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Mastodon is figuring out how to address Gab joining its platform| The Verge
To provide a safer experience to new Mastodon users, we are changing the joinmastodon.org server picker| Mastodon Blog
It was hailed as a progressive alternative to Twitter. But marginalized, queer users are being alienated by well-off tech bros.| The Daily Dot
After crowdfunding millions of dollars, social media platform Gab abandoned its own code and switched to the freely available Mastodon software in early 2019 as a way of circumventing Google’s and Apple’s ban on their own app from their app stores, since offering Mastodon’s client-side API would allow any existing Mastodon app to be used to access Gab. We have never had any sympathy for their thinly (if at all) veiled white supremacist platform so that was not a welcome move on our part...| Mastodon Blog
We often tout things like “Mastodon is based on open web protocols” as one of its advantages. I want to elaborate why exactly that’s a good thing.| Mastodon Blog