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
How to discover hashtags to follow on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
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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.
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Enable Mastodon Apps Plugin — WordPress.com
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Developer Documentation for ActivityPub & Fediverse | SocialDocs
The comprehensive developer resource for building with ActivityPub, Mastodon, and the Fediverse. Guides, specs, API reference, and tools.
Tried building on Mastodon, wasn't financially viable. There's extremely little will to pay people for work in the fediverse, and Mastodon couldn't even give credit to contributors to help them raise their own profile. The only Fediverse orgs that have paid me are IFTAS and Nivenly.
Pedro Vezza
Why did you decide to bet on atproto over Mastodon or similar?
Now in the Reader: Bluesky, Mastodon, and the Fediverse wordpress.com/blog/2026/05/28/reader-social…
Now in the Reader: Bluesky, Mastodon, and the Fediverse
wordpress.comAny big Fediverse users around? In github.com/singi-labs/sifa-workspace/iss… we are exploring how to integrate your Fediverse activity into Sifa and what that could/should look like. If you have any ideas/suggestions/opinions about this, we'd love to hear about them before building.
RSS/Fediverse feed ingestion for ATmosphere Stream · Issue #111 · singi-labs/sifa-workspace
github.comInspired by @pds.dad 's AMA about #atproto over on #Mastodon ... AMA about #ActivityPub and the #Fediverse! No question is too basic! (If questions get beyond my knowledge I'll at least try to point you in the right direction 😃)
So uh, apparently $288/year is not enough to run a Mastodon service for ~3 users, and this is a known issue (masto.host/mastodon-content-retention-se…) with no solution (github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions…!
