Coffee With Developers • Apr 9, 2025

Building a Privacy-First Social Platform at Mastodon - Andy Piper

Andy Piper

Andy Piper proves social media can be a decentralized, self-hosted utility. Explore how Mastodon's open APIs and privacy-first ActivityPub architecture give developers absolute control over their community infrastructure.

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