Mastodon is 100% the early days of social media all over. Some of you will already be familiar with this story.

My weather station (a very nice Netatmo that has served very well) crapped out after nearly 10 years of excellent service. I asked for recommendations here for a new station that would play nicely with #HomeAssistant, and hopefully, also HomeKit. I received *many* recommendations, with Ecowitt (and the brands it manufactures for) taking the lead.

A connection on here offered me their *unopened* Ecowitt weather station for a very generous price. It arrived yesterday, and I set it up, and it's already doing a great job. Works offline, talks to Home Assistant without any problems. I just need to do a couple of bits of configuration jiggery-pokery and it will pass data to HomeKit.

This is very much how things were when I first joined Twitter in 2007. In spite of attempts at #enshittification of everything, the #fediverse is putting up a good fight.

May your day online be as satisfying as mine was yesterday.

While sites like jointhefediverse.net can be great at explaining basic concepts behind the fediverse, for most people, this can be all a bit overwhelming.

The best way to get people interested is to promote your own community. Show people where to sign up, which apps to use, and who to follow.

My latest project can help you with that.

stefanbohacek.com/project/fedi…

#fediverse #community

Fediverse invitation

A customizable fediverse invitation page that you can share with friends.

^{Stefan Bohacek (stefanbohacek.com)}

📝 New post 🚀

"Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse"

🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/openness…

mentioning @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission

#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #TheFutureIsFederated #RSS #SocialWeb

Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse

An article making the case that the Fediverse is a fantastic communication platform for public institutions - because of its openness, transparency and reach.

^{Elena Rossini}

Mastodon is ten years old today!

mastodon.social/@Gargron/1

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1…

#mastodon #anniversary #fediverse #Mastodon10 Years #DecadeOfMastodon

If instance admins allow AI Agents on their platform and they keep harassing us I have no other choice then to silence that instance

Again, I do not pay these massive costs each month to host robots

Let's keep the #Fediverse human shall we?

#AI #LLM

WARNING: the #fediverse is not immune to #blackface #astroturfing; especially in the age of #AI.

just blocked an AIslopped account literally invoking the same Bernie Sanders grievances of the last 20 years, with a guest apperance of corporatist dems new target, Zohran Mamdani.

the #USApol consultant ecosystem is a special kind of grifting hell. they are sociopaths who don't care about political parties, only how much money they can make wrecking havoc.

block them with prejudice.

An independently owned and operated social network for the Northwest Territories of Canada. No ads. No algorithms. Just a nice place for nice people to be nice to each other.

Go NWT.social
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I work for an evil corporation, but this is one of those rare truths I’m glad we’re still working on — cracking down on scammers.

It is also one of the things I wish the Fediverse would take more seriously.

Claiming we cannot target scammers because it may harm legitimate people in need is essentially letting scammers win while pretending to care about collateral damage. With careful planning, we can stop the scammers and protect the people who truly need help.

#Meta #Fediverse

WIRED

2026-03-11 12:01:28

Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ramps-up-efforts-to-disrupt-industrialized-scamming/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-WIRED

The amount of disinformation, deep fakes, and other misdirection I hear about from friends and relatives that they get from traditional social media is insane.

They have to tell me about it because I am almost always completely unaware, even though I am “on the Internet” just as much if not more than them.

This is a deep advantage of using Mastodon/the Fediverse right now. And it is not because fake stuff doesn’t exist here.

It is just not automatically sent to me by every owner, bot, and user. And if it is, it is generally swatted down hard.

#fediverse #mastodon #realInformation

A bit spammy, maybe, but not intended to be:

In Germany, a company that makes brooms and other cleaning utensils called Andreas Bürsten @buersten is very active on the #Fediverse. During the many discussions here, they listened to the wishes of our weird and wonderful community. May I present: The "Regenbogen". Clean your house and patio in style. With a statement of inclusion :) (They only ship to Germany and no, I am not getting paid. I just *love* their approach)

buersten.de/Saalbesen-400-mm-R…

Big news for Mastodon GmbH. They have formally joined forces with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

If you’re not in the design/tech world, trust me when I say this is a big step for the fediverse. The W3C establishes the standards used for the internet.

This is a solid path forward for small tech.

github.com/w3c/socialwg/blob/m…

#Mastodon #News #Technology #Fediverse #W3C #SmallTech #FOSS

socialwg/meetings/2026/2026-03-06-WG-kickoff.md at main · w3c/socialwg

Social Web Working Group. Contribute to w3c/socialwg development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub