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What is Mastodon, really? It’s the blogosphere all over again.
WSJ columnist (and Verge alum) Joanna Stern has a great column this morning comparing Mastodon’s structure to email. It’s a good analog! But I like this one, from Simon Willison, even better:
You can post text and images to it. You can link to things. It’s a blog.
A Mastodon server (often called an instance) is just a shared blog host. Kind of like putting your personal blog in a folder on a domain on shared hosting with some of your friends.
Mastodon is just blogs
[simonwillison.net]
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