What Twitter Users Need To Know About Mastodon Security

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Mastodon is getting hundreds of thousands of new users as people migrate away from Twitter, here's how to secure your account.

Your login credentials need more protection than just that strong password, though; they need a second layer. Which, again no surprise, means enabling two-factor authentication. To do this, head for Preferences|Account settings|Two-factor Auth.Get verified on Mastodon without paying $8 to Elon Musk

Another feature that I would include under the broad security umbrella is user verification. Because Mastodon is comprised of a myriad of individual instances, which are separate servers overseen by different admins, anyone can sign up at any of these where you are not registered and pretend to be you. This may or may not be problematical for you, but it really should be whether you are a person of interest or otherwise. Impersonation can be very harmful on both personal and professional levels.

You will see accounts with Twitter-like blue checkmarks on Mastodon, but these are just images placed there by the account holder. I have both a blue checkmark and one crossed through on mine, for example. I recommend, therefore, using the profile metadata verification feature. This links the web link in your profile to your website and vice-versa. Once the link is established, the web entry appears in green with a checkmark.

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Incomplete sentence: how many new users got into Twitter?

Gee Forbes, you get 42 replies... Elon gets 42k

No thanks!

Twitter has 2 million new sign ups daily. Engagement and minutes on the platform all increasing under Musk reforms. Impressions of 'Hate speech' meassure is down also. But the msm seem desperate to ignore these facts.

If the liberals are leaving Twitter, all I can say is, yay!

Forbes has gone total WOKE SteveForbesCEO TuckerCarlson seanhannity FoxNews

Not even trying to be impartial, lol. The left has this country by the balls. Elon exposing just how deep the left goes.

Migrate to a platform named after an extinct pachyderm. It’s a good place for leftists and other mentally ill insecure whiners to gather and commiserate.

Bye

🤮

How about no..

😂😂😂 good try lol.

A bad app for worse people and you are trying to promote the app on the competitors platform

Not working

elonmusk Clearly Forbes are pretenders trying to sink a ship on which they ride. They are hypocrites. This is not right.

elonmusk please remove Forbes from Twitter. Clearly they are pretenders trying to sink a ship on which they ride. Fools.

Lol

Fake news

They pay you for this advertising. Many checked it out and many came back.

Reported as misinformation.

Not true because it’s not even in the App Store Top Charts.

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