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PSA: optional HCapcha support has been addded to Mastodon 4.2 beta 1. HCapcha's solution for screenreader users involves setting a user cookie, which is a privacy risk and not always reliable. If you'd rather a more accessible capcha solution be implemented for managing spam, please add viable options to the ongoing discussion at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25023

#accessibility #spam #mastodon #capcha

Replace hCaptcha with FLOSS and GDPR-compliant alternative Β· Issue #25023 Β· mastodon/mastodon

Pitch bec6a1c has introduced hCaptcha support. This means that Mastodon transfers personal data to the USA (the user is forced to send a request and therefore their IP address to a USA-controlled d...
GitHub
#spam #mastodon #Accessibility #capcha

Here's a good metric for movies:

* The movie has to have at least two women in it,
* who talk to each other,
* about something other than a man.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test

All tests make errors, but for the most part this test is a good way for me to quickly determine if it's worthwhile recommending a movie. Posting this because most random movie recommendations I've seen in my #mastodon bubble so far failed the Bechdel test. 😦

test if a fictional work features at least two women who discuss something other than a man

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#mastodon

Ich habe heute mal etwas von #Bandcamp geteilt. Dabei ist mir aufgefallen, dass auf #Friendica nur ein Link zur Bandcamp Seite erstellt wird, auf #Diaspora und #Mastodon aber ein Player eingebettet ist. D.h. auf Diaspora und Mastodon kann ich das StΓΌck direkt abspielen, auf Friendica nicht. Kann ich das Verhalten in den Konfigurationseinstellungen irgendwie Γ€ndern?

#Friendica #Bandcamp
!Friendica Support
#friendica #diaspora #mastodon #bandcamp !Friendica Support

Best RSS reader: #reeder
Best desktop #Mastodon client: @icecubes
Best audio service: #spotify
Best Browser: #firefox
Best VPN: #wireguard
Best code editor: #sublimetext
Best file transfer client: #openssh
Best gaming platform: #playstation

What's in your best list?
#mastodon #firefox #spotify #playstation #reeder #wireguard #openssh #sublimetext

Best RSS reader: #feedly
Best desktop #Mastodon client: @elk
Best audio service: #spotify
Best Browser: @brave
Best VPN: @protonvpn
Best code editor: #vscode
Best file transfer client: #winscp
Best gaming platform: #steam

What's in your best list?
#mastodon #VScode #spotify #steam #feedly #winscp @Brave @Elk @protonvpn

@Friendica Support

I just ran on #mastodon into the fact that #webP has issues to be uploaded.
There was a general problem giving 500 errors that apparently was fixed recently, even tho not all servers have updated this problem.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23781

Actually I wanted to upload animated webP and that still doesn't work. The software extracts the first pic and serves it as webP.

So I tried to publish via #friendica into the fediverse the animated webP but at least the squeet.me friendica version (2023.09-dev) extracts the first pic and serves it as jpg image. 2021.01 and 2019.12 doesn't accept webP at all.

I guess this is known?

Any changes on this to expect?

I'm kinda astonished as I created the webP with GIMP and can display it in firefox, all free source software and animated webP is definitely higher quality than gif and way smaler size.

#friendica #mastodon #WebP @Friendica Support

Content warning: Fediverse Meta

#fediverse #mastodon #lemmy

Hey, I just wanted to also publicly (federatedly?) announce that the registrations on DragonsCave.space have recently reopened! So if you'd like to be on a cool #Mastodon instance full of disabled folks, with a cool name, and which calls posts "roars", here's your chance!
We've been invite-only for a while now. The last influx of Twitter users overwhelmed us eventually. But since we've now had a third admin for a bit (she's absolutely awesome! We love you, @Estrella !), we'll hopefully be able to handle the extra activity this change might bring.
Edit: But anyone signing up is still expected to read the rules first! If you don't prove you have, there is a very high chance we'll reject you!
#mastodon @Estrella

So you predict that X will die. I think Musk by making weird changes and rebranding will just kill off Twitter. It may end up as it was with Google+ (whose functionality I liked), or it will remain just a medium for militant politicians, which also means the end.

#mastodon #twitter #x
#twitter #mastodon #x

@Friendica Support @Michael Vogel Werden #geteilteBeitrÀge und #nativgeteilteBeitrÀge ausschließlich mit meinen Kontakten auf #Friendica geteilt oder auch mit meinen #Kontakten auf #Mastodon?
Hintergrund meiner #Frage: Ich ΓΌberlege derzeit, ob ich mir auch auf Mastodon ein Konto einrichte.
#friendica #mastodon #Frage #Kontakten #geteilteBeitrΓ€ge #nativgeteilteBeitrΓ€ge @Friendica Support @Michael πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

Merci de nous avoir encouragΓ© Γ  garder les commentaires sur nos blogs, voire Γ  les intΓ©grer Γ  #Mastodon. Le mien n'est pas codΓ© avec PHP mais je crois avoir trouvΓ© qui me servira. Γ€ suivre...
En passant, je suis ravi que tu aies trouvΓ© un autre moyen de rester au courant des opinions de tes lecteurs.
#mastodon

Listening to #GrumpyOldBens on #NoAgenda, the coverage of the #Mastodon's #CSAM "issue" is pretty good so far

I agree, #TheVerge isn't great...I keep using it because of its volume though

Nice to hear them cover @alex's posts that were in my thread as well
#mastodon #CSAM #theverge #noagenda #grumpyoldbens @Alex Gleason

!Friendica Support Just learnt about another ... interesting feature in federating across different systems: Apparently, recent versions of #pixelfed support posting with comments disabled, which results in users being unable to comment on these posts within pixelfed. Unfortunately, coming from whichever other federated platform it seems this setting is unknown or ignored, so my bet now is that I can merrily comment on those posts from, say, #Mastodon or #Friendica without ever receiving responses because most likely the original poster will never ever see these comments (while they might be visible to other users seeing this post on other platforms). This is weird. And now I wonder where to file an issue for that: Friendica? Pixelfed? ...?
#friendica #pixelfed #mastodon !Friendica Support

Anyone running a tiny fediverse instance? What software are you using and how much does it cost you?

I am running Pleroma and it costs me about 20 Euros(about 23USD) per month.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Pleroma #CalcKey #Misskey #Friendica #Diaspora #PixelFed
#friendica #fediverse #diaspora #pixelfed #pleroma #mastodon #misskey #calckey

Was meint ihr dazu? 😎 :blobdevil:
β€œChance oder Gefahr?β€œ
β€œ#Threads bringt #Mastodon zum Bebenβ€œ
β€œ#Meta entdeckt das #Fediverse
#Facebook-Einfluss spaltet #Mastodon-Betreiberβ€œ
β€œUnklar, welche Ziele #Meta verfolgtβ€œ
https://orf.at/stories/3323777/

Chance oder Gefahr?: Threads bringt Mastodon zum Beben

Seit vergangener Woche gibt es ein Duell der Kurznachrichtendienste: Twitter bekommt Konkurrenz vom Instagram-Ableger Threads, es geht um Hunderte Millionen Nutzerinnen und Nutzer.
ORF.at
#fediverse #facebook #mastodon #meta #threads

o #Tusky andou apresentando bugs no meu #Android, vou usar sΓ³ o app oficial mesmo do #Mastodon a partir de agora :sadness:
#mastodon #Android #Tusky

I love that Mastodon has that thing where someone interacts with you, then you check them out, find out they're cool, follow them, and check out their boosts and find out they follow cool people so now you follow those other cool people as well and now you follow a whole bunch more cool people.

#mastodon #fediverse #cool
#fediverse #mastodon #cool

It's absolutely insane how #Mastodon DDoS'es sites when a link is mentioned. Every time I mention one of my blog links in a post, thousands of sites seem to hit the server, knocking out email for the duration, and there's absolutely NOTHING on those pages for them to fetch. No images, nothing. What an awful design.
#mastodon

This is the first kickstarter I'm doing *without* using Twitter or Instagram for promo. I've been on twitter for as long as I've been in indie-comics, so cutting off that community base has been difficult, and I've been stressing out over how much this is going to affect my livelihood.

I'm a full-time indie creator. So I need the platforms to live. :artsits:

Let's hope mastodon and twitch can cushion the potential fall!

#Kickstarter #Comics #Twitter #Mastodon #IndieComics #Twitch
#twitter #mastodon #Kickstarter #Twitch #comics #indiecomics

@Juan Manuel
I'd also like to know how to use #Friendica as my "main network", so that when I post on #Friendica, the post is also done automatically on #Mastodon and #Diaspora*.

You can ask/direct people to follow your Friendica account. They'll see what you post both on Diaspora and Mastodon
#friendica #diaspora #mastodon @Juan Manuel

Hello @Friendica Support
I'm writing to you from #Colombia, #SouthAmerica. My account is hosted on a server in #Argentina. I'd like to know how, either from #Fedilab on #Android or from a browser on #Windows10, I could follow several tags simultaneously, without having to add them one by one.
I'd also like to know how to use #Friendica as my "main network", so that when I post on #Friendica, the post is also done automatically on #Mastodon and #Diaspora*.
Thank you very much.
#friendica #diaspora #mastodon #fedilab #Android #windows10 #colombia #argentina #SouthAmerica @Friendica Support

Mozilla, makers of open source free Firefox, joined Mastodon last week. Mozilla began testing Mastodon security, including how their server responded to attacks and more.

They found 5 major flaws, threats, including the ability to take over a server, control a server, with a post.

With a post. TootRoot.

"Mastodon fixes critical β€œTootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking"

For 13 million users, #Mastodon NEEDS a security FOCUS.

Demand layers of protection.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/mastodon-fixes-critical-tootroot-vulnerability-allowing-node-hijacking/

Mastodon fixes critical β€œTootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking

Most critical of the bugs allowed attackers to root federated instances.
Ars Technica
#mastodon

Time to ask other writers to join the #fediverse through @pixelfed or #mastodon so that they could leave Instagram sometime in the near future... πŸ˜€
#fediverse #mastodon @pixelfed

#Mastodon: Sign up, greeted with empty feed.
#Threads: Sign up, greeted with an endless feed.

I’m not saying one is right and one is wrong. But, it has to be said that the masses don’t really want to work for content β€” they want to be fed from the get go.
#mastodon #threads

I just want to say for my first post to the #Fediverse that I've already seen more #alttext in the last couple of days than I've literally seen in my entire life. I don't know what it is, but as a blind user it's making me emotional to be able to actually interact with content. Think I'll write an introduction soon.
#accessibility #Mastodon #redditMigration
#fediverse #mastodon #Accessibility #alttext #redditmigration

By the way, it’s possible that #Facebook/ #Instagram/ #Meta/ Zuckerberg’s fediverse play for Threads is related to sidestepping the anti-competitiveness/antitrust issues around the EU’s Digital Services Act.

β€œHey, look, we’re not a monopoly. We’re not being anticompetitive… we’re federating using an open protocol. Here, let our friend Eugen, CEO of Mastodon, explain to you how it works in very dispassionate words…”

#eu #ec #fediverse #mastodon #antitrust #DigitalServicesAct #PR #usefulIdiots
#fediverse #facebook #mastodon #Instagram #EU #digitalservicesact #meta #antitrust #ec #pr #UsefulIdiots

I’m coming to love #Mastodon’s boost culture. Everybody’s all like, β€œFollow everyone! Boost it all!”

In the Blue Place, it felt like we were all competing for attention. Here, it’s more like we’re cooperating for attention.

At one level, that doesn’t make senseβ€”everyone still has only so much attention to spend. But it *feels* better, and without The Algorithm enforcing power law, winner-take-all dynamics, the boost culture does seem to lift a lot of voices that were drowned out over there.
#mastodon

1. Meta embraces ActivityPub, federates with mastodon.social, uses Fediverse servers as a "look at all the people you can talk to on day one!"

2. People on Fediverse start following/mingling with Threads accounts, thereby tightly integrating the network effect between the two

3. People decide that if they can get access to the Fediverse through Threads instead of Mastodon, which is for "dumb nerds", they'll go with Threads

4. "Threads will be ending support for ActivityPub on September 1st, 2026 - click here to import your Mastodon account"

5. Fediverse users leave en masse so they can keep talking to their friends on Threads

6. Blog post Eugen: "I didn't want to believe they would go this far"

#Threads #Meta #Mastodon

https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/110664109379249958

#mastodon #meta #threads

Wow David, you are truly capturing the essence of the problem πŸ˜†

:fediverso: πŸ’“

#fediverse #mastodon #threads
#fediverse #mastodon #threads

People who know about #Mastodon and the #Fediverse, YET are NOW saying that "oh look, finally some Twitter competitor with #Threads, let's go there" without any convincing argument to why they do this can't be taken seriously.

Like, what are you, some braindead corpo zombies? 🧟
#fediverse #mastodon #threads

said about mastodon:
"I felt like #Mastodon was the geek conversation the kitchen and they were annoyed we all piled in and interrupted them. Felt best to leave them to it, didn’t want to take over their party they were enjoying. This* feels easier to use, don’t have to think eh wot do I do each time" (by K.C.)

* bsky
#mastodon

To the newcomers

"Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed."

Jean M. Auel

No place is perfect, adapt and enjoy with time you will establish your network.

Welcome🫢

#twitter #twitterexodus #fediverse #mastodon #life #newcomer #newhere #welcome
#twitter #fediverse #mastodon #newhere #life #welcome #newcomer #twitterexodus

Hello, new folks from Twitter,

- Welcome to the fediverse!

- If you’ve joined mastodon.social because it was the default option in the app, please look to move to a smaller instance so mastodon.social doesn’t grow to become Twitter 2.0. (You can use https://instances.social to find a new instance or ask folks on here for suggestions.)

- Please add alternate text to your images so people who use screen readers can join in too. (https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images)

#TwitterMigration #mastodon #fediverse

Write good Alt Text to describe images

Alternative (Alt) Text is meant to convey the β€œwhy” of the image as it relates to the content of a document or webpage. It is read aloud to users by screen reader software, and it is indexed by search engines.
accessibility.huit.harvard.edu
#fediverse #mastodon #twittermigration

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