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A comment on a Hacker News thread inspired me to contemplate why Mastodon is everything we loved about social media before…

Twitter is in turmoil and the scholarly community on the platform is once again starting to migrate. As with the early internet, scholarly organizations are at the forefront of developing and implementing a decentralized alternative to Twitter, Mastodon. ...

3 Posts, 4 Following, 6 Followers · Originator and sysadmin of Collapsible. This account will be used primarily for the project. Currently training up my co-sysadmin (resilience, right?)

A few days ago I posted an article on LinkedIn entitled “8 Really Good Reasons to Try Mastodon,”so I figured it made sense to follow that up with a quick start guide based on my own exp…

“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty.” And Mastodon was the most common destination if they opened…

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

Social media is dying after the implosion of Twitter. Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon are trying to replace X but are coming up short. Maybe that's OK.

After my last long post, I got into some frustrating conversations, among them one in which an open-source guy repeatedly scoffed at the idea of

A guidebook for Cutie City and the wider Fediverse.

A slew of bad internet bills are being pushed through the US Legislature. Can we look to the Fediverse to carry activist causes?

The communities that call Twitter home might decide to pack their bags. If they do, they are unlikely to be able to completely reconstitute themselves elsewhere.

ActivityPub, the protocol that powers the fediverse (including Mastodon – same caveats as the first two times, will be used interchangeably, deal with it) is not private. It is not even semi-…

Nous sommes en 2023. Tout l'Internet est sous le contrôle de l'empire GAFAM. Tout ? Non. Car quelques petits villages résistent à l'oppression. Et (...)

Big Tech steals money from media, not content. Moving towards policy that addresses this fact can be one way to support the struggling news industry, shifting value to the press. Also, take on the apps.

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Verified Journalist is a trusted directory of real and verified reporters, journalists and news outlets on Mastodon and the fediverse.

Las recientes acciones de Eugen Rochko (conocido como Gargron en el fediverso), el director ejecutivo de la asociación sin ánimo de lucro de Mastodon y principal…

Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Over and over agai…

NPR has officially quit Twitter. PBS followed suit. (updated 14. April) Dear journalists, this is the best opportunity you'll ever get t...

Lots has happened in the last three months regarding the fediverse. An extensive look and summary of the last quarter.

Mastodon is just the start—here comes the Fediverse

With the current uncertainty over Twitter, I'm starting to explore using Mastodon

P92 team wants to use data of all Instagram users regardless of their participation in the new platform being planned by Meta, according to sources