The Latest Breaking News from Mastodon

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.

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

Plus: Users surge on decentralized social media platform Mastodon, the fall of city drugstores, and more...

No platform is ready to fill the role the company plays in the media industry, no matter how many pretend the clunky weirdness of Mastodon is the future

In the wake of Elon Musk’s noisy takeover of Twitter, people have been looking for alternatives to the increasingly toxic microblogging social media platform. Many of those fleeing or hedging their bets have turned to Mastodon, which has attracted hundreds of thousands of new users since Twitter’s acquisition.

Twitter is filled with stupidity and insight — its users now have an overlord rich in both