Mastodawn

Richard Appleby Nov 10, 2022

Just a reminder to all the new arrivals here:

These instances are NOT commercial entities like #Twitter ... someone is paying the bills for servers and networking, and the massive influx of people like us are raising those costs enormously.

Be a good citizen, checkout the "About this server" link, and if you can, make a donation towards costs.

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Jg Nov 11, 2022

@rmappleby what exactly is an instance?

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Richard Appleby

@jg22
An "instance" is a single instance of the Mastodon software, that will normally run on several computers (or servers) and be accessed via a web server on the internet (for example, in your case, mstdn.jp).
For simplicity, "instance" and "server" are used pretty interchangeably when talking about Mastodon, and refer to the web address that you use to access your Mastodon account (mstdn.jp for you)