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
We appreciate that certain politicians have recently admitted their naivete in entrusting the voices of their governments to corporate / for-profit social media.
To these politicians, we say: https://joinmastodon.org/hosting
We’re taking another step in building a sustainable financial base as a non-profit. Today, we’re announcing new hosting and support offerings, tailored for larger organisations and public institutions. These enable organisations to own their social identities, on their own infrastructure.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/service-offerings-from-mastodon/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115187078125939270
This is available to people on mastodon.online and mastodon.social now! 🎉
coming soon to other servers, when version 4.5 becomes available.
You can also find details of how to control your posts, via the animations in the blog and documentation.
Note: we've got an additional channel to send us feedback listed at the end of the blog post, if you'd like to share thoughts on this feature.
Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬
Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/
We’ve thought carefully about building this feature, and we hope it broadens your use of Mastodon!
However, you're in control: if you don’t want your content to be quoted, you can find the setting to prevent future quotes of your content under Settings -> Preferences -> Other (in Mastodon 4.4).
There’s documentation available today, along with an FAQ. If you’re a developer, draft documentation is available as well.
Quote posting will be available on mastodon.online and mastodon.social next week! We will be listening to your feedback on our new feature.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/quote-posts/
Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/
We’ve thought carefully about building this feature, and we hope it broadens your use of Mastodon!
However, you're in control: if you don’t want your content to be quoted, you can find the setting to prevent future quotes of your content under Settings -> Preferences -> Other (in Mastodon 4.4).
Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/introducing-quote-posts/
We were delighted that @andypiper@macaw.social from the Mastodon team was the featured keynote speaker on day 2 of #FrOSCon this year.
Andy spoke about the importance of the #Fediverse and of decentralisation in order to preserve digital freedom and sovereignty.
https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3408-decentralising_freedom_open_source_for_sovereignty
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