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Mastodon is an open source, self-hosted, social networking service. Mastodon uses the ActivityPub protocol for federation which allows users to communicate between independent Mastodon instances and other ActivityPub compatible services. Mastodon has microblogging features similar to Twitter, and is generally considered to be a part of the ...
"You can mention or message anyone on any website using their address," Mastodon says on its website. It also has replies, retweets (called “boosts”), favorites, direct messages, bookmarks and ...
By July 2017, there were 727 individuals supporting Mastodon on Patreon. [10] At that time Rochko self-described as Mastodon's main developer and project manager working alongside @maloki@mastodon.social, Mastodon's project manager. [10] The rest of the work was undertaken by volunteers. [10]
While Mastodon began to remove OStatus support, other projects maintained it in their code, such as Friendica (which also maintained diaspora* support along with ActivityPub), [17] [18] and the term Fediverse has since come to mainly refer to the ActivityPub protocol and its supporting server software.
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A fresh wave of Twitter chaos is causing social-media users to flock to alternatives like Mastodon and Bluesky. Twitter's new rate limits are sending people running to Mastodon.
Friendica users can connect with others via their own Friendica server, but may also fully integrate contacts from other platforms including Diaspora, Pump.io, GNU social, email, Discourse [9] and more recently ActivityPub (including Mastodon, Pleroma and Pixelfed) and Bluesky [10] [11] into their 'newsfeed'.
Much like Mastodon, Pixelfed implements chronological timelines without content manipulation algorithms. [11] [12] It also aims to be privacy-focused with no third party analytics or tracking. [13] [14] Pixelfed optionally organizes its media by hashtags, geo-tagging and likes based on each server. It also allows audiences to be distinguished ...