Mastodon has hit 2 million users since Elon took over Twitter, and that number may stall if they don’t make key changes.
With Elon Musk at the helm of Twitter, we have seen many users jump on and off the ‘ban’ wagon (haha), with others jumping ship to Mastodon. The decentralized social media platform has seen userbase growth from 300,000 monthly active users to a sweeping 2.5 million users between October and November of this year.
The figure was touted by developer Eugen Rochko in a new blog post on the site in response to Mastodon links being banned and then unbanned on Twitter this week. This user migration is likely to continue until Elon relinquishes control of the beloved site, or at least until his phone dies.
So, because I just love the process of setting up social media accounts and agonizing over the perfect bios, I decided to sign up for Mastodon and dip my toes into what could be the next big microblogging platform.
As a war-torn veteran of Tumblr I went in full of confidence and assuredness that this would be a breeze and I’d be face-to-face with the elephant site in no time.
