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Mastodon pilot

SURF and Universities of the Netherlands are jointly exploring Mastodon as an open source platform for education and research in the Netherlands. In which public values are paramount. We started a pilot in February 2023. Join us and discover how students, researchers, staff and institutions can experiment with Mastodon in a low-threshold way.

Easy experimentation with Mastodon

Mastodon is currently considered the alternative to Twitter. SURF and Universities of the Netherlands are therefore jointly exploring how a Mastodon environment can take shape for education and research in the Netherlands. We started a pilot in February 2023 for all institutions in the wo, hbo, mbo, research and umc's. This way, they do not have to set up their own ICT environment or acquire specific expertise.

Why have your own Mastodon server for education and research?

  • Get started immediately as an institution and user: SURF hosts and maintains the server.
  • We create a constructive community together.
  • We investigate the technology (fediverse, activity pub. etc.) and learn about it.
  • Users may be anonymous, but are always traceable.
  • You can create group accounts (useful for webcare teams, for example)
  • We can thus express the public values we consider important

More about the pilot