(this is a draft version with mainly links and notes)

Problems

(with centralized, closed silos’d social network platforms)

• https://signupforfacebook.org/
• facebook container extension: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/
• some articles from Mastodon BLOG: medium.com/tootsuite
• book: The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace by Alexander Klimburg
  (review nybooks.com/articles/2018/04/05/silicon-valley-beware-big-five/)
• https://tilde.tinyserver.club/~jkriss/writing/human-scale

Decentralization and the federation

• histories
  • https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2017/04/01/a-brief-history-of-the-gnu-social-fediverse-and-the-federation
  • http://adam.curry.com/art/1491827141_Kg2tZgpM.html (Adam Curry)
  • http://publichistory.media/2016/02/21/distributed-social-networks-and-public-history/
  • https://robek.world/featured/what-is-gnu-social-and-is-mastodon-social-a-twitter-clone/
• https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-network-c069309f334
• GNUsocial, Quitter, Diaspora*, etc…
• https://fediverse.party/
• Privacy and tracking on fediverse from Pleroma author – https://blog.soykaf.com/post/privacy-and-tracking-on-the-fediverse/

Mastodon

• @kibi‘s oh so controversial “mourning mastodon” pieces on Medium: https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616 & https://medium.com/@alliethehart/mourning-what-now-10964cce22a8
• recent threads on mastodon history https://mastodon.art/@luka/99766796434566183
  & https://glitch.social/@kibi/99767886943083158
• free speech vs safe speech, japan explosion & loli: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/335 + http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-big-in-japan-the-reason-why-is-uncomfortable/
• after april breakthrough http://achangeiscoming.net/2017/05/07/mastodon-perspectives-on-a-breakthrough-month/
• transforming tech with diversity-friendly software: http://achangeiscoming.net/2017/04/15/transforming-tech-diversity-friendly-software/
• statistics: https://mnm.social/

Mastodon as software:

• https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases
• introduction https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/74f6e6c0f349651349a0df9ae4582969
• user guide https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-Mastodon/User-guide.md

Moderation, blocking, silencing, suspending

• few articles by Dzuk: https://noct.zone/mastodon/
• https://wiki.interlinked.me/page/Mastodon/Instance_sanctions
• https://github.com/MastodonBlocklist/blocklist
• https://github.com/tootcafe/blocked-instances
• https://instances.noct.zone/

instances:

• https://Switter.at A sex work-friendly social space. A new kid on the block. Rdeča četrt. (also SESTA-FOSTA)
• Dzuk’s https://instances.noct.zone/
• curated selection: https://gitlab.com/distributopia/masto-world-overview

Administration

• host your own – install the code: https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation#running-mastodon
• PaaS (platform as service) – pay a fiver/m for a small instance of your own
  • https://masto.host
  • https://maastodon.net/

 

How to use

• user guide? – https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-Mastodon/User-guide.md
•  webUI
  • columns UI
    • local timeline
    • federated timeline
  • editing a profile
  • posting (tooting)
    • images
    • privacy
    • cws
  • liking (faving)
  • boosting (retweeting/sharing)
  • following – two ways of following: via webUI or via external ‘remote follow’ link.
  • searching
  • hashtags
  • lists
  • preferences, privacy
  • blocking
• mobile
  • Tusky,
  • Twidere
  • & more: https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-Mastodon/Apps.md

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