abbenNov 8, 2019

I'm trying to keep track of the mass migrations to Mastodon that have happened.

I think it started with:
- early adopters, programmers, FOSS people
- tons of peeps in Japan
- furry community moving off Twitter
- LGBTQ+ folks leaving twitter
- people who saw that polygon article (me) or heard about it when it started getting mentioned on hackernews
- comics/artists leaving twitter
- NSFW blogs leaving Tumblr
- sex workers
- and now, Indian politics Twitter users

Am I missing any big moments?

Show threadJulien Deswaef Nov 8, 2019
@abbenm The early French move from twitter at the beginning? At the time Twitter changed their commenting system if I remember correctly.
Show threadJulien Deswaef Nov 8, 2019
@abbenm You're also forgetting the Gab move. Although not a lot of instances federate with Gab, it's also a pretty large move to Mastodon.
Show threadabbenNov 8, 2019
@judeswae
I think I just wish the gab move never happened
Show threadJulien Deswaef 
@abbenm Well. It was just a matter of time, anyway for these kind of things to happen. And I'm glad the software and network was ready for it. So overall, I think it's proof that Mastodon is well engineered and gives me confidence on where it's heading. It's not perfect. But it can survive such a hostile take over attempt.
Nov 8, 2019 at 1:57pmWeb