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🐘 vs TwitterLike the rivalry between Stellar and Ripple, Twitter is trying to discredit its competition and stop them from succeeding. And, just like Stellar, Mastodon is the tortoise 🐢 in this race and will soon pass Twitter 🐰 in 2024-2025 to win the social media race...
May 2022: Rochko said that a platform like Twitter plays an important role in democracy and should not be controlled by a US corporation
https://background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisierung/wir-haben-keine-macht-darueber-was-jemand-auf-mastodon-veroeffentlicht
Nov 2022: Since Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter, some of its users have migrated to Mastodon. Musk tweeted at least three derogatory comments about Mastodon before deleting the posts
The right-wing social networks Gab and Truth Social have used Mastodon’s code, which the company opposed. Mastodon has acknowledged that being free and open source means giving up the ability to choose who can use it
Although Mastodon visually resembles Twitter, its user experience is more akin to that of Discord, a talking and texting app where people also join servers that have their own cultures and rules
But servers can dictate how they interact with one another — or whether they interact at all in a shared stream of posts. For example, when Gab used Mastodon’s code, Mastodon Social and other independent servers blocked Gab’s server, so posts from Gab did not appear on the feeds of people using those servers
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/technology/mastodon-twitter-elon-musk.html
November 2022: Mastodon was born of his desire to create a public sphere that was beyond the control of a single entity. No single company or person, can impose their will on the whole system or shut it all down. If an extremist voice emerged with their own server, the advocates say, it would be easy enough for other servers to cut ties with it, leaving it to talk to its own shrinking band of followers and users
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/twitter-mastodon-faq-1.6642946
December 2022: Twitter abruptly bans all links to Instagram, Mastodon, and other competitors
Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their presence on certain social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post
Twitter may also suspend accounts “used for the main purpose of promoting content on another social platform” and will no longer allow users to link to third-party link aggregators, like Linktree or Lnk.Bio
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/18/23515221/twitter-bans-links-instagram-mastodon-competitors
April 2023: Thousands fled to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter
Musk has appeared threatened at times. In December, he banned links to Mastodon on Twitter and suspended users who posted their Mastodon handles, including Mastodon’s official account. Days later, he suddenly reversed course, calling the ban a “mistake” during a Twitter Spaces livestream. “Fucking post Mastodon all goddamn day long, I don’t care,” he said
Attendees were tired of Twitter’s hate speech problem and opaque policies: some human rights campaigners had lost their accounts when their governments asked Twitter to take them down
It’s also facing new competition from established names: Meta has said it’s working on its own decentralized social network, code-named P92, which will reportedly connect to ActivityPub. And Twitter’s co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey is getting ready to unveil Bluesky, a decentralized social media app that will come with a new protocol of its own
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