Last Update: December 21, 2022, 13:40 IST
Mastodon benefiting from Twitter antics with Elon Musk on board?
Mastodon grew from about 300K monthly active users to 2.5 million between October and November, including journalists, political figures, authors, actors and organizations.
Decentralized social media platform Mastodon hits over 2 million subscribers Elon Musk Micro-blogging platform Twitter took over.
The number of monthly active users grew from about 300K to 2.5 million between October and November, Mastodon said in a blogpost on Monday, including journalists, political figures, authors, actors and organizations.
On December 16, Twitter suspended Mastodon’s @joinmastodon account after it shared a link to the newly-registered Mastodon account of @ElonJet, an account that broadcasts public flight path data of Elon Musk’s private jet. Which was earlier suspended from the micro-blogging platform. on one’s own.
The social media platform also received reports that users were unable to tweet links to any of the Mastodon servers, including those completely unrelated to the @ElonJet account, showing an error message that claimed the link was “potentially blocked”. identified as “significantly harmful”.
“At Mastodon, we believe there should not be a middleman between you and your audience and especially journalists and government institutions should not rely on a private platform to reach the public,” said the social media platform.
It states, “Our free and open-source software enables anyone to run a social media platform entirely under their own control, entirely on their own infrastructure, while connecting to a global decentralized social network.”
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