Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

@zleap @dkellyj I was thinking about "hive mind" and "collectives" as analogies too for corporate social media platforms!

Elon of Borg also springs to mind...

Lot of arguments against Mastodon can be boiled down to : "But I really want a big centralized power that tells me the centralized truth".

Decentralization is hard because there’s not one single objective truth anymore. There’s no more one single way of doing it. There’s not a "good" answer to your question. There’s no official scale of worthiness.

You need to make mistakes, to be frustrated, to discover unwanted things.

You need to (re)learn to be a human.

It’s hard and political.

Four days ago: huh this place is empty. Ooh I can follow three parked accounts

Yersterday morning: maybe 10% or so of the people I follow regularly on the bird site are here

Now: huh think it's fully half or more are here

It's a flood peeps. Never thought I'd see anything like it

It’s interesting that the biggest communication challenge facing Mastodon communities is explaining that it’s basically a protocol and a network of independent, interconnected servers, which is what the Web, e-mail, even DNS and most of the fundamental services we use on the internet are, and always were.
It just illustrates just how much ‘Big Tech’ proprietary social media platforms swallowed up and walled off, if it’s now difficult to explain what the internet actually is!

@freemo
Endless appreciations!

This is marvellous! So qoto.org is an entire ecosystem of free apps and mastodon and peertube etc tie into it! This could be excellent for building serious scholarly discussions on the top of #fediverse, and #qotojournal for example builds a knowledge base.

New to Mastodon? Here are some guides I've found useful for figuring it all out.

Top 10 tips: https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/

Longer guide: https://axbom.com/mastodon-guide/

Feditips 🦣 for beginners: https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/

Nikodemus' Guide to 🦣: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit#

Notes from a Data Witch: https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/

#feditips #TwitterMIgration #Twexit #IrishTwitter #IrishMastodon

#Introduction Hello all! I am south Wales based. Love #knitting and #WelshWool. Manage #FarmersMarkets . Keen interest in #Sustainable food and supply chains. Organise #solidarity projects between #Wales and #Africa #WalesAfrica. Learning about #horticulture #gardening #urbangarden #garden I follow as well #Diversity #BlackMastodon #inclusion #diaspora #AfroCaribbean

It's Friday and version 1.2 of "The many branches of the Fediverse" is published. Thanks everyone for your interest and engagement.

There is a changelog at the bottom of the post with more info, and you are welcome to download hi-res PNG and PDF versions of the diagram.

Do feel free to use this visual in any way you like, in your presentations, publish in your own spaces, etceteras. I'm just glad if you find it useful.

https://axbom.com/fediverse/

#FediTips

Good evening Mastodon! 🦣

I’m a professor of science communication at UZH, the University of Zurich, and Co-Director of it’s Department of communication and media research

I research mediated #scicomm in #news or #socialmedia, focusing on issues like #climatechange or #AI. And I’m interested in mid- & disinformation around science, populism etc. More on https://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/research/divisions/science-crisis-and-risk-communication/team/mike-s-schaefer.html

Let’s see how this goes here… 🥳

Hello! Trying out this thing, so far I have no idea what I'm doing but here's some art 😀

Time for me to shamelessly plug my own instances.

I run a local Vancouver-focused instance at https://vancity.social. Registrations are open if you're from Metro Vancouver or British Columbia.

I also host a single user instance on my own domain at atomicpoet.org. Registrations are closed.

I don't know exactly how I'll be using Mastodon just yet, but here's an intro: Hi, I'm Celeste! I'm an environmental seismologist, mostly specializing in seismic signals generated by glacier processes. I'm currently a postdoctoral fellow at UCalgary, which I started after finishing my PhD at Caltech in June. I sometimes take cool pictures in the field as Queen Elsa for fun and for outreach, like this one near my current field site in British Columbia:

Is it possible to be on more than one Mastodon server with the same account?

🌌 New themed servers in Fedi network (2/3):

• https://indiepocalypse.social - for independent #creators of all sorts

• https://makerspace.social - space for makers (#CNC, #woodworking, #microcontrollers, etc)

• https://3dp.chat - #3D printing

• https://brettspiel.space - for #boardgame players

• https://podcasts.social - for #podcasters

#fediworld

Just a reminder for all new Twitter newcomers. Please, when you register on a server that has premoderation enabled, fill in a REASON FOR JOINING field. It will make the work of moderators easier and also will give moderators the idea that you are not a bot and some idea about your intentions on the server.

Thank you.