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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.

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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.

The Conversation

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.

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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…

Reason

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?

The Conversation

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]

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

I noted yesterday that we had set up a Mastodon account (@VolokhC@liberdon.com), 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,…

Reason

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

Salon

We've set up an account on Mastodon (to supplement our Twitter account, not to replace it)—please follow us there, @VolokhC@liberdon.com. 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.

Reason

Quitting Elon Musk's Twitter? Here's how to join Mastodon

Mastodon looks a lot like Twitter, but it's not a company, and that could make all the difference.

Axios

Twitter has 'real chance of disappearing' under Elon Musk says social media rival

The sheer size of the social media giant is not enough to insure it against failure, insists Eugen Rochko

Wales Online

Thousands are flocking to Mastodon in what users are calling a #TwitterMigration. What is it and how does the 'rival platform' work?

Social media "back in the hands of the people", is the promise of Mastodon. It's not a new platform, but it has begun soaring to the top of download charts around the world. Here's how it works.

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Elon Musk is breaking Twitter, so here are some alternatives to try out

We'll miss you, Twitter. Maybe.

The Independent UK

With Twitter in chaos, some ways to protect your account

Twitter is in chaos mode

The Guardian - US

Twitter ‘closes offices’ after Elon Musk’s loyalty oath sparks wave of resignations

The tech company is struggling to retain workers after Musk demanded employees sign a pledge to work ‘long hours at high intensity’

Salon

Is Mastodon the new Twitter? Not quite

Twitter refugees have moved to Mastodon by the hundreds of thousands. It's very different — and that's mostly good

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The Independent UK

Should Elon Musk really be afraid of Mastodon?

Think ‘instances’ instead of hashtags, ‘toots’ instead of tweets, and a one-man staff instead of a cartoonish supervillain running the show, and you’ll have Mastodon. Tom Ough investigates whether this nicer, trickier platform could be our big social media salvation

The Guardian - UK

Joining the herd: what’s it like moving from Twitter to Mastodon?

Users fleeing Elon Musk’s takeover will find themselves in a different world – quixotic, communal and defiantly democratic

The Independent UK

Twitter drama too much? Mastodon, others emerge as options

Twitter has been a bit of a mess since billionaire Tesla CEO took helm, cutting the company’s workforce in half, overhauling the platform’s verification system, sparring with some users and acknowledging that “dumb things” might happen as he reshapes one of the world’s most high-profile information ecosystems

Reason

Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Is Unconstitutional, Says Federal Judge

Plus: Users surge on decentralized social media platform Mastodon, the fall of city drugstores, and more...

The Guardian - AU

New Twitter boss Elon Musk is the dog that caught the car – with all the journos in the back seat

No platform is ready to fill the role the company plays in the media industry, no matter how many pretend the clunky weirdness of Mastodon is the future

The Conversation

What is Mastodon? A social media expert explains how the 'federated' network works and why it won't be a new Twitter

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.

Financial Times

My week with Elon

Twitter is filled with stupidity and insight — its users now have an overlord rich in both

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