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It's time to reject the corporations and billionaires that suppress free speech and force algorithms and unwanted content into our social feeds.
Mastodon is built by the community, and today we’re announcing independent non-profit ownership!
Join us in embracing the future of social media: decentralized, community-driven, with users first.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/0…
#MastodonNonProfit
Thank you to all of the contributors to Mastodon 4.5! As always, we also appreciate your donations and support as we continue to build a better social web for everyone. #Fediverse #Mastodon
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Among many tweaks, and some polishing of the web interface, Mastodon 4.5 also now supports the use of native emoji 🎁
Server owners can do more to manage and showcase their community. Mastodon 4.5 has settings to define the visibility of different feeds (timelines), and also the ability to set the default landing page to the local feed. There are also new tools for restricting problematic usernames, and improvements in the moderation interface.
The #Fediverse feels more vibrant when conversations are buzzing! Mastodon 4.5 fetches replies from many different servers to show you more complete conversation threads - another much-anticipated feature.
Mastodon 4.5 brings Quote Post authoring features to everyone. Note that you can manage whether or how your posts are quoted by others, both globally on the new Posting Defaults page, and individually on specific posts. You can also revoke the use of a post. We wrote about this in more detail a few weeks ago.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/0…
We’re excited to release #Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!)
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/1…
As an non-profit, we're grateful for the support we receive to build a better social web. We're happy to be able to work towards better social spaces online, for communities everywhere. Thank you for the donation.
@GCCofCommons has announced a donation of $75,000 to the open-source decentralized social platform @joinmastodon, which will accelerate feature development, strengthen operations, and expand Mastodon’s reach among local communities across Asia and beyond.
Part of the donation — a dedicated $5,000 community fund — will be used to empower server administrators and local advocates in Chinese-speaking communities, helping them build and sustain independent, decentralized social spaces.
We're proud of our mascot, the cute #Plushtodon - and we're bringing some more to join the party, next month. Get on our mailing list now, so you don't miss out when they go on sale.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/1…
So, we heard X had a new, even-more-expensive API offering...🤦🏻
The Fediverse makes it free for anyone to build, using standards such as ActivityPub. The Mastodon API is completely free, no "pay-per-use" here.
Come build better things with us, for a better social web 🧑🏻💻
We think Mastodon is pretty cool, too👍🏻
Agreed.
A good one is @joinmastodon it's pretty cool how you can build your own private networks.
We appreciate that certain politicians have recently admitted their naivete in entrusting the voices of their governments to corporate / for-profit social media.
To these politicians, we say: joinmastodon.org/hosting
We’re taking another step in building a sustainable financial base as a non-profit. Today, we’re announcing new hosting and support offerings, tailored for larger organisations and public institutions. These enable organisations to own their social identities, on their own infrastructure, free from third party control and algorithms.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/0…
Mastodon (@Mastodon@mastodon.social) retweeted
The winner of the Community & Social category in this year's FOSS Awards is @joinmastodon 🔥
We were delighted that Andy Piper was the featured keynote speaker on day 2 of #FrOSCon this year.
Andy spoke about Musk's damage to democracy, the importance of the #Fediverse, and decentralisation in order to preserve freedom and sovereignty.
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It was a big weekend for our team, at #FrOSCon in Germany.
If you're curious what we've been working on and want to hear about features coming in future Mastodon releases - as well as what is happening across the #Fediverse as a broader ecosystem - David from the Mastodon team provided an update in his talk, "Taking a Fresh Look at the Fediverse".
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🎉 We just released Mastodon 4.4.3, 4.3.11, and 4.2.24.
Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon…
Hello there. How are you enjoying The Algorithm here on X?🫣ever noticed how it just seems out to enrage you?
On Mastodon, everyone gets to choose exactly who they follow and what they see in their timeline. No ads or ragebait. So much more calm.
joinmastodon.org
We hope you’ll enjoy the enhancements in Mastodon 4.4. We’re grateful for your support and feedback. We depend on your donations to continue making Mastodon better. Please contribute to support our mission if you can.
joinmastodon.org/sponsors#do…
We’re excited to announce that Mastodon 4.4 is now generally available as an upgrade for all Mastodon servers. The update brings improvements to profiles, navigation, list management, media controls, server moderation notes, and more.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/0…
We just tagged the release candidate for Mastodon 4.4.0 for testing. Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon…
We've also shared a blog post about features that developers will want to know about coming in 4.4.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/0…
psst - X-Twitter doesn't provide a free and open API, Mastodon does... come check out what's new on the independent social web!