Mastodon | Open source microblogging platform

Overview

Mastodon is a free and open-source most popular microblogging platform based on ActivityPub which allows users to create their own private networks. On Mastodon, users can follow friends, publish small updates to a stream of updates like posts, links, pictures, text and videos etc. Mastodon is a network of thousands of communities where users can communicate with users from another one with strict codes of conduct and discover new friends among more than 4.4M people.

Mastodon is the best microblogging platform and ad-free microblogging social media network with a React.js front-end and released under AGPLv3 license. It follows standard practices of Rails or React.js frameworks. So, if you are already familiar with these frameworks then you can deploy these easily. The best way of working with Mastodon blogging tool in a development environment is installing all the dependencies on your local system environment. You will need Ruby, Node.js, PostgreSQL and Redis, which is a pretty standard set of dependencies for any Rails applications.