Since its launch in October 2016, microblogging social network Mastodon has been gaining ground, reaching 1 million users as of December 2017. Unlike Twitter, its messages (called "toots") are distributed across a number of independent servers with their own communities, interests and rules. But Mastodon is just one example of this new breed of website which makes up the Fediverse – a loose family of sites that promote unfettered interaction across servers or even services, and which may just buck the trend of locking content behind the comparative walled gardens of Twitter, Facebook and their ilk.
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Category: Telecommunications
Tags:
- Diaspora
- Social Networking
- Web Applications
- Web standards
