Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter has divided the platform’s users. While fans crave his business acumen and free speech absolutism, critics renounce his biases and record of censorship. The simmering discontent at Twitter has sparked a wave of interest in decentralized alternatives. Advocates say the approach will shift control from central governance to users. A prominent proponent of the model is Mastodon. The open-source social network this week capitalized on a surge of interest by launching a free Android app. What is Mastodon? Mastodon consists of independent communities spread across different servers, which means no single company — or…
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