2022-11-20 19:02 UTC
@zhuowei@notnow.dev Where did you hear that. Mastodon is more like a modernized version of a collection of listservs. Imagine that in some future you move from the earth (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, etc.) To a rock in the asteroid belt. You now live in a small community on the station on that asteroid and can talk to people on other asteroids. That is Mastodon.
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@zhuowei@notnow.dev 2022-11-20 19:07
@BertL@mastodon.social It's one of the common analogies used to describe the Fediverse by popular media (search for "mastodon like email" - even the official Mastodon documentation uses it: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/#federation). I figured anyone reading this would have heard it and would get the joke.