Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus

As many customers search options to X, rival social community Mastodon says that its official app downloads are up 47% on iOS.

Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko says downloads on Android are additionally up 17%, whereas whole month-to-month sign-ups rose roughly 27% to 90,000.

The open-source X rival features very like its competitor, the location previously often called Twitter, on the skin. Nonetheless, in contrast to the centralized Twitter, Mastodon consists of 1000’s of various social networks, that are built-in into an internet it calls the “fediverse.”

“We is probably not the most important by numbers but, however Mastodon (and the fediverse) has confirmed itself to be an efficient and dependable communications platform over the course of the final 8 years and doesn’t rely on enterprise capital to outlive,” says Rochko. 

A document variety of X customers closed down their accounts the day after Election Day within the US. Web site visitors analyzer Similarweb says 115,000 US-based internet guests deactivated their X accounts on Nov. 6, the most important one-day drop since Elon Musk took over the platform in October 2022. Musk has been a vocal supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, and allowed the reinstatement of the accounts of extremely controversial right-wing figures.

Customers in search of greener pastures aren’t simply making an attempt out Mastodon; all the foremost X options are reporting extra sign-ups than ever earlier than. Bluesky claims it had 1 million sign-ups in at some point in the course of the week following the election. An app put collectively by Bluesky reveals its consumer base is now at virtually 18 million, up from 9 million in September.

To not be outdone, Instagram Head Adam Mosseri lately claimed that Meta-owed Threads had greater than 15 million signups in November, and has had days with over a million sign-ups each month for the previous three months.