Mastodon is a social media platform that has gotten a lot of attention lately. In this guide, we'll go over everything you need to know about it.
By now you’ve no doubt heard about Mastodon. It’s a social media platform that’s been bandied about as an alternative to Twitter, particularly among users who aren’t comfortable with the direction Twitter is going in now that Elon Musk is at the helm.
The result was a new microblogging platform that isn’t owned by a single company and is instead a federated network of servers that are each run and moderated by members of those servers. Once you’ve created an account on an instance and confirmed your email address, you’ll be logged into Mastodon, and if you’re on the web app, you’ll be presented with its three-column homepage where you can browse other users’ posts and create your own. These posts can be images, polls, text, video, and/or audio.
Toots and boosts A post on Mastodon is known as a “toot.” A “boost” is the re-sharing of a toot, and is the equivalent of a retweet or reblog. The boost icon also resembles the retweet icon on Twitter, two arrows pointing toward each other’s tails. There does not appear to be an option to reshare toots with comments . If you like a toot, that’s known as a “Favourite” and you’ll select a star icon to do so.
Direct Messages While Mastodon does have a way for its users to communicate directly with specific users, the process for composing a DM won’t look like the process of doing so on Twitter or Facebook. On Mastodon, a DM is just a toot with visibility that is limited to the person you want to contact directly. But your messages will appear in a separate section called Direct Messages and they shouldn’t be visible to other users .
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