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  Working on a FediHood-inspired "Nearby" feature for Catodon. Since FediHood's development has halted, I'm using it as a base, but without being restricted by it. I'm trying to build this not only thinking of Catodon's implementation, but with fedi on my mind, since we don't have a standard for location, and it could be useful for a lot of cases (events, marketplaces - even a federated dating app could use something like this, why not). So once I'm done, I'll...

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  Good morning! We need several more testers, if you can spare a couple of minutes and maybe try a new app for your Mastodon or Misskey/Sharkey account, please do! Thanks! #mastodon #misskey RE: https://catodon.rocks/notes/at7mdvo4yomi02e9

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  Hi @dansup@mastodon.social! We recently added a dedicated view for Loops (and YouTube Shorts) in Catodon, and I'm looking into letting our users post short videos that Loops users can see. As far as I can tell (correct me if I'm wrong), Loops videos federate as plain notes with an mp4 attachment, each Loops admin has to allow servers or software one by one, and newly discovered servers always start blocked. Two ideas/proposals: Could Loops define a simple property (ideally as a FEP...

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  Reddit is becoming "a logged-in-only experience"

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  There are such cool projects on the Fediverse. Honestly, I don't think there is any social network that can compete. We have microblogging, blogging, videos, audio, events, reviews for books, films and more, podcasts, image sharing, streaming, forums, link aggregators... But we have mostly been seeing just parts of all this ecosystem, because each project focuses in one or a few of these things. One of our aspirations for Catodon is to bring as many of these features and services together,...

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  Alright, we're looking for beta testers for Catodon's mobile app, as Google demands 12 testers having it installed (and ideally using it) for at least 14 days. The app is nothing exciting tbh, it's a glorified TWA, which allows you to switch server. However, it might be interesting for some people because you don't need a Catodon account: If you select catodon.rocks, you can also use it with your Mastodon or Misskey or Sharkey account (basically with anything that uses the Mast...

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  And now that the RC for Catodon 26.11.0 "Nyan Cat" is out, we can continue development, towards 26.12.0 "Grumpy Cat". First feature I'm working on: a Library, a feature close to (and compatible with) Bookwyrm's Shelves, but not just for books: You will be able to add reviews for films, music albums etc, since Catodon Libraries will also be compatible with NeoDB! #catodon #bookwyrm #neodb

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  I really like one of the features I squeezed in just before the RC, it's a small thing that I've wanted to do it for a long time: Something borrowed from Facebook, where I found it super convenient. When you have no unread notifications and new ones come while you\re online, if you hover over the popup cards, they are marked as read. So if you do the hover (as an "I saw this") for all incoming notifications, you never have to visit the notifications page or click the "Mark...

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  The story of Linux should inspire the Fediverse. "The year of the Linux desktop" has been a joke for 25 years - a quarter of the century! Yet slowly, and with a persistent following building for linux and supporting it, it's reaching a point where it's no longer something to laugh about - it's a valid choice for many people. Hell, my father (who is 81!) uses ZorinOS, which I installed when windows became too laggy and frustrating for him on his aging PC. Similarly, if y...

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  The Threadiverse Catalog just surpassed twenty-three thousand indexed forums/communities on fedi! ​:psi_celebrate:​

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  One of the things that have me seriously worried about AI lately is how easy it gets for bots to make Fediverse accounts - they can bypass bot protection guards at registration, as they can act more and more like humans. A mass influx of spambots could seriously bring servers to their knees and make the network unusable. So we need stronger moderation tools! Our next release will not only have more moderation options per user, but you will be able to apply them to up to 100 accounts at once. I...

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  Blog post: Catodon's official website is just one more reason why.catodon.rocks Cross-posted from !catodon-talks@catodon.rocks A new website for Catodon, and more updates #catodon

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  Blog post: Catodon's official website is just one more reason why.catodon.rocks A new website for Catodon, and more updates #catodon RE: https://catodon.rocks/notes/asyns7vzgasy08hf

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  Just added a small feature in Catodon, which might not sound that important but it's a quality of life improvement that I think Sharkey and Misskey admins will appreciate: You can now set "Alt names" for custom emoji - other names that still work, even if they are not advertised as the specific emoji's name. This helps a lot when you want to rename or delete an emoji, but you know that past posts on your server will now look like ​:abandonedEmojiName:​. Now, when you rename a c...

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  Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026

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  The US is ordering every civilian agency to rip out DeepSeek, even tools built on it

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  Catodon blog URL and other questions Today, the URL of your standalone blog page in Catodon is using this structure: https://catodon.rocks/@catodon/blog , so /@user/blog. Would this be a reason for you to not host your blog on a Catodon server? Is a domain.com/customblogname URL better? Would this be good enough, or is a URL structured like customblogname.domain.com a prerequisite for your blog? In general, which are, for you, the things that the platform that hosts your blog must absolutely...

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  We've seen quite a few foreign accounts signing up at electricrequiem.com lately, I suppose to try Catodon, since it's the biggest server showing up on FediDB. But it's a greek-speaking community server - please use catodon.rocks if you want to try Catodon (and, even better, set up your own server if you like it and if you know how to do it!) #catodon

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  Catodon's develop branch now supports PostgreSQL 18 (but always take a backup before attempting an update in the db). #catodon

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  Calling any Tumblr users - there was a topic on Reddit where someone was complaining that you can't reblog whole conversations on fedi. I have not used Tumblr so I don't have direct experience with the feature, but would a button that expands the full conversation above a repost or a quoted post (or any post with ancestors actually) be something that you might find useful? #tumblr

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  Catodon recently implemented Mobilizon/Gancio events, but users on Mastodon or other platforms see events as posts that they can't interract with. This makes events on fedi far less useful. We're gonna change that - we'll create an events.bot account that users from other platforms will be able to send a DM to, and respond to an event (Attend/Deny) via the bot. This way, anyone on fedi will be able to attend an event originally published in Catodon. #catodon #mobilizon #gancio

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  I've said it again, Mastodon is (finally) taking a truly user-friendly direction, and that can only be good. Not just for Mastodon, but for the whole Fediverse ecosystem. RE: https://mastodon.social/users/Mastodon/statuses/117466983307949301

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  Introducing the Threadiverse Catalog Cross-posted from !fediverse@piefed.social I'm the maintainer of Catodon, which offers both microblogging and forums (Lemmy-compatible communities), and we noticed that discoverability is not the threadiverse's strongest point: Our server only showed forums/communities that it "knew" because someone from the server already followed them. In Reddit it's easy to see if there is a community for a subject you care about; on the Fediverse...

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  Introducing the Threadiverse Catalog I'm the maintainer of Catodon, which offers both microblogging and forums (Lemmy-compatible communities), and we noticed that discoverability is not the threadiverse's strongest point: Our server only showed forums/communities that it "knew" because someone from the server already followed them. In Reddit it's easy to see if there is a community for a subject you care about; on the Fediverse it's not that easy. So I looked at what...

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  @Linux@catodon.rocks do you have anything to back your statement that "Gaza Verified is a scam group"? Also, Israel is conducting a genocide and has been taking land from Palestine for decades. If you believe Palestine has a right to exist, you can't be "neutral" about this, you should be condemning Israel's actions.

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  Short catodon development update - implementing forums was more work than I thought, so we missed the 26.4.1 release, the next release will be 26.5.0. I am out of town for a few days, I have my laptop with me but I have been busy irl so haven't had the chance to do much. I will probably resume work properly on Monday, when I'm back in Athens. Have a great weekend everyone 🥰 #catodon

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  New in Catodon: Added Text formatting options in the posting form, making it much easier to add bold and italic fonts, to add strikethrough over words and more! Also added Search in Bookmarks, sorting Following/Followers by server, Firefox layout fixes, and more options for DMs: you can now Archive chats, turn notifications on/off per chat, and delete all of your messages in a DM conversation at once. #catodon

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  One of the most demanded features in Misskey & forks, automatic post deletion like in Mastodon, is coming to Catodon. #catodon #sharkey #misskey

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  test post, move on =)

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  Whatever your opinion about AI is, I firmly believe that we are witnessing a technological revolution of historic proportions - the only thing I can compare it to is the internet's widespread adoption around 2000. And watching how it unfolds is also interesting from a geopolitical aspect - the USA's status as the world's leading force has been damaged with Iran and its president's absurdities, and the AI race could be a decisive factor on the financial field for the world's n...