ESS Digital Migration to Free Platforms
It Donald Trump’s proclamation day as the new United States President was the chosenin a symbolic way, because hundreds of users of the social network X, formerly Twitter, owned by the tycoon Elon Musk, would abandon their activity and profiles on this platform and migrated to Mastodon. Was no coincidence: the ‘Som hi-hi’ campaign He had been working for weeks to give tools and knowledge to all those who wanted to take the definitive step of leaving X.
But what is the reason? What do X and Mastodon have, for example?
Change responds to a combination of factors: concern about the privacythe dissatisfaction with the Content moderation policies and use of the algorithmsand the Search for more community and mass advertising -free spaces. According to data collected by the Catalan Digital Observatory, the number of Catalan users registered in Mastodon has increased by 40% in the last six months.
Mastodon is a platform based on the Activitypub Open Protocol, offers a decentralized model Where users can choose or create their own “instances” (servers) with specific rules and values. This has especially attracted ESS entities, which have found platforms such as Mastodon.cat a space to share content in Catalan and discuss topics of local interest Without the pressure of the algorithm of X.
Mastodon is not the only alternative tool for the most widespread social networks. In fact, it is known as a Federator, the set of networks and applications They replicate fast messaging features, decentralized and through free software. Although, the operation is not identical to conventional networks, and new users require a time of familiarization and learning, the use of Fedivers tools is gaining adherents at a significant rate.
Coópolis, As projects committed to social transformation, he is also studying the channeling of his communication in free software distributed platforms, while proposing Recover outline communication spaces.
In a constantly evolving digital panorama, migration to decentralized platforms as Mastodon seems to be more than a passing tendency: it is a A collective response to the need for more human digital spaces, transparent and respectful of diversity.
