Mastodon

A recurring comment from people who post stuff on the internet and give Mastodon/fediverse a try is the (high) engagement and reach they get there. Even with much smaller audiences than at Twitter, posts usually get more likes, “boosts” (RTs), and clicks. How can that be? Wall Street Journal tech columnist Christopher Mims has a good hypothesis: To me, the answer is pretty simple: Twitter tries to aggregate as much attention as possible around stuff that goes mega-viral.

This is my first post! #introductions I work at Mozilla and i'm excited to join our Mastodon instance.

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Flipboard's addition to the Fediverse has the potential to add a good number of users if its community chooses to embrace this new frontier.

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Mammoth is a new app for iOS that launched this week, that stands out in a crowded field in multiple ways: Mammoth focuses on helping new users with a tailored onboarding flow. The company behind Mammoth is an investor-backed startup, raising questions about how it will make money.

We’re thrilled to announce that Mastodon is now a member of Fast Forward. We believe things are...

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I am happy to announce Tokodon 23.02. This release contains around one month’s worth of improvements, and while it is only one month, this release is feature packed! This was an exciting month for me in general, I started working at KDAB, went to FOSDEM in Brusels where I meet a bunch of other KDE folks, and spend time enjoying my new life in Berlin. Me at the FOSDEM booth Fortunately I still found some time to contribute to Tokodon, and Joshua Goins has also been a very active contributor.

Attached: 1 image Also: I'm pretty sure that iOS 16.4 beta 1 added native Mastodon previews in iMessage. I pasted a link to a Mastodon post of mine and this is what it looks like. Finally! 🐘

This is a Friendica group dedicated to #Fediverse news. What are the advantages of a group over a hashtag? Groups can do things that hashtags can't. For exa...

Draftodon v1.1 is released 🎉 I released a new version of #Draftodon - an Action Group for @drafts@indieapps.space to integrate with @Mastodon@mastodon.social 🐛 showCharacterLimit issue fixed (the limit indicator was added multiple times) 🆕 visibility added as optional parameter for publishing functions (defaults to "public") How to Update ⬇️ [1/4]

Remember what happened with the Tower of Babel? Same type of deal.

What’s the opposite of shadowbanning? Maxboosting? I dunno, but whatever it is, that’s what Twitter’s frustrated and exhausted engineers gave Elon Musk after he whined (for not th…

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How likely is it that you will still be on Mastodon a year from now? #BOOST OK [ ] ✅ Certainly [ ] ⭕ Not sure [ ] ❌ No way

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Mastodon — and the wider fediverse — can be confusing for users that are used to Twitter. In this special podcast episode, we explore the technology and the ecosystem of which it is a part in depth.

Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub

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"Hi everyone. A while back, we announced our intention to move Hexbear back to Lemmy. This post will serve as our second transparency report on our progress. We're happy to share two more features have been successfully ported upstream, with a third very close to completion: 1. [Featuring posts site-wide](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2585) 2. [Site-wide taglines](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2548) 3. [WIP] [Custom emojis](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2616) Last time, I mentioned we had some work to do porting Hexbear's database schema back to Lemmy's. I'm very happy to announce that, as of three hours ago, we successfully ported a recent database backup from Hexbear to Lemmy's schema for the first time. We have used this to start up a local Lemmy instance running with the past two and a half years of of Hexbear data on it. [Here's a sneak peak](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/h9YcEZ1lss.png)! None of this would have been possible without the volunteer developers. In particular, I want to again give a massive shout out to [@makotech222](/u/makotech222) - he has been doing the bulk of this work and we cannot thank him enough. :stalin-heart: Progress continues to be made, but we still have a lot of work ahead of us. Whilst we are at the stage where our core features have been ported over, there are some features we'd lose. For example, upstream are not interested in explicit pronoun support. We have a workaround for this which allows for pronouns to be set and displayed as is shown in the screenshot above, however, with more volunteers we could work on a better solution that upstream *are* interested in: [user flairs](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1456). So please, if you are a developer who wants to help port over the last couple features upstream, reach out to either [me](https://matrix.to/#/@ella:chapo.chat), [CARCOSA](https://matrix.to/#/@carc0sa:chapo.chat), or [layla](https://matrix.to/#/@layla:chapo.chat). That's all for today. We hope this was useful and answered some of your questions. If you have more, some of the team will be in the comments for a while so please feel free to ask. Thanks, and viva la Hexbear! :hexbear-static-logo: "