Notices by Stefan Bohacek (stefan@stefanbohacek.online)

"Assigned Media has covered the ways news media report on issues related to the trans community from day one. We’ve chronicled how far-right talking points migrated into legacy media coverage, resulting in an environment where falsehoods and bad-faith talking points frequently overwhelm the basic facts relating to trans people’s bodies, healthcare, and lives. And this year, we’re launching our most ambitious media tracking project yet."

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/trans-news-tracker-introduction

#TransRights #USnews #USpol #news

Happy #WikipediaDay, and congratulations to @wikipedia on their 25th anniversary! What a milestone!

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia25/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day

#wikipedia #Wikipedia25Years

Hey #forkiverse people, and everyone else who has joined us recently!

You might be just learning about the thing that makes fediverse special, that it's made up of many communities spread across many servers running different platforms.

Now, I won't bore anyone with how all that works, but here are two cool ways to visualize this.

- https://data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fediverse lets you see which servers you are connected to (I made this one!)
- https://moderation-explorer.online helps you understand the shared responsibility of fediverse moderators

Hope you'll enjoy!

#fediverse #data #dataviz

I'd like to extend my welcome to the #forkiverse folks, hoping to see them bring more diversity into our corner of the internet.

Hope you all enjoy it here!

#fediverse

With the federal government threatening to send ICE "door to door", here's a reminder:

"If an officer knocks on your door: Do not open the door. Teach your children not to open the door. Officers must have a warrant signed by a judge to enter your home. ICE “warrants” are not signed by judges; they are ICE forms signed by ICE officers and they do not grant authority to enter a home without consent of the occupant(s)."

https://immigrantjustice.org/for-immigrants/know-your-rights/ice-encounter/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/vance-ice-door-to-door

#USPol #immigration #immigrants #ICE #KnowYourRights

I just want to thank everyone who continues to invest their time, money, and other resources into keeping the fediverse alive.

Here's to everyone, from admins and mods, who keep us safe, to shitposters, who keep us entertained, and everyone in-between, connecting with one another.

Grateful and happy to be part of this community!

A new @iftas report brings insights from fediverse moderators, administrators, and community managers: worsening mod-to-user ratio, spam, burnout, lack of tools.

"Moderators are the backbone of a safer social web – but most are unpaid, under-supported, and under constant strain. If we want a future for decentralised platforms that respects user agency, civil speech, and community autonomy, we need to support the infrastructure that keeps it safe."

https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/

#fediverse #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #SocialMedia #IFTAS

I know this is already on Mastodon team's radar, but I do want to stress how important this feature is.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14762

We won't get rid of the racism and the mansplaining on the fediverse overnight, but giving people control over their replies would significantly improve everyone's experience, and make this place a lot more inviting.

#mastodon #fediverse #SocialMedia

"In 1958 [Daphne Oram, "visionary pioneer in electronic music"] co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a studio set up to create sound effects and electronic scores for radio and TV. On the wall she pinned a passage from Francis Bacon’s 17th-century utopia New Atlantis about imaginary sound-houses where scientists manipulate echoes, invent new instruments and transmit sound “in strange lines and distances”."

https://theconversation.com/5-things-to-know-about-daphne-oram-the-visionary-pioneer-in-electronic-music-266591

#music #history

A nice list of online places where you can find human-curated music.

https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2025/12/16/nx-s1-5628939/music-streaming-alternatives-without-algorithms

#music #NoAlgorithm #spotify

And we have a ton of music sites, blogs, directories, and people making mixtapes right here in the fediverse!

- a directory of independent artists: https://indieart.support
- The Indie Beat Radio https://theindiebeat.fm
- The https://www.audiointerface.org online radio
- NHAM: https://nham.co.uk/
- Ether Diver's Other People’s Music playlists https://www.etherdiver.com/tag/other-peoples-music/

And more!

https://nham.co.uk/category/community/distribution-platforms/

#music #fediverse

Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".

#internet #TheWeb #OTD #OnThisDay #history

Nice! @JoinFediverseWiki has a collection of onboarding resources for the fediverse, and we're all invited to contribute!

https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_onboarding_resources

Original call to action, in German: https://social.biblioco.de/objects/66fc0b30-8b67-4ae5-8c20-bdd957d10843

#fediverse #guides #writing

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

#gmail #AI

Solidarity with the trans community on this Trans Day of Remembrance, and every day ✊

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_Day_of_Remembrance

#TransRights #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Nice! You can now easily browse blogs running on Ghost that have federation enabled -- meaning that you can follow them right here in the fediverse.

https://explore.ghost.org/social-web

via https://john.onolan.org/.ghost/activitypub/note/61fa1ab7-8612-4780-a894-7d5d63062efd

#fediverse #blogs #SocialWeb

After nearly 10 years, Eugen Rochko is stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon.

"There are too many examples of founder egos sabotaging thriving communities, and while I’d like to think myself an exception, I understand why people would prefer better guardrails."

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/

"I think that taking a step back, realizing this isn’t just mine anymore — now other people are involved, other people are responsible for this — is going to allow me to restore some balance in my life."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/

#mastodon #fediverse #news

"On 12 November 1990 [Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau] published a formal proposal outlining principal concepts and defining important terms behind the web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by “browsers”."

https://home.cern/science/computing/where-web-was-born

https://www.w3.org/Proposal.html

#WorldWideWeb #HypertextProject #TheWeb #internet #TechHistory #technology #OnThisDay #OTD

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@floppies/115510122335927016

Please enjoy.

Help people stuck in long lines by getting them free pizza.

https://polls.pizza

#GOTV #pizza