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“Tool Unmasks Shadowy World of ⌗Ads that Track Your ⌗Location
It's usually very difficult to investigate ad industry․ New tool called ⌗DecryptAds aims to make it much easier with massive dataset anyone can qu…”

https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/117187282251793076

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“More school districts are shrinking․ New research asks whether closures work npr․org/2026/08/29/nx-s1-5945658/more-school-districts-are-shrinking-new-research-asks-whether-closures-work ⌗Education ⌗Research …”

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“Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
Link: komoroske․com/slime-mold/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49499891”

https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/117185524950295302

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Esteemed #Fediverse –

the #ActivityPub #ClientToServer API is magic.
For menschys we are currently implementing the new specs.
There are multiple drafts already, e.g.

Auth
https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-api/basicprofile
with according
Metadata https://client.dev/
and example in https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api

Seek
https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-api/seekitem

Autocomplete
https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-api/autocomplete

/ @clemensg

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“Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and some mundane activity ⌗life ⌗coffee ⌗music ⌗linux ⌗research”

https://mastodon.social/@unixbhaskar/117180759822379668

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“A Hegseth Employee Created a Database to Track Americans Based on Their Political Affiliation

quokk․au/c/usa/p/1138416/a-hegseth-employee-created-a-database-to-track-americans-based-on-their-political-affiliatio”

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“Interesting links of the week:Strategy:* assets․publishing․service․gov․uk/media/6a50d66b1228eb26a4cab76c/National_Risk_Register_2026․pdf - I rave about the HMG risk register but it's a new year and there is still mu…”

https://infosec.exchange/@timb_machine/117180395450015321

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“⌗ACAB ⌗Flock ⌗surveillance ''Deputy of the Year' accused of using Flock cameras to track ex resigns after probeA Florida deputy who was recently named 'Deputy of the Year' has resigned after an internal investi…”

https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/117185897658334465

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Goodnight, #Fediverse 🌙

Good Morning #fediverse #tzag

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“The ⌗BrainDrain has begun as academics flee the restrictive, anti-intellectual environment cultivated and promoted by the ⌗TrumpRegime and ⌗Republicans - Canada poaches dozens of top US researchers for its u…”

https://connectop.us/@CharlieMcHenry/117179959854165694

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“Flock's response to published vulnerabilities: 'nuh uh'․
⌗infosec ⌗surveillance ⌗flock youtube․com/shorts/I_y7OjsI1Zk?is=Wl3QYgW8DJd4apWT”

https://hachyderm.io/@tankgrrl/117185054737578937

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“Hacking IKEA Furniture
Link: greenlightning․eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49497810”

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I’M LIBERATED BY IT 💎

I’m only just beginning to understand how important the #Disability discussion underneath #AI actually is.

I have been abused for using AI. I have lost a dear friendship over it. I have been told, in various ways, what I should use instead.

Yet many of the alternatives people have suggested, from modern dictation to speech tools, already use AI themselves. AI is increasingly woven into ordinary technology, whether we call it AI or not.

And still, I choose AI Support, #AIS.

Not because I couldn’t survive without it. I could. I lived with the slower rhythm of my disability for decades before this technology appeared.

But with AIS, I feel liberated.

I can speak, I can write, and I can think things through. I can participate without the physical effort of typing, constantly determining how much of myself I get to express before exhaustion takes over.

That matters to me.

People are entirely free to criticise AI. They can refuse to use it themselves. They can raise every legitimate concern about what this technology is doing.

But I am the person with a disability in this life.

I get to choose the tools that help me live it.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works

#Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #DisabilityRights #Agency #Communication #Voice #Inclusion #Technology #Fediverse #Mastodon

My Mexican alter ego is about to blow the mind of the #fediverse because it is so white.

People have other identities?

They speak another language?

But, how?

#Fediverse
13 POSTs on Fediverse ( 2026-08-31 05:45:08 - 2026-08-31 10:00:33 )
https://mnmm.top/oBS

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Adding #ADHD #sketching / #drawing to #Fediverse

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Black-and-white ink sketch of a long, narrow corridor with repeating rectangular frames, deep shadows, and jagged lines

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“Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’ theguardian․com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonprofits ⌗policestate …”

https://infosec.exchange/@tasket/117183107072081292

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“﹫downey '… the claim 'isn't meaningfully using' is too strong if it means 'no real research activity' — there's a large and growing body of work, some of it clinically promising …'― claude․ai/share/dc24ad55-a294-455…”

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117179889330384324

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“Content warning:DISCLOSURE: Systemic 0-Day Vulnerability Class ⌗CBPI & ⌗SUSPICIOUS FrameworkNovel Architectural Vulnerability-Class: Compositional Boundary Precedence Inversion (CBPI)
Resolution Protocol Framework: SUSP…”

https://defcon.social/@loudmumble/117178906208103881

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SILHOUETTE ON A SUNDAY WALK! #mastodon #fediverse #fedidogs #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #dogdad #silhouette #Sunday #photo #photography #photos #pets #picture

COFFEE x GOLDEN #mastodon #fediverse #goldenretriever #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #photo #photography #photos #photographie #photooftheday #coffee

littleFedi: a Fediverse Server That Doesn't Need a Data Centre

I was fifteen, and there were no BBSes in my city. So every call was long distance, once a day, sometimes twice. I'd start the dialer and wait for that sound - the handshake, the negotiation, the hiss settling into a carrier - and then I was connected to a computer sitting in somebody's bedroom, a few hundred kilometres away. I was a co-sysop of a local board and a national moderator of a FidoNet area. None of my friends understood what I was doing, and they'd stopped asking to avoid an incomprehensible monologue. But I liked it, and that was enough for me.

Here's the thing about that computer in someone's bedroom. There was no data centre. No domain, no certificate authority, no hosting provider, no cloud. Just a machine, a phone line, and a person who'd decided to run it. If you wanted to reach it, you called it.

Now look at what it takes today to put a small server on the network so other people can talk to it. A public address, which most home connections no longer have. A domain, which you rent. A certificate, which somebody has to issue you. And, increasingly, a VPS somewhere, because the software won't fit on the hardware you already own.

We've added a lot of infrastructure between two people who just want to talk. That's what littleFedi is about.

What it is

A single Go binary. No Ruby, no Sidekiq, no Redis, no separate worker processes to babysit. You run init, answer a few questions, and you've got a working instance. It speaks ActivityPub, and it speaks the Mastodon client API well enough that existing apps just work.

It also runs on hardware that would make Mastodon - or even Akkoma - struggle. Most software in this space assumes a VPS with a few gigabytes of RAM and a database server next to it. We assumed a Raspberry Pi Zero W behind a home router. There's a low_power mode that tunes memory use, image decoding and thumbnail generation for exactly that kind of box, and it's tested on that kind of box, not just on a fast dev machine.

In spirit this puts littleFedi close to snac, which I've always liked a lot. Same conviction: a personal server shouldn't need a fleet of services behind it.

Federating without a public address

littleMesh is the part I'm most attached to, and it's the part that goes back to the modem.

Your instance generates an Ed25519 key pair. That key is its identity - the node's address is derived from the public key, so reaching that address means reaching the holder of that key and nobody else. No registrar, no certificate authority, nobody to ask permission from.

A small set of public lighthouse nodes help two instances find each other. Once they're introduced, the traffic runs over a second TLS session pinned to both node IDs. The lighthouse copies encrypted bytes back and forth. It never sees plaintext, and it can't impersonate either side. And if the two nodes can reach each other directly, they drop the relay after the introduction and talk peer to peer.

Which is, more or less, calling the BBS directly. Just without the phone bill.

The gateway into ordinary HTTPS

Mastodon and other regular servers can't resolve a mesh address on their own. There's no domain and no certificate for them to find.

That's what the optional HTTPS gateway is for. A lighthouse operator can run one alongside the relay, and it bridges the mesh into ordinary HTTPS for the rest of the web. The gateway has to terminate TLS to do that, so it can technically see the traffic passing through it. Which is exactly why it's a separate, opt-in piece and not something every node exposes by default.

It has two independent settings: one controls what the gateway lets ordinary internet visitors reach at all, and a second one applies again at the destination node. Left at their defaults, both allow only federation traffic - ActivityPub delivery, discovery, public media. Web login, API and media proxy stay closed unless an operator deliberately opens them.

Mesh peers talking to each other directly never touch the gateway at all. That exposure only applies to the bridge into the wider web. And all of this can be self-hosted.

Chronological timelines

Timelines are chronological. Nothing gets reordered by an engagement model.

If you want something closer to "what did I miss", there's a separate /catchup page you visit on purpose. It ranks posts using signals your own instance already has - how many people you follow boosted something, whether it continues a conversation you took part in. No external popularity score, no telemetry, nothing leaves the machine. You press "mark as read", it moves a divider, and that's the only thing it remembers.

Self-expiring posts

You can set a post to expire, with its own timer, instead of a fixed instance-wide setting.

This isn't a client-side trick that hides the post from view. The expiry goes on the same durable job queue that runs the rest of littleFedi's background work, so the deletion survives restarts and isn't lost if the process happens to be down at the moment the timer fires. When it does fire, the post is deleted and a real Delete activity goes out to everyone who received it - so it actually disappears from remote instances too, not just locally. Editing the post before then can push the timer back or cancel it.

Static blogs, with real threaded replies

littleFedi can take a Fediverse post and publish it as a page on a plain static blog, with its own Atom feed and permalinks that don't move even if you edit the post later. No JavaScript, no database hit on page load.

The part I find more interesting is that the replies aren't left out. If the author turns the option on, littleFedi pulls the public replies that were actually federated to the post, threads them the same way the timeline does, and bakes the whole tree into the generated HTML at build time. So a blog post can show a real comment thread, in the same static file, with the same guarantee as the rest of the page - no JavaScript, no live queries. Only public and unlisted replies qualify, obviously. Anything followers-only or direct never enters the picture.

Why it looks like this

This isn't minimalism for its own sake. It's about how many people simply can't run their own server today, because the requirements are too steep. The hardware, the ops complexity, or just needing a domain and a public address before you can start. We're trying to remove those barriers one at a time, while still shipping a real, federating, reasonably complete server: polls, quotes, scheduled posts, MFA, PostgreSQL and S3 if you want to scale up later.

I've written before about taking a semi-truck to buy salad. Hardware keeps getting more expensive and the software running on it keeps asking for more of it every year. That's backwards. If the machines cost more, the operational cost of what sits on them should go down, not up. Same with complexity: the default direction is to keep adding it, and we'd rather strip it out.

And there's the other half, which is closer to why any of us are doing this at all. It's the same thing that drew me to snac and to the way grunfink works on it, and the same thing that had me dialing a stranger's computer at fifteen. People building tools so that people can talk to each other. Nothing more dressed up than that. We'd rather show the servers running, talk about the Pi sitting in the corner, share a tiramisu photo if it comes up. The joy in this was never about the money it brings in. It's about what we end up building, humanly, because of it.

It's beta software, still short of a first release, and I'd rather say that plainly than oversell it. But it runs, and it federates. That's the part I wanted to write about.

#littleFedi #Fediverse

Hey #FediFriends, I'm looking for Canadian Bandcampers to support next #BandcampFriday. Got any sugestions? Bonus if they're on the #Fediverse. AFAIK there are no tariffs on digital products, so IMHO this would be a good time for us USA folk to send our love and a little bit of cash to our good friends and neighbors up north. Elbows up! 🎵 🎶 🇨🇦 👍 😁 #Canada #Music #Bandcamp #ElbowsUp https://bandcamp.com/discover?loc=6251999

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“📷 6 new license plate readers just reported around Virginia Beach, VA․ Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching․ ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗VirginiaBeach ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/f…”

https://mastodon.social/@deflocktheusa/117182307548312135

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“Content warning:DISCLOSURE: Systemic 0-Day Vulnerability Class ⌗CBPI & ⌗SUSPICIOUS FrameworkNovel Architectural Vulnerability-Class: Compositional Boundary Precedence Inversion (CBPI)
Resolution Protocol Framework: SUSP…”

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“Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, 'Size Is Everything')
Link: muppetlabs․com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy․html
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49433554”

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RE: https://ouo.sh/@nate/117185472280933115

Just to add a second note to this: I've only ingested ~2GB of media cache since removing the mycrowd.ca ActivityPub relay - That's down from the ~10GB I'd have ingested in the same time period if it had been enabled.

There are hundreds of accounts on the list, and I didn't see any egregious offenders when I took a quick browse through - But the numbers don't lie.

I'm still receiving all the #Fediverse content I need to make my TL seem lively, without the data firehose

toot.io relay service boosted

Nate » 🌐 2026-08-30
@nate@ouo.sh

Looks like I finally got the firehose of data influx dialed in on this #Mastodon instance.

Turns out the mycrowd.ca relay had a massive amount of mediaspam subscribers. Switched to just using the toot.io list only.

Still seeing content from the major instances:

Mastodon.world
Mastodon.social
Infosec.exchange
Mstdn.ca (Important for me, because I'm Canadian)

This has been a very interesting experience so far! I'm enjoying tinkering and meeting people in the #Fediverse

#Fediverse
13 POSTs on Fediverse ( 2026-08-30 22:45:15 - 2026-08-31 05:41:26 )
https://mnmm.top/g4t

[Tips are appreciated.]
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📢 Erinnerung: Morgen (Montag, 31.08.2026) ist wieder Fediverse-Sprechstunde! 🌐

„Mach doch einfach ein Issue auf!“

Diesen Satz hat vielleicht der eine oder die andere schon einmal gehört. Aber … was ist eigentlich ein Issue? 🤔

🐞 Ich habe einen Fehler entdeckt – wie melde ich ihn richtig?
💡 Ich habe eine Idee – wo werde ich sie los?
🛠️ Ich wünsche mir eine Verbesserung – darf ich dafür ein Issue erstellen?
📝 Und was muss überhaupt hineingeschrieben werden, damit Entwickler damit etwas anfangen können?

Genau darum geht es morgen Abend in unserer nächsten Fediverse-Sprechstunde:

📅 Montag, 31.08.2026
🕢 19:30 Uhr
💻 Online

✨ Was sind Issues und wie erstelle ich welche?

Durch den Abend führt uns Jens @qbi , den einige vielleicht noch von unserer Fediverse-Sprechstunde zum Thema BookWyrm kennen.

Als Administrator und Entwickler kennt Jens Issues aus der Praxis und wird uns zeigen, wie sie funktionieren und wie wir selbst gute und hilfreiche Issues erstellen können.

Und keine Sorge: Ihr müsst weder programmieren können noch Entwickler sein! 😊

Gerade das soll ein Thema für uns alle sein. Denn Open-Source-Projekte und damit auch viele Anwendungen im Fediverse leben davon, dass Nutzer Fehler melden, Ideen einbringen und Rückmeldungen geben.

Vielleicht verlieren wir morgen gemeinsam auch ein bisschen die Scheu vor GitHub, Codeberg & Co. 😉

Wie immer gilt bei unserer Sprechstunde:

💬 Fragen ausdrücklich erwünscht!
🤝 Erfahrungen dürfen geteilt werden.
🌱 Einsteiger sind genauso willkommen wie erfahrene Nutzer, Admins und Entwickler.

Denn das Fediverse lebt nicht nur von seiner Technik, sondern vor allem von den Menschen, die gemeinsam daran arbeiten, es ein kleines Stück besser zu machen.

Mehr Miteinander statt Gegeneinander. 💜

👉 Morgen, Montag, 31.08.2026 um 19:30 Uhr

💻 Konferenzraum:
campus.ws-12.de/rooms/8p9-mvy-…

Kommt einfach vorbei – wir freuen uns auf euch! 😊

📢 Weitersagen und Teilen sehr gern erwünscht.

#Fediverse #FediverseSprechstunde #OpenSource #Issues #Friendica #Mastodon #Hubzilla #BookWyrm #Codeberg #GitHub

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

Calling on fediverse moderators: if you see a post that kind of, sort of borders on racism, but you're not really too sure: yep, you're definitely dealing with a racist.

Learn about dog whistles. And microaggressions. Get a Black person on your moderation team.

None of the redesigns and user experience tweaks will matter if we can't make this place welcoming to everyone.

#fediverse #FediMeta #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #racism #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“📷 8 new license plate readers just reported around Morada, CA․ Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching․ ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗Morada ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/flock-cameras/ca…”

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: SLAC researchers develop AI-based tool to compress data without losing detail․ 'Next-generation science experiments will collect more data than ever – so much so that they’ll surpas…”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/29/slac-national-accelerator-laboratory-slac-researchers-develop-ai-based-tool-to-compress-data-without-losing-detail/

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🔆 #FediTips for https://PrivacySafe.Social & the #fediverse

“Some PixelFed servers allow you to import your data from Instagram․ Here's a guide about how to do this:➡️ fedi․tips/how-do-i-import-my-instagram-account-data-to-pixelfed If your PixelFed server doesn't allow this, t…”

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OK! Wieder ein Schritt weiter. Meinen #Facebook Account hatte ich ohnehin nur noch widerwillig (weil halt soviele Bekannte da sind..) . Gestern hatte Facebook scheinbar etwas an meinem Browser nicht geschmeckt. Vermutlich, weil ich alles möglich blocke was nur geht, solle ich nun ein #Videoselfie von mir nach #Meta #USA schicken. NO WAY!
Goobye Facebook - Welcome #Mastodon

#selfie #gesichtserkennung #meta #instagram #dutgemacht #unplugbigtech #fediverse #diday #socialmedia #unsocialmedia

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Info-Popup bei Facebook zur Authentifizierung per Selfie: Bestitige deine Identitat mit einem Video-Selfie Um sicherzustellen, dass du eine echte Person bist, musst du ein Video von dir selbst aufnehmen. Damit wir dein Gesicht aus verschiedenen Winkeln aufnehmen kénnen, bitten wir dich wahrend der Aufnahme, deinen Kopf zu drehen.

I’ve just returned from the doctor with my mother. She was prescribed medication that we urgently need to buy, and it costs $50. 💔
We don’t have the luxury of delaying her treatment or waiting. Please, help us get it today. Even a small contribution could make a huge difference for us. 🤍
https://chuffed.org/project/177144
#Fediverse #FediForGaza #Gaza #palestine

Alt...

💔❤️‍🩹

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“📷 9 new license plate readers just reported around Oak Ridge, FL․ Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching․ ⌗ALPR ⌗Surveillance ⌗OakRidge ⌗Privacy ⌗FlockSafety deflocktheusa․com/flock-camer…”

https://mastodon.social/@deflocktheusa/117182307425819099

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🔬 The best bytes of #science & #tech across the #fediverse

“Trump cuts to science advisory boards have long-lasting consequences, researchers say npr․org/2026/08/29/nx-s1-5945029/trump-cut-science-advisory-committees-consequences ⌗Science ⌗Policy ⌗Research”

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/29/nx-s1-5945029/trump-cut-science-advisory-committees-consequences

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My titles are now available on Google Play, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and most other online retailers, domestic and foreign. #google #goodvibes #goodbooks #googlePlay #books #bookstodon #fediverse #mastodon #titles #goosecreekholler #beerpour #flickaslovers #thefifthseduction #readers #writing #writingCommunity #writer #words #scribesAndMakers #readingCommunity #sale #sales #retail #online #amazon #kobo #Apple #barnesandnoble #selfPublishing #selfPromo #indieAuthor #indieAuthors #indie #publishing #domestic #foreign #satire #humor #mystery #romance #suspense #loveStory #creative #creativeWriting

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My four books, including my latest release that launched on Aug, 1, 2026, are available at most online retailers, domestic and foreign.

Looks like I finally got the firehose of data influx dialed in on this #Mastodon instance.

Turns out the mycrowd.ca relay had a massive amount of mediaspam subscribers. Switched to just using the toot.io list only.

Still seeing content from the major instances:

Mastodon.world
Mastodon.social
Infosec.exchange
Mstdn.ca (Important for me, because I'm Canadian)

This has been a very interesting experience so far! I'm enjoying tinkering and meeting people in the #Fediverse

Skastodon.com is a Mastodon server for ska musicians, artists, fans, and anyone else in the ska community. We welcome everyone from the ska, punk, reggae, rocksteady, new wave, or other related music fandoms. We are also proud proponents of the Ska Goth Alliance.

https://skastodon.com

You can find out more at https://skastodon.com/about or contact the admin account @BrianTransplant

#FeaturedServer #Ska #SkaMusic #Reggae #Rocksteady #Music #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

🆕 blog! “ActivityBot is the recipient of an NLnet grant!”

Back in February, I applied for NLnet's Next Generation Zero grant. They were looking for Fediverse projects to help rewild the social media landscape. Or, as they describe it:

Reclaim the public nature of the internet

Small and medium-sized R&D grants between 5.000 and 50.000 euro,…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/activitybot-is-the-recipient-of-an-nlnet-grant/
⸻
#ActivityBot #ActivityPub #fediverse #NLnet

Hello everyone, you can submit your mutual aid request here for amplification on the Fediverse and the general worldwide web: https://mutualaidspace.org/submit

When you submit through the form, the post will be federated as @comrade. It will automatically tag @mutualaid and @mutualaid, alongside human profiles including my personal account @wrzky, my blog @wrzky@wrzky.com, and the project account @mutualaidspace. It will also automatically add hashtags for wider circulation and indexed search: #mutualaid #mutualaidspace #mutualaidrequest #poverty #healthcare #mentalhealth #disability #disabilitymutualaid #disabilitycrowdfund #fedihelp #fediverse #politics #emergencycrowdfund

Functionally, this is similar to tagging me, my blog, or my mutual aid project in your own mutual aid request post. The main difference is that the submission form allows you to anonymise yourself and have the request circulate through @comrade instead of your own social media account.

The form is also useful if you do not have a Fediverse profile, or if you simply do not have many followers there. Your request does not depend entirely on the size of your own social network to reach people, because mutualaidspace.org has its own amplification infrastructure.

mutualaidspace.org does not retain your email address or other contact information. The email address entered into the form is only used to notify you when the post is automatically taken down after one week.

A Fediverse profile is already a social media profile where you can separate yourself from your IRL identity. But when asking the general public on the worldwide web for solidarity and material support, mutual aid seekers are often among the people in the most vulnerable position online. They may still go out of their way to reveal who they are, their circumstances, and other personal information because asking strangers for support often comes with pressure to prove that the need is real.

The form does not remove that reality, but it provides a semblance of a barrier between the mutual aid seeker, their own social media profile on the Fediverse, and general netizens. The request can still travel through the Fediverse and the wider web without necessarily making the mutual aid seeker’s own social media identity the account being circulated alongside it.

It functions mainly as an amplifier, so please do not use the form as the only place where you put your mutual aid request. You can either paste the link to your own mutual aid request post into the form or write your mutual aid request manually.

The point is to help the request travel further while giving the person asking for support a little more control over how directly their social media identity is attached to that circulation.

If you want to know more about the project, read here: https://mutualaidspace.org/about

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