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White Paper: some Mastodon users sneer about Threads users, less do vice-versa, but by and large people mostly just want to communicate
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112884
#SocialNetworking #fediverse #mastodon #threads
I think this is good news: Threads users express more…
DropsafeMeta confirms it is considering charging UK users for ad-free version https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/22/meta-confirms-it-is-considering-charging-uk-users-for-ad-free-version #Socialnetworking #Technologysector #Technology #Instagram #Facebook #Business #Media #Meta
Facebook and Instagram owner reaches legal agreement…
The GuardianOkay, here is the translation of the provided text into English, aiming for maximum accuracy:
**SMM in Mastodon: Features and Strategies**
Mastodon is a social network that is becoming increasingly important for SMM. Unlike Twitter and Instagram, it has its own characteristics that must be considered. One of the main differences is the decentralized structure of Mastodon. This is a kind of "federated" network. Users choose a server (instance) to join, but can communicate with users from other servers.
**Mastodon Audience**
Mastodon's audience is growing (according to Fediverse Observer, by 2025 the audience will reach 10 million), and this attracts the attention of SMM specialists. But how to work with this audience? First, it is important to understand the values that are important to Mastodon users. These include: privacy, openness, and community.
SMM in Mastodon: Key Features
SMM in Mastodon differs from promotion in other social networks. Here are some key features:
* **Decentralization**
Mastodon is not controlled by a single company, like Twitter or Facebook. Each server has its own rules and moderation. Therefore, it is important to choose the right server for your target audience.
* **API**
Mastodon has a powerful API that allows you to automate tasks and create bots. Many tools, such as MastoBot and Fediverse.party, use the API to expand functionality.
* **Community Focus**
Mastodon emphasizes community and communication. Direct advertising and aggressive marketing are usually not welcome here. It is important to build relationships with users and participate in discussions.
* **Content Moderation**
Each Mastodon server has its own moderation rules. This helps to create a comfortable environment for communication, but also requires SMM specialists to be aware of the rules of each specific server.
* **Content Planning**
Content planning in Mastodon is similar to other social networks. It is important to create interesting and relevant content for your audience. It is recommended to post 1-3 times a day, but focus on quality, not quantity.
Mastodon offers unique opportunities for SMM, different from Twitter and Facebook. The decentralized structure, API, and community focus create new challenges and opportunities. Fediverse Observer provides data and analytics on the Mastodon audience.
Key aspects of SMM in Mastodon: decentralization, community focus, and content moderation.
Mastodon: Is it suitable for SMM promotion?
The choice of platform depends on your goals and target audience.
* **Choosing a Server**
Choosing the right server (instance) is important for reaching your target audience. There are servers dedicated to specific topics (e.g., technology, art), as well as general-purpose servers (e.g., mastodon.social).
* **Content Strategy**
Unlike Twitter/Facebook, Mastodon values authentic communication and community engagement. Direct advertising is less effective here, and it is important to focus on creating valuable content and participating in discussions.
* **Interactions**
Boost (repost) is a way to share content with your followers. Likes ("favorites") are used to express approval. Replying to posts is the main way to communicate with other users.
* **Cross-posting**
You can integrate Mastodon with other platforms (e.g., Matrix/Telegram) to expand your reach.
* **Hashtags**
Hashtags are used to categorize posts and make them discoverable. Use relevant hashtags to reach a wider audience.
* **Content Warnings ("CW")**
Content warnings are used to mark sensitive content and warn users before they view it. This helps to create a comfortable environment for all users.
* **Community Engagement**
Active participation in the community is key to success on Mastodon. Respond to comments, participate in discussions, and build relationships with other users.
* **Analytics**
Use analytics tools to track your performance and optimize your strategy.
Mastodon offers unique opportunities for building a community and engaging with your audience. However, it requires a different approach than traditional social media platforms. It is important to understand the values and culture of the Mastodon community to achieve success.
**Conclusion**
Mastodon, as part of the Fediverse, offers new opportunities for SMM promotion. It is important to consider its features: decentralization, community focus, and content moderation. Success in Mastodon requires a different approach than in other social networks: focus on community engagement, authentic communication, and valuable content. The API provides opportunities for automation and integration with other platforms.
Key takeaway: Mastodon is not just another Twitter or Facebook for SMM. It requires a unique approach, understanding of the audience, and focus on community engagement. Success here depends on building relationships, not just broadcasting messages.
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Thursday 13th March 2025
The Network with Kamal Chauhan and Aaron Tan
#networking #socialnetworking #businessnetworking #connect #networkingevent #getconnected #careertips #connects #professionalnetworkinggroup #londonprofessionalnetwork #sharing #togetherwestrive #TheNetwork #Learning #backtoschool #Leadership #Management #University
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@peterrenshaw@ioc.exchangeWhat is the AT Protocol?
Wikipedia: “The #ATProtocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol, pronounced "@ protocol" and commonly shortened to ATProto) is a protocol and #OpenStandard for #distributed #socialNetworking services. It is under development by #BlueskySocial #PBC, a public benefit corporation originally created as an independent research group within #Twitter to investigate the possibility of #decentralizing the service.”
The opening sentence of this: "one of the most popular academic social networking sites is [ResearchGate]"
This may be factually correct but it really doesn't feel like it anymore. I always felt that RG was, frankly, $hit, but accepted that it appeared popular among scholars. But today? I rarely come across it.
The Now-Defunct #ResearchGate Score and the Extant Research Interest Score: A Continued Debate on #Metrics of a Highly Popular #Academic #SocialNetworking Site https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2024-0011
Academics might employ science social media or academic…
De Gruyterhttps://www.europesays.com/?p=1850227 Bitcoin Boom and 2 More Ways Elon Musk Could Impact the Stock Market in 2025 #crypto #cryptocurrency #ElonMusk #PriceOfTesla #SocialNetworking #StockMarkets #StockPrice #StockPrices #TeslaStock
»The #Fediverse (commonly shortened to #Fedi) is a collection of #socialnetworking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as federation) using a common protocol.« https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
@reiver@mastodon.socialThe doesn't sound like a social-network. This sounds more like some type of broadcast-network.
(Via @fedijedi )
RE: https://daveverse.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/666/
#broadcast #BroadcastNetwork #BroadcastNetworking #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #SocialNetworking
Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permission https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/08/gambling-firms-secretly-shared-users-data-with-facebook-without-permission #Socialnetworking #Dataprotection #Marketing&PR #Socialmedia #Technology #DonFoster #Gambling #Facebook #Society #UKnews #Meta
Betting companies secretly track visitors to their…
The Guardian
in calmness @smallcircles@social.coop
It is interesting how dogmatic our thinking is. If I imagine myself as a person, my awareness. I have a set of senses, and through them I receive streams of information through time.. timelines. And I do social networking my entire life, since birth. Yet in no way does my world look anything like #Xitter, or even #Mastodon for that matter. My initials are A.S. and I just `as:Like` to `as:Note` this now and then. 
Mark Zuckerberg announces that Threads users can now make custom feeds public and follow others' custom feeds! A big step in personalizing the experience. #Threads #MarkZuckerberg #SocialMedia #TechNews #CustomFeeds #Innovation #SocialNetworking
Thursday 13th February 2025
The Network with Nat Olaiya from Funding Gap
The truth about fund raising for scale-up businesses. How to “SatNav” your fund raising journey.
#networking #socialnetworking #businessnetworking #connect #networkingevent #togetherwestrive #TheNetwork #Funding #Fundraising #scale-up
Beim 1. Netzwerktreffen des Bonner Netzwerks für Entwicklung https://bonner-netzwerk.org/ am 30. Januar gab Klaus Hombach, 1. Vorsitzender des Bonner #Spendenparlament, einen Input zu den Förderkriterien und förderwürdigen Projekten. Unter dem Motto "Gut gefördert ins Jahr starten!“ vereinfacht der Workshop die Suche nach neuen Fördertöpfen und bringt lokale Vereine und Initiativen in Kontakt mit Fördergebern. - #SocialNetworking in #Bonn
In the continuing saga of All The Reasons I Hate #Meta #US and #Canadian #Facebook and #Instagram users #Fuckerberg’s #AI Chatbot will take your user data and there’s nothing you can do to stop it… unless you #UninstallMeta. What’re you waiting for? #socialnetworking #capitalism https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/27/1821216/metas-ai-chatbot-taps-user-data-with-no-opt-out-option
Meta's AI chatbot will now use personal data from users'…
tech.slashdot.org in calmness @smallcircles@social.coop#coding --> #socialcoding
#community --> #movement
#users --> #fedizens
and
#technosphere --> #sociosphere
#fediverse --> #peopleverse
#foss --> #soss
and
#socialmedia --> #socialnetworking
#socialgraph --> #socialfabric
#techstack --> #socialstack
#app --> #solution #service
#product --> #socialexperience
and
#dx #ux #ui --> #sx
#project --> #fsdl
#projects --> #ecosystem
#development --> #cocreation
#forge --> #forging
#contributor --> #peer
#contributing --> #peerproduction
@clbear31@mstdn.party2/ 
Tribel
• Focuses on privacy and user control
• No ads or algorithms manipulating content
• Strong community features
• Smaller user base
• Limited exposure for creators compared to bigger platforms
#Tribel #PrivacyFocused #SocialNetworking
in calmness @smallcircles@social.coop#SocialNetworking.. what peopl do, build societies with.
#SocialMedia.. effectively corporate anti-social.
#Socials.. newspeak to refer to anti-socials.
#SocialWeb.. research for better social networking support.
But what about Bluesky?
But what about Bluesky?
This platform – invented by the guy who started Twitter, then refused to moderate it properly and eventually forced the sale to Musk after Musk wanted to back out- sorry, where was I?
Bluesky has a single point of failure. They could decide to sell it to Musk too. Or to Meta. Or to Google. Or to Amazon, or to whoever. It’s backed by capital, so it’s for sale.
To prevent this, there’s a group of people trying to build a “spare” server so Bluesky users can easily hop between them when the main Bluesky stops being in the fun early phases of trying to build up a user base and moves on phase 2 where it tryies to wring data and profit out of everyone. The people making the spare estimate that their server will cost $30 million USD and take three years to set up. That’s apparently not counting running costs after those three years are up. Which may be a moot point, as currently, this is also not technically possible. It requires the capital-backed team at Bluesky to build the tools to make this possible.
And if the hypothetical $30 million dollar spare server also gets caught up in US politics, what then? Do they need to raise another $30 million?
By contrast, a small mastodon (or other fediverse) server can go up in an afternoon and be run for a few dollars a month. Nobody quite knows how many are running right now- it’s in the thousands. Some only have one user. Some have hundreds.
The social media project with thousands of people working independently as part of a loose movement is harder to capture than a centralised, expensive project. It’s not just run by one or two teams. It’s not in one or two countries.
I know your friends are on Bluesky. . . . Like they are one facebook and were on twitter and were on myspace. . ..
Part of the reason people like the fediverse is that it’s really very easy to move between instances. If queer.party turns out too be too unserious, I can go to scholar.social and keep my contacts. I would argue that this is better than herding ourselves into yet another walled garden that cages us. To another billionaire who turns fascist.
You can be on many websites at a time and you don’t have to choose – it’s possible to have both kinds of account. I’m just kind of tired of being caught in traps again and again and again.