The Latest Breaking News from Mastodon

Trying to get up to speed on Ice Age technology.

Mastodon looks a lot like Twitter, but it's not a company, and that could make all the difference.

The sheer size of the social media giant is not enough to insure it against failure, insists Eugen Rochko

Social media "back in the hands of the people", is the promise of Mastodon. It's not a new platform, but it has begun soaring to the top of download charts around the world. Here's how it works.

We'll miss you, Twitter. Maybe.

Twitter is in chaos mode

The tech company is struggling to retain workers after Musk demanded employees sign a pledge to work ‘long hours at high intensity’

Twitter refugees have moved to Mastodon by the hundreds of thousands. It's very different — and that's mostly good

Think ‘instances’ instead of hashtags, ‘toots’ instead of tweets, and a one-man staff instead of a cartoonish supervillain running the show, and you’ll have Mastodon. Tom Ough investigates whether this nicer, trickier platform could be our big social media salvation

Users fleeing Elon Musk’s takeover will find themselves in a different world – quixotic, communal and defiantly democratic

Twitter has been a bit of a mess since billionaire Tesla CEO took helm, cutting the company’s workforce in half, overhauling the platform’s verification system, sparring with some users and acknowledging that “dumb things” might happen as he reshapes one of the world’s most high-profile information ecosystems