Elon Musk controversies cause thousands of Twitter's millions of users to check out Mastodon

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Twitter users flock to Mastodon after Elon Musk takeover

Social media platform Mastodon has seen immense user growth since Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, with the network saying it gained around 230,000 users in the last week, BBC News reports.

The jump brought its subscriber count to 655,000 users, and while many Twitter users concerned with the platform's future moved across to Mastodon, it works quite differently.
 

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Another social wall. I am curious though, it has testimonials which praise its moderation, but its backing is riding on Patreon subs. How are they moderating more than 1m active users, sure, it is then 'curated' moderation?

Not hating on it, I like new communities, but it seems plastic.
 

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Ah, should have read the article,

The platform has a feature that lets users report messages and content to the server owner.

This raises a point of concern for potential Mastodon users — moderation rules differ from server to server, and some might not have any established rules whatsoever.

curated indeed.
 

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To quote the CEO,


Hey, so, we've hit 1,028,362 monthly active users across the network today. 1,124 new Mastodon servers since Oct 27, and 489,003 new users. That's pretty cool.

This is basically like Mumble, but a social wall. All these instances are separate nodes, the active users are then spread?

I like it actually, oddly I have never looked into Mastodon, but it could be nicely implemented as a product support tool.
 

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Maybe Elon will buy Mastodon for a few billion too!

It wouldn't achieve anything since Mastodon is a decentralised social media network. Users host their own servers. Those public are listed below:


Each instance will have its own moderation rules and whatnot, it is not up to Mastodon.
 

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I wonder if Mastodon will silence any discussions on the Hunter Biden laptop?
 

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Just a bunch of prima donnas acting irationally.

Similar to when Elon launched Signal to compete with WhatsApp. People jumped but it hardly had an effect on WA and I wouldn't be surprised if most of them returned to WA.

Imo, any platform wanting to compete will have years of development ahead to even come close to the Twitter of today and during that time, people will come to their senses and move back.
 
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Yeah no thanks.

Did all that cr** circle with the whole "we must leave Whatsapp" storm. I'm not doing it again.
 

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Just a bunch of pre-madonnas acting irationally.
Welcome to the Internet!

Similar to when Elon launched Signal to compete with WhatsApp. People jumped but it hardly had an effect on WA and I wouldn't be surprised if most of them returned to WA.
Signal is its own thing AFAIK, he was just backing it from what I remember. Telegram is about the closest to WhatsApp in terms of users and function. Signal is one of those apps you can use in an apocalyptic scenario (like Ukraine's war and Hong Kong's riots) but doesn't really make much sense outside of that.

Imo, any platform wanting to compete will have years of development ahead to even come close to the Twitter of today and during that time, people will come to their senses and move back.
I think Twitter users are still flying around in a panic. Not sure where they will go.
This seems to be one option of many. One of the Twitter co-founders is also building a decentralized version for example.
Its definitely a massive disruption of Internet traffic for sure.
Whether they will just go back to Twitter is unknown: In ages past, Digg thought that would happen to them when they massively changed things one day and users got all upset. Who can say that they use Digg now?
 
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