Meet ‘Tooter’, the Swadeshi answer to Twitter: All you need to know

Twitter, watch out. There’s new competition from India. A Swadeshi social network called ‘Tooter’ wants to be the answer to all of our America-based social media problems. Tooter is forked or derived from the Mastodon project. Remember Mastodon, the social network everyone said they would join to leave because Twitter was so unfair.

So what is Tooter? We take a quick look.

What is Tooter?

The About page for Tooter has this to say: “We believe that India should have a Swadeshi social network. Without one we are just a digital colony of the American Twitter India Company, no different than what we were under the British East India Company. Tooter is our Swadeshi Andolan 2.0. Join us in this Andolan. Join us!”