sophiajanehayden_author (@sophiajanehayden_author@indieauthors.social)
Teaser graphic for something coming out later this year. Now I just have to write it, lol. My first ghost story. #ghost #mystery #writingCommunity #writing #novels #novel #teaser #old #new #genre #writer #author #indieAuthors #graphics #book #bookstodon #mastodon
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MeaningfulBits (@MeaningfulBits@mastodon.social)
@TechCrunch as someone who's primarily on #Mastodon for #social, this is laughable.
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everton137 (@everton137@social.vivaldi.net)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@leavex/116053354839102261
If Mastodon is chronically underfunded, shouldn't we discuss serious public investment in its development, including its usability and design?
Twitter was purchased for $43 billion and is now widely used to amplify disinformation and polarization through hate speech and an extremist agenda.
How much are we willing to invest in a bold, interoperable, European alternative that strengthens democratic discourse?
If projects like "EuroSky" move forward, will public funding be part of the plan?
Cc @EUCommission @HennaVirkkunen @mellifluousbox @alexandrageese @Gargron
#EU #OpenSource #DigitalSovereingty #Mastodon #BlueSky
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Anarcat (@Anarcat@kolektiva.social)
@corbet that's going to sound quaint, but the answer, in my mind, is still this old internet we're on right now... #mastodon and the #federation is not exactly "old" but it certainly matches the old school usenet/email models of old, warts and all, but it feels mostly insulated from this madness... search engines are dying because of AI, but we still have, thanks to you, trusted sources of news, and those will stay places we can rely on, not by stumbling on them randomly, but by directly seeking content there, because we know it's there.
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leavex (@leavex@mastodon.social)
A perspective on Mastodon, by @markus_netzpolitik and Joris Leander:
Usability: Decentralization is a feature – but also a barrier to entry that deters less tech-savvy users.
Inconsistent product development: Because no single instance can make design decisions and Mastodon app development is chronically underfunded, the user interfaces seem outdated and less „smooth“ than Big Tech apps – despite many good (rather unknown) third-party clients.
https://digitalrechte.de/news/eurosky-mastodon-wedium-w-social
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rhizomancer (@rhizomancer@todon.eu)
Una característica de Mastodon que m'atrau moltíssim és precisament que em pot generar fatiga.
Vull dir, com no es tracta d'una app destinada a capturar la meva atenció ni a donar una experiència completament llisa, de comercialització dels meus estímuls, quan llegeixo de manera reiterada sobre x temes acabo dient "bé, fins aquí'.
En aquest sentit em sembla que opera veritablement com un termòstat, descriptor d'una vida real que no és agradable, i de la que vull saber, però de la qual la repetició em pot portar a pensar "què puc fer sobre aquesta situació?", en comptes de continuar amb l'scroll infinit.
Lo bó és que també tens la possibilitat de reduir aquesta fatiga curant d'una altra manera el teu feed. Fully autonomous federated internet 
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revolt_agent (@revolt_agent@mastodon.social)
2026: The expiration of EU’s NGI program is a critical threat to our digital commons. Free software like Mastodon and Nextcloud aren't just tools—they're the infrastructure of our collective autonomy. We must transition from state-dependent grants to resilient, community-owned funding models. The future of the Social Web is a public good. #DigitalCommons #OpenSource #NGI #Mastodon #Resilience #ReVolt
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schamspeare (@schamspeare@mstdn.social)
Does anybody else notice that your timeline consists mostly of the last ten people you followed? I get the sense that there is a lot of fall-off here. Backsliding X users. (Shame on them, actually.)
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stalbaum (@stalbaum@mastodon.social)
I wonder if people on #mastodon will discuss #AI and #LLM after the bubble? Kind of surly out there right now, not happy topics. Maybe some deflation will cheer you up?
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item (@item@libera.site)
#Mastodon #Statistics 2026-02-11 18:00 CET
Number of active instances: 10 512
Number of users: 10 342 388
Number of statuses: 1 165 008 183
Number of users last 4h: 624
Number of statuses last 4h: 127 051
Help me keep stats and server running! 💻📊 Even a small monthly contribution makes a big difference. Support here: #^https://www.patreon.com/FediverseStatistics 🙏
#Fediverse
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amcewen (@amcewen@mastodon.me.uk)
@dubstar_04 @DoESLiverpool I've got a @nodered flow hooked up to the #Mastodon API for a couple of accounts, which then sends a message over #MQTT to @bubblino (who has an #ESP8266 running on @esphome inside him)
When he gets a message, he blows bubbles 😀 🫧
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skoda (@skoda@mastodon.social)
Seeing reports on other social media of #Minneapolis getting posts deranked and buried. We should remind people that #Mastodon has many popular servers hosted outside the US.
The situation with #ICE has been getting worse there, but coverage has declined a lot. There have been drones and helicopters overhead, even overnight. People have started hiding neighbors in their homes. As well as organizing food distribution networks to limit time in public, and help people who aren’t able to work.
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