https://www.blogdumoderateur.com/commen ... e-twitter/Since the takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk, more and more users want to leave the platform and are looking for other platforms similar to Twitter. Mastodon is the quintessential Twitter alternative on paper but still stands out by being decentralized (different servers), open source (contributions from the community), without advertisements and without invitations to discover profiles. The limit on the amount of text for a post is also wider: up to 500 characters (against 280 characters on Twitter).
In a tweet, Mastodon puts forward its philosophy in a clear and straightforward way, showing a strong desire to stand out from Twitter: “We present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire. Your ability to communicate online shouldn't depend on just one commercial company! »
I don't like Elon Musk's policy at all, offers us an attractive alternative... I'm waiting to know a little more. At the same time, maybe that was the reason for his panic, as he sought to disengage from the takeover?
The network is very recent:
https://www.ouest-france.fr/leditiondus ... fce7c6ac05"Funny thing is, one of the reasons I started getting into decentralized social networks in 2016, and eventually led me to create Mastodon, was the rumor that Twitter, the platform I used daily for years, could be sold to another controversial billionaire,” wroteEugen Rochko, the German computer scientist who launched Mastodon, in a press release published last April. At the time, Elon Musk was already interested in Twitter, and this perspective had already put Mastodon in the spotlight… which presents itself as “the social network that is not for sale”.
To access it, you must start by choosing a server, see this tutorial https://www.01net.com/astuces/deja-marr ... itter.html
Home page : https://joinmastodon.org/fr/servers
I stopped there, because in French, there aren't many (5), won't the quickly accessible ones offer paid subscriptions, insert advertisements, if only to ensure effective moderation?
It seems possible to migrate from one server to another while keeping your subscriptions and subscribers, but might as well choose the right server from the start?