Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

Odd question: does anyone know if there are good #mastodon or #fediverse instances active in #iran?
If so want to be sure to Federate them… https://www.wired.com/story/subvert-iran-internet-blackout/

Every so often I appreciate how important key #opensource and open tech is to my life and work: #Signal #Wordpress #Firefox #ActivityPub #Mastodon - and even old-fashioned email.

Good quote here in this Wired article on what #Twitter can learn from #Mastodon:

"As with this latest surge, those who arrive on Mastodon servers are joining an experiment in whether communities can function better with self-moderation, and by self-organizing into like-minded groups. The answer, it seems, is that they can—but not without some trade-offs."

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-twitter-masatodon/

It is official. @Gargron good luck with server loads for the next days...good timing on the Android app! #Twitter #mastodon

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elon-musk-to-acquire-twitter-301532245.html

I feel the same… #Mastodon moving content standards down to each instance/community was as important an innovation as any part of its innovations in distributed social networking….

Love that #Mastodon gets edit post functionality before Twitter does, assuming that they ever will get that... (and likely only for the Twitter paid version)

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/03/mastodon-3.5/

#Mastodon just released a new version of the official #iOS app with lots of new designs and iPad support....

https://apple.co/3wI7sGT

What would folks think about the idea of setting up bots to auto-crosspost the tweets from these Ukrainian accounts into the fediverse on the theory that some might federate to RU and UA instances?

Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
https://twitter.com/FedorovMykhailo

And: the official Twitter account of Ukraine: https://twitter.com/Ukraine

#mastodev #mastodon #fediverse #Ukraine

Facebook and Twitter are now fully blocked in #Russia.

Still curious if folks have any pro-democracy Russian Instances that we could be sure that Admins of instances like this one can be sure we are federating and peered to...

#mastodon #mastoadmin

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahemerson/russia-blocks-facebook-twitter?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc

Does anyone have data on the #Fediverse's reach into #Ukraine or into #Russia?

Esp if there are good instances to support or to be sure we peer to?

#mastodev #mastodon

cc: @Gargron

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmavx/russia-blocking-twitter

This is cool, and should be built into #mastodon and #fediverse search.

#mastodev

https://mastovue.glitch.me/#/

Preemptively done for this instance...

Assuming that Trump will try to decentralize and federate out his content from his new social network that he forked from #mastodon. #Fediblock

Thank you @thegibson and @isolategab

#IsolateTrump

#mastodon, #matrix and other #decentralized social accounts are all still seeking good uptime today. Just sayin’….
#FacebookDown

@Gargron Specific to #Mastodon:

"There is precedent for open source communities to push back against those who seek to use their tools to promote hate speech. One such case is Mastodon, an open source social media community which has waged a long-running war of attrition against an influx of far-right users from Gab – a war which, as of December 2020, they appear to have won."

Important research out from ISD looking at how hate groups & extremists use open-source platforms - including #WordPress and #WooCommerce. It does a great job of showing some ways to address - while still respecting the open-source ethos.

While it focuses on them, #Mastodon is given a shout-out, one model that the other platforms should look to in this...

cc: @Gargron

https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/extremists-are-flourishing-behind-well-built-websites-thanks-to-open-source-tech/

Hi #Mastodev, wonder if something could be coded into #Mastodon to make the Federated feed a bit more useful.

I stay away from it for the same reason I stay away from alogrithmic feeds on FB or Twitter or YT....I want something less noisy and cluttered.

Am NOT suggesting anything like an algorithm, but maybe ways to change settings on Federated feeds to suss thru them more? Even user-configured anguage filter, or keyword filters, might help.

I’m really liking the new official #mastodon app for iOS…. But are lists not yet a feature? Hunting around for where to find my accounts lists to no avail. cc: @Gargron

Question to everyone: I have been very impressed with the voluntary #Mastodon' server covenant.

Has any other server-based self-hosted open-source platforms done something akin to this?

I'm familiar with other attempts at contributor covenants, but not other server based ones... But hope there are others out there....

https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

So many of these features are already in #Mastodon btw, like bookmarks.

Others seem like an easy lift for future versions... Editing toots is almost already akin to the Undo Tweets feature... #Mastodev

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/introducing-twitter-blue.html

Lots of tweaks, fixes, and additions in #Mastodon RC 3.4: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.4.0rc1