Notices by Eugen 💀 (gargron@mastodon.social), page 13

Proud of how the server architecture of mastodon.social and the code of Mastodon is keeping up with the load, but wishing for this to transform into new Mastodon servers springing up.

If you were considering starting a Mastodon server, right now would be a pretty good time. Anyone can do it from source, see docs:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/

There are also hosting providers (not affiliated with me) which are super easy to work with without technical knowledge, like masto.host and hostdon.jp

How to migrate from one Mastodon server to another without losing followers:

1. Sign up on new server
2. On NEW server: Go to Account -> Moving FROM another account
3. Enter old account's handle
4. On OLD server: Go to Account -> Moving TO another account
5. Enter new account's handle and submit

#YoMigroaMastodon

New Spanish server on joinmastodon.org:

https://social.politicaconciencia.org

So the cool part about Mastodon, right? You don't need to be on the same domain as other people to talk to them. You can sign-up on or invite your friends to:

mastodon.madrid

mastodon.cat

mastodon.eus

And many others, and still be able to talk to the world / follow your friends on mastodon.social and vice versa.

Please help those servers grow by spreading the word about them! (And if you are interested in starting a new server, you can do that too!)

#YoMigroaMastodon

Are there any Spanish Mastodon servers that want to be listed on joinmastodon.org? Now would be the time

So the Verge article for which I wrote some thoughts about Jack Dorsey announcing #Bluesky is out and it used only a few sentences from what I came up with, so I wanna share the full thing...

I was asked, if Twitter did indeed adopt #ActivityPub instead of coming up with something new, would it be better or worse for the decentralized social web?

I've also imported the Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Urdu and other new translations from Crowdin. If you would like to see those translations completed, you can contribute here:

https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon

Please look at that page before asking for new languages to be added! They are probably already there!!

It's so beautiful to see masses of people switch to Mastodon / the fediverse. Big hope feels.

By the way, if you find the UI translations in Hindi/Tamil/others lacking, you can help add/fix them on this page:

https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon

I hear this question a lot: There are no blue tick verifications on Mastodon. You can verify ownership of a homepage, it shows up as a green tick next to the link on your profile. To do so check instructions on the edit profile page. It’s automatic.

#Catalonia protestors use distributed network to securely organize protests

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/barcelonia-riots-catalonia-protests-news

YouTube recommendations: Cat Meows Underwater

Me: The importance of this video cannot be overstated. If human civilization shall perish, then this one must survive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvxCU_lQwKM

I've made the language list on joinmastodon.org update for every category you select and only show languages with servers in them along with a count of how many

Mastodon 3.0 in-depth: New APIs, deployment options, and admin settings

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/10/mastodon-3.0-in-depth/

Adding sign-up to your #Mastodon app: A guide for app developers

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/10/adding-sign-up-to-your-mastodon-app/

Hey Mastodon! Me and @krainboltgreene went over Mastodon 3.0's new features in this video, come watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYHYxOeQumo

#Mastodon v3.0.1 will contain a number of bugfixes. Unfortunately I could not avoid changing some strings, so some translations may require attention again:

https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon

#mastodev #i18n

If an old account is compromised (using passwords from breaches from other sites) and used for spam, our moderation team notifies the owner and disables the account. Visually the account is still there but it's not functional. Please do not mistake that as us not dealing with spammers.

"How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username"

https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-24eb09e026dd

The important bit here isn't Twitter or how much the username was worth, but how the attack was carried out

@dick_turpin No, I described Mastodon.