hartsick

A guide for friends considering Mastodon

A lot of my friends have recently been considering leaving Twitter for other networks, and many are considering Mastodon. There are many guides floating about that can tell you about Mastodon and the Fediverse, which is really exciting! It can be overwhelming to sort through them all, though, and honestly I haven't read them since I know my way around.

So, this is the blog version of me sitting down with a friend explaining what I know about Mastodon and how I'd recommend approaching setting up an account there for the first time and getting oriented.

What's in this:

1. What is the Fediverse / Mastodon?
2. Why would I want to join?
3. Where do I start?

travisbrown

Elon Musk's suspension reversals

The tables below show notable Twitter suspension reversals for each day since Elon Musk took over as owner and CEO.

All dates indicate when the suspension or reversal was detected, and the actual suspension or reversal may have been earlier. For most English-language accounts with large followings, this lag will generally not be longer than a few hours, but for accounts that have a small number of followers or that are outside the networks we are tracking, the difference can be larger, and in some cases an account on the list may have had its suspension reversed before 27 October 2022. These dates will get more precise as we refine the report.

Because of these limitations, this report should be considered a starting point for investigation, not a definitive list of suspension reversals.

manton

# Mastodon ActivityStreams (.tar.gz) file to Blog Archive (.bar) converter
# by Manton Reece
# MIT license

require 'rubygems'
require 'zip'
require 'zlib'
require 'minitar'
require 'json'
require 'fileutils'