Not a #newsletter user myself, but yay for options! =)

And as others pointed out, there's #RSS too, but also for hashtags, not just users.

Mastodon adding email newsletters for people who don't have accounts is just amazing. This is what good software should be like. This is what social media should be about. This is the way to connect people with people.

This is the opposite of building walls so that your customers can't escape. This is the opposite of advertisers enshittifying your experience. This is the opposite of shady algorithms deciding how you should experience the world.

Man, I love the Fediverse. And it just keeps getting better.

You had me in the first half, ngl

What an insane concept. Implementing a feature specifically for people who don't want to make an account. Have be people in charge completely missed the fact that this will not drive up their monthly active user metrics? The shareholders won't like this.

This is the way.

A repost from two years ago?

You can also append ".rss" to the URL of a Mastodon profile page to get an RSS feed.

The short answer is no. 99% of users are on BlueSky. There do exist a few satellite and single-user "instances" but it's important to know that AT Protocol "instances" don't really have the same freedoms as an ActivityPub instance.

Is Bluesky decentralized? I was under the impression that it could be decentralized at some point, but isn't currently.

The author wrote five articles today I'm pretty sure this is AI

Article doesn't mention it, so copypasta from another article:

To access the AltStore PAL’s Mastodon server, users can visit fosstodon.org/@altstore. Meanwhile, users can also discover apps and sources on the AltStore PAL’s explore page at explore.alt.store. Alongside this update, the AltStore PAL app has been updated with an iOS 26 Liquid Glass design and icon.

And note: explore.alt.store is a Mastodon instance.

From the very last paragraph:

To access the AltStore PAL’s Mastodon server, users can visit fosstodon.org/@altstore. Meanwhile, users can also discover apps and sources on the AltStore PAL’s explore page at explore.alt.store. Alongside this update, the AltStore PAL app has been updated with an iOS 26 Liquid Glass design and icon.

Note: explore.alt.store is a Mastodon instance.

I can see all the influencers and models tooting at eachother now...

Along with the changes to its onboarding process, Mastodon also announced on Thursday that it is leaving Discord and moving to the open-source chat app Zulip. Mastodon says it’s “a long-term project” and part of efforts to move its digital infrastructure to free and open-source software (FOSS). The update follows Discord’s announcement last week that it will be rolling out age verification measures globally on its platform.

One shining light despite everything else people have to say about them

I appreciate how The Verge has been consistently covering the Fediverse.

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In conclusion: Meta.

Well many of us blocked the threads domain pre-emptively so even if they had federated we wouldn't have seen their posts.

Just trying to distract from their inability to grow a proper beard.

Why are they dressed like they're about to drop the hottest spoken word lyrical jazz album of 2014?

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.

I can't believe John Mastodon won't make sure that all the instances behave the same way

What we need is full portability including posts transfers

A quick reminder that we're collecting, on Lemmy, articles in the press that talk about the open social web, the fediverse and the like.Today: Techcrunch's piece on the Ghost 6 / ActivityPub release.lemmy.world/c/fediverse_press

Umm excuse me, Cadia still stands.

Yep, agree. Usenet is now the best method available for locating and retrieving Linux Distro images. Stronger than ever if you ask me.