It’s not clear if the drama is causing many users to leave the platform, but lesser-known sites Mastodon and even Tumblr are emerging as new (or renewed) alternatives.
While it’s not clear if the drama is causing many users to leave — in fact, having a front-row seat to the chaos may prove entertaining to some — lesser-known sites Mastodon and even Tumblr are emerging as new alternatives. Here’s a look at some of them.Sharing a name with an extinct mammal resembling an elephant, Mastodon has emerged as a front-runner among those curious about life beyond the blue bird.
Mastodon is a decentralized social network. That means it’s not owned by a single company or billionaire. Rather, it’s made up of a network of servers, each run independently but able to connect so people on different servers can communicate. There are no ads as Mastodon is funded by donations, grants and other means., Instagram, TikTok or Twitter, which all use algorithms to get people to spend as much time on a site as possible.It can be a tad daunting to try to sign up to Mastodon.
“We present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire, and strive to create a more resilient global platform without profit incentives,” Mastodon’s website says. Currently, the site has more than 2 million users, nearly a quarter of whom signed up after Musk took over Twitter on Oct. 27, according toAnother option that’s getting a lot of chatter, especially among journalists, is Post News. Post, writes founder Noam Bardin “will be a civil place to debate ideas; learn from experts, journalists, individual creators, and each other; converse freely; and have some fun.
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