No one knows exactly what Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter will mean for the platform. But with this news, a Twitter alternative is already starting to show itself. Mastodon, the open-source social media service that advertises itself as “the largest decentralized social network on the internet”, has been “exploding” since Musk’s acquisition, according to its founder.
News of the Twitter acquisition affected Twitter staff and users, as Musk said he plans to take a much more distant approach to content moderation. As often happens when Twitter makes a controversial change, some users immediately started talking about leaving the platform; #RIPTWITTER is starting to trend.
It seems that at least some disgruntled users are turning to Mastodon as a potential alternative. Hours after Twitter announced the deal, Mastodon said it saw “an influx of about 41,287 users.” Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko stated in a blog post that about 30,000 of them are new users.
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Rochko, “Oddly enough, Mastodon’ The reason I developed it was rumors in 2016 that Twitter, the platform I’ve been a daily user of for years, might be sold to another controversial billionaire,” he wrote. And now it’s finally happened, and for the same reasons people are coming to Mastodon.”
According to data from analytics firm Sensor Tower, Mastodon’s official iOS and Android apps are also seeing an increase in users. According to the company’s data, the app will launch on Monday. It has been downloaded approximately 5,000 times “or about 10% of its total lifetime downloads” since its launch. The app currently ranks 32nd on the App Store listings for social media apps.
Mastodon has also been a potentially viable application in the past. Although it has come to the fore as an alternative to Twitter, it is not yet widely used by general users. Unlike Twitter, Mastodon is not a single and centralized service. Although its interface is similar to Twitter, it works with an open source protocol. User groups, membership, They can freely create their own private areas, with their own rules on monitoring and other basic policies. They can also carry their followers with them.
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