[This post contains an error in the number of Twitter users. Check the new one here: https://mastodon.social/@estebanmoro/109302968305953555 ] Something big is happening in Mastodon over the weekend. Here is my graph, updated. Right now Mastodon is growing ~3 times faster than Twitter.

@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!

@ankksharma @estebanmoro

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

@sarantium @ankksharma @estebanmoro Personally, it was all the journos I follow on 🐦 coming over here that prompted me to follow them.