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Similar to how you use an email provider like Gmail, the way people use Mastodon is through a '''Server''' (or "Instance") which acts as your home base. From your home server, you can post, repost, like, favorite, message, follow, block, report, and do anything else you'd normally do on a social media network. | Similar to how you use an email provider like Gmail, the way people use Mastodon is through a '''Server''' (or "Instance") which acts as your home base. From your home server, you can post, repost, like, favorite, message, follow, block, report, and do anything else you'd normally do on a social media network. | ||
As servers "federate, | As servers "federate" with other Mastodon servers run by other communities, their users can follow each other and see each others posts, creating what is commonly called the "Fediverse," though some folks (such as myself) prefer the term "Open Social Web." | ||
== Our Server == | == Our Server == | ||