Mastodon has almost doubled its userbase since Elon Musk took control of Twitter last month. Here's what you need to know ...

Before Elon Musk blew up Twitter last week, I had no idea what Mastodon was. Chances are, neither did you. I had heard about the Twitter exodus to the platform: 665,000 users are said to have made the ...

Mastodon is a decentralized (aka “federated”) approach to social media. Instead of a tech giant controlling the network, thousands of smaller networks, or “servers,” take on the task of onboarding ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Mastodon has started directing users to mastodon.social instead of requiring them to pick from thousands of ...

Mastodon has sent former President Donald Trump’s company a formal notification that it’s breaking the rules by using Mastodon’s open-source code to build its social network, named Truth. This news ...

With many looking to Mastodon as a potential replacement for their favorite social networks, here are some of the best apps for Mastodon available to download on Android. In case you’re unfamiliar ...

Mastodon, the non-profit organization that maintains the software powering the decentralized alternative to social networks like Threads and X, has a new plan to make money. Instead of relying ...

People on Bluesky and Mastodon are fighting over how to bridge the two decentralized social networks, and whether there should even be a bridge at all. Behind the snarky GitHub comments, these coding ...

Mastodon, a decentralized microblogging platform, has become a popular alternative for Twitter users looking to leave after Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media app. But some early Mastodon ...

Some Twitter users have left, or at least talked about leaving, since Elon Musk's takeover. Mastodon has emerged as a potential alternative. The site has gained more than a million users since late ...