I think I’m not alone that Mastodon is giving me the ick<br /> by Andy Bell
Read at Fri 4/7/2023 8:36 AM
I think I’m not alone that Mastodon is giving me the ick<br /> by Andy Bell
Read at Fri 4/7/2023 8:36 AM
In Notes, writers will be able to post short-form content and share ideas with each other and their readers. Like our Recommendations feature, Notes is designed to drive discovery across Substack. But while Recommendations lets writers promote publications, Notes will give them the ability to recommend almost anything—including posts, quotes, comments, images, and links.
Substack slowly adding features and functionality to make them a full stack blogging/social platform... first long form, then short note features...
Also pushing in on Twitter's lunch as Twitter is having issues.
Twitter Notifications Keep Breaking in Wake of Elon Musk's Mass Layoffs<br /> by Matt Novak
Read Wed 2022-12-07 6:55 AM
https://whalebird.social/en/desktop/contents
Whalebird is a Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey client for desktop application
https://followgraph.vercel.app/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/17/how-to-join-mastodon/
Mastodon makes the front section of the Washington Post!? Twitter is in trouble...
What a lovely looking UI.
The data returned will also give one a strong idea of how many of their acquaintances have made the jump as well as how active they may be, particularly for those who moved weeks ago and are still active within the last couple of days. For me the numbers are reasonably large. 860 of 4942 have accounts presently and in scrolling through it appears that 80% or so have been active within a day or so regardless of account age.
https://www.downes.ca/post/74564
Stephen Downes is doing a great job of regular recaps on the shifts in Twitter/Mastodon/Fediverse lately. I either read or saw all these in the last couple of days myself.
https://odd.blog/2022/11/06/how-to-add-your-blog-to-mastodon/
A list of congress members on Mastodon.
Literature, philosophy, film, music, culture, politics, history, architecture: join the circus of the arts and humanities! For readers, writers, academics or anyone wanting to follow the conversation.
hcommons.social is a microblogging network supporting scholars and practitioners across the humanities and around the world.
https://hcommons.social/about
The humanities commons has their own mastodon instance now!
https://ooh.directory/blog/2022/first-two-days/
https://fediverse.space/
it helps people find their off-ramp from Twitter.
Being able to read others' tweets in a feed reader provides people the ability and freedom to untether themselves from the tyranny of Twitter.
https://fediverse.observer/
Suggested Fediverse servers close to you.
“If you have a compelling product, people will buy it,” Musk told staff. “That has been my experience at SpaceX and Tesla.”
Alternately, if you have toxic leadership, employees will leave and the company will collapse.
meh... This looks dreadful...
Why not just use the built in rel-me verification available in Twitter directly with respect to individual websites?
EduTooters, er, Educators, on Mastodon
https://mastodon.help/
https://instances.social/
A tool for helping people choose an instance.
TweetFeed Twitter to RSS with Markdown.
https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/
Tool for moving some of your Twitter data over to Mastodon or other parts of the Fediverse.
https://bridge.birb.space/
This instance is a Twitter to ActivityPub bridge.
Extract the fediverse handles of your Twitter followings or list members and import them on Mastodon to follow them all at once.
https://pinafore.social/
Pinafore is a web client for Mastodon, designed for speed and simplicity.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Jessica Smith</span> in Small Web - Jayeless.net (<time class='dt-published'>07/03/2021 23:34:42</time>)</cite></small>