We’re pleased to introduce Mastodon’s new leadership team, and to share some other important updates.
Mastodon is for the people
How we're thinking about supporting the communities that rely on Mastodon every day.
Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse
In a wide-ranging interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of the decentralized social network Mastodon, Rochko shared why Threads federation fell flat, why ActivityPub and ATProto will likely never merge, and what it will take to grow the fediverse.
Mastodon CEO steps down as the social network restructures | TechCrunch
Eugen Rochko is stepping down as CEO of decentralized social network Mastodon. Felix Hlatky will now become the executive director as the company becomes structured as a nonprofit government by a board.
Mastodon Exit Interview
I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is that it’s become increasing clear that Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind. There are lots of interesting people using Mastodon, and I’m sure it will live on as a good-enough space for certain niche groups. But there is no question that it will never offer the fun of early Twitter, let alone the vibrancy of Twitter during its growth phase. I’ve long since dropped Mastodon from my home screen, and have switched to Bluesky for text-centric social media.
Expectations and preferences around community contributions/interactions · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #36552
There is a long-running pattern of conversations on issues/PRs around some features getting quite heated and sometimes turning into personal insults, venting frustrations, borderline conspiracy acc...
Time to Migrate
Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s going downhill. Where by “downhill” I mean any combination of “less useful”, “less safe”, or “less fun”. This month marks the third anniversary of my Mastodon migration and I’m convinced that right now, in late 2025, it’s the best place to go. Come join me. Here’s why.
New Design Congress (@newdesigncongress@mastodon.world)
4 Posts, 7 Following, 128 Followers · An independent research group confronting the gap between what is said to be happening and what is actually happening in digitised societies.
Director Michael Kratsios on Twitter / X
In response to @POTUS's call for a revival of America's scientific enterprise, today I’m releasing Science: A New Golden Age.This report is a blueprint for renewing American scientific leadership for the 21st century. pic.twitter.com/ikM6pX2ndP— Director Michael Kratsios (@mkratsios47) July 21, 2026
How to discover hashtags to follow on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
Are there any other guides to Mastodon and the Fediverse?
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?
On AI and place, and how Mastodon gives tools to create communities at the instance level, but people experience 'place' at the federation level.
Mastotags - Hashtag Finder for Mastodon
Eugen Rochko (@Gargron@mastodon.social)
We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon, and I think there are plans to do the same for our Patreon community Discord. The harder part will be untangling my gaming communities from this…
interesting to see mastodon take what seems like considerable inspiration from the atmosphere and bluesky i suspect we will see these two grow closer and closer together especially when spaces are officially implemented here and a space authority can function sort of like a mastodon server...
5.0: Laying the foundation
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