First steps into the Fediverse — James Martin's devlog
I wanted to start writing about my wanderings as a software developer and decided to start yet a new blog. I have previously written on M...
Mastodon's Mastodon'ts
There are a few fundamentally broken things about how Mastodon posts work that are terrible vectors for abuse, as well as being bad for basic usability. Maybe they are fixable, I don't know. To be clear: I am a fan of Mastodon. I have been enjoying my time there much more than I ever enjoyed Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. And I am 100% in the "I won't touch anything Jack Dorsey has ...
Looks Like New: How did open social media platforms originate?
In the aftermath of a chaotic Twitter takeover, many people have moved away from centralized social media platforms to a new set of social platforms that are open-source, decentralized, and user-ce…
The Fediverse has a Mental Health Problem
Over the past year the Fediverse has experienced significant growth, and this comes at a very real cost: Mental Health.
Mastodon monoculture problem
Recent moves by Eugen Rochko (known as Gargron on fedi), the CEO of Mastodon-the-non-profit and lead developer of Mastodon-the-software, got some people worried about the outsized influence Mastodon (
Child Safety on Federated Social Media
Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t - Erin Kissane's small internet website
my goal here isn’t to plonk down a big pristine block of research, but to offer a conversational glimpse into what real humans—who were motivated to try not one, but at least two alternatives to Twitter—actually report about their unsatisfactory experiences on Mastodon.
In my experience, building cultural norms into the tooling is much more effective and less alienating than chiding.
Constantly being told I was somewhat dim because I didn’t understand how to do things or what the unwritten rules were.
This, I particularly hate and hope desperately I did not contribute to.
A lot of people in the responding group found the process of picking an instance, signing up, and getting set up genuinely confusing.
The Own Your Experience school doesn’t really grapple with the genuinely terrifying dynamics of mass-scale complex systems.
Can Mastodon be a Twitter refuge for marginalized groups?
The Twitter implosion has brought a flood of people seeking a safer, less-toxic environment. The results have been mixed.
FEDI-WATCH demo | bonkerfield
running decentralized detoxify monitoring for Mastodon
Running a single-user Mastodon instance - blog.thms.uk
Several optimisations and changes I've made to my single user mastodon instance.
On Reddit and Its Federated Alternatives - Jayeless.net
As you may have heard, Reddit’s decided to pull a Twitter and start charging an extortionate amount of money for access to their previously-free API, in order to drive third-party clients like Apollo and RIF into extinction. Under Reddit’s proposed pricing, …
The Roundup – episode 21
The fediverse keeps expanding in different and new directions. The Japanese Misskey community continues to grow rapidly. Link aggregators such as Lemmy and Kbin are getting more popular, and much other news!
Erin Kissane
Straight out of undergrad, I applied to a bookselling job and didn’t get it, so I started working in tech. By the end of my first year there, I was
Even most of the emergent gestures in our interfaces are tweaks on tech-first features
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Bluesky is now integrated with Flipboard, with Pixelfed coming soon - The Verge
Mozilla Social Private Beta Launch
Towards End-to-End Encryption for Direct Messages in the Fediverse - Dhole Moments
Melon Husk
No no no... it's MUSK ... MELON.
Ivory for Mac Review: Tapbots' Superb Mastodon Client Comes to Apple Desktops and Laptops - MacStories
Fediverse 201: Owncast
Owncast is a selfhosted streaming service that connects to the fediverse. I take a look at how this works, and talk with the creator Gabe Kangas.
Happy Friday! Now you can verify your fediverse / Mastodon / open web website...
ust head to your blog's Customize page, and enter the URL you want to verify. If you’re on Mastodon, simply add a link back to your Write.as blog and it’ll show up as verified! It works by adding a rel="me" link in the `` section of your blog. (Thanks to @rmasoni@m...
Right of Reply
reb00ted | Growing the Fediverse
News outlets, Twitter, and the fediverse
The news cycle is talking about NPR leaving Twitter. This is a good moment to look at a case study of Heise, a big German news outlet, and what joining Mastodon actually means in terms of numbers and engagement.
Jack Dorsey’s Former Boss Is Building A Decentralized Twitter
A little-known group of interoperable social networks has been growing in private for years, but now that an engineer behind Twitter’s pilot, Evan Henshaw-Plath has joined the fray, the parallel universe is verging on mainstream.
Last Week in the Fediverse, ep 4: ⚡ — The Fediverse Report
Welcome to another episode of Last Week in the Fediverse! The major theme of this week is news around technical infrastructure. Mastodon....
Why Internet decentralization? - HedgeDoc
# Why Internet decentralization? 
Masto-Redirect, a Mastodon Shortcut to Redirect Profiles and Posts to Your Own Instance
Like many others over the past month, I’ve been thinking deeply about my experience with Twitter and whether I want to align my social media usage with the kind of platform Twitter is rapidly becoming. It’s a complex discussion (if my readers are still on Twitter, am I doing them a disservice by not using
Twitter Rival Mastodon's Founder Has a Vision for Democratizing Social Media
Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Founder Eugen Rochko says that's been a vindication
Trump's Truth Social Can Only Make Mastodon Stronger
The Trump-backed Twitter lookalike looks near to launch, and for better or worse, this will draw more attention than ever to my favorite social network.