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28  février     00h00
Mastodon for Android update
   At the beginning of February, our team attended our very first conference at FOSDEM in Brussels. As a remote only company, it was also the first time a lot of us met each other in real life. It was a very fun time, and a lot of people came up to take selfies in front of our company roll up, buy our...
22  novembre     00h00
Improving the quality of conversations on Mastodon
   In our most recent Mastodon for Android release, we’re testing a new feature aimed to curb unneccesary negativity that comes from being on the Internet. Complete strangers using an overly familiar tone, offering unsolicited advice, or starting arguments that are completely besides the point these...
10  novembre     00h00
Thank you Sujitech
   Today we would like to thank Sujitech for kindly donating k USD to Mastodon, by far the largest single donation to our non profit so far. Building Mastodon, which encompasses the core software on one end, and two native mobile applications on the other, is not cheap, and we can only afford a...
28  octobre     00h00
Mastodon for Android update
   The most recent update of Mastodon for Android introduces a highly anticipated feature lists. With the new update, you now have the ability to create custom lists and categorize your follows based on specific topics or interests, while removing them from your home feed. This not only helps in...
02  octobre     00h00
Annual Report 2022
   Some of your were asking for it, some of you had no idea it was coming. The Annual Report is ready As a non profit organization supported exclusively by donations, we like to keep our community updated on our yearly progress, and was an interesting year to say the least. Keep in mind...
21  septembre     00h00
Mastodon 4.2
   As Mastodon continues to grow, we’d like to make sure we’re doing all we can to help you connect with your friends and your interests. Most importantly, we want to bring you features that make it much easier to connect with people that matter to you. In this version we overhauled search. The...
25  juillet     00h00
New merchandise
   To help us raise more funds for our development efforts, we are launching a new line of merchandise for Mastodon including t shirts, mugs, enamel pins, and stickers. Our artist, Dopatwo, has come up with brand new, exclusive designs for each item, and we’ve partnered with FRESH Merch to manufacture...
05  juillet     00h00
What to know about Threads
   Today, Meta is launching its new microblogging platform called Threads. What is noteworthy about this launch is that Threads intends to become part of the decentralized social web by using the same standard protocol as Mastodon, ActivityPub. There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads...
01  juillet     00h00
Mastodon for Android update
   While usually our app updates don’t get a dedicated blog post, this one is a bit bigger and provides a good opportunity to reflect on how the Android app changed since launch roughly a year ago. Today, Mastodon for Android has received a complete Material You redesign. We left no stone unturned tab...
01  mai     00h00
A new onboarding experience on Mastodon
   Today we’re making signing up on Mastodon easier than ever before. We understand that deciding which Mastodon service provider to kick off your experience with can be confusing. We know this is a completely new concept for many people, since traditionally the platform and the service provider are...
20  décembre     00h00
Twitter suspends Mastodon account, prevents sharing links
   On Dec , Twitter suspended our joinmastodon account after we shared a link to the newly registered Mastodon account of ElonJet, an account that broadcasts public flight path data of Elon Musk’s private jet, which was previously suspended from Twitter itself. At the same time, accounts of...
21  septembre     00h00
New website launch
   I’m pleased to announce that our new joinmastodon.org website is now live. We teamed up with the design agency Oak to give our project a modern and professional presence. The website is responsible for explaining what Mastodon is, why it is better than other social media platforms, what makes it...
29  juin     00h00
Mastodon branding updates
   We’re teaming up with the design agency Oak to update our homepage and our brand. We’re leaving the ubiquitous blue that every social app seems to have behind in favour of a vibrant purple. Our logo also gets some subtle shape fixes that makes it look more precise. I originally picked our color...
26  avril     00h00
Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight
   The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network, rapidly exploding our growth with over , new users in just a single day. This is because at Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any...
21  avril     00h00
Official apps now available for iOS and Android
   With the release of our Android app on the Play Store we are now present on both major mobile platforms. The apps are gaining overwhelmingly positive reviews, some even going so far as to claim that our onboarding is smoother than any other social media platform’s; our iOS app is rising through the...
30  mars     00h00
Mastodon 3.5
   Work on multiple features in this release has been kindly sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research through the Prototype Fund. We’ve added one of the most requested functions among our competitors, the ability to edit posts. Since older Mastodon versions would not...
09  février     00h00
Official Mastodon for Android app is coming soon
   Following the successful launch of our official iOS app, in January we’ve begun the development of an Android version. We continue working with the NYC design agency Lickability and welcome Gregory Klyushnikov, better known as grishka on the fediverse, as the lead Android developer. Gregory is a...
08  décembre     00h00
Mastodon Recap 2021
   Disclaimer: Since Mastodon is decentralized, different Mastodon servers have a different view of the network depending on user activity, and providing an objective data summary across the entire network is not currently possible. Data provided in this blog post is provided as seen from mastodon...
29  octobre     00h00
Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code
   From media reports and individual findings that various people have presented to us, it seems that the new social media platform owned by the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, so called Truth Social, is using Mastodon’s source code with various visual adjustments. The platform...
21  octobre     00h00
EUNOMIA public pilot launch
   On behalf of the EUNOMIA project, in which I represent Mastodon, I am happy to announce that after nearly years of development there is now a public pilot for the Mastodon community. But first, what is EUNOMIA and who is EUNOMIA EUNOMIA is a digital companion for social media, a set of...
13  août     00h00
Mastodon now a non-profit organisation
   In June, I was able to officially register Mastodon gGmbH after nearly months of legal work gGmbH means non profit limited liability company . A non profit limited liability company in Germany is structered and operates similarly to a for profit limited liability company with a few key...
05  février     00h00
Developing an official iOS app for Mastodon
   One of the ways Mastodon sets itself apart from current day Twitter is its API first approach every function available through the web interface is available through the API, in fact, our web client is just an API client that runs in the browser . A third party app ecosystem contributed in large...
29  janvier     00h00
Mastodon 3.3
   It’s Mastodon . time We’ve got security fixes, performance fixes, new moderation tools and quality of life features
04  août     00h00
Why EUNOMIA builds on Mastodon
   An ever growing problem of the modern social media rich world is misinformation. The trust that was previously placed into government officials and journalism has eroded; the internet gave everyone a voice but with it made it so much more difficult to distinguish truth from fabrication. The...
02  août     00h00
Mastodon 3.2
   The new Mastodon release brings you a much better audio player and improved support for different audio and video formats, as well as some additional security mechanisms. The audio player has been completely reworked to have a more eye catching design. It will extract album art from the uploaded...
12  octobre     00h00
Adding sign-up to your Mastodon app
   Since Mastodon . , it is actually possible to let users sign up through your app, instead of asking them to go to a Mastodon website directly and then return. Let’s go over how this can be done.
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Mastodon 3.0 in-depth
   New REST APIs Profile directory The profile directory is a way to discover users who want to be discovered. To fetch the profile directory, access GET api v directory with the possible params local boolean and order new or active . Pagination is accomplished using offset and limit params....
11  octobre     00h00
Mastodon 3.0
   It’s finally here Mastodon . is live The team has been hard at work on making sure that this release is one of our most user friendly yet with some exciting new features Here are just a few: Stronger anti harassment tools We’re always looking for new ways to provide users and admins with the...
04  juillet     00h00
Gab switches to Mastodon’s code
   After crowdfunding millions of dollars, social media platform Gab abandoned its own code and switched to the freely available Mastodon software in early as a way of circumventing Google’s and Apple’s ban on their own app from their app stores, since offering Mastodon’s client side API would...
13  juin     22h58
Mastodon 2.9
   One of the biggest obstacles for new users to Mastodon has been the multi column UI. For users accustomed to the single column layouts of Twitter or Tumblr, Mastodon’s multi column layout can be overwhelming. At Mastodon, we want users’ first day experience with us to be a positive and accessible...
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How to migrate from one server to another
   With the sad news that KNZK was shutting down we thought it might be useful for people to have a refresher on the features that Mastodon has built in that make moving instances easy and painless. Backing up Your Data Data export If you are moving to a new instance the first thing you will want to...
16  mai     00h00
Introducing the Mastodon Server Covenant
   Although Mastodon has no central authority, we as a project still want to provide a safer experience than found on Twitter or Reddit. One of the things that gave impetus to the creation of Mastodon was a lack of moderation on Twitter against hate groups. The no nazis rule of the original mastodon...
05  mai     00h00
Improving support for adult content on Mastodon
   The latest point release of Mastodon adds a small new feature that might have a significant impact on all adult content creators on the platform. The feature has a fancy, memorable name: Blurhash. But first, let’s talk about how adult content works on Mastodon. Mastodon allows you to put content...
10  avril     00h00
Mastodon 2.8
   In this long awaited release: Polls, new tools for managing followers, new frontpage design, new admin features, Keybase integration, and more. A poll Mastodon now has a poll feature. Instead of attaching images or video to your post, you can ask your followers to choose an answer to your question....
07  avril     00h00
Mastodon now available on DigitalOcean
   We have published a click install image on DigitalOcean. This reduces the initial time investment in self hosting Mastodon substantially. You create a new droplet, choose the Mastodon image, and once it boots up, you are taken through an interactive setup prompt. The only necessary information...
20  mars     00h00
The role of mastodon.social in the Mastodon ecosystem
   Can you imagine Facebook closing registrations and saying Sorry, we have too many users already, you can go sign up on Twitter instead And yet, this sort of situation comes up with Mastodon every so often, in regards to the mastodon.social server. You see, Mastodon is decentralized. That means...
20  janvier     00h00
Mastodon 2.7
   Polish translation is available: Mastodon . The fresh release of Mastodon brings long overdue improvements to discoverability of content and the administration interface, as well as a large number of bug fixes and extra polish. The . release consists of commits by contributors since...
30  décembre     00h00
Why does decentralization matter?
   Japanese translation is available: è é ï decentralizationï é è ï I’ve been writing about Mastodon for two whole years now, and it occurred to me that at no point did I lay out why anyone should care about decentralization in clear and concise text. I have, of...
24  décembre     00h00
Top 30 most shared Mastodon posts in 2018
   Inspired by a joke post I decided to go ahead and compile a list of the most shared things on Mastodon in .
19  novembre     00h00
From Tumblr to Mastodon
   After Apple has delisted the Tumblr app from its store citing a large amount of adult content on the site, artists and other creators are reporting having their blogs deleted, and are now looking for alternatives. Before choosing another commercial solution like Twitter, let me outline why Mastodon...
31  octobre     00h00
Mastodon 2.6 released
   After more than a month of work, I am happy to announce the new version of Mastodon, with improved visuals, a new way to assert your identity, and a lot of bug fixes. Verification Verifying identity in a network with no central authority is not straightforward. But there is a way. It requires a...
14  octobre     00h00
Mastodon’s 2 Year Anniversary
   Mastodon was first announced to the public through Hacker News, a link aggregator site for programmers, on October, . Now we’re celebrating the year anniversary
05  septembre     00h00
Mastodon 2.5 released
   Mastodon . is the th released version of Mastodon since the project’s inception almost years ago. It brings a variety of improvements to the software, the full list of which is available in the changelog. Public profile page The public areas of the web interface have been redesigned. The...
27  août     00h00
Mastodon quick start guide
   Polish translation is available: Przewodnik po Mastodonie So you want to join Mastodon and get tooting. Great Here’s how to dive straight in. Let’s start with the basics. What is this Mastodon is a microblogging platform akin to others you may have seen, such as Twitter, but instead of being...
06  juillet     00h00
Cage the Mastodon
   A year ago I wrote about Mastodon’s improvements over Twitter’s lacking protections against abuse and harassment. Development in that area has not been standing still, and it’s about time we do another comparison.
03  juillet     00h00
How to make friends and verify requests
   In the previous tutorial we have learned how to send a reply to another ActivityPub server, and we have used mostly static parts to do it. Now it’s time to talk about how to subscribe to other people and receive messages. The inbox Primarily this means having a publicly accessible inbox and...
27  juin     00h00
Why ActivityPub is the future
   We often tout things like Mastodon is based on open web protocols as one of its advantages. I want to elaborate why exactly that’s a good thing.
25  juin     00h00
Why we must oppose the new copyright directive
   Polish translation is available: Dlaczego musimy sprzeciwiÄ siÄ nowej dyrektywie o prawie autorskim A committee of members of the European Parliament have voted to approve Article and Article , which pose a risk to the decentralization of the web and freedom of creative expression. Article...
24  juin     00h00
How to become a successful artist on Mastodon
   I follow many talented artists on Mastodon, and over my years of being on the platform I have noticed some common patterns that may help a newcomer find their audience on here, too.
23  juin     00h00
How to implement a basic ActivityPub server
   Today we’ll be looking at how to connect the protocols powering Mastodon in the simplest way possible to enter the federated network. We will use static files, standard command line tools, and some simple Ruby scripting, although the functionality should be easily adaptable to other programming...