Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover

How many conservatives are still on Twitter complaining about censorship, rather than using Gettr or Parler or Truth Social?

Network effects are WAY stronger than we think. Also, if you built a following on Twitter over 10-15 years, leaving it is a massive sacrifice.

I wouldn't bet on an actual twitter exodus.

It's impressive how quickly those bot accounts can jump ship. Now Mastodon use them to juice their growth figures.

p.s. They gained accounts. That's not the same as actual users using the platform.

It's difficult to see the value in spending time on Mastodon, compared to other services.

For example, just checking joinmastodon.org gives the following top 10 recommended options:

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snabelen.no Ein norsk tenar for den desentraliserte sosiale media platformen Mastodon Get on waitlist 1.8K

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mastodontti.fi Tämä on suomenkielinen Mastodon-instanssi. Julkisten päivitysten tulisi olla suomeksi, mutta käyttäjät voivat olla mistä vain. Oikeakielisyys ei ole tärkeää, joten tuuttaile vapaasti, vaikka olisitkin vasta oppimassa suomea. Get on waitlist 2.8K

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mastodon.iriseden.eu Instance Mastodon hébergée en France chez OVH et maintenu par @iriseden Join server 2.4K

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sociale.network Sociale.network è una iniziativa dell'associazione culturale altrinformazione.net e dell'associazione peacelink.it Get on waitlist 2.4K

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pouet.chapril.org Chapril, membre du collectif CHATONS, un projet de l'April. Join server 1.4K

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mast.dragon-fly.club 这里是属于每一个人与众不同的岛屿，然而每座岛屿间却又紧密相连。来建设专属于你的岛屿吧！在这里找到一个不一样的自己。无论世界多么纷纷扰扰，在这里，总会有你所向往的一片宁静…… Get on waitlist 2.5K

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mastodon.zaclys.com Bienvenue sur l'instance libre et française de Mastodon ! proposée par Zaclys.com Get on waitlist 16K

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mastodon.bida.im Un'istanza mastodon antifascista prevalentemente italofona con base a Bologna Join server 880

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tooot.im תוות.ים הוא שרת מסטודון הפונה לקהל דוברי העברית. Get on waitlist 3.4K

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masto.nobigtech.es Instancia de Mastodon principalmente en español/castellano que se aloja en Bilbao, Pais Vasco. Get on waitlist 2.6K

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Which pretty much sound like a list of Discord or IRC servers except the non-english ones are not filtered out.

So it's a bit weird why it's advertised as a Twitter replacement at all. Clearly competition will balkanize everything into thousands of mostly invite-only niche servers.

Maybe it makes more sense as an IRC or Discord replacement?

Just a note -- your URL is wrong and redirects to a site blocked (entirely) by my adblocker.

The right domain is dot ORG, not COM:

joinmastodon.org

That's 0.003% of Twitter's "monetizable" daily active users.