I said that Mastodon moderation wouldn't scale, it does. The cultural differences will likely continue to maintain a friendlier atmosphere regardless of size.
Mastodon is for the people
How we're thinking about supporting the communities that rely on Mastodon every day.
Expectations and preferences around community contributions/interactions · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #36552
There is a long-running pattern of conversations on issues/PRs around some features getting quite heated and sometimes turning into personal insults, venting frustrations, borderline conspiracy acc...
It’s Not Just Mastodon
2025 Fediverse Needs Assessment: Moderation Across the Social Web The Fediverse is more than Mastodon, and moderation is bigger than any one platform. Last year, we heard from moderators on Mastodo…
Cage the Mastodon
A year ago I wrote about Mastodon’s improvements over Twitter’s lacking protections against abuse and harassment. Development in that area has not been standing still, and it’s about time we do another comparison.
Instâncias Mastodon.BR
Lista das instâncias brasileiras de Mastodon com mais contas em atividade, ordenadas pelo seu tráfego de posts nos últimos 30 dias, e atualizada em 07/01/2026 com dados de 07/12/2025 a 06/01/2026.
Manton Reece - Micro.blog + Mastodon
For some time, we have been considering how we could open up compatibility between Micro.blog and Mastodon. Any feature that could be disruptive needs to be approached carefully. In this post I want to talk about how Micro.blog supports Mastodon, why I think it’s useful, and anticipate some questions that we’ll get about this feature.
Saia da mastodon.social - Jardim Social
A mastodon.social costuma ser a porta de entrada de muitas pessoas no Fediverso. O app oficial direciona logo pra ela, sob pretexto de reduzir o atrito e criar uma experiência mais fluída para quem está chegando agora.
Lessons from Mastodon's False Start: Understanding AT Protocol and Bluesky's Dilemma - Nightflight
Introducing quote posts
Over the years, we’ve learned just how essential quoting is to many of you. Here's a deep dive on how quote posts will work on Mastodon.
Mastodon pilot for research and education
SURF and Universities of the Netherlands are jointly exploring Mastodon as an open source platform for education and research in the Netherlands.
Falantes do BR-Mastodon
Lista em ordem alfabética dos usuários abertos que mais falam em português nas timelines públicas de várias instâncias brasileiras do Mastodon e de outras tecnologias do Fediverso, atualizada em 24/04/2026.
Moderation is an unsolved problem. Fascism & transphobia prosper in parts of Mastodon. There’s no support to deal with this. The hardest part is funding. It relies on community funding for server costs. There’s also a huge amount of work to be done around the scenes, moderating and fixing problems.
Why we discontinued our Mastodon server
gfsc.communityDutch Universities are jointly exploring Mastodon as an open source platform for education and research in the Netherlands. Exciting, and hopefully just the start of a much bigger trend! (that ofc also includes #atscience!)
Mastodon pilot for research and education
www.surf.nlinteresting to see mastodon take what seems like considerable inspiration from the atmosphere and bluesky i suspect we will see these two grow closer and closer together especially when spaces are officially implemented here and a space authority can function sort of like a mastodon server...
5.0: Laying the foundation
blog.joinmastodon.orgSo uh, apparently $288/year is not enough to run a Mastodon service for ~3 users, and this is a known issue (masto.host/mastodon-content-retention-se…) with no solution (github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions…!
