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There’s been this weird series of articles lately, trying to frame the rapid growth of the fediverse (mainly Mastodon), as somehow now failing. It started last month, with the Guardian’…

Active users have fallen by more than 1 million since the exodus from Elon Musk’s Twitter, suggesting the decentralized platform is not a direct replacement.

With Twitter being a mess at the moment, I decided to try out Mastodon as an alternative. Mastodon is a federated social media platform, built on top of a protocol called ActivityPub. It can be self-hosted, letting you own your data, and I wanted to do so using Nomad as a cluster orchestrator. This post shows how I did it, and will hopefully inspire you to give Mastodon a try if you haven’t already! You can find me on the Fediverse at @carrot@bunny.cloud 🐘.

Musk’s controlled release of Twitter files in the name of ‘freedom of speech’ obfuscates the real problem with Twitter.

With centralized, ad-driven social networks in disarray and suffering from misinformation, harassment, and declining users, can the long-simmering Mastodon microblogging system offer a distributed future for conversation and community?

ACT 1: Cutting Off the API to Spite Its Face Twitter, under its new management, last night rushed out yet a major change in operations. It will be cutting off free access to the primary Twitter API.

My goal isn't for Mastodon to replace Twitter. My goal is for the Fediverse to replace Big Social.

All of what I write here today is seat-of-pants. I don't know how this is going to turn out.

#Mastodon es una alternativa a #Twitter con un gran potencial. Te cuento algunas ideas para sacarle mas partido y exprimirla al máximo.

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 …

Learn what we are working on in Mastodon

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