Mastodon hits over 2mn users after Musk’s Twitter takeover

San Francisco, Dec 20 : Decentralised social media platform Mastodon has reached over 2 million subscribers after Elon Musk took over the micro-blogging platform Twitter.Mastodon has jumped from approximately 300K monthly active users to 2.

5 mn, which includes journalists, political figures, writers, actors and organisations, between October and November, it said in a blogpost on Monday.On December 16, Twitter suspended Mastodons @joinmastodon account after it shared a link to the newly-registered Mastodon account of @ElonJet, an account that broadcasts public flight path data of Elon Musks private jet, which was previously suspended from the micro-blogging platform itself.

The social media platform also received reports that users were unable to tweet links to any Mastodon servers, including ones completely unrelated to the @ElonJet account, showing an error message which claims that the links were identified as "potentially harmful"."At Mastodon, we believe that there doesnt 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," the social media platform said.

"Our free and open-source software enables anyone to run a social media platform entirely on their own infrastructure, entirely under their own control, while connecting to a global decentralised social network," it added.aj/vd #Mastodon #hits #Musks #San Francisco #Twitter #Cisco #Elon Musk #Musk.