Mastodon

Apparently openvibe isn't open source, you might say sorasns but my iPhone 8 doesn't get iOS 18, I can't be bothered to Download an app for both Mastodon & Bluesky each

Several times per day, i get a message with "Load missing posts" besides the usual "New posts". If I click the message the app seems to get confused and I'm not anymore on the last missing post. Is this some sort of bug?

The beta for the next major Mastodon release is now available for testing.

I'm looking for Mastodon accounts which have a Picture of the Day concept similar to https://botsin.space/@APoD (Astronomy Picture of the Day via NASA feed) suggestions.

Open to all types of content - animals, art, abandoned stuff, photography, etc. Needs to be "of quality" is all I ask, think "create a mastodon List called Gallery and put all the accounts there to get some daily eye candy, but not overload on any one subject" to get a taste of everything. One a day (plus iron), but not memes or hardcore stuff (hentai, hard porn, etc.) but general fringe, lowbrow, abstract etc. are all on the menu.

I know there are many specific mastodons dedicated to art, photography, etc. the problem is sifting through thousands of possible accounts to find something I'd be organically interested in which doesn't include "post chatter" and is just pure one picture a day content.

Threaded is a very simple Mastodon client, that is meant to look like the newest social media Threads made by Meta Platforms. It integrates perfectly with your Mastodon account, and matches the Threads vibe, while having Mastodon-only features.

Threaded is free, open-source, available on iOS and has a little integration with watchOS, and is made in pure SwiftUI.

Learn more about Threaded
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I had no prior knowledge of what these #mastodon app numbers were but found myself pretty surprised at

* Mastodon's dominance (~34% counting web and apps) ... compared with
* How little market share "celebrated" iOS (ivory & icecubes) and web apps (elk, phanpy) have (4.3% total, 0.7% for elk+phanpy)
* But all that (and the other listed items) are only ~50% with the rest consisting of "thousands" more!

Genuinely sad to see elk and phanpy not get more love.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112662023734261452

@mastodon

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Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! If you're one of the fediverse influencers who sees Threads arrival it as "historic" and "a glimpse of the future" ... well, you might want to skip this post.

But if you're one of the many many people on the fediverse who doesn't want to deal with Threads, read on!

Threads is rolling out a beta of its fediverse integration in the US, Canada, and Japan. In a post on Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that toggling on the feature will let you cross-post and view likes from other federated platforms, like Mastodon.

I'm moving across to Mastodon for my main instance.

@[email protected]

Over the next few days, I will slowly remove my activity from other instances, including Mbin.

In the Mastodon app, there is a News tab, why is that ? Is it a way do monetize the service or just a help to check up on the hot news going on on Mastodon ?

I never used Twitter. Reddit was the only social media I engaged/posted on for years, moved to Lemmy a couple months ago. I made an account on Mastodon, downloaded moshidon, followed a bunch of hashtags, now I don't know what to do. Do I just start posting "Facebook status" type posts? Is Mastodon basically like individual Lemmy comment threads with hashtags being the main post?

Now I know how my parents feel when I try to explain anything outside of Facebook to them.

I'm thinking about joining mastodon, but I don't know what server to go with, and the list of servers seems to have very little information about each. Right now I think I'll open an account on mastodon.social.

I'd prefer a server with a high character limit and that has access to most other servers.

The way I used Twitter was by aggresively muting, blocking & managing the interests functionality through the years until I pruned my home page to mostly show me meaningful discussion about videogames (and a bit of other media), some relevant news, including a good balance of AAA and indie stuff as well as a a balance of mainstream (mostly from US and Japan videogame industries) and diverse stuff (ie from other countries). I had industry people, interesting youtubers (more essay-types than gameplay-types), socially progressive viewpoints, diversity, a bit of art, a bit of lore, etc.

Are there good instances focused on that? I know I can see stuff from any instance but AFAIK some are better to set up camp because of their admins, their defederations and also because it's a bit easier to find new interesting accounts to follow from within the instance.

Which do you recommend?

EDIT: I do know there's no algorithm in Mastodon like in Twitter so I'll only see whoever I follow. Just wanted to clarify before someone took the work to explain all that. I just want to replicate the kind of feed I had on Twitter, just that this time it'll be 100% from following accounts rather than a mix.

When I look at https://mastodon.social/@[email protected] there is a group, but nothing ever appears there when something is created on /r/rimworldporn

Is there any way to make creations appear there?

I did not use twitter, but i decided to check out mastodon. One thing is a mystery to me; i can't find an overview of the accounts i started following, when i use mastodon on the web. Here on Lemmy, for instance in the Photon app i use on the web, my subscriptions are neatly positioned in the sidebar; one click and i'm there.

I'm trying to make lists, to create at least some order. And that turned out a chore as well; instead of typing a few letters and my followed accounts popping up, i need to look up the entire name and type it in.

I hope this newbie post is ok here. I am reading some beginner mastodon instructions, but those are usually loooong explanations.

Also, are there some fun accounts i should follow? Not NSFW please, but things like nature and animals, science, open source would be nice to add.

Lots of small improvements across the user experience, and opt-in search, make this an important release.

Looks like this is still not implemented. But are there Android apps with this feature?

Maybe I missed something, so my apologies if this is a stupid question— but what happened to the c.im instance? I’ve periodically checked the last 24 hours and haven’t been able to connect.

Is it gone, or is something else going on? Thanks in advance, friends!