Mastodon, once a lesser-known social media platform used mostly by tech nerds, has been put in the spotlight during Musk's chaotic takeover of Twitter. Whether it's for an organisation or a private user, anyone who wants to can run an independent Mastodon server. Another possible starting point for your own Mastodon account is the page "Instances.social", which currently lists more than 3,700 servers worldwide. You can have several accounts on different Mastodon servers at the same time. There are services like or that can analyse your Twitter profile to see which contacts are also on Mastodon.

Source: The Star December 03, 2022 20:27 UTC