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Mastodon

Mastodon is a free, open-source GNU social-compatible social network server. A decentralized alternative to commercial platforms, it avoids the risks of a single company monopolizing your communication. Anyone can run Mastodon and participate in the social network seamlessly.

Documentation

Using Mastodon

Using the API

Running Mastodon

In production

Please note: It is highly recommended to run a tagged release of Mastodon and not run off the current master branch.

The aforementioned guides presume using certain software, like Nginx. But using alternatives is possible: Alternative system configurations

In development

Contributing to Mastodon

Protocols