The purchase of the social network Twitter by the billionaire Elon Musk this Monday has caused the Exodus from thousands of users to Mastodon. This code platform completely opened appears as the great alternative for those who seek to interact in a way decentralizedwithout a person or organization in charge.
🚀💫♥️ Yesss!!! ♥️💫🚀 pic.twitter.com/0T9HzUHuh6
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2022
Unlike the network birdieMastodon offers its sailors the possibility of creating communities managed by the own users. In the same way as other applications like Discordthis platform is organized in servers, called ‘Instances’. The maintenance of each group is achieved from crowdfundingsince Mastodon does not include any kind of advertising.
Similarities and differences
Although Mastodon difference of Twitter in his administration, both share some similarities in the user experience. The ‘toots’ are Mastodon’s tweets, which unlike Twitter, where they have an extension of up to 280 characterscan be extended to 500. In these posts, netizens can also share content multimedia.
Refering to interaction between users, it depends on the Connection between ‘instances’ or communities that, despite being managed in a privateallow their members join to other groups. Another great divergence between the two networks is the possibility of Edit publications. While Twitter still lacks this option, Mastodon has been using it for years. available.
Mass ‘cyber migration’
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The promise of Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, to implement new tools to the social network and improve it through a “freedom of expression” seems not to be enough for many users who have decided move to Mastodon. The founder of companies like PayPal either Tesla has announced changes to a platform “with a huge potential“, but the purchase of Musk has also caused the rejection of those who seek consumption decentralized of these types of applications. For this reason, Mastodon has become its best alternative.
We didn’t just pop up though, we’ve been steadily working on decentralized social media since 2016 and will continue to do so regardless of what happens to Twitter. https://t.co/6xYXRAPCws
— Mastodon (@joinmastodon) April 26, 2022
From the platform, the arrival of more than 40,000 new users in a few hours. Although this news can be considered cause for celebration, the company maintains that they have always worked up hard since its foundation, in 2016and will continue to do so “beyond what happens with Twitter”.