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Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months (mashable.com)

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X's user base in the European Union is now officially lower than it was prior to Elon Musk's acquisition of the company.

And that's according to a new report from Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter, but you knew that). The social media platform now has a total of 94.8 million monthly active users in the EU.

That's a loss of roughly 11 million European users from X's previous transparency report, as highlighted by Social Media Today.

Mashable previously reported on X's declining user base in the EU last fall. Now, we know that X's European user base has continued to drop. In 2022, before Musk acquired the social media platform, the company had more than 100 million users in Europe.

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[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair against mastodon the "mastodonservers.net" (first result on DuckDuckGo when looking up "mastodon instance list") does list an instance featuring primarily pornographic content first (as far as I can tell this is because it list by usercount in decending order), which could be off putting to some people.

The first Google result for the same query "instances.social" is a list, but in the non legacy non advanced view has almost completely non-functional filters.

Neither of these are "joinmastodon.org" which is probably the best website for someone trying to join mastodon, considering it appears to be ran by the developers.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 3 points 20 hours ago

People still don't know what Mastodon is. I mentioned it recently and someone asked, "isn't it mostly white supremacists?"