10-NOV-2022: What is Mastadon Social? It is replacing Twitter now?

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November 10th, 2022

Mastodon is free and open-sourcesoftware for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to the Twitter service, which are offered by a large number of independently run Mastodon nodes (technically known as instances), each with its own code of conduct, terms of service, privacy options, and moderation policies.

Original author(s)	Eugen Rochko[1]
Developer(s)	Mastodon gGmbH[2]
Initial release	16 March 2016; 6 years ago[3]
Stable release	3.5.3 / May 26, 2022
Repository	github.com/mastodon/mastodon
Written in	Ruby on Rails, JavaScript(React.js, Redux)
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	iOS, Android, Linux, BSD, Sailfish OS, macOS, Microsoft Windows
Available in	93 languages[4]
Type	Microblogging
License	AGPLv3+[5]
Website	joinmastodon.org

The mascot of the Mastodon social network

Each user is a member of a specific Mastodon instance (also called a server), which can interoperate as a federated social network, allowing users on different nodes to interact with each other. This is intended to give users the flexibility to select a server whose policies they prefer, but keep access to a larger social network. Mastodon is also part of the Fediverse ensemble of server platforms, which use shared protocols allowing users to also interact with users on other compatible platforms,^[9] such as PeerTube and Friendica.

The Mastodon mascot is an animal with a trunk, resembling a mastodon or mammoth, sometimes depicted using a tablet or smartphone. Messages posted using the software are known as "toots". Mastodon was originally created by Eugen Rochko and announced on Hacker News in October 2016.

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