Mastodon

also: http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/4/15177856/mastodon-social-ne...

and: http://mashable.com/2017/04/04/mastodon-twitter-social-netwo...

and: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mastodon-is-like-...

It's federated: There can be many servers run by different people, and you can communicate with/follow/... people across servers with an account on any of them. (initially you only see what people post on the "home" server your account is on, but if someone on it follows somebody on another one, the server starts pulling what they write in)

Yeah, they should use emails to explain it. Emails are federated and everyone understands it. Somehow because this is new it looks harder to understand.

I signed up yesterday. Looks like Twitter but is decentralized like Email. There are already a lot of people there (~56k [1]), Brendan Eich for example [2] and it seems to grow fast. Hope this works out. Would be a great way to move away from the social platform silos Tim Berners-Lee mentioned.[3]

[1]https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/000/16... [2]https://mastodon.social/@BrendanEich [3]https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604052/webs-inventor-tim-...

I am, it's mostly a technical audience right now, but a couple of journalists and popular icons are joining.

Dan Harmon (Community, Rick and Morty) https://mastodon.social/@danharmon Grahan Linehan (IT Crowd) https://mastodon.social/@glinner

Plus a few french youtube icons and FOSS people as well. There's a big LGBT community

Also, I'm here: https://mastodon.xyz/@alexduf

do you mean hardware requirements?

Features are... the same as twitter, but on a federated network instead of a centralised one