From Bird to Elephant: Starting a New Journey on Mastodon by Guillaume Laforge

With the recent turmoil at Twitter, like many others, I’ve been wondering about migrating my social presence to Mastodon. But it’s a brand new world I know nothing about! So how does one get started on Mastodon? Which instance should I choose? What’s the netiquette there? What are the faux-pas to avoid? Should I cross-post to both networks? Who to follow, and how to gain followers? In this presentation, we’ll talk about the journey from the bird’s feathers to the elephant tusks, share some tips and tricks, to get the best of this new experience. In this presentation, we’ll talk about this migration, we’ll share tips and tricks to get the best experience on Mastodon. Furthermore, we’ll have a look under the hood, to better understand how the “fediverse” operates, and particularly at the underlying protocols, including ActivityPub/ActivityStream and WebFinger.