German alternative Mastadon gets boost from newly restricted Twitter

Turmoil at Twitter following new limits to the quantity of posts customers can see seems to be driving a surge in exercise at Mastadon, a German rival that prides itself on its decentralised, user-driven construction.

“Looks like Mastodon’s active user base has increased by 110K (110,000) over the last day. Not bad,” Eugen Rochko, creator and chief government of Mastadon, wrote on the platform late on Sunday.

“I would prefer it if Elon Musk was destroying his site during the work week. This isn’t the first time,” one other publish from Rochko learn.

On Saturday, Twitter boss Elon Musk introduced new limits on the variety of posts accounts can learn in a day. Previously, he had expressed displeasure with synthetic intelligence corporations like OpenAI, the proprietor of ChatGPT, for utilizing Twitter’s information to coach their giant language fashions.

Musk took over Twitter in October 2022. Since then, his erratic administration type has prompted some customers and advertisers to show away from the positioning.

Mastodon has related options to Twitter however moderately than being managed by one firm, it’s put in on hundreds of pc servers, largely run by volunteer directors who be a part of their programs collectively in a federation.

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