We launched the app this Monday. Mastodon is used to publish 500-character messages with pictures, polls, videos and so on to an audience of followers, and, in turn, to follow interesting people and receive their posts in a chronological home feed. Unlike a traditional social network, there is no central Mastodon website -- you sign up to a provider that will host your account, similarly to signing up for Outlook or Gmail, and then you can follow and interact with people using different providers. Anyone can become such a provider as Mastodon is free and open-source. It has no ads, respects your privacy, and allows people/communities to self-govern. We worked hard on this app with world-class UX designers to make sure it's a modern and smooth experience and does not require technical understanding to be usable. We've added new discovery features to Mastodon that should make finding new interesting content much easier than before: When you sign-up, you get suggested a variety of popular accounts who post in your language, and there is a brand new explore tab that highlights currently trending posts, hashtags, and news articles. Let me know if you have any questions!

Excellent job, guys. More decentralized tools — better the world.

Wow, a great improvement on the web app - feels a lot slicker!

The best app I've ever seen 🔥

This is cool guys, Congratulations on the launch 🎉🎉

Is it like a replace for Instagram? :)