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Mastodon

July 2023

  • An image of Elon Musk and the new X identity, superimposed on Twitter's blue bird logo

    The Guardian view on Twitter’s rebranding: X marks an everything or nothing gamble

    Elon Musk’s latest bid to save the social media platform by changing its name is part of a desperate attempt at world domination

April 2023

  • Thousands Flock To Mastodon App After Musk Twitter Takeover, Warsaw, Poland - 12 Nov 2022<br>RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE Mandatory Credit: Photo by STR/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (13621221a) The Twitter and Mastodon app logos are seen in this photo illustration in Warsaw, Poland on 12 November, 2022. Mastodon is a decentralized, open-source network that comes without an algorithm or ads and doesn't sell the data of its users. Hundreds of thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Musk took over Twitter. Since Musk's takeover mass layoffs have taken place as well as a series of changes to the content moderation protocol and verification process. Furthermore reports have surface that Musk is considering putting all of Twitter behind a paywall. Thousands Flock To Mastodon App After Musk Twitter Takeover, Warsaw, Poland - 12 Nov 2022

    Thousands fled to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter. Are they still ‘tooting’?

    The decentralized social network has seen user numbers drop in recent months, but tech-savvy users remain passionate

January 2023

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    Back to the future: how Mastodon is restoring the lost art of online conversation

    John Naughton
  • Mastodon logo against a Twitter logo background

    Datablog
    Elon Musk drove more than a million people to Mastodon – but many aren’t sticking around

December 2022

  • In this photo illustration the Mastodon logo seen in the<br>BRAZIL - 2022/04/21: In this photo illustration the Mastodon logo seen in the background of a silhouetted woman holding a mobile phone. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

    Mastodon founder says investors lining up since Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

    Eugen Rochko has ‘offers of hundreds of thousands of dollars’ from Silicon Valley private equity firms
  • The Mastodon logo

    Firefox and Tumblr join rush to support Mastodon social network

    Elon Musk admits banning links to Twitter rival was a mistake
  • Michael Sun

    Masochism drove me to Mastodon. At first I felt high – but the comedown was brutal

    Michael Sun
    The more I scroll, the more a pang of longing blooms within me for the unbridled insanity of Twitter

November 2022

  • Bolt from the blue … can Mastodon replace Twitter? Is it even trying to?

    ‘Could this be Twitter without the toxic slurry?’ My week on Mastodon

  • The Discord and Twitter icons on a smartphone screen

    UK Treasury joins chat app Discord and is met with torrent of abuse

  • Mastodon Logo Illustration, Brussels, Belgium - 01 Nov 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (13604154b) Mastodon app displayed on mobile with Twitter screen are seen in this illustration. According to Eugen Rochko, the founder of Mastodon, added 85,000 new users in just a few days. In Brussels - Belgium on 01 November 2022.(Photo Illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto) Mastodon Logo Illustration, Brussels, Belgium - 01 Nov 2022

    Joining the herd: what’s it like moving from Twitter to Mastodon?

  • Sarah Manavis

    For all our whingeing, Twitter was special. Mastodon could never compare

    Sarah Manavis

  • TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: How to quit Twitter – and where to go instead

  • What is Mastodon, the social network users are leaving Twitter for? Everything you need to know

  • Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them

February 2022

  • Silhouette of a person with a laptop beside office cabinets

    ‘Now we don’t have a safe place’: sex workers’ social media site Switter shuts down amid legal fears

    Platform says government changes to online safety and defamation laws in Australia, UK and US made it ‘impossible’ to comply

March 2021

  • far-right-4-small

    Far-right supporters move to open source to evade censorship

  • “Stop The Steal” Rally Held By Pro-Trump Demonstrators In Minnesota<br>ST PAUL, MN - NOVEMBER 14: A car with a flag endorsing the QAnon drives by as supporters of President Donald Trump gather for a rally outside the Governor’s Mansion on November 14, 2020 in St Paul, Minnesota. Thousands have gathered in cities around the country today to contest the results of the election earlier this month. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

    Gab: hack gives unprecedented look into platform used by far right

April 2018

  • #DeleteFacebook has gathered momentum since the Cambridge Analytica fallout.

    You’ve decided to delete Facebook but what will you replace it with?

    After the Cambridge Analytica data-breach row many users are looking to switch their social media accounts. What sites and apps could prove an option?
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