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THE TRUTH ABOUT: 14 - Caught on Camera

Masochism drove me to Mastodon. At first I felt high – but the comedown was brutal

The more I scroll, the more a pang of longing blooms within me for the unbridled insanity of Twitter

The Guardian - AU

Congress sticks with Twitter instead of flocking to other social media, for now

WASHINGTON — When Elon Musk took over Twitter a few weeks back, the online vultures began to circle. Pundits signed up for competing platforms like Mastodon and Post, and then tweeted to ask their followers to join them. Online communities held impromptu funerals for the app as Musk laid off…

Tribune News Service

Congress sticks with Twitter, not flocking to other social media — for now

Whatever happens to Twitter under Elon Musk, communications directors on Capitol Hill are hanging around to find out.

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Commentary: Thinking of leaving Twitter? Its experience is hard to replicate

The moves Elon Musk has made since purchasing Twitter in October — resulting in hundreds of employee resignations — have many either fleeing the platform or looking around for alternatives such as Hive Social or Mastodon, with the latter gaining more than a million followers over the last month.

Los Angeles Times

It's not just Twitter. The whole Internet is broken and we'd better fix it soon

If the debate about Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter tells us anything, it’s that people – including those in governments – don’t understand how the World Wide Web works.

The Conversation

Mastodon and Hive Social are hailed as Twitter’s successors. But where are the users?

Despite huge amounts of media coverage, upstart platforms looking to replace Twitter aren’t getting much traction.

Fortune

#ClimateScam: denialism claims flooding Twitter have scientists worried

Many advocates are fleeing the platform, unnerved by the surge in climate misinformation since Musk’s chaotic takeover

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Twitter's upheaval and a looming recession could prove fruitful for LinkedIn

LinkedIn is still a platform for job seekers and career networking, but it has a shot at becoming a digital town square.

Fortune

Mastodon's 29-year-old CEO is taking an anti-Elon Musk approach to growing his Twitter alternative

He forbids hate speech, bans ads, eschews revenue, and has abdicated hands-on control.

Fortune

Twitter advertisers fleeing Elon Musk will struggle migrating to Mastodon, an emerging alternative

Mastodon says it's "social networking that's not for sale," but that doesn’t mean all is lost for businesses on the site.

Fortune

Question for Mastodon Users

Mastodon of course lets you interact with people from any other Mastodon servers; but it also has features that make it easier for you to interact with people from the same server. If you use Mastodon, do you find that you take advantage of these local-interaction features? Or do you…

Reason

Mystified by Mastodon? We're Here To Help.

Mastodon might not be the future of decentralized social media, but it can’t hurt to check it out as Twitter implodes.

Reason

How to leave Twitter but keep your followers

Moving to a new social network should be like switching mobile provider or bank, but it’s not

Financial Times

Five alternative platforms for Twitter expats

As Twitter continues to see its user count dwindle by the minute, people are shopping around for their new digital home.

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Looking to leave Twitter? Here are the social networks seeing new users now

Can a network like Hive Social or Mastodon foster the communities and conversations that thrived on the bird app's good days? It's too soon to know for sure, but many hope the answer is yes.

The Conversation

Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has disrupted the Christchurch Call – NZ needs to rethink its digital strategy

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter as the new sole private owner has delivered plenty of material for memes. Ironically, much of the debate about Twitter is still happening on the platform itself, sometimes with Musk jumping into the conversations personally.

Reason

Mastodon.com Is Not the Home of the Mastodon Social Network

I inadvertently went there a few days ago instead of going to our Mastodon host, liberdon.com, and realized that the site is all about this: https://youtu.be/4kYdR0dIlp0 Awesome, especially starting at about 1:25.

Reason

The Empire Strikes Back, at Elon

Episode 431 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

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Mastodon or Mastodon't?

I have been Twitter sober now for nearly three years. I do not miss it at all. And I do not plan to join Mastodon, because if it survives (no guarantee), the site will suffer from the same flaws as Twitter. Social media is premised on a simple idea: Person…

The Conversation

What Elon Musk's destruction of Twitter tells us about the future of social media

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has been a fast-moving disaster. It has also created a tangible problem for journalists, politicians, activists and academic scholars: Where do we talk to each other if or when Twitter finally collapses or becomes unusable?

Reason

Mastodon's Content-Moderation Growing Pains

[I asked Prof. Alan Rozenshtein (University of Minnesota) to write a post about Mastodon and one particular recent controversy related to it, and he very kindly agreed. -EV]

Reason

Easy to Set Up a Mastodon Account to Mirror Your Twitter Account

I noted yesterday that we had set up a Mastodon account (@[email protected]), but I also wanted to mention that it was pretty easy: [1.] I found an "instance," which is to say a place that would host us, and which had moderation rules that we could deal with. For us,…

Salon

Navigating a post-Twitter life online

Looking at the demise of other platforms – such as LiveJournal – to game out the challenges of moving to a new one

Reason

We've set up an account on Mastodon (to supplement our Twitter account, not to replace it)—please follow us there, @[email protected]. It should be set up (using moa.party) to automatically post all our Volokh Conspiracy posts; I've tested that using a link to a sandbox account of mine, but I suppose…

Reason

Setting Up Mastodon Server, Using an Outside Service or on Our Own?

Trying to get up to speed on Ice Age technology.

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