User47's Alter Ego

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Admin account for AvGeek.Social
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Did I say Mastodon - Fediverse, on this “where did you hear about this survey?” Question? Yes I did!!

Hey Canadians! Go do the headlight survey at Transport Canada!

https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night
#canada #transportation #driving #headlights

I KNOW IT SUCKS, I KNOW IT IS NOT WHAT YOU WANT, BUT PLEASE DISABLE YOUR DAMN OPEN MASTODON INSTANCE REGISTRATIONS

🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER. 🚨

Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff

Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse

WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON 

1/ Announcement: So today being a news day I might as well announce that the team at TheCanadian.Social has officially taken ownership of https://journa.host and https://newsie.social. We have also moved these instances to our facilities in Canada. These are two important instances hosting a large portion of the fediverse's journalism accounts. We felt it important to keep them going as the previous stewards were considering shutting them down. #fediverse #fediadmin #journalists
Journa.host

The server for working journalists and news outlets on Mastodon. Home to active & retired journalists, media scholars, and a variety of news and journalism adjacent professionals. #Newstodon

Mastodon hosted on journa.host

How many Mastodon instances are there? How many active users are there? Depends on where you look and how you count.

Quick sanity check across datasources...

vmcrawl 
Instances: 9,226
MAU: 787,574

joinmastodon.org 
Instances: 7,952
MAU: 780,355

FediDB 
Instances: 9,193
MAU: 1,037,321

(Based on 20 Feb 2026 API data for all sources)

The world, may never know.

My wife picked up a zine that is advertising the fediverse.

Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell people you're doing horrible depraved crimes. Would you just block them?

What happens when other people don't block them? When other people believe the lies and share them?

What if this turns into real life abuse and violence against you and your family?

This is what vulnerable groups face from bigots. Bigoted accounts need to be shut down, servers which refuse to remove bigots should be defederated.

"Just block them" doesn't work.

You wouldn't host your community in a casino.

Addictive algorithms, amplified hateful content, doomscrolling. It's time to call social media what it is: dangerous.

As a society, we need to work harder to detangle ourselves from these places and the behaviour they encourage.

How are you creating distance between yourself and harmful social media?

#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Addictive #AntiBigTech #Algorithms #Tech #Fediverse #Mastodon

at this rate by the end of 2026, Bluesky will be 80% features that are not supported by ATProto and will never become decentralized in any way, yet tech pundits will still be calling it a decentralized platform for some reason
@wild1145 love to see this. And I’m glad to have @mastohost running #AvGeekSocial. Makes me know we’re doing it right. Cc @Hello