BERLIN: 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 ...

Currently there are about 5,700 Mastodon servers on the Fediverse. So, unlike connecting to one platform in the case of Twitter, when you connect to Mastodon you first connect to one of these servers.

Mastodon currently boasts over one million active users, according to Rochko. While it is growing in popularity, that number is still well below Twitter’s over 300 million daily active users.

Mastodon is similar to other social media sites in that users can search for topics using hashtags and reshare, reply and send private messages. German software developer Eugen Rochko founded ...

Mastodon's advocates say its decentralised approach makes it fundamentally different: rather than go to Twitter's centrally-provided service, every user can choose their own provider, or even run ...

A Mastodon server could be about any topic, such as "LBTQ+," "Activism," or others, and is governed by administrators, somewhat like group admins on WhatsApp. While some servers require users to ...

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.

What is Mastodon anyway? Social networking that’s not for sale, according to the Mastodon website. And that’s because Mastodon is a decentralised network, not owned by a single person or company.

What is Mastodon anyway? Social networking that’s not for sale, according to the Mastodon website. And that’s because Mastodon is a decentralised network, not owned by a single person or company.

But while Mastodon supports many of the same social networking features as Twitter, it is not a single platform. Instead, it’s a federation of independently operated, interconnected servers.