Mastodon (software) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 16/01/2019

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00:01:18 1 Functionality and features
00:05:00 2 Technology
00:05:55 3 Adoption
00:06:58 4 See also



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Mastodon is a distributed, federated social network that forms part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers.
Mastodon has microblogging features similar to Twitter. Each user is a member of a specific Mastodon server, known as an "instance" of the software, but can connect and communicate with users on other instances as well. Users post short messages called "toots" for others to see, subject to the adjustable privacy settings of the user and their particular instance. The Mastodon mascot is a brown or grey woolly mammoth, sometimes depicted using a tablet or smartphone.
The software seeks to distinguish itself from Twitter through its orientation towards self-contained, independently operated small communities, which can see, but are separate from each-other. Thus it has a community-based, rather than a top-down, moderation and service operation, based on cooperation without direct dependence on any central provider. Like Twitter, Mastodon supports direct, private messages between users, but unlike "tweets" posted on Twitter, Mastodon’s "toots" can be either private to the user, private to the user's followers, public on a specific instance only, or public across a network of various instances.