I wrote a longer post but it basically boils down to… I wish people wouldn’t confuse Mastodon (software anyone can run to make a Mastodon instance), individual Mastodon instances (whose rules may be strict or lax, at the whim of the admins), and the ‘fediverse’ of Mastodon instances that may or may not be sharing content with one another (again depending on what the users interact with, and which other instances the admins of individual instances choose to defederate with)
Basically your experience of Mastodon will depend very very much which Mastodon instance you join, just like your experience of PHPBB will depend what forum you join, or your experience of IRC will depend on which server and rooms you join. Except not quite, because you might unexpectedly federate with other instances… but that’s a better comparison for what Mastodon is than centralised platforms with rules like Tumblr and Twitter.
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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse #Fediverse
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