Mastodon
Also Fediverse
Free, open-source decentralised microblogging software: many independently run servers that communicate through ActivityPub, part of the "Fediverse".
Mastodon works much like X (formerly Twitter), but no single company controls it: each server sets its own moderation rules and content policies, and users registered on one server can still follow and reply to accounts on others.
The "Fediverse" (a blend of "federation" and "universe") refers to all the social services that can pass posts to one another through a common protocol; Lemmy is also part of it. This site reads the public hashtag timelines of several French-language servers, so it sees only posts that carry a hashtag and have reached those servers.
Sources
- Mastodon (social network) (Wikipedia (English), accessed 2026-10-22)
- Fediverse (Wikipedia (English), accessed 2026-10-22)
In our stories
We read public discussions from 3 to 22 October on five French-language communities: the "Blabla 18-25" board of jeuxvideo.com (253 threads with "émeutes" in the title; we read the first page of 14), r/france (9 threads,…
Who is to blame? The government, LFI and a leak →
The decentralised Mastodon and Lemmy networks were the most left-wing and the most distrustful of the state.
Mastodon and Lemmy: "800,000 in the streets, that is what matters" →
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