The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network, rapidly exploding our growth with over 30,000 new users in just a single day. This is because at Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire, and strive to create a more resilient global platform without profit incentives. We believe that your ability to communicate online should not be at the whims of a single commercial company.
Taking a look at the new nodes graph on https://the-federation.info/mastodon it’s gone through the roof faster than a wave of Covid. I randomly came across a https://mastodon.social/web/@fediverseobserver@fediverse.one which posted about 9 new servers in the last hour (there’s a couple of lemmy servers there in the last day as well) not sure how the scraping works or how many are tests but interesting.