So what does all this mean? Well, if Twitter goes down, that’s it. However, if you want a completely private Mastodon instance, you can also turn federation off. That’s basically how Mastodon works, even your handle looks like an email address. Which means that even though our email servers are completely separate, they can still email one another. Think of it like email – you and I don’t need to have our emails hosted with the same provider, because they all use open standards. So if my account is on instance A, and Bill has an account on instance B, we can still follow one another and see each other’s updates. This means that all instances can talk to one another. You see, each Mastodon instance is part of a federated network. If that’s what you’re thinking, you’re wrong. Now, you might be thinking “what’s the point in self-hosting? You’re just going to end up with a load of insular servers sprawled all over the Internet.” That’s right, you can spin up your very own Mastodon instance, keep it public, or make it private for your own use. Possibly the biggest advantage of Mastodon over any social network is that you can self-host it. This has been more than enough for me personally, without having to mess around trying to shorten what I want to say. On Mastodon, you have 500 characters to play with. This is where things get interesting! I’ll start with the simple stuff – you’re not restricted to 140 characters like on Twitter.
#TWEETADDER ALTERNATIVES FOR ANDROID#
There are, of course, also various Android and iOS apps available, most of which work really well – my personal recommendation for Android would be Mastalab.
So if you have used TweetDeck in the past, you should be right at home on Mastodon. As you can see from the image above, the Mastodon feed looks a lot like the popular Twitter client, TweetDeck and it does work in much the same way.
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