Ramble the Wolf<p><span>Tired of CEOs making decisions with their social media platforms that you don't agree with? Looking for a secure place to post and host art? Wishing you were using a service that was future-proofed against capitalist nonsense?<br></span><i><i><i><span>A FURRY GUIDE TO MASTODON: THREAD</span></i></i></i><span><br></span><a href="https://stop.voring.me/tags/Mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a><span> </span><a href="https://stop.voring.me/tags/Fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a><span> </span><a href="https://stop.voring.me/tags/Furry" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Furry</a><span> </span><a href="https://stop.voring.me/tags/Furryart" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Furryart</a><span> </span><a href="https://stop.voring.me/tags/riptwitter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#riptwitter</a><span> </span><a href="https://stop.voring.me/tags/Misskey" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Misskey</a><span> </span><a href="https://stop.voring.me/tags/Pleroma" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pleroma</a><span> </span><a href="https://stop.voring.me/tags/TwitterIsDead" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TwitterIsDead</a><span> </span><a href="https://stop.voring.me/tags/TwitterIsBroken" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TwitterIsBroken</a><span> </span><a href="https://stop.voring.me/tags/RateLimitExceeded" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RateLimitExceeded</a><span><br><br></span><i><i><span>TL;DR</span></i></i><span><br>Want to join us in the Fediverse? There are thousands of small instances, and you can join any of them. But for furries specifically, try these to start:<br></span><b><span>furries.club</span></b><span><br></span><b><span>furry.energy</span></b><span><br></span><b><span>pawb.fun</span></b><span><br></span><b><span>chitter.xyz</span></b><span><br></span><b><span>vulpine.club</span></b><span><br></span><b><span>meow.social</span></b><span><br></span><b><span>plush.city</span></b><span><br></span><b><span>pounced-on.me</span></b><span><br></span><b><span>furry.engineer</span></b><span><br></span><b><span>cyberfurz.social</span></b><span><br></span><b><span>computerfairi.es</span></b><span><br></span><b><span>pony.social</span></b><span><br></span><b><span>bark.lgbt</span></b><span><br><br>If you're like me </span><i><span>(an Internet user who remembers the Tumblr exodus of 2018),</span></i><span> then you're probably feeling very abandoned and betrayed by social media and art sharing websites as of late. Poor management decisions have led to a state in which the platforms we use can no longer meet our needs as users.<br><br>There are a few alternatives I'm seeing people flock to - </span><b><span>BlueSky</span></b><span>, </span><b><span>Itaku</span></b><span>, and </span><b><span>Cohost</span></b><span>, amongst others. These are all privately owned entities whose main user base consists of people who either cannot use Twitter any longer or who have chosen to leave for greener pastures.<br><br>They are businesses profiting off of the mismanagement of Twitter, and there are no safeguards in place to ensure what's happening to Twitter doesn't happen in any one of those sites in the future. Do you want to have to change primary social media platforms every 3 years? Do you want your data and habits and interests sold to make these companies a profit? Do you want your text and media used to train AI? Do you want lax moderation that allows for hate groups to flourish on a platform?<br><br>I don't. So any privately owned social media website is off the table for me. What does that leave me with?<br>I was delighted to be able to find Mastodon, and its various sister platforms collectively referred to as the Fediverse.<br><br>A privately owned social media service hosts all of its information on a single server that you can only access via official websites and apps. This is what gives them exclusive control over what you see and how you see it, as well as what rules govern those posts. This is also why they can hosts ads - by being the only place you can go to see their content, your eyes must go to a page they control, and they can put things on that page that make them money.<br><br>However, the Fediverse (Mastodon, Misskey, Calckey, Pleroma) works by linking many independent smaller Servers - sometimes called Instances - together in a large web of interconnected social media sites. This means you can see and follow people from any site you want, and by "federating" (joining together) in this way a net of smaller servers can compete with a privately owned larger one. -></span></p>