Mastodon

Updates from the Mastodon team

Op-Ed

Mastodon Recap 2021

Most popular content of the fediverse from 2021 and some numbers

Eugen Rochko

CEO / Founder

Op-Ed

Why EUNOMIA builds on Mastodon

An ever growing problem of the modern social media-rich world is misinformation. The trust that was previously placed into government officials and journalism has eroded; the internet gave everyone a voice but with it made it so much more difficult to distinguish truth from fabrication. The consequences of this are very real: Almost eradicated illnesses are making a comeback because people refuse to vaccinate their children, Covid-19 is continuing to spread because people refuse to wear masks and practice social distancing, more and more people start believing that the Earth is flat and descend down a rabbit hole of ever more absurd conspiracy theories.

Eugen Rochko

CEO / Founder

Op-Ed

The role of mastodon.social in the Mastodon ecosystem

Can you imagine Facebook closing registrations and saying “Sorry, we have too many users already, you can go sign up on Twitter instead”? And yet, this sort of situation comes up with Mastodon every so often, in regards to the mastodon.social server. You see, Mastodon is decentralized. That means there is no “main” server. If mastodon.social actually disappeared from the face of the Earth, it would not bring down the Mastodon network at all.

Eugen Rochko

CEO / Founder

Op-Ed

Why does decentralization matter?

Reasons why you should care about how your social network is run and structured

Eugen Rochko

CEO / Founder

Op-Ed

Top 30 most shared Mastodon posts in 2018

Inspired by a joke post I decided to go ahead and compile a list of the most shared things on Mastodon in 2018.

Eugen Rochko

CEO / Founder

Op-Ed

From Tumblr to Mastodon

A lot of artists have lost their blogs in the Tumblr purge. Here are 5 reasons why Mastodon is the perfect alternative.

Eugen Rochko

CEO / Founder

Op-Ed

Why ActivityPub is the future

We often tout things like “Mastodon is based on open web protocols” as one of its advantages. I want to elaborate why exactly that’s a good thing.

Eugen Rochko

CEO / Founder

Op-Ed

Why we must oppose the new copyright directive

A committee of members of the European Parliament have voted to approve Article 11 and Article 13, which pose a risk to the decentralization of the web and freedom of creative expression.

Eugen Rochko

CEO / Founder

Op-Ed

#DeleteFacebook

Deep down you always knew it. On the edge of your perception, you always heard the people who talked about the erosion of privacy, that there was no such thing as free cheese, that if you don’t pay — then you’re the product. Now you know that it’s true. Cambridge Analytica has sucked the data so kindly and diligently collected by Facebook and used that data to influence the US elections (and who knows what else).

Eugen Rochko

CEO / Founder