Eugen RochkoMastodon's monthly active user numbers have risen by 84,579 since the Twitter buyout story broke on Monday (and I do mean across the Mastodon network, not this server)
Mastodon has gained 106,723 monthly active users since the end of March (when Elon bought 9.2% of Twitter's shares). 93,603 are new accounts. Overall that's a 42% increase in Mastodon's MAU.
Chris Trottier@Gargron Interactions are a lot like the early days of Twitter.
narohdethan@atomicpoet @Gargron Yeah. Pretty much just people talking to each other like normal human beings, instead of trying to come up with 'a banger'.
@narohdethan @Gargron Or blue checks quote tweeting you so their sycophant hordes can witness the dunk.
lashman@lashman @atomicpoet @Gargron It's honestly very scary. On Twitter, everyone is one 'wrong' QRT away of being dogpiled, being harassed and possibly doxxed.
@lashman @narohdethan @Gargron Here's a true story. Back in 2016, I said that Trump is actually Jesus Christ who's returned to Earth. It was sarcasm, and anyone aware of the tweet in context would know that.
Fast forward to this year, some angry dude was looking for dirt on me, resurrected that tweet, and said I was a secret Trump cultist creating dissension within liberal ranks.
All this because he misunderstood another tweet that he found through search.
@lashman @atomicpoet @Gargron Damn, I'm sorry that happened to you. In any case, imagine leading such a life that they felt the need of spending their precious, limited time on Earth trying to discredit someone for Internet clout.
@narohdethan @lashman @Gargron Such is the Internet. The stakes are low, but we'll act like every argument is like a battle in the Lord of the Rings.
Antarctic Chique@atomicpoet @lashman @narohdethan The technology here doesn't really prevent or even discourage from quote-dunking, nor could it really. You can post a direct link to a post or a screenshot and "lmao" on top of it just as easily.
Digging up dirt on the other hand is actually less trivial than on the centralized silos, because searching the fediverse is hard.
Digging up dirt on the other hand is actually less trivial than on the centralized silos, because searching the fediverse is hard.
@pingviini @lashman @narohdethan It's not hard but it's still a barrier to entry. As inconsequential as it sounds, taking a screenshot and then uploading it takes more work than a one-click QRT.
@atomicpoet @lashman @narohdethan True, particularly on phones. I still sometimes forget that to the vast majority of people their social media is primarily, often exclusively, an app. I still hate posting from my phone.
@pingviini @atomicpoet @narohdethan yup, i was about to say the same - people are generally lazy, and most of them won't even want to bother going through the trouble of screenshotting stuff :P
Avi 🦝@atomicpoet @lashman I'm not sure if I'm gonna completely delete my birdsite account (too much history in game dev stuff) but I should definitely delete my old tweets. Stuff like this scares me.
Emma's Lens ✔️@atomicpoet @lashman @narohdethan @Gargron a sadly good example of how Twitter became such a toxic mess. Unless you were saying things like that all the time, they had to know you weren't being serious
@emmaslens @lashman @narohdethan @Gargron No, the original tweet of mine was a response to a dumpster fire of a Christian film called The Trump Prophecy. https://youtu.be/G4marNR5K9A
Trump Prophecy
@emmaslens @lashman @narohdethan @Gargron Sadly, Q Anon came along and later became an actual Trump cult. Which goes to show that whatever you joke about will eventually come true.
@atomicpoet @lashman @narohdethan @Gargron okay, they had to know you were joking . Twitter grudges are something else.