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Mastodon is the largest decentralized social network on the internet. Instead of a single website, it’s a network of millions of users in independent communities that can all interact with one another, seamlessly. No matter what you’re into, you can meet passionate people posting about it on Mastodon! Join a community and create your profile. Find and follow fascinating folks and read their posts in an ad-free, chronological timeline. Express yourself with custom emoji, images, GIFs, videos,...

...To publish something, you write a post, sign it with your key and send it to multiple relays (servers hosted by someone else, or yourself). To get updates from other people, you ask multiple relays if they know anything about these other people. Anyone can run a relay. A relay is very simple and dumb. It does nothing besides accepting posts from some people and forwarding to others. Relays don't have to be trusted. Signatures are verified on the client side.

p8st is designed to use the oldest technology and the most basic programming possible to create a standard template for trackable, social networking which can be hosted in HTML-unfriendly environments such as Craigslist, Backpage, Forums, Comment Sections, and sundry others. Why you ask? There is a need for people of basic technical skill to be able to set up online profiles and resumes for jobseeking, dating, and networking, without being subject to Facebook, MySpace, or Google+ sometimes onerous Terms of Service. This creates a standard for those individuals.