We are excited to share that we are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment for #mastodon: Default Server Recommendations. Our intent for this experiment is to recommend the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow. We will be running this […]

Loops is in the iOS App Store now https://apps.apple.com/us/app/loops-by-pixelfed/id6499375182 #loops

‘You can't make the word-guessing program into a "superintelligence" by shoveling more words into it. That's like betting that if you keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will eventually give birth to a locomotive.’ -Cory Doctorow […]

2025 mood continuing in 2026.

A website to destroy all websites. How to win the war for the soul of the internet and build the Web We Want. A tiny website by Henry (from Online)~3100 words; about a 15 minute read https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

A Wikipedia page about why you shouldn’t use LLMs to write Wikipedia pages. Pretty funny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Case_against_LLM-generated_articles #wikipedia #LLMs #citations

Carl el Mazmorrero / Dungeon Crawler Carl (Spanish Edition)

For anyone who likes lasagna, and has not tried pastelón, I strongly recommend seeking it out! Patelón is Puerto Rican plantain lasagna. And it is one one my favorite dishes here. #puertorico #lasagna #pastelon

Down with TikTok and Instagram Up with ActivityPub and decentralized social media I signed up on Loops https://loops.video/@Jdreben Thank you @dansup for making this #loops #pixelfed #activitypub

“Books are to be call'd for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but, in highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself, must be on the alert, must himself or herself construct indeed the poem […]

The fundamental difference is, Mastodon is decentralized. https://www.compliancehub.wiki/the-decentralized-resistance-how-mississippis-digital-id-law-met-its-match-with-mastodon/

*“It’s like imagining that a printer could actually feel pain because it can print bumper stickers with the words ‘Baby don’t hurt me’ on them. It doesn’t matter if the next version of the printer can print out those stickers faster, or if it can format the text in bold red capital letters […]

AI is a mass-delusion event https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/?gift=eGjCypnHsndY6-G2sn97lTsQmt8bWFbFXN5nFMj3LwU #ai #news

Move Slowly and Build Bridges Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media By Robert W. Gehl https://www.moveslowlybuildbridges.com/index.html