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We're on Mastodon now, if you wish to follow us there.

https://mastodon.social/@futuretimeline

I will continue to post mainly on Twitter for now, but will switch to Mastodon completely in the event of Twitter dying off (the latter seems increasingly likely now...).
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wjfox wrote: Fri Nov 11, 2022 11:38 am We're on Mastodon now, if you wish to follow us there.

https://mastodon.social/@futuretimeline

I will continue to post mainly on Twitter for now, but will switch to Mastodon completely in the event of Twitter dying off (the latter seems increasingly likely now...).
As i have already followed you over there, will keep an eye out if you do permanently move there.
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What is Mastodon? A Social Media Expert Explains How the ‘Federated’ Network Works and Why it Won’t be a New Twitter
by Brian C. Keegan
November 11, 2022

Introduction:
(The Conversation) In the wake of Elon Musk’s noisy takeover of Twitter, people have been looking for alternatives to the increasingly toxic microblogging social media platform. Many of those fleeing or hedging their bets have turned to Mastodon, which has attracted hundreds of thousands of new users since Twitter’s acquisition.

Like Twitter, Mastodon allows users to post, follow people and organizations, and like and repost others’ posts.

But while Mastodon supports many of the same social networking features as Twitter, it is not a single platform. Instead, it’s a federation of independently operated, interconnected servers. Mastodon servers are based on open-source software developed by German nonprofit Mastodon gGmbH. The interconnected Mastodon servers, along with other servers that can “talk” to Mastodon servers, are collectively dubbed the “fediverse.”
Mastodon U.

A key aspect of the fediverse is that each server is governed by rules set by the people who operate it. If you think of the fediverse as a university, each Mastodon server is like a dorm.

Which dorm you’re initially assigned to can be somewhat random but still profoundly shapes the kind of conversations you overhear and the relationships you form. You can still interact with people who live in other dorms, but the leaders and rules in your dorm shape what you can do.
Read more here: https://theconversation.com/what-is-ma ... er-194329

caltrek’s comment: I signed up for Mastodon, but frankly was a little disappointed. Mostly because a lot of the format features that I disliked about Twitter seemed to be also present on Mastodon. Still, for those who like those format features, and don’t mind some of the other drawbacks pointed out in the article…
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How Mastodon Works
by Scott Rosenberg
November 19, 2022

Introduction:
(Axios) Mastodon has emerged as one of the fastest-growing and highest-profile options for people looking for an alternative to Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk's erratic changes.

The big picture: Mastodon says it had more than 1.8 million users active over the past month — more than triple the tally number it had on the day Musk took over Twitter.

• But Mastodon isn't simply a Twitter clone — and isn't trying to be. Here's what you need to know to get started.
Mastodon is not a company

It's a social media app that, like Twitter, allows users to share brief messages in real time — but, unlike Twitter, there isn't one giant system run by a for-profit company.

• Instead, Mastodon is a network of privately operated servers that run on shared open-source code.
• Mastodon has thousands of "instances" — individual servers — that users join as their home bases. These servers are "federated" into a network so that, once you've picked a server, you can readily follow posts from users based on other servers.
Read more here: https://www.axios.com/2022/11/19/masto ... elon-musk
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Thanks for the update! Seems like an alternate to Twitter and far more closed off for sure. No more AI generated posts that may suggest other beneficial things though I can see the appeal if you want to get only 100% focused stuff like... futuretimeline :D
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