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1. Conor Nash (conornash@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Aug-2018 17:21:03 EDT Conor Nash

   @dpaola2 I was never promised simplicity - where was that?

   Federation is important because this is such a messed up experiment.

   1. Mastodon (the software) is an implementation of the ActivityPub protocol. https://activitypub.rocks/
   2. Mastodon.social (this site) is an instance (server) running the Mastodon software.
   3. The Fediverse is the colloquial name for the microblogging network that emerges from instances of compatible implementations of ActivityPub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

   1. Conor Nash (conornash@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Aug-2018 17:31:32 EDT Conor Nash

      in reply to

      @dpaola2

      4. Instance admins can specify what other instances they can federate to/from. For example, this instance blocks images from the largest Japanese instance (https://pawoo.net/) due to concerns about the content https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/2657448
      5. The hyper-modular nature of all this is super-interesting. As one example, I mostly use the Tootdon app to interact here but that is a completely separate project.
      6. Instance-specific custom emoji :computerfairies: :mastodon: