Notes-Essential Mastodon Resources

Updated 01132023-085724

• GitHub Issue
• Local
• Notes
• bilge Repo
• WTF
• Things Project
• End User Melon Man Emergency
• Things

mastodon-init

• GitHub Repository
• Ulysses Project
• Craft Folder
• Things Project

General

• Don't spend any money! for gosh sakes!
• David Blue on Mastodon - Itty

Social

A PROPHET. https://t.co/TeSh9PYU6A pic.twitter.com/9sdwkd3MtT

— 𝗗 𝗔 𝗩 𝗢 𝗗 (@NeoYokel) November 11, 2022

• The Timely Mastodon Primer Thread
• Sarah Jeong and the Gay Furry Communists
• Futureland Prophecy
• joinmastodon.org domain blocked on Twitter
• r/Mastodon - Comment by u/jgillich on ”joinmastodon.org domain blocked on Twitter”
• Profile search for "mastodon"
• Unverified

Important Posts

• Turning up with 1 million people in the tiny, rural village...
• Eugen Pondering "Quotes"

• FediFinder share thread

• One Million more Users since October 27th

give me my accounts back mother fucker @elmo

— LeVar Burzum (@weadhitter) November 10, 2022

• Morgan and Elmo

• Eugen on content warnings and related tools

Yep we're an alternative to Twitter

— Neocities (@neocities) April 27, 2022

• NeoCities, Twitter Alternative

while we’re comparing them…

Twitter for iOS (8.75.1): 128.8 MB

Mastodon for iOS (Initial release): 38.5 MB

~30% the size, if I still know how division works.

Twitter is more than 3 times larger!

(also note: ALL of the *third-party* Mastodon apps are <40 MB)

— 𝗗 𝗔 𝗩 𝗢 𝗗 (@NeoYokel) July 31, 2021

• The gosh darned CovidFollows hashtag

• iOS App Footprint Size comparison Tweet

• Jeremy Renner Official

• Monetization Thread

• No Algorithmic Incentives

• Quasim's First Month on Mastodon

Resources

• joinmastodon.org's new(?) servers tool
• instances.social
• English-speaking Instances with greater than 2000 members - https://davidblue.wtf/instance
• Press Check
• Mastodon Search - API Tester
• Twitter is Going Great!

Reference

• Eugen Rochko Time Interview
• Google News Topic - WTF Shortlink - https://davidblue.wtf/gnmasto
• "Using Mastodon with Drafts" - Drafts Forums
• MacStories is now on Mastodon
• Some third-party Twitter apps appear to be broken

Reading

• How to Find Your Twitter Friends on Mastodon
• Scaling Mastodon is Impossible
• Joanna Stern's quick guide
• Garbage Day's "A Eulogy for Twitter"
• "Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it." - Columbia Journalism Review - Ulysses
• Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps
• Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point

Audio

• Topolsky on Mastodon
• Futureland Episode 26 - Starting at 3:42 - Clip