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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Mastodon's founder Eugen Rochko says it's been a vindication. Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Founder Eugen Rochko says that's been a vindication.

Mastodons — a 6-ton distant cousin to modern-day elephants — went extinct in North America around 10,500 years ago, likely due to climate change and hunting. 5 The skull is 13,6000 years old.