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Mastodon is an open source social network platform based on Ruby on Rails.

Ruby is a general-purpose object-oriented language originally developed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.

Cloudflare Server is a web server developed by Cloudflare.

Cloudflare provides a content delivery network.

Cloudflare provides DNS servers and other web services.

GlobalSign is an IT security service provider, also operating as SSL certificate authority.

IdenTrust is a SSL certificate authority.

External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.

Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.

Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.

HttpOnly cookies are used only in the HTTP protocol and not in client side scripts, which may increase security.

Secure cookies are used only via an encrypted connections, which may increase security.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

HTTP/2 is the second major version of the HTTP network protocol.

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) defines a mechanism enabling web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections.

The websites redirects visitors to use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to https://example.com/.

The Open Graph protocol, originally developed by Facebook, is an RDFa-based format that enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.

Twitter Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to Tweets.

Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.

Microformats is a approach to semantic markup which uses (X)HTML tags to convey additional metadata.

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a lossless compression image format, suitable to store graphics with uniformly colored areas, and originally introduced as a free, open-source successor of GIF.

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format.

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