Why Mastodon is Better
It is no secret I am a great fan of the Fediverse. I am especially fond of its most successful incarnation, Mastodon. I wrote an intro to Mastodon for Linux Magazine back in 2019, then expanded it into a tutorial. Later, I went on to explain how to write a command line client for reading toots, and then expanded that into a full-fledged client that allowed you to post and schedule posts in the following issue.
By that time, the editors at Linux Magazine where advising me to please, please move onto another topic.
Maybe now, with the Muskquake leading to a tsunami of users flooding Mastodon they will see the errors of their ways and regret not commissioning five more pieces on the matter. Even mainstream journalists from the The Guardian and CNN regarding the platform as "interesting".
What I am saying is that I am going to be biased in this piece. Big whoop. As if anybody wasn’t.
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