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Ask HN: How many are switching to Mastodon?

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Re: Ask HN: How many are switching to Mastodon?

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Post by CamperBob2 »

If you're inclined to close your account to protest the Musk takeover, it would probably make more sense (and carry more impact) to do it when he reinstates Trump's account, not simply because there was a change of ownership.

And yes, I imagine there are some people who resent Musk's takeover of Twitter yet who would welcome Trump's return. But I can't think of anyone who would fall into that category.

Re: Ask HN: How many are switching to Mastodon?

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Post by holler »

I welcome all to check out Sqwok (https://sqwok.im). It's been a labor of love and it continues to be developed with a goal of becoming an excellent place for live public discussion.

Personally I'm interested to see what happens at Twitter with Elon at the helm.

A friend and active Twitter user who lets say isn't a fan of his, has stated that they don't think he'd be foolish enough to burn it to the ground and thus won't be going anywhere. I agree.

Re: Ask HN: How many are switching to Mastodon?

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

I created a mastodon presence a while ago, and then forgot about it, and then got back on there today after deleting my twitter (I had an acct since 2008 but barely used it anyways) and it seems there is a bit of an inbound wave happening. But as it's not really an environment much like Twitter, I think a lot of people will sign up, poke around and leave.

I also just made it on mstdn.social, but probably I should have applied into one of the more specialist fedi-thingies. I dunno.

Should be interesting to see how it all shakes down.

Personally what I want is an alternative to Facebook.

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Post by galangalalgol »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #15
NotYourLawyer wrote: post #14

Is it really gonna turn into a hellscape just because people you disagree with will no longer be silenced?

A hellscape for people with fragile ideological bubbles, thin skins, and too much time on their hands, absolutely.

I don't do Twitter, at all, who are we talking about?
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