Mastodon is an american heavy metal band from atlanta, georgia Formed in 2000, the band's lineup of troy sanders (bass/vocals), brent hinds (lead guitar/vocals), bill kelliher (rhythm guitar/backing vocals), and brann dailor (drums/vocals) remained unchanged for 24 years, until hinds's departure in march 2025. Mastodon, any of several extinct elephantine mammals (family mammutidae, genus mammut) that first appeared in the early miocene and continued in various forms through the pleistocene epoch (from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) Learn more about mastodons in this article. A mastodon, from ancient greek μαστός (mastós), meaning breast, and ὀδούς (odoús) tooth, is a member of the genus mammut (german for 'mammoth'), which was endemic to north america and lived from the late miocene to the early holocene Mastodons belong to the order proboscidea, the same order as elephants and mammoths (which belong to the family elephantidae)
It operates as a federated network of independently managed servers that communicate using the activitypub protocol, allowing users to interact across different instances within the fediverse Mastodon has almost doubled its userbase since elon musk took control of twitter last month Here's what you need to know about the platform.
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