@thevhswizard@retro.pizza
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3h ago
The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙
@thevhswizard@retro.pizza
Actor / Cartoonist / Author / Humorist (and kinda bad at all of them), but I've failed at more things than most people have tried. Married, poly, old and in a lot of pain. Played a doctor on TV. Former G+ Influencer. An actual wizard. I know an unhealthy, generally worrying amount of things about the following topics: #MST3K #Rifftrax #Riffing #Tokusatsu #SuperSentai #KamenRider #Cryptids #1970sMadeForTVMovies #Stargate #DoctorWho
retro.pizza
I love that on the regular internet, you can be like "I need to find out what part this is on my 2025 car" and all the results you get back are for car rentals, people trying to sell you a car, trying to buy your car, or AI slop videos explaining to you what a car is in the least intelligible way possible.
But... in the #Fediverse you can be like "anybody know the correct wiring layout and voltages for a 1974 "Passion-o-Meter" novelty Love Tester from Hanlon Amusements in Fairbanks, Alabama? I found one while doing recreational free diving in a cave system in Peru and I'm trying to put it back together again" and not only does NOBODY question any part of the insane statement made, but three people who happen to specialize in that exact sort of thing immediately emerge from the woodwork like the reverse of Homer Simpson going into the hedge.
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Great to see the Dutch government so active on Mastodon!
The Dutch Government began offering Mastodon accounts to all government organizations at all levels of government as a shared service. You can read more about how their using Mastodon at https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/overzicht-van-alle-onderwerpen/mastodon-overheid/
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚐 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚟𝚎𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚜𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖 # cat # CatsOfMastodon # CatsOfFediverse # CatsOfPixelfed # surveillance # kitten # photography”
https://mastodon.social/@snsus/116772280573225653
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“RE: https:// mastodon.social/@brembs/116771 118345427277 "Higher education is becoming more and more blind to its very own mission, instead the Merchants of Doubt are gaining momentum and science is slowly moving ...”
https://universites.social/@fresseng/116771860579065260
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#Fediverse
13 POSTs on Fediverse ( 2026-06-19 05:45:07 - 2026-06-19 08:00:45 )
https://mnmm.top/4Dt
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“How to Watch the Knicks Parade on NYC Traffic Surveillance Cameras https://www rawchili.com/nba/764238/ # Art # Basketball # nyc # privacy # surveillance”
https://channels.im/@nba/116771440704470219
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#Fediverse
12 POSTs on Fediverse ( 2026-06-19 00:30:31 - 2026-06-19 05:40:10 )
https://mnmm.top/YjM
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“"Higher education is becoming more and more blind to its very own mission, instead the Merchants of Doubt are gaining momentum and science is slowly moving closer to the fantasy-industrial complex, where tech oligopolies...”
https://mastodon.social/@brembs/116771318743739929
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@lianna@micro.webgarden.click
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15h ago
lia
@lianna@micro.webgarden.click
I'm the owner and sole user of this little Fedi instance. I'm Lianna and I'm a linguist by trade working mainly in the video game industry. I also have a lot of different and constantly shifting hobbies: music, vintage tech, linux, art, webcrafting and the web revival, writing, reading, bicycling and much more; it always depends on my current fixations. I have ADHD, I'm queer and a long-time organised Marxist. Bilingual account that posts in German and English.
micro.webgarden.click
After Bluesky, Threads, and so on, the whole #WSocial thing is another reminder that it was never about the #Fediverse being "too complicated" or "just for nerds".
A bafflingly large amount of people genuinely only act on a gut feeling telling them that only commercial products with fancy marketing owned by a for-profit corporation can be trustworthy, 'official' and 'legal', for the lack of a better word.
If something is a commercial offering by a competent-looking, rich family man in a suit, it's clearly an official, legal, trustworthy product. You can be proud of using such a fancy-looking service.
When they see a community-run open-source project or a grassroots initiative, their first instinct is that it must be shady, illegal, complicated, broken or predatory in some way. It's probably some aftermarket grey area bootleg made by weird tech nerds, political groups with an ulterior motive, conspiracy theorists or some naive teenage hackers. They'd also be embarrassed for using it in front of their peers and neighbours; who uses some free back-alley software, are you poor or something?
The same people are the reason why Google is using the word 'sideloading', why scammers love wearing fancy suits, why people suddenly act childishly helpless in front of LibreOffice, or why DIY HRT is so demonised.
They trust any kind of 'official approval' over their own senses. If someone does something that isn't 'approved', they're a bad person or clearly endangering themselves and others. No idea why exactly, but psh, it must be wrong somehow, or everyone would do it, right?
If people on the Fediverse understood that the whole "it's all so complicated and clunky" thing is just a thinly veiled excuse for a general disdain for non-commercial software, we could finally stop making all our software imitate their corporate equivalents in a futile attempt to appease people who never gave us a chance in the first place.
You'll never convince them to treat it in good faith no matter how much effort or money you put into UX or 'ease of use'. All you're doing is making the software worse, e. g. through things like dot-social, verified accounts or begging brands, corporations and politicians to join and give your product some kind of 'official' validation.
#mastodon #openSource #linux
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“This is getting more than scary:
# surveillance https://www thedrive.com/news/license-plat e-cameras-will-soon-track-phones-wearables-infotainment-and-even-your-pets”
https://mastodon.world/@GRA3432/116771215175707719
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@helpinghen@privacysafe.social
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9h ago
Helping Hen
@helpinghen@privacysafe.social
Your Helper on PrivacySafe Social. Operated by @ivycyber & @privacysafe
privacysafe.social
🔆 #FediTips for https://PrivacySafe.Social & the #fediverse
“If you want to search Mastodon posts you've interacted with, include the phrase in:library along with your keywords. This will just show results for posts you have interacted with. If you want to search just your own po...”
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116772247397817934
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it. You simply don’t need to. You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – spa...”
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116770333053823108
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#Fediverse
12 POSTs on Fediverse ( 2026-06-18 20:45:07 - 2026-06-19 00:30:28 )
https://mnmm.top/YEF
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@haubles@hachyderm.io
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11h ago
hannah aubry
@haubles@hachyderm.io
@Mastodon community director / fediforum advisory board ☞ certified goof ♡ loves birds ☆ importantly, earnest ♓︎ she/they - I used to be on fosstodon
hachyderm.io
The concentration of power in Silicon Valley happened partly because we let it. We accepted a few platforms as inevitable. We built our communities there because that’s where everyone was. It wasn’t because their technology is better. It was a choice—made again and again by the people on those platforms, by investors, and by policymakers.
A different choice is possible, but it requires that those of us building alternatives actually believe what we say about cooperation. It means assuming good faith from people building different projects. It means investing in infrastructure that doesn’t benefit us alone.
We, the builders of the open social web, are the only ones who can make that choice.
It starts with deciding that our mission matters more than winning alone.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/why-the-social-web-must-work-together/
#SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon
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Number of posts on #Fediverse ( 2026-06-18 )
0 : #Bluesky
1 : #Threads
36 : Pinky.st #Misskey
25 : mammut.cyou #mastodon
0 : Others
https://mnmm.top/X0O
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#Fediverse
POSTs on Fediverse ( 2026-06-18 )
https://mnmm.top/X0O
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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1d ago
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
Husband, father, side project enthusiast: https://stefanbohacek.com/projects Big fan of the #fediverse: https://stefanbohacek.com/fediverse Enjoy my work? Here's how you can pay me back: https://stefanbohacek.com/support-my-work/ He/him. 🗺️ Bratislava ➜ NYC ➜ NJ
stefanbohacek.online
Is there a website that shows Mastodon versions in use by the number of accounts, not just servers?
#mastodon #fediverse #MastoAdmins #FediAdmins
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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14h ago
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
Husband, father, side project enthusiast: https://stefanbohacek.com/projects Big fan of the #fediverse: https://stefanbohacek.com/fediverse Enjoy my work? Here's how you can pay me back: https://stefanbohacek.com/support-my-work/ He/him. 🗺️ Bratislava ➜ NYC ➜ NJ
stefanbohacek.online
Well I couldn't find one, so I put this together based on data from https://fedilist.com/instance
Almost half of active Mastodon users are now on version 4.6, nice!
#mastodon #fediverse #data #dataviz #DataVisualization
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Trump's Threats Show His Complicated History With a Surveillance Law https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/politics/trump-fisa-history.html # Politics # NationalSecurity # Surveillance”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/politics/trump-fisa-history.html
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#Fediverse
15 POSTs on Fediverse ( 2026-06-18 12:45:08 - 2026-06-18 20:21:45 )
https://mnmm.top/XYZ
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