Mastodon

Federated OpenMicroBlogging/OStatus app/network.

Mastodon is a federated social network, with similar features to Twitter, but administrated as a decentralized federation of servers running open source software. Users belong to a single Mastodon server, known as an "instance", where they post short messages for others to read, subject to the privacy settings of the user and instance. Messages can range from private to the user, private to the user's followers, public on a specific instance, public across the federated Mastodon network, and directly between users. The service seeks to distinguish itself from Twitter through its orientation towards small communities and community-based, rather than top-down, moderation... While Mastodon first released in October 2016, the service began to expand in late March and early April 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)

I'm at https://toolsforthought.social/@billseitz, previously https://toolsforthought.rocks/@billseitz and https://mastodon.social/@BillSeitz

• how to move to a new server
• discussions on operation of the ToolsForThoughtRocks instance

built on ActivityPub, it's the biggest part of the Fediverse

servers, clients, style guides, bots, etc https://github.com/tleb/awesome-mastodon

clients

• I mostly use Tusky on Android
• and Elk on my Mac
• though want to keep re-trying phanpy https://phanpy.social/

a page listing 4 forks of the server (incl Hometown)

Python WebApp clients: list https://github.com/topics/mastodon-client?l=python

• on Django: https://git.carcosa.net/jmcbray/brutaldon
• using Flask: https://github.com/foozmeat/tusk.rocks (focused on music-link sharing; frozen in 2021)

2017-04-04-ByeTwitterAllTheCoolKidsAreMigratingToMastodon

2017-04-04-JeongMastodonIsLikeTwitterWithoutNazis

2017-04-05-AldrichMastodonVsIndieWeb

2017-04-05-HenryMastodonIsDeadInTheWater

Darius Kazemi: How to Register a Mastodon App