Chris TrottierYet another spike in Mastodon registrations happened today!
Usually when this happens, it's due to Elon Musk doing something foolish on Twitter.
So what was it this time?
I suspect it's related to holocaust denial... 🧵
Twitter has been sued in Germany for holocaust denial.
This is not a small thing.
In Germany, holocaust denial is a crime!
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/25/elon-musk-twitter-antisemitic-hate-speech-lawsuit-germany/
When many people read stuff like this in the BBC, they don't tend to feel warm and fuzzy about Twitter.
This is one reason people may be migrating to Mastodon.
It doesn't help that the FTC is investigating Twitter for security lapses, and that these lapses have continued even as Elon Musk runs the company.
Foolishness keeps happening on Twitter!
A hacker took over Robinhood's Twitter account to push a crypto scam.
1.1 million Robinhood followers on Twitter received a message asking them to pay $0.0005 for a token called ‘RBH’ on the Binance Smart Chain.
Even Finance bros are getting pissed off with Twitter!
https://cointelegraph.com/news/hackers-take-over-robinhood-s-twitter-account-to-promote-scam-token
And remember how Nick Fuentes was re-instated yesterday on Twitter after being banned in July 2021?
He was banned again within 24 hours.
So what was the point of this foolish exercise -- other than to piss off everyone?
Nick Fuentes Twitter account suspended less than 24 hours after reinstatement
Twitter has suspended the account of white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes less than 24 hours after his reinstatement on the platform. Fuentes posted a picture of his suspended account on Telegram on Wednesday morning, with the caption “Well it was fun while it lasted.” The 24-year-old leader of the “America First” movement had…
Who else is Elon Musk pissing off?
Indians.
Specifically for caving in to Narendra Modi's censorship demands.
It's clear that Twitter is no beacon for free speech.
What's been Elon Musk's response to all the foolishness happening on Twitter?
"It is not possible for me to fix every aspect of Twitter worldwide overnight, while still running Tesla and SpaceX, among other things."
Well, maybe you shouldn't have bought Twitter if you can't handle the responsibility!
Some people are saying, "Everyone who wants to migrate from Twitter has already done so."
Not the case.
There's such a thing known as "death by 1,000 cuts".
Which is what's happening on Twitter right now.
Sure, not everyone is persuaded to leave Twitter because of racism or outages or security lapses.
But each time foolishness happens, someone logs out of Twitter -- never to log in ever again.
And some of them -- albeit a minority -- find their way to the Fediverse.
Fabien@atomicpoet network effects also work on the way down: every person that leaves makes the platform less valuable, increasing the likelihood of the next person leaving, etc
Rob Bos@fabienmarry Not to mention, every node on a network has different weighted value. Nobody cares if Mike, from Canmore, has a fax machine, but if the CRA accepts faxes, that adds a lot more value to the network. High-value nodes leaving the network disrupt connectivity in the social graph to a disproportionate degree - and we don't always KNOW which nodes are high value!