So, about this Mastodon thing (still learning):
- mastodon.social is to Mastodon what gmail.com is to email,
- like in email @usernames are only unique within a given server,
- MAXLEN=500 here,
- RTFM: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/tree/master/docs
- enough people already asked about end-to-end encrypted DMs. There are no.
- no one asked about e2e signed toots though yet?
- if you believe you're trustworthy enough, consider using the ✅ character to let others know they can trust you.
@rootkovska RE: Federation, Mastodon is a server+client implementation for OStatus -- which is also supported by GNU Social and some other popular implementations. Pump.io is a similar protocol which is actually being standardised as ActivityStreams by W3C -- I'm hoping in the future Mastodon will switch to that so you can do cool stuff like "boost" something posted on MediaGoblin. But we'll see.