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<p>At the annual congress Mastodon was significantly more referenced
than in the previous two years, and some speakers asked the audience to
give feedback via Mastodon hashtags.</p>
<h3 id="the-muskening">2022: The Muskening</h3>
<p>In November, the oligarch Elon Musk, known for electric vehicles and
spacecraft, purchased the website formerly known as Twitter. One of his
first decisions was to fire most of the moderators. Admittedly, the
moderators of Twitter did an abysmal job in the years leading up to the
acquisition, but becoming an unmoderated space did not go down well with
many users or advertising customers. This resulted in perhaps the
biggest exodus up to that time.</p>
<h3 id="fediverse-culture-shock">Fediverse culture shock</h3>
<p>This is what happens when someone has only had a presence within
large corporate sites, such as the website formerly known as Twitter or

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### 2019: Chaos Computer Club
At the annual congress Mastodon was significantly more referenced than in the previous two years, and some speakers asked the audience to give feedback via Mastodon hashtags.
### 2022: The Muskening
In November, the oligarch Elon Musk, known for electric vehicles and spacecraft, purchased the website formerly known as Twitter. One of his first decisions was to fire most of the moderators. Admittedly, the moderators of Twitter did an abysmal job in the years leading up to the acquisition, but becoming an unmoderated space did not go down well with many users or advertising customers. This resulted in perhaps the biggest exodus up to that time.
### Fediverse culture shock
This is what happens when someone has only had a presence within large corporate sites, such as the website formerly known as Twitter or Facebook, and then moves to a federated system on the open internet.