Mastodon
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Mastodon (formerly tootsuite) is an open source social network project that supports some IndieWeb building blocks like rel-me (and microformats2 in v3.x prior to 4.0), with numerous interoperable instances, including indieweb.social for IndieWeb fans.
IndieWeb sites interact with Mastodon instances directly & via Bridgy Fed. Mastodon is largest deployment of ActivityPub support and also has some compatibility with GNU social. As self-described in a 2021-09-29 tweet:
"Mastodon, your cryptocurrency-free decentralized social network. No blockchains, no NFTs, no attempting to turn every social interaction into a microtransaction"
Features
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Feature summary:
- profile - ability to create an account / profile with
- photo
- bio (with autolinked URLs)
- h-feed
- posts
- notes (default limit of 500 characters but some instances have raised this, sometimes considerably)
- content warning to hide a note behind warning text, requiring a click to view
- ...
- responses
- peer-to-peer following/receiving of posts from other (including non-Mastodon) servers
- based on ActivityPub server-to-server protocol
- some HTML markup permitted into Mastodon (see sanitize#Mastodon for elements+attributes)
- notifications
Specific feature details:
Profile
(stub)
Mastodon profiles show various information:
Mastodon’s h-feed support is better than their Atom support!
- following someone's mastodon microformats feed gives a much better result than their atom! -
Aaron Parecki
E.g. screenshot when trying to follow:
