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It is great to see more content sources coming to the #Fediverse - thank you to our friends Flipboard for helping local publishers get in on the action.

We’re working on ways to highlight journalism on Mastodon. This is live in nightly builds on our mastodon.social instance, and will be made available more widely as part of the upcoming release.

We couldn't agree more!

Great, we've just hired a Web Developer to join our core team at Mastodon. But now I'm looking for an English and German-speaking Finance/Ops Junior, and I feel a little out of touch with recruiting for working students and interns. Like, where do they hang out these days? Do they still check University career portals and job boards, or should I finally give in and join TikTok? **NEED YOUR INPUT** What channels/pools/networks helped you find your #Junior #Finance hire? I would love to hear what worked for you in the comments below! -- Briefly on who we're looking for: *Someone to support us with financial management and operational efficiency + Accounting background (think financial planning, budgeting, controlling) + Good understanding of German legal frameworks and systems + German working proficiency (level B2 and up) The rest is here: https://lnkd.in/djbgdJzb Thank you, your advice, direction or a referral will go a long way! #finops #juniorhire #hiring #nonprofit #opensource #socialmedianetwork

Traditional, centralized, for-profit social media are a problem. We all know why. Sure, there are more civilized platforms (like LinkedIn) and outright terrible ones (like X), but if we really want to foster sustainable and democratic communication on the web, we need to start using alternative platforms embedded into alternative networks. I'm not talking about social media run by rightwing nutjobs, I'm talking about progressive, open-source Fediverse approaches. A lot of people are prejudiced against them, and I frequently hear excuses when it comes to setting up an account (or instance), but I can tell you: It's totally worth your time. There's the chance to build a really good community. Because there are enough people out there fed up with toxic big tech and weird algorithms. Over at DW Innovation, we started a Mastodon trial run in late 2023. It's been a big success. We'll stay on the platform. And now Andrea Campbell of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has kindly invited me to publish a guest post about our experience – and a call to action: https://lnkd.in/eJ83zz2M I hope you like the article. And I hope to see you on Mastodon soon!

Our CEO and founder Eugen Rochko recently talked to the Software Engineering Daily podcast - check it out. https://lnkd.in/g9QwQXpp

Watch out for this banner at FOSDEM! A bit more than a week left and you can meet a large part of the Mastodon team and buy some of our merch in building H, level 1.

Watch out for this banner at FOSDEM! A bit more than a week left and you can meet a large part of the Mastodon team and buy some of our merch in building H, level 1.

CEO and creator of Mastodon, Eugen Rochko, recently talked to Mike McCue of Flipboard, about the State of the Federation. Check out the video, on Flipboard’s new PeerTube instance!