The coder who built Mastodon is 24, fiercely independent, and doesn’t care about mone
 

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.


Mastodon, named for the extinct animal and **t the metal band 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...

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