For doing more for democratised and open social networking than anyone else in recent memory.
Maybe this uptick in active Fediverse users will be a flash in the pan but I doubt that all of those new users will get bored and flock back to the walled gardens of the internet.
Personally, I feel pretty reinvigorated since I started using Mastodon again. Others have talked about this ad nauseam but it really does feel like the internet is fun again. I have realised that I didn’t hate using social networks after all. I just hated using them in their current form.
So here’s to you Elon! Burn Twitter to the ground and continue launching giant, mechanical phalluses in the general direction of Mars.