Latest Mastodon News
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Meta is Working on Twitter/Mastodon Alternative
Meta is working on a new text-based social network that’s also decentralized, similar to Mastodon. According to a report from […]
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Mastodon Continues to Lose Users
Usage of Mastodon has dwindled over the past two months, with monthly active users plummeting to less than 1.4 million […]
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Medium Launches its Own Mastodon Instance
Medium, the online publishing platform founded by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams launched its own Mastodon instance, me.dm. The company aims […]
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Mastodon Users Have Started Fleeing the Platform
Mastodon, the decentralized social network that saw its popularity surge as Twitter users were seeking an alternative has stopped growing. […]
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Mastodon: The Open-Source Social Network Taking on Big Tech
This Week in IT, I look at Mastodon, a popular open-source social network that is becoming a common alternative to […]
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Mastodon (Premium)
Like many Twitter users, I have concerns about Elon Musk’s takeover and the ham-handed way he’s managed the company. And […]
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Twitter Suspends Some Journalist Accounts and Blocks Links to Mastodon
Elon Musk often likes to describe himself as a free-speech absolutist. However, his latest actions as the CEO of Twitter […]
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Vivaldi Launches Twitter Competitor on Mastodon
Web browser maker Vivaldi today announced its Mastodon instance, Vivaldi Social, as an open alternative to Twitter, the dying social […]