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| Twitter rival network Mastodon is gaining momentum |
Mastodon is a decentralized social network that many consider the perfect alternative to Twitter, with over 1 million monthly active users.
The vulnerability was revealed in a web post by Eugene Roshko, CEO and lead developer of the platform, which has grown rapidly since Elon Musk bought Twitter and has nearly half a million followers as of October 27. Join this network.
While Mastodon's reported performance represents only a fraction of Twitter's 238 million daily active users, the network's user growth rate is on a steep upward trajectory, with the network recording 60-80 new users per hour as of October 27, and now Thousands of users log in every time. hour.
Controversial new Twitter ownership and recent changes to the network have contributed to an increase in Mastodon users, with some users saying they switched to Mastodon due to concerns about changes to the Twitter user experience under Musk, while others have joined the associated protest against the availability of blue. The verification badge is reserved once for celebrities and politicians, and you earn $8 per user per month.
Mastodon offers a very Twitter-like experience with the following features: Twitter-like hashtags, replies, bookmarks, and boost retweets. But unlike Twitter, the network is ad-free, spreads across thousands of servers organized by interests and geographies, and is mostly run by volunteers who join their own systems into consortiums.
When Mastodon users connect via the Internet or mobile devices and choose a server, they can exchange messages and links with others on their servers and with users on other servers on the Internet.
Each server can restrict or filter types of unwanted content such as harassment and gratuitous violence, while users on each server can block others and report it to administrators.
Founded in 2016, Mastodon is headquartered in Germany and is not associated with any central entity. It is supported by crowdfunding and a small grant from the European Commission.
No server owner can enforce their wishes or shut down the network, but server owners can easily disconnect from any server that applies policies they deem too extreme.
Decentralized design is believed to have the added benefit of reducing overhead and making the network inaccessible to any person or entity.