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The author shares how disabling automated account creation on their Mastodon server eliminated spam and improved human connections through manual signups.
Mastodon 5.0 introduces significant UI improvements, including a new composer overlay, simplified visibility settings, and enhanced quote options to enhance user experience and clarity.
The article explains how the ActivityPub protocol achieved success in the Fediverse through its intentionally simple and boring design, enabling broad interoperability without unnecessary complexity.
robot.villas is a tool that bridges RSS feeds to Mastodon, allowing automated posting of feed updates to the social network.
This paper analyzes toxic behavior on the decentralized Mastodon platform using NLP and machine learning, examining the challenges of moderation across independently operated servers and proposing insights for healthier online communities.
Explains why the concept of 'instances' from Mastodon/ActivityPub does not apply to ATProto (Bluesky's protocol), clarifying that hosting and aggregation are separate in ATProto's architecture.
Mastodon 4.6 introduces Collections, allowing users to create and share collections of profiles.
The EU's tech sovereignty plan prioritizes semiconductors, cloud, AI, and data centers while underfunding open source and decentralized social media, revealing a misunderstanding of social infrastructure as core infrastructure.
A critical vulnerability in Fediverse software (Mastodon, Misskey, and forks) related to Linked Data Signatures was discovered by Anthropic via Doyensec. The vulnerability allows property reordering via JSON-LD expansion, enabling attackers to exploit signed objects.
Indigo is a tool that helps you stay in touch with your contacts across Bluesky and Mastodon.