Today I am wearing my Get Federated t-shirt as my attire as a guest on an Open Education Week panel on “Where are OER conversations happening anymore?” I sing of a Bridge over some kind…

Social media has splintered across multiple services since the decline of Twitter. I’ve always managed a lot of social media accounts between my own and ones for MacStories, but today the situation is worse than ever. There have always been services like Buffer that make it easier to juggle multiple accounts and services, but they

Eugen Rochko, writing on Mastodon’s blog today: To reinforce and encourage Mastodon as the go-to place for journalism, we’re launching a new feature today. 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. This highlights writers and

In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn how to use Mastodon, the social network that's been gaining popularity among those who are fed up with the privacy concerns and the toxic environment of mainstream social media platforms. In this video, we'll give you a beginner's guide to Mastodon. We'll start with how you can pick a server. Next, we'll show you how to sign up for an account, how to find and follow other users, and how to post and interact with content. Whether you're curious about Mastodon or already a user, this video is a great introduction to this exciting and growing social network. Host: Nelson Pavlosky 📚 RESOURCES - Get started with Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/ - Mastodon apps for phone: https://joinmastodon.org/apps - Fedifiner - export your Twitter network to Mastodon: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ ⌚ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:33 Choose a server 01:33 Server ground rules 01:59 Create account 02:40 Get phone app 02:58 Feeds: Home, Explore, Local & Federated 04:02 Edit profile 04:45 Invite and follow people 07:46 Writing toots / messages 09:47 Interact with posts 10:39 Notifications 11:00 Wrap up 📺 RELATED VIDEOS - Playlist with all my videos on open source products: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlKpQrBME6xIkVBa1osaTskhcMqzrYIkE 📩 NEWSLETTER - Get the latest high-quality tutorial and tips and tricks videos emailed to your inbox each week: https://kevinstratvert.com/newsletter/ 🔽 CONNECT WITH ME - Official web site: http://www.kevinstratvert.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinstratvert/ - Discord: https://bit.ly/KevinStratvertDiscord - Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevstrat - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kevin-Stratvert-101912218227818 - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kevinstratvert - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevinstratvert/ 🎒 MY COURSES - Go from Excel novice to data analysis ninja in just 2 hours: https://kevinstratvert.thinkific.com/ 🙏 REQUEST VIDEOS https://forms.gle/BDrTNUoxheEoMLGt5 🔔 SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/user/kevlers?sub_confirmation=1 🙌 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL - Hit the THANKS button in any video! - Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3kCP2yz (Purchasing through this link gives me a small commission to support videos on this channel -- the price to you is the same) #stratvert #mastodon

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As much as I tried to resist the end, I had a breaking point, and the breaking point was this. The tweet just had it all – it was a remarkable intersection of bullying, malicious, and callous…

This app helps you finds out which of the people you follow on Twitter are on Mastodon/in the Fediverse already and follow all of them easily.Try it: https://t.co/LitKPF11qH Keep checking it every few days to see if there are new people.— Robin DeRosa (@actualham) November 7, 2022

So how does Mastodon work: Its not one place. It's 'federated'. You pick a server to be on. That server by default will pull in some 'toots' (a silly word) from other servers it federates with into its timeline, and block some others.But YOU can follow anyone, on any server.— John Bull (@garius) November 5, 2022

I see several folks on here expressing confusion about how Mastodon works. As a relatively new lay user there, I thought I would share a few observations that help explain why I find that platform so rewarding:— Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani (@thatpsychprof) November 5, 2022

I'm going to make a quick thread of #Mastodon stuff that is by no means proclaiming me to be an expert or anything but helped me a few weeks ago.— freyquency (@freyquency) April 25, 2022

So yes, please do create a Mastodon account. Use https://t.co/1tW4ryhrY4 to choose an instance whose rules work well for how you want to communicate. Read those rules carefully and make sure you trust whoever controls your instance.— Ethan "no blue check before it was cool" Zuckerman (@EthanZ) November 4, 2022

There’s growing interest in Mastodon, an alternative to Elon Musk’s Twitter. Here’s a guide to getting started with it.

Twitter’s new owner has a vision that sounds a lot like a scrappy little social network that already exists, with one key difference.