Home » Blog » ideas » Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortableMastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortableAugust 18, 2017 Remember Mastodon? In April 2017, there was a wave of excitement about Mastodon, a federated social network begun in October 2016 by Eugen Rochko, a 24-year old German software engineer, as an alternative to Twitter. Recent news about CloudFlare’
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