Build a community that can connect to the world, while maintaining your own moderation and standards of behaviour. Your feed can be filled with the people you want to follow, not what a commercial algorithm decides you will see.
Unlike top-down corporate social media, Mastodon is a network of many independent servers that share messages between them. Your Mastodon server can be run with your rules for conduct, to build a fulfilling local community within the wider network.
Mastodon users can follow, like, and boost each other across networks. The timeline you see comes directly from your choices, with no algorithms deciding which posts to draw to your attention for the benefit of advertisers. You get richer engagement with real people.
Mastodon supports text, audio, video and picture posts. You can add accessibility descriptions to images, create polls, provide content warnings, create custom emoji, and more.
