What is Mastodon?

Or, some recommended instances here:

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[randomavenger]

I can't believe that my favorite Metal band created their own social media.

[aaronbono]

An 4 years after this video comes out Musk and Twitter prove they are 100% spot on about corporate social media.

[GabetheHuman-cp]

This is great! I never wanted to be on Facebook because of the people who run it, and I never wanted wanted to use Twitter because of the people who use it. This is just what I wanted!

[stephenlangsl]

I can think of quite a few music related groups that can be started on Mastodon to fill in that void of Mastodon only having 3 of them at the present time.

[jaredscribe]

What makes mastodon effective is the "free software" philosophy of the AGPL license, which requires that deployed instances of the "open source" mastodon software share the software and all modifications to it with their users. Permissive open source licenses don't require this, enabling corporations to effectively "close" and privatize the codebase.

[bilbobaggins]

Mastodon feels like the early days of the internet & Twitter where you weren't anxious about posting something in case it got some toxic comments.

Twitter has some really toxic areas.

Humans are only meant to really interact with a couple hundred people really, so something like Mastodon with lots of small instances seems to cater to that more so than one gigantic global network like Twitter or Facebook, while still letting instances interact with each-other.

I left Facebook years ago, & was waiting for something free & open source to appear, Mastodon fills that for me.

Great to see the upsurge in users & instances since Musk bought Twitter.

[betternamesoon]

I like that there is an instance where the letter 'e' is not allowed.
And then there is that instance where ONLY the letter 'e' is allowed!
Good stuff! xD

Im kinda hoping that more decentralized networks reach technical majority sooner rather than later. Could mean that things become less datagrabby and more diverse/chaotic again (and possibly more free) like in the 'old internet' (reddit is to blame for the term ;))

[leifharmsen]

As an artist that paintsnudes, this makes social media possible for me, free from a Silicone Valley foreign culture that is hysterical about nudity.

[murmurdapp]

An innovative and brilliant network. Beautifully explained using a completely user-friendly method. Great content!

[mushmush]

Having a global tab beyond the federal tab that tracks the top trending posts from every instance would be very effective and will probably keep the site from feeling like an echo chamber or bubble. Also good for the social media to feel more social and less isolating.
As a user I think I'd go insane if I couldn't see what the entire platform is up to while I'm restrained to a tiny bubble.

[OviWanKenobi]

question 1: is there an index of all platforms/servers implementing ActivityPub and/or OStatus which are all connected in a mesh?
or a list of all meshes and then each mesh with the list of all servers?
question 2: who's running each server? and who pays for the resources needed to run a server? and if that server gets corrupted and my account is stored there, is my account compromised and in danger to lose all the data, all the account? or it gets duplicated on several connected servers which are in the same mesh?

[MathieuLLF]

Ever since first joining Mastodon, I have deleted all my other social media and my life has improved so much! Mastodon is a great place and at least from my experience with it, lacks all of the toxicity of Twitter and such.

[SamXavia]

Thank you for creating an amazing platform. I just love how the Fediverse is growing and it doesn't seem to be slowing down.

[RDisGD]

I don't know, I think Crack The Skye was their last great record.

[thomaswhite]

How is an instance powered ? Shared server ? It's the main question but it is not answered.

I tried Mastodon back in the beginning, but it was a bit confusing, glad to see they made it much better.
But can the admin of a certain instance sell you personal data, and see the DM you send to other person?

[pandakso]

Love the More Than I Could Chew thumbnail hit

[orthusgames]

Mastodon is one of the original Zords and it's so cool that it became an app.

[suddenCHU]

Been super happy with this platform so far!

[AndreGarzia]

I love Mastodon! Its a breath of fresh air when compared with the closed silos we find everywhere!