Mastodon has been around since 2016 and has 804k MAU.

The platform has 57 third party apps.

The platform is decentralized and has community ran servers.

  • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    Imagine if there were two twitters, and you only sign up for one but you can read and comment on posts for both.

    Now imagine if anybody can install their own Twitter, and anybody else can sign up on either one, and they can all talk to each other like that.

    • Today@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      It wasn’t why Mastodon. It was why Twitter or twitter-like apps.