The arrival of Elon Musk at the head of Twitter worries the media planet. And many users are now turning to Mastodon, a promising, more open and, above all, decentralized social network. What is ...

That put the network's total around 1.6 million active users -- still just a tiny fraction of Twitter's 238 million. Launched in October 2016, Mastodon is a free social media service like Twitter.

A new social network named Mastodon is seeking to replace Twitter in social media users' affections. Named after the heavy metal band (rather than the prehistoric mammal), the site looks - and ...

Many Twitter users are leaving the social media site to join Mastodon after Elon Musk's takeover. Here's what you need to know about the social media network that gained 230,000 new users in a week ...

Mastodon, the Atlanta metal veterans, just released their new album Emperor Of Sand. Meanwhile, a German-born 24-year-old named Eugen Rochko just launched Mastodon, a buzzed-about new open-source ...

Few will remember, but there was once a popular social network called Myspace. In 2006, Myspace signed up over 90 million members, surpassing Google and Yahoo as the most visited website in the U.S.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hollandse Hoogte/Shutterstock (13604212d) 13:25:41 Mastodon's app on a phone. Twitterers are switching in large numbers to the alternative social medium Mastodon. Since the ...

For many people who have stepped away from Twitter, Mastodon is their first experience with a decentralized social network. There’s a lot that can be said about the pros and cons of decentralization, ...

That's 6,000 active users at a time -- way too many for Rochko alone to handle. He's closed registration to his instance, Mastodon.social, but a growing list of other instances are open.