Stuff to go through and organize:

Intro

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/08/what-is-mastodon/

Scaling

https://better.boston/@crschmidt/109412294646370820 https://blog.freeradical.zone/post/surviving-thriving-through-2022-11-05-meltdown/ https://hazelweakly.me/blog/scaling-mastodon/

Federation

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/FEDERATION.md

Privacy

https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2022/11/21/we-joined-mastodon-heres-what-we-learned-about-privacy-and-security https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/mastodon-private-and-secure-lets-take-look

Naysaying

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/14/scaling-mastodon/

Moderation

https://reason.com/volokh/2022/11/21/mastodons-content-moderation-growing-pains/ https://mastodon.social/@blaine/109400462722746600 https://kolektiva.social/@TheBird/109408117564247168

History

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-big-in-japan-the-reason-why-is-uncomfortable/

Conduct

https://icosahedron.website/about https://friend.camp/about/more https://chaos.social/about

Cool Instances

https://sigmoid.social/public/local https://datasci.social/public/local https://toolsforthought.rocks/public/local https://hci.social/public/local https://cryptodon.lol/public/local https://vis.social/public/local https://bitbang.social/public/local hci.socialf

Experiences

https://rixx.de/blog/on-running-a-mastodon-instance/ https://www.ianbrown.tech/2022/11/03/the-great-twitter-migration/ https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/5/mastodon/ https://scott.mn/2022/10/29/twitter_features_mastodon_is_better_without/

Hmm

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/4486

Guides

https://fedi.tips/ https://axbom.com/fediverse/

TOORG

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mastodon-simplified-federation/ https://github.com/rugk/mastodon-simplified-federation