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

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.

Jason Cosper

January 23, 2023
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  1. Everything you always
    wanted to know about
    Mastodon
    (But were afraid to ask)

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  2. What is
    Mastodon?

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  3. Okay. But what's
    the Fediverse?

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  5. Does it
    WordPress?

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  6. WordPress
    Plugins
    ActivityPub
    NodeInfo(2)
    WebFinger

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  7. Do it
    yourself
    runyourown.social GitHub Repo
    hueyy/awesome-
    mastodon

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  8. Flavors of
    Mastodon
    GitHub Repos
    mastodon/mastodon
    hometown-
    fork/hometown
    glitch-soc/mastodon

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  9. Managed
    Mastodon
    masto.host
    fedi.monster
    toot.io

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  10. A very fun
    alternative
    GitHub Repo
    jointakahe/takahe

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  11. How I did it

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  12. Why not let
    someone else do
    it for you?

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  13. Servers of
    interest
    fosstodon.org
    front-end.social
    hachyderm.io
    indieweb.social
    phpc.social
    tech.lgbt
    wpbuilds.social
    wptoots.social

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  14. Single
    player
    social
    networking
    shuttlecraft.net GitHub Repo
    benbrown/shuttlecraft

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  15. Questions?

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  16. P.S. wp-community-on-
    mastodon.wptoots.social

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