The network is an interesting one. As their ironic Twitter account points out, Mastodon can "never be sold" and actually gives power to its users. It's also been described as a left-leaning, and a ...

It appears that a Twitter alternative has officially broken out from the pack. According to an update from Mastodon, the decentralized, open-source Twitter alternative has been gaining traction fast ...

This article was adapted from the MidRange newsletter, which published tips on the Mastodon social media network in a pop-up newsletter format called How to Mastodon. There are a lot of things I could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twitter users who are fleeing to the social media platform Mastodon are finding it to be a different animal. Davide Bonaldo/SOPA ...

Last week, Soapbox Software (Ben McCarthy and Aaron Vegh) released Indigo, an iPhone, iPad, and Mac app that offers a unique take on social media, allowing you to log into both Bluesky and Mastodon in ...

Mastodon seems to be recovering after a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that took down its primary mastodon.social instance. As TechCrunch notes, the platform began reporting issues early ...

Studio portrait of Mastodon, Brent Hinds, Troy Sanders, Brann Dailor, Bill Kelliher, Brabanthal, Leuven, Belgium, 8th November 2006. Mastodon's album Crack the Skye was recently re-released, and as ...

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do ...

There's no doubt that Mastodon, a federated, decentralized, community-based social network founded in 2016, has experienced a growth explosion since Elon Musk's chaotic takeover of Twitter. With ...