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

Mastodon, a decentralized social media platform that many are turning to as a Twitter different, 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 said in a new blog post. Elon Musk formally took over Twitter in late October, that means Mastodon’s enormous soar in customers virtually straight adopted Musk’s new possession.

Rochko’s put up 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. “This is a stark reminder that centralized platforms can impose arbitrary and unfair limits on what you can and can’t say while holding your social graph hostage,” Rochko stated. “At Mastodon, we believe that there doesn’t have to be a middleman between you and your audience and that journalists and government institutions especially should not have to rely on a private platform to reach the public.”

Rochko, nonetheless, sounds assured in Mastodon’s future. “Understanding that freedom of the press is absolutely essential for a functional democracy, we are excited to see Mastodon grow and become a household name in newsrooms across the world, and we are committed to continuing to improve our software to face up to new challenges that come with rapid growth and increasing demand,” he wrote.