@MuseeOrsay

welcome to the #Fediverse !

Espérons que vous inciterez davantage de musées et d'organismes culturels à nous rejoindre ici…

#museums, #culture

@Gina

great - i love #forgejo and use it myself. i hope "own your content" is the next big thing - we here in the #fediverse know that already

@BZKopensource

#Fediverse developers: please, I beg of you: for the love of all that
Is good & holy, please stop your software from trying to ‘correct’ #CamelCase that we intentionally put into hashtags.

It’s an #accessibility issue.

Kthx. 🙏

Found it! Found the #Fediverse Symbol!

#Bloomscrolling

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three yellow composite flowers forming a fediverse symbol!

Dear Fedi friends,

I want to share a discovery that made my MONTH.

10 days ago, while I was putting together the slides for my presentation at Berlin #FediDay, I noticed a new entry in the @cercle directory (the Mastodon instance set up by the Service Numérique of the French Ministry of Culture):

✨ @MuseeOrsay ✨

Ouiiiiii!

Paris' super prestigious museum - that welcomed 7.3 million visitors last year - is now on the #Fediverse !!! 🥳

Let's give Musée d'Orsay a warm welcome ❤️

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a screenshot of the final slide of my Berlin Fedi Day presentation, showing a screenshot of the Fediverse profile page of Musée d'Orsay

Quick heads-up for other Mastodon admins: this registration spam wave isn't over yet.

On lsbt.me, we first saw a flood of API registrations using Python/aiohttp. The telltale signs were usernames following the pattern bp plus 16 hex characters, and the sign-up reason was always "Automated protocol deliverability probe". A narrow block on that user agent stopped the first wave.

Today, however, five new registrations came in with the same usernames and the same sign-up reason. This time the bot simply identified itself as Chrome 126. That's exactly why a user agent is only useful as a short-term filter. It's a header the client can set to anything.

The requests go to POST /api/v1/accounts. This endpoint lets client apps create a new local account directly in the app. No app needs it for OAuth connections to existing accounts. #FediSuite doesn't use it either. It registers itself via /api/v1/apps, obtains consent via /oauth/authorize, and then works with a user token. Regular sign-up through the Mastodon website is also handled separately via POST /auth.

So I've completely disabled API account creation on lsbt.me. Web sign-up, OAuth, and existing clients keep working as before. Anyone who wants a new account just signs up once on the web as usual and can then use any client.

If you'd also rather not offer this optional native sign-up path, you can add the following to your Nginx server block, before the general location / block. The example assumes the @proxy location that many Mastodon Nginx configs already include:

location = /api/v1/accounts {
  limit_except GET {
    deny all;
  }
  try_files $uri @proxy;
}

This returns a 403 only for POST /api/v1/accounts. The read-only GET endpoint remains reachable. As always, run nginx -t afterwards and only reload once the test passes.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #FediMod #FediBlock #Moderation #Registration #Spam #Nginx #SelfHosting #SysAdmin #ActivityPub

OK Fedi minds!

I'm determined to find a way to sell online without using #Zionist or #Eugenicist card payment services.

There are services and platforms online for artists but they always seem to end up with Paypal, Stripe or something similar. I figured the first thing I need to do is find card processing that isn't entirely fascist. Once I've done that, I can work out building a simple online shop.

There must be something out there that's more independent and a touch more ethical than what we already have (ideally a lot more ethical).

And all the people of the #Fediverse - someone must know of something artists and creators can use that's not Paypal or Stripe or Squarespace or Shopify.

There must be something out there! There must be!

#CardPayment #CardProcessing #AskFedi #SellingOnline

Salut #Fediverse,
Dans la lignée de mon tour d’horizon sur l’admin-sys d’il y a quelques mois…

Je suis actuellement étudiant en informatique à niveau bac+2, et recherche une alternance d’un an, en cursus 3ème année d’administration systèmes et réseaux, sur #Brest et la région #Finistère.
À partir de la fin septembre 2026.

Je suis ouvert au moindre conseil, contact, proposition ! 😊

#alternance #adminSys #administrationSystème #études

New on our blog: Mirlo Book Report: Mood Machine by Mirlo

https://mirlo.space/team/posts/767

Support Mirlo: https://mirlo.space/team/tip ❤️🐦‍⬛

#Music #Mirlo #Blog #Blogs #MusicNews #FediMusic #Fediverse #Musicians

I would like to share my experience of building #FediHood.
While I still think that building timelines around you is an interesting enhancement for the #Fediverse, I think I was wrong about the way I did it.
Many people are interested, but not enough to create another account just for that feature. They want it with their current account.
I am happy to see #Pixelfed implementing it, and that is the way it should be done.

"Pourquoi quand je crée un compte sur PeerTube je ne vois aucune video".
"Comment ça se fait qu'il n'y a rien sur mon fil Mastodon".
"C'est où les reels sur PixelFed".

Ça c'est un petit florilège des remarques qu'on entend sur les réseaux sociaux alternatifs.

On peut dire ce qu'on veut, mais c'est pas toujours simple de comprendre le principe d'instance, de fédération, de protocole activitypub.
En tout cas, pas pour tout le monde.

Du coup je me suis chauffé à faire une "petite" vidéo pour réexpliquer le principe.
Si ça peut aider à ne pas décourager les nouvelleaux, alors c'est gagné.

VIVE LE FEDIVERSE

Vidéo : https://videos.stackgui.de/w/hojMaDEeEeUd22nkYK22QZ
Blog : https://sansdependances.fr/posts/comprendre-le-fediverse-mastodon-peertube-pixelfed/

#fediverse #mastodon #peertube #activitypub #pixelfed

Bon... la vidéo est aussi sur YouTube.
Mais promis, c'est la dernière que vous regardez là-bas ? ;)
https://youtu.be/Sz7iN_TiuEs

22:52—Good night #Fediverse! ❤

#FreeBSD #Meme

Though this is not necessarily productive of me and admittedly very petty.... I wish I could find a slightly condescending word like the way Amish use the word "English" to refer to the outside world. Except I would use it for people who insist on using technofascist technology.
#fediverse #smallWeb #FLOSS #FOSS #Amish #GAFAM #linguistics #words

For the first time, littleFedi will be shown publicly

And I have to say, this makes me very happy. :)

A pre-release build will be running on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W at Berlin FediDay, where people will be able to see it, try it, play with it, and probably abuse it a little too.

Unfortunately I won't be there in person, because I'll be at EuroBSDCon that same weekend.

But really, what better place than FediDay for the first public appearance of littleFedi?

A huge thanks to @vortex@tldr.nettime.org - Adam - for taking this on, building the demo, testing it independently, and agreeing to respect the temporary source embargo while we complete the last checks before the public release.

I'm especially curious to see how littleFedi behaves once it's in the hands of people who didn't build it.

This is exactly the kind of test I was hoping for.

More details about the presentation:

https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/talk/review/AJNLVMPYRSVX3JDHDHYSEZZNSP9KQSYH

#littleFedi #littleOne #OwnYourData #Fediverse

RE: https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@stefano/01a07c8a-904d-7503-af16-b9bbe8f11f08

This makes me particularly happy. 😄

littleFedi will get its first public showing at Berlin FediDay, running on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W.

Meanwhile, I will be at EuroBSDCon.

Two events, two communities I care deeply about, and one very interesting weekend ahead.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

AodeRelay boosted

Stefano Marinelli - littleFedi » 🌐 2026-09-07
@stefano@littleone.littlefedi.social

For the first time, littleFedi will be shown publicly

And I have to say, this makes me very happy. :)

A pre-release build will be running on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W at Berlin FediDay, where people will be able to see it, try it, play with it, and probably abuse it a little too.

Unfortunately I won't be there in person, because I'll be at EuroBSDCon that same weekend.

But really, what better place than FediDay for the first public appearance of littleFedi?

A huge thanks to @vortex@tldr.nettime.org - Adam - for taking this on, building the demo, testing it independently, and agreeing to respect the temporary source embargo while we complete the last checks before the public release.

I'm especially curious to see how littleFedi behaves once it's in the hands of people who didn't build it.

This is exactly the kind of test I was hoping for.

More details about the presentation:

https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/talk/review/AJNLVMPYRSVX3JDHDHYSEZZNSP9KQSYH

#littleFedi #littleOne #OwnYourData #Fediverse

For the first time, littleFedi will be shown publicly

And I have to say, this makes me very happy. :)

A pre-release build will be running on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W at Berlin FediDay, where people will be able to see it, try it, play with it, and probably abuse it a little too.

Unfortunately I won't be there in person, because I'll be at EuroBSDCon that same weekend.

But really, what better place than FediDay for the first public appearance of littleFedi?

A huge thanks to @vortex@tldr.nettime.org - Adam - for taking this on, building the demo, testing it independently, and agreeing to respect the temporary source embargo while we complete the last checks before the public release.

I'm especially curious to see how littleFedi behaves once it's in the hands of people who didn't build it.

This is exactly the kind of test I was hoping for.

More details about the presentation:

https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/talk/review/AJNLVMPYRSVX3JDHDHYSEZZNSP9KQSYH

#littleFedi #littleOne #OwnYourData #Fediverse

If you have a snac follower, and they like your posts, take a moment to appreciate them.

#snac @grunfink@comam.es #fediverse

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mastomindset: click star, star turns yellow, scroll; value of masto favorite: 'seen' | snac: click like, webpage reloads, scrolling progress lost, never see post again; value of snac like: ive been to hell and back for you

just append the url with ?terse=true

behold and compare the results!
https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703
https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703?terse=true

#fediverse #snac2

just append the url with ?terse=true

behold and compare the results!
https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703
https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703?terse=true

#fediverse #snac2

RE: https://berlin.social/@berlinfediday/117200439673886108

Awww Berlin #FediDay is almost here. I'm super super honored and excited to speak there next Saturday.

Currently fine-tuning my presentation, which will be a love letter to the people who contribute to the #Fediverse and give me so much hope for the future ❤️

Today’s littleFedi updates:

• Strengthened allowlist-only federation: redirects, discovery, deliveries, and hostname handling now consistently respect the policy. (Spoiler alert: there's a reason behind this 😉)
• Fixed boosts for local-only posts, plus a timeline relative-time refresh issue.
• Fixed an Android PWA green-bar issue by letting the manifest update normally.
• Disabling remote media caching now safely clears leftover cache jobs instead of leaving the queue unhealthy.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse #OwnYourData

Friendly periodic reminder that snac is a great, great piece of software.

I've upgraded #FediMeteo in minutes, recompiling snac *inside each jail*.

The Fediverse, as the Fediverse should be.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

#snac #snac2 #Fediverse #OwnYourData

EDIT: I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I am a committed antifascist, because of my personal history, my family history, and my country's history. Nazis and fascists are not welcome here, and they never have been.

Being accused of fascism or Nazism, or of defending either of them, hurts me personally. Part of the point of this post was precisely this: if we disagree, let's not immediately start shouting "fascism". Let's talk, look at what was actually said and done, and try to understand the situation. Sometimes there is more to it than it first appears.

After 30 years of commitment to open source, openness and collaboration, I honestly don't know how else to make my position clearer. I am deeply saddened by how this whole situation has unfolded.

Periodic official communication, just to clarify a few things.

The BSD Cafe is an open, inclusive and friendly community. A community of people who try to be *“pro, not against”* and *“supporters, not haters”*: enthusiasts, friends, people who come here to share, to learn, to discuss. Not to hate each other.

This does not mean that we all have to think in the same way. Quite the opposite: it means that we can have different opinions, discuss them, defend them strongly, and question each other’s ideas.

What it does not mean is that it is acceptable to insult, threaten, attack people, or pretend that there can only be one morally acceptable position on every possible subject.

Calling the BSD Cafe a "Nazi Bar" from the outside simply because we do not automatically censor people who have an opinion different from yours is offensive towards the hundreds of people who are part of this community. Unless you're a Nazi or a fascist. In that case, you're not welcome here.

People are, of course, free to criticise what happens here. But expecting us to attack, ban or silence someone because you believe they deserve it, and then accusing the whole Cafe because we do not, is something different.

And I have seen something even worse lately: actual calls for hate. The equivalent of *“hey, everyone, go and attack this person”*, simply because that person does not share your position.

No. This is not acceptable.

And, dear friends, declaring yourself anti-Nazi while organising a crowd against somebody, intimidating them and treating them as an enemy who deserves to be attacked means using exactly the kind of methods you claim to oppose.

I do not say this lightly. I come from a family, and from a country, with a very real history of fascism and of the antifascism that immediately followed it. These are not just abstract words to me.

Hate is not tolerated, at any level, inside or outside the Cafe. The same is true for threats, intimidation and aggression. Believing that our cause is right does not make those behaviours more acceptable.

You disagree with someone? Say it. Explain why. Argue against their ideas. Support yours with all the conviction you want. But do not aggressively attack. This is not tolerated.

And expecting everyone else to attack that person too, or considering them somehow complicit because they do not, is something different. And it is not what I want for this community.

On any subject.

Even pineapple on pizza (!!!).

The Fediverse is a non-place, but it is made of real people. Wonderful people, very often. Let’s not turn it into version 2.0 of traditional social media, where every discussion becomes a war and anyone who does not think exactly like us automatically becomes the enemy.

In the last few weeks I have seen people stepping away exactly because of this. On different subjects, people accused of the worst things not because of something they had done, but because they had not said what someone expected them to say. Some of them, for their own wellbeing, simply decided to take a step back.

We all lost something because of that. Nobody gained anything.

So let’s keep supporting what we believe in. Let’s do it with conviction, and with firmness when needed. But let’s discuss ideas without turning people into targets.

From experience, I have learnt that real change also requires discussion, organisation, patience and concrete actions. We can disagree deeply without stopping considering each other as people.

This is the kind of place I want the BSD Cafe to continue to be.

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2026/03/31/im-just-the-barista/

#BSDCafe #Fediverse #SupportersNotHaters

ft. big update - over 100 new achievements!

https://qum.cz/snac_achievements/

#snac2 #fediverse @grunfink@comam.es

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get snacpilled achievement

At the end of it all, I’m here because I like being here.

I’m here to talk to people. To read things I care about. To see beautiful photos. To be part of a wonderful community. To talk about the things I love, to share my thoughts, and some of what I’ve learned over the years.

But also to share the small pleasures of life: a good pizza, a tiramisu, a beautiful sunrise over the sea, or a quiet path through the trees.

There is already enough anger in the world.

Life is too short to spend it being angry all the time.

#GoodNight #Fediverse

Now on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W - powered by NetBSD (armv7) - with an USB ethernet card, as the internal wifi seems to lock when the traffic goes up.

It's blazing fast

#littleFedi #Fediverse

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The Raspberry PI Zero 2 W - powered by NetBSD - running this instance

Good morning, #Fediverse.
Have a great Sunday!

#Weekend

Hey #Fediverse! See you all at the 1985 California Computer Show.

#UNIX #RetroComputing

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Advertisement for the California Computer Show, May 14th–15th, 1985, 12:00pm–6:00pm, at the Palo Alto Hyatt Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California. "California Computer Show" is written in large pink cursive script with drop shadows over a gray grid pattern. Tagline at the bottom reads: "Northern California's only TWO-DAY event dedicated exclusively to OEMs and sophisticated end users."

When someone asks me what the #Fediverse, #Mastodon or #ActivityPub is I'll use this illustration from UNIX Review, April 1985.

#UNIX

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Illustration showing multiple beige desktop computers floating among clouds in an open sky, connected to each other by thin golden lines forming a network, with one large computer in the foreground emitting a burst of colorful rainbow light rays from its screen.

This is how I toot.

(Amiga World magazine, March 1988)

#Mastodon #Fediverse

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A soft-toned editorial illustration showing a person standing in a dark room beside a desk with a vintage PC and keyboard, shouting into the space through a megaphone filled with scattered 3.5-inch floppy disks floating like stars in a night sky.

When my posts federate between #Mastodon servers on the #fediverse.

UNIX Review, May 1985.

#UNIX

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Two silhouetted businessmen with computer monitors for heads shaking hands against a layered pink and purple geometric backdrop, briefcases at their sides.

How #BlueSky users describe what using #Mastodon and the #Fediverse is like.

UNIX World, Sept. 1985.

#UNIX #RetroComputing

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A vintage print advertisement for Celerity Computing's C1200 workstation, headlined "Tomorrow's Engineering Tool — Today." Features photos of the beige computer system with a color monitor displaying a 3D CAD rendering of a satellite dish, alongside a person using the keyboard. Body copy touts UNIX 4.2 BSD, 32-bit architecture, and 2.3 million Whetstones/second performance. Contact information for offices in San Diego, Framingham, Houston, Farmington Hills, Woodland Hills, and Santa Clara.

Choosing a server in the #fediverse to join #mastodon and post old retro computing ads for everyone’s enjoyment.

UNIX World Sept. 1990.

#UNIX #RetroComputing

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A vintage PC/TCP Plus magazine ad with the headline "There's only one way to get around out here." A small figure in a blue suit stands on a green hill gazing up at a starry purple cosmos filled with planets, comets, and galaxies, each labeled with a different computing platform: Oracle, HP, VAX, VINES, NetWare, AT&T, PC, NFS Server, IP Router, Unisys, MicroVAX, and IBM Mainframe.

Thank you, friends!

The instance held up perfectly, without flinching! I also took advantage of the surge to identify a few areas for improvement, and they've been pinned down. New patches will be rolled out over the next few days.

The release is getting closer and closer...

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

...and this is how it's doing, while many of you are boosting, replying, etc:

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE       TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 7745 little    35    0   620M  152M RUN       140:14 57.71% 57.71% littlefedi-armv6

Crazy, isn't it?

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

This is the "roost" littleFedi theme

#littleFedi #Fediverse

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A screenshot of the Roost theme in littleFedi

Yesterday’s post received an unexpected amount of appreciation, and the little Raspberry Pi Zero W didn’t even flinch.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData #NetBSD

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Screenshot showing the post’s engagement figures: 51 replies, 672 boosts, 55 quotes, and 890 favourites. For each reply, it re-generated the blog, too.

RE: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/01a0448d-c9e8-7b7e-a225-b22fc0333f0f

Mastodon is great. But littleFedi, snac, GoToSocial, Mitra, Akkoma, etc. - they all share a mission: make sure people will be able to self host their instances without investing a huge sum.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #littleFedi #snac #GoToSocial #Mitra #Akkoma

This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.

It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.

It consumes just under 1W.

Its database is this size:

-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db

That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.

Its average CPU load is extremely low.

It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.

I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.

I promise myself to use it more, and I will.

You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.

You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.

Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.

EDIT: littleFedi allows to transform posts into blog posts, having its own SSG (Static Site Generator). The one generated by this post is reachable by clicking here.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

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My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.