Mastodon is an innovative open-source and self-hostable microblogging platform similar to Twitter or Tumblr. Its development was started in 2016 by Eugen Rochko and since then Mastodon constantly attracted new users and communities looking for a social environment independent from big company logics and censorship.
Mastodon is not a Twitter clone: by concept, structure and functionalities it is something completely different and much more interesting!
This page is an introduction to Mastodon’s basic concepts and features which you should know to fully understand how Mastodon works. It is structured in independent sections which you can jump to from the Index (see the link in the upper-left side), but it can also be read as a single text.
The site also hosts an Instances search engine that you can use to find the Mastodon instance that best fits your needs.
Forget is a service that automatically deletes your old posts that everyone has forgotten about. Shouldn't databases forget too?
The Pub is Now Open, ActivityPub that is!
Forget is a service that automatically deletes your old posts once everyone has forgotten about them. After all, why shouldn't computers forget too?
A Dcntralizd and Fdratd Social Ntwork
Oulipo.social is a lipogrammatic Mastodon for all.
SubwayTooter - Mastodon client app for Android
Twitter-like Mastodon client
Mastoshare - Un bouton de partage social pour Mastodon
awesome-mastodon - Curated list of awesome Mastodon-related stuff!
Radar is a project to map out the Fediverse - the collection of OStatus-compatible instances available on the web. Right now, Radar is focused on the Mastodon universe, but will expand to include other common software in time.
A Twitter->Mastodon Bridge
Eugen Rochko was annoyed with Twitter. The company had made a series of changes that he thought eroded the value of the service: limiting how big third-party applications could grow, for example, and implementing an algorithm-driven timeline that made Twitter feel uncomfortably similar to Facebook. Most people in Rochko’s situation fired off an angry tweet or two and moved on. Rochko set about rebuilding Twitter from scratch.
What’s different and why it’s better
I quit Twitter to join a kinder, nicer, decentralized open source version of Twitter.