The goal of Mastodon and other such upstarts is to create a 'decentralized' platform — a social-media ecosystem where control of the content and the features is dispersed among the users.
Created in 2016 by Eugen Rochko, a Twitter lover, Mastodon looks like Twitter, but rather than a single website, it's an open-source software platform that allows users to run self-hosted,"federated" social networks. Instead of signing up for Mastodon, you make an account on one of a large number of instances — independent networks with unique URLs — like mastodon.social, animalliberation.social, and off-the-clock.us.
Shrinking social-media platforms could facilitate greater empathy, understanding, and context for information. A smaller, decentralized media ecosystem could look and feel like a patchwork of adjacent but interconnected virtual villages operating at a scale that our brains can actually comprehend. Some have
The tidy resolution of Gab's entry into the Fediverse demonstrates that decentralized moderation can work, but Mastodon's pocket kingdoms can and do encounter moderation problems. Critics have argued that the people running these communities can police users' content with even more autocratic and arbitrary tendencies than larger corporate platforms."Federation is just a guy running a server in the basement," Nehbit said.
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