Mastodon vs Twitter: Which One Better?
- TechCrunch
In the first days of January of this year, over 200 million usernames, email addresses and other data belonging to Twitter users were posted on underground forums by hackers, who had compiled the data from a number of breaches not involving Twitter itself in 2021.
While this database does not include users’ passwords, it can lead to more targeted phishing and doxing.
As such, this kind of leak reminds us of the amount of data including direct messages that Twitter, Inc. servers hold on the network’s 450 million users.
And for those who pay for X subscriptions, there’s the added risk of a data breach that exposes a range of their personal and financial information.
Meanwhile, it is up to the person or organization behind each Mastodon instance to run their own server that can be hosted on a local hard drive or with a cloud storage service such as Amazon S3 or Google Cloud.
This means that despite having 2.5 million users overall, Mastodon’s data is stored across thousands of different servers belonging to any given Mastodon instance.
But this doesn’t mean that Mastodon isn’t prone to security issues, of course. Indeed, the platform has been found to contain several security vulnerabilities in recent months; in another “security scare”, somebody scraped the posts and public account information of more than 150,000 Mastodon users.
"When compared to other social media platforms such as X (Twitter) or Instagram Threads, it is clear that Mastodon does not have as much legal foundation as the others. However, there are rules that all participants of the platform must abide by," said Anna Larkina, Web Content Analyst at Kaspersky.
"As with any online publication, users should always follow the 'think before you post' rule when publishing information on Mastodon,"
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