Twitter is that car accident that you can't look away from, but this isn't new. It's always been this way. Before Musk, how many tweets per week did you see of people calling it a "hellscape" and an awful place (even if it is)? Yet they keep on showing up, checking it out and even posting. But there is a slice of social media users that have decided to take their posting elsewhere and it appears that place is Mastodon. Mastodon is a "decentralized" social network which requires users to pick a server when they sign up. Even though this is the network's whole point of existence, it is likely to confuse the crap out of social media users who have never been presented with such an option. Instead of quickly registering and looking at posts, they immediately have several questions come to mind about the server selection situation. Either way, it's clear from Apptopia data that Mastodon is crushing Twitter in current new user growth but Twitter is growing as well, and has had 3600% more downloads over the past 20 days.