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Mastodon
Mastodon offers federated or self-hosted social feeds when you cannot rely on central platforms.
Before you deploy
- Confirm license terms for your use case (commercial, SaaS, internal only).
- Plan upgrades: who merges security patches and major version bumps.
- Map data residency if the tool stores user content or embeddings.
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