If you asked ten people to name the social networks that you use the mostalmost certainly none of them I would name you the application who is starring this articlebut that will start to sound to the audience from now on. Mastodon turns out to be a decentralized social networkwhere the users themselves are the ones who control and decide what happens in them, and now he wants open the front door to all those discontented with the direction that Twitter has just taken after the acquisition of the company by Elon Musk.
Mastodon takes advantage of the uncertainty on Twitter to add hundreds of thousands of new users
Going from a blue bird to a blue elephant is the metaphor behind the recent news, published by the mastodon creatorEugen Rochko, in one of the latest blog posts on the social network. from the announcement of the purchase of Twitter, Mastodon has grown in 30,000 new users in just one daydoubling the content published, that habitually is around the 10,000 postsreaching up to 35,000. In addition, it would also be necessary to account for the users with records pastbut what do they give him again an opportunity to the decentralized social network.
Eugen confesses that one of the reasons that led him to create Mastodonback in the year 2016, were the rumors that Twitter was going to be acquired by another billionaire, in addition to bad decisions in the digital product itself. Since then, he and his team have worked to give an alternative to dissatisfied users on Twitter, existing more than 2,400 servers created and managed by independent individuals and organizations. Eugen affirms what:
We recommend you use the official website and the official apps for iOS and Android to choose a server where you register. All servers interoperate with each other, allowing users to follow you and them from different servers without any kind of barrier. In the future, we plan to add encrypted messaging and group features to our software.