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Mastodon sees a Boost from the [X exodus] too, Founder says.

In a post on Mastodon, the founder and CEO noted that the official app downloads were growing. In addition to the 47% on iOS, they had increased by a smaller 17% on Android. Month over month, signups were also up by 27% with 90,000 newly registered accounts in November.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/113488825856891653

#mastodon #fediverse #socialmedia #Xodus #socialscience #energy #it #engineer #media #tech #news

Decentralized social network Mastodon is also seeing some uplift from the X “exodus,” founder Eugen Rochko shared on social media just ahead of the last weekend. While the Twitter-like startup Bluesky has been capturing headlines and attention for its rapid adoption among former X users, a smaller group has apparently turned to the open source networking platform Mastodon, which has seen official app downloads increase by 47% on iOS and its monthly active users grow to 894,000 across all Mastodon servers.

The active migration away from social media networks that are owned, controlled by, and distorted by the richest men and most powerful companies in the world to a decentralized platform that is not owned and controlled by billionaires, is one of the more hopeful things to happen in what has largely been a bleak year for the human internet as AI slop infects everything and billionaires put their thumbs on the scale of what we see on social media. The Fediverse migration is good news and I hope it continues.

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The fediverse is a open social web powered by the ActivityPub protocol that underpins Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube and newer efforts like Loops or in a special case Meta’s Threads.

I still think that federation and decentralization, where publications and users “own” their followings and can port them across a variety of different services, is the future of the internet if we want to have any hope of taking back any control from billionaires.

(Threads 275 million+ users are not counted among the 10.9+ million broader fediverse users because the platform isn’t fully federated yet.)

<https://fedidb.org/>

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