Mastodon, a decentralized social media platform that many are turning to as a Twitter various, noticed its userbase skyrocket from about 300,000 month-to-month lively customers to 2.5 million between October and November, Mastodon’s CEO, founder, and lead developer Eugen Rochko stated in a brand new weblog put up. Elon Musk formally took over Twitter in late October, that means Mastodon’s big soar in customers virtually immediately 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 can be a stark reminder that centralized platforms can impose arbitrary and unfair limits on what you possibly can and might’t say whereas holding your social graph hostage,” Rochko stated. “At Mastodon, we imagine that there doesn’t need to be a intermediary between you and your viewers and that journalists and authorities establishments particularly mustn’t need to depend on a personal platform to succeed in the general public.”

Rochko, nevertheless, sounds assured in Mastodon’s future. “Understanding that freedom of the press is completely important for a practical democracy, we’re excited to see Mastodon develop and grow to be a family identify in newsrooms the world over, and we’re dedicated to persevering with to enhance our software program to withstand new challenges that include fast development and growing demand,” he wrote.