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

Wow, metalhead.club server traffic really has decreased over the recent 5 months.

Whereas we had about 9.5 TB traffic in summer (and even more at the beginning of the year), metalhead.club now consumes about 7 TB these days.

Seems like the Federation is slowing down.

What do other #mastodon admins think about it? Do you see the same trend?

#mastoadmin #metalheadclub

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Figure shows traffic of metalhead.club over the recent months. Traffic volume is declining.

@stefko schreibt: "Mein Name ist Stefanie Kogler und ich studiere an der Universität Wien. Im Rahmen meiner Masterarbeit untersuche ich die Nachhaltigkeit von Mastodon.. Nach einem Anstieg der Registrierungen im Jahr 2022 ist die Zahl der aktiven Nutzenden auf Mastodon stark gesunken, und diese Studie möchte herausfinden, warum die Nutzenden-Aktivität auf Mastodon sinkt."

https://sosci.univie.ac.at/MastodonActivity/index.php?l=ger&q=base&htR=AwA%3D

Ich bin nicht sicher, ob hier gerade jene Leute herumlaufen, die man nach den Gründen fragen will, aber vielleicht habt ihr ja trotzdem etwas zu sagen :)

#mastodon

Maybe a bit late but I tried to upgrade Mastodon from 4.3.0 to 4.3.2 but the version number still shows v4.3.0 - some time ago I read someone had the same problem but I can't find it anymore.

Does anyone have a tip for me?

#Mastodon #Mastoadmin

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27028/

2 out of 3 of GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks have passed (and the third is running and hopefully will as well).

As in the past, I don't have commit access, so it's up to someone else to merge it.

Thank you for the continued improvements and bug fixes!

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

@i first, I regret it and it was a mistake. I should have kept #snac2 instead of #Mastodon (and I wrote it already several times). If you run a single user instance - don’t use Mastodon. I was one of the early adaptors of snac and also contributed to the project but back in that time, the API was very limited and several clients didn’t work or were limited in display posts (as in a kind of count). The current releases are much better and work great - especially for single user instances and @grunfink is doing an absolutely great job (thank you very much for your work!).

I’m planning to switch back to snac (it finally can do “move” actions where you’re not locked-in anymore) but switching the instance on the same domain means a three-way movement to not break the users crypto keys. There’s also a self destroy possibility, but that mostly only works on Mastodon. Snac cannot interprete this (but according to grunfink the keys are resourced in a few days, so it shouldn’t be a problem) but not quite sure about other solutions like GTS etc. So, the smoothest way is to migrate to a tmp instance on another domain and the create an instance on this domain and move back again. If I have time, I’ll do so.

Wir haben das Fediverse-Schaubild noch einmal überarbeitet. Ein herzliches Dankeschön an @imke für die Aktualisierung und die wertvolle Unterstützung. Hier ist die neueste Version des Fediverse-Schaubilds – schaut es euch an! 👇

Gerne teilen!

#fediverse #schaubild #mastodon #pleroma #misskey #hubzilla #diaspora #lemmy #kbin #friendica #bookworm #funkwhale #peertube #pixelfed #activitypub

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Aktualisierte Version des Fediverse-Schaubilds, das eine grafische Übersicht der verschiedenen dezentralen sozialen Netzwerke und Plattformen im Fediverse zeigt.

New to #Mastodon (#Fediverse) and looking for #BSD based content like #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD and general content about #RunBSD?

The BSD people follower pack helps you out - start now in the Fediverse :)

https://gyptazy.com/discover-the-bsd-community-on-mastodon-a-curated-follower-pack-to-connect-learn-and-stay-updated/

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26783

GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are currently running (two are queued. Hopefully those will go smoothly, but I know at least one of them in particular seems to take an awfully long time recently).

Thanks again to you and other snac contributors for continuing to improve what continues to be my favorite ActivityPub implementation!

Oh, also since this PR was merged: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26633 It appears as if snac is now building correctly on older versions of OS X that were throwing up errors in under "Port Health" from https://ports.macports.org/port/snac/details/ I do have older Mac systems, but wasn't testing on much older OS versions, so I kind of turned a blind eye to the errors that IIRC were showing up on OS X High Sierra back through Lion? Those seem to be working now too! (Though again, I haven't tested such systems personally and won't dig through my storage unit to exhume old hardware of mine to do so for the foreseeable short term future).

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

CC: @crossgolf_rebel@moppels.bar

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26709

2 out of 3 of the GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks passed so far, which is a good sign.

I don't have commit access, so it's up to someone else to merge it.

As in the past, thank you and to other snac contributors for the continued improvements!

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

I currently regret most switching from #snac2 to #Mastodon — fortunately, Snac now supports account migrations, so I’ll be able to switch back soon but it requires migrating me to migrate to another domain, where I then can switch back to this one on snac.

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26605

GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are running (2 of 3 have passed already which is a good sign).

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

Thank you again for your continued improvements (and also, thanks for not releasing on a Friday! The slacker in me is still 8 hours behind up stream, maybe I can blame time zones? ;)

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

The Resistance starts with us ✊💚

To organize, we are going to need tools. Secure tools. Private tools.

These tools will also need our help to survive. If you can afford it, please consider donating to:

🏡 Your Mastodon instance (check your instance About page for this)

Mastodon Software: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

Signal: https://signal.org/donate/

Tor: https://donate.torproject.org/

Framasoft: https://framasoft.org/en/#support

🛡️ CryptPad: https://opencollective.com/cryptpad/contribute

#Privacy #TheResistance #USpol #Mastodon

@Labonitamascota @jakob_thoboell @KonstantinNotz @Mer__edith Richtig, ein paar Leute. Und die sind weitestgehend unabhängig voneinander.

Sollte #Mastodon bspw. noch bösartiger werden, kann man davon wegmigrieren und immer noch mit den gleichen Leuten auf dem gleichen Weg reden wie vorher.

Und wenn man mit den Regeln oder (wirtschaftlichen) Interessen seines Instanzadmins nicht mehr einverstanden ist, gilt dasselbe.

Egal wie ich es einstelle, ich bekomme unter #ios keine #benachrichtigung wenn ich die #Mastodon App nutze. Ich muss die App öffnen und den #notifications Bereich aufmachen.
Hat noch jemand dieses Problem?

@wysteriary @Gargron Nah. The VC funding is exactly why I use #XMPP instead of #Matrix and #Mastodon instead of #Bluesky. We don't need VC funded startups to reinvent basic internet standards and trying to displace standards with their custom and incompatible protocols.

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/26287

GitHub Actions Continuous Integration checks are progressing (3 out of 4 passed, which is a good sign; I guess MacPorts recently started checking 4 OS versions on GitHub automatically instead of 3 so this is taking a bit longer than I am accustomed to, it seems as if the macos-15 checks in particular are sluggish, maybe that system is overloaded?).

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

Neat to see more Mastodon migration improvements! I think I saw one person already boast of successes of migrating their followers to a snac instance!

Thank you for your hard work and continuing to make my favorite ActivityPub implementation even better!

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

I haven't implemented a simple count of following / followers on purpose; I consider all metrics in network media inherently toxic, because it's a way of comparing the relative success of people. This is also why, as seen from other Fediverse implementations, snac accounts always report 0 / 0 connections.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

3⃣2⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣ Follower! Vielen Dank euch allen! 😻❤

#followerpower #blog #mastodon #party