What is Mastodon, the new social media kid on the block
The HinduMastodon, founded on October 5, 2016 by Eugen Rochko, calls itself a “federation” comprising thousands of communities, similar to Reddit and with timelines much like Twitter. Mastodon 3.0 now promises a “safer social media experience” equipped with effective anti-abuse tools to protect yourself and other users from harassment as well as servers with strict codes of conduct. — Twitter India November 7, 2019 This explains why, in the past few days, Indian users have labelled Mastodon as a more egalitarian social network. For example, inditoot.com is a social network for Indians, run by Indian owners on a specific Mastodon instance, which is denoted by “inditoot”. If User A from instance Red wants to communicate to user B from another instance, say, Blue, they simply add the B’s Mastodon handle followed by their instance name to their “toot”.
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