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The lack of functional discovery features on Mastodon is so nice. One of the worst experiences on Bluesky is making a post and then 18 hours later completely random people start Discovering it. And they're almost never happy to see it, nor do they remotely understand the intent or context. Make a post for your friends on Bluesky and wake up the next morning to a bunch of messages from mystery people along the lines of "why did you post this??". And I just want to know well why did you read it??
3d mastodon client because why not
A command-line tool to copy a thread to a Markdown file and save all the media attachments in a directory.
Welcome to Posty Posts: It's the Postiest!™
Using this tool, you can extract your Mastodon archive and create a static site that can be hosted anywhere.
Once you press "Upload and Extract" you'll be given a chance to view your archive and decide if you want to turn it into a static HTML website or not.
After generating the static site, you'll be given an opportunity to download as well as delete all of your data.
A tool for exporting data from and importing data to Fediverse instances. Requires that they support the Mastodon API as implemented by GoToSocial. Intended for use with GoToSocial, but should work with other Mastodon-like instances, including Mastodon.
An easy and stress-free way of choosing a Fediverse server
Fedi.Garden is a small human-curated list of nice, well run servers on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. All of them have opted-in and promised to obey specific standards of reliability and responsible moderation.
Look, I’m done. I poured years and endless hours into establishing myself on walled garden services administered with varying degrees of competence and benevolence, only to have those services use my own sunk costs to trap me within their silos even as they siphoned value from my side of the ledger to their own.
The only thing worse than having wasted all that time and energy would be to have wasted it — and learned nothing.
In the findings, we get into…
Why we think the fediverse’s structure can allow for particularly humane and high-context moderation—and which of the cultural, technical, and financial gaps that our participants identified must be filled before the network can achieve its potential.
The interrelated governance configurations that make a server more or less manageable, and the different ways servers in our sample approached those configurations to serve their various communities.
The biggest gaps and annoyances in available governance tooling—spoiler, it’s mostly moderation stuff, but it also includes some fascinating things related to shared/coalitional moderation and better communication between servers.
What kinds of future threats are most on server operators’ minds, and which things they’re not particularly concerned about.
The things that keep volunteer server runners on the fediverse, give them hope, and make them feel excited about possible futures.
Drag and drop accounts you follow on the right side, to lists you have created on the left side.
Audio + Mastodon = Audon
Audon is a service of realtime audio streaming for Mastodon.
Jortage is a communal project providing object storage and hosting, with more on the way. Our model is to pool together hosting expenses of our members to allow pay-what-you-can usage and to reduce everyone's costs overall.
Our first project, the Jortage Storage Pool, designed for fediverse instances, has been fairly successful and has saved 20+ instance admins huge amounts off their storage fees, and often allowed them to move off slow and frequently-down cheap providers onto our system powered by a CDN.
An anarchist introduction to federated social media
MrBotchi is federated microblogging platform for single-user.
Epicyon is an AGPL licensed ActivityPub protocol compliant federated social network server suitable for hosting a small number of accounts on low power systems requiring minimal maintenance, such as single board computers. It's the ActivityPub equivalent of an email server, storing posts as human readable JSON on file, rather than in a database. It also uses only a small amount of RAM.
