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…

Bluesky is growing very quickly now, but there aren't any really great Bluesky clients for the desktop. Sure, we've pointed out a few third-party Bluesky clients, but none that can match the design of TweetBot. SkyBridge is a great tool that lets you log into Bluesky using any of the (excellent) Mastodon clients on the market. Here's how to use it.

Every Bluesky and Mastodon account offers an RSS feed. This means you can use any of the best RSS readers to follow posts from any specific user. This is an ideal solution if you mostly want to keep up with the posts of a couple people.

It looks like there is a crowd rush to jump from The Platform I will Only Ever Call Twitter to Bluesky. Huge numbers. Much because there is no learning curve. It looks and feels like Twitter not so…

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Greetings 2024! I’d like to greet you with optimism and a story of gifts.  You see, I ended 2023 with some grim posts (1, 2) and would like to balance those out with some of what cheers me up…

Learn how to make a Mastodon bot from an RSS feed with Pipedream.com.

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

RSS fans! You can follow any Mastodon account via RSS by just adding ".rss" to the end of the account's public profile URL. To find a user's public profile URL, click on their profile image within Mastodon. For example, if you click on FediTips' profile image you get this page in a new tab: https://mstdn.social/@feditips So, to follow FediTips through RSS, use this address: https://mstdn.social/@feditips.rss This will only show that account's public posts. Other posts will not be visible on the RSS feed. #RSS #MastoTips #FediTips #Mastodon

Here's everything you need to know about joining and using Mastodon.

How to get started on social-media site Mastodon, whether you're leaving Twitter or just looking for people who have.

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Tapbots, the company behind the popular Tweetbot app designed for Twitter, is working on developing a new app called Ivory that integrates with the...

Mastodon is a popular decentralized, open-source, social network. Drafts supports integration with Mastodon instances through actions that can be used to post status updates and more. Share Extensions If you use a client application (like the official Mastodon app, MetaText, Ivory, etc.) to interact with your Mastodon account, your client application likely includes a Share extension available in the system share sheet. Any of these options can be used with Drafts’ Share action, which opens ...

I finally managed to hook up IFTTT to Mastodon to auto-post from another site! I use IFTTT as glue for linking several services together including sharing interesting links from Pocket when I’m offline: I can add a tag in the app on my tablet, and then when it syncs that tag up to the cloud, […]

As Elon Musk sends Twitter into chaos, we’re sharing what we picked up about Mastodon as we selected a server

Interested in trying the social network everyone's flocking to? Here's what you need to know to find your way around and build community.

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