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It remains mindboggling to me how many people on the other site feel the need to constantly bash Mastodon. I didn't join a bunch of other social media sites, but I didn't feel the desire to mock them either. It's kinda weird, because it includes people I normally get along with as well.
Aaron Williamson š@mmasnick they are feeling abandoned and defensive, Iād wager
Ed Zollars, CPA@copiesofcopies @mmasnick I think this is the key for much of it. Change is generally resisted, and whatever they might feel about the chaos that is the current "rules" on Twitter, they are looking at losing the network they built up if Twitter fails or just enough people leave. If they move to Mastodon they know that they won't get that entire network to come with them. So the only possible future where they (kind of) keep what they had is if everyone stays on Twitter.
@copiesofcopies @mmasnick And then hopes that Twitter management doesn't otherwise destroy the platform via simply breaking the underlying technology. Thus, those fleeing to Mastodon are a problem to them, since enough of that and it doesn't matter if the software keeps running.