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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.
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Following changes in Twitter's ownership in 2022 and subsequent changes to content moderation policies, many in academia looked to move their discourse elsewhere and migration to Mastodon was...
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Perch - Terminal Social Client for Mastodon & Bluesky
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new from me: on recent discourse and drama on Mastodon. the software gives people the tools to create community via instances, with a wide plurality of cultures and communities. But what people want is a singular culture/community on the federation layer connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodo…
FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?
connectedplaces.onlineModeration is an unsolved problem. Fascism & transphobia prosper in parts of Mastodon. There’s no support to deal with this. The hardest part is funding. It relies on community funding for server costs. There’s also a huge amount of work to be done around the scenes, moderating and fixing problems.
Why we discontinued our Mastodon server
gfsc.communityLoooooool no fucking wayy 😂 🍿 #wsocial mastodon.social/@Gargron/116929536753794512
