, as well as the ability to post images, video, audio and polls. The main difference is that you need to choose a server to sign up with when you first create an account. Servers are grouped by topic and location, and are supposed to bring users together by common interest. The server is also where your account lives, so your account name will be nickname@server-name. I went with the nerdculture.de server because I liked the cut of their jib. But if you don't fancy that one, there's over 4,000 others to choose from. Some are closed for registration as they have reached capacity or simply prefer to keep their communities smaller. At the moment, Mastodon's flagship server mastodon.social is not currently accepting new members. Think of it like linking your account){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Social media users of a certain age may remember the early days of Twitter and the feelings it evoked.
It was a simpler time.
Before there were 240 characters, before there was Twitter Blue and, yes, before there was Elon Musk, Twitter stood starkly apart from the monolith that was Facebook.
Everything was public. Everything was open. And, because it was niche, everything was mostly cordial.