While the controversy continues on the social network Twitter after Elon Musk took over his property, there are users who have preferred to choose to seek alternatives to their social interaction, this has allowed rival platforms to benefit, as has happened with Mastodon, a decentralized social network, without advertising and that prides itself on not capturing user data. In this context has managed to exceed one million monthly active users thanks to the new and recent registrations.
The Mastodon social network is based on a decentralized model of servers to which users connect
This has been revealed by Eugen Rochko, founder, CEO and sole worker of this social network founded in 2016 and based in Germany, which has obtained half a million new users since last October 27just when the transition was taking place on Twitter after Musk landed as the new owner of the social network.
The figure is still very far from the 238 million daily active users of Twitter, for more everything represents an important advance by going from between 60 and 80 new users per hour that were registered before that date to have thousands of new users who join this platform every hour.
Esteban offers the user an experience very similar to that offered by Twitter, including using hashtags, replies, bookmarking posts, or your version of retweets, referred to here as “boost.” But unlike Twitter, this social network lacks the insertion of advertisements and also presents what is its most unique differentiating characteristic: it is a completely decentralized social network.
This means being distributed through thousands of servers organized around interests and subjects, servers spread over different areas and managed by teams of volunteers organized federally. Once the account is activated, users can connect to these servers (called “instances”) and can exchange messages and links, both with the users of that same server and with those of the rest of the Mastodon network servers.
In addition, the decentralized nature of this network prevents that, by not having a central address, it could happen that someone take charge and gain control of it, as has happened now with the arrival of Elon Musk on Twitter.
