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?
Instance ouverte pour test et qui sera fermée le 1er septembre 2021 - lire les CGU Elle était ouverte à tout agent possédant un compte email en ".gouv.fr" et à ceux dont le nom de domaine figurait sur cette liste : https://forum.etalab.gouv.fr/t/mastodon-le-reseau-social-libre-et-decentralise-en-plein-decollage/3538
@lertsenem from the feedback I'm getting it's clear the french migration was a notable one that I've omitted.
Also I'm glad that now (finally), some people more informed than me are chiming in on this timeline. I was somewhat surprised that my top-of-the-head formulation was new/helpful info and that that history, such as I know of it, was *already* lost to such a wide swath of people here.
@abbenm From what I gathered, there is (was?) a tendency for each new Mastodon newcomers wave to erase the previous ones.
This seemed not to be the case for this last Indian wave, but the French one had a hard time noticing there were LGBTQ+ people here before them, that some more or less tacit rules existed, and that we needed to respect them (or get blocked).
This is kinda baked in Mastodon DNA since it's just part of a bigger whole : the Fediverse, with many other different softwares.
abben
lertsenem