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A beginners guide to microblogging on Mastodon

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Mastodon is one implementation of GNU Social focusing on a good, clean user interface and a low barrier-to-entry for self-hosting. And it's spreading like wildfire as the premier Twitter alternative.

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flufferbeer ·
It seems to me that Mastodon is in a way simlar to Diaspora diasporafoundation.org They both are open-source, Mastodon's nodes remnd me of Diaspora's pods, andDiaspora #tags seem awfully close to those of the microbloging service Twitter that Mastodon's replacing.

Haven't heard to much about Diaspora lately, so am wondering how popular that's been?

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