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.
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