Mastodon.social - The Alternate Twitter

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Source: Mastodon.social is an open-source Twitter competitor that’s growing like crazy | The Verge

Eugen Rochko was annoyed with Twitter. The company had made a series of changes that he thought eroded the value of the service: limiting how big third-party applications could grow, for example, and implementing an algorithm-driven timeline that made Twitter feel uncomfortably similar to Facebook. Most people in Rochko’s situation fired off an angry tweet or two and moved on. Rochko set about rebuilding Twitter from scratch.

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network.

A decentralized alternative to commercial platforms, it avoids the risks of a single company monopolizing your communication. Pick a server that you trust — whichever you choose, you can interact with everyone else. Anyone can run their own Mastodon instance and participate in the social network seamlessly.​

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Source: Mastodon.social is an open-source Twitter competitor that’s growing like crazy | The Verge



Mastodon is a free, open-source social network.

A decentralized alternative to commercial platforms, it avoids the risks of a single company monopolizing your communication. Pick a server that you trust — whichever you choose, you can interact with everyone else. Anyone can run their own Mastodon instance and participate in the social network seamlessly.​

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Thats very interesting, I may play with this this weekend.
Thanks Spawn, cool share.

 

[LuciusHaydn]

This sounds very intriguing to me. I admit, I never did get incredibly active on twitter and it for the most part isn't really my thing. But this may be something fun to check out anyhow.
Thank you for bringing it to my attention @Spawn .

 

[ttto]

Interesting alternative. A few days ago I saw this: Mastodon the band’s response to Mastodon the platform is metal AF Quite funny