How to Use Mastodon, the Social-Media Platform Blocked by Elon Musk’s Twitter

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Mastodon is a decentralized—aka “federated”—approach to social media. Here’s what that means.

. As there are thousands of different servers, there are thousands of different suffixes. Some popular ones: mastodon.social, mstdn.social, mastodon.online.Each server has a feed of posts from everyone in its community., the idea being that local enforcement can be quicker than a centralized governing body patrolling a massive platform.. And when you post, anyone across all of the Mastodon servers can see it.

Before you enter most servers, you have to agree to some ground rules, including no racism, terrorism or other illegal activity.Mastodon really is a lot like Twitter . When you follow other users, their posts appear in your feed, regardless of their home server. Posting is simple. Type some words into the compose box and hit the publish—or “toot”—button.If you remember one thing about using Mastodon, let it be this: Don’t use the direct-message feature. Messages aren’t end-to-end encrypted, meaning

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