I've been one of the people saying "we don't need more users. we need quality over quantity" and i was wrong.

the way it's going, lemmy needs active users who post content sothat the network stays relevant. networks like the fediverse benefit from network effects and that means that if we have more users, that improves the value and quality of the fediverse overall.

So please, everyone, when you can, make advertisement for the fediverse in your personal area. Go talk to friends, make attractive stickers and put them everywhere, stuff like that. We would all benefit from it.

edit: source for the graph

i lost my password for lemmy.blahaj.zone and found out there's no option to change password to login on another device.

can anyone tell me how i can solve this? i am new on this platform and struggle to navigate it all.

Fediverse Report #148: X is not a just platform problem anymore, it's a power problem, and why you cannot compete as platforms with power.

Our present version of the internet is arguably the worst it’s ever been. Which means – any shot at changing things, even an unlikely one – is worth trying out.

Jon Henshaw interviews Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko about how he got started in software development, what led him to create Mastodon, why Threads interoperability with Mastodon fell flat, what it'll take to get people to switch to the fediverse, why he views Mastodon as a network and not a media platform, and why Mastodon chose ActivityPub.

The following is a copypaste from a Mastodon post by @frida@camp.smolnet.org that I've linked above.

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. This is our cue to provide feedback and input to the strategy!

If you are involved in the Open Source community in any way, if you benefit (or could benefit) in any way from Open Source, or if you're simply interested in questions about digital sovereignty, please visit https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en for details on how to contribute.

Account is less than 24 hrs old.

For example, for me, here are some things I wish to see (or would implement in my design) :

• design around ease of self-hosting. A non technical user must be able to self host easily and at a very low cost.
• Embrace content sorting and filtering algorithms, but on the client side, with optional control by the user.
• Standardize tags on all content. So many of the different ways different platforms classify or organize content can be implemented as tags, which increases interoperability between them.
• Abandon obsession with real-time-first implementations for use cases that don't explicitly need it.
• Transferable user identity (between instances)
• User identity and authentication as separate service from social network instance

Would love to hear yours!

Is posting from #Mastodon to a #Lemmy community a good idea or will this just confuse everyone?

Comments on Mastodon tag the users in the thread while comments in Lemmy somehow work without this. Comments on Lemmy are for everyone while replies on Mastodon are only shown to followers of the OP.

@fediverse #Fediverse

Unfortunately, the popular MedMastodon server, dedicated to doctors and medicine, unexpectedly shut down at the end of 2025.

@fediverse

The speed with which it happened prevented users from accessing their data, highlighting the risks of decentralized social media without backups. Its administrator ceased operations, causing confusion and data loss for many healthcare professionals who had signed up as an alternative to Twitter.

This event serves as a reminder: Wherever you are on Mastodon, back up your data!

WARNING: To help Med-mastodon users who have returned to the Fediverse, the Poliverso staff has created the Friendica group @medmastodon

If you follow this group, you can:

1. Follow it and mention it in your messages, and it will reshare all your public posts addressed to it (this only applies to an initial message, not a reply to another message).
2. Follow it only to read all the messages from fellow doctors who send messages through it.

#MedMastodon

Great update: MedMastodon is back online and its users should be able to access their data.

@fediverse

Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.

I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.

Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!

mastodonapp.uk/users/wild1145/…

What culture workers are in the fediverse, and what are their handles? I want to make a list and a starter pack with authors, filmmakers, musicians, etc! I've only found myself, so far! 😆

If I subscribe 2 or 3 large coms, all the more quiet coms that I want to hear from get wiped out from the first pages of the feed...is there a way to recover them, by having like an upvote (increase weight by +1) subscribe button in an already subscribed com (upsubscribe, lol)...or maybe a multi? What do you use in these cases?

I'm looking to move to a new Mastodon instance, away from Mastodon.social. I don't have any problems with .social, but I kinda want to keep things decentralized in the Fediverse, and I want to start fresh with a new account regardless.

So, what small-to-medium size Mastodon instances do you recommend? I'm looking for something fairly general-purpose, but also keeps up to date on the latest software fairly quickly (if possible).

Hi! I would like to create an interactive calendar through Lemmy that allows users to post events. Is there a platform that lets me imbed such a thing? Or does anyone have experience using Gancio? Thanks!

A fantasy world, in which social web, semantic web, agentic web and world wide web all co-exist, with competing factions for each web paradigm (Fedi Tribes - Decentral social networks, Inference Nomads - Semantic Web Technology/Declarative Programming, Fungi Nation - Machine Learning and Marble Kingdom - Incremental Programming/Web Technology).

As stated, a fedi software that conects with bsky too. its opt in and not all instances have it

cross-posted from: https://communick.news/post/5086919

Not a fork and not a 1-1 port. My plan is to leverage my work on Django ActivityPub Toolkit to create a server that can be used by both Lemmy or Mastodon clients.

What's the etiquette for posting #mastodon or other federated posts on some of the other reddit-analogues? From what I see you can just mention a #piefed or #lemmy group in a post and it will create a post in that group.
But is that actually something the users of those platforms want?

@fediverse@lemmy.world @fediverse@kbin.social
#fediverse

Hello all :) I have spent most of today trying to reply to my own comment by making my own AP implementation using node.js.

This is the Note I am trying to reply to: https://social.bvoigtlaender.de/@bjarne/statuses/01KDP1FQNJTTZGB3Q3BMD1JRMX

For that I am sending a POST to my Gts instance over at https://social.bvoigtlaender.de/users/bjarne/inbox with the following body:

{  
    "@context": [  
        "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"  
    ],  
    "actor": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/users/marty_mcfly34",  
    "cc": [  
        "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public",  
        "https://social.bvoigtlaender.de/users/bjarne"  
    ],  
    "id": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/posts/33135fdf-2fd6-4977-94e8-051ce44199fe/activity#Create",  
    "type": "Create",  
    "published": "2025-12-29T22:02:13.423Z",  
    "to": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/users/marty_mcfly34/followers",  
    "object": {  
        "attachment": [],  
        "id": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/posts/33135fdf-2fd6-4977-94e8-051ce44199fe",  
        "actor": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/users/marty_mcfly34",  
        "type": "Note",  
        "cc": [  
            "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public",  
            "https://social.bvoigtlaender.de/users/bjarne"  
        ],  
        "published": "2025-12-29T22:02:13.423Z",  
        "url": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/posts/33135fdf-2fd6-4977-94e8-051ce44199fe",  
        "attributedTo": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/users/marty_mcfly34",  
        "inReplyTo": "https://social.bvoigtlaender.de/users/bjarne/statuses/01KDP1FQNJTTZGB3Q3BMD1JRMX",  
        "content": "<p>Hello from FediBB</p>",  
        "to": "https://fb2-01.bvoigtlaender.de/users/marty_mcfly34/followers"  
    }  
}  

The signature works and GtS is not reporting any errors. Instead it fetches /followers /following /outbox and creates the user on its local db. However the reply will not be created and it only shows up after I fetch it manually using its id. Then it also gets linked the original post correctly. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

What AP implementations do you normally test against?