There is an atmosphere of disruption at Twitter platform following new limits to the amount of posts users can see appears to be driving a surge in activity at Mastodon, a German rival that prides itself on its decentralised, user-driven structure.
“Looks like Mastodon’s active user base has increased by 110K (110,000) over the last day. Not bad,” Eugen Rochko, creator and chief executive of Mastodon, wrote on the platform late on Sunday.”I would prefer it if Elon Musk was destroying his site during the work week. This isn’t the first time,” another post from Rochko read. In a recent post, Twitter boss Elon Musk announced new limits on the number of posts accounts can read in a day. Previously, he had expressed displeasure with artificial intelligence firms like OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, for using Twitter’s data to train their large language models.Musk had taken over Twitter in October 2022. Since then, his management style has prompted some users and advertisers to stop associating with the site.
Elon’s idea to temporarily cap how many posts Twitter users can read on the social media site could undermine efforts by the company’s new Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino to attract advertisers. Yaccarino has further sought to repair relationships with advertisers who parted ways from the site after Musk bought it last year.
