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Milo JasperJanuary 12, 2023
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Medium creates its own Mastodon instance, plans to offer it as a service for members, promises reliable moderation and smoother onboarding, and more (Tony Stubblebine/The Official Medium Blog)

Tony Stubblebine / The Official Medium Blog: Medium creates its own Mastodon instance, plans to offer it as a service…
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Milo JasperJanuary 8, 2023
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The number of active users on Mastodon dropped from a peak of over 2.5M in early December 2022 to about 1.8M in the first week of January 2023 (Josh Nicholas/The Guardian)

Josh Nicholas / The Guardian: The number of active users on Mastodon dropped from a peak of over 2.5M in…
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Milo JasperDecember 28, 2022
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Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says he rejected more than five US investors offering "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to preserve the platform's nonprofit status (Ian Johnston/Financial Times)

Ian Johnston / Financial Times: Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says he rejected more than five US investors offering “hundreds of…
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Milo JasperDecember 23, 2022
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An interview with Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko on scaling the network, plans for a Mozilla-like split revenue model, shunning ads, talking to investors, and more (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: An interview with Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko on scaling the network, plans for a Mozilla-like split…
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Milo JasperDecember 22, 2022
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Mastodon, nostr, and other decentralized social networks are having a moment, despite some complexity, propelled by the apparent decline of Twitter and Meta (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Mastodon, nostr, and other decentralized social networks are having a moment, despite some complexity, propelled by…
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Milo JasperDecember 18, 2022
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Twitter will stop users from promoting their presence on rival services, including Facebook, Mastodon, and Nostr, and will remove tweets and accounts that do so (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Twitter will stop users from promoting their presence on rival services, including Facebook, Mastodon, and…
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Milo JasperDecember 18, 2022
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Twitter will remove accounts made to "promote other social platforms" and content that has links or usernames to Facebook, Mastodon, and others (@twittersupport)

@twittersupport: Twitter will remove accounts made to “promote other social platforms” and content that has links or usernames to Facebook,…
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Milo JasperDecember 16, 2022
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Twitter sparked an international outcry by suspending journalists, and some legal experts say it could face regulatory scrutiny for blocking links to Mastodon (Brian Fung/CNN)

Brian Fung / CNN: Twitter sparked an international outcry by suspending journalists, and some legal experts say it could face…
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Milo JasperDecember 16, 2022
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Twitter suspends the account of its rival Mastodon, and many links to some Mastodon servers no longer work on Twitter, which flags them as "potentially harmful" (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitter suspends the account of its rival Mastodon, and many links to some Mastodon servers no…
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