With Elon Musk buying Twitter and the chaos that's ongoing with the company as of this post time, there has been a lot of discussion regarding alternatives to the social media platform. Mastodon is a option that's comparable to Twitter yet it works fundamentally differently as does the rest of the Fediverse.

Rather than explain the details on this blog entry directly, here are some recommended readings.

Fedi.Tips

An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon on GitHub

Leaving Twitter's Walled Garden - Electronic Frontier Foundation

Fedizine

Whether federated social media works well for us or not is up to us. Social networking has been something we as humans have done in some form for like, ever. We're so used to the likes of Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, that we have a hard time imagining a form of social media without a corporation running it. Let's expand our horizons and try something new!