Bounce publicly debuts a tool that will let you move your account between open social networks like Bluesky and Mastodon.

Illustration: Mastodon/Fediverse (CC-BY-2.0) // Stocktrek Images (AP) Six months ago, after the news broke that changes were coming to Twitter’s policies against disinformation and hate speech ...

Mastodon was launched in 2016, created by German software developer Eugen Rochko. From the beginning, it was designed to be a decentralized social network with strict policies against abuse and ...

To join Mastodon, sign up on the website or app and then pick a server (or "instance") to join. Once you join, you can follow all your friends and see their posts too.

So, how’d it go? Follow me on Mastodon and let me know, or else email me at [email protected]. And let’s be honest, you can direct message me on Twitter, too.

For those new to the platform, this step is a bit intimidating, especially now that Mastodon now has over 12,000 instances users can join. Should you join mastodon.world or mastodon.online?

When viewing the people you follow on Mastodon, it’s helpful to know which lists (if any) you’ve assigned them to. Here's how you can do that with SQL and Steampipe.

My carefully curated list of follows on Twitter had to be thrown out too. I was able to convince a few people to join up, but their interactions with me on Mastodon have been limited so far.

Mastodon’s timing couldn’t be better, as Twitter’s board just approved Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to buy Twitter. The sudden impending buyout has split the Twitter user base.

The Mastodon server press.coop aggregates feeds from mainstream news sources. I was happy to have those feeds, but I didn’t want to see those news items mixed in with my home timeline.