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mattl on Aug 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitte...

Mastodon-compatible would be better.

Mastodon is the name of a piece of software as well as an API, a website, etc.

Naming this stuff is hard but calling it a Mastodon instance would be more confusing.

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