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Is X Back? Who Cares. Social Media Monoliths Are Passé.

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:16:15 +0000

But I think this discussion also opens up another, related question: Do we need to live in a world where every network is the biggest thing ever? Can you have a thriving community without your primary platform being a zeitgeist machine? Gruber’s framing on the issue seems to suggest that Twitter circa 2009 is the ideal. But what if that moment has genuinely passed? The Threads algorithm that Gruber points to specifically goes out of its way to discourage the very kinds of interactions that a 2009 Twitter once allowed. The fediverse’s server-oriented setup favors interactions in smaller communities even if, in practice, people still tend to favor the larger ones.

Tags: #fediverse #mastodon #social #twitter #x

Look, just fucking use Mastodon already

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:14:16 +0000

See, what makes Mastodon less worse than something like Twitter or Bluesky or, god forbid, fucking Threads, is that it has escape hatches. You may not like being told “go find another instance,” but you can go find another instance, and that is fucking spectacular. Twitter started going into the shitter even before Elon Seig Heil Musk painted a big “X” on it with his dick, but did you all just say “sucks, man,” and fuck off to another Twitter instance? No! Why not? Because there were no other fucking Twitter instances!

Tags: #activitypub #atproto #bluesky #bsky #mastodon #social

Auto-Bookmark Posting – RasterWeb!

Sat, 02 May 2026 18:41:30 +0000

Well, I had this idea. A new bot that would post one bookmark per day to a Mastodon account.

Tags: #bookmarks #fediverse #linkding #mastodon

Jorijn Schrijvershof: "Built a Mastodon observability…" - toot.community

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:34:08 +0000

Built a Mastodon observability stack over the weekend for toot.community: Grafana dashboards (web/sidekiq/streaming/edge), VictoriaMetrics rules, SLOs & alerts. The ultimate goal was to get meaningful symptom (user-facing) alerts and to learn about Jsonnet and Grafonnet.

Tags: #fediverse #mastodon #metrics #tools

My next chapter with Mastodon - Mastodon Blog

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:05:59 +0000

After nearly 10 years, I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon and transferring my ownership of the trademark and other assets to the Mastodon non-profit. Over the course of my time at Mastodon, I have centered myself less and less in our outward communications, and to some degree, this is the culmination of that trend. Mastodon is bigger than me, and though the technology we develop on is itself decentralized—with heaps of alternative fediverse projects demonstrating that participation in this ecosystem is possible without our involvement—it benefits our community to ensure that the project itself which so many people have come to love and depend on remains true to its values. There are too many examples of founder egos sabotaging thriving communities, and while I’d like to think myself an exception, I understand why people would prefer better guardrails.

Tags: #leadership #mastodon #social

Scripting News: Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:40:32 +0000

If Bluesky and Mastodon were "on the web" they would already interop because friends that's what the freaking web does. They behave like closed off silos, and until that changes, they can't claim to be on the web. Don't sell out the web so cheap. It really means something to be on the web.#

Tags: #bluesky #mastodon #social #web #webdev #www

ongoing by Tim Bray · Kendzior Case-Study

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:56:17 +0000

It is very, very unlikely that in the Mastodon universe, Sarah Kendzior’s account would suddenly have globally vanished. It is quite likely that the shot-a-man post would have been edited appropriately, and possible that it would have just vanished.

Tags: #bluesky #fediverse #johnnycash #mastodon #social

lmorchard/feed-to-mastodon: A command-line tool that fetches RSS/Atom feeds and posts new entries to Mastodon with customizable templates.

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:19:52 +0000

Contribute to lmorchard/feed-to-mastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tags: #mastodon #rss #tools

matthewmcvickar/oblique-questions-bot: A bot that posts questions without context.

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:24:04 +0000

A bot that posts questions without context.

Tags: #bluesky #bots #fediverse #mastodon #social

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter | WIRED

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 05:37:25 +0000

How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the billionaires. Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much. Their smartphones are six versions behind and have badly cracked screens. They fix bicycles, then they talk about fixing bicycles, then they show their friend, who just came over for no reason, how they fixed their bicycle, and their friend says, “Wow, good job,” and they make tea. That doesn’t seem like enough to build a town square on.

Tags: #mastodon #social #twitter

fedibot club

Sun, 11 May 2025 17:57:38 +0000

welcome to the fedibot club! we can help you make fun and cool bots!

Tags: #bots #fediverse #lua #mastodon

aittalam/byota: Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:08:02 +0000

Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm

Tags: #ai #byota #feeds #llm #mastodon #ml #rss

halcy log - Mastodon.py in the browser!

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:38:59 +0000

Today, I learned that PyScript exists. PyScript is, at its core, some rigging to make Pyodide, a WebAssembly port of the CPython Python interpreter, real easy to use as a proper client-side web scripting language. Just include one