Mastodon: Enter the Fediverse

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Mastodon early adopter Neville Park offers an introduction to decentralized social media: what it is, how it works, its upsides and downsides, and what it means for the ‘public square.’

Topic: Mastodon: Enter the Fediverse

Mastodon early adopter Neville Park offers an introduction to decentralized social media: what it is, how it works, its upsides and downsides, and what it means for the “public square.”

Speaker: Neville Park

• Neville Park (@nev@bananachips.club) has written about and researched Toronto City Council for Torontoist, Matt Elliott’s City Hall Watcher, The Local, and on hir own blog. An avid livetweeter, ze joined Twitter in 2007 and Mastodon in 2016. Aside from politics, hir other great passions are arachnology, cell phone macrophotography, cycling, and naps.