About ten days ago, Elon Musk formalized what many had foreseen: the Tesla CEO intends to buy Twitter. Adjusting the actions to the word, the latter made a direct proposal, stating son intention to pay $43 billion to afford the platform. But not everyone likes this takeover, starting with some network employees. socialand members of the Board of Directors who have put place plan to try and counter it. On the part of Internet users, there is also a real gap between fans billionaire and his opponents.
“Our network social cannot be owned by a billionaire”
Meanwhile, this initiative seems to be making Mastodon flourish, a much more private platform but already with a very solid user base. Decentralized, free and open, this network social trying from the very beginning in 2016 to create a reliable alternative to the giants web. It is clear that this is a free and non-commercial model, just like Wikipedia. After the controversy between Elon Musk and Twitter, the number of registrations in Mastodon seems to have increased. In accordance with son founder, Eugene Rochko, the number of users on the Mastodon server would just explode.social : 12,187 new registrants immediately after announcement of SpaceX boss offer. Speeches by a billionaire who advocates less strong moderation of the network social alienated some internet users. Many also believe that not only Elon Musk can determine the policy of the platform used millions of people. On the side of the mastodon on responded to the controversy by explaining:
At Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and is owned by no billionaire. Your ability to communicate online should not depend on the whims of one commercial company!
However, platform usage rates remain significantly lower than those of Twitter. According to our colleagues at PCMag, they will indeed have 250,000 people connecting to the network every month versus 217. millions in home son competitor.
