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Re:Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon by ujhmi6 on Friday March 22, 2019 @05:06AM (#19460686)
Theoretically, Mastodon is a federated network that exists to enable free speech because of how evil those big corporations such as Twitter and Facebook are.

In reality, Mastodon is just one single network (because who'd want to tweet alone) which is even more tightly moderated than Twitter or Facebook.

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Re:Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon by yogthos on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:51AM (#19462034)
That's flat out wrong. Mastodon has over 2 million active users now, so you're not tweeting alone there, and there is not one single network. Different instances federate with each other, and there are lots of different subgroups that focus on all kinds of topics and interests. The model more akin to Reddit subreddits than Twitter in that regard.
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