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Everyone: in the future, we could imagine every news outlet running their own fediverse instance, what a wonderful future that would be! BBC: *becomes the first major news outlet to launch an official fedi instance* Everyone, ten seconds later: we are fediblocking the BBC for being too right wing.

Great that the BBC is trying out Mastodon. I really hope it works out for them and they stick around, with extra accounts, after their 6 month trial. But still in their replies people are trying to explain how to mastodon to them. What is it with this place that people feel the need to explain what they’re doing wrong all the time? Just be cool.

Predictions are fun and social networks seem to be in a period of turbulence, excitement and of course, decline. This is what I reckon it might look like in 6 months: Twitter will be like Facebook:…

Federated deletes are fun. You delete locally and keep receiving responses until your delete successfully propagates -- may never.

the follow notification from people who transfer their account to a different server is very confusing. With there was a way to know that they were transferring rather than just following for the first time.

You might not be on Mastodon yet, but your blog could get a torrent of traffic from Mastodon, or other Fediverse network if it’s shared there. If your website is mentioned there, it might be the …

I’m finding my feed skews very white and male despite the fact that I followed a lot of my Twitter friends over here. I also find a lot of folks on here very “old guard”, in the sense that they have been here a long time and want you to know it, and that your opinion doesn’t count if you’re new. Some people have been quite rude. Idk. I’m still not convinced.

Mastodon is a free, open-source social networking service that is decentralized ...

https://snarfed.org/bridgy_fed_logo.png https://snarfed.org/bridgy_fed_logo.png All the recent Twitter drama has obviously sparked renewed interest in Mastodon and the fediverse, and that’s even …

If you've got an account on a Mastodon server, or any server that speaks ActivityPub, you should be able to follow me at: @marty@martymcgui.re Screenshot of my profile page on Bridgy Fed Many thanks …

Mastodon is different to most online services. Because it is a federated network, when you set up an account you need to choose a server to use. Your username then becomes a combination of your han...

This graph is the number of fediverse messages per day my little single-user instance has been receiving over the past year. Something is different.

And that’s great. It’s also the return of Google Reader! Mastodon is really confusing for newcomers. There are memes about it. If you’re an internet user of a certain age, …