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Mastodon's 29-year-old CEO is taking an anti-Elon Musk approach to growing his Twitter alternative

He forbids hate speech, bans ads, eschews revenue, and has abdicated hands-on control.

Fortune

Twitter advertisers fleeing Elon Musk will struggle migrating to Mastodon, an emerging alternative

Mastodon says it's "social networking that's not for sale," but that doesn’t mean all is lost for businesses on the site.

Fortune

Question for Mastodon Users

Mastodon of course lets you interact with people from any other Mastodon servers; but it also has features that make it easier for you to interact with people from the same server. If you use Mastodon, do you find that you take advantage of these local-interaction features? Or do you…

Reason

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Mystified by Mastodon? We're Here To Help.

Mastodon might not be the future of decentralized social media, but it can’t hurt to check it out as Twitter implodes.

Reason

How to leave Twitter but keep your followers

Moving to a new social network should be like switching mobile provider or bank, but it’s not

Financial Times

Five alternative platforms for Twitter expats

As Twitter continues to see its user count dwindle by the minute, people are shopping around for their new digital home.

The New Daily

Looking to leave Twitter? Here are the social networks seeing new users now

Can a network like Hive Social or Mastodon foster the communities and conversations that thrived on the bird app's good days? It's too soon to know for sure, but many hope the answer is yes.

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Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has disrupted the Christchurch Call – NZ needs to rethink its digital strategy

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter as the new sole private owner has delivered plenty of material for memes. Ironically, much of the debate about Twitter is still happening on the platform itself, sometimes with Musk jumping into the conversations personally.

The Conversation

Mastodon.com Is Not the Home of the Mastodon Social Network

I inadvertently went there a few days ago instead of going to our Mastodon host, liberdon.com, and realized that the site is all about this: https://youtu.be/4kYdR0dIlp0 Awesome, especially starting at about 1:25.

Reason

The Empire Strikes Back, at Elon

Episode 431 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Reason

Mastodon or Mastodon't?

I have been Twitter sober now for nearly three years. I do not miss it at all. And I do not plan to join Mastodon, because if it survives (no guarantee), the site will suffer from the same flaws as Twitter. Social media is premised on a simple idea: Person…

Reason

What Elon Musk's destruction of Twitter tells us about the future of social media

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has been a fast-moving disaster. It has also created a tangible problem for journalists, politicians, activists and academic scholars: Where do we talk to each other if or when Twitter finally collapses or becomes unusable?

The Conversation

Mastodon's Content-Moderation Growing Pains

[I asked Prof. Alan Rozenshtein (University of Minnesota) to write a post about Mastodon and one particular recent controversy related to it, and he very kindly agreed. -EV]

Reason

Easy to Set Up a Mastodon Account to Mirror Your Twitter Account

I noted yesterday that we had set up a Mastodon account (@VolokhC@liberdon.com), but I also wanted to mention that it was pretty easy: [1.] I found an "instance," which is to say a place that would host us, and which had moderation rules that we could deal with. For us,…

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Salon

Navigating a post-Twitter life online

Looking at the demise of other platforms – such as LiveJournal – to game out the challenges of moving to a new one

Reason

We've set up an account on Mastodon (to supplement our Twitter account, not to replace it)—please follow us there, @VolokhC@liberdon.com. It should be set up (using moa.party) to automatically post all our Volokh Conspiracy posts; I've tested that using a link to a sandbox account of mine, but I suppose…

Reason

Setting Up Mastodon Server, Using an Outside Service or on Our Own?

Trying to get up to speed on Ice Age technology.

Axios

Quitting Elon Musk's Twitter? Here's how to join Mastodon

Mastodon looks a lot like Twitter, but it's not a company, and that could make all the difference.

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Twitter has 'real chance of disappearing' under Elon Musk says social media rival

The sheer size of the social media giant is not enough to insure it against failure, insists Eugen Rochko

ABC News

Thousands are flocking to Mastodon in what users are calling a #TwitterMigration. What is it and how does the 'rival platform' work?

Social media "back in the hands of the people", is the promise of Mastodon. It's not a new platform, but it has begun soaring to the top of download charts around the world. Here's how it works.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Elon Musk is breaking Twitter, so here are some alternatives to try out

We'll miss you, Twitter. Maybe.

The Independent UK

With Twitter in chaos, some ways to protect your account

Twitter is in chaos mode

The Guardian - US

Twitter ‘closes offices’ after Elon Musk’s loyalty oath sparks wave of resignations

The tech company is struggling to retain workers after Musk demanded employees sign a pledge to work ‘long hours at high intensity’

Salon

Is Mastodon the new Twitter? Not quite

Twitter refugees have moved to Mastodon by the hundreds of thousands. It's very different — and that's mostly good

The Independent UK

Should Elon Musk really be afraid of Mastodon?

Think ‘instances’ instead of hashtags, ‘toots’ instead of tweets, and a one-man staff instead of a cartoonish supervillain running the show, and you’ll have Mastodon. Tom Ough investigates whether this nicer, trickier platform could be our big social media salvation

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