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Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover
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Re: Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover
#12That's about 0.018% of total twitter user base (assuming total user base = 396.5 Million, 0.018 = 100*70K/396.5M). In relative numbers that's very little.
Re: Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover
#13How 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.
I feel like if people truly cared about what you had to say they would seek you out regardless of the platform. Follower numbers are glorified internet points meant to keep you engaged/chained to the platform.
Re: Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover
#14It'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.
Mastodon is a not for profit project ran by many community members in a federated fashion. What do they have to gain by „juicing“ their growth figures?
Re: Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover
#15The most important quality I hear people are looking for in a replacement for Twitter is "Everyone else is on it" so they're all stuck in a catch 22. I don't think this energy to get off Twitter is going to go anywhere.
Re: Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover
#16I'm looking forward to clients and services built around the at protocol
https://atproto.com/
Re: Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover
#17Hmm, I wonder do they mean mastodon.social, or the whole network. I was trying to find network-wide stats and couldn't (it's a difficult problem, I suppose, in that it's not _really_ a single network).
Re: Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover
#18It'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: " GENERAL INVITE ONLY snabelen.no Ein norsk tenar for den desentraliserte sosiale media platformen Mastodon Get on waitlist 1.8K GENERAL INVITE ONLY mastodontti.fi Tämä on suomenkielinen Mastodon-instanssi. Julkisten päivitysten tulisi ol…
> 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.
That doesn't _really_ matter, though; Mastodon sites largely interconnect. I'm on mastodon.social because I am very lazy; most of the people I follow are on other, more specialised sites.
Re: Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover
#19It'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: " GENERAL INVITE ONLY snabelen.no Ein norsk tenar for den desentraliserte sosiale media platformen Mastodon Get on waitlist 1.8K GENERAL INVITE ONLY mastodontti.fi Tämä on suomenkielinen Mastodon-instanssi. Julkisten päivitysten tulisi ol…
You're forgetting that Mastodon runs on ActivityPub, which means that the point is to divide users into different servers. For example, when everyone joined mastodon.social, the balance tipped and a lot of users lost access. Concentrating users into a single instance is not what's supposed to happen.
Ideally, you wouldn't want to go through joinmastodon.org and join the highest ranking server since that would centralize the whole protocol. It's favorable for everyone using the service that you join invite-only niche servers or self host.
Re: Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover
#2070k is a grain of sand relatively.
It depends on the kind of users.
Twitter has only 300k users with a blue check. If 70k of them would switch to Mastodon it would have a bigger effect.