@rysiek

For awhile now i've been wanting to switch my phone OS to Linux, like Sailfish, but i wouldn't even know how to do so

my goals are #Resist #BreakTheOligarchy & become 💯 #magafree to create #MyBlueWorld , so i'm working my way thru as i learn

i'd love to see more migration from #Windows & #Apple to #Linux

no one should be using #MSOffice anymore w/ #LibreOffice

hopefully we move from #youtube to #peertube soon

i really hope to see more activity on #Mastodon & the #Fediverse

Now I feel bad for being too busy, falling behind, and not managing to upgrade to 4.6.0 alpha. I'll definitely get to it over the upcoming weekend. It might need more work than usual since there will finally be CSS custom properties, and I want to migrate Mastodon Bird UI to use them.

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

Dear friends of the illumos Cafe,
I'll perform some upgrade tests to Mastodon v4.5.0 in the coming days. The setup is different from the BSD Cafe one, so some downtime is expected.

I'll perform some tests tomorrow morning (on a test instance) and, if they'll be successful, I'll proceed here.

I'll keep you informed.

Stay Tuned!

#illumosCafe #illumosCafeServices #illumosCafeUpdates #Mastodon

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@announcements/115503275740908878

The BSD Cafe #Mastodon instances have been upgraded to v.4.5.0 and...we now have the quote posts!

Use them wisely.

#BSDCafe

The BSD Cafe instances have just been updated to Mastodon v4.5.0.

There was a bit of a slowdown as the secondary instance went smoothly (but it's underpowered), while the primary one took longer because I had to update Node.
But we're there!

Among the main new features: quote posts and other things, like the remote fetching of replies - which I had, however, already enabled on v4.4.x in recent weeks.

Enjoy!

#Mastodon #BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeAnnouncements

Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/06/self-hosting-your-mastodon-media-with-seaweedfs/

#FreeBSD #SeaweedFS #Mastodon #ITNotes #Fediverse #Hosting #OwnYourData #RunBSD

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/06/self-hosting-your-mastodon-media-with-seaweedfs/

#ITNotes #NoteHUB #container #fediverse #freebsd #hosting #jail #mastodon #networking #ownyourdata #seaweedfs #server #tutorial #web

Happy birthday mementomori.social! We are exactly 3-year-old instance today. 🍰

#MementoMoriSocial #Mastodon

Important announcement

We made a slight change in the rules, for both our #Mastodon instance at Exquisite.social and our #Peertube instance at Exquisite.tube:

We now strictly prohibit AI powered content.

We believe that AI powered content is harmful to our community, society and has a severe negative impact on the planet we live in.

We understand that this change might conflict with your attitude and desires. You can easily migrate to another instance - if you wish to do so, we'd gladly help you. But please refrain from posting AI slop in the meantime.

No problems on the test instance. The char and poll increase procedure is still working. Well done, #Mastodon team

I'll probably upgrade the BSD Cafe instance as soon as it'll be released.

The illumos Cafe one will probably follow some days later.

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/115496841048488761

Mastodon v4.5.0 is just around the corner - time to perform some upgrade tests of my test instance

#Mastodon

my #mastodon client is now a thing ;-)

https://michal.sapka.pl/project/masto-mailo-inator/index.html

Moderation. It’s a roller coaster.

Today, a (literal) nazi opened an account and began harassing people. We received ~80 reports within minutes. That may be a record.

We suspended the account, of course. But not before a lot of people yelled at us. For the record, this is not preventable when registration is open. We can only react. So be nice.

My gratitude and love for the person behind this report. It made me chuckle. 🫶🏻

🧵 1/4

#Moderation #Mastodon #MasTo #BeKind #PunchANazi #FediAdmin

Alt...

Screenshot of a report from vermont dot masto dot host that reads “here’s your chance to punch a nazi today.”

Deciding on the final name of my “mastodon as mail” project.

#mastodon

🦝 ¿Una distro hecha PARA el fediverso?

MapacheOS 25 viene preparada:

🦣 Tuba (Mastodon) - timeline descentralizado
🌐 Dino (XMPP) - charla descentralizada
💬 Nehko (Matrix) - comunidades cifradas
🧅 Tor Browser - navega libre
🔮 Lagrange (Gemini/Gopher) - web alternativa
🛡️ RocksDNS - DNS sin espías

No más instalar mil cosas. Arrancas y ya estás conectado al fediverso 🎉

https://mapache.rocks

#Fediverso #MapacheOS #Mastodon #XMPP #Matrix #Gemini

How many on #Mastodon own cats?

Ever considered self-hosting a #Fediverse instance (#Mastodon, #Peertube etc.)

#OpenSource #selfhost

And thanks to byte, @stefano@bsd.cafe, andypiper, pmjv, daltux, r-ricci and any others I may have missed for their contributions to this release as well!

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.84 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/29810

1 out of 3 of GitHub's Continuous Integration checks passed, which is a good sign the other two will pass as well.

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

#snac #MacPorts #OpenSource #ActivityPub #Mastodon #NoDatabaseNeeded
#NoJavaScript #NoCookiesEither #NotMuchBullShit

Signal CEO: We centralize bc no one has a choice!

I mean. I'm not techie but maybe someone can explain why millions of Masto users can use a bunch of tiny servers and still talk but Signal can't, at least for text?

BC for layppl it looks an awful lot like excuses and the replies from the CEO are kind of "oh u dumb norms" vibes.

#Signal #Mastodon #Fedi

Sitio de esta maravilla: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

#ActivityPub #Mastodon #snac

Was reading one of my favorite articles again and then discovered, again, that @rysiek wrote it! I'm the worst at remembering which Fedi people wrote my favorite thing, so it's always a happy surprise when I look them up and then it all clicks again! Ah yes, I remember this Fedi handle wrote this thing, but enjoy anyway! https://rys.io/en/177.html #Fediverse #Mastodon

#fediverse #activitypub

My friends, I'm so excited and happy to introduce a new project: the illumos Cafe!

The positive and constructive spirit of the BSD Cafe, created and maintained by all the friends who participated from day one in building a strong and friendly community, deserves to spread to other operating systems. Because there are other OSes that deserve attention, certainly more than they're getting right now.

Operating systems based on illumos (like SmartOS, OmniOS, Tribblix, OpenIndiana, etc.) are mature, stable, secure, and perfectly usable for a wide range of tasks. ZFS is native, zones are an excellent method for containerization, and bhyve and kvm coexist beautifully - and so much more, too much to list in a single post.

So from today, the illumos Cafe will stand alongside the BSD Cafe in creating a positive, respectful, and growth-oriented (but also relaxing!) environment, starting right here in the Fediverse with a Mastodon instance and a snac one.

I've written an introductory article about the project, including some technical details. I invite everyone interested to read it: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

Choose your table, take a seat and enjoy your time at the illumos Cafe!

#SysAdmin #IT #BSDCafe #illumosCafe #Community #OpenSource #OSS #illumos #SmartOS #OpenIndiana #ZFS #bhyve #kvm #Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #ITNotes

#CrazyFediverseAnalogies

Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!

UPDATE: I have created an account for updates and other information on FediMeteo - follow the account @admin to stay updated!

UPDATE: Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland have just been added

Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.

FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.

You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).

Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, – with many more regions coming soon!

FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.

Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
https://fedimeteo.com

Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️

FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.

#FediMeteo #Announcements #FreeBSD #FediMeteo #WeatherForecasts #Weather #Meteo #snac #Fediverse #Mastodon

Mastodon #research 🚀

I’m working on my master’s thesis at the University of Vienna, and I’d love your input! My research focuses on sustaining long-term user activity on Mastodon, contributing to a more active Fediverse. If you have a few minutes, please take my short survey:
👉 https://sosci.univie.ac.at/MastodonActivity/

Your thoughts will contribute to meaningful research. Feel free to boost this post so we can reach as many users as possible. Thank you so much! 🙌

#Mastodon #Survey #FediverseResearch

When I talk about the importance of going all in on the Fediverse, I speak based on experience.

At Opera we built a massive user community. When I quit, we had something like 35 million registered users and 35 million monthly visitors.

The new Opera management did not see the value of that. They believed it was cheaper and better to just use Facebook and that investing in your own community was a waste of money. So they closed down MyOpera and built a following on Facebook and Twitter instead. Then they got caught by the bait and switch when Facebook changed and you would no longer reach your audience, without paying. Later on Twitter changed as well.

This is important to explain to companies and institutions as they go shopping for social media sites to invest in. The best investment is clearly in your own site, being part of the Fediverse. It is not even all that expensive to do. It may take longer to build, but at least it is your own.

Not saying you cannot build a following on those other sites, but your long term strategy should be the Fediverse with your own server.

We try to lead the way here and thus we build Vivaldi Social. Not just for our selves, but to make a point and support the Fediverse.

#fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #Threads #BlueSky #Vivaldi

This afternoon, an acquaintance joined a Mastodon instance and asked me which "celebrities" are present in the Fediverse, as if it were important to determine the value of a social network based on that.

I told him that the most important user in the Fediverse is him. Just as it’s you, reading this. Someone who has decided to interact with others freely. Who has chosen to trust their administrator (or create their own instance) more than they trust those who run traditional, monolithic, centralized social networks.

So, I want to thank all the friends of BSD Cafe, whether local or not, for being here and making this place what it is. And I thank all my friends in the Fediverse, who make my timeline lively, interesting, intelligent, fun, and thought-provoking - every day, at any time.

#BSDCafe #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialNetworks #SocialMedia #Community #Trust #OpenSource #DigitalFreedom #JoinTheFediverse

I want to launch a hashtag where, every Tuesday, I'll post a message and it would be great if it became a habit for many.

In a world full of conflicts, selfishness, and egocentrism, it would be nice to focus on the good that others do, what makes our lives better thanks to the contribution of others.

My first #ThankYouTuesday to the friends of #BSDCafe - both within the community servers and beyond - who have undoubtedly contributed to making my life better, more stimulating, and richer. So, I extend this gratitude to all those who, here in the fediverse or elsewhere, are present and positive, giving me inspiration and motivation.

Truly, thank you!

#ThankYouTuesday #gratitude #positivity #community #fediverse #mastodon

15 million users in the Fediverse, now.

No ad-blocker needed.
Zero ads.
My data stays on my server.
Interactions are genuine, driven by people's desire, not an algorithm pushing for conflict to boost engagement (and ad sales).
Nobody's here just because it's trendy. If you're here, you want to be here.
The best social media experience I've had in years.

Thank you to all of you, among these 15 million accounts, who have helped make this a wonderful place to be.

#Fediverse #Privacy #NoAds #GenuineInteractions #Decentralized #ThankYou #Mastodon