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Fortune
Chris Morris

Mastodon looked like the new Twitter last year. Today, downloads have dried up

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Not long after Elon Musk took over Twitter and began radically transforming the social media site, interest in alternatives spiked. And one of the biggest beneficiaries of that apparent migration was Mastodon, which was so overwhelmed that new users had to wait days to have their accounts verified so that they could begin posting.

Times have changed.

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