Recently, I’ve registered for Mastodon. I got intrigued about it when a friend, Karen, mentioned about it.
For those who are not aware, Mastodon is the new social networking site that rocked the Internet for these past half month. But what’s different about Mastodon is that Mastodon is open-source. It means that the code is available for everyone to use, and people can make their own Mastodon servers as alternative platforms, which are called “instances.”
Like Twitter, you can post statuses/messages and pictures in Mastodon. But instead of 140, Mastodon’s character limit is 500. And a feature that I love most, the “CW” or Content Warning, for spoilers, NSFWs and stuff.
Another great thing I found interesting about Mastodon is that you can interact with people even when they’re from different servers. There’s a “Local timeline” where you can find the toots (or posts) of people in the same server as you, and a “Federated timeline” where you can see toots from across all of the Mastodon instances.
If you’re tired of spammers, troll, and bullshit from Twitter, you might wanna try being on Mastodon.
Though I’m mostly a lurker, my Mastodon handle name is @euri@mastodon.social (I was @euri@darksocial.party but the instance died, apparently), if you’re looking for me. I hang out here often because Twitter is blocked from the office and people on Mastodon are the most interesting bunch.
If you’re on Mastodon too, send me a toot!
PS: The Mastodon mascot is super cute!
