Howdy Folks,

Here is an official invite to our Mastodon server

What is Mastodon? First, an article from The Guardian.

What is Mastodon, the social network users are leaving Twitter for? Everything you need to know

And here's an article written by Thomas Dickenson.

He begins with this:

What exactly is Mastodon?

Mastodon is a social network that has a lot of the same functionality as Twitter, but isn’t owned or operated by any one organization. Instead, it’s made up of lots of different servers (sometimes called “instances”), all talking to one another.

If you only take away three things from this post, let it be these three things:

• Mastodon is made up of many servers that can all talk to one another. When you set up an account, you’re not signing up with a company called “Mastodon”, you’re signing up with a server, run by an admin. Anyone can make a server, which is both exciting and also kind of scary. The server you sign up for will give you access to Mastodon, but Mastodon is bigger than your server.

• If you want to follow people on a particular server, you don’t need an account on that server! The servers are not separate universes. An account on your Mastodon server has the ability to follow, reply, and interact with accounts on all the other Mastodon servers (except the servers that your server admin has deliberately blocked).

• You can move servers later!. If you're on a server and you later decide you'd prefer to be on a different server, you can move without losing your followers. However, it's a multi-step process and it your old posts will stay where they are, you can't currently take those with you.

Anyway, if you're already part of the Fediverse, check out our Mastodon using the link above. If not, check it out! There is no advertising, no tracking and no fees.

-Shawn