Safety on Mastodon vs. Twitter

Mastodon is safer than Twitter, Facebook, or TikTok in so many ways.

As Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter continues to cast doubt on the continuation of that company, new concerns about safety are on the rise. Of course, firing most of Twitter’s staff has had an obvious effect, especially with Musk’s plan to charge major accounts $8 per month for a verified mark. But the problems of safety with Twitter are inherent. Any corporate-owned social media platform will be inherently insecure.

Don’t believe me? Check out this list of data breaches Twitter has experienced. It’s not even a comprehensive list!

On Twitter, huge teams of people have access to all your personal information, your direct messages, and more. Every single person who has this access is a point of risk — even with the best security practices in place, there is no guarantee that your data is safe (actually, there’s basically a guarantee that it’s not).

And this doesn’t even begin to touch on the inherent breaches of trust that all big companies operate within. All these giant companies see you, a living, breathing, loving, thinking human being… as a battery that generates profit. They don’t care if they use you up. They don’t care what happens to you, on an individual level.