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 threadParnikkaporeNov 9, 2019

@abbenm Ironically, I got on Masto first (probably a Verge article, can't remember the search term) *then* made a Birdsite account 

My birdsite account is "replies only" (for interaction with artists on there, and achieving the true purpose of social media as a self-curated newsletter) though.

Show threadabbenNov 9, 2019

@Parnikkapore yeah I mistakenly said Polygon when it was Verge.

I LIKE that order of operations though. Masto first, birdsite second. as it should be

Show threadParnikkapore
@abbenm I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Polygon article on Mastodon though!
Nov 9, 2019 at 3:32pmWeb