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 threadshirishNov 8, 2019
@abbenm what polygon article, link please ?
Show threadabbenNov 8, 2019
@shirishag75 my mistake, it was a The Verge article: https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/4/15177856/mastodon-social-network-twitter-clone
Mastodon.social is an open-source Twitter competitor that’s growing like crazy

Attack of the clone

The Verge
Show threadshirish
@abbenm do you know why tumblr got down NSFW images, couldn't they have done something similar to what is done in mastodon or any of the .social networks ?
Nov 9, 2019 at 8:10amWeb
Show threadabbenNov 9, 2019

@shirishag75 Tumblr did it because the Apple app store was going to remove their app.

Tumblr decided to get rid of NSFW content in order to comply to Apple rules

Show threadabbenNov 9, 2019

@shirishag75 As far as whether they could do what is done on .social networks, do you mean tag things as NSFW and hide them from view?

Apparently that was not good enough for Apple.

Show threadshirishNov 9, 2019
@abbenm ah, ok now that makes sense.