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The current push to Mastodon made me look up their historical stats.

This site was the only one I found. Is it reliable?

If it is, there has been another a doubling in usage around May this year.

Any ideas what caused it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31196328 from 6 months ago links to "30k New Users Signed Up for Mastodon After Elon Musk Bought Twitter" at Vice - https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7npd7/30000-new-users-signe... .

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31175527 also 6 months ago links to "Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight" at https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/04/twitter-buyout-puts-ma...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31154911 also 6 months ago links to "More Users Flock to Mastodon After Musk's Twitter Acquisition Bid" at https://www.pcmag.com/news/more-users-flock-to-mastodon-afte...