First Look: Mastodon
26mBeginner2023-01-17
Authors
Scott Simpson
Creating Technology Courses as a Senior Staff Author at LinkedIn
Course details
Mastodon is a decentralized social media platform that has been rising in popularity recently. In this quick First Look course, Senior Staff Instructor Scott Simpson describes how Mastodon works and discusses how to find and join a Mastodon server. He explores how to use Mastodon and even takes a peek at how to run your own Mastodon instance.
Skills covered
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Concepts
Introduction
- Introducing Mastodon
Exploring Mastodon
- What is Mastodon
- Finding a Mastodon instance
- Signing up for a Mastodon account
- Editing your profile and touring the interface
- Finding people and topics on Mastodon
- Browsing the feed
- Posting on Mastodon
- Exploring Mastodon hosting
Conclusion
- Next steps