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As Elon Musk's Category 5 tweetstorm continues, the once-obscure Mastodon social network has been gaining over 1,000 new refugees per hour, every hour, bringing its user count to about eight million.
Joining as a user is pretty easy. More than enough ex-Twitterers are happy finding a Mastodon instance via joinmastodon.org, getting a list of handles for their Twitter friends via Movetodon, and carrying on as before.
But what new converts may not realize is that Mastodon is just the most prominent node in a much broader movement to change the nature of the web.
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Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)
As Elon Musk's Category 5 tweetstorm continues, the once-obscure Mastodon social network has been gaining over 1,000 new refugees per hour, every hour, bringing its user count to about eight million.
Joining as a user is pretty easy. More than enough ex-Twitterers are happy finding a Mastodon instance via joinmastodon.org, getting a list of handles for their Twitter friends via Movetodon, and carrying on as before.
But what new converts may not realize is that Mastodon is just the most prominent node in a much broader movement to change the nature of the web.
Read 30 remaining paragraphs | Comments
December 30, 2022 at 06:30PM
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