Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight

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.

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@Mastodon is there a list of instances that show the instance age?
@santiago @Mastodon probably not . or at least not accurately.
they would only be able to really trace any instances after their own inception.

my own instances age is easy to track for me though cause this account was created at the same time the instance was.
probably the most accurate date would be to go by the first created account.
but i'm not aware of any lists.
@santiago @Mastodon maybe this is something @[email protected] could implement considering they seem to be spotting servers left and right.