Am 18. Apr, 2017 schwätzte Herminio Hernandez, Jr. so:

moin moin,

> I would say it is a twitter clone. I do not know why it has picked up
> popularity recently. Ikey over at the Solus project thinks it is a reaction
> to the fear that Google+ might go away.

As I understand, it's a fork of the status.net code that used to run
identi.ca.

identi.ca moved to Evan's new framwork, pump.io.

Is Mastadon compatible with GNUsocial?

ciao,

der.hans

> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Matthew Crews <mattcrews@mattcrews.com>
> wrote:
>
>> How is Mastodon different from Diaspora, or for that matter the myriad of
>> other, small, social networks not named Facebook or Google+?
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