Sick of Twitter? Fed up with Facebook? Online abuse and NSFW content getting you down? Just want to exchange ideas away from the glare of people who oppose you? Mastodon is the answer. And thanks to its open source nature, it is possible to set up your own Mastodon instance, enabling conversation on any topic and giving your users some safety and privacy from trolls of all kinds. If you’re not familiar with Mastodon, here are the basics. Toots are like tweets, and can be composed of up to 500 characters (as opposed to Twitter’s 140 character limit). Check our…
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