The excellent @tilvids has created a nice simple video intro to Mastodon. You might find this useful as a basic explanation of how Mastodon works:
Okay, I have written a post about Elon banning Mastodon on Twitter:
"Elon’s Commitment To Free Speech Rapidly Replaced By His Commitment To Blatant Hypocrisy: Bans The JoinMastodon Account"
@cira will you be launching any initiatives to help community groups get involved with #mastodon and #fediverse?
@sibel welcome to our Mastodon!
My article on the recent surge of interest in Mastodon is now out. https://theconversation.com/people-are-leaving-twitter-for-mastodon-but-are-they-ready-for-democratic-social-media-194220
The latest post by @jeffjarvis explores a lot of ideas I've been having about future applications of Mastodon. My goal in the next few weeks is to set up a server for the journalism students I teach so we can collectively explore how media outlets might go about hosting conversations about the local content they produce.
https://buzzmachine.com/2022/11/05/hope-for-a-post-musk-net/
@chanelrobin_umontreal welcome, bienvenue! 👋
Bluesky is an R&D spin-off from Twitter that is looking into decentralized social networks. They released this report that looks at decentralization protocols:https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/twitter.modular.im/981b258141aa0b197804127cd2f7d298757bad20
@tuanle check out this site:https://runyourown.social/
WordPress will federate with Mastodon and other social networks using the ActivityPub standard. There are currently a couple of plugins available: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/pterotype/
https://joinplu.me/ is a federated blogging platform #fediverse
Testing from the iPhone with https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/mastodon-for-iphone-and-ipad/id1571998974
Testing from iPhone app https://tooot.app
Here's our listing on Fediverse Observer: https://fediverse.observer/mastodon1.artsrn.ualberta.ca
Professor in Sociology and Media & Technology Studies