews improved, APIs fixed, and more
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Mbin
The v1.8.1 release of mbin brings a lot of bug fixes, UI and documentaion improvements...
[v1.8.0] Bookmarks, Notification Settings, Signup Requests and More
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Mbin
The v1.8.0 release of mbin brings a lot of new features, some of them quite big, so with these release notes I will dive a bit deeper into the bigger features....
Pixelfed Launches Kickstarter: Building Ethical Social Networks for Everyone
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Pixelfed
We're thrilled to announce the launch of our Kickstarter campaign to support the future development of Pixelfed, Loops, and our broader vision for ethical social network...
Introducing Curated Onboarding: A Personal Touch to Community Building
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Pixelfed
Pixelfed is redefining community engagement with its latest feature: Curated Onboarding. This new feature is not just a way to sign up; it's a way to weave into the community's fabric by sharing your story and intentions on the platform...
Autospam and Naive Bayes: The Grandfather of Spam Filters Still Making Waves
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Pixelfed
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital communication, where spam seems to adapt and find new ways to infiltrate our inboxes and social media feeds, it's fascinating to discover...
Introducing Sign-in with Mastodon: Streamlining Sign-up and Login on Pixelfed
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Pixelfed
This integration offers a convenient and efficient way for users to connect their Mastodon accounts, simplifying the sign-up process, and enhancing the login experience on Pixelfed....
Introducing Import from Instagram
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Pixelfed
Bring your photos and videos from Instagram to Pixelfed, with captions and upload dates preserved.
Some (long overdue) site updates
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ActivityPub
Hello, hello... it's been about a year since
SocialHub launched.
This has been a successful community-run resource for discussing
ActivityPub development and its future.Since that time, a number of updates have been requested and suggested
of this site.
After significant del
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Let us meet on SocialHub!
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ActivityPub
In case you missed the latest and hottest in the ActivityPub
community, for a few months we have revived the
SocialHub
where developers, implementors, and anyone interested in the present
and future of the W3C Recommendation gather, discuss issues, and
collaborate with a kin
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ActivityPub reaches W3C Recommendation status! Everybody party!
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ActivityPub
Ooops... this post was written months ago, but accidentally wasn't
pushed publicly till now!
So... a delayed celebration to all!We're proud to announce that after a three year journey,
ActivityPub
is
now a W3C Recommendation!
Thank you and congratulations to the
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