Some Twitter users flying the coop hope Mastodon will be a safe landing

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The Mastodon app homepage is seen displayed on a mobile phone screen. Photo Illustration by Davide Bonaldo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Photo Illustration by Davide Bonaldo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Few people outside computer programmers or engineers had heard of the social network Mastodon before Elon Musk bought Twitter.

Now, Twitter users queasy about changes the eccentric billionaire is making are signing up for Mastodon accounts in droves. Mastodon reached a million users earlier this week, up from under 400,000 before Musk closed the

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