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Its whats called open—source software, its a little bit geeky, and has been developed by those who have it knowledge and you need a little bit of understanding of that in order to do it. the servers are struggling to keep up with demand. mastodon has been around for about six years but hundreds of thousands of people have flocked to it since elon musk bought twitter. this is still a small fraction of twitter�*s 300 million active users, but this small open—source platform is rapidly growin...

It does not matter which one you choose because you can see all the others anyway, but it gives you a starting community of people who are more likely to be sharing the same sort of stuff that youre interested in as well. by the way, you dont tweet here, you toot. one of the attractions of this platform is that it is decentralised. no one person or company owns mastodon. servers all link up to form a sort of collective network but they are all owned by individuals and different organisations. it...

It means you can be at the whim of whoever owns your server. if that goes down, so does your account. you can switch servers if you want to, but people are saying its quite a faff. theres also the issue of moderation. because its not centrally—run, mastodon moderation differs from server to server — some have rules and some have none. its free to use but some of the hosts ask for donations because they do not get paid. its what called open—source software, its a little bit geeky. its been ...

Because you can see the others anyway but it gives you a starting community of people who are more likely to be sharing the same sort of stuff that youre interested in as well. by the way, you dont tweet here, you toot. 0ne well. by the way, you dont tweet here, you toot. one of the attractions of this platform is that it is decentralised. no—one person or company owns mastodon. it forms a sort of collective network, they are all owned by individuals in different organisations. it means you ca...

A sort of collective network but they are all owned by individuals and different organisations. it means you can be at the whim of whoever owns the server and if that goes down, so does your account. you can switch servers if you want to, but people are saying its quite a faff. theres also the issue of moderation, because it is not centrally run, mastodon moderation differs from server to server — some have rules and some have none. its free to use but some of the hosts ask for donations becau...

Since Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter, some of its users have migrated to Mastodon, an alternative social platform.

Other people. the idea is you build up other people. the idea is you build up a community much in the same way that you do with twitter now. so as we said, that you do with twitter now. so as we said. quite _ that you do with twitter now. so as we said. quite a — that you do with twitter now. so as we said, quite a lot _ that you do with twitter now. so as we said, quite a lot of _ that you do with twitter now. so as we said, quite a lot of people are leaving twitter to go to it. what are the ...

An app that is named after an extinct mammoth. so short form text messages that you share with your followers. they can be then distributed to other people. the idea is that you build up a community much in the same way as you do with twitter. figs community much in the same way as you do with twitter.— you do with twitter. as we have said, a you do with twitter. as we have said. a lot _ you do with twitter. as we have said. a lot of— you do with twitter. as we have said, a lot of people _ ...

Wharton senior research developer Dawn Wages got her start coding on MySpace. The RealLIST Engineers 2021 honoree now helps others as they learn programming, and build community.