An Incredible Day In Internet History

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

@mastodonmigration

The best thing is finding the people with whom you spent so much time over the #TwitterYears . It was a wrench to deactivate but happy to have found peace here. And so many NEW people. #TwitterMigration