Mastodon’s started offering paid hosting and support for institutions that want their own corner of the fediverse. They’re already working with the EU and a few local governments. It’s a sensible move that keeps things sustainable without selling out the decentralised idea.

The news: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/service-offerings-from-mastodon/

It's great to diversify income!

TL;DR
Being unwelcome on some social platforms is sometime a feature for someone else.

or how important moderation is

I help make the Fediverse more inclusive by generating alt-text descriptions for images. Let me assist you!

Group of accounts ready to be followed. A starter pack.

Mastodon c'est

• entièrement gratuit
• sans investisseurs en capital-risque
• sans actionnaires à qui rendre des comptes
• sans objectif de croissance
• avec une interface web sans pistage
• des applications mobiles sans pistage
• avec dix mille administrateurs système bénévole

"federation" yes, beautiful thing, but you know what? that is what scares normal people. the UX of this thing

The image describes the Mastodon login prompt asking for the user's home server domain with options to take the user home or create an account.

Check from which instances accounts follow you

Un argumentaire en faveur des réseaux sociaux décentralisés.

Une explication claire du Fediverse et de Mastodon.

A list of accounts to follow

Choose an instance in a curated list

Interesting account to follow

You will notice that underneath some links shared on Mastodon, the author byline can be clicked to open the author’s associated fediverse account, right in the app.

A new graph tag is created for it:
<meta name="fediverse:creator" content="@Gargron@mastodon.social" />

Heise gets more traffic from Mastodon than from Twitter

Put <meta name="fediverse:creator" content="@robb@social.lol" /> on your website :)