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Should You Move from Twitter Elsewhere?
The Trouble in Twitter
The current leadership and ownership changes in Twitter have caused many users to go to Mastodon. Business-wise Twitter lost lots of significant advertisers.
The Rise of Mastodon
Lots of users, close to half a million, have joined Mastodon in the last two weeks. Mastodon labels itself as a decentralized social network that is free of advertising.
The term decentralized has nothing to do with the blockchain world, which also uses the term decentralized prominently.
Decentralized in the sense of Mastodon means that there is no website like Twitter or Facebook where you go and sign up. Instead, there is a collection of servers, each run by a separate group of people, and you sign up on a server.
Each server is essentially a different computer system that some group of people is hosting, with its web address and its content moderation policy.
The look and feel are similar to Twitter, but the feed is ordered chronologically (the latest tweets on top).
Like Discord
This collection of Mastodon servers looks pretty familiar to the Discord world. In the Discord system, which is very popular in gaming, startup communities…
