How Mastodon was prepared for Elon Musk’s Twitter to fail.

When I established my goals for last year, I had taken a different direction and declared it my "Snow Leopard" year. I won't echo my reflections on this from yesterday's post, but I did appreciate how...

ActivityPub is not the only protocol Automattic is testing.

The all too common firehose stream has never worked for me. It’s undoubtedly a big reason why I never got properly into Twitter. I gener...

Setup Home Assistant to post (Toot) to Mastodon via an automation

Meta is planning on joining the fediverse. There are early plans on making a decentralized network with ActivityPub, so that it connects to the fediverse. This lead to a lot of different reactions within the community. This article documents some of the different types of responses.

To divine what will happen to Twitter, just look to other social networks that changed under new owners.

Mastodon does not always pull responses to posts from other instances through to your own instance. This means that if you read a post from another server, you may not see all replies. This post provides a GitHub Action that can help push remote replies into your home instance.

When Twitter shut down third-party clients in January, it not only left out in the cold the users of those apps, but the developers too. Many of those apps were significant sources of revenue for t…

Twenty-five years ago, Mozilla rose from the open source ashes of Netscape. Here’s how it plans to survive 25 more years.

Working with links in the fediverse can be tricky – here's how to use Shortcuts' Get Components of URL action to quickly isolate any instance or account handle you come across on Mastodon.

Your For You feed might look a little different.

Standards-based interoperability makes a comeback, sort of.

Welcome to another episode of Last Week in the Fediverse! The major theme of this week is news around technical infrastructure. Mastodon....

The company has lost a major source of inspiration.

Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise. It still hurts like hell, but […]

Tapbots, the company behind the popular Tweetbot app designed for Twitter, is working on developing a new app called Ivory that integrates with the...

# Why Internet decentralization? ![Man sitting on a rooftop using a laptop](https://blog.atomicpo

Of course, all these third-party apps will still have to compete with Mastodon's own app, which has been seeing its own improvements.

Five years ago, I started a journey to build a better Mastodon client – one focused on performance and simplicity. And I did! Pinafore is the main Mastodon client I’ve used myself since I fir…

Thoughts on Twitter, Mastodon, and owning your data

Mastodon’s success has somewhat taken its creator Eugen Rochko by surprise, but he's steadfast on maintaining its nonprofit nature.

I've been running chaos.social for nearly 5 years. A reflection.

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

Check out my collection of Mastodon shortcuts for interacting with your favorite instances. Be sure to get my Mastocuts bundle shortcut as well.