While Twitter is busy limiting the number of readable tweets and breaking its TweetDeck app, Mastodon is launching a significant refresh of its Android app.
So, weekend tally: The number of active users across Mastodon rose by 294K, and posting activity roughly tripled. Lots of new sign-ups, but also many returning users. Fun times!
Turmoil at Twitter following new limits to the amount of posts users can see appears to be driving a surge in activity at Mastodon, a German rival that prides itself on its decentralised, user-driven structure.
As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users (techcrunch.com)
While Twitter is busy limiting the number of readable tweets and breaking its TweetDeck app, Mastodon is launching a significant refresh of its Android app.
Eugen Rochko (@Gargron@mastodon.social): New Monthly Active Users across Mastodon rose by 294,000+ (indieweb.social)
So, weekend tally: The number of active users across Mastodon rose by 294K, and posting activity roughly tripled. Lots of new sign-ups, but also many returning users. Fun times!
Rueters News: "German alternative Mastodon gets boost from newly restricted Twitter" (www.reuters.com)
Turmoil at Twitter following new limits to the amount of posts users can see appears to be driving a surge in activity at Mastodon, a German rival that prides itself on its decentralised, user-driven structure.
Twitter failed to pay cloud bill or migrate, off the service. So it then DDOS'd itself
Just created m/TwitterMigration (kbin.social)
Mods, please let me know if this is not allowed. I’ll remove it....