One of the challenges facing those making a transition from Twitter to Mastodon is the variety of instances that they may find interesting. Mastodon is a federated system meaning there are many hosts unlike the single host for Twitter. You may join one instance and invest time building up a group of associates there and then find that another instance may have a focus even better suited to your personal interests. You can join multiple instances and with a little work it is easy enough to switch from instance to instance to catch up, but there is now an easier way.
Mastodeck may remind many of TweetDeck. Tweetdeck was a multicolumn twitter client that allowed a user to follow multiple inputs. Usually, the columns followed your main feed and the others followed different hashtags. Mastodeck provides the same capability for Mastodon, but also allows you to assign your different instances to different columns. This means you can now go to one site to follow all of your instances without having to manually use the preferences of a single client to switch among your instances.
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