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Thousands Have Joined #Mastodon Since #Twitter Changed Hands. Its Founder Has a Vision for Democratizing Social Media
BY BILLY PERRIGO
"Mastodon, which proudly proclaims it is “not for sale” and has around 4.5 million user accounts, is pretty similar to Twitter, once users get past the complicated sign-up process. The main difference is that it’s not one cohesive platform, but actually a collection of different, independently-run and self-funded servers. Users on different servers can still communicate with each other, but anybody can set up their own server, and set their own rules for discussion. Mastodon is a crowdfunded nonprofit, which funds the full-time work of Rochko—its sole employee—and several popular servers.
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TIME spoke with Rochko on Oct. 31.
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...If you allow the most intolerant voices to be as loud as they want to, you’re going to shut down voices of different opinions as well. So allowing free speech by just allowing all speech is not actually leading to free speech, it just leads to a cesspit of hate.
I think that is a very uniquely American idea of creating this marketplace of ideas where you can say anything you want completely without limits. It is very foreign to the German mindset where we, in our Constitution, our number one priority is maintaining human dignity. And so, hate speech is not part of the German concept of free speech, for example. So I think that when Elon Musk says that everything’s gonna be allowed, or whatever, I generally disagree with that."...Twitter Rival Mastodon's Founder Has a Vision for Democratizing Social Media
Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Founder Eugen Rochko says that's been a vindicationtime.com
