The graph shows the evolution of the new users that join mastodon by day during the last year. The numbers are very small until recently, but we can see that 25k users join platform when Musk made the offer to purchase and was accepted in May. More recently, around 50k to 100k users join the platform everyday after the purchase was completed and the massive layoffs at Twitter. And the numbers of new daily users keeps growing
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