A day after Twitter's new limits on the number of posts users can see based on their verified status, a rival to the social media company called Mastodon reported a huge spike in traffic.
according to a mail From Mastodon creator and CEO Eugen Rochko, on July 2 the platform's active user base increased, rising to at least 110,000.
Mastodon is a German rival to Twitter with a structure similar to that of a tweet, although it notes that the platform is decentralized and user-driven. Unlike Twitter, which is centralized and controlled by one entity, Mastodon runs through a network of thousands of dispersed computer servers.
Run mainly by volunteer administrators who put their systems together, Rochko also aware a message of thanks to the team members for โcoming to help with the infrastructure despite being Sundayโ.
The platform's CEO also reposted several messages from former Mastodon users and developers, including a post that gave advice to new users of the platform:
โ...follow as many people and hashtags as you can. This is not Twitter; there's no algorithm, and it's not going to fill your feed with stuff it thinks you like. You have to cure it yourself."
The user, who goes by Courtney Heard, ended the post by saying that once users select their own feed "it's so much more vibrant and rewarding than Twitter has been for a year." As of this writing, Mastodon's server status reports 324,000 active users.
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The influx of activity on Mastodon comes after Elon Musk, owner and former CEO of Twitter, announced that the platform impose new limits on the number of posts accounts can read in a day.
Under Musk's new rules, Twitter users with verified accounts will be able to see 10,000 daily posts, while accounts that are new and unverified will get 500 below the new limits.
Musk did not cite a specific reason behind the new limitations, though he did tweet that the platform "got so much data looting that it was degrading service for normal users."
Recent data has also revealed a alarming number of fake accounts within many communities on Twitter.
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