@peemee I haven't taken the time to get involved in Mastodon yet (aside from registering with one music production Mastodon network, which I never got around to posting to anyway). As I understand it, the whole concept is "federated social networks". I suppose they call it the "fediverse" now, ha. From an old-timer's POV, it all really seems to be just a glorified way of saying "someone's BBS".
Honestly, I never had a problem with Usenet and NNTP that came before this, despite the occasional unruliness of the whole server-hosted group e-mail news thing. It was a weird but compelling cross between e-mail and BBS. NNTP helped get me through one of the hardest times in my life…
// @matigo @variablepulserate