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The microblogging platform has transformed research communication, but its future is in doubt.

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Twitter rival Mastodon has grown eight times its size in a matter of weeks, going from approximately 300,000 users in October to 2.5 million in November, according to a blog post by the platform's founder, Eugen Rochko.

Continue to stay with what looks like a dying bird, or forge ahead with the rapidly-growing hairy tusked herd? Media needs to snap out of its torpor and choose. One of these isn't much of a choice.

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Curious about moving from Twitter to Mastodon – a Twitter alternative? Read this article to learn how to join the Mastodon migration.

Curated list of awesome Mastodon-related stuff! Contribute to tleb/awesome-mastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.

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

The tweet — and the journalism — that got me suspended from Twitter.

A Mastodon instance called Toot Wales has recently experienced a big increase in usage. We talk to its operator, Jaz-Michael King.

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

This post is part of a series on Mastodon and the fediverse. We also have a post on privacy and security on Mastodon, why the fediverse will be great—if we don't screw it up, and how to make a Mastadon account. You can follow EFF on Mastodon here.A wave of people have announced that they're leaving...

Este post forma parte de una serie sobre Mastodon y el fediverso. También tenemos un artículo sobre por qué el fediverso será grande, si no lo estropeamosy hay más en camino. Puedes seguir a la EFF en Mastodont aquí.Con tantos usuarios migrando a Mastodonte como su servicio de microblogging de...

Some people I know planned or already had moved away. The target seems to be Mastodon, an alternate decentralized Open Source using the ActivityPub protocol.

Two Black academics discuss the rationale behind leaving Twitter or going down with the ship.

How a centuries-old institution can save today’s faltering social media culture.

Far from exposing the nefarious inner workings of the platform, the files reveal an ethos of "transparency for thee, but not for me."

Frenzied speculation over the fate of Elon Musk's Twitter deal masks a deeper point about digital democracy

If Elon Musk drives the social media platform into the ground we will congregate elsewhere. But will we be able to build the same connections?

This is the time to start thinking about the long-term sustainability and governance of the new, bigger Mastodon, says Alek Tarkowski.

Last week there was hubbub about what the Raspberry Pi folks did on social media, posting from their own Mastodon instance, and how other…

The Twitter implosion has brought a flood of people seeking a safer, less-toxic environment. The results have been mixed.

Mastodon: @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online Birdsite: https://twitter.com/MastodonMigrate

I love the indieweb and what it stands for: When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many

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Decentralising the Web is a desirable but challenging goal. One particular challenge is achieving decentralised content moderation in the face of various adversaries (e.g. trolls). To overcome...

I’ve been thinking a lot about failure lately. Failure comes in many forms, but I’m especially interested in situations in which people…