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Mastodon Workshop
Robert W. Gehl
@rwg@aoir.social
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Agenda
Introduction
What is Mastodon and the Fediverse?
Basics of Using Mastodon
Content Moderation
Where Do You Go From Here?
Questions
Introduction
moveslowlybuildbridges.com
AoIR.social, the Mastodon instance for the Association of Internet Researchers
Where to find me
RobertWGehl.org
This presentation lives at www.robertwgehl.org/presentations/MastodonWorkshop.html
Contact form
@rwg@aoir.social
– fediverse handle
What is Mastodon, and what is the fediverse?
Created in 2016 by Eugen Rochko
By 2017, seen as a Twitter Alternative
Massive growth in 2022/2023
Is a nonprofit organization
A global network of 10s of thousands of community-run social media servers
Millions of accounts (?)
Basics of Using Mastodon
Switching to live Web interface view!
Profile creation (testAccount)
Finding others to follow
Posting basics
Getting followed
Moderation
Codes of Conduct
Mastodon.art's rules
Switching to live Web Interface view
What Moderators can see and do
What members can do
Want to Continue?
Switching to Live Web View!
How to find a server to join
Join Mastodon
Fediverse Observer
The Social Web Canada
Supporting servers
Mastodon.social's Donation page
Recommendations
Consider the Code of Conduct
Smaller is usually better
Location and focus
Donate if you can and your instance accepts it
Experiment!
Questions?
Where to find me
RobertWGehl.org
This presentation lives at www.robertwgehl.org/presentations/MastodonWorkshop.html
Contact form
@rwg@aoir.social
– fediverse handle
Mastodon Workshop
Robert W. Gehl
@rwg@aoir.social
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