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I thought the alternative to twitter would be maston[0]. It's 'uncensored' federated twitter clone that anyone can create a node and create a social community of their choosing.

Not sure how "Parler" is going to be better than twitter with a central point of failure. More political fodder I guess.

[0]:https://mastodon.social/about

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Mastodon didn’t work. The architecture couldn’t handle Japanese Twitter migrants overwhelming the network and Gab issues that came later. In current form, it is just an on-prem Twitter clone.

As far as I know, Mastodon is quite active, they’re releasing features and improvements monthly, and the number of active users is still growing.

> ...and the number of active users is still growing.

I use Mastodon and am definitely a fan, but the rudimentary stats we have (https://the-federation.info/) don't show the growth.

The number of monthly active users fluctuates between 400k-500k this entire year.

In Mastodon, at least if you want to be part of the "main" fediverse, you have to censor even more people than Twitter.

Mastadon is not "uncensored" either. They put significant effort into blocking gab when it tried integrating into the fediverse.

The only real solution to censorship will be a completely distributed system, where users control their own data and associations, and all communication is peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted, with zero middle-men.

> They put significant effort into blocking gab when it tried integrating into the fediverse.

Who is 'they' ? The most used servers ?

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