@wjmaggos ah Mastodon can best be explained as software for the fediverse. It's a software platform for connecting to the fediverse.
Alternatives like Mbin, Lemmy or piefed exists as well. Which are also software for the fediverse.
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@Mastodon thank you for your contribution to a free and open source web.
@Mastodon pity you’re so bloody difficult to access across several devices!
@Mastodon Mastodon is amazing, but the chronological timeline is killing it for me. Can't we get some kind of filters like on Reddit? To filter for Hot, New, Top, etc.? I don't want to scroll for a kilometer to see something that's actually nice. Or to have my feed dominated by bots or people who post a lot.
@UPPERKEES we're always happy to see some of the optional tools that folks build on top of our open API (and we've mentioned some, like Phanpy and FediAlgo, in our month Trunk & Tidbits engineering blog). Take a look 🥰
@Mastodon maybe it’s time to finally fix the iOS application, at least the scroll up behaviour your get broken with every odd release… and making sure the feed does not reload to top when switching somewhere and back (like opening a link in the browser).
I'm not good at communication, but:
on December 19th on your site you published the 2024 Annual Report and here you didn't publish a post about it !😵💫
On the other hand the only things you post on this official account are generic posts praising yourselves and asking for money.
Mah. 🤔
@elCelio thanks for the feedback. We're currently running a series of posts to point people towards our new donation page as we transition to a new structure.
We also post about new releases and other blog posts related to the overall project here. No, we did not share the annual report link here; we hope to publish the 2025 report in just a few months, and the blog post is available.
You've also made some points about choice of server, and we plan to improve this in the coming months.
@Mastodon just keep things simple otherwise people will shift to new one, just like they switched from FB or twitter to Mastodon. Nature of human... Circle of life
@Mastodon
🇵🇸🇵🇸 We love you because you support Palestinian content.
the only? even stating that seems antithetical to the fediverse...
@Mastodon trust, i don't trust you as you keep growing your own server with the official app
@Mastodon I love the art for these posts. Can you start adding the artist at least to the alt text so they get more exposure?
@Mastodon Mastodon is not the only social network that answers to users. Mastodon is an important part of the Fediverse, which is the social network.
If you’re saying that the fediverse is just mastodon, you’re ignoring the work of countless other people and projects, like Akkoma, Pleroma, Lemmy, and many more.
Please don’t call Mastodon the social network; use the correct, fair wording, like “the Fediverse” or such. Please don’t imply that you’re the only important part of the Fediverse.
this post is confusing but I think I completely agree with what it's trying to say. The fedi or #SocialWeb is the network. Mastodon is an important part of it. Not sure what term describes it best.
I mean what is mastodon? it's not the network, but a service on it? the org runs a few instances but it also develops an app and the server software. they are doing a ton of great work and should be supported for it, but we also lose the plot if we don't make these distinctions.
@wjmaggos ah Mastodon can best be explained as software for the fediverse. It's a software platform for connecting to the fediverse.
Alternatives like Mbin, Lemmy or piefed exists as well. Which are also software for the fediverse.
Please stop using the default instance (mastodon.social) for new Mastodon sign-ups. Thanks for listening,
@TheEddieShow we're working on this - stay tuned for more on this in early 2026.
@phillycodehound @Mastodon @TheEddieShow
if we had 100% portability, we could have a starter instance that forced you to move after like 3 months.
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