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...

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...

Probably for vanity sake, or perhaps even out of jealousy seeing friends becoming “twitter verified”, I was curious to see if, me too, I could get those little ticks beside my name on my Twitter profile. Generally speaking, verified accounts are accounts of “public interest”. It can range from your usual movie stars, to politicians, from well-known artists, to company CEOs, but also persons somehow well known in the twittosphere, including tech luminaries, representative of particular tech communities, etc. Read more...