Re:Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon
by redwall_hp on Thursday March 21, 2019 @10:55PM
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It's an alternate implementation of the GNU Social protocols. It's an open and federated platform (like email).
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Re:Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon
by WorldMaker on Friday March 22, 2019 @10:06AM
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Mastodon doesn't use [GNU Social] OStatus protocols as much anymore. Most of Mastodon federation work has moved to the ActivityPub protocol, which as in the nature of most such standards some proponents see as the natural successor to OStatus and others as an incompatible fork.