Twitter users flock to Mastodon after Elon Musk takeover

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Mastodon, a decentralised social network, has seen its user base increase significantly following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.

Social media platform Mastodon has seen immense user growth since Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, with the network saying it gained around 230,000 users in the last week, BBC NewsThe jump brought its subscriber count to 655,000 users, and while many Twitter users concerned with the platform’s future moved across to Mastodon, it works quite differently.

Mastodon isn’t owned by any one person or firm but is a decentralised collective network of these servers linked together, called a federation.Interest groups servers organise around can be specific, such as metal music, PHP programmers, and animation professionals.One infamous example is Donald Trump’s “Truth Social”, whichin 2021 that its code is derived from Mastodon. It doesn’t appear to federate with any other servers.

 

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Same happend with Whatsapp. The result? Everyone came back.

Good riddens ! Them fleeing nou means they could only have been the problem with Twitter 😁

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