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N recommendations to improve accessibility in the fediverse and ATmosphere (DRAFT)

DRAFT! Work in progress! Feedback welcome! Here are some work-in-progress recommendations based on initial feedback to Improving accessibility in the fediverse and the ATmosphere. these! For everybody * Learn to avoid common accessibility mistakes * Take the time to compose good alt text for your images if you're able to

A sign saying "0 days without Mastodon users calling Bluesky decentralized" with Lenny from the Simpsons

Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

Nobody's changing their minds at this point, so let's stop wasting our time.

12 big question markes, all in different colors

Resources for choosing the right fediverse instance

A daunting choice -- but not irrevocable!

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Accessibility resources for Mastodon and compatible software (DRAFT)

Suggestions and feedback welcome

A chart of Mastodon active users during 2024: a bit over 900,000 in January, slowly decining to 800,000 in October

A faux "Eternal September" turns into flatness

Part 3 of Mastodon, two years later

Mastodon, two years later

A continuation of Mastodon: a partial history

A post by Jon: The best time for a hard fork of Mastodon was six years ago. The second-best time is now.

Fork it! It's time for a Mastodon hard fork (UPDATED)

An opportunity to improve safety, the Mastodon ecosystem, and fediverse software development

A menu, with red text. The third entry, with a big red circle around it, is "Block domain threads.net"

How to block Threads on Mastodon - and a reminder that blocking on the fediverse only provides limited protections (UPDATED)

With screenshots!

the people's eva: If these blocklists didn't exist, my server wouldn't have lasted a month.

Blocklists in the ActivityPub fediverse

Part 2 of "Golden opportunities for the fediverse – and whatever comes next"

A workshop, with a metal table that looks like it has rust on it. On the table, a white sign with the word 'unsafe' in red.

Mastodon and today's ActivityPub Fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default

Part 1 of "Golden opportunities for the fediverse – and whatever comes next"

What should your instance do, and what would you do? 44%: Pre-emptively Block - will move if not. See text for full results.

"A clear victory for our cause"? Opinions continue to differ about Meta and Threads in the fediverse!

Including a polling update!

Six posts, a presentation, and a preview on privacy and prototyping: Fediverse update, July 3

There's a lot to write about, and I've been doing a lot of writing about it.

Question marks in multiple colors

How to choose the right Mastodon instance?

A daunting choice -- but not irrevocable!

We're here. We're queer. Get used to it.

We're here, we're queer, and we're federated: How queer, trans, and non-binary people helped create Mastodon and are shaping today's fediverse (REVISED DRAFT)

Don't tell people "it's easy", and six more things Kbin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon (REVISED DRAFT)

DRAFT! Feedback welcome! Updated on June 10

#Privacy activism in the fediverse, with the words in multiple colors

#Privacy activism on Mastodon and in the fediverse

It's worth a try!

#Privacy activism in "the other Washington", with the words in multiple colors

Washington state privacy legislation

#Privacy activism in "the other Washington": #waleg #MyHealthMyData #PeoplesPrivacyAct and more

It might or might not work, but we'll learn a lot, so it's worth a try.

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Black Twitter, quoting, and white views of toxicity on Mastodon

Does quoting really cause toxicity?

Responsible Innovation Project. RI Labs: Future of Leadership & Innovation

Flocking to Mastodon? Here's what you need to know!

Tuesday, December 13, at 9 am Pacific / noon Eastern

Opt-out of search engine indexing. To the left, a checkbox, circled in red. Above, the words "Just kidding!!!!"

Mastodon privacy: you can't really opt out of search engine indexing

There are a lot of reasons people might not want their posts on a social network to be indexed by search engines. Too bad Mastodon's "opt out" doesn't actually opt you out.

Mastodon, with a stylized elephant overlapping the m

Mastodon: a partial history (DRAFT)

Lessons (so far) from Mastodon for independent social networks

Still relevant today!