https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7npd7/30000-new-users-signed-up-for-mastodon-after-elon-musk-bought-twitter

Social media platform Mastodon, often seen as an alternative to Twitter, gained nearly 30,000 new users on the day that Elon Musk bought Twitter.

On Tuesday a Mastodon domain became unresponsive. Eugen Rochko, Mastodon’s CEO, later told Motherboard in an email that there were performance issues.