The success of Mastodon every time Twitter disappoints its users: the ‘app’ adds more than 230,000 in a week

Nov. 3 (Portaltic/EP) –

Mastodon has announced that, in just one week, it has registered the arrival of more than 230,000 users to the social network, a figure to which the former registered users who have resumed their activity on this platform are added.

mastodon is an open source alternative that works with independent servers managed by the users themselves and that, for many, has become the effective substitute for Twitter.

This is mainly because the app offers a very similar design to the one now owned by Elon Musk., since it integrates a search system, communities, notifications or multimedia support. This allows you to manage the accounts of several users from the same device.

This platform usually registers large user movements every time its competitor is involved in controversy and, especially, since the billionaire and also the founder of Tesla announced his intention to acquire Twitter.

So much so that at the end of April it registered 30,000 new users in a single day, a few hours after Musk announced the purchase of the other ‘microblogging’ platform. Then, the CEO of Mastodon, Eugen Rochko, explained that this growth was due to the fact that in their social network they present “An overview of social networks that no billionaire can buy and own.

In line with the closing of the commercial agreement by which Elon Musk has acquired Twitter for about 44,000 million euros, Mastodon has added new subscribersas well as reactivations of accounts already created by its users.

This has been announced by the platform itself in your Twitter account, where he commented that Mastodon exceeded 230,000 users in the last week, “along with many returning to old accounts, which led the network to more than 655,000 active users”.

The ‘app’ has adduced this increase, “the highest level ever seen” according to its calculations, to its nature “decentralized and open source” that “cannot be sold and will not go bankrupt.” “It respects privacy and gives people control over the network. It is a product on a protocol, as Twitter should have been,” he stressed in a thread published a few days ago.

With this, he recalled that “registering with Mastodon is easy” and that it does not work like a traditional social network, but rather each user chooses the server they prefer to host all their data, a method similar to that used by email providers.

This mass migration could be due to the first measures implemented by Musk since his entry into the Board of Directors of the platformamong which are new rates for Twitter Blue or the possible introduction of a payment wall to display certain content.

This is how the billionaire has announced on his Twitter profile that his premium service will go from 4.99 euros to 8 dollars in countries where it is available (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States).

Likewise, according to information to which The Washington Post has had access, Twitter would be developing a new payment wall or ‘paywall’ to access exclusive content and reward content creators, as well as increase its own profits with this format.