He's offered a explainer in a recent Medium piece, and he says that Mastodon-Ĭlive Thompson: Some of the stuff is very similar. Why, I hear you cry, does any of this matter to those of us who really couldn't care less about Twitter, much less Mastodon? Clive Thompson is a tech journalist whose work appears in The New York Times Magazine, Wired and Smithsonian, his most recent book is Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World.
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Plus Mastodon's original source code is publicly available and changeable.Īll this because Mastodon just doesn't want to be like Twitter. There's no universal group with all users.
That group is called the Server or an Instance. To join Mastodon means joining a group that acts as your home base. Although as of this week, toot has been retired being too easily employed in double entendres, so the button now just says publish. For example, what we think of as a tweet button on Mastodon is called a toot.
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While the two platforms share a general resemblance, the similarity is merely skin deep. Reporter 4: As a result, millions of Twitter users are exploring another little-known platform called Mastodon.īrooke Gladstone: Mastodon, originally created by a German programmer named Eugen Rochko in 2016. Reporter 3: The latest turmoil at Twitter this morning, more than 4,000 contract workers were terminated over the weekend. Reporter 2: How's this for a first message from your new boss? A staff-wide email that was sent in the middle of the night, Elon Musk suggested the company could go into bankruptcy as executives are resigning, advertisers are fleeing, and trolls are running rampant. The social media giant appearing to be in disarray after as many as half of its employees were laid off under New owner, Elon Musk. Reporter 1: Well, turn out of a turmoil at Twitter. Worthy words for a new start, but in 2022, they could easily address a distinctly different huddled mass in search of a more specialized refuge. Send these, the homeless tempest-tossed to me. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The more edited version will be on the show that posts on Friday.Īt the base of the Statue of Liberty, there's a poem that bears some famous lines. What follows is a longer conversation with Clive Thompson about Mastodon.
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