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The ongoing Twitter exodus sparked life into a new way of doing social media. Instead of a handful of platforms trying to control your life online, people are reclaiming control by building more open and empowering approaches to social media. Some of these you may have heard of: Mastodon, Bluesky,...

Today, Flipboard is federating the profiles of nine U.S. media sites, bringing their content to millions of people in the fediverse, a rapidly growing open-social network.

Singing the praises of the open social web and attempting to convince friends to migrate here

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Analyzing Effective Governance and Infrastructure Gaps in Medium-to-Large Sized Servers for Enhanced Social Networking

Studies, research papers, and informal polls that explore the fediverse.

A social network founded by a former OpenAI employee was caught importing public posts from Mastodon...and ran AI analysis to add tags to them.

Quiero que le des una oportunidad a Mastodon

Analyzing the ways fediverse apps handle image descriptions.

A manager for Mastodon Lists which lets you add people you follow to lists through an intuitive grid-based interface.

A federated social network for individuals and communities to design, operate and control their own digital lives.

Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

Samedi dernier, dans le cadre de mon asso, j'animais une conférence "grand public" pour présenter le réseau social Mastodon.Une conf très participative

It can be a maze knowing where to start. This guide covers basics like exploring platforms, choosing an instance, creating a profile and more.

It’s Mastodon, it’s Threads, it’s the future, and it’s extremely confusing

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Block Meta or "trust but verify"?

A hopefully more approachable explanation of the Mastodon configuration settings Authorized Fetch and Disallow Unauthenticated API Access

Just as social media has become ubiquitous in academia, its established formats and dynamics have been brought into doubt. Björn Brembs argues that learned societies concerned with their core missi…

Find people to follow on Mastodon by expanding your follow graph.

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Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?

Decentralized social networks may be the new model for social media, but their lack of a central moderation function make it more difficult to combat online abuse.

In a couple days, I head to Philadelphia for the 2023 version of the Association of Internet Researchers conference. It’s my favorite conference. And to give AOIR even more credit, they were one of the first professional academic organizations to set up their own Mastodon instance (I participate in that project by helping run the instance). While there, I will present a paper about the creation of ActivityPub, the protocol that allows the contemporary fediverse to run. Titled “The Non-Standard Standard: A Critical Genealogy of ActivityPub,” I will argue that ActivityPub is a very unusual standard. While it was created by a W3C working group, the Social Web Working Group during a W3C standard process, there were many non-standard aspects to its creation. In this post, I’ll sum up my findings, arguing that there are four ways in which ActivityPub is a non-standard standard. This work is informed by reading the Social Web Working Group (SocialWG) meeting minutes, interviews with SocialWG members, and a study of historical documents. Comments are very welcome, since this is going to be a chapter in my forthcoming book about the fediverse, Move Slowly and Build Bridges.

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X (formerly Twitter) and other