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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

The allure of Mastodon is that it takes us back to the early days of social media, a time when it was about conversations within a community, and not the algorithm and posturing and poling on. Jim Groom outlines this appeal as only he can, describing his own experiences building and running Mission Mastodon, a sandbox server that will "explode" next month, and by finding examples like "the much grander work Kathleen Fitzpatrick and company are spearheading with hcommons.social to build a full blown scholarly community." He writes, " I'm digging figuring out how to run Mastodon; what's the best storage option; how to map domains; how to integrate Azuracast; some basic tweaks and maintenance; etc. It's that old idea of narrating your work openly, with hopes it could benefit others."

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