Mastodon is a free social media network where you can post "toots" (instead of tweets), follow other people and organisations, and favourite (like) and boost (retweet) posts from other users.

Using mastodon.social as an example, the instance forbids racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and similar, doesn't allow its members to promote or call for violence, bans misinformation, and ...

Mastodon is open source and its creator describes it as a sort of federation. There are lots of Mastodon sites, or instances as they are called, and they can communicate with each other.

Currently there are about 5,700 Mastodon servers on the Fediverse. So, unlike connecting to one platform in the case of Twitter, when you connect to Mastodon you first connect to one of these servers.

Calm down, tweeps. Mastodon is intriguing, but Twitter isn't going anywhere just yet. If you're intrigued, though, here's what you need to know about Mastodon.

Mastodon has some of Twitter's features, such as following other users and groups, sharing photos, video and audio, using hashtags and boosting posts you like. You can also edit your posts.

What is Mastodon anyway? Social networking that’s not for sale, according to the Mastodon website. And that’s because Mastodon is a decentralised network, not owned by a single person or company.

Mastodon is a free, open-source social media platform founded by Eugen Rochko in 2016. It is quite similar to Twitter but has a few features that even the Musk-led microblogging platform does not ...

Mastodon is basically an open source alternative, similar to Twitter, where tweets are called toots. The USP of Mastodon is that it is open source and not owned by any private corporation.