Turmoil at Twitter following new limits to the amount of posts users can see appears to be driving a surge in activity at Mastodon, a German rival that prides itself on its decentralised, user-driven structure.
“Looks like Mastodon’s active user base has increased by 110K (110,000) over the last day. Not bad,” Eugen Rochko, creator and chief executive of Mastodon, wrote on the platform late on Sunday.
“I would prefer it if Elon Musk was destroying his site during the work week. This isn’t the first time,” another post from Rochko read.
On Saturday, Twitter boss Elon Musk announced new limits on the number of posts accounts can read in a day. Previously, he had expressed displeasure with artificial intelligence firms like OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, for using Twitter’s data to train their large language models.
Musk took over Twitter in October 2022. Since then, his erratic management style has prompted some users and advertisers to turn away from the site.
Mastodon has similar features to Twitter but rather than being controlled by one company, it is installed on thousands of computer servers, largely run by volunteer administrators who join their systems together in a federation.
Source : Reuters
US President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House on Thursday…
- Australia said on Thursday an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in…
Increases in US electricity prices since 2020 have coincided with a sharp rise in demand…
Europe's investment debate tends to ask how much capital can be mobilised and how quickly.…
Most of what we hear about artificial intelligence comes through the lens of advanced economies:…
It has long been argued that even relatively small increases in global migration could result…