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  2. Mastodon (social network) - Wikipedia

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    The mascot of the Mastodon social network. Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. [a] It has microblogging features similar to X (formerly Twitter), which are offered by a large number of independently run nodes, known as instances or servers, each with its own code of conduct, terms of ...

  3. Mastodon: What is the social network hailed as a Twitter ...

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    With Twitter in disarray since the world's richest person took control of it last week, Mastodon, a decentralised, open alternative from privacy-obsessed Germany, has seen a flood of new users.

  4. Truth Social - Wikipedia

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    Truth Social (stylized as TRUTH Social) is an alt-tech [4] [5] [6] social media platform owned by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), an American media and technology company majority-owned by former U.S. president Donald Trump. [7] It has been called a " Twitter clone" that competes with Parler, Gab, and Mastodon in trying to provide an ...

  5. What is Mastodon? How is it different from Twitter? - AOL

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    Mastodon was founded in 2016 by German software developer Eugen Rochko, and its user interface is similar to Twitter. People post up-to-500-character messages and upload images and videos.

  6. People are leaving Twitter for Mastodon. But not everyone is ...

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    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.

  7. Fediverse - Wikipedia

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    The fediverse (often refered to as just fedi) is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as federation) using a common protocol. Users of different websites can send and receive status updates, multimedia files and other data across the network. The term fediverse is a portmanteau of ...

  8. Gab (social network) - Wikipedia

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    Also on December 14, Twitter cut off Gab's access to the Twitter API after Gab introduced a feature to its social network that allowed users to share their Gab posts directly to Twitter. In response, Torba said in a December 15 Periscope livestream that "This is targeted, and we believe that we're being singled out" and that "This is the ...

  9. What is Mastodon? What to know about the decentralized site ...

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    With Elon Musk taking over at Twitter, some users are joining an alternative social media network called Mastodon. What is it?