Rather, it’s made up of a network of servers, each run independently but able to connect so people on different servers can communicate. That means it’s not owned by a single company or billionaire. Mastodon is a decentralized social network. While there’s no perfect replacement for Twitter - and of course Twitter is still here! - many users, especially those in journalism, tech and academia, are signing up for Mastodon, a previously little-known platform that launched in 2016. While there’s not much you can do about Musk’s on-the-fly teardown of one of the world’s key online information ecosystems, there are steps to protect your account if you, like millions of other Twitter users, are not ready to fly the coop in search for an alternative. But security experts warn that the drastic job cuts may open the door to bad actors exploiting the platform’s vulnerabilities and compromising user accounts. Twitter won’t simply shut down overnight. Some users are seeing a renewed barrage of spam in direct messages and on their feed, while others complain of receiving new replies to long-deleted tweets and seeing saved tweet drafts disappear. Some users noticed problems receiving texts to sign in with two-step verification. There are already signs that the exodus is stressing the system.
Hundreds chose the latter and headed for the door. Elon Musk, its new owner, has decimated its staff and this week gave those remaining an ultimatum - work grueling hours and be “extremely hardcore ” or leave.
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