Mastodon

Mastodon is a federated, ActivityPub-based social network made up of thousands of independently run instances rather than one central server, popular among developers, open-source communities, and privacy-conscious users who left more centralized platforms. Articles under this tag cover how to auto-post an RSS feed to Mastodon, how its per-instance API and hashtag-driven, algorithm-free discovery model works, and how it compares to other alternative platforms like Bluesky and Threads for automated content distribution.