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Decentralized social network Mastodon It’s also seeing some uplift from X founder Eugen Rochko’s “exodus.” subscriber On the podium before the weekend. While Twitter-like startup Bluesky has been grabbing headlines and attention for its rapid adoption among former Rushko says the number of users is growing to 894,000 across all Mastodon servers.
In a post on Mastodon, the founder and CEO noted that official app downloads are growing. In addition to 47% on iOS, it increased by a smaller 17% on Android. Month over month, signups were also up 27% with 90,000 newly registered accounts in November.
“We may not be the largest in terms of numbers yet, but Mastodon (and Fed) has proven to be an effective and reliable communications platform over the past eight years, and does not rely on venture capital to survive.” books Rochko, subtly attacks one of Bluesky’s potential weaknesses with this final piece.
While Mastodon is largely crowdfunded and grant-backed, Bluesky has taken the more traditional startup route by raising money from outside investors. Last month, the company closed a $15 million Series A, led by Blockchain Capital. Bluesky plans to generate revenue via Subscriptions Later by providing other paid services, such as access to custom domains. For some former X users who now choose Mastodon, Bluesky’s commitment to chasing investment-sized returns is a non-starter.
Despite Mastodon’s recent certification of “X Exodus,” recent activity remains below late 2022 levels, when Mastodon got an early boost thanks to other Twitter drama, including product changes Elon Musk introduced about moderation Paid verification. As of November 2022, Mastodon had surpassed 1 million monthly active users and was seeing “thousands” of registrations per hour, it said at the time.
Things have slowed down since then for Alt X, which today is North 7.6 million The total number of users compared to Bluesky’s is now more than 19.4 millionwhich is up from 16 million a few days ago.
Despite the threat posed by Bluesky, Rushko says the Federated Network — or the open social web powered by the ActivityPub protocol that powers Mastodon and newer efforts like Meta’s Threads — is a “long-term game.” (More than 275 million users of themes are not counted among 10.9+ million wider range users because the platform is not yet fully standardized.)
“I’ve spent 25% of my life working on Mastodon. It’s a bit strange when you think about it,” Rushko Pondered on the mastodon. “When I started, Google+ was still around. We’re doing what one of the most resourced companies in the world couldn’t do. It’s not easy. It’s always easier to build a website, then run some ads on it,” he said, likely referring to Threads’ plan. Supported by ads. “But federal diversity is the long game.”
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