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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 [...]
    | 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 [...]
    | 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 [...]
    | 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 →
    | 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 [...]
    | 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 [...]
    | 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
    | 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 [...]
    | 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 [...]
    | 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 [...]
    | 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 [...]
    | 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 →
    | 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.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 [...]
    | 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...
    | 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 [...]
    | 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 [...]
    | 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 [...]
    | 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
    | 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....
    | 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 [...]
    | 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 [...]