Hacker News with Generative AI: Mastodon

Mastodon's CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization (theverge.com)
Decentralized social network Mastodon has announced plans to transfer its ownership to a new nonprofit entity.

Social Media, Decentralization, Nonprofits, Mastodon

23 points by ossusermivami 5 days ago | 3 comments

"Policy changes at Meta are deeply troubling" – Mastodon CEO (mastodon.social)

Social Media, Meta, Privacy, Mastodon

24 points by SanjayMehta 9 days ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: Are you on Bluesky or Mastodon? (ycombinator.com)
Just wondering which (if any) of these two social networks HN users frequents and why that choice.

Social Media, Social Networks, Mastodon, Bluesky

10 points by Gooblebrai 12 days ago | 14 comments

Gazzetta, an RSS Reader for Mastodon (primatology.xyz)
While there are many great apps for Mastodon, they are built around the core experience of Mastodon as a social network.

Mastodon, RSS, Social Media, Web Development, Software

35 points by primatologyxyz 28 days ago | 13 comments

Mastodon year in review feature upcoming (mastodon.social)

Social Media, Mastodon, Reviews

6 points by doener 46 days ago | 0 comments

Introducing Sill: Aggregate popular links on BlueSky and Mastodon (tylerjfisher.com)
Today I’m excited to launch the public beta of Sill, my new social media tool. Sill connects to your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and aggregates the most popular links in your network. (Yes, a little like Nuzzel.)

Social Media, Tools, Mastodon, BlueSky

50 points by gaws 56 days ago | 0 comments

Thoughts on Bluesky (canolcer.com)
Let’s talk about Bluesky, the decentralized microblogging application that’s currently eating Twitter and Mastodon’s lunch. Or so some say.

Social Media, Twitter, Decentralization, Mastodon

39 points by shafyy 61 days ago | 49 comments

Why Not Bluesky (tbray.org)
As a dangerous and evil man drives people away from Xitter, many stories are talking up Bluesky as the destination for the diaspora. This piece explains why I kind of like Bluesky but, for the moment, have no intention of moving my online social life away from the Fediverse.

Social Media, Twitter, Mastodon

36 points by throw0101c 61 days ago | 37 comments

ActivityBot – the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots (shkspr.mobi)
As you may have read, BotsIn.Space is closing down, I have lots of automated bot accounts living on the Fediverse - and I want them to continue posting. Installing and maintaining an entire Mastodon instance sounds like hard work. Paying people to host my stuff feels like putting my fate in someone else's hands.

Social Media, Mastodon, Automation, Open Source

6 points by ColinWright 69 days ago | 0 comments

One year after X: Embracing open science on Mastodon (rug.nl)
In October 2023, the University of Groningen Library (UB) made the decision to leave X (formerly Twitter) and fully transition to Mastodon, a decentralized, non-commercial social media platform.

Open Science, Social Media, Mastodon, Academia

12 points by ZacnyLos 76 days ago | 0 comments

One year after X: Embracing open science on Mastodon (rug.nl)
In October 2023, the University of Groningen Library (UB) made the decision to leave X (formerly Twitter) and fully transition to Mastodon, a decentralized, non-commercial social media platform.

Open Source, Social Media, Academia, Mastodon, Twitter

13 points by Vinnl 87 days ago | 1 comments

ActivityPub Plugin v2.0 took Mastodon federation from "good" to "amazing" (wordpress.org)
Version 2.0 takes this plugin from “good” to “amazing,” with full reply federation, which means:

Social Media, Mastodon, Plugins, Open Source, Federation

5 points by walterbell 94 days ago | 0 comments

Mastodon Announces Fediverse Discovery Providers (wedistribute.org)
One of the most difficult challenges that most decentralized social networks face is that of content and user discovery.

Mastodon, Social Media

14 points by ZacnyLos 109 days ago | 2 comments

Adding comments to your static blog with Mastodon (carlschwan.eu)
One of the biggest disadvantages of static site generators is that they are static and can’t include comments.

Blogging, Social Media, Mastodon

6 points by fanf2 110 days ago | 0 comments

Mozilla to shut down its Mastodon server in December (mozilla.social)

Social Media, Mozilla, Mastodon

7 points by redbell 121 days ago | 0 comments

Mozilla will shut down its Mastodon instance Mozilla.social (mozilla.social)

Mozilla, Social Media, Mastodon

8 points by AdmiralAsshat 122 days ago | 0 comments

Mozilla.social Mastodon Instance Shutting Down December 17, 2024 (mozilla.social)

Social Media, Mastodon, Mozilla, Shutdowns

13 points by tech234a 123 days ago | 2 comments

Mozilla.social Is Shutting Down (mozilla.org)
We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024.

Social Media, Technology, Mozilla, Mastodon

23 points by moelf 123 days ago | 5 comments

DOStodon MS-DOS Mastodon Client (github.com/SuperIlu)

DOS, Mastodon, Software, Programming

7 points by Bluestein 138 days ago | 0 comments

Threads Enables Fediverse Replies (karliner.net)

Social Media, Decentralized Web, Mastodon

179 points by mkarliner 142 days ago | 84 comments

Archiving and Syndicating Mastodon Posts (garrido.io)

Social Media, Archiving, Mastodon

6 points by todsacerdoti 169 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Fedv.link – a way to share Mastodon links that can be interacted with (fedv.link)