• Guides and resources
• Videos
• Fediverse platforms

Guides and resources

• The Counterforce Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse (for punks)

  • Our guide that's also available as a zine.

• Fedizine

  • Another shorter zine from 2021 for anarchists.

• Mastodon.help

  • A short website that explains Mastodon clearly, but in more technical detail. Useful if you want to dig deeper or have a technical question.

• fedi.tips

  • FAQ for how to do anything on Mastodon and the Fediverse

• Mastodon official documentation

• Join The Fediverse

  • Provides an explanation of the Fediverse, along with a searchable directory of servers you could join.

• Complete beginner's guide to installing Mastodon (+ Hometown)

• Delete Instagram

• Intergalactic call for a Fediparty

• FediHost

  • Managed hosting for Fediverse servers, a cheap and easy way to set up your own small server.

Videos

• Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
  • Also on Youtube, if you prefer to watch it there: https://youtu.be/YRJHIJy5Nno
• How to use Mastodon Social Network (Beginners Tutorial)
• Gargron's Mastodon How To playlist

Fediverse platforms

A small selection of some of the parts of the Fediverse that would be of interest to punks:

• Bandwagon.fm
  • (like Bandcamp... follow a band)
• Gancio
  • (powers all the Ask A Punk calendars!)
• Bookwyrm
  • (for tracking reading and sharing book recommendations like Goodreads)
• Lemmy
  • (like Reddit)
• neoDB
  • (review and catalog your records, books or anything else)