Enter "Uncle Ben." The musician and well-known YouTuber played alongside Mastodon on March 9 at Tool's Live in the Sand Festival in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.

If you’ve heard the word “mastodon” a lot since Elon Musk took over Twitter in late October, here’s why: The extinct mammal is also the name of a relatively small, formerly little-known ...

Mastodon does not have Twitter’s one central platform. Instead, it’s compromised of many, independently run servers, each with their own (volunteer) moderators and rules, though you can ...

By contrast, Mastodon’s server set-up acts as a way to filter content from the outset. advertisement If your server is lively, your timeline will be full of toots by people who like your likings.

Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko said in a blog post that this new feature is not taking away users’ choice of picking a server or moving to a different one after signing up.

Mastodon U. A key aspect of the fediverse is that each server is governed by rules set by the people who operate it. If you think of the fediverse as a university, each Mastodon server is like a dorm.

Mastodon is a decentralized (aka “federated”) approach to social media. Here's what that means. How to Use Mastodon, the Social-Media Platform Blocked by Elon Musk’s Twitter ...

Mastodon announced Monday that it's shifting its structure over the next six months to become wholly owned by a European nonprofit organization—"affirming the intent that Mastodon should not be ...

Rodti MacLeary started a Mastodon instance, mas.to, in 2019. By early November 2022, it had amassed around 35,000 users. But since Elon Musk bought Twitter and unleashed one chaotic decision after ...

Decentralized social network Mastodon is also seeing some uplift from the X “exodus,” founder Eugen Rochko shared on the platform just ahead of the weekend.

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 ...

Social media platforms Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon have all experienced significant growth recently as users migrate away from X, formerly Twitter. Since Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter in ...