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Taylor LorenzI hope this platform has staying power because even with all its glitches and quirks it’s better than what’s going on rn on Twitter
NotNowOrLater@taylorlorenz when i look at those who've been here for years, i have good feelings about it!
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solaire@taylorlorenz It feels refreshingly calm.
Bryan Seitz
Dave Rahardja@taylorlorenz I think it does, in no small measure because anyone can always stand up a better server, so users can always move to a better instance.
Bilgin Sahin ✅@taylorlorenz still very quiet and peaceful here. i think soon the trolls will discover mastodon
Logan is working on stuff@BilginSahin @taylorlorenz the difference is community moderation, which takes us back to the days of message boards.
In fact, it's honestly a lot more like vBulletin, only every vBulletin now talks to one another in real-time. It is way easier to isolate trolls.
wb x64@BilginSahin @taylorlorenz remember, actual Nazis discovered it years ago. We just told them to fuck off. That which you walk past, you accept, you tolerate, you allow to persist and metastasize. Don't let trolls and sociopaths get comfortable and they'll either act right or leave, as god intended.
Dennis Jernberg@BilginSahin @taylorlorenz The trolls have been around here forever. There's entire instances dedicated to nothing but trolling and extremism, some predating Mastodon itself. The blocklists were already long when I first came here back in '18. If anything, this is where they came from. Most of them have already been pretty much cut off from the fediverse.
The trolls have always been here, so we already have well established ways of dealing with them.
Airline Brief Tim🇦🇺@BilginSahin @taylorlorenz You are probably correct but I certainly hope that am be postponed for as long as possible
Wiredfire 
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I’m _starting_ to see Twitter folk who complained about the quirks & the (very real) onboarding challenges starting to go “oh ok, I get it and I’m starting to see it now”.
It’s a change. Many people find change scary & will lash out about it.
But a community I’m broadly (with some exceptions!) finding here & the wider fediverse to be welcoming & encouraging. Quite the stark cultural difference to Birdsite.
Kraken1066@wiredfire @taylorlorenz I am one of those! Nice to hunt for a change instead of being fed.
Thaddeus@taylorlorenz Twitter has become that app that's entirely about Jeremy Renner but for some reason it's about Elon Musk instead.
Sean | Drowned in Sound@taylorlorenz can’t believe he’s already banned comedy in the other place. Looking forward to my feed here being less about here and there.
@taylorlorenz I completely agree. I am planning to phase out my Twitter completely in the coming months if Mastodon’s growth continues.
CoryFromPreble@airlinebrief @taylorlorenz may I ask why the departure from Twitter?
Jeff Eckman 🥁@taylorlorenz Yes! the nice thing is, it’s not really a ‘platform’ from a ‘uni’ perspective… it’s a community benefitting from the community that’s contributing. Almost like social Wikipedia.
mcdannoforever@taylorlorenz
Needs more celebs
Needs more celebs
Nuno Rocha@taylorlorenz exactly. The other town square is now the one you avoid on your home.
ALL CAPS 🧢🧢🧢There are less bots. That’s the only benefit I’m seeing now. People post so infrequently here it feels more like a forum.
I don’t have many Twitter followers on (something like 53 😂) so no huge loss for me. However, I have 0 here, and I follow maybe 6 people rather than 300, and that’s a huge difference for me, content-wise.
Also, can you believe that I only joined Twitter to follow Donald Trump and political news! Here’s it’s peaceful.
@taylorlorenz here is the thing. Do you think the decentralized nature is a barrier to switching? I’ve worked in tech for over twenty years and now run a nonprofit teaching kids STEM kills and it still took me a minute to figure out. Just spoke to my wife about it (much more of a Twitter person than me) and she said that she’s heard about Mastedon but only complaints about how complicated it is. 🤷🏾♂️
Blake Reilly | Ekyllier@taylorlorenz I have been looking at Mastodon for years and I've never seen it grow at this rate ever. I think it might actually become a real Twitter competitor and be staying around
Adrian Speyer@taylorlorenz Twitter was great too before advertising, brands, algorithms and influencers . This has Twitter vibes pre-2010. I’m glad a new generation is seeing what civil social media can be.
Abdi Ahmed@taylorlorenz wholeheartedly agree with you.
Laura Martínez 
@taylorlorenz well hello! happy to find you here
Sascha Segan@taylorlorenz How so? I'm having a lot of trouble finding the people I want to follow, and so I'm not seeing a lot of good conversation.
Kris Mitka 
@saschasegan @taylorlorenz it takes up front effort and pays off from there. Check news for aggregate lists of accounts such as journalists. I think there are a few sites to try and identify your twitter follows on Mastodon too. It seems to be getting earlier as people join.
Dr. Fyzziks@saschasegan @taylorlorenz It takes time for your timeline to start filling up, as there is no algorithm to populate it (yay!). Like Twitter in the early days, it's all about finding some people to follow.
Recommend browsing your instance's local timeline for starters, but also use sites like https://search.noc.social to find interesting accounts via keyword, or directories like https://communitywiki.org/trunk/
Parker Morse@saschasegan @taylorlorenz jeez, sorry, I'm still getting my feet too. ;-P (NB https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ is a helpful app for searching your bird site feed for fediverse addresses posted by people you follow there.)
Tim Chambers@taylorlorenz I agree - hope it keeps this momentum up. And I guess it has had staying power since it's launch in 2016.
Steve Gibson 
@taylorlorenz I'm a new joiner here, too, and have already decided to stay. Hopefully other twitter refugees will do the same. The platform itself has been around for years, so I'm not worried about it going away.
Goldie Chan 
@taylorlorenz it's a lot on Twitter right now...
mary angela perna✅@taylorlorenz it’s the opposite of twitter. NOT STRESSFUL
Shoq 🌿@taylorlorenz Not to be trite about it, but 💯 :)
Rebecca P.@taylorlorenz I think we have to stay the course and hope it keeps getting better as time goes on and more people come over.