mastodon.world is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Generic Mastodon server for anyone to use.

Server stats:

8.5K
active users

#instance

1 post1 participant0 posts today
We've just reached 100 followers on our new #instance — thank you for following us! We're as happy as this dolphin! 😄

Starting a new instance and receiving quality content from other instances of the Fediverse is hard — there's a lot of spam and bots boosting low-quality content. We tried following automated relay accounts to bring content to our Pixelfed instance, but they don't filter their boosts and bring lots of poor-quality images (AI, spam, low definition etc). So, if we want to offer a nice instance to our family and friends, we're kind of obliged to curate accounts one by one to sort of "control" what enters our server (in the beginning only - after some days, we can't really control anymore). That's why we created this "relay" account. #introduction

We don't automate anything; we select every account we follow carefully, so our instance users can see nice photos in the global feed and consequently find more interesting people to follow.

We follow many people — more than 1,000, chosen individually based on photo quality and/or creativity, as well as accounts that post niche content that may interest our users, such as nature, art, cycling, and aviation. Over the last 2 weeks, we have spent hours and hours searching for nice accounts to follow. 😅

If you're looking for more people to follow, check out the list of people we follow — you may find some nice accounts to follow, too!

If you're a Pixelfed instance admin who struggles to receive remote accounts content in your instance (unlike other platforms, Pixelfed does not have public relays), follow us! We share lots of great photos, which will help your instance to automatically receive nice images. Let us know if you do the same so we can follow you back!

Most of the time, we share other people's photos, but we also post some high-quality, royalty-free photos from Unsplash on this relay account. This is also a way to bring beautiful images to the Fediverse and promote photographers instead of generative AI rubbish.

We accept suggestions of more nice accounts to follow! 😃
Have a nice day!

(Regarding the photo in this post, it was taken by Kirill Sh. You can download it in different resolutions from the original source:

https://unsplash.com/photos/a-dolphin-with-its-mouth-open-in-the-water-lEfaSGFrl8s )
#dolphin
Unfortunately, the server work took longer than planned. As a result, our #instance and various other services on our domain were unavailable for some time. We apologize for this and are now online again.
Continued thread

Heads up #Sharkey #admins when #upgrading...
If you have a lot of
#data in your #instance #database, running pnpm run migrate might fail because one or more of the ALTER TABLE... statements might actually timeout on your #PostgreSQL server!

To fix this, attach yourself to your
sharkey database and enter the following...

ALTER DATABASE sharkey SET statement_timeout = '10min'; 
ALTER ROLE sharkey SET statement_timeout = '10min';
...and try the pnpm run migrate command again.

#SharkeyAdmin #InstanceAdmin @sharkey@sharkey.team

Do you post #NSFW content?
Why not try a
#fedi #instance that's tailored just for you?
🔵 5000 character posts
🟣 16 attachments per post (photos & videos)
🟡 Automatic flagging of all uploads as NSFW (no more CWs!)
🟠 Public Galleries
🟤 Public Channels
🟢 Public Antennas
⚪ Public Pages
⚫ Rich note/ post formatting
🔴 All data hosted in Europe
Ping me for an invite. ;-)
Or email help@bofhllc.net to receive an invite if I somehow don't get your message.

Seit einigen Tagen werden Medien meiner Mastodon-Instanz metalhead.club global verteilt über ein eigenes CDN ausgeliefert. :goose_hacker:

Das verringert die Latenzen für Benutzer aus nicht-EU Ländern und sorgt für weniger Frust bei den Ladezeiten.

Was ein CDN ist, welche Implementierungsmethoden es gibt und wie ich mein kleines CDN umgesetzt habe, erfahrt ihr in meinem neuen Blogpost:

"Ein eigenes kleines CDN für meine Mastodon-Instanz metalhead.club" - thomas-leister.de/mastodon-med

2025-06-01 в промежутке 07:00 - 09:00 UTC (то есть с 10 до 13 по Москве в это воскресенье) хостинг будет обновляться до OpenBSD 7.7
Сервер и соответствующие сервисы (honk, почта и gemini) будут недоступны на время обновления. Затем всё должно подняться само автоматически.

New #instance, new #introduction

Not new to the Fediverse, but always kinda planned on joining mastodon.radio once I got my license, which is now!

Interested in #POTA, #SOTA, and #SSTV. Eventually want to give #DX an earnest go. With respect to radio: don't know what I don't know; interested to find additional interests.

Elsewhere known as @ety@hive.institute or @ety@corteximplant.com.

I'll focus on radio content here; may boost elsewhere. Overall posts and boosts will be infrequent. Lurk moar.

A warm welcome to you, new bot in our #Instance! We are now publishing the latest toots from our feathered friends via @birdnetpilerchenaecker #Esslingen / #Lerchenaecker #BirdNet #Ornithology #Ornithologie