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Global Switch Day: How to Get Started with Mastodon


I recently wrote about some terrible big changes at Meta, like censoring all hashtags related to Democrats and falsely labeling unflattering photos of Trump as AI-generated fakes on Threads and Facebook. The issues don’t just stop at Zuck’s empire, though. Since taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has blocked links to competitors, banned journalists, heavily censored […]

Listen to an audio version of this post read by the authorI recently wrote about some terrible big changes at Meta, like censoring all hashtags related to Democrats and falsely labeling unflattering photos of Trump as AI-generated fakes on Threads and Facebook. Since taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has blocked links to competitors, banned journalists, heavily censored words like “cisgender”, and manipulated the algorithm to match his personal views. Community-Driven: no single company or user owns Mastodon No Ads, No Algorithms: Your feed is in your control, showing posts in chronological order without corporate interference.

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