Mastodon reaches 1 million monthly active users as Elon Musk reforms Twitter
Twitter, which was acquired by Elon Musk, is undergoing reforms such as
Boosted by Twitter drama, Mastodon reaches 1 million active monthly users | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/07/boosted-by-twitter-drama-mastodon-reaches-1-million-active-monthly-users/
On November 7, 2022, Mastodon CEO Eugen Rojoko said, 'Today we reached 1,028,362 monthly active users across our network. Since October 27, we have 1,124 new Mastodon servers and 480,000 9003 new users are born. It's amazing,' and revealed that the number of monthly active users has exceeded 1 million.
Germany-based Mastodon has seen rapid growth since Musk bought Twitter. Since October 27, 2022, when Musk acquired Twitter, Mastodon has gained about 500,000 new users, which translates to thousands of new Mastodon users every hour. . Before the acquisition of Twitter, Mastodon acquired about 60 to 80 new users per hour.
Mastodon's growth is accelerating, as multiple media reports that `` Twitter users are moving to Mastodon '' since Mr. Mask's acquisition of Twitter.
In April 2022, when Mask first announced the acquisition of Twitter, the number of new Mastodon users increased.
Mastodon new registrants increased by about 30,000 after Earon Mask's acquisition of Twitter - GIGAZINE
Furthermore, within a week of completing the acquisition, the number of new users increased by 230,000.
Earon Mask's acquisition of Twitter increased the number of Mastodon users by 230,000 in just one week, and the number of active users reached a record high - GIGAZINE
Overseas media TechCrunch said, ``Mastodon has a function called'boost' such as hash tabs, replies, bookmarks, and retweets, and has many functions similar to Twitter.However, Twitter Unlike Mastodon, Mastodon is ad-free, distributed across thousands of servers organized around interests and geographies, and operated primarily by volunteers who join individual systems into federations. I am guessing why users are migrating from Twitter to Mastodon.
Founded in 2016, Mastodon is supported through crowdfunding and a small grant from the European Commission. Since Mastodon is a decentralized service, there is no central authority to manage the service. you can't. Server owners can easily cut ties with other servers that adopt overly radical policies. ``Because Mastodon is a decentralized service, it also has the advantage of reducing overhead costs and making it impossible to be acquired by a single entity like Elon Musk,'' TechCrunch wrote. did.
In an interview with TIME, Rojoko said, ``A platform that allows me to express myself online to my friends with a short message is very important to me and important to the world. should not be entrusted to a single company.' He explained that being a decentralized platform is one of the reasons Mastodon is accepting users who leave Twitter.
Rojoko CEO is the only full-time employee of Mastodon, and the monthly salary is 2400 euros (about 350,000 yen), which is a very modest amount for the top of famous services. According to Rojoko's latest post , he's been working 12-14 hours a day to upgrade Mastodon's database servers and said he's ready to release the next major version .
One user who actually migrated from Twitter to Mastodon said, ``It's been a few days since I started using Mastodon. You can follow and be followed anywhere, but the system is clearly under load from new user growth and many servers are not accepting new user registrations. You may have to register users on the server, but this shouldn't be a big issue.' 'Timelines between server instances can be a bit confusing due to load on the server. This has led to problems such as slow updates and duplicate posts.Therefore, it is difficult to say that we are on the same level as Twitter, which is always stable.' 'However, these current conditions are temporary. It is a thing, and it seems to be the influence of extreme and rapid growth, ”posted a frank impression.
However, the system is clearly (and unsurprisingly) also straining under the newfound load right.
— matt blaze (@mattblaze) November 7, 2022
Many servers are closed to new signups, so you have to look for one that will take you, which may not be where most of your friends are. That's OK (see above), except that... 2/
Another user wrote, 'Mastodon is slow, awkward, and buggy. No verification is the worst, but many users are debating it.'
Mastodon impressions:
— Vlad Savov (@vladsavov) November 6, 2022
- first realization: I have no 'must' follows on Twitter, we're all individually dispensable and it's the cumulative feed we build over time that's valuable
- mastodon is slow, clumsy and buggy
- not having verification sucks
- people are actually talking
In addition, it is pointed out that Mastodon has a looser character limit than Twitter, so you can enjoy longer and deeper conversations.
Mastodon seems to excel at thoughtful discussion, which Twitter is especially bad at. One reason is of course the higher character limit but I think it's mostly the culture. After being conditioned by Twitter, it's shockingly refreshing to regularly see long, deep conversations.
— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) November 7, 2022
Related Posts:
in Web Service, Posted by logu_ii