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German alternative Mastodon gets boost from newly restricted Twitter
1 year, 6 months ago

German alternative Mastodon gets boost from newly restricted Twitter

The Hindu  

Turmoil at Twitter following new limits to the amount of posts users can see appears to be driving a surge in activity at Mastodon, a German rival that prides itself on its decentralised, user-driven structure. On Saturday, Twitter boss Elon Musk announced new limits on the number of posts accounts can read in a day. Previously, he had expressed displeasure …

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As Twitter backlash grows, rival Mastodon reaches 2.5 million monthly users
2 years ago

As Twitter backlash grows, rival Mastodon reaches 2.5 million monthly users

CNN  

CNN — Twitter rival Mastodon has grown eight times its size in a matter of weeks, going from approximately 300,000 users in October to 2.5 million in November, according to a blog post by the platform’s founder, Eugen Rochko. The eye-popping growth figure comes as a wave of Twitter users have announced their plans to switch services amid the erratic …

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Meet Mastodon, the Twitter ‘killer’ Elon Musk is keeping an eye on
2 years, 1 month ago

Meet Mastodon, the Twitter ‘killer’ Elon Musk is keeping an eye on

The Telegraph  

Eugen Rochko was, by his own admission, a heavy user of Twitter. In 2016, when rumours were spreading that PayPal founder Peter Thiel wanted to buy Twitter, Rochko set about creating his own decentralised social network. What emerged was Mastodon, a so-called “Twitter killer”. Many are unhappy with Elon Musk’s $44bn purchase of Twitter, with concerns ranging from the billionaire’s …

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Can Mastodon be a Twitter alternative?
2 years, 2 months ago

Can Mastodon be a Twitter alternative?

Al Jazeera  

Mastodon, while tiny compared to Twitter and Facebook, is rapidly adding new users since billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter. With Twitter in disarray since the world’s richest person took control of it last week, Mastodon, a decentralised, open alternative from privacy-obsessed Germany, has seen a flood of new users. “We’ve hit 1,028,362 monthly active users across the network today,” …

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Explained | Can Mastodon be the new Twitter?
2 years, 2 months ago

Explained | Can Mastodon be the new Twitter?

The Hindu  

Twitter users who are worried that Musk’s free speech ideals will lead to more online abuse are also leaving the platform. Rather than being controlled by a CEO or a centralised moderation team, Mastodon users pick “servers” which host their data and let them access the same platform. It’s a product on top of a protocol, the way Twitter should …

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What Elon Musk Can Learn From Mastodon—and What He Can’t
2 years, 8 months ago

What Elon Musk Can Learn From Mastodon—and What He Can’t

Wired  

Freedom never comes for free. Musk wants to open source the platform’s algorithms, exile spam bots, and allow people to tweet whatever they please “within the bounds of the law.” To him, the stakes are nothing short of existential. “My strong intuitive sense,” he said in an interview at TED last week, “is that having a public platform that is …

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