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04-07-2017, 01:55 PM
The coder who built Mastodon is 24, fiercely independent, and doesn’t care about money
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Mastodon, that giant cartoon mammal that's been rampaging across the internet this week, is **t the product of a Silicon Valley start-up.
Instead, the social networking app that's been touted as a potential Twitter-killer is the brainchild of a 24-year-old recent college grad hellbent on disrupting the way we think about social networking.
As the wildly popular service's German-born founder Eugen Rochko said Thursday via the gamer chat service Discord, it aims to operate on a "different paradigm" to established sites.
SEE ALSO: Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon. (http://mashable.com/2017/04/04/mastodon-twitter-social-network/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Mastodon, named for the extinct animal and **t the metal band (http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/mastodon-band-social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) despite Rochko being a fan of the band and progressive metal, was an**unced on ****** News in October. "I decided to give this a go," Rochko said during the late-night call.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/eugen-rochko-mastodon-interview/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Mastodon, that giant cartoon mammal that's been rampaging across the internet this week, is **t the product of a Silicon Valley start-up.
Instead, the social networking app that's been touted as a potential Twitter-killer is the brainchild of a 24-year-old recent college grad hellbent on disrupting the way we think about social networking.
As the wildly popular service's German-born founder Eugen Rochko said Thursday via the gamer chat service Discord, it aims to operate on a "different paradigm" to established sites.
SEE ALSO: Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon. (http://mashable.com/2017/04/04/mastodon-twitter-social-network/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Mastodon, named for the extinct animal and **t the metal band (http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/mastodon-band-social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) despite Rochko being a fan of the band and progressive metal, was an**unced on ****** News in October. "I decided to give this a go," Rochko said during the late-night call.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/eugen-rochko-mastodon-interview/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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