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.
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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.
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...
Mastodon is for the people
How we're thinking about supporting the communities that rely on Mastodon every day.
Enable Mastodon Apps Plugin — WordPress.com
Despite Mastodon implying that you would use this plugin for engaging on Mastodon (when you have enabled it for that, see below), the plugin is useful when installed on a plain WordPress.
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...
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Mastodon pilot for research and education
SURF and Universities of the Netherlands are jointly exploring Mastodon as an open source platform for education and research in the Netherlands.
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Making Social Media Social
As some of you might know, I am part of a team of people moderating a Mastodon server. And as so many of those servers we’ve been having some problems with fake signups lately. This is about how we mitigated the issue and how it was beneficial beyond that. So for those who don’t know […]
Dutch Universities are jointly exploring Mastodon as an open source platform for education and research in the Netherlands. Exciting, and hopefully just the start of a much bigger trend! (that ofc also includes #atscience!)
Mastodon pilot for research and education
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