What is Mastodon Social Network?

Keith Parkins
Light on a Dark Mountain
1 min readMay 4, 2017
Mastodon Social down for many weeks register on an alternative node

A useful introduction Mastodon, an open source, distributed network, alternative to twitter.

What it fails to do is address many of the problems.

An example of one of the nodes devoted to a subject is Mastodon Coffee.

Due to problems with multiple and fake IDs, it is advisable to register with keybase, then use to validate accounts.

Then establish a personal web of trust, link to people you know, but only if they verify their ID in person.

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Keith Parkins
Light on a Dark Mountain

Writer, thinker, deep ecologist, social commentator, activist, enjoys music, literature and good food.