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Mastodon, a social media platform decentralized by Mastodon, is being used as an alternative to Twitter.
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Mastodon's user base grew from 300,000 monthly active users in October to 2.5 million in November, Eugen Rochko, Mastodon CEO, said in a blog post.
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Elon Musk officially took over Twitter in late October.
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Mastodon's huge jump in users almost directly followed Musk's new ownership.
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Rochko also addressed Twitter's recently reversed bans on Twitter sharing links to Mastodon.
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This was in response to many journalists and the @joinmastodon accounts created following the ban on @ElonJet. Rochko stated, “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,”
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“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.”
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Mastodon is one of many Twitter alternatives that people are using. Post, led by Noam Bardin, former CEO of Waze, Hive, recently relaunched following security issues and other familiar social platforms such as Discord, Tumblr, and Reddit.