How the fediverse could shape the future of the web
Mastodon was launched in October 2016, and I set up an account on it shortly after. But the decentralized social network remained the preserve of a relatively small group of users until Elon Musk took over Twitter in October, with nearly half a million people joining it in a week, taking the number of active monthly users to one million in early November and more than two million by mid-December.