❯ Guillaume Laforge

mastodon

From Bird to Elephant: Starting a New Journey on Mastodon

At Devoxx France and Devoxx Greece, I had the pleasure to talk about my new social media journey on Mastodon. After a quick introduction about Mastodon and the Fediverse, I contrasted the key differences between Twitter and Mastodon. Then I shared some advice on how to get started, how to chose an instance, or clients you can pick from. I moved on to important tips to get the best experience on the platform, and ensure to gather a great following: Read more...

Calculating your potential reach on Mastodon with Google Cloud Workflows orchestrating the Mastodon APIs

With the turmoil around Twitter, like many, I’ve decided to look into Mastodon. My friend Geert is running his own Mastodon server, and welcomed me on his instance at: uwyn.net/@glaforge. With Twitter, you can access your analytics to know how your tweets are doing, how many views you’re getting. Working in developer relations, it’s always interesting to get some insights into those numbers to figure out if what you’re sharing is interesting for your community. Read more...