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What Is Mastodon? Mastodon was founded in 2016 by German software developer Eugen Rochko. Unlike Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or most any other social media site, Mastodon is a nonprofit, meaning that it's not owned or run by one individual or an individual company like the sites listed above. Mastodon might

In the three months since Musk bought Twitter for £44bn, thousands have been sacked and the company has nosedived. Here, staff tell of a firm in disarray and an owner whose reputation is also plummeting

As the niche, decentralized social networking platform rises in popularity, it faces rising costs, culture shifts—and potential legal risks.

The reputational crisis caused in Twitter by Elon Musk’s erratic management, as well as the social media platform’s consequent loss of…

Reasons why you should care about how your social network is run and structured

Exemples d’utilisation de quelques fonctionnalités de l’API Python 'Mastodon.py',

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It is time for regulators and governments to give up trying to micro-manage

The new social network with its interconnected ‘fediverse’ is a welcome alternative to blustering rival Twitter and Elon Musk

I lasted tweeted on Dec 22. (It was, unsurprisingly, a link to a blog post about Mastodon.) Today I wondered what percentage of the people who appear in my Mastodon timeline today also appeared on …

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About this Document Hi, I’m Eli. I co-founded New_ Public, a tech nonprofit, where we’re experimenting with design patterns and feature ideas that will help people cultivate healthy, inclusive, cross-cutting relationships on independent social network spaces like Mastodon. I previously started ...

Want to try out Mastodon? Thinking about hosting your own? Or maybe you're new to the experience and need some help or want tips for better connecting? Our kind friends at Reclaim Hosting and ALT are doing a 90 day Mastodon experiment/class/seminar series where you can sign up for an account on a server that

Link to the server: https://thismastodonwillexplo.de/ Mission briefing - 19 January 2023 at 16:00 GMT 2 How to sign up to the server 2 Moving or leaving accounts 2 SitRep - 23 February 2023 at 16:00 GMT 2 Mastodon usernames 3 Links, blogs, tips 3 Mission briefing - 19 January 2023 at 16...

This server will be deleted at the end of April 2023!

Twitter's successor will probably be something not much like Twitter at all.

Users flocking to the platform will need to shift their expectations for social media and become engaged democratic citizens in the life of their networks.

Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego

TL;DR: This post is about the rationale of installing my own personal Mastodon instance at home, not in a VPS or in a cloud provider. In it, you will find hints on how to do it, but not a detailed recipe to overcome all the tasks, as such is not the goal of the article. I’m not going to relate all my trajectory on Mastodon because I want to make things short. The idea is that Mastodon is an application with non-trivial machine requirements, and the Cloud is Expensive.

How can Mastodon improve tools for preventing, and defending against, harassment and abuse?

Read more on Curious about how to get started using Mastodon? It’s not as difficult as you think. The stories in this list will give you everything you need

Summary: Elon Musk has demonstrated contempt for free speech in general, and journalism in particular, with his behavior at Twitter. He is also demonstrating why it is foolhardy for anyone to rely …

Measuring Mastodon based on daily active users doesn’t make sense because maximizing user counts is not the goal. Building a sustainable network is.

How communities are decentralizing social networking, no billionaires required. With the mass exodus of Twitter users following Elon Musk’s takeover, alternative platforms are gaining popularity among these ‘digital refugees’. The leading choice for many is Mastodon, free and open-source self-hosted social networking. Why is it growing so fast, and

Can Twitter and Other Online Platforms Legally Moderate Content? By Julian Oscar Alvarez, Litigation Department and Nathan M. Shaw, Corporate Department - December 22, 2022

There’s more to Mastodon than just replacing Twitter. ActivityPub has the potential to end the reign of monetized surveillance with a switch to user-owned applications.

More than 130,000 people were joining the new independent social media network a day in November. So why hasn’t it taken off?