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That page looks very helpful!

I giggled at them trying to explain Mastodon, though:

There is no such thing as a social network called Mastodon! Instead there are thousands of independent social networks called Mastodon Instances.

...three paragraphs later...

When we say “Mastodon” we mean the whole network of Mastodon Instances

I know what they were going for, but it seems to undercut itself. :)

They do that kind of gymnastics because they can't have (pawoo.net and) mstdn.jp and half of top instances[0] by post counts to be representative of the name. That will kind of push the platform into where Twitter is, just later, maybe following NovelAI.

0: https://fediverse.space/instances

yah, there's no instance called Mastodon, Mastodon we can consider at the meta transcendent level of the universe of instances. The union of each essentially.

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