Sarah Perez 💙As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/as-twitter-destroys-its-brand-by-renaming-itself-x-mastodon-usage-numbers-are-again-soaring/
Paranoid FactoidTo be fair, Mastodon is currently seeing about 1200-1400 new accounts an hour right now. Back when elmo rate limited, we saw like 4000+ an hour. This is an improvement over the ~500/hr we were seeing after the last migration. But not as high as when Twitter actually shit the bed.