🦣 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.

@Demigodrick

← @Demigodrick's timeline
📢 Server Message:

Welcome to Stegodon.zip!

Jan 13, 2026

To protect our sites from scrapers, and keep charges down, we use cloudflare quite heavily. This involves caching our images and, stopping bots.

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@Demigodrick #

Jan 13, 2026

As part of this, we have some security rules in place that challenges traffic based on the ASN, a list we've kept from all the previous scrapes.

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