@estebanmoro also, I wonder how much the mastodon growth has been suppressed by people trying to join, and finding the instances they try to join closed.
I’ve seen a few people saying that they *tried* to join mastodon and couldn’t because it was closed — the subtleties of multiple instances and needing to select one and so on seems a little daunting at first. At least for those of us who’ve not had to think about in when singing up for FB or Twitter, etc.
@grenelliot as a former tech writer, I am *not* going to disagree.
<side eyes the engineers and programmers>
I often described my role as translating from geek to English.
Dude, no — no one other than maybe another engineer is going to just naturally imagine that to reboot the damned thing you press the two outermost buttons. It’s not obvious. You have to tell me that so I can explain it to them.
And the classified presentation docs from a real rocket scientist, where he returned the draft marked up in crayon.
Love you guys. Most of my family and many friends are you folks. And…
Yes. I tried yesterday to join #mastadon and bounced hard. (I've been on the WWW since we got a personal domain in 1993. I am retired from a telecom IT job.) This morning I found a server and tried again successfully. I've been reading cheat sheets and trying not to be too annoying.
@McPatrick @estebanmoro I agree, I am trying to make another account to replace my twitter handle. Even though I am already using Mastodon, I had trouble finding an instance to use.
I like their instance finder, but they should have more filters, or a pick for me. The first problem is that the one I chose, told me that it is a paid instance after I made the account. I do not mind donating, but I do not want to run the risk of my account being held hostage if there is a tight month or I forget.
@Casinoslcohol whereas I realize I probably didn’t know enough to know enough to make an informed decision, really. I signed in here so that I was somewhere. And I will en\other find a way for it to serendipitously “the right choice,” or I’ll move.
With mastodon dynamics, a professional account might make sense. Maybe. Not in a rush!
@McPatrick @estebanmoro It's prohibitively difficult for some people (especially some disabled people, tech newbies, etc.) to join Mastodon.
I would have given up trying, had I not been annoyed enough with Elon. I have over 13K followers on Twitter, but I just don't have the appetite to spend so much time there now.
Wonderful to see.
The twit has overplayed his hand and it will be delicious to see him fail spectacularly.
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@estebanmoro do you have an explanation why growth is smaller than the average before 24. October? it kind of looks wrong. maybe ignore everything after that in the average?
maybe in 3 days we see the full effect of the current events. i'm interested in an update of the graph when it's more flat like before the events
There are still a number of accounts on Twitter that I follow because they provide information I'm interested in. I hope that the increasing popularity of Mastodon (and maybe Twitter getting less popular) helps it to be taken more seriously as a channel to disseminate such information.
Yes. Twitter has ended up for me as a link/bookmark directory of information and some posters posting good resources consistently.
Happy to move away from twitter "discussions" as that was mostly anaemic or emotive but the information resources provided by posters on Mastodon will hopefully grow more valuable over time.
Also considering deleting twitter just to regain peace of mind from the dopamine surges and troughs it induces.
@estebanmoro While this sure is promising, the primary reason with the sudden upsurge on Mastodon is the moral ambiguity people have with the whole Twitter layoff and Twitter Blue situation.
And one thing that we know about moral ambiguities is that, it doesn’t last long compared to ‘habit’.
So once the dust settles, people may go back to their place of comfort, unless they get something truly extraordinary that makes them leaving Mastodon, difficult.
P.S. Just an opinion!
@estebanmoro @ankksharma Yes, I think the critical mass is, well, critical! 😜
Over the years, I've had friends try to make alternative sites to FB and Twitter happen, and they just never had the momentum. Mastodon feels different to me. I am optimistic this time, and I never have been before!
There was a period when everyone was leaving WhatsApp to go to Signal. The exodus was pretty short lived though. I think Mastodon needs a strong group of public intellectuals and some ethical brands or companies to migrate to trigger a longer term shift
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