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How to Choose Your Path in the Mastodon Documentation: The Mastodon documentation at docs.joinmastodon.org is organized around what you want to do, not around a single linear manual. T…
What Federation Means in Practice for Mastodon Users: Federation means no single company runs Mastodon. Instead, independent websites ("servers" or "instances") each operate on their …
What Are ActivityPub and the Fediverse in Mastodon?: ActivityPub is the open, standardized protocol Mastodon uses to implement federation, and the fediverse ("federated universe") is…
How Is Mastodon Different From Centralized Social Networks Like Twitter?: Mastodon is not a single social network you join; it is software that powers many independent websites that can talk to each othe…
What is the Mastodon documentation site?: docs.joinmastodon.org is the official documentation site for the Mastodon software. It is a reference site, not a Mastodon server…