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(social media) A decentralized microblogging platform, part of the Fediverse. quotations examples
However, the underlying design of platforms within [The Free Network] such as Mastodon, Diaspora and others ... opens the door to security and harassment problems.
2020, Kevin Veale, Gaming the Dynamics of Online Harrassment, Springer International Publishing, page 113
Since Musk bought the bird app last month, users are looking for ways to access Mastodon, the open source microblogging platform that isn’t quite Twitter but seems to be the closest thing to it, and they’re signing up for its many servers in droves.
2022 November 9, Amanda Hoover, “Twitter Users Have Caused a Mastodon Meltdown”, in Wired
(music) An American heavy metal band. examples
plural Mastodons
A nickname for both the 4-8-0 and (though incorrectly) the 4-10-0 train configurations. examples