This whole federating with Threads thing has never made any sense and now we see it is very likely they have just been playing us the whole time. Let's stop falling for this nonsense and get back to building great open social media.
Since there's apparently something like 300,000 more users on here, here's some articles I've written about getting started with #Mastodon and the #fediverse.
University College London shoutout! UCL is unwilling to set up a Mastodon account now, but they say that if there's lots of UCL presence here already it will nudge them in this direction. If you're at UCL or know someone who is, and you're on here, please reply to this to let us know! Current chief plotters: @sellathechemist , me and maybe more)
If you are able to, donate to your #Mastodon instance provider. They are making it possible for you to own your little corner of the internet. It is definitely worth it.
Any computer program can be designed to run from a single file if you architect it wrong enough! I wanted to create the simplest possible Fediverse server which can be used as an educational tool to show how ActivityPub / Mastodon works. The design goals were: Upload a single PHP file to the server. No […]
So far I am totally impressed with #Mastodon ‘s ability to relay real time news on #Russia events. I checked the bird site as a comparison, and it’s miles behind because they don’t display posts chronologically and boost subscriber posts, which tend to be old. Yay #Mastodon !
IMPORTANT: WE MUST FIND CARLEE RUSSELL. 🙏🏿 Another Black woman gone missing in America. Please spread the word on your social media by posting or reposting this or the image you see here. Spread the word on your podcast, too. Thank you.
Please call 205-401-3365 to provide police with any information on her whereabouts.
👉🏾 Many brands are abandoning Threads (including #NFL)
👉🏾 Meta’s geo news ban of #Canada 🇨🇦 could have spooked BBC
👉🏾 Lack of public Threads API makes it difficult to automate posting news
👉🏾 BBC just prefers Mastodon
So, this is just great! Mastodon doesn't do marketing, but check out (...and share widely) this wonderful promotional video about Mastodon by Paige Saunders @paigesaunders
Looking for people to follow?
Use this one weird trick to find kindred folk.
See a post that speaks to you, or at least you strongly agree with? Besides boosting the post and following them, click on the post.
At the bottom it shows the number of boosts. Click on the icon and you’ll get a list of others that have boosted the post. Same with favorite icon. Ta-dah!
Only took me 11 months to figure this out.
This is on the web. Not sure if it works on them new-fangled brainy phones.
We're going to make a #Mastodon plushie and it's going to be very cute! I'll share more details once the prototype is done—the concept art is very promising and our partners at FRESH have a good track record of making plushies 🙂
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Zero ads.
My data stays on my server.
Interactions are genuine, driven by people's desire, not an algorithm pushing for conflict to boost engagement (and ad sales).
Nobody's here just because it's trendy. If you're here, you want to be here.
The best social media experience I've had in years.
Thank you to all of you, among these 15 million accounts, who have helped make this a wonderful place to be.