Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday
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Re: Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday
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Seven.
What’s the point of asking an irrelevant question nobody has an answer to?
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It's a tool to migrate who you follow from twitter to mastodon. This isn't about how many new users joined Mastodon (which yes, would include bots). Your comment is entirely irrelevant.
Re: Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday
#5It seems the Mastodon ecosystem has serious problems scaling.
Most of the servers are closed to registrations, and we are just talking about a couple million new users over 2 months. What if 100 mil users want to move?
Are we going to relive the Twitter history, which crashed every time Justin Bieber tweeted?
Re: Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday
#6It seems the Mastodon ecosystem has serious problems scaling. Most of the servers are closed to registrations, and we are just talking about a couple million new users over 2 months. What if 100 mil users want to move? Are we going to relive the Twitter history, which crashed every time Justin Bieber tweeted?
That's a feature, not a bug.
Each server in the fediverse should stay relatively small.
Consider running your own for your friends.
Re: Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday
#7It seems the Mastodon ecosystem has serious problems scaling. Most of the servers are closed to registrations, and we are just talking about a couple million new users over 2 months. What if 100 mil users want to move? Are we going to relive the Twitter history, which crashed every time Justin Bieber tweeted?
That's a feature, not a bug. Each server in the fediverse should stay relatively small. Consider running your own for your friends.
Or pay a hosting company to run one for you. At least you get to control your own community and moderation.
Even if you are still subject to the whims of your hosting company, you still retain a fair amount of autonomy unless you are running a community like Kiwifarms (in which case I find it hard to be sympathetic anyway), or your hosting company happens to be located in a jurisdiction with enforced censorship laws.
Re: Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday
#8Mastodon is not and will not ever be a replacement for Twitter.
Twitter's too large and the people who had bleu checks before the $7.99 fee are addicted to attention, validation, and/or lording their bleu check status over others.
That's why Mastodon won't replace it. Sure, a few small (relative to Twitter) alternative Mastodon instances will pop up, but no real challenger or contender for the throne.
Re: Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday
#9It seems the Mastodon ecosystem has serious problems scaling. Most of the servers are closed to registrations, and we are just talking about a couple million new users over 2 months. What if 100 mil users want to move? Are we going to relive the Twitter history, which crashed every time Justin Bieber tweeted?
it’s not built to scale as a feature. it won’t be the twitter replacement but some people might stay once they understand the benefits of small niche communities
Re: Server stats say movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday
#10The pessimism of the comments here confuses me. In fact, Mastodon has handled this extraordinarily well, as I see it. I'm very much in the "median Twitter user" bucket: I don't post much, I have a feed of a few hundred accounts that I follow because I want to hear what they have to say, and I browse the feed once or twice on most days to catch up, with occasionally binges during newsworthy events.
And... I've done all that on Mastodon, successfully, over the past few weeks. And it's been Just Fine! No outages, no weirdness. Big chunks of the accounts I'm following have moved over and/or started mirroring their tweets. I see maybe 30% of the volume of "readworthy Toots" that I do on Twitter. It's really extremely usable.
I hasn't replaced Twitter yet for me. But... it certainly could.