Rock and roll and social media Credit: Mashable composite: Photo of Mastodon the band: Jimmy Hubbard/Warner Bros, Mastodon Logo/Mastodon As the buzz about new open-source social platform Mastodon ...

Not to be confused with the US heavy metal band of the same name, Mastodon is an open-source social network that isn't planning to charge anybody $8 a month or ban them from criticising its founder.

The goal of Mastodon and other such upstarts is to create a "decentralized" platform — a social-media ecosystem where control of the content and the features is dispersed among the users instead ...

billionaire-owned social media to the open social web,” as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. Mastodon initially decided against implementing quote posts because it saw them used for “malicious ...

Twitter later appeared to try and stop this exodus, blocking posts that linked to Mastodon before announcing a new policy that it said would end the "free promotion" of other social-media ...

For many people who have stepped away from Twitter, Mastodon is their first experience with a decentralized social network. There’s a lot that can be said about the pros and cons of decentralization, ...

While Mastodon has not been as obvious a player in terms of raw user numbers as, say, Threads or Bluesky in the post-X restructuring of social media, Mastodon might still find the most moral path ...