Publishing platform for online publication Medium which was originally developed by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, announced today that it’s taking on its open-source Mastodon platform and launching its own instance that will support its authors and publish their works. The company announced that it will launch me.dm, a Mastodon community offering an efficient infrastructure, moderated moderation and a domain name that is short to make it simpler for authors to publish their usernames, in addition to other things.
Though it was launched just in 2006, Mastodon has more recently gained popularity as people flee the infamous Elon Musk’s Twitter. Since the acquisition of the social site, Musk has made a number of controversial choices including activating accounts belonging to white supremacists as well as the former President Donald Trump and as in addition to prohibiting journalists amid an increase in the Twitter’s moderation teams. Musk has also been playing using Twitter’s service, promising to un-verify users who do not purchase the services as well as causing discontent among advertisers and putting the future of Twitter at risk.
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This has left a small portion of Twitter users looking for new platforms to use as a platform to share their thoughts and have public conversations. Mastodon is one of those platforms that have directly benefited from.
The microblogging site has increased up to 2.5 million active monthly users over the past few days, an increase from 300,000 in the month of October 2022. The service isn’t necessarily a Twitter duplicate but that’s because it is decentralized. Instead of joining “Mastodon” itself, members can join groups or instances, with different guidelines, rules and moderation guidelines as well as home timelines. Although this doesn’t stop users from following another user in a different group however, many will opt to join a community that is reflective of the interests they have — for example, music, technology gaming, security or any of a myriad of other subjects.
