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Why Everyone’s Tweeting About the Mastodon in the Room
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Why Everyone’s Tweeting About the Mastodon in the Room

[ad_1] This federation of social media servers offers a great alternative, but it can’t replace Twitter’s blue bird. Elon Musk — also known as the world's richest man — is either single-handedly running Twitter Inc. into the ground, or saving it from a bloated workforce that operated a money-burning hellscape. Whichever side you fall on, and if you're on Twitter you have to take a side, there's no doubt he's had thousands of users rushing to find an alternative. So far, the surrogate receiving the most attention is Mastodon, a German social network that until a month ago few had even heard of.  In the time it took for Musk to officially take control of Twitter in late October until Sunday, 1 million more people had flocked to the Mastodon network, driving active users above 1.7 millio...