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What Twitter Users Need To Know About Mastodon Privacy

Posted on November 28, 2022 By Davey Winder

Until Elon Musk took control, albeit with a very chaotic definition of the word, at Twitter, few people had heard of Mastodon. This federated community network, launched in 2016, had enjoyed a relatively calm existence, mostly out of the media spotlight. That all changed over the course of the last few weeks as around a million new members flooded in looking for something to replace, or act as a social circle backup, to Twitter. I’ve already published a quick guide to what new members need to do to best secure their Mastodon accounts, but where does this collection of connected community stand when it comes to privacy?

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