Ask HN: How many HN users are moving to Mastodon from Twitter?

#1

Post by gaurangt » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 8:06 AM UTC

Firstly, I used to love Twitter!

However, I will move to Mastodon due to the recent spate of haphazard rule changes, bugs, and unstable systems. I have noticed many problems, especially with the Android Twitter app.

What is the take of the HN community on moving to Mastodon, especially after Paul G was banned?

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#2

Post by avadhoot » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 8:21 AM UTC

I, for one, definitely am. Twitter is going crazy (or Elon is), but signs are not looking good.

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#3

Post by curtisblaine » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 8:45 AM UTC

I'm not.

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#4

Post by DocTomoe » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 9:02 AM UTC

Be careful what you wish for. If random rule changes are something that you don't like, you certainly won't love whole instances banning you and/or your instance for not aligning perfectly with their highly individual and often contradictory quirks.

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#5

Post by froster » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 9:24 AM UTC

I also created my account on Mastodon today.

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#6

Post by kingkongjaffa » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 9:41 AM UTC

Twitter has been a mixed bag anyway, for me at least.

You decide to follow some tech people like uncle bob and realise he's a boomer with questionable takes and posts bait for attention and engagement.

The vast majority of tech-twitter are misguided juniors, or grifters selling coding courses, e-books etc. to those juniors.

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#7

Post by jstx1 » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 9:51 AM UTC

I left twitter without signing up for mastodon. Mastodon seems kind of lame, and user-hostile and I don't expect it to ever be mainstream.

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#8

Post by danwee » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 10:04 AM UTC

Try moving to nowhere. You'll be surprise how little you actually need such platforms.

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#9

Post by Raed667 » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 10:28 AM UTC

I have been using less and less of Twitter for the past few years, then the recent massive move of the infosec community to infosec.exchange / ioc.exchange made the switch easy enough.

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#10

Post by Raed667 » Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 10:30 AM UTC

kingkongjaffa wrote: post #6

Twitter has been a mixed bag anyway, for me at least. You decide to follow some tech people like uncle bob and realise he's a boomer with questionable takes and posts bait for attention and engagement. The vast majority of tech-twitter are misguided juniors, or grifters selling coding courses, e-books etc. to those juniors.

I enjoyed the sneak-peak into people lives, I didn't feel like following highly filtered technical blogs that tend methodologies the authors. Now I can see into people lives, pets, opinions, etc..

If you're not into that I get it. Otherwise for grifters, they're a real problem, but a highly curated, chronological timeline gets rid of them almost entirely.