Mastodon servers run social networking software that is capable of communicating using W3C's ActivityPub standard, which has been implemented since version 1.6. The project is maintained by German non-profit Mastodon gGmbH. Mastodon was created by Eugen Rochko and announced on Hacker News in October 2016, and gained significant adoption in 2022 in the wake of Twitter's acquisition by Elon Musk. Mastodon is crowdfunded and does not contain ads. Mastodon is also part of the Fediverse ensemble of computer servers, which use shared protocols allowing users to interact with other users on computers running compatible software packages such as PeerTube and Friendica. This is intended to give users the flexibility to select a node whose policies they prefer, but keep access to a larger social network. ![]() Įach 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 instances to interact with each other. It has microblogging features similar to Twitter, which are offered by a large number of independently run nodes, known as instances, each with its own code of conduct, terms of service, privacy policy, privacy options, and content moderation policies. ![]() Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. The mascot of the Mastodon social network - a mastodon
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