Mastodon: A Free, Open and Modern Alternative to Twitter
These times of global pandemic by the COVID-19 (Coronavirus 2019 / SARS-CoV-2), added to the perennial events and actions, aimed at affecting the net neutrality, for political, social, military, economic (blockades, sanctions); by Governments or Companies to other Governments, Peoples and Societies; every day more users of the World Internet Network, are motivated or forced to seek communication alternatives, based or supported by free, open and / or decentralized communication platforms, to obtain a better source or channel of information and / or news.
Y Mastodon is one of those alternatives free, open and / or decentralized available for that purpose. Although, especially Mastodon rivals Twitter, it is actually part of a larger ecosystem filled with many more features or benefits. Therefore, many times it is also considered a Social network that rivals Facebook.
How to Live Aligned with Mastodon, there are also other social networks and / or service platforms free, open and / or decentralized, which can easily be used to migrate from the known and saturated social networks and / or service platforms, private and closed that we use so much.
Just to mention a few, we have Discord, of which we have already spoken on other occasions, in a publication called: "Disroot: A free, private and secure platform for online services". We can also mention PeerTube u open tube to replace YouTube, Diaspora, friendica o scuttlebutt to replace Facebook, plus pixelfed y piconic to replace Instagram.
In addition, we recommend reading about Decentralized networks and autonomous servers y Messaging applications, the publications associated with these topics. And of course, you cannot miss our recommendation to replace WhatsApp by Telegram or Signal.
Mastodon: Free, open and modern social network
As the image above the text shows us, which was taken at the time of creating this publication, Mastodon is a Microblogging Social Network having 512.488 users, which have published more than 21 million states or «Tooteos».
However, on its own Mastodon official website They self-promote and describe with the following messages:
"Follow your friends and discover new ones from more than 4,4 million people. Post everything you want: links, photos, text, video. All on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free".
"Similar to how blogging is the act of posting updates to a website, microblogging is the act of posting small updates in a stream of updates to your profile. You can publish text posts and optionally attach media such as images, audio, video, or surveys. Mastodon lets you follow your friends and discover new ones".
To begin to know and use bliss Social network we can enter the following link Join Mastodon and thus begin to be part of such a great Community. And any questions, you can access your Official Documentation Section or read a not so our old post about Mastodon, where we delve into it in more detail.
Registration and Donation
Remember that when you register, you have a list of servers that belong to the network, and the possibility to choose the theme and language you want to configure. These lists usually show the number of users they have. Among these servers is the well-known "Mastodon.social", which is the first server to be created on the community platform.
And finally, don't forget, whether you are a person, organization or government, donate to the Mastodon Project or to collaborate with infrastructure, so that it can continue and grow, for the benefit of all.
Conclusion
We hope this "useful little post" about «Mastodon», which is one of several «Redes Sociales libres y abiertas» existing on the Internet; allows many to know them and / or become a member of them to be able to massify their use and take advantage of their advantages compared to their equivalents «Redes Sociales privativas y cerradas»; besides being, a lot interest and utility, For the whole «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».
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