Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Mastodon (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Have you found yourself feeling tired of all the usual social media haunts? Would you like a place you can call your own? Somewhere that can't be messed up by billionaires wielding leveraged buyouts and whiplash terms of service changes.

Well friend, federated social media is for you!

In this presentation, Jason Cosper will walk you through how federated social media sites like Mastodon work — and how, if properly motivated, you can set up your own Mastodon instance to run a small social network site for you and your friends.

Transcript

1. Everything you always wanted to know about Mastodon (But were afraid to ask)
2. What is Mastodon?
3. Okay. But what's the Fediverse?
5. Does it WordPress?
6. WordPress Plugins ActivityPub NodeInfo(2) WebFinger
7. Do it yourself runyourown.social GitHub Repo hueyy/awesome- mastodon
8. Flavors of Mastodon GitHub Repos mastodon/mastodon hometown- fork/hometown glitch-soc/mastodon
9. Managed Mastodon masto.host fedi.monster toot.io
10. A very fun alternative GitHub Repo jointakahe/takahe
11. How I did it
12. Why not let someone else do it for you?
13. Servers of interest fosstodon.org front-end.social hachyderm.io indieweb.social phpc.social tech.lgbt wpbuilds.social wptoots.social
14. Single player social networking shuttlecraft.net GitHub Repo benbrown/shuttlecraft
15. Questions?
16. P.S. wp-community-on- mastodon.wptoots.social