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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…

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Whether Twitter is destined for a fast, slow or no downfall at all remains to be seen. But some in academe aren’t waiting: they are heading for Mastodon or other platforms.

As Elon Musk sends Twitter into chaos, we’re sharing what we picked up about Mastodon as we selected a server

The burgeoning social network is “designed to be against virality,” as one user put it. Can it be the future of social media?

Dependencies Helper functions and constants Data Plots Some CSS for inputs and headers for toots Display toots all data at github updated automatically since November 3, 2022 made with ❤️ by Mauricio Foronda

A post about trying to find a middle way between populism and oligarchy.

"Federation" now apparently means "DDoS yourself." Every time I do a new blog post, within a second I have over a thousand simultaneous hits of that URL on my web server from unique IPs. Load goes over 100, and mariadb stops responding. The server is basically unusable for 30 to 60 seconds until the stampede of Mastodons slows down. Presumably each of those IPs is an instance, none of which ...

David Carroll shares initial thoughts based on his first couple of weeks as an Admin of a Mastodon instance in the 'Fediverse.'