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Newsmast

3.2.0

March 20, 2025

About Newsmast

Welcome to Newsmast!

Newsmast is a dynamic social networking and live-streaming platform, designed to connect people around shared interests and causes. It integrates content from your home Mastodon server with Newsmast’s unique, hand-curated communities, providing a seamless space to interact with diverse voices from across the world. Newsmast prioritizes creating safe, inclusive environments for discussion, offering moderation systems that prevent harmful content, including NSFW, crypto, and hate speech. It aims to bring about social change by supporting journalism, charity work, and grassroots movements, creating a space where knowledge, facts, and ideas can be freely exchanged. Download Newsmast now!

Key Features of Newsmast:
Mastodon Integration:
The app integrates your Mastodon account with Newsmast’s curated communities, allowing seamless interaction across servers. You can view content from your home server and engage with community-driven posts from Newsmast users.
Safe and Curated Communities:
Newsmast is focused on creating communities that center around important topics and causes. All content is curated from users and federated sources, with moderation systems in place to block harmful content like NSFW material, hate speech, and crypto discussions.
Cross-Server Interactions:
Users can easily interact with content across servers by liking, reposting, replying, following, and bookmarking posts from both Newsmast and their home Mastodon server. Hashtags are automatically added to posts when shared within communities.
Social Change and Knowledge Sharing:
Newsmast is backed by a charitable foundation that champions the work of journalists, academics, NGOs, and marginalized communities. The platform is built to facilitate collaborative problem-solving and the exchange of factual, valuable information.
Community Moderation and Safe Environment:
The app uses a combination of automated filters and human moderation to ensure a safe, respectful, and welcoming space for all users. Newsmast applies rigorous moderation practices, including the Oliphant Tier 0 blocklist, to maintain quality content.

Top 5 FAQs for Newsmast:
1. How does Newsmast ensure a safe space for users?
Newsmast employs strict moderation practices, using the Oliphant Tier 0 blocklist and additional filters to eliminate NSFW content, hate speech, and cryptocurrency discussions. Content is moderated by both automated systems and human moderators to ensure the safety and inclusivity of the platform.
2. Can I interact with users from other Mastodon servers?
Yes! Newsmast seamlessly integrates with your Mastodon account, enabling you to interact with users from your home server as well as Newsmast’s curated communities. You can like, repost, follow, and reply to content across both servers.
3. What types of content can I expect to find in Newsmast’s communities?
Newsmast’s communities focus on social change, knowledge-sharing, and important topics. The content is curated from users and federated sources, centered around causes like journalism, academia, NGOs, and other important social issues.
4. How can I contribute to Newsmast’s mission of social change?
By joining Newsmast, you become part of a global community focused on sharing knowledge and supporting social change. You can contribute by participating in discussions, sharing meaningful content, and supporting causes that matter to you.
5. What sets Newsmast apart from other social media platforms?
Unlike traditional social media, Newsmast prioritizes safe, informed, and purposeful conversations. It integrates Mastodon’s decentralized network with hand-curated communities, ensuring that content is moderated and relevant to meaningful discussions. Newsmast is also dedicated to supporting social change and amplifying marginalized voices.