Mastodon Isn’t Just A Replacement For Twitter | NOEMA
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.
Why do You Want to Install Your Personal Mastodon Instance at Home
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.
5 stories about Getting started on Mastodon curated by Scott Lamb - Medium
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
Journalists (And Others) Should Leave Twitter. Here’s How They Can Get Started
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 …
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? | Articles | Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchel LLP
Can Twitter and Other Online Platforms Legally Moderate Content? By Julian Oscar Alvarez, Litigation Department and Nathan M. Shaw, Corporate Department - December 22, 2022
The Fediverse unlocks a world of composable distributed apps - Voices of Open Source
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.
Cómo instalar la red social Mastodon con Docker en Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - HowtoForge
Mastodon es una red social libre, descentralizada y de código abierto. Fue creada como una alternativa a Twitter. Este tutorial te enseñará a configurar tu instancia de Mastodon en un servidor con Ubuntu 18.04 utilizando Docker.
Zac Crellin: "What news publications have yo…" - Mastodon
What news publications have you seen set up shop on Mastodon? I've come across the following that are active & appear to be legit: - LA Times @losangelestimes@newsie.social - NBC News @nbcnews@newsie.social - ProPublica @ProPublica@newsie.social - VOA @VOANews@mastodon.social - The Intercept @theintercept - The Conversation @TheConversationUS@newsie.social - Meduza @meduza_en@masto.ai - Global Voices @globalvoices@mstdn.social - Grist @grist - Die Tageszeitung (in German) @tazgetroete@mastodon.social - Le Monde diplomatique (in French) @mdiplo@mamot.fr (ping me if you know more!) 1/6 #media #news #journalism
Twitter quizá sobreviva a Musk, pero nunca volverá a ser como antes
Un análisis de los tuits de Musk demuestra que él mismo está en el centro de algunas conversaciones polémicas que antes se mantenían en los márgenes de Twitter
Various Notable Accounts (Media, Politics, Tech, Ukraine, and more) - CLICKABLE LINKS with Verification Status
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Date Entered,Name,Mastodon Address,Twitter Address,Website,Tags,Organization,Profile,Activity,Verification,User,Instance,Hyperlink,Name,Full Name
12/19/2022,Jim Acosta,@acosta@mstdn.social,@Acosta,a href="https://t.co/dYU3pW09mg"https://t.co/dYU3pW09mg/a,#politics #news,CNN,Hi...
r/Mastodon - AMA with Eugen Rochko, Founder and lead developer of Mastodon, a decentralized, open-source social media platform based on open web protocols. Ask your questions here!
As Twitter backlash grows, rival Mastodon reaches 2.5 million monthly users | CNN Business
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.
After the Deluge: What's Next on Mastodon for Journalism? [UPDATE-2] - emptywheel
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.