It's a lot like Twitter, except:
1) it provides actual useful controls for content warnings, alt text,
blocking, and other human-friendly features;
2) it's federated, so you can have a separate server for your group and
manage invites and access to other servers on a per-user and per-server
basis, which is also good for being a human;
3) as a decentralized platform, it's not owned by a racist blood-emerald
multibillionaire -- also good for respecting humanity.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 1:38 PM Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2022, at 9:56 AM, Peter Murray <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >> For anyone trying to extricate themselves from the oozing muck of any
> >> commercial social network currently in the news, is there a
> >> library-oriented Mastodon server?
> >
> > Hey, Thomas...there is https://code4lib.social/about/more (where I'm at)
> > and https://glammr.us/about/more (which is a broader G-L-A-M community).
> > I'm also subscribed to library people on
> https://digipres.club/about/more
> > and https://scholar.social/about/more.
> >
> > Let me know where you end up..I'm https://code4lib.social/@dltj
> >
> > --
> > Peter
>
>
> Mastodon? After the briefest of perusings, it seems as if Mastodon is
> YASMFAT (Yet Another Social Media Feed And Tool). Please tell me what
> problems Mastodon is expected to address. How is it different from Twitter,
> Slack, Facebook, Planets, Instagram, a mailing list, Linked-In, etc.
>
> --
> Eric Morgan
>
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