My guide to Mastodon, the Fediverse, and social media alternatives. Updated: July 4, 2023
Basic Concepts
- ActivityPub + ActivityStreams are the protocol [ActivityPub – W3C Recommendation]
- fediverse is the network
- Mastodon is one app you can use to access it
How To
- An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon
- Nikodemus’ Guide to Mastodon
- An intro to Mastodon and the Fediverse
- Grow your own social network
- Spread Mastodon
- Fedifinder
- How To Easily Migrate your Mastodon Account to Another Server without losing your Followers
- How To Open An Outpost In Social Media Exile
- How to move from Twitter to Mastodon
- Followgraph for Mastodon
- How to Find and Follow People and Content on Mastodon
- How To Add Pixelfed Feeds to your Mastodon Timeline – Instagram Replacement
- Mastodon: A New Hope for Social Networking
Directories – Mastodon
- Academic Mastodon Lists and Groups
- Academics on Mastodon
- Mastodon Follow Lists
- A quick Mastodon migration guide for Twitter botanists
- History Scholars
- Journalists
- Philosophers and philosophy teachers on Mastodon
- Professional Science Writers on Mastodon
- Geneadons’ Directory of genealogists and family historians on Mastodon
- Trunk Directory
- Public Interest Town
- Public Follow Lists
Mastodon Apps
Android
iOS – Apple
- Ivory (Chuck’s favorite for mobile)
- Mammoth
- Toot!
- Ice Cubes
- Mona
Follow on the Fediverse
- Fedi.Tips (@feditips@mstdn.social)
General Apps
- Save Your Threads
- write freely – An open source platform for building a writing space on the web.
- fediporter
- bird.makeup
General Articles
- Mastodon Isn’t Just A Replacement For Twitter
- Why I Quit Elon Musk’s Twitter
- Twitter alternative: how Mastodon is designed to be “antiviral”
- The Fediverse Could Be Awesome (If We Don’t Screw It Up)
- Curing the Ills of Social Media
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