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What is Mastodon? A social media expert explains how the 'federated' network works and why it won't be a new Twitter

  • Written by Brian C. Keegan, Assistant Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
What is Mastodon? A social media expert explains how the 'federated' network works and why it won't be a new TwitterTwitter users who are fleeing to the social media platform Mastodon are finding it to be a different animal.Davide Bonaldo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

In the wake of Elon Musk’s noisy takeover of Twitter, people have been looking for alternatives to the increasingly toxic microblogging social media platform. Many of those fleeing...

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