Long before Elon Musk came along, Twitter users bemoaned the service yet remained addicted to it.
It is a text-based social platform, or "microblogging" site, home to independent servers, or "instances."
In early November, the hashtag TwitterMigration was trending on Mastodon for several days as Twitter users set up accounts amid Musk's chaotic takeover.
Daily users have held steady though, at 1.4 million, a major increase from its usage prior to Musk's takeover of Twitter, which typically hovered around 20,000 daily users.
Yet, it has maintained more than 500,000 daily users.