More than two million users have flocked to Mastodon since Elon Musk took over Twitter

Mastodon, a decentralized social media platform that many are turning to as a Twitter various, noticed its userbase skyrocket from about 300,000 month-to-month energetic customers to 2.5 million between October and November, Mastodon’s CEO, founder, and lead developer Eugen Rochko mentioned in a brand new weblog publish. Elon Musk formally took over Twitter in late October, that means Mastodon’s big bounce in customers virtually immediately adopted Musk’s new possession.

Rochko’s publish additionally addressed Twitter’s now-reversed bans on sharing hyperlinks to Mastodon, many journalists, and the @joinmastodon account itself following the still-in-place ban on @ElonJet. “It is a stark reminder that centralized platforms can impose arbitrary and unfair limits on what you possibly can and might’t say whereas holding your social graph hostage,” Rochko mentioned. “At Mastodon, we consider that there doesn’t need to be a intermediary between you and your viewers and that journalists and authorities establishments particularly mustn’t need to depend on a non-public platform to succeed in the general public.”

Rochko, nevertheless, sounds assured in Mastodon’s future. “Understanding that freedom of the press is completely important for a purposeful democracy, we’re excited to see Mastodon develop and turn out to be a family identify in newsrooms the world over, and we’re dedicated to persevering with to enhance our software program to resist new challenges that include fast development and rising demand,” he wrote.