What is Mastodon and why is it the "new Twitter"?

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What is Mastodon and why is it the "new Twitter"?
With Twitter in disarray since the world's richest person took control of it last week, Mastodon, a decentralised, open alternative from privacy-obsessed Germany, has seen a flood of new users. "The bird is free," tweeted Tesla mogul Elon Musk when he completed his $44 billion acquisition of ...

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