And here's the official announcement:

The entire @macstories team and media properties are now on Mastodon. We did it on our own server, which we fully control, and which anyone can follow thanks to federation.

I'm excited to own our social media presence. Long live the open web. Let's go 🚀

https://www.macstories.net/news/macstories-is-on-mastodon-with-its-own-server/

MacStories Is on Mastodon with Its Own Server

As of today, MacStories is officially on Mastodon with its own server for each of its properties and team members. You can find us here: MacStories Accounts MacStories AppStories Club MacStories MacStories Team Accounts. Federico John Alex Silvia We’re not closing down our Twitter accounts (yet), but as you may have noticed, they haven’t been

Like many others, when Mastodon first launched, I didn't really pay attention to it and the vision @Gargron had for a decentralized social network. And I wish I did.

Now that we're here, I hope other publications can follow the @macstories approach: own your identity, control your tech, and engage with your audience everywhere.

We have lots of ideas for how we can take this further with MacStories 5.0. It feels liberating and exciting to do all of this now.

@viticci would love to read a deep dive by @alex on what it’s like to get an instance set up, keep it running, and how to mitigate scaling issues.
@josephschmitt @viticci Will probably write this up soon for either @macstories or @club 👍