Wandering Adventure Party

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@stux It's the opposite of what I want

I think it would've been easy to throw the #Mastodon logo at some print-on-demand website and be done with it, but I've always wanted Mastodon merch to be something bespoke, something you'd genuinely want to keep for years. This is why I chose the difficult path: Manually finding suppliers, prototyping, ordering in advance and distributing through our own shop. It's a lot of work, which is why it tends to happen as individual "drops" rather than a continuous, all year round stock.

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware.

#Android #Google

@quillmatiq @jack @laurenshof @jsit @bsky.app Strictly speaking, the question is if Bluesky is decentralized, not if AT Proto is decentralized. Second of all, I am not sure why I should "triple down on making sure" anything about Bluesky or AT Proto. I work on improving the fediverse. The place that is already built with adversarial interoperability.

@quillmatiq @jack @laurenshof @jsit @bsky.app Red Dwarf doesn't have a sign up link and nothing loads on the site. But you're right, it is early. Everything is new, shiny, and full of venture-capital funded marketing right now. We'll see how all of this architecture turns out in a few years, when the investors come calling.

@quillmatiq @jack @laurenshof @jsit @bsky.app I have seen the link you sent. The only client on there that doesn't send me to bsky.app if I want to sign up is blacksky.community, though it requires an invite code.

@quillmatiq @jack @laurenshof @jsit @bsky.app See this analysis of the Bluesky architecture by someone way smarter than me:

How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

(dustycloud.org)

@jack @quillmatiq @laurenshof @jsit @bsky.app A PDS is not the same as a GoToSocial or Mastodon server. The latter give you complete autonomy. You connect directly to whoever you want to follow or broadcast messages to. A PDS is only the data layer. It has to be indexed by a cooperating relay, and ingested by a cooperating app view, before you can actually reach anybody. Those are controlled by Bluesky PBC.

Thank you to all who reached out; our team is aware that the new Turkish social media platform Next Sosyal is using Mastodon code without following the terms of the license and we have already reached out to them.

Please report any account that tells you that you need to verify your #Mastodon account to continue using it through a private message. It is a scam. We do not require identity verification. Real staff accounts either have a special role badge on their profile or are verified through the joinmastodon.org domain and will typically never reach out through private messages.

Meet our new backend developer.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

My beautiful boy.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

@TechCrunch Welcome to 2017!

Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book.

“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.

You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.

(www.zeropartydata.es)

Greetings from Croatia!

#Plushtodon

Does anyone know what this is?