A beginner's guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative | TechCrunch
A beginner's guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative | TechCrunch
Mastodon has almost doubled its userbase since Elon Musk took control of Twitter last month. Here's what you need to know about the platform.
"Mastodon was founded in 2016 by German software developer Eugen Rochko. Unlike Twitter, Facebook, Reddit or any other popular social media site, Mastodon is a nonprofit, meaning that, ideally, its goal is to benefit the public, rather than shareholders."
I’ve gotta get in on this
i've really been enjoying it. feels like it has more users and content than lemmy right now, but elon had a head start on spez :)
It's hard to count and sources disagree slightly, but your intuition is right: Lemmy has some way to go before it reaches eight million users. Some people have multiple accounts and many are inactive, but it's still a solid number.
More than 400 000 Lemmy users is not shabby either though. Along with them comes 60 000 on kbin, which is where I'm tuning in from.
Nice article. I finally bit and signed up for an account, even though I don't have an active Twitter account.