Trying to Understand Mastodon’s Federation

1 · Alan Storm · Nov. 7, 2022, 12:30 a.m.
Mastodon is a decentralized, federated social network technology. With Twitter recently realizing its investor’s goals via an — unorthodox — sale to a wealthy entrepreneur and industrial scion with hard-right-leaning values, many people have wondered whether the platform will remain a useful or habitable place. Mastodon has been suggested as a possible Twitter replacement, and I’ve been trying to understand what, and more important where, Mastodon is. These are some thinking out loud thoughts. I...