What is Mastodon? A closer look at the platform surging in users amid Twitter chaos What is Mastodon? A closer look at the platform surging in users amid Twitter chaos What is Mastodon? A closer look at the platform surging in users amid Twitter chaos What is Mastodon? A closer look at the platform surging in users amid Twitter chaos What is Mastodon? A closer look at the platform surging in users amid Twitter chaos What is Mastodon? A closer look at the platform surging in users amid Twitter chaos What is Mastodon? A closer look at the platform surging in users amid Twitter chaos What is Mastodon? A closer look at the platform surging in users amid Twitter chaos What is Mastodon? A closer look at the platform surging in users amid Twitter chaos What is Mastodon? A closer look at the platform surging in users amid Twitter chaos
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Mastodon is a free, open-source social media network supported via crowdfunding, and it is totally free of ads.
Elon Musk has been the CEO and sole board member of Twitter for just under a week, in which time he has laid off half of the company’s staff and promised sweeping new changes.
This upheaval within Twitter has some users questioning its future, and even seeking an alternative.
Talk of leaving Twitter has proliferated on the site since Musk first became interested in acquiring it. Now that the richest man in the world has made good on his intention, social media sites billed as “Twitter alternatives” have been gaining ground.
In the early days of Musk’s Twitter, the frontrunner for most popular Twitter-alternative is probably Mastodon.
The site’s founder and CEO, German programmer Eugen Rochko, posted to Mastodon on Monday that the site had just hit over 1 million monthly active users, of which more than 489,000 were new. The social media platform also tweeted that they gained 230,000 users in the week after Musk’s takeover was finalized.
In comparison, of course, Twitter dwarfs Mastodon. The blue bird reported just under 238 million daily active users in July.
Still, Mastodon has managed to attract the likes of comedian Kathy Griffin, who was recently suspended from Twitter after mocking Musk, as well as economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and a growing number of journalists.
B.C. health authorities have announced the first case of a human avian flu infection acquired in Canada, with the teenage patient in critical condition in hospital.
People have been hearing a lot about H5N1 bird flu — or highly pathogenic avian influenza — since a B.C. teen became the first human to get the virus in Canada and is in hospital.
The Liberal government and the NDP negotiated the substance of a pharmacare bill as part of their now-defunct supply-and-confidence agreement.
Kennedy ran as an independent presidential candidate but gave Trump his endorsement with a promise to have a role in health policy in the next Trump administration.
Emergency services are at the scene of a train derailment Thursday morning on Montreal's south shore, where they are urging citizens to stay away from the area.
"I was yelling at them saying get the F** away it’s a wild animal," resident Josh Merrin told Global News. "Sorry about my language."
H5 bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows, with several recent human cases in U.S. dairy and poultry workers.
The Calgary Zoo announced that one of its lowland gorillas unexpectedly passed away on November 12, 2024.
Edmontonians have had mixed feelings and now the city is asking people to share their thoughts officially. The findings of a survey could bring some changes.
Dr. Anna Wolak, a family physician in Vancouver, said many parents are likely having flashbacks to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite this flu being a single case.
WHO acknowledged that testing for mpox is still not widespread, making it difficult to understand how exactly the virus is spreading.