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...
Mastodon is for the people
How we're thinking about supporting the communities that rely on Mastodon every day.
Exit to Community: A Community Primer
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How Does Mastodon Work? - Kev Quirk
I’ve spoken about Mastodon numerous times on this blog. It is the social media platform I use more than any other, but for a new user it can be confusing because it doesn’t work like other social media sites.
Saia da mastodon.social - Jardim Social
A mastodon.social costuma ser a porta de entrada de muitas pessoas no Fediverso. O app oficial direciona logo pra ela, sob pretexto de reduzir o atrito e criar uma experiência mais fluída para quem está chegando agora.
Mastodon - Decentralized social media
Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.
Lessons from Mastodon's False Start: Understanding AT Protocol and Bluesky's Dilemma - Nightflight
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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.
El santo y el mastodonte | Columna
En las redes sociales públicas, los mensajes de las instituciones no dependen de la voluntad de una empresa. Allí es donde deben estar
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.
What's with "Discuss on Mastodon"?
Originally I thought about giving this thread a more general title like “indie web comment options,” but then I figured let’s cut to the chase: I want to understand the prevalence of Mastodon links being used at the end of indie web posts in place of a comment section. Here are some posts about using Mastodon as an alternative to a comment section: Murteza Yesil: How do I comment/reply to your posts? Beetle Space: Adding Fediverse Comments to My Static Site Beej’s Bit Bucket: Mastodon Comment...
It’s not you. It’s me. (Taking a break from Mastodon)
I'm walking away from Mastodon for a bit. Here's why.
Moderation 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.communitynew 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?
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