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Tooter was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 1 January 2021 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Mastodon (social network). The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Trump's 'Truth Social'

@Lefty295: @Blackmail1807:

User:Lefty295: Why did you revert the following change by User:Blackmail1807:

Donald Trump's own social network Truth Social announced in 2021 is a fork of Mastodon, according to Mastodon's founder.^[1]

It seems to me to be notable, relevant, and appropriately placed.

I'm restoring it, modifying the wording to indicate that has not yet been officially launched but does seem to be operational and noting the report of license violation. DavidMCEddy (talk) 03:55, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Cox, Joseph. "Mastodon's Founder Says Trump's New Social Network Is Just Mastodon". Vice. Retrieved 21 October 2021.

The page is gaining pageviews after a redirect at Mastodon (band)

See the chart: https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&start=2019-08&end=2021-10&pages=Mastodon_Township,_Michigan%7CMastodon%7CMastodon_(band)%7CMastodon_discography%7CMastodon_(software) Greatder (talk) 03:41, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure the recent jump is due to "a redirect at Mastodon (band)"?

In reviewing the history there, it seems edits of Mastodon (band) included multiple references to "disambiguation" between 2020-11-21 and 2021-08-09. I went back to 2021-05-30 without finding when someone added "{{about|the heavy metal band|other uses|Mastodon (disambiguation)}}".

I added a similar "{{about|...|other uses|Mastodon (disambiguation)}}" to this article, but that doesn't seem to be the driver behind the recent jump.

Still, I think your plots and observation is interesting and instructive. Thanks for this. DavidMCEddy (talk) 07:53, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Move suggestion to "Mastodon (social media software)"

Mastodon (social media software) will help with finding and be more accurate. Greatder (talk) 12:28, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

unnecessary- I don't know of other software using its name. riffic (talk) 15:46, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is partly correct, because most of people see Mastodon as a decentralized network and not merely a software used to run it. This is also true for their self-categorisation as "open source social network". --Märt Põder (talk) 15:54, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's not what it is, though. Mastodon is a piece of server software used to access the Fediverse social media network. Rochko's talk about a "Mastodon network" is simply… tooting their own horn. ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 16:05, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

People see mastodon as a alternative social media though Greatder (talk) 14:43, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

'alt-tech'

Somebody has just edited the mastodon page to suggest that it is used for running 'at-tech' - 'social media platforms popular with the alt right or far right'. This is simply not true.

Suggest a revert. 171.192.6.36 (talk) 12:54, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A number of "alt tech" far right sites use Mastodon software (or forks of it) for their infrastructure. But because the article covers both the software and the federated network of sites that run it — which are not federated with the mainstream of sites running Mastodon software — they're not a part of Mastodon the federated social network.

— Steve98052 (talk) 08:17, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

History

I read the page on the mastodon ceo and it contains some interesting history of mastodon that is missing here imho, eg on queer people. 2A02:A03F:663C:EA00:1023:CB4F:E710:4FC8 (talk) 16:50, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Cox, Joseph. "Mastodon's Founder Says Trump's New Social Network Is Just Mastodon". Vice. Retrieved 21 October 2021.

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