Upstart Twitter rival Mastodon will officially hit 10,000,000 new accounts on Sunday eventing (March 19th, 2023) Mastodon, for those who do not know is an open-source, decentralized federation of servers called the Fediverse by the Mastodon community. It was developed by a young German programmer, Eugen Rochko and first announced in October 2016. Mastodon is
Upstart Twitter rival Mastodon will officially hit 10,000,000 new accounts on Sunday eventing (March 19th, 2023)
Mastodon, for those who do not know is an open-source, decentralized federation of servers called the Fediverse by the Mastodon community. It was developed by a young German programmer, Eugen Rochko and first announced in October 2016.
Mastodon is owned by a German not-for-profit. It cannot be sold, and even if there were some way around this, the protocols that support the federation of servers are open source. In fact, Meta’s rumoured new Twitter replacement will use the same open-source protocols called ActivityPub that supports Mastodon.
It’s been a bit of a novelty since 2016, attracting users who joined, but largely didn’t remain active.
