Hey everyone, we have some pretty big news to share. You might remember that we announced a big restructuring for the Mastodon team earlier this year. Today marks an important milestone in this transition.
#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb
Our Founder, @Gargron@mastodon.social is stepping down from his position as CEO. He shared a reflection on his time building and growing Mastodon on our blog.
We want to take a moment to express the Mastodon team’s deep gratitude and admiration for Eugen, and for the technology and community he has built here. We’re thrilled he’s staying on in an advisory capacity.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon
Hey everyone, we have some pretty big news to share. You might remember that we announced a big restructuring for the Mastodon team earlier this year. Today marks an important milestone in this transition.
#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115531491817897878
The latest engineering (and whole team) update is here 👀
We've posted #TrunkAndTidbits for October.
It was a busy month, with a lot of coding behind the scenes to prepare for Mastodon 4.5, events and talks, Fediforum and our thoughts on packs, and some merch news. Have a read!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/trunk-tidbits-october-2025/
We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!)
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5
RE: https://actu.blois.fr/@villedeblois/115486831898803392
Welcome, @villedeblois@actu.blois.fr!
We are happy to help, and work with more cities or other civic organisations that want to join the Fediverse!
La Ville de Blois a déménagé sur une autre instance Mastodon : la sienne, blois.fr ! 🎉
Si vous suiviez la Ville, vous êtes au bon endroit et n’avez rien à faire : votre abonnement a déjà été mis à jour. (La magie 
!)
3 ans jour pour jour après son arrivée sur le fédivers et près d’un millier de messages plus tard, c’est une suite logique, vers une toile plus libre.
Nous reviendrons sur ce changement. Merci à l’équipe de @Mastodon@mastodon.social pour l’accompagnement (https://joinmastodon.org/fr/hosting) ! 👋
The Return of the #Plushtodon! (at the end of November, anyway...)
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/plushtodon-mini/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mellifluousbox/115417851503228073
Public communications (via platforms like Mastodon) are much too important to be in the hands of a handful of commercial Big Tech companies. Our team continues to engage in active discussions on these topics. We aim to help media associations to diversify their distribution by encouraging them to join the Fediverse.
Good panel at "Healthy Online Info Spaces" by invitation of OSCE RFoM. Thanks @Nhelberger@someone.elses.computer for your remark during Q&A. We should connect with @manfredzielinski@mastodon.nl @marleenstikker@waag.social @koen@procolix.social @wsslmn@mastodon.nl next time we're in the Netherlands
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#OSCE #vienna #netherlands #austria @amsterdamlawschool@mastodon.social
We're excited to announce that @altstore@fosstodon.org has joined the fediverse! Their innovative implementation of ActivityPub allows you to follow updates from your favorite apps, demonstrating a new way to bring more apps to the open social web.
We extend our heartfelt gratitude for their generous donation, in support of our mission to create an open and safe social internet.
Welcome to the fediverse family, AltStore!
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/alternative-app-store-altstore-raises-6m-connects-with-the-fediverse/
#Mastodon #Fediverse #AltStore
We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know what you think!
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/
In June, we proposed new Terms of Service for registered users of on our mastodon.social and mastodon.online servers. We did not do enough to consider the full impact of the terms, and the community was very clear that we needed to reconsider.
We've done that over the past few months. Today, we're posting an alternative set of terms, along with an opportunity for the community to provide feedback.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/36368
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