Notices by Jan (jan@toot.io)

The Mastodon 4.4 update was a little bit bumpy. I expect a bugfix release soon.

Mastodon has taken the strategic decision not to accept venture capital investments for growth, but rather restructure to a European non-profit organisation. 👏

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

@GossiTheDog ✅ Done.

Mastodon provides a robots.txt which includes GPTBot only.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/public/robots.txt

@GossiTheDog Yes, I will let you know when it is deployed.

AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can help:

1) ai.robots.txt is an open list of web crawlers associated with AI companies and the training of LLMs to block.

https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

2) Anubis using a proof-of-work challenge in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots.

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

Bluesky revenue stream: AI licensing deals.

No such thing as a free lunch.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-reshaping-social-media-but-advertising-isnt-off-the-table/

No thanks!

"Today websites are not just used to provide information to people, but they are also used to provide information to large language models"

https://llmstxt.org/

As an idealist #activitypub should be enough for all federated apps out there.

The reality: We're building bridges to #bluesky and Pixelfed would like to implement two protocols for one app.

We gained nothing if developers implementing multiple protocols to be federated.

Can we please agree on a decentralised protocol? Thanks!

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/5348

@dansup I like the idea and domain but its to technical, who cares about the protocol? If you want to reach non-techies than rethink about the domain.

@steve for reference https://relaylist.com/

@aral @chpietsch Thanks Christian, we deactivated yarn telemetry for all toot.io customer instances.

➤ YN0000: Successfully set enableTelemetry to false

Fedidrama status today: 9/10

Mozilla decided to invest in AI rather than the #fediverse

Mozilla.social will shut down the Mastodon instance...

https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249

@thomasfuchs why should I give up programming? its so much fun...

@tchambers @subclub @bart Does anybody know how big the user base is?

@dansup @pixelfed Well done 👍

@dansup @pixelfed @MariaLiv Maybe you get your followers back :)

Complaining about Mastodon/open source projects should be weigthed by the amount of dollars ppl donating each month.

Brazil just ordered X to be taken down within 24 hours and $8,874 daily fines for using VPN.

#mastoadmin get ready for an influx of new users.

@BeAware I prefer the :fedi: too.