I never use the application names in any of my servers because I'm always worried about future trademark enforcement.

The Mastodon organization guidelines at https://joinmastodon.org/trademark say:

Do not use or register, in whole or in part, the Mastodon marks as part of your own or any other trademark, service mark, domain name, company name, trade name, product name, or service name.

When I search the database here for instances known to this server that contain "mastodon" in their domain names, I see over 1,800 server names. And it's unknown if they would consider "mstdn" to be a violation as well.

I wonder how far they will push this enforcement. A Mastodon server cannot change its domain name.

#MastoDev #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #TrunkAndTidbits

📬 Trunk & Tidbits: 04-2026 is now live! Featuring:

- What we’re building for server admins thanks to @sovtechfund
- @imanijoy did a demo, and other great demos at @fediforum
- New releases and what’s next from product

#MastoDev #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #TrunkAndTidbits

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/05/trunk-tidbits-april-2026/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116204764577950180

Some really great updates in Mastodon's latest Trunk & Tidbits blog post, including, from the W3C Social Web working group notes, a note on LOLA, a "proposal for live online account portability between two ActivityPub servers".

https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola
https://fediforum.org/2024-09/session/3-a/

#mastodon #fediverse #TrunkAndTidbits #LOLA #AccountPortability

"The prolific Stefan Bohacek continues to impress, with a game to see how well you know your Fediverse Follows"

Huge thanks to the @MastodonEngineering team for including my work, and being so kind with their words!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/trunk-tidbits-october-2025/

#mastodon #TrunkAndTidbits

We've posted #TrunkAndTidbits for October.

It was a busy month, with a lot of coding behind the scenes to prepare for Mastodon 4.5, events and talks, Fediforum and our thoughts on packs, and some merch news. Have a read!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/trunk-tidbits-october-2025/

Our monthly #TrunkAndTidbits engineering update is out!

In September we polished the quote post feature, improved many bits of the UI and worked on some deeper technical changes to unlock future features. Read more on our blog to see what the team has been working on 👀

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/trunk-tidbits-september-2025/

#mastodev

Finally had a chance to read the latest Trunk & Tidbits Mastodon development blog post, and while seeing all the work that's been done on quote posts and starter packs getting a mention is exciting, this upcoming update is really nice:

"Added the ability to block specific usernames from registering. This handles homoglyphs, partial matches, and either require approval, or deny registration entirely."

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/35407

via https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/08/trunk-tidbits-july-2025/

#mastodon #fediverse #spam #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #MastodonDevelopment #TrunkAndTidbits

StarterPacks sind auf dem Weg! 🤩

https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/114989758950079893

#trunkandtidbits #mastodon #fediverse #starterPacks

In July, the team made great progress on several features planned for the next major release, and tackled some refactoring tasks.

Take a look behind the scenes in our latest #TrunkAndTidbits update 👀

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/08/trunk-tidbits-july-2025/