Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X (formerly Twitter) and other
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    The service, which competes with X (formerly Twitter) and other newcomers like Threads, Bluesky, Pebble and Spill, had been undercounting its users due to a network connectivity error, according to founder and CEO Eugen Rochko, and actually has 407,814 more monthly active users than it had been reporting previously.

    The adjustment also included a gain of 2.34 million registered users across an additional 727 servers that had not been counted due to the error.

    The latest disruptive move by X owner Elon Musk has seen the company remove headlines from link previews on the platform for aesthetic reasons and to keep users on the site instead of clicking away.

    The move has angered publishers, some of which suggested they would scale back on posting to X given the declining traffic the network was sending their way as of late.

    Prior to that, Musk announced he was planning to charge all users a small fee to use X, though it’s unclear how serious his statements were as CEO Linda Yaccarino didn’t seem to be aware of his ideas when asked during an interview.

    Later, Yaccarino told X debt holders that the company would introduce three tiers of payment plans for the network in an effort to grow revenues.

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