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Why Mastodon matters now more than its creators imagined

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 06, 2026
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Mat Duggan joined Mastodon expecting a slightly better Twitter — stripped of algorithmic feeds and ads, but otherwise the same thing. He was wrong about what mattered.

As mainstream media was captured by oligarchs and Trump used litigation to muzzle the press, Duggan found the Fediverse had become his only reliable source o…

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