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Explained | Why did Twitter block Mastodon links, suspend its account along with journalists

The story so far: Twitter on Thursday suspended Mastodon’s account on the platform. The microblogging platform also suspended accounts of journalists critical of Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s attempts to suspend accounts sharing the whereabouts of his private jet. Twitter suspended Mastodon’s official Twitter account while introducing a new policy against sharing live location information. Twitter’s head of trust and safety, …

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Can Mastodon be a Twitter alternative?

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,” …

Explained | Can Mastodon be the new Twitter?

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 …

A male mastodon suffered a brutal injury before he died 13,200 years ago

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — A male mastodon died fighting with a rival during mating season about 13,200 years ago in what is now northeast Indiana. Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography A closer look at the mastodon’s skull showed he was killed when the tusk tip of another male mastodon punctured the right side of his …