(ANSA) – MILAN, APRIL 21 – After the first launch on iOS, Mastodon also arrives on Android. It is a ‘safe’ alternative to Twitter because, instead of being hosted on servers owned by the developer, it runs on unique servers, even private ones. To date, it boasts about 4.4 million subscribers globally, with an exponential growth occurring in recent years, when the issue of privacy has also become central to social media. Mastodon has no ads, the limit is 500 characters and is entirely led by its community, which monitors and reports posts that violate the rules of use. Considered a decentralized version of Twitter, due to the presence of various ‘nodes’ around the world, it consists of a bulletin board that shows the contents only in chronological order. There is no algorithm or system for presenting content based on the experiences of each subscriber. The main difference with Twitter is that there is no single flow of news: the different posts are organized within nodes that represent as many hubs. You can search for individual users and rooms. The main active in Italy is Mastodon.uno: “If you don’t want a social network in which Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey or another billionaire CEO determines what you can publish and which posts can become popular, Mastodon is a good alternative” write the proponents of Mastodon.one. According to the founder of Mastodon, Eugen Rochko, at the news of the acquisition of Elon Musk of the majority stake in Twitter, the new social network has seen a spike in subscriptions. At the end of February, the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, had also tried to replicate the Twitter experience with his own project, The Truth, which seems to have lost interest after the initial hype. (HANDLE).
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