In this exciting new release: Moving accounts, trending hashtags, private servers and more!

The social media network known as Mastodon is sort of an anti-Twitter: quiet, calm, and pretty much free of Nazis. People have been flocking to it lately, only to get confused by the way it’s set up—which is a shame, because it’s not that hard to get started. Here’s how.

This weekend saw an exodus of Twitter users to the fledgling platform. Blame Alex Jones—and Jack Dorsey.

It's like Twitter, but without all the bad people.

Close your Twitter account, delete your old Tweets, pack your bags, and head over to Mastodon's wild world of federated microblogging.

Mastodon is figuring out how to address Gab joining its platform