Mastodon stomped onto the scene this week instantly generating some buzz as the anti-Twitter. It looks and feels like Twitter. but is **t a part of it.
Mastodon is a free, open-sourced messaging platform that's decentralized in the extreme (more on that later) and, since it lacks an SMS heritage, does **t have a 140-character limit — 500 characters are just fine. It also offers public accounts, lots of post-level privacy controls and fully chro**logical timelines. Read more...