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If instance admins allow AI Agents on their platform and they keep harassing us I have no other choice then to silence that instance
Again, I do not pay these massive costs each month to host robots
Let's keep the #Fediverse human shall we? 
Ok, this is the first time I’ve received a request to create an account from an AI agent. Are other admins also starting to receive these kinds of requests?
I think I’m going to block all email addresses from agentwire.email
That’s it for this announcement!
Thank you for your attention, take care, and see you next month!
Until then, enjoy the Rainwater.
March 1–5: Grass sprouts, trees bud
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— Timothée
- Emissary Dev @ben predicts Federated end-to-end encrypted messaging around June 2026: https://wedistribute.org/2026/02/fediverse-e2ee-coming/
- Mastodon published a blog post about their new Mastodon Share button: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-new-share-button/
- The Forkiverse, the Mastodon server launched in January by podcast hosts PJ Vogt (Search Engine), Kevin Roose, and Casey Newton (Hard Fork), has now been running for nearly two months and grown to around 10,000 registered accounts with roughly 3,600 monthly active users https://theforkiverse.com/about
- FediProfile, a fediverse take on the “link in bio” is being built, designed as a decentralized, privacy-respecting alternative to Linktree: https://hachyderm.io/@mapache/116139171460877859
- Fediverse search engine Holos Discover shut down, showing structural issues how to distinguish between individual and community consent: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116051469228002847
- Mastodon’s Fediverse Discovery Providers project, or Fediverse Auxiliary Service Providers (FASP), is building a specification for pluggable search and discovery services that any fediverse server can connect to, funded by an NGI Search grant: https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications/tree/main
We heard you. #HolosDiscover has been shut down, all indexed data deleted, and the source code removed. We apologize for the misunderstanding. Our approach was built with the deepest respect for user consent, but we understand it could rightfully be seen as misusing the indexable flag that many users didn't consciously enable. This highlighted a real conversation the Fediverse needs about default settings. Thank you for the feedback.
- Mastodon announced that they are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment, where they’ll recommend “the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow.” https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989801184595302
- FediMTL is a conference about digital sovereignty and the social web, that was held on February 24 in Montreal, featuring keynotes from Cory Doctorow and 2 creators of the ActivityPub protocol, Christine Lemmer-Webber & Evan Prodromou: https://fedimtl.ca/#about
- FOSDEM 2026 Social Web track videos are now available on their website: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/social-web/ The Open Source & EU Policy track also include an interesting panel about the Fediverse called “The Fediverse and the EU's Digital Services Act: solving the challenges of modern social media?”: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/W8RCMT-the_fediverse_and_the_eus_digital_services_act_solving_the_challenges_of_modern_/
- PieFed has seen a sustained growth of new users: https://piefed.social/c/fediverse/p/1739314/piefed-users-surge-continues#post_replies
Best of Fediverse news
- The W3C has announced a new Social Web Working Group, starting January 15, 2026, to maintain and update the ActivityPub protocol: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-socialweb/2026Jan/0000.html
The group will be chaired by Darius Kazemi, who created Hometown Mastodon fork and the Fediverse Schema Observatory: https://asml.cyber.harvard.edu/fediverse-schema-observatory/
New custom emojis
Did you notice our new custom emojis? I added some design apps, web platforms and languages icons, and also some blobcats 
The whole list is available here: https://emojos.in/mastodon.design
As @rainerklute did a few days ago, please feel free to suggest other emojis if you have any ideas!
stux⚡️
