Mastodon announced Monday that it's shifting its structure over the next six months to become wholly owned by a European nonprofit organization—"affirming the intent that Mastodon should not be ...

Mastodon does not have Twitter’s one central platform. Instead, it’s compromised of many, independently run servers, each with their own (volunteer) moderators and rules, though you can ...

Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko said in a blog post that this new feature is not taking away users’ choice of picking a server or moving to a different one after signing up.

By contrast, Mastodon’s server set-up acts as a way to filter content from the outset. advertisement If your server is lively, your timeline will be full of toots by people who like your likings.

Mastodon is a decentralized (aka “federated”) approach to social media. Here's what that means. How to Use Mastodon, the Social-Media Platform Blocked by Elon Musk’s Twitter ...

Decentralized social network Mastodon is also seeing some uplift from the X “exodus,” founder Eugen Rochko shared on the platform just ahead of the weekend.

Rodti MacLeary started a Mastodon instance, mas.to, in 2019. By early November 2022, it had amassed around 35,000 users. But since Elon Musk bought Twitter and unleashed one chaotic decision after ...

If you’ve heard the word “mastodon” a lot since Elon Musk took over Twitter in late October, here’s why: The extinct mammal is also the name of a relatively small, formerly little-known ...

Hashtags, as they appear on platforms like Twitter, Instagram, or Mastodon, are kind of a mess. They clutter up posts and consume valuable character count — which is less of an issue on Mastodon ...

Mastodon has some of Twitter's features, such as following other users and groups, sharing photos, video and audio, using hashtags and boosting posts you like. You can also edit your posts.

Mastodon U. A key aspect of the fediverse is that each server is governed by rules set by the people who operate it. If you think of the fediverse as a university, each Mastodon server is like a dorm.

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.