Hi. I'm Nicolas Lambert, research engineer in geographic information science at CNRS (France). My job is to draw maps and teach cartography at the university. I am a geographer 🌎, and not really a developer 🖥️
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txt_en = `Since Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, many users have been tempted by the safe haven offered by Mastodon 🐘. And they are right. Isn't it indeed time to join the free world? What if it's time for the big migration?
**What is Mastodon ?**
Mastodon is a micro blogging social network created in October 2016 by German Eugen Rochko. It allows you to share "toots" messages, images and videos, similar to Twitter. Like Twitter, it works on computer in the web browser, or on smartphone via applications. Mastodon currently has more than 4.5 million users worldwide (of which more than 1.5 million have been active in the last month). More than 444 million toots have already been published. If Mastodon is still rather small compared to the American giant (Twitter has 12 million users in France alone), it has many advantages.
**An open source software**
First of all, Mastodon is free software, open source, licensed under AGPLv3. This means that not only the application is free, but also that its source code is readable, usable and modifiable by anyone. Nothing is hidden. Everything is transparent. In short, Mastodon is a commons.
**A decentralized organization**
Moreover, unlike Twitter where all users go through the same central infrastructure (and therefore through a potentially arbitrary central power), Mastodon relies on a decentralized organization. There are currently more than 5,700 different instances of Mastodon accessible around the world, including about 330 located in France. Each server has its own moderation policy: common language, subjects treated, ethical rules, maximum number of characters per message, personalized emojis, etc. But these instances of Mastodon are not separated from each other. All the servers can communicate with each other like a federated network (users of one server can talk to users of another server). So you have to imagine Mastodon as a gigantic graph woven on a global scale.
**Vive les communs**
In summary, even if the number of users is still modest, Mastodon is a real alternative to Twitter. If we collectively seize it, Mastodon could become a world decentralized free agora, a common good available to humanity. This fight for the collective control of tools in the digital space is decisive. What if the communist struggle also involved our collective capacity to free ourselves from the tools imposed by capitalism?
**Addendum**
*If you're looking for me on Mastodon, you'll find me on [piaille.fr](https://piaille.fr/web/@nicoco) to talk about politics and on [mapstodon.space](https://mapstodon.space/web/@neocarto) to exchange on geographic information sciences. I look forward to seeing you there soon.*`
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