Fediverse

Profiles are the primary way for people using Mastodon to ‘meet’ one another on a deeper level – beyond a threaded conversation or search results. You might have noticed that the overall design of Profiles hasn’t been explored in a while, and in the meantime, we’ve heard requests and challenges from people who use Mastodon every day.

tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server – it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There’s lots of information on the tags.pub home page, and I (Evan) did a talk about tags.pub at FOSDEM 2026. This blog post answers some basics about…

#Madblog now comes with support for federated author replies and reactions too. All from #Markdown files, as usual.

After hosting RetroLemmy.com for close to 3 years, we are proud to announce we now have also opened up a PieFed instance called Retrofed.

Crossposted from https://gehirneimer.de/m/mbinReleases/t/912046

Andrew Young’s post on the return of med-mastodon

Update post by Bandwagon.fm, a federated music platform, about their new data migration feature, 2025 highlights and the roadmap for 2026.

Features

After 5 months of chipping away at it, PieFed is now an installable ‘app’ in the Yunohost store! It’s been there for a couple of weeks actually but until this weekend it had a scary red exclamation mark because some automated tests hadn’t ran yet. But that’s gone now so I feel confident about recommending it to others.

Probably relevant for instance owners.