Look, just fucking use Mastodon already
Who could have predicted Bluesky could ever have run that risk? I mean, apart from everyone warning us that it was launched by weirdo alt-right blockchain-shilling…
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Look, just fucking use Mastodon already
Who could have predicted Bluesky could ever have run that risk? I mean, apart from everyone warning us that it was launched by weirdo alt-right blockchain-shilling…
Elena Rossini
,
Samuel Aaberg
and
Riyen Patel
Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media is a 4-minute video explainer about the Fediverse, a galaxy of interconnected, free, open-source…
Bluesky claims to be billionaire proof, which is either hopelessly naive or deliberately smarmy. Claims that their platform is open and decentralized…
I really wish @PixelFed@pixelfed.social added a mention of the account we reply too, in comments.
This is a reply to @accudio@mastodon.scot from my Pixelfed account @nhoizey@pixelfed.social , but it looks like a brand new toot in Mastodon.
https://pixelfed.social/p/nhoizey/721278831324593543
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Highlighting Blogging on Mastodon
With this new author byline, a direct connection between the article and the corresponding fediverse accounts is established that increases the visibility…
If you want to your #Wordpress content on #Mastodon, you can either
use the https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ plugin: “With the ActivityPub plugin installed, your WordPress blog itself function as a federated profile, along with profiles for each author”
push the content to any existing Mastodon account by using my GitHub Action, with help from the new docs written by @Julianoe@mastodon.xyz : https://github.com/nhoizey/github-action-feed-to-mastodon/blob/main/docs/wordpress.md
Let's call the things we write and publish on social networks posts. That term has the longest history, it's simple, one syllable, and isn't tied…
Ok, so…
I love all this shared tooling for the same reason I like consent-based federation and communities over networks: it brings the moderation focus back…
RSS Parrot: Turn Mastodon into your feed reader
RSS Parrot, a Fediverse service that lets you turn Mastodon into your feed reader. The Parrot follows the RSS or Atom feeds of a large number of websites,…
How Tweetbot died (and lived again)
Tweetbot’s sudden death, open-casket funeral, and reincarnation as a Mastodon app. I've been using Twitter and Tweetbot for years. I'm now using Mastodon…
Let's POSSE to Mastodon with a Feed and a GitHub Action
After building a Node script for my own POSSE needs, I thought it would be good if other people could also use it. I knew not many people would be able to use the script as-is, so I built a GitHub Action that is much simpler to use, without losing any feature, even gaining some!
It's pretty annoying to see the same toot repeatedly on #Mastodon because everyone is boosting it, even if it's legitimately awesome.
Currently, a boost of a toot is only posted if at least 40 other toots have been posted since the previous boost of the same toot.
There is a GitHub issue asking to allow the user to change this number, or set a duration instead:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18693
Please vote!
My notes will now be push to Mastodon as toots, this feels great! 🎉

I was not aware of this new Mastodon feature, this is great! it enables users to follow other users but in only selected languages. It may be only…
15 years ago… 🤷♂️
Work, what else?
Twitter might not exist anymore soon, or change to the point I don't want to use it anymore.
But I’ve been on Mastodon for a few years now, and it’s great. Find me at https://mamot.fr/@nhoizey
Owning your content on the web should not require extensive technical knowledge or special skills. It should be just as easy as signing up for a cellphone…
Do we really need to repeat that using an icons font is a bad idea?
This is #Mastodon UI right now:
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Fonts are not loaded because of an error (from a Service Worker?):
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Very welcoming for new Mastodon users… 😔
I’m going to try and cover all of the basics of Mastodon in this post, as well as the details of how it all works. By the end of this post, you should…
a number of people asked for specifics on how the user interface (UI) within Mastodon actually worked, and how to get started with the platform. So…
Mastodon & Fediverse for Beginners
Here's a good introduction to the Fediverse from Paula, with details about Mastodon and Pixelfed. Imagine Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & Co were all…
I'm starting sharing my quick thoughts on my own site instead of Twitter, and then #POSSE them on #Twitter, #Mastodon and others, following repeated advice from Tantek Çelik.
Peter O’Shaughnessy
Why Mastodon is defying the “critical mass”
It’s a mistake to judge the fediverse as though it’s a Valley startup […] So let’s ease up on constantly counting Mastodon’s user base. Let’s ease…
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