The Latest Breaking News from Mastodon

Looking at the demise of other platforms – such as LiveJournal – to game out the challenges of moving to a new one

We've set up an account on Mastodon (to supplement our Twitter account, not to replace it)—please follow us there, @VolokhC@liberdon.com. It should be set up (using moa.party) to automatically post all our Volokh Conspiracy posts; I've tested that using a link to a sandbox account of mine, but I suppose…

Trying to get up to speed on Ice Age technology.

Mastodon looks a lot like Twitter, but it's not a company, and that could make all the difference.

The sheer size of the social media giant is not enough to insure it against failure, insists Eugen Rochko

Social media "back in the hands of the people", is the promise of Mastodon. It's not a new platform, but it has begun soaring to the top of download charts around the world. Here's how it works.

We'll miss you, Twitter. Maybe.

Twitter is in chaos mode

The tech company is struggling to retain workers after Musk demanded employees sign a pledge to work ‘long hours at high intensity’

Twitter refugees have moved to Mastodon by the hundreds of thousands. It's very different — and that's mostly good

Think ‘instances’ instead of hashtags, ‘toots’ instead of tweets, and a one-man staff instead of a cartoonish supervillain running the show, and you’ll have Mastodon. Tom Ough investigates whether this nicer, trickier platform could be our big social media salvation