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Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?

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Post by simongray »

arcturus17 wrote: post #164
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #45

Just got this in my email because I signed up in Patreon as a supporter of a Mastodon node: "So our IndieWeb server has seen a 4,333% spike in users, and every day is a new record in daily new users sign ups .... In that same time we have done one major server upgrade, and have had zero down time, and as we screen all new users before joining, so far have had zero cases of spammers or scammers from inside the instanc…

> 300,000 users in the last week Let's speak in a month or two, see how many remain active, and then see whether this is an overreaction, and whether the experience design of Mastodon can really acommodate them?

Added another 100K in the last day or so, growth rate still increasing: https://indieweb.social/web/@mastodonusercount@bitcoinhacker...

The momentum is surely there.

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Post by bArray »

toofy wrote: post #395
bArray wrote: post #353

BBC title correction according to their own article: " Some Twitter users jump to Mastodon - but what is it?". It's certainly not even remotely close to all. > The social network says it now has over 655,000 users - with over 230,000 having joined in the last week. Not all of them will be active. I think I even have an account I have not used in many years. The actual user base is likely smaller, and in a few weeks m…

there are six million users now, not six hundred thousand.

I quoted the article.

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Post by bArray »

keithnz wrote: post #358
bArray wrote: post #353

BBC title correction according to their own article: " Some Twitter users jump to Mastodon - but what is it?". It's certainly not even remotely close to all. > The social network says it now has over 655,000 users - with over 230,000 having joined in the last week. Not all of them will be active. I think I even have an account I have not used in many years. The actual user base is likely smaller, and in a few weeks m…

missing a 0 on the number of users.... also this bot tracks users on mastodon https://bolha.us/@gutocarvalho/109298885964017612

I quoted the article, take it up with the BBC.

At the time of checking your bot link:

    6,047,035 accounts 
    +4,669 in the last hour
    +96,241 in the last day
    +295,175 in the last week
This just tracks the number of users being created and not the number of active users?

Re: Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?

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Post by __alexs »

parineum wrote: post #215
__alexs wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll take that as a yes then. OP was not claiming all land ownership was bad. Just that rich people have commonly used land ownership to harm others. There is a long and rich history of this.

> creating legal property rights to land previously held in common. That's not a use of land ownership, that's an amoral redistribution (theft) of land. They took ownership from one party to another. The amorality was the transfer, not the ownership. Unless you think both parties are equally amoral for owning the land in the beginning and the end of the process. The argument you're making would be like saying it was…

> it was amoral for plantation owners to own the land they held because they had slaves.

Yes it was. That's why many confederates had their land and property seized, and their slaves freed by the confiscation acts.

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Post by vitorgrs »

drstewart wrote: post #257
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #45

Just got this in my email because I signed up in Patreon as a supporter of a Mastodon node: "So our IndieWeb server has seen a 4,333% spike in users, and every day is a new record in daily new users sign ups .... In that same time we have done one major server upgrade, and have had zero down time, and as we screen all new users before joining, so far have had zero cases of spammers or scammers from inside the instanc…

Yep. Look at how Signal displaced Whatsapp (if anyone remembers this app that no longer exist) when users flooded over to it due to Musk-related controversies! https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/7/22218989/signal-new-signup...

A lot of people migrated to Telegram though. 10 years ago it would be ridiculous to think that Telegram would be a competitive service.

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Post by PM_me_your_math »

_djo_ wrote: post #506
PM_me_your_math wrote: post #493

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't need a blue check mark to have an account or post.

Musk has openly stated that those without Twitter Blue will have their tweets substantially deprioritised and de-emphasised.[0] [0] https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721?...

What does that have to do with the facts I posted?

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Post by _djo_ »

PM_me_your_math wrote: post #516
_djo_ wrote: post #506

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Musk has openly stated that those without Twitter Blue will have their tweets substantially deprioritised and de-emphasised.[0] [0] https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721?...

What does that have to do with the facts I posted?

Meaning that his intention is to substantially reduce the reach of tweets for anyone not subscribing to Blue for $8 a month.

Yes, you can still tweet freely, but it’ll effectively be a shadow ban.

He even repeated it in the Spaces chat hosted by Robin Wheeler earlier today, using the analogy of non-Blue Twitter users’ tweets being like emails going to your spam folder.

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

gonehome wrote: post #300
PhasmaFelis wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Elon may not succeed, but I hope he does and what he's doing is a necessary prerequisite. Everything he's done so far reads like he's deliberately trying to destroy the company. The only reason I don't really think that's his intention is that I don't see how he could hope to benefit from it. But it doesn't make sense.

The Twitter status quo was one of stagnation (took them ten years to ship edit to a handful of people) - they're a good example of how you can basically do everything wrong, but if you have product market fit it's hard to fail. He's trying to pivot them into a focused company. I think his actions make sense in that context.

There's no context in which many of his actions make sense. He ranked people based on lines of code written, immediately fired thousands of them based on that objectively stupid metric, than immediately tried to rehire a bunch of them because the company couldn't function without them. "Random flailing" is the most charitable way to characterize that.

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Post by gonehome »

red_trumpet wrote: post #340
gonehome wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably your comment is directed at me, but I think we probably have overlapping wants and disagree on how to get those results. I think you're wrong about Musk, but that aside - I want us to escape the ad-driven model we're trapped in. I want users to have actual control over their computing. I want hackers back. I just do not think these federated attempts will get us there, I think that's been proven over the l…

> it's a disagreement about the focus So what would you like to focus on instead?

Something like Urbit - actual decentralized computing where users really own their stuff.

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

simongray wrote: post #511
arcturus17 wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 300,000 users in the last week Let's speak in a month or two, see how many remain active, and then see whether this is an overreaction, and whether the experience design of Mastodon can really acommodate them?

Added another 100K in the last day or so, growth rate still increasing: https://indieweb.social/web/@mastodonusercount@bitcoinhacker... The momentum is surely there.

Is it?

I just saw it's about 640k in the last week. That's nice, but Twitter has over 250M daily active users.

Going from a signup to a DAU is a pretty rough game, but even assuming every signup became and stayed active, that's 40 more weeks of non stop momentum and growth at the same pace to meet Twitters numbers.

Sorry, I wouldn't be betting on it.

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