Notices by Mastodon (mastodon@mastodon.social)

We've heard your feedback on the Terms of Service updates for mastodon.social and mastodon.online, and we're pausing the implementation date (previously announced to users via email as 1st July 2025) so we can take further advice and make improvements.

It may take us a moment to consult with the right people, so please bear with us while we do so. As always, we appreciate your patience and support.

@earthworm thanks for the comment here. This post is really on the non-technical, non-software side, to help to explain some of the other things you will have seen the team doing (events, etc). We are absolutely also working on improving Mastodon and the features you mentioned too. We hope you will see some of them in the upcoming version 4.4.

Mastodon is happy to be recognised as a #DigitalPublicGood by @dpgalliance - alongside many other incredible #OpenSource projects. Find out more in our blog post. #UNOpenSourceWeek

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/mastodon-dpga

We shared a short update on the main (non-technical) priorities for our team this year.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/mastodon-2025/

ICYMI, yesterday @philipkristians was on stage talking with @leonido and on Monday there were two meetups all about the #Fediverse - we also brought #plushtodon to meet the fans #rp25 #rp25fedi 😃

Day 3 at @republica in Berlin - so much has happened already: great meetups, panels, and discussion about the #Fediverse! Join the panel with our CFO @mellifluousbox today at 16:45 on Stage 7 about "Independent social networks: how can they become mainstream?" #rp25 #mastodon #rp25fedi https://re-publica.com/de/session/unabhaengige-soziale-netzwerke-wie-koennen-sie-massentauglich-werden

@falken fixed, many thanks for letting us know!

@khaledk83 we are working on that! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/

@falken thank you! Will check on that.

@EllenB we appreciate any community support with translations! You can take a look at https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon to propose improvements to individual languages. Our team speaks several languages, but we do not cover every possible language option between us.

The next release of Mastodon will have features to better support communities in different jurisdictions around the world - multi-lingual rules translations, terms of service, and optional minimum age requirements for signup. You can learn more in our latest blog post. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/legal-features-updates/

The Mastodon team will be at re:publica #rp25 in Berlin next week, taking part in a couple of panel discussions.

We're also hosting a side event! If you'd like to join, register via https://lu.ma/7h454kcp

@sn0n @activitypub we're working on this!

@papawilf 👀 we don't see a lot of open social platforms in their list, for sure - who's volunteering to tell them about Mastodon and the Fediverse!

Mastodon CFO @mellifluousbox will be at the #GlobalSolutionsSummit today as part of the panel "Beyond Profit: Public Interest Technologies for Democratic Digital Futures". You can also listen to his interview with Radioeins from last Friday.

https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/der_schoene_morgen/_/global-solution-summit.html

https://global-solutions-summit.org/public/events/fb1a1fa895/seminars/dcdd5421fe/modal

@bogdanbiv @Mastodon@mstdn.social this already exists using rel="me" markup for URLs, you can read about verification on Mastodon here https://joinmastodon.org/verification

@gdchill we have been looking into adding “starter packs” or public shareable lists, yes (but no fixed release date).

@geonaima welcome, and thank you!

@fabiscafe thank you so much for wanting to help! We have a lot of open issues, suggestions and discussions (as you can probably see on GitHub) so please look to see whether anything you want to open has already been created before logging something new.

@AngelaScholder thank you, we're working on this with the new European non-profit that is being created right now. We do need to list the details of the US 501(c)(3) entity (which is for fundraising) on the site, but totally understand your point. Please stand by while the necessary processes are completed.