Urusai.social is a friendly and non-toxic English-first Mastodon server for anime, manga, and other otaku subjects.

This server has a post size of up to 800 characters and up to 8 poll options.

https://urusai.social

You can find out more at https://urusai.social/about or contact the admin account @neatchee

#FeaturedServer #Anime #Manga #Otaku #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Bienvenidos a masto.es, servidor de Mastodon para hispanohablantes de temática general.

Ampliación del límite de caracteres en una publicación a 2000 caracteres.

https://masto.es

Acerca de: https://masto.es/about
Administrado por: @rober

#FeaturedServer #Hispanohablantes #Español #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

How littleFedi will be released

The release of littleFedi is scheduled for 1 October 2026.

The release will happen in phases but, from the very first day, it will be possible to use the software in its entirety. Tests and complete documentation are still under heavy revision and will not be ready by then, but we do not want to postpone the release any further.
The code has already been reviewed by several people, who gave us feedback and suggestions I cared a lot about. I want to thank everyone who did it. You know who you are.

There will probably be many bugs because, and this also came out during the reviews, although I already knew it, the quality of the code is not uniform yet.

littleFedi was created by different people, at different times, working on different components and with different levels of experience. And it shows: some parts of the code are of good quality. Others are not.

The reviews of the last few months tried to make things more consistent, but clearly this is not an easy task. In the end, what matters to me is not that the code is beautiful, but that it is sufficiently lean and secure.

So far, the reviews performed have not found security problems serious enough to block the release. Everything else can be fixed along the way.

For the moment, distribution will not happen through BSD Cafe Brew, our Forgejo instance, but directly from the littleFedi website:

https://littlefedi.org

You will be able to download a source tarball, or latest, which will simply point to the same tarball. Inside the binaries directory there will also be around 180 precompiled builds for the different platforms and all the possible feature combinations, for example PostgreSQL + S3.

Blog support will be included in all precompiled builds.

Of course, those binaries have not been tested on every single platform. I do not have an AIX/ppc64 machine available, let alone a Windows machine.

But they compile, and at this stage that is enough for me.
For the moment, there will not be fixed releases.

New builds and source releases will be published whenever appropriate, distributed in the same way. The goal is to eventually publish everything on BSD Cafe Brew, our Forgejo instance, but this will happen when tests, complete documentation and the rest are ready too. In practice, at this stage the team prefers to keep more direct control over releases and the management of code, patches and so on.

The license is still MIT, so there is maximum freedom to use and modify the software. This is simply what the team has chosen for now.

The official announcement account will be this one, hosted on the littleOne instance:

@littlefedi_official@littleone.littlefedi.social

https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@littlefedi_official

littleOne will remain online as a test instance. I would not really call it the "official" littleFedi instance, but almost. In the future we may create a larger instance using PostgreSQL, S3 and so on. But this is not really the purpose of littleFedi.

littleFedi is about decentralisation and control over your own data. In an ideal world, everyone would have their own Fediverse software, their own instance, different levels of federation, like Bubbles, which still need some refinement in littleFedi, and allowlists and/or blocklists.

For now, this is just a small step in that direction, adding another alternative to already excellent software such as Mastodon, snac, GoToSocial, Akkoma, Mitra and others.

1 October is close, and the release will be accompanied by a post containing some background information and details that have never been revealed before.

Those details will also help explain some of the technical choices behind the software itself, and why I am the one presenting it to the world. I have not decided yet whether I will publish it here or on my IT Notes blog, but it will definitely be announced.

We are almost there.

It has been a long journey to reach this point, and the best part has not even started yet.

Fasten your seat belts, we are ready to go again!

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse #OwnYourData

littleFedi will be released on 1 October 2026.

#littleFedi #littleOne #Fediverse #OwnYourData

Gratitude day 5: mental health

Sometimes life isn't easy, but I'm grateful that I was able to manage it

#gratitude #blog #fediverse #100DaysToOffload

https://lazybea.rs/gd5-mental-health

#OverUnder 085 with @theresmiling.

She shares her thoughts about #Arduino, #Polaroids , #television, #StarTrek, and #eggs.

She also replied to @gabz about her everyday carry or just something she'd be lost without
And, we got two #books recommendations. YAAAY .

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #blogging #tvshows #tv #photography

#100DaysToOffload 90/100

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-085

Have you ever met someone from the Fediverse in person to do something together?

I don't mean at a Fediverse-related event. If you have, I'd be curious to hear what kind of activity brought you together.

I've seen people from other social media platforms organize offline activities and meetups, Facebook and Instagram (Meta), Orkut (Google), and Twitter (now X), and I'm curious whether this happens through the Fediverse too.

Please, boost to find more activities, if any.

#SocialMedia #Meetup #Fediverse

Wer die Idee von dezentralen Netzwerke (wie hier im #Fediverse) gut findet, der sollte sich auf jeden Fall auch mal #XMPP ansehen.

XMPP ist ein offener Standard für Instant Messaging (#Messenger). Der Nutzer ist frei bei der Wahl des Anbieters und der Anwendung.

Mehr Informationen gibt es z.b. auf https://anoxinon.media/blog/xmpp1/

✅ Offener Standard
✅ Server und Clients sind als freie Software verfügbar
✅ Frei bei der Wahl des Anbieters
✅ Die Möglichkeit den Dienst selber zu betreiben

RE: https://mastodon.social/@delta_fsociety/117342486065905210

“How is it a genocide if their population is growing?” asks the totally normal, definitely not genocidal Zionist.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #mastodon #fediverse #hasbara #zionism #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

Im Interesse der Dezentralität gibt es meinen Vortrag „Jabber/XMPP: 25 Jahre Digitale Souveränität“ von den Datenspuren letzte Woche übrigens auch auf meinem PeerTube.

https://gultsch.video/w/hNgNdVEUxMDex9xqrcofD5

#Datenspuren #XMPP #Jabber #PeerTube #Fediverse

I like Mastodon, I really do. But it has so, so many dependencies, and updating it on illumos or OpenBSD is getting really difficult, release after release.

Some dependencies are primarily distributed as binaries, or only build on Linux and macOS. It's not Mastodon's fault, but it depends on them.

That’s why, in my opinion, solutions like snac, GoToSocial, or littleFedi have a reason to exist: all of this is much, much easier...

#Fediverse #snac #GoToSocial #littleFedi #OwnYourData #Mastodon

Pixelfed is now using AI, and I'm stopping recommending Pixelfed to anyone.

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/commit/65dff00e4fdf06be87e1122420d2ffec1d21f8a7

#pixelfed #fediverse #AI

Ich hab bei meinem Interview mit Stephanie (@ueckueck) noch einiges darüber gelernt, wie Reichweite im Fediverse funktioniert und was die Vorteile großer Server sind.

Schaut am Wochenende doch mal rein!

Tipp: Funktioniert auch gut als Audio-only-Podcast. 🎧

https://gultsch.video/w/kqhyU8g3ToUYYuKT3t7A4m

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Podcast #Interview #Peertube #ActivityPub

🍅 Tomato growers, settle this:

Do you prefer tomatoes fresh from the garden, still warm from the sun…
or chilled in the fridge?

I’m genuinely curious. 👀

Boost this and let’s see which side wins! 🌱🍅
#gardening #photography #Linux #Fediverse #mastodon #vegetarian #vegetables #tomatoes #homesteading #agriculture #sustainability #Climate #nature #NaturePhotography #ClimateChange #food #ClimateCrisis #Economy #environment #farming #garden #urbanfarming #permaculture @gardening @plantbasedtreaty

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Reddish tomatoes ready for consumption

A while ago I asked people here whether they use Lemmy or Reddit. The results got me thinking: even among people who already use and like the Fediverse, Lemmy seems to be surprisingly small.

So I wrote about why that might be & why I think Lemmy deserves more users.

> Old forums: independent, but isolated.
> Reddit: connected, but centralized.
> Lemmy: independent and connected.

Read the whole thing here:

https://byte21516.xyz/blog/posts/2026/useLemmy/useLemmy.html

#lemmy #fediverse #activityPub #reddit #fedi

How good is Fediverse security?

#EvanPoll #poll #fediverse #ActivityPub

Une personne que j'aime beaucoup vient de me dire que les réseaux sociaux ce n'est pas le bon endroit pour aider la #Palestine. Qu'il vaut mieux être dans de l'action directe. Bah j'en ai fait des actions directes. Plein. Mais maintenant j'habite dans une zone rurale et dans un BLED où il n'y a pas d'actions possibles pour #Gaza. Donc mon action directe c'est d'aider les Palestinien.nes du #Fediverse. H14. 7 jours sur 7. Depuis un an. Ça vous plait pas ? Je vous emmerde.

So, based on this, which do you find yourself using more on Mastodon; boosts or favorites? ❤️😊

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Fedi #MastodonPolls #Poll #FediversePolls #AskFedi #FediTalk #SocialMedia

Liebes #Fediverse !
Ich möchte meinen ganzen Fotokollegen gerne zeigen, dass das #fediverse eine mögliche Alternative zu den mainstream Diensten darstellt, für Künstler geeignet ist und Bilder es durchaus schaffen von vielen Menschen gesehen zu werden! Helft mir doch dabei und gibt diesem Beitrag einen #boost.

#fotografie #mastoart #support #photography

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Ein Mensch balanciert in luftiger Höhe über eine Slackline. Im Hintergrund ist das Meer zu erkennen. Die Slackline spannt über eine felsiger Bucht. Auf dem Bild sieht es fast so aus, als ob die Person schwebt.

I don't know how to get the eyes or ears of any big #Fediverse movers or shakers, but if someone out there who is good with code wants to jump on a golden opportunity, one is presenting itself.

A couple of days ago, Tapas warned all their creators that they were going to be shutting down. If you're not familiar with it, Tapas is a webcomics platform, and basically the only decent-sized alternative to Webtoon.

If we could throw together some sort of ActivityPub-backed Webcomics platform, we could use it as a way to get a lot more people using Fediverse-adjacent technology.

I don't have the time or energy to do any of this myself, and I am not good at coding, but I have been doing webcomics since the 1990s, and have watched the rise and fall of Keenspot, Drunk Duck, Wordpress and the RSS era, and now the modern "Walmart for Webcomics" era. This is a huge opportunity to present the Fediverse as a viable alternative.

#webcomics #webtoon #tapas #artists #activitypub

Gibt es das Fediverse?

@daniel und ich haben diese Woche einen kleinen Videopodcast aufgenommen, in dem ich einige seiner Fragen zum Fediverse beantworte. Zwei Dezentralitäts-Nerds quatschen über dezentrale Social Media - mir hat es richtig Spaß gemacht. Schaut und hört gern mal rein:

https://gultsch.video/w/kqhyU8g3ToUYYuKT3t7A4m

#Fediverse #Podcast #Mastodon #PeerTube #Bookwyrm #Pixelfed

@catsalad I joined the #fediverse in November '22 in the great exodus from #twitter. I have no clue as to the generation keywords, I was born extremely long ago.

„Klickwege die keinen Sinn ergeben“, @ueckueck hält nicht viel von Instagram.

Unser komplettes Gespräch über die Alternativen zu Instagram, Twitter und Co findet ihr hier: https://gultsch.video/w/kqhyU8g3ToUYYuKT3t7A4m

Oder für den Nachhauseweg in der Podcast App über diesen RSS Feed: https://gultsch.video/feeds/podcast/videos.xml?videoChannelId=1504

#Instagram #Pixelfed #Mastodon #PeerTube #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Podcast #DigitalIndependenceDay

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Ückück fasst sich an den Kopf darüber wie unlogisch die Instagram UI ist.

@GossiTheDog
> Mastodon is memory hungry, RAM is really expensive now

AFAIK the Elixir back-end of Pleroma/ Akkoma can be uses with the Mastodon web client. Bonfire's Elixir back-end, forked from a Pleroma fork, could be another option.

(1/2)

#fediverse

@sheogorath

@GossiTheDog would you recommend to lock down our accounts across the #fediverse? would that help anything?

Would you like to see more #EU institutions on #Mastodon / the #Fediverse?

RE: https://gultsch.social/@daniel/117320833233668094

2 der inoffiziellen "Maskottchen" der Dezentralität reden über das #Fediverse - oder so ähnlich^^'

@daniel hatte ein paar Fragen zum Fediverse an mich und wir haben über unseren jeweiligen Weg ins Fedi, Föderationsprobleme und Reichweite in dezentralen Social Media gequatscht. Hat super Spaß gemacht. Schaut/hört gern mal rein :D

#Podcast #Mastodon #PeerTube

Debacle boosted

Daniel Gultsch » 🌐 2026-09-23 / 2026-09-23
@daniel@gultsch.social

Vor vier Jahren habe ich mir einen Mastodon-Server aufgesetzt. Ganz verstanden hab ich das mit dem Fediverse aber noch nicht. Deshalb bin ich nach Dresden gefahren und habe mir das Ganze nochmal von @ueckueck erklären lassen. Zwischendurch kam auch die Frage auf, ob es das #Fediverse überhaupt gibt.
Wir haben das Ganze für euch aufgenommen.

https://gultsch.video/w/kqhyU8g3ToUYYuKT3t7A4m

Fürs Pendeln, Kochen oder Joggen kann man den PeerTube-Kanal übrigens auch als Podcast abonnieren: https://gultsch.video/feeds/podcast/videos.xml?videoChannelId=1504

Vor vier Jahren habe ich mir einen Mastodon-Server aufgesetzt. Ganz verstanden hab ich das mit dem Fediverse aber noch nicht. Deshalb bin ich nach Dresden gefahren und habe mir das Ganze nochmal von @ueckueck erklären lassen. Zwischendurch kam auch die Frage auf, ob es das #Fediverse überhaupt gibt.
Wir haben das Ganze für euch aufgenommen.

https://gultsch.video/w/kqhyU8g3ToUYYuKT3t7A4m

Fürs Pendeln, Kochen oder Joggen kann man den PeerTube-Kanal übrigens auch als Podcast abonnieren: https://gultsch.video/feeds/podcast/videos.xml?videoChannelId=1504

New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 21: Fediverse, my Beloved

https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-21-fediverse-my-beloved.html

527 words

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @stfn @golemwire

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #SeptemberTheme #SeptemberBloggingTheme #SepThemeBear #SeptemberGratitude #gratitude #thankfulness #fediverse #TheFediverse #Fedi

RE: https://mastodon.social/@StopKillingGames/117305012378113374

This is exactly what I was worried about, and I am afraid how this might impact the #FediVerse .

#EuropeanUnion

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 boosted

Stop Killing Games Official » 🌐 2026-09-20 / 2026-09-21
@StopKillingGames@mastodon.social

The EU Kids Act will make private servers illegal as proposed by the @EUCommission right now.

Read up on the Act for yourself: https://hub.edri.org/index.php/s/s6K54SAx5aD7wR7

See our full commentary from our livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4h3DEqco3I&t=101s

Contact your MEPs to tell them to vote no and scuttle this bill, and to amend #StopKillingGames into the Digital Fairness Act

Fight against this further by signing the #StopKillingInternet Initiative to ensure the protection of our digital spaces: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#/screen/home

I think I've seen a new #opensource selfhostable #spreadsheet but I can't find its name again ...

Any idea ?

#selfhost #fediverse #mastodon

If you would like to discover more video accounts on the Fediverse, try following my other account FediVideo:

➡️ @FediVideo

FediVideo is a human-curated account boosting interesting videos and streams from the Fediverse. You can follow their creators by just clicking their name and then "Follow" in Mastodon.

(You do NOT need an account on PeerTube or OwnCast to follow accounts from those platforms! You can follow and interact with them entirely in Mastodon.)

#PeerTube #OwnCast #Fediverse

DJs.social is a Mastodon server for DJs (and related fields) of any kind, be it in the club, radio, mobile sound-systems, livestreaming etc.

https://djs.social

You can find out more at https://djs.social/about or contact the admin account @luka

#FeaturedServer #DJs #DJ #Clubbing #Radio #Music #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Sorry, only minimally sorry XD

P.S., Yes #snac is good too. Very excited about #LittleFedi as well. Not so much into *key, *oma, or friendica, but not hating. Just not my thing. Cheers.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #snark

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Judgmental Volturi / Smug Vampires meme: Top caption: Me and my fedipeeps watching people on the fediverse complain about "Mastodon" stupid limitations/design choices... Bottom caption: ...from our GoToSocial instance

well, i worked from 13:00 to 23:00 today 😓

too tired to play a game so i'm tinkering with media players on the #vita...

translation: i installed a media player and now i'm looping the same album over and over while i stare into the middle distance.

i should go to bed. good #tzaf #fediverse

Attention #fediverse / #mastodon

We're entering #election season in the #USA. The #midterms

That means something for you:

You will see an increase in #trolls

Messages along the lines of

"Nothing ever changes, both sides the same, waah" #cynicism

And

"The candidate is unideal. Allow me to amplify and manufacture high holy outrage on the point" #perfectionism

All of which is designed to suppress the #left #vote and help #MAGA

You have been warned. Brace yourself

https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20260915-russian-disinformation-campaign-sets-sights-on-us-midterms

#fashion #patreonspecial #ai #neverslop #chatgpt #claude #anthropic #unix_surrealism #fediverse

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matabot in a rougue dress

#Fediverse #MentalHealth game:

Option 1: Pick a random toot from your home feed, and respond to them with a compliment or encouraging word.

Option 2: copypasta this toot and respond to all of the comments with a compliment or engouraging word.

#PassItOn #Positivity

📢 Server notice: follows to pixelfed.social are stuck; it's not you, and it's not us.

Some of you noticed that following someone on pixelfed.social shows "pending" forever and never shows up on their side. I dug into this, and here's the deal:
- Our server is healthy and delivering correctly; every follow request we send is accepted by pixelfed.social with a success response.
- pixelfed.social isn't actually processing them. Their inbox acknowledges everything but drops follow requests. The failure is invisible to both sides, which is why it just sits at "pending" with no error.

This has been broken on their end since around January 2025, and it affects follows in BOTH directions; their users can't successfully follow dmv.community accounts either. (Photos and posts from pixelfed accounts you already follow still arrive fine.)

There's nothing to fix on our side, and nothing you did wrong. I'll be reporting this to the Pixelfed team with the evidence.

Until it's fixed there's no reliable way to start a new follow with any pixelfed.social account. Stuck "pending" requests can be left or cancelled, they won't complete either way. Once pixelfed fixes this, you may need to unfollow and re-follow; I'll post an update here if that happens.

#Fediverse #Pixelfed

Gratitude day 4: Vim

#SeptemberTheme #gratitude #blog #fediverse #mastodon #editors #terminals #vim
https://lazybea.rs/gd4-vim

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

@farooqkz

YESSS! This is what I love about the #fediverse!!! (Or at least, it's reason number 32,767 why I love it! 😄)

Do you run a public Fediverse server?

Would you like your server to be listed on the directory at https://fedi.garden/fedi-gardens-full-server-list ?

Is your server compatible with all seven points at https://fedi.garden/about-this-site ?

If the answer to all these is yes, please DM me at @FediGarden and tell me a bit about your server 🙂

#Fediverse #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin