Ed BottI just wrote a quick guide on how to get started with Mastodon, for a non-technical but not tech-phobic audience. If you have any fact-checks or suggestions, feel free to reply here.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/getting-started-with-mastodon/
Melissa@edbott Mind blown at ‘…a free, decentralized, loosely organized group of servers (vs. what?)’ /‘Many apps (which do I likely know?) coexist … using the ActivityPub protocol for sharing content.’ (I have 100 new ???; much less savvy than your normal readers.)
I don’t know enough about how servers work at Twitter (or anywhere else) to be able to understand how Mastodon is different & how it affects me.
“… every server … and decide which servers it will federate with.” How? So many servers.