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A Mastodon Social Network is a Decentralized Online Social Network that provides a free, open-source platform for microblogging and social networking services.
- AKA: Mastodon Software, Mastodon Social Networking Platform.
- Context:
- Website: https://joinmastodon.org
- Source Code: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
- It can be self-hosted and is powered by ActivityPub protocol.
- It can offer a decentralized way to connect with others through individual servers or "instances" which users can choose based on preferred policies.
- It can function similarly to Twitter but operates under a federated social network model, allowing for enhanced privacy and user control.
- It can range from being a tool for private communication to a platform for large scale social interaction among diverse communities.
- It can influence various other federated social networks and software in the Fediverse.
- ...
- It can be a free and open-source software that can distributed and modified under the Affero General Public License.
- It can be main services are microblogging.
- It can be written in Ruby on Rails, and React.js.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Decentralized Online Social Network, Distributed Social Network, Smartphone, GitHub, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React.js, Redux JavaScript Library, Cross-Platform Software, IOS, Android Operating System, Linux, Berkeley Software Distribution, Sailfish OS, Crowdfunded, Eugen Rochko, GitHub, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React.js, Redux (JavaScript Library), Cross-Platform Software, IOS, Android (Operating System), Linux, Berkeley Software Distribution.
References
2024
- (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network) Retrieved:2024-4-15.
- Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services.It has microblogging features similar to Twitter, which are offered by a large number of independently run nodes, known as instances or servers, each with its own code of conduct, terms of service, privacy policy, privacy options, and content moderation policies.[1] [2] Each user is a member of a specific Mastodon server that can interact seamlessly with users in any other server. This is intended to give users the flexibility to select a server whose policies they prefer, but keep access to a larger federated social network. Mastodon is powered by the ActivityPub protocol, making it part of the Fediverse ensemble of services such as Lemmy, Pixelfed, Friendica, and PeerTube. 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.[3][4][5] The project is maintained by German non-profit Mastodon gGmbH. Mastodon development is crowdfunded and the code does not support advertisements.
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- (GitHub, 2021) ⇒ https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon Retrieved:2021-10-17.
- QUOTE: Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub where users can follow friends and discover new ones. On Mastodon, users can publish anything they want: links, pictures, text, video. All Mastodon servers are interoperable as a federated network (users on one server can seamlessly communicate with users from another one, including non-Mastodon software that implements ActivityPub)!