🦣 stegodon

v1.8.0

ssh-first fediverse blog

Connect via SSH to start posting:

ssh stegodon.zip

Not used SSH before? Run this command first to get your keys!

ssh-keygen -t ed25519

You can accept the default options by pressing enter.

On first connection, you’ll be prompted to choose a username. After that, you can create posts, follow users, and explore the federated timeline.

On federated services like Mastodon people now can follow you, when searching for:

@YourUser@stegodon.zip

features

  • Create and read posts
  • Follow local and remote users
  • ActivityPub federation
  • RSS feeds

github

Source and Documentation available on Github

Boring Legal Stuff

Stegodon.zip is run by DotZip Ltd, a non-profit company that runs fediverse services for anyone to use.

We don’t yet have a Terms of Service or Code of Conduct, or a privacy policy or really anything like that yet, so err.. use at your own risk i guess.

#stegodon

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📢 Server Message:

Welcome to Stegodon.zip!

@deemkeen #

14 days ago

welcome to the (still very little) world of #stegodon

@Demigodrick #

Jan 20, 2026

Just added a global feed to #stegodon - can't wait for the 1.6.0 release!

@Demigodrick #

Jan 17, 2026

A bugfix release for #stegodon is now available! V1.5.1 fixes issues with notes being longer than can be displayed, and mobile web scrolling issues -> Check it out!

@INeedMana #

Jan 16, 2026

#stegodon the public key is only used to connect to the instance or is it also used in the messages?

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@deemkeen #

Jan 16, 2026

hello #stegodon world! :)

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@Demigodrick #

Jan 15, 2026

Really excited by becoming a collaborator on #stegodon - It's such an exciting piece of software! I did however spend most of my morning countering #scrapers on lemmy.zip - the fun of hosting a site on the #fediverse eh :)

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@Demigodrick #

Jan 12, 2026

This is a reply from Stegodon #mastodon #stegodon #terminal