mastodon

mastodon is, besides an extinct mammal and a metal band, a decentralized open-source social media tool. If I'm understanding it correctly, there are a lot of different servers running mastodon software. These are called instances. People with accounts on one instance can interact with people on other instances. All these instances together are called a federation. It seems to be particulary popular with people who are fed up with twitter, because of it's lack of ads and increased discourse between people running the instances and people using it. It also seems to be popular among japanese people, for two of the biggest instances are japanese language, one of which is hosted by pixiv.
It is also possible to host a private mastodon instance that is invisible to outsiders. This could prove very helpful for companies.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: joinmastodon DOT org
POPULAR INSTANCE: mastodon DOT social
VIDEO EXPLANATION (OFFICIAL): youtu DOT be/IPSbNdBmWKE

hey have you heard of mastodon? You can easily find your twitter mutuals if they've connected their accounts.

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