- If you can't remember your password on Mastodon:

Go to your server's website and click the "forgot your password" link on the sign-up page. This will email you a password reset link.

- If you can't remember which email address you used when signing up on Mastodon:

Go to your email app and search for "Mastodon". Look for the confirmation email you received from the Mastodon server when you signed up, the address you used will be in the header of the confirmation email.

#FediTips #Mastodon

#EU institutions and bodies that are on #Mastodon:

🏦 European Commission @EUCommission
📚 European Court of Justice @Curia
📑 European Court of Auditors @EUauditors
💾European Data Protection Supervisor @EDPS

#EU institutions and bodies that are on #Mastodon:

🏦 European Commission @EUCommission
📚 European Court of Justice @Curia
📑 European Court of Auditors @EUauditors
💾European Data Protection Supervisor @EDPS

If you want to transfer your Mastodon account to a different Mastodon server, there's a step-by-step non-technical guide at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

There are a lot of steps, but each step is hopefully clear and easy to understand.

The guide also answers many questions people have about transferring their account. (If I've missed something please let me know!)

#FediTips #Mastodon

every morning 1 - 5 bots sign up at the same time. I could fix this by closing signup or requiring approvals but I both don't want to and want to be included in the upcoming mastodon local instance sign up program.

Once https://gardenstate.social is in the program I only expect bot signup to increase.

So I'm finally working on a tool to check and auto silence or ban accounts.

What are your top indicators a new account is a bot?

#mastodon

#Mastodon turns one decade old on Monday!

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v0.1.0

#Mastodon turns one decade old on Monday!

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v0.1.0

Commercial social media is one of the biggest sources of data exploitation. By staying active there, we continue to indirectly support this invasion of privacy.

🌱 Learn more on how you can minimize your presence and slowly build better social networks.

🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Improve Your Social Media: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-improve-your-social-media-and-build-resilient-communities/

#PrivacyGuides #Activism #PrivacyActivistToolbox #Privacy #Mastodon #Fediverse

Commercial social media is one of the biggest sources of data exploitation. By staying active there, we continue to indirectly support this invasion of privacy.

🌱 Learn more on how you can minimize your presence and slowly build better social networks.

🧰 Check our Privacy Activist Toolbox tip to Improve Your Social Media: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/tip-improve-your-social-media-and-build-resilient-communities/

#PrivacyGuides #Activism #PrivacyActivistToolbox #Privacy #Mastodon #Fediverse

There is the complete list that Mastodon is suggesting I (potentially) follow.

#Mastodon #WhoToFollow #WhomToFollow

It's "Whom To Follow" not "Who To Follow".

I.e., WHOM not WHO.

...

Also, I wonder how Mastodon picked those choices to me to (potentially) follow.

#Mastodon #WhoToFollow #WhomToFollow

Mastodon has a new human-over-AI contribution policy.

tl;dr:

- The human contributor is the sole party responsible for the contribution.

- If AI was used to generate a significant portion of your contribution (i.e. beyond simple autocomplete), we require you to disclose it in the Pull Request description.

- If you cannot guarantee the provenance and legal safety of the AI-generated code, do not submit it.

- Cases of repeated violations of these ... guidelines could result in a ban from our repositories.

https://github.com/mastodon/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md

#AI #Mastodon #fedimeta

Mastodon now has a quoting feature, you can find out how to use it in the guide at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/why-cant-i-quote-other-posts-in-mastodon

The guide also answers lots of questions about quoting in Mastodon.

#FediTips #Mastodon

Mastodon has a new human-over-AI contribution policy.

tl;dr:

- The human contributor is the sole party responsible for the contribution.

- If AI was used to generate a significant portion of your contribution (i.e. beyond simple autocomplete), we require you to disclose it in the Pull Request description.

- If you cannot guarantee the provenance and legal safety of the AI-generated code, do not submit it.

- Cases of repeated violations of these ... guidelines could result in a ban from our repositories.

https://github.com/mastodon/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md

#AI #Mastodon #fedimeta

Did you know that you can follow all Fireside Fedi #podcast episodes directly from where you're reading this post? Just follow @firesidefedi@tubefree.org like you would any other user and you never have to leave your platform of choice! #fedi #fediverse #peopleOverPlatforms #vodcast #fedicast #FsFd #FiresideFedi #chat #peertube #mastodon #vods

Did you know that you can follow all Fireside Fedi #podcast episodes directly from where you're reading this post? Just follow @firesidefedi@tubefree.org like you would any other user and you never have to leave your platform of choice! #fedi #fediverse #peopleOverPlatforms #vodcast #fedicast #FsFd #FiresideFedi #chat #peertube #mastodon #vods

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116204764577950180

Some really great updates in Mastodon's latest Trunk & Tidbits blog post, including, from the W3C Social Web working group notes, a note on LOLA, a "proposal for live online account portability between two ActivityPub servers".

https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola
https://fediforum.org/2024-09/session/3-a/

#mastodon #fediverse #TrunkAndTidbits #LOLA #AccountPortability

The February 2026 Trunk & Tidbits is posted. Our monthly engineering update, including progress on 4.6, our AI contribution policy, upcoming end-of-life for version 4.3, some posts about the Share button, and more.

#MastoDev #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/trunk-tidbits-february-2026/

The February 2026 Trunk & Tidbits is posted. Our monthly engineering update, including progress on 4.6, our AI contribution policy, upcoming end-of-life for version 4.3, some posts about the Share button, and more.

#MastoDev #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/trunk-tidbits-february-2026/

OK, for real, why does #Mastodon use an attachment type of "Document" when posting a video?

I think the spec says "Video" is OK to use.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-video

Or am I misunderstanding something fundamental?