> Show me something exciting I can do with it that I can't do with twitter, instagram, or Snapchat.
You can communicate with anything that supports ActivityPub. That means that you can get RSS-like feeds of blogs in your Mastodon timeline, or use Masto or any other AP-supporting platform to comment on a blog post (if it supports AP for that).
I find that exciting: your self-hosted personal site can now be just as much a part of the social network as something that was posted natively.
It's very much a work in progress but the promise of Mastodon is not so much replacing Twitter as it is a gateway to an internet-wide social graph with no walls.
You can communicate with anything that supports ActivityPub. That means that you can get RSS-like feeds of blogs in your Mastodon timeline, or use Masto or any other AP-supporting platform to comment on a blog post (if it supports AP for that).
I find that exciting: your self-hosted personal site can now be just as much a part of the social network as something that was posted natively.
It's very much a work in progress but the promise of Mastodon is not so much replacing Twitter as it is a gateway to an internet-wide social graph with no walls.