What is Mastodon Social Media? - A Brief Summary

Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services.

Mastodon was created by Eugen Rochko and announced on Hacker News in October 2016.

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It has microblogging features similar to the Twitter service, 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 moderation policies.

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Messages posted using Mastadon were formerly known as "toots", although they are now simply called "posts".

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A spike in Mastodon's user participation occurred in April 2022, following the 25 April announcement of Elon Musk purchasing Twitter. By 27 April, 30,000 new users had joined Mastodon.

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As of December 16th the official Mastodon Twitter account, as well as some links to Mastodon are banned.

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Mastodon is crowdfunded and does not contain ads; as of November 2022, it was supported by just 3,500 people.

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Disclaimer: all information in this story has been collected from wikipedia. if you want more info about mastodon then plz visit wikipedia page.

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