Mastodon Is More Exciting Than Twitter

Mastodon offers a wild, untapped, landscape of incredible potential.

News. News is one of the largest reasons people use Twitter. Local news, international news. From stories posted by local channels, to breaking reports from journalists on the front lines of some important story. Despite having far fewer active users than some social media sites, Twitter has become a de facto crossroads for human public communication. Elon Musk was right about Twitter becoming the world’s town square. But this isn’t about Musk, or even about Twitter. This is about a social network called Mastodon.

I do want to convince you to join Mastodon, but this story isn’t about that, exactly, either…. Mastodon could provide incredible boons to local organizations, news outlets, cities, and local communities of friends.

Bear with me through a brief moment of explanation

Mastodon began as a personal project by Eugen Rochko, but blossomed into something so much more. Let’s get a few things out of the way as quickly as possible:

Mastodon is served by a non-profit organization that continues development, it is entirely crowdfunded and currently makes a measly $144,000 per year from its Patreon. That’s not a lot when it comes to developing something as incredible…