Mastodon: servers, good and bad

76 · Ned Batchelder · Nov. 27, 2022, 5:32 p.m.
Like many people these days, I’m looking around at alternatives to Twitter, and Mastodon is a clear favorite. Comparing the two, the big differences, both good and bad, come down to servers.Twitter is one web site, run by one corporation. This is easy to understand, and makes it easy to find lots of people, but has the disadvantage that a deranged over-leveraged misanthropic moron can buy it and make it terrible.Mastodon is both a web application and a galaxy of tens of thousands of separate s...