If you're running your own Fediverse server, adding custom emoji can be a lot of fun both for yourself and for your members.

Asking for emoji suggestions can encourage your members to feel part of the server instead of just being anonymous strangers. It can help to enhance the sense of community

For instructions on adding custom emoji to Mastodon servers, see the guide at:

https://fedi.tips/using-custom-emoji-on-your-mastodon-server

Today, alongside our updated Newsmast app, we migrated our 62 Newsmast Curation Accounts to https://channel.org (so you might've seen some down time!)

Whilst this shouldn’t affect your https://newsmast.community curated Channels, if you are a featured contributor you might’ve noticed a new account following you!

If you’re one of those experts, we’re really glad to have you

Hola #MastondonCR ha salido una nueva versión del software Mastodon y con vamos a instalarlo en nuestra comunidad de Mastodon.CR

Esta es la publicación de Mastodon donde cuentan las nuevas características y mejoras: https://mastodon.cr/@Mastodon@mastodon.social/114818205309312542

Voy a hacer la actualización en este momento, no debería haber interrupciones mayores, les aviso cuando esté listo.

ACTUALIZACIÓN: Ya estamos en la nueva versión, ver: https://mastodon.cr/about

Para la gente curiosa de en qué exactamente consisten los cambios: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.0

PeerTube admins running a public server,

There is an option for you to moderate all of the videos your members upload before they are published:

1. Log into your admin account
2. Go to Settings > Basic
3. Scroll down to "Videos" section and tick box "Block new videos automatically"
4. Click "Update configuration" button at bottom of screen

This lets you keep tabs on what your members publish. You can also mark members as trusted if screening isn't needed.

Die Tore zum #FediCamp öffnen sich übernächste Woche (16.–20.)!

Abenteurer*innen, Forscher*innen und Neugierige aller Art sind eingeladen, gemeinsam neue Welten zu entdecken und Wissen zu teilen.

Die Tafel ist noch nicht voll – sichere dir jetzt deinen Platz im Lager der Wissbegierigen!

Alle Quests, Infos & Anmeldung findest du unter: https://fedi.camp

Wirst du Teil der Gemeinschaft? Wir freuen uns auf dich!

Was gibt es denn für #Hosting-Anbieter wo man #RootServer für unter 300 Euro bekommt mit etwa folgenden Specs?
Intel Xeon W-2295
512 GB RAM
2x 12 TB HDD
2x 4 TB SSD

Weil es heißt, das #Fediverse befindet sich fast nur bei #Hetzner will ich mich mal umsehen.

Mastodon admins (especially single-user servers),

Are you using hashtag relays but not seeing posts from those hashtags in your Home timeline? Also, is your Explore page blank?

There's a video by @fedihost which explains these and what to do about them:

https://video.fedihost.co/w/f3t7ZEiRtXGD8ajArCknh3

TL:DW - For relay tags, you need to also follow the relay hashtags from your account on your server. For Explore being blank, this is due to servers not trusting boost numbers from each other.

If you're running a single user or very small Mastodon server, you might be interested in using Hypebot:

https://codeberg.org/tante/hypebot

Hypebot is bot software that boosts posts to your server that are trending on whichever other servers you select.

(This needs a bit of tech knowledge to set up.)

Olen nyt 1,5 vuorokautta testannut #iceshrimp -alustan .net -versiota, ja vaikka frontend on raakile, itse systeemi on hyvin toimiva ja nopea. Kaikki perustoiminnot pelaavat hyvin.


Ottakaa uusi instanssini ja tilini @AlderForrest@divergent.1m2lab.engineer seurantaan. Tämä instanssi ajetaan vähitellen alas tämän vuoden loppuun.

#fediadmin #1m2lab

How does markdown actually work on the Fediverse?

It doesn’t seem like the client is parsing and uploading html to the server as I can edit the markdown later.

It doesn’t seem like the user’s server is handling rendering because syntax support seems to be inconsistent from client to client.

Which leads me to think that the markdown is actually federated out. Is that true? Can anyone set me straight?

If you're running a public Mastodon server but you have additional features not available on vanilla Mastodon, you might want to tell people about them in your server description. (For example some have higher character limits, more poll options, markdown text formatting etc.)

Whatever your server's extras are, they can be a really good "hook" for people who are trying to find a new home on the Fediverse, and it encourages them to read more about your server.

Many have asked and now you can donate directly, and support the ongoing costs and maintenance for https://nsfw.social/!

In fact, we pledge and promise to pay-it-forward and donate 20% of your contributions upstream to the #Sharkey project to help fund and support their development costs since without Sharkey, there would be no #NSFWsocial!

#NSFWadmin #FediAdmin #SharkeyAdmin #MastoAdmin #donating #support

https://buymeacoffee.com/nsfwsocial/welcome-3772444