Decentralization and Mastodon: A New Era in Social Media

Mastodon. You may have heard of it. In the era of Elon Musk’s deliberate-or-not work to burn Twitter to the ground, people are looking at alternatives. On the surface, Mastodon may look like Twitter, but there’s a lot under the hood that makes it better. A lot better.

Mastodon is a decentralized and open-source social media platform that is gaining popularity as an alternative to centralized platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. The platform is built on the same basic principles as these popular networks, but with a few…