If you're new to Mastodon, here are some useful terms:

Instance - The Mastodon site you signed up on, for example FediTips is on the https://mstdn.social instance

Federation - How instances talk to each other, process which lets people on different instances interact

Toot - A post, a message, Mastodon's equivalent of a tweet

Boost - Sharing a toot by pressing the boost icon below it ( the one that looks like this 🔄 ), Mastodon's equivalent of retweeting

Any others?

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