We're happy with our Twitter feed, so we have no plans to switch to Mastodon. At the same time, if some readers are moving there, we'd be happy to set up a Mastodon feed as well. The more ways ...

Mastodon, the decentralized Twitter / X alternative, is adding lists to its Android app. Lists are available as part of the most recent Mastodon for Android update, though it’s not clear when ...

If you remember one thing about using Mastodon, let it be this: Don’t use the direct-message feature. Messages aren’t end-to-end encrypted, meaning they could be read by anyone who runs (or ...

In practice, following someone’s Pixelfed feed is even easier. Instead of searching for my username, Federico could have searched for the URL for my Pixelfed profile in a Mastodon app and followed me ...

One main difference is that Mastodon organizes your feed in chronological order. All posts will be listed in the order they were published, leaving no decisions to an algorithm or corporation.

Users create basic profiles, follow other users, and see posts from those they follow in their Mastodon feed. But there are also a lot of differences—the biggest being that a single, centralized ...

The feature improves upon the original For You feed, launched in May, which looked only for posts and boosts from a list of 100 or so Mastodon accounts. But it wasn’t personalized.

Using Steampipe to build a dashboard that combines queries of the Mastodon search API and the joys of RSS-powered integration.

When you set up fediverse sharing, Threads automatically connects to whatever accounts you’ve followed, but you can also now search for users on Mastodon and elsewhere from the Threads search ...

Heck, if you want to embed your Mastodon feed in your blog, you can do that with Mastofeed too. These stark differences from Twitter make it clear how different Mastodon’s goals are as a service.