Like many others over the past month, I’ve been thinking deeply about my experience with Twitter and whether I want to align my social media usage with the kind of platform Twitter is rapidly becoming. It’s a complex discussion (if my readers are still on Twitter, am I doing them a disservice by not using

pEver since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users, including a number of journalists, signing up for Mastodon, an open-source alternative. No one controls Mastodon—or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each […]/p

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Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Founder Eugen Rochko says that's been a vindication

The Trump-backed Twitter lookalike looks near to launch, and for better or worse, this will draw more attention than ever to my favorite social network.

We are teaming up with the design agency Oak to update our homepage and our brand. Goodbye social media blue, hello vibrant purple!

It's like a BBS but not as cool

The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network, rapidly exploding our growth with over 30,000 new users in just a single day. This is because at Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire, and strive to create a more resilient global platform without profit incentives. We believe that your ability to communicate online should not be at the whims of a single commercial company.

Mastodon is now available on Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. Read about some of the design decisions we made for these apps!

A brand new explore page, post editing, and new moderation features are just some of the additions in this new release of Mastodon!

We are developing an official Android app which will be free and focused on helping new users get started on the fediverse

With a Twitter-esque design.

The app has reportedly rolled out to some beta testers.

Attached: 1 image I flatter myself that I am pretty secure online. I've written a series of global bestsellers about information security, I've worked for EFF for nearly 20 years, I've given keynotes at some of the world's largest infosec conferences. And yet, I have been hacked. It wasn't even very sophisticated! 1/

“Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵”

On behalf of the EUNOMIA project, in which I represent Mastodon, I am happy to announce that after nearly 3 years of development there is now a public pilot for the Mastodon community. But first, what is EUNOMIA and who is EUNOMIA? EUNOMIA is a “digital companion” for social media, a set of additional functions that aim to combat the spread of misinformation by helping you critically analyze social media posts before re-sharing them.