PC Mag: Mastodon Plans End-to-End Encryption for Private Messages. “Decentralized social media platform Mastodon plans on adopting its own end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for private messages. Mastodon announced the upcoming feature in a blog post about receiving €614,000 ($724,000) from the Sovereign Tech Fund, an effort backed by the German government to support open-source software.”

The Verge: Mastodon is about to launch its take on Bluesky’s starter packs. “Mastodon is preparing to roll out ‘Collections’ in the next few weeks, a feature that allows you to find and create lists of accounts worth following, according to an announcement on Thursday.”

Bluesky says AI should serve people but right-leaning users are not welcome

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/bluesky-ai-people-not-platforms-opinion/

TechCrunch: Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp. “Mastodon is making changes in the hopes of making its social networking service more appealing and easier to use, especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to X or Threads. On Thursday, the decentralized social networking software maker said it’s redesigning a key part […]

MauveRANT: Self-Hosting Pixelfed: Federated Instagram Without the Algorithm. “Pixelfed is the fediverse answer to Instagram. It’s an ActivityPub-powered photo sharing platform with no algorithmic timeline, no ads, no engagement-optimized dark patterns, and no company deciding what you see based on what makes them money. I’d been using pixelfed.social for a while, but there’s something about […]

Mastodon Blog: A new Share button. “The distributed nature of the network is the greatest strength of Mastodon, but it also means that having a share button that takes you to the ‘correct’ Mastodon server for your account, is a lot more involved than a simple hyperlink. Third party solutions have existed before now, but none of them have become ubiquitous, or easy to discover for website […]

TechCrunch: Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, plans to target creators with new features . “Today, Mastodon sees somewhere between 750,000 and 1 million monthly active users, depending on the source. One third-party tracker puts the figure closer to 750,000, while another estimates as many as 1 million. Mastodon’s own site says the figure is around 785,000. As part of its coming […]

TechCrunch: A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative . “Unless if you’re really in the know about nascent platforms, you probably didn’t know what Mastodon was until Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X. In the initial aftermath of the acquisition, as users fretted over what direction Twitter would take, millions of users hopped over to Mastodon, a fellow […]

Terence Eden: Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!. “Until fairly recently, the Mastodon social network didn’t send referer details. I thought that reduced the visibility of the network and lobbied for it to change. As various Mastodon servers upgrade, and admins opt-in, it is becoming more apparent just how much traffic originates from the Fediverse.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/25/terence-eden-now-witness-the-power-of-this-fully-operational-fediverse/