Mastodon and Beyond
Mastodon and Beyond: Our Federated Future
Originally presented at CAT+FD on Thursday, March 16, 2023 by Bart Everson
Social media ain’t what it used to be. Actually, it never was: the fix was in from the beginning. The giant platforms of today were founded with the explicit purpose of making a profit at our expense. It doesn’t have to be this way. In this workshop, we’ll take a look at a social media platform built on an entirely different model, with an entirely different premise, with a glance at the implications and opportunities for teaching, scholarship, and higher education in general.
(Slides are available now. Check back soon for video content.)
Bibliography
- Mastodon over Mammon - Towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge: an open-access journal article by Björn Brembs, Adrian Lenardic, Peter Murray-Rust, Leslie Chan, and Dasapta Erwin Irawan
- Should you leave Twitter for the fediverse? by Andrew C. Oliver
- Who is Eugen Rochko, the young tech whiz behind Mastodon? by Marine Bourrier
- Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It? by Sarah Jeong
- Can Mastodon be a Twitter refuge for marginalized groups? by Sean Captain
Resources
- Fedi.Tips: an unofficial non-technical guide to using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
- An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon by @Noelle@elekk.xyz
- instances.social: a “wizard” to help you find a server
Some education-related Mastodon servers:
- mastodon.oeru.org
- sotl.social
- openedtech.social
- social.ds106.us
- mastodon.education
- higheredweb.social
- edumasto.org
- social.fossdle.org
Some servers run by moderators of color: