Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that includes: - Content authoring - Content consumption - Content hosting - Content aggregation Mastodon is mimicking that in a federated setup, but the holy grail is really when we break it apart. Eg @ivory@tapbots.social is an awesome app for content consumption and authoring. My own website is a great place for hosting content. Aggregation is something eg. search indexes like Google is great at. This is why l’m intrigued about the #IndieWeb