Your browser does not fully support modern features. Please upgrade for a smoother experience.
Submitted Successfully!
Thank you for your contribution! You can also upload a video entry or images related to this topic. For video creation, please contact our Academic Video Service.
Version Summary Created by Modification Content Size Created at Operation
1 handwiki Vivi Li -- 1465 2022-11-24 01:42:42

Video Upload Options

We provide professional Academic Video Service to translate complex research into visually appealing presentations. Would you like to try it?
No, upload directly Yes
Cite
If you have any further questions, please contact Encyclopedia Editorial Office.
HandWiki. Mastodon. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/36191 (accessed on 04 October 2026).
HandWiki. Mastodon. Encyclopedia. Available at: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/36191. Accessed October 04, 2026.
HandWiki. "Mastodon" Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/36191 (accessed October 04, 2026).
HandWiki. (2022, November 24). Mastodon. In Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/36191
HandWiki. "Mastodon." Encyclopedia. Web. 24 November, 2022.
Mastodon
Edit
The content is sourced from: https://handwiki.org/wiki/Software:Mastodon

Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to the Twitter service, which are offered by a large number of independently run Mastodon nodes (known as "instances"), each with its own code of conduct, terms of service, privacy options, and moderation policies. Each user is a member of a specific Mastodon instance, which can interoperate as a federated social network, allowing users on different nodes to interact with each other. This is intended to give users the flexibility to select a server whose policies they prefer, but keep access to a larger social network. Mastodon is also part of the Fediverse ensemble of server platforms, which use shared protocols allowing users to also interact with users on other compatible platforms, such as PeerTube and Friendica. The Mastodon mascot is an animal with a trunk, resembling a mastodon or mammoth, sometimes depicted using a tablet or smartphone. Messages posted using the software are known as "toots".

social networking microblogging self-hosted

References

  1. "ActivityPub IndieWeb". https://indieweb.org/ActivityPub. 
  2. "Mastodon 2.9" (in en). http://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/mastodon-2.9/. 
  3. "Twitter just doubled the character limit for tweets to 280". 26 September 2017. https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/26/16363912/twitter-character-limit-increase-280-test. 
  4. "How To Get Started on Mastodon and Leave Twitter Behind" (in en). https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-get-started-on-mastodon-and-leave-twitter-behind. 
  5. Farokhmanesh, Megan (2017-04-07). "A beginner's guide to Mastodon, the hot new open-source Twitter clone". The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/7/15183128/mastodon-open-source-twitter-clone-how-to-use. 
  6. "Ditt lokale sosiale nettverk — oslo.town" (in en). https://oslo.town/about. 
  7. "Tŵt Cymru | Toot Wales" (in en). https://toot.wales/about. 
  8. Farokhmanesh, Megan (2017-04-07). "A beginner's guide to Mastodon, the hot new open-source Twitter clone" (in en). https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/7/15183128/mastodon-open-source-twitter-clone-how-to-use. 
  9. "Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It?". Motherboard. 2017-04-04. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/783akg/mastodon-is-like-twitter-without-nazis-so-why-are-we-not-using-it. 
  10. "One Mammoth of a Job: An Interview with Eugen Rochko of Mastodon". 9 July 2018. https://medium.com/we-distribute/one-mammoth-of-a-job-an-interview-with-eugen-rochko-of-mastodon-23b159d6796a. 
  11. Rochko, Eugen. "Learning from Twitter's mistakes". https://medium.com/tootsuite/learning-from-twitters-mistakes-c272d67bba76. 
  12. "Mastodon 2.5 released: Highlights from the changelog". https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/09/mastodon-2.5-released. 
  13. "Mastodon 2.6 released: Highlights from the changelog". https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/10/mastodon-2.6-released. 
  14. "Mastodon 2.7 released: Highlights from the changelog". https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/01/mastodon-2.7. 
  15. "Mastodon 2.8 Highlights from the changelog". https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/04/mastodon-2.8. 
  16. "Improving support for adult content on Mastodon". https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/05/improving-support-for-adult-content-on-mastodon. 
  17. "Introducing the single-column layout". https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/mastodon-2.9. 
  18. "Mastodon 3.2" (in en). http://blog.joinmastodon.org/2020/08/mastodon-3.2/. 
  19. "Mastodon now has an official iPhone app". 30 July 2021. https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/30/22602275/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-official-ios-app-launches. 
  20. "Mastodon Instances — The Fediverse Network". https://fediverse.network/mastodon. 
  21. Rochko, Eugen (1 April 2017). "Welcome to Mastodon". https://hackernoon.com/welcome-to-mastodon-111d9227e56a. 
  22. "Installation". https://docs.joinmastodon.org/administration/installation/. 
  23. tootsuite/mastodon, Mastodon, 2021-02-04, https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon, retrieved 2021-02-04 
  24. "Release v1.6.0". https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v1.6.0. 
  25. Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community: tootsuite/mastodon, TootSuite, 2019-10-04, https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.0.0, retrieved 2019-10-04 
  26. "Mastodon to drop OStatus support". https://wedistribute.org/2019/07/mastodon-drops-ostatus. 
  27. "List of apps". https://joinmastodon.org/apps. 
  28. Steele, Chandra (2017-04-06). "What Is Mastodon and Will It Kill Twitter?". http://au.pcmag.com/social-networking/47343/feature/what-is-mastodon-and-will-it-kill-twitter. 
  29. "dynamic status of mastodon". https://mnm.eliotberriot.com/dashboard/db/network-drilldown?refresh=30m&orgId=1&orgId=1&from=now-7d&to=now. 
  30. "Mastodon Users (bot), December 1, 2017, 4:00 PM". https://lou.lt/@mastodonusercount/99099871022836220. 
  31. Bonnington, Christina (2016-11-22). "Mastodon is an open source, decentralized version of Twitter". The Daily Dot. http://www.dailydot.com/debug/mastodon-open-source-social-media/. 
  32. Tidey, Jimmy (2017-01-06). "What would Twitter be if it adopted Wikipedia's politics?". openDemocracy. https://www.opendemocracy.net/open2017/jimmy-tidey/what-would-twitter-be-with-wikipedia-politics. 
  33. "Are You on Mastodon Yet? Social Network of Our Own – ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education". 28 November 2016. http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/are-you-on-mastodon-yet-social-network-of-our-own/63261. 
  34. POST, Brian Fung, WASHINGTON. "Facebook's poor care of customer data is driving users to social networks such as Mastodon". http://www.philly.com/philly/business/facebook-deletefacebook-mastodon-zuckerberg-cambridge-analytica-20180323.html. 
  35. "User Count Bot". https://mastodon.social/@usercount. 
  36. Gibson, Kate (3 December 2018). "Tumblr banning adult content starting Dec. 17, citing porn concerns". CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tumblr-banning-adult-content-starting-dec-17-citing-porn-concerns/. 
  37. Kapur, Manavi. "This chart from Mastodon's creator shows just how angry some Indian Twitter users are" (in en). https://qz.com/india/1746734/angry-twitter-india-users-are-migrating-to-mastodon-in-thousands/. 
  38. Bell, Karissa (2022-04-27). "After Musk's Twitter takeover, an open-source alternative is 'exploding'". Engadget. https://www.engadget.com/twitter-alternative-mastodon-open-source-021001965.html. 
  39. Woźniak, Michał rysiek (2022-04-27). "Elon Musk kupił sobie Twittera. Czy ,,absolutysta wolności słowa" przywróci konto Trumpa?" (in pl). OKO.press. https://oko.press/musk-twittera-czy-przywroci-konto-trumpa. 
  40. EDPS launches pilot phase of two social media platforms (press release). https://edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2022/edps-launches-pilot-phase-two-social-media_en
  41. "Mastodon hosted on pawoo.net" (in en). https://pawoo.net/about/more. 
  42. Glaser, April; Oremus, Will (2018-08-30). "The New Social Network Dodging Government Surveillance—and Nazis". Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/mastodon-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-social-network-competing-with-twitter.html. Retrieved 2022-04-27. 
  43. Zuckerman, Ethan (2018-08-18). "Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortable". https://ethanzuckerman.com/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-big-in-japan-the-reason-why-is-uncomfortable. Retrieved 2022-04-27. 
  44. Lunduke, Bryan (30 April 2019). "Purism Launches Librem One, a Suite of Privacy-Protecting, No-Track, No-Ad Apps and Services". Linux Journal. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/purism-launches-librem-one-suite-privacy-protecting-no-track-no-ad-apps-and-services. Retrieved 2019-07-17. 
  45. Kißling, Kristian; Linux Magazin; Grüner, Sebastian (2 May 2019). "Librem One: Purism startet Angebot für sichere Online-Dienste" (in de). https://www.golem.de/news/librem-one-purism-startet-angebot-fuer-sichere-online-dienste-1905-141007.html. 
  46. Makuch, Ben; Koebler, Jason; Mead, Derek (11 July 2019). "Mastodon Was Designed to Be a Nazi-Free Twitter—Now It's the Exact Opposite". https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb8y3x/the-nazi-free-alternative-to-twitter-is-now-home-to-the-biggest-far-right-social-network. 
  47. Robertson, Adi (12 July 2019). "How the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its Nazi problem". https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-gab-migration-fediverse-app-blocking. 
  48. Eleanor (4 July 2019). "Statement on Gab's fork of Mastodon". http://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork-of-mastodon/. 
  49. "Announcing the launch of Project Civiq". 24 October 2019. https://www.fourthestate.org/news/announcing-the-launch-of-civiq/. 
  50. "How "Swadeshi" is Tooter If It Clones Far-Right Platforms Like Gab?". arre.co.in. 27 November 2020. https://www.arre.co.in/technology/how-swadeshi-is-tooter-if-it-clones-far-right-platforms-like-gab/amp/?__twitter_impression=true. 
  51. Rochko, Eugen (October 29, 2021). "Trump's new social media platform found using Mastodon code". https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/. 
  52. Kan, Michael (December 1, 2021). "Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon". https://uk.pcmag.com/social-media/137421/trumps-social-media-site-quietly-admits-its-based-on-mastodon. 
More
©Text is available under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons-Attribution ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.
Upload a video for this entry
Information
Subjects: Computer Science, Software Engineering
Contributor MDPI registered users' name will be linked to their SciProfiles pages. To register with us, please refer to https://encyclopedia.pub/register :
HandWiki
View Times: 1.1K
Entry Collection: HandWiki
Revision: 1 time (View History)
Update Date: 24 Nov 2022
Table of Contents
    Notice
    You are not a member of the advisory board for this topic. If you want to update advisory board member profile, please contact office@encyclopedia.pub.
    OK
    Confirm
    Only members of the Encyclopedia advisory board for this topic are allowed to note entries. Would you like to become an advisory board member of the Encyclopedia?
    Yes
    No
    ${ textCharacter }/${ maxCharacter }
    Submit
    Cancel
    There is no comment~
    ${ textCharacter }/${ maxCharacter }
    Submit
    Cancel
    ${ selectedItem.replyTextCharacter }/${ selectedItem.replyMaxCharacter }
    Submit
    Cancel
    Confirm
    Are you sure to Delete?
    Yes No
    Academic Video Service
    Feedback