When things started getting iffy over at Twitter, Mastodon rose as a popular alternative to the traditional microblogging platfrom. In contrast to the walled gardens of other social media channels, it uses an open protocol that runs on distributed servers that loosely join together, forming the “Fediverse”.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/05/08/your-open-source-client-options-in-the-non-mastodon-fediverse/