House for Journalism and the Public Sphere
Workshop
Konferenzraum

How Mastodon works - an introduction to the decentralised social media alternative

Date

Sun, Jun 29, 2025

Start

2:00 PM

End

3:00 PM

Where?

Conference Room

Speakers

Johannes Filter, Zora Steiner

In view of the monopoly position of the major social media platforms, more and more people are looking for alternatives. Mastodon is one option. The idea: anyone can post on Mastodon, follow others and chat with them, just like on other platforms, but everyone has more control over their data and can choose a server that suits them.

Data Scientist Johannes Filter and Zora Steiner from Mastodon will introduce us to Mastodon in this workshop and start a practical session straight away: together with the participants, we will create accounts on an instance, publish our first posts and interact with each other - e.g. through reposts and comments. This will give everyone a feel for the platform.

Speakers

Johannes Filter

Software-Entwickler und Data Scientist.

Zora Steiner

Mastodon

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