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Mastodon
Basic Information
Release Year 2016
Product Type Social Media
In Production Yes
Official Website https://joinmastodon.org/

Mastodon is a decentralized free and open-source social networking platform. It operates as a federated network communicating with instances part of the Fediverse through the ActivityPub protocol.

It was first released on 16 March 2016 by Eugen Rochko and is actively developed by Mastodon gGmbH.

mastodon.social is the first party instance operated by the developers.

Consumer-impact summary

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

  • User freedom
  • User privacy
  • Business model
  • Market control

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Incidents

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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents related to this product line. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Mastodon category.

Example incident one (date)

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Example incident two (date)

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Products

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See also

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