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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Mastodon by default has an RSS feed of your account. Just add .rss to your profile address like this: https://fosstodon.org/@mike.rss&#xA;&#xA;Awesome Activity Pub | Fediverse instances | &#xA;&#xA;PeerTube Instances | PeerTube | &#xA;&#xA;MastoTips hashtag&#xA;&#xA;fossdaily.xyz by Caltlgin | fossdaily wiki |&#xA;micro.blog&#xA;Fediverse blog, on Plume | Fediverse.network instance info |&#xA;Lists of people to follow on Mastodon:  FLOSS | Free Software | Information Technology | Linux | Operating Systems | Technology |&#xA;Mastodon Trunk user lists by subject/topic | Some tech-related user lists from the Trunk [here, item 4]&#xA;&#xA;\---&#xA;Mastodon API | Mastodon OAuth PhP | Another |&#xA;Mastodon articles: Guide to Mastodon | PcMag: ditch Twitter and Join Mastodon | A Sloth&#39;s Guide to Mastodon | Mastodon Getting Started | Mastodon Guide | Mastodon documentation | How does Mastodon work? | Mastodon-Fediverse | Mastodon review at Motherboard | Techspotting review | a href=&#34;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15517740&#34;Ask HN: How to find people to follow on Mastodon?/a | ActivityPub and the Fediverse | Guide to alternative frontends for Mastodon and Pleroma |&#xA;&#xA;Search Mastodon instances, case-sensitive &#xA;Browse hashtags on a large Mastodon instance: (instance)/tags/(hashtag), e.g.: https://mastodon.social/tags/recipe (must use /tags not /t)&#xA;Different instances show different combinations of posts, depending on who people follow on that instance (hence use a large instance). [source]&#xA;This page includes public posts from the Fediverse using that hashtag.  You don&#39;t need to be logged in to view the page.  &#xA;&#xA;Atom and RSS feeds: (is this instance specific? this works for qoto.org, I&#39;ll try to determine if this applies for all Mastodon instances):&#xA;https://qoto.org/users/username.atom | https://qoto.org/users/username.rss |&#xA;&#xA;Some Mastodon Instances: qoto.org for scholars in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) | Fosstodon dedicated to Free &amp; Open Source Software, or FOSS as many call it |  &#xA;How to follow multiple hashtags on Mastodon | Choosing the correct Mastodon instance |&#xA;(https://hub.fosstodon.org/blog/five-things-to-do-after-you-join-fosstodon)&#xA;Mastodon Project on Wikipedia) | on Twitter | a href=&#34;https://medium.com/@jimpjorps/a-non-computer-persons-guide-to-how-mastodon-instances-work-da6ceac1994a&#34;How Mastodon instances work/a | Activity Pub support: have blog posts show in Mastodon | Matt: Identity in the Fediverse |&#xA;\---&#xA;&#xA;Pleroma instances | Pleroma, Mastodon, etc active instances | Pleroma site | Pleroma and other ActivityPub-powered social networks | What is Pleroma? |&#xA;&#xA;Open PixelFed instances | Pixelfed federation instances | Pixelfed federation network |  pixelfed.de | pxlfd.me | Pixelfed Help |&#xA;Prismo.xyz tags: blogging | books | fediverse | git | javascript | mastodon | opensource | pleroma | privacy | programming | security | webdesign | Kelson&#39;s links |&#xA;we distribute |&#xA;&#xA;Wikipedia articles: fediverse | ActivityPub |&#xA;&#xA;Plume is a free open federated blogging platform for the Fediverse. Find out more at https://joinplu.me. &#xA;Sign up at https://fediverse.blog or https://plume.mastodon.host or https://cafe.sunbeam.city ... and many other instances listed at https://joinplu.me&#xA;It&#39;s powered by ActivityPub, so you can follow Plume blogs from Mastodon, Friendica &#xA;&#xA;#fediverse #followup #mastodon&#xA;&#xA;!---A full RSS feed is https://mastodon.social/@$USER.rss ---]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mastodon by default has an RSS feed of your account. Just add .rss to your profile address like this: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mike.rss" rel="nofollow">https://fosstodon.org/@mike.rss</a></p>

<p><a href="https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub" rel="nofollow">Awesome Activity Pub</a> | <a href="https://www.fediverse.space/" rel="nofollow">Fediverse instances</a> |</p>

<p><a href="https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances" rel="nofollow">PeerTube Instances</a> | <a href="https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-youtube/" rel="nofollow">PeerTube</a> |</p>

<p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/web/timelines/tag/mastotips" rel="nofollow"><a href="https://jwc.writeas.com/tag:MastoTips" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">MastoTips</span></a> hashtag</a></p>

<p><a href="https://fossdaily.xyz/" rel="nofollow">fossdaily.xyz by Caltlgin</a> | <a href="https://git.fossdaily.xyz/caltlgin/wiki" rel="nofollow">fossdaily wiki</a> |
<a href="https://micro.blog" rel="nofollow">micro.blog</a>
<a href="https://fediverse.blog/" rel="nofollow">Fediverse blog, on Plume</a> | <a href="https://fediverse.network/scicomm.xyz" rel="nofollow">Fediverse.network instance info</a> |
Lists of people to follow on Mastodon:  <a href="https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/FLOSS" rel="nofollow">FLOSS</a> | <a href="https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Free%20Software" rel="nofollow">Free Software</a> | <a href="https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Information%20Technology" rel="nofollow">Information Technology</a> | <a href="https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Linux" rel="nofollow">Linux</a> | <a href="https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Operating%20Systems" rel="nofollow">Operating Systems</a> | <a href="https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Technology" rel="nofollow">Technology</a> |
<a href="https://communitywiki.org/trunk" rel="nofollow">Mastodon Trunk user lists by subject/topic</a> | Some tech-related user lists from the Trunk [here, item 4]</p>

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<a href="https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-the-API/API.md" rel="nofollow">Mastodon API</a> | <a href="https://github.com/TheCodingCompany/MastodonOAuthPHP" rel="nofollow">Mastodon OAuth PhP</a> | <a href="https://github.com/TheCodingCompany/MastodonOAuthPHP" rel="nofollow">Another</a> |
Mastodon articles: <a href="https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/" rel="nofollow">Guide to Mastodon</a> | <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/article/364850/how-to-ditch-twitter-and-join-mastodon" rel="nofollow">PcMag: ditch Twitter and Join Mastodon</a> | <a href="https://medium.com/@arinbasu/a-complete-sloths-guide-to-mastodon-9cda44e1f288" rel="nofollow">A Sloth&#39;s Guide to Mastodon</a> | <a href="https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-Mastodon/User-guide.md" rel="nofollow">Mastodon Getting Started</a> | <a href="https://www.techspotting.com/2019/02/23/mastodon-the-twitter-alternative-surpasses-2-million-users/" rel="nofollow">Mastodon Guide</a> | <a href="https://docs.joinmastodon.org/" rel="nofollow">Mastodon documentation</a> | <a href="https://kevq.uk/how-does-mastodon-work/" rel="nofollow">How does Mastodon work?</a> | <a href="https://fediverse.party/en/mastodon/" rel="nofollow">Mastodon-Fediverse</a> | <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/783akg/mastodon-is-like-twitter-without-nazis-so-why-are-we-not-using-it" rel="nofollow">Mastodon review at Motherboard</a> | <a href="https://www.techspotting.com/2019/02/23/mastodon-the-twitter-alternative-surpasses-2-million-users/" rel="nofollow">Techspotting review</a> | <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15517740" rel="nofollow">Ask HN: How to find people to follow on Mastodon?</a> | <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/90fz3z/activitypub_and_the_fediverse_do_you_think_it_can/" rel="nofollow">ActivityPub and the Fediverse</a> | <a href="https://wedistribute.org/2019/04/your-guide-to-alternative-frontends-for-mastodon-and-pleroma/" rel="nofollow">Guide to alternative frontends for Mastodon and Pleroma</a> |</p>

<p><a href="https://instances.social/list#lang=&amp;allowed=&amp;prohibited=&amp;users=" rel="nofollow">Search Mastodon instances, case-sensitive</a>
Browse hashtags on a large Mastodon instance: (instance)/tags/(hashtag), e.g.: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/recipe" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.social/tags/recipe</a> (must use /tags not /t)
Different instances show different combinations of posts, depending on who people follow on that instance (hence use a large instance). <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/web/statuses/101748777138420692" rel="nofollow">[source]</a>
This page includes public posts from the Fediverse using that hashtag.  You don&#39;t need to be logged in to view the page.</p>

<p>Atom and RSS feeds: (is this instance specific? this works for qoto.org, I&#39;ll try to determine if this applies for all Mastodon instances):
<a href="https://qoto.org/users/username.atom" rel="nofollow">https://qoto.org/users/username.atom</a> | <a href="https://qoto.org/users/username.rss" rel="nofollow">https://qoto.org/users/username.rss</a> |</p>

<p>Some Mastodon Instances: <a href="https://qoto.org" rel="nofollow">qoto.org</a> for scholars in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) | <a href="https://hub.fosstodon.org" rel="nofollow">Fosstodon</a> dedicated to Free &amp; Open Source Software, or FOSS as many call it |<br/>
<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/web/statuses/101715624569143538" rel="nofollow">How to follow multiple hashtags on Mastodon</a> | <a href="https://carlchenet.com/the-importance-of-choosing-the-correct-mastodon-instance/" rel="nofollow">Choosing the correct Mastodon instance</a> |
(<a href="https://hub.fosstodon.org/blog/five-things-to-do-after-you-join-fosstodon" rel="nofollow">https://hub.fosstodon.org/blog/five-things-to-do-after-you-join-fosstodon</a>)
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)" rel="nofollow">Mastodon Project on Wikipedia</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/MastodonProject" rel="nofollow">on Twitter</a> | <a href="https://medium.com/@jimpjorps/a-non-computer-persons-guide-to-how-mastodon-instances-work-da6ceac1994a" rel="nofollow">How Mastodon instances work</a> | <a href="https://discuss.write.as/t/activitypub-support/64" rel="nofollow">Activity Pub support: have blog posts show in Mastodon</a> | <a href="https://write.as/matt/tag:fediverse" rel="nofollow">Matt: Identity in the Fediverse</a> |
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<p><a href="https://distsn.org/pleroma-instances.html" rel="nofollow">Pleroma instances</a> | <a href="https://distsn.org/instance-speed.html" rel="nofollow">Pleroma, Mastodon, etc active instances</a> | <a href="https://pleroma.social/" rel="nofollow">Pleroma site</a> | <a href="https://pleroma.social/" rel="nofollow">Pleroma</a> and other ActivityPub-powered social networks | <a href="https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/" rel="nofollow">What is Pleroma?</a> |</p>

<p><a href="https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/101946873370147001" rel="nofollow">Open PixelFed instances</a> | <a href="https://the-federation.info/pixelfed" rel="nofollow">Pixelfed federation instances</a> | <a href="https://fediverse.network/pixelfed" rel="nofollow">Pixelfed federation network</a> |  <a href="https://pixelfed.de" rel="nofollow">pixelfed.de</a> | <a href="https://pxlfd.me" rel="nofollow">pxlfd.me</a> | <a href="https://pixelfed.social/site/help" rel="nofollow">Pixelfed Help</a> |
<a href="https://prismo.xyz" rel="nofollow">Prismo.xyz</a> tags: <a href="https://prismo.xyz/tags/blogging" rel="nofollow">blogging</a> | <a href="https://prismo.xyz/tags/books" rel="nofollow">books</a> | <a href="https://prismo.xyz/tags/fediverse" rel="nofollow">fediverse</a> | <a href="https://prismo.xyz/tags/git" rel="nofollow">git</a> | <a href="https://prismo.xyz/tags/javascript" rel="nofollow">javascript</a> | <a href="https://prismo.xyz/tags/math" rel="nofollow">mastodon</a> | <a href="https://prismo.xyz/tags/opensource" rel="nofollow">opensource</a> | <a href="https://prismo.xyz/tags/pleroma" rel="nofollow">pleroma</a> | <a href="https://prismo.xyz/tags/privacy" rel="nofollow">privacy</a> | <a href="https://prismo.xyz/tags/programming" rel="nofollow">programming</a> | <a href="https://prismo.xyz/tags/security" rel="nofollow">security</a> | <a href="https://prismo.xyz/tags/webdev" rel="nofollow">webdesign</a> | <a href="https://prismo.xyz/@KelsonsLinks" rel="nofollow">Kelson&#39;s links</a> |
<a href="https://wedistribute.org/" rel="nofollow">we distribute</a> |</p>

<p>Wikipedia articles: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse" rel="nofollow">fediverse</a> | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub" rel="nofollow">ActivityPub</a> |</p>

<p>Plume is a free open federated blogging platform for the Fediverse. Find out more at <a href="https://joinplu.me" rel="nofollow">https://joinplu.me</a>.
Sign up at <a href="https://fediverse.blog" rel="nofollow">https://fediverse.blog</a> or <a href="https://plume.mastodon.host" rel="nofollow">https://plume.mastodon.host</a> or <a href="https://cafe.sunbeam.city" rel="nofollow">https://cafe.sunbeam.city</a> ... and many other instances listed at <a href="https://joinplu.me" rel="nofollow">https://joinplu.me</a>
It&#39;s powered by <a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/why-activitypub-is-the-future/" rel="nofollow">ActivityPub</a>, so you can follow Plume blogs from <a href="https://qua.name/scitech/" rel="nofollow">Mastodon</a>, <a href="https://friendi.ca" rel="nofollow">Friendica</a></p>

<p><a href="https://jwc.writeas.com/tag:fediverse" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://jwc.writeas.com/tag:followup" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">followup</span></a> <a href="https://jwc.writeas.com/tag:mastodon" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">mastodon</span></a></p>


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