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Mastodon has been around since 2016 and has 804k MAU.

The platform has 57 third party apps.

The platform is decentralized and has community ran servers.

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[-] Today@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Can you guys help explain it to someone completely inexperienced?

I had Twitter but only used it for following music venues to see upcoming events and bars for happy hour updates. I have a Mastodon account but only played with it for a few minutes because i didn't really get it. I don't understand following a person. What can one person have to say that i would care enough about to download an app. What am i missing?

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago

It isn't one person that people go onto a micro blogging service for, but a variety of people.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Imagine if there were two twitters, and you only sign up for one but you can read and comment on posts for both.

Now imagine if anybody can install their own Twitter, and anybody else can sign up on either one, and they can all talk to each other like that.

[-] Today@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It wasn't why Mastodon. It was why Twitter or twitter-like apps.

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