What on Earth is the fediverse and why does it matter?
Since its launch in October 2016, microblogging social network Mastodon has been gaining ground, reaching 1 million users as of December 2017. To many it's the anti-Twitter. Though much like it in appearance and feature-set, Mastodon places greater emphasis on safety and privacy.
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Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortable
Remember Mastodon? In April 2017, there was a wave of excitement about Mastodon, a federated social network begun in October 2016 by Eugen Rochko, a 24-year old German software engineer, as an…
I've been beta testing @tootapp for a bit now, and it's the best Mastodon client for iOS I've tried yet. Just came out of beta, you should give it a try! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toot/id1229021451?ls=1&mt=8
Calm down, tweeps. Mastodon is intriguing, but Twitter isn't going anywhere just yet. If you're intrigued, though, here's what you need to know about Mastodon.
Mastodon.social is an open-source Twitter competitor that’s growing like crazy
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,...
The Web is a key space for civic debate and the current battleground for protecting freedom of expression. And yet, it has steadily evolved into an ecosystem of large, corporate-controlled mega-platforms. This report evaluates the potential for new technologies to enable shifts toward decentralizati