Mastodon and Fediverse related Content (Work in Progress)
Below is a list of content I found useful during my move from the Bird site...
The broader background
What on Earth Is the Fediverse?
The past six years have seen no shortage of critiques lobbed at social media companies from all angles. These concerns mean that users may be looking for alternative services, based on their particular grievances with mainstream social media. Various substitutes gain attention, and some users consider or even migrate to new platforms. But the Fediverse often ducks under the radar. It isn’t a social media site but a decentralized collection of servers that represents an entirely different way of organizing social media. Although the Fediverse remains small relative to the number of users on mainstream platforms, those interested in the future of the internet and regulation should be aware of the Fediverse: how it works, who uses it and why it’s important.
Resources on the web
Basically all you need in one place: A Big List of Mastodon Resources
I took a pop at Mastodon several years ago, but it didn’t work. I couldn’t figure out how to make it social, and I didn’t have a good grasp of how the “federated” part works.
Curated list of awesome Mastodon-related stuff!
Link lists
Tools I personally use
Finding Twitter follows
Check if the people somebody is following or the members of one of their lists are on Mastodon (or elsewhere in the Fediverse).
Fediverse clients
A free Android client that can handle multiple Fediverse accounts and has some nifty privacy features, cf What does UntrackMe do?
Basically it handles urls. It can do these:
- Redirect: Transform YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and Google Maps URLs into URLs of front-ends and services that respect your privacy.
- Unshorten: See the real link behind short URLs of some URL shortening services without loading the web page
- Cleanup: Remove known UTM parameters from a URLs
A “free and ethical photo sharing platform” that is part of the Fediverse and lets you share images. Also, people can transparently subscribe to your photo album in Mastodon etc. Neat.
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