The Latest Breaking News from Mastodon

The tech company is struggling to retain workers after Musk demanded employees sign a pledge to work ‘long hours at high intensity’

Twitter refugees have moved to Mastodon by the hundreds of thousands. It's very different — and that's mostly good

No platform is ready to fill the role the company plays in the media industry, no matter how many pretend the clunky weirdness of Mastodon is the future

In the wake of Elon Musk’s noisy takeover of Twitter, people have been looking for alternatives to the increasingly toxic microblogging social media platform. Many of those fleeing or hedging their bets have turned to Mastodon, which has attracted hundreds of thousands of new users since Twitter’s acquisition.

Twitter is filled with stupidity and insight — its users now have an overlord rich in both

Twitter users are fleeing the platform in droves after Elon Musk’s takeover, with many heading for Mastodon, a left-leaning, ‘decentralised’ social site. But how does it actually work?

We're happy with our Twitter feed, so we have no plans to switch to Mastodon. At the same time, if some readers are moving there, we'd be happy to set up a Mastodon feed as well. The more ways people can read us, the better. Our Twitter and Facebook feeds,…

What is the social media platform and why are Twitter users swapping to it?

Now that Elon Musk owns Twitter, some of the social network's users are looking for alternatives. One that's ballooned in the past two weeks is Mastodon.