The third party Android app Fedilab (which lets you use Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Friendica etc) is now free on Google Play, and continues to be free on F-Droid too. If you haven't tried it yet, this might be a good time:

➡️ play.google.com/store/apps/det…

➡️ f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.gou…

(It was previously paid on Google Play and free on F-Droid.)

There's a review of the app on the fedi.tips website:

➡️ fedi.tips/fedilab-for-android

#Fedilab #FediTips #Fediverse #FOSS #Mastodon #PeerTube #Friendica

Fedilab | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Fedilab - a multifunctional Android client to access the distributed Fediverse,

^f-droid.org

We've created another image for our campaign.

Share it where you can to help #universities make more use of the #Fediverse 🌻 and say goodbye to #X / #Twitter - just like many others already did.

And feel free to sign it yourself, if you haven't already done so
👉 openpetition.de/Unis4Mastodon

#Unis4Mastodon 🐘 🐘 🐘

✨ Better, Faster and Open Source

We're rewriting our Android + iOS mobile apps to be faster, leaner and easier to use!

If you're participating in our Android and iOS open betas, the new app will be rolling out in the next week or two. We anticipate a general app store release in May or June 🚀

Source code: github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed-r…

#pixelfed #pixelfedApp #openSource #reactNative #fediverse

Just had an account designed to boost toots into Threads.net boost one of my toots.

I have #nobridge in my profile; and was pretty sure my insance blocks #Threads. This is hostile no?

Edit:

Appears to be threadsrelay@sekretaerbaer.de

I reported it, but also tagging @mods

Appears to be a #Friendica instance.

#Mastodon #Fediverse

@jbacksch @ZDF @nur_mal_so

Ähm, #ARD und #ZDF haben zumindest schon einmal eigene Instanzen im #Fediverse. Ein Account dort ist hier sogar erwähnt.

ARD und ZDF im Fediverse:
mastodonium.de/@tagestipp/663

On #Mastodon there are now
321 verified accounts from #news organizations in
20 languages and on
106 instances.

207 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@verge (ENG)
@thenarwhal (ENG)
@Nordstadtblogger (GER)
@diesachsen (GER)
@verfassungsblog (GER)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

Verified Media on Mastodon

Languages @arstechnica@mastodon.social,ENG,1 @ProPublica@newsie.social,ENG,2 @Volksverpetzer@digitalcourage.social,GER,3 @heiseonline@social.heise.de,GER,4 @mediapart@mediapart.social,FRA,5 @tazgetroete@mastodon.social,GER,6 @RollingStone@mstdn.

^{Google Docs}

Here are some recommended accessibility guides about using Mastodon from a blind perspective:

Mastodon for writers/readers by @weirdwriter - robertkingett.com/posts/5619

Living Blindfully Episode 227 by @JonathanMosen - livingblindfully.com/episode-2… (audio version) and livingblindfully.com/lb0227tra… (text version)

Guide to Mastodon for screen reader users by @changeling - starshipchangeling.net/mastodo…

#Accessibility #Mastodon #Fediverse #Blindness #Blind

Episode 227:A tutorial on Mona for Mastodon, the most powerful, accessible way to do Mastodon on your iPhone, iPad and Mac

This special episode is devoted to Mona, a Mastodon app for iOS, iPadOS and MacOS. It has exceptional VoiceOver accessibility, and during its development, the developer has consulted extensively with the blind community.

^{Living Blindfully}

PeerTube is the Fediverse's video platform. You can follow and interact with PeerTube accounts entirely within Mastodon if you prefer, or you can sign up on a PeerTube server if you want.

I run a website to help people explore and use PeerTube:

➡️ fedi.video

The website also has an account boosting interesting PeerTube videos at:

➡️ @FediVideo

There is a long thread full of nice PeerTube accounts to follow at:

➡️ social.growyourown.services/@F…

#FediTips #PeerTube #Fediverse

When it comes to #tracking users, the focus is often on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc.

The European data protection group noyb @noybeu filed a complaint against #X / #Twitter last year for violating the #GDPR:
👉 noyb.eu/en/gdpr-complaint-agai…

As determined by noyb, the company collects sensitive data such as political views and religious beliefs by monitoring clicks, likes and responses to posts on its own platform.
Felix Mikolasch, data protection lawyer at noyb: “After we filed our first complaint in this matter, the EU Commission has already confirmed to stop advertising on X. However, to put an end to this in general, we need enforcement against X as a platform used by many others.”

In our petition
👉 openpetition.de/Unis4Mastodon
we pointed out the #DataProtection problems with the major platforms and thus recommend the use of #Fediverse services at #universities.

#Unis4Mastodon

GDPR complaint against X (Twitter) over illegal micro-targeting for chat control ads

X enabled the illegal political micro-targeting used by the EU Commission

^noyb.eu

@w3c

A few questions about your #fediverse experience and a brief Q & A about how things are going so far, if I may:

¹ How has administration of your #fediverse instance served you so far?

² Have you felt that the investment has been worth the overhead so far owning your own data and providing your reporters 1:1 interactions with the public when you own the server platform for applying your rules and values as a applied to the #fediverse?

³ How has this experience differed from other Social Media platforms that you have zero control over vs. the #fediverse ?

⁴ Do you see #interoperability tests with other decentralized networks as a future engagement point in your roadmap & also as a valuable data point to compare with other centralized zero control by you platforms currently?

Thanks! Answer at your leisure. I have no deadline for anything.

Cheers!

#Reichweite
wird oft genannt, wenn Mastodon mit #X/Twitter verglichen wird.
Doch auf den Seiten einiger #Hochschulen fehlt das Mastodon-Logo samt Link auf den Account –
selbst wenn der besteht.

Also, liebe Hochschulen:
verlinkt mit dem #MastodonLogo bitte Eure Timeline im #Fediverse –
dort warten viele neue Follower
Logosammlung: joinmastodon.org/de/branding

#UnisInsFediverse

@unigreifswald @UniOldenburg @unibremen @HCUHamburg @unihannover @tubraunschweig @ChariteBerlin @HTW_Berlin @freieuniversitaet @HHU @unikassel @unipotsdam @fernunihagen
@uni_paderborn @unijena @hsanhalt @unileipzig @EAHJena @tudresden @UniKoeln @Sporthochschule @tuchemnitz
@unimainz @uniheidelberg @unimannheim @KIT_Karlsruhe @PHKA @FAU @hfg_gmuend @uni_regensburg @unituebingen @phludwigsburg @unibwm @hochschule_kehl @Uni_Stuttgart @hdmstuttgart @tu_muenchen @Hochschule_Reutlingen @unihohenheim @unifreiburg @unikonstanz @UniUlm

Brand Toolkit for Mastodon

Learn our branding guidelines, download our logos and icons, or use our brand colors for your projects.

^{joinmastodon.org}

Mein persönliches Statement des Tages:

#fediverse #threads

The open letter to the German Rectors' Conference #HRK, which calls on universities to use #Mastodon and other #Fediverse servers
openpetition.de/petition/onlin… ,
was first signed by the following colleagues:

Prof. Dr. Mario Birkholz, Berlin; Prof. Dr. Björn Brembs, Regensburg; Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dirnagl, Berlin; Prof. Dr. Leonhard Dobusch, Innsbruck; Prof. Dr. Konrad Förstner, Köln; Lambert Heller, Hannover; Annette Hiller, Berlin; Alexander Hoffmeier, Berlin; Dr. Martin Kögler, Oulu; Mike Kuketz, Karlsruhe; David Lohner, Karlsruhe; Matthias Marx, Hamburg; Prof. Dr. Rainer Mühlhoff, Osnabrück; Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn, Berlin; Dr. Mattis Neiling, Berlin; Christian Pietsch, Bielefeld; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Maija Poikela, Berlin; Rainer Rehak, Berlin; PD Dr. Stefan Rödiger, Senftenberg; Nicole Wolf, München.

We, the Aktionsbündnis neue Soziale Medien (New Social Media Action Alliance) today appealed to #universities in Germany to shut down their #X (formerly #Twitter) accounts as soon as possible.

Signatures for the appeal, written as an open letter, are now being collected on the #OpenPetition platform 📝
openpetition.de/petition/onlin…

The appeal points out that the presence on X/Twitter does not do justice to the universities' remit to provide information because of the #disinformation and political agitation practised there. At the same time, presences should be established on #Mastodon and other services in the #Fediverse, whose decentralised and moderated design is much more compatible with the rules of democratic and sustainable coexistence.

Shame on you @mozilla!

Firefly Mastodon Client
(nightly pre-releases)

Firefly is an Android client for the #Fediverse service #Mastodon.

It is a continuation of the cancelled #Mozilla Social Android app by the devs that built it. Firefly is not associated with Mozilla.
apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a…

„firefly nightly“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Firefly Mastodon Client (nightly pre-releases)

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

So, ich folge jetzt Evan Prodromou ( evanprodromou@threads.net ) auf Threads. Sehr aktiv scheint er mir dort allerdings nicht zu sein.

Bin echt gespannt, wie sich das weiter entwickeln wird.

#Fediverse #Threads