AI tools, open protocols, and creator-owned publishing. Building on open infrastructure — practical guides from someone actually doing it.
exploring-mastodon
Part 3 of Exploring Mastodon - the final post in this mini-series. Part 1 maps the AI policy spectrum. Part 2 covers the communities that give the network its texture. This post is the governance layer underneath both.
exploring-mastodon
Part 2 of Exploring Mastodon, a three-part mini-series inside the broader Exploring the Fediverse series. If you're new here, Part 1 covers the overall shape of the network: how instances work, why donation economics matter, and what AI policy reveals about a community's values.
exploring-mastodon
Part 1 of Exploring Mastodon, a three-part mini-series inside the broader Exploring the Fediverse series. Mastodon is just a constellation of communities sharing one open protocol - to choose your home, pick a neighborhood.
AI
AI is flooding mainstream platforms with synthetic content while simultaneously making self-hosted, creator-owned infrastructure easier to run than ever. That's not a coincidence. It's an opportunity.
Fediverse
The internet used to be connected. Then it wasn't. Here's the movement trying to fix that — and why it matters for every creator online.
Fediverse
Why creators are renting their audience instead of owning it — and what that actually costs.