{"id":784,"date":"2017-04-17T11:30:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/?p=784"},"modified":"2017-04-17T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T15:31:11","slug":"mastodon-social-your-first-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/mastodon-social-your-first-look\/784","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon Social: your first look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mastodon? Mastodon?<\/p>\n<p>Do we really need another social network? And do we really need to name it Mastodon? That&#8217;s hard for people to spell off the top of their heads.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering why people are talking about Mastodon and what it looks like, I give you a glib and superficial glance at this open source service. I joined Mastodon on April 8.\u00a0These were my initial impressions.<\/p>\n<p>In this short video, you can gain a glance at Mastodon without going through the hassle of signing up for it yourself. Learn from my mistakes,\u00a0and see if it&#8217;s right for you.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mastodon Social First Look\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOZWwoKIIg4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastodon? Mastodon? Do we really need another social network? And do we really need to name it Mastodon? That&#8217;s hard for people to spell off the top of their heads. If you&#8217;re wondering why people are talking about Mastodon and what it looks like, I give you a glib and superficial glance at this open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media","category-video","tag-mastodon-social","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maniactive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}