Eugen Rochko looks exhausted. The 29-year-old German programmer is the founder of Mastodon, a distributed alternative to Twitter that has exploded in popularity in recent weeks as Elon Musk’s ...

Mastodon's founder Eugen Rochko says it's been a vindication. Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Founder Eugen Rochko says that's been a vindication.

Eugen Rochko came up with the idea for and built Mastodon some six years ago during another one of Twitter’s dips. A developer who had already been interested in and was working with open source ...

Ownership of Mastodon will move away from the control of CEO Eugen Rochko, in contrast to the power exerted by other social media CEOs like Meta cofounder Mark Zuckerberg and X owner Elon Musk.

Mastodon, named for the extinct animal and not the metal band despite Rochko being a fan of the band and progressive metal, was announced on Hacker News in October. "I decided to give this a go ...

Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko said that the platform is “protected” by the decentralised structure, explaining: “The code is free, open-source software, ...

Mastodon is now shifting to a nonprofit model, stepping away from its founder Eugen Rochko’s sole control, and embracing its original vision of decentralization. The platform, founded in 2016 ...

Mastodon shifts to nonprofit ownership, calls for $5M in donations to expand. ... This takes control of the social network away from its previous "ultimate decision-maker," Eugen Rochko.

Twitter rival Mastodon has grown eight times its size in a matter of weeks, going from approximately 300,000 users in October to 2.5 million in November, ... Eugen Rochko. Ad Feedback. Business ...

Decentralized social network Mastodon is also seeing some uplift from the X “exodus,” founder Eugen Rochko shared on the platform just ahead of the weekend. While the Twitter-like startup ...

Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon — the open-source decentralized competitor to Twitter. It’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in our post-Elon Musk era.

Decentralized social network Mastodon is also seeing some uplift from the X “exodus,” founder Eugen Rochko shared on the platform just ahead of the weekend. While the Twitter-like startup ...