Nick SchiwyWhy did you end up coming to Mastodon? Pls boost so we can get some good data 🙌
Elon
Fear of bird app going crazy w/o moderation
Love of open-source
Other (please reply!)
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The Slow CyclistOther: Curiosity
Actually, I’ll expand on that. Mostly out of curiosity, hearing about Mastodon in an article about Musk and Twitter.
I have five interest-specific Twitter accounts going back to 2008, and on four of them I’ve posted less than 50 times total. (The other is an automated weather broadcast every other hour from my weather station to the local community) I only use them to follow very specific sports or event, not to interact. If Twitter goes away, I don’t know how I’d get this information in a timely manner.
I’m not a Musk fan or hater, but not fond of how much “perceived” power he (or anyone like him) has.
Not having ads is good. Free is good. We’ll see if that’s sustainable.
@slowcyclist I think people being willing to donate to keep the servers running and development going are going to be important as things start to scale. I can imagine they're starting to feel the heat with all of the new users in the last month