@estebanmoro also, I wonder how much the mastodon growth has been suppressed by people trying to join, and finding the instances they try to join closed.

I’ve seen a few people saying that they *tried* to join mastodon and couldn’t because it was closed — the subtleties of multiple instances and needing to select one and so on seems a little daunting at first. At least for those of us who’ve not had to think about in when singing up for FB or Twitter, etc.