We're excited to announce that @npub168yq...upza has joined the fediverse! Their innovative implementation of ActivityPub allows you to follow updates from your favorite apps, demonstrating a new way to bring more apps to the open social web. We extend our heartfelt gratitude for their generous donation, in support of our mission to create an open and safe social internet. Welcome to the fediverse family, AltStore!
TechCrunch
Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch
The alternative app marketplace AltStore has raised $6 million and launched a Mastodon server.
 #Mastodon #Fediverse #AltStore
We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.) As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community. Read this blog post about our approach and let us know what you think!
Mastodon Blog
Our ideas about Packs
Sharing our thoughts and plans behind sharing collections of accounts in the Fediverse.
In June, we proposed new Terms of Service for registered users of on our mastodon.social and mastodon.online servers. We did not do enough to consider the full impact of the terms, and the community was very clear that we needed to reconsider. We've done that over the past few months. Today, we're posting an alternative set of terms, along with an opportunity for the community to provide feedback.
GitHub
Community consultation: new Terms of Service (for mastodon.social and mastodon.online) · mastodon/mastodon · Discussion #36368
Background Mastodon gGmbH operates two Mastodon servers, mastodon.social and mastodon.online, under the jurisdiction of German law. In June 2025, w...
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:
Managed Mastodon
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.
Mastodon Blog
Service offerings from Mastodon
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Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts...
 This is available to people on mastodon.online and mastodon.social now! 🎉 coming soon to other servers, when version 4.5 becomes available. You can also find details of how to control your posts, via the animations in the blog and documentation. Note: we've got an additional channel to send us feedback listed at the end of the blog post, if you'd like to share thoughts on this feature. View quoted note →
Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5
Mastodon Blog
Introducing quote posts
Over the years, we’ve learned just how essential quoting is to many of you. Here
We were delighted that @Andy Piper from the Mastodon team was the featured keynote speaker on day 2 of #FrOSCon this year. Andy spoke about the importance of the #Fediverse and of decentralisation in order to preserve digital freedom and sovereignty.
Decentralising Freedom: Open Source for Sovereignty
Open source is more than code: it's a movement that empowers communities to build resilient, sovereign digital infrastructure. In an era ...
It was a big weekend for the Mastodon team at #FrOSCon in Germany. If you're curious what we've been working on and what's coming up, as well as updates across the #Fediverse more broadly, @npub1jcpp...927t provided an update in his talk, "Taking a Fresh Look at the Fediverse". Fun fact: David was also one of the founding organisers of FrOSCon!
Taking a Fresh Look at the Fediverse
On the search for open and decentralized alternatives to commercial social media platforms many have given Mastodon and/or the Fediverse ...
With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media. Congratulations to @npub1d2v7...0l89 and all the team at Ghost!