Mike Masnick ✅It's happening... More followers here on Mastodon than on Twitter. And y'all are much nicer here too.
John Minnihan@mmasnick bite me, Mike
Zee@mmasnick and we’re better looking 💅🤡
Elias Fox@mmasnick more and more when I see an @username I think “silly person forgot to add their domain!”
Jerry Gulla@mmasnick We like to think we are ;-) Oh, and I finally got to check out that Ska podcast you mentioned where they talked about Grosse Pointe Blank. Was a great listen, thanks again for the pointer!
Cynthia Morse Linton@jerrygulla Ska podcast? Ears perking up
@lucywildboots yup! This one, in fact.
https://mastodon.social/@mmasnick/110009135518647973 @jerrygulla of all things, it's a podcast about ska music (the movie has some in the soundtrack), and they've been reviewing ska-adjacent movies, and so reviewed the movie (not just the music in the movie). https://www.hornpod.org/
Nathan A. Stine@mmasnick i'm also nicer here than on Twitter.
BlueintheSouth@stinerman @mmasnick I just followed a link in a news article to Twit, it's become soooo much worse since I left last year. So many trumpeteers, too! It's astounding!
william.maggosme too but that was easy for me. what I miss is the opportunity to interact with certain people there, especially when I read something they wrote or a podcast they were on. I want to be part of a coordinated effort to get people to switch, cause a dominant #fediverse can greatly improve the public conversation, making it less subject to manipulation by the already powerful and wealthy. but most others don't seem to care. they think the folks I love there are bad faith idiots.
Adam CliffordDeleted my twitter account today. It’s a cesspool over there and not good for my mental health.
@AdamClifford @mmasnick Yeah, I just peeked in. It was disgusting.
@AdamClifford HI Adam, Welcome!
Wesley Hilliard@mmasnick I'm still working on it. I need to find ways to bring more followers in. Twitter gets worse every day, and if I didn't need it for work, I'd likely not be on it at all.
Hope that won't be the case for much longer. Seems the company is doing everything it can to cease existing by 2024.
podkaynelives@mmasnick red rover, red rover, send more #LawTwitter over!
BakersRelay@mmasnick Me too!
CauseOfBSOD
Djromero@mmasnick You're welcome
Derek Caelin is writing a book@mmasnick In my experience, the engagement is much nicer and there's more of it!
@derek Because we can actually write sentences and use commas, too!
Ali@mmasnick probably because there are no rewards for being an asshole here.
enmodo ⚛️ 🧬 🇺🇦 🍉@grissallia @mmasnick and no algorithm pushing assholes on you.
Oh wait, that didn't come out right...
Northwest Beer Guide
Ernie Smith@mmasnick I’ll try not to change your opinion of us with my questionable toots
The Dinosaur Dave@mmasnick I do #Lego #dinosaurs stuff and best i got on #Birdapp was around 100. Now I'm passing 600.
Everyone here is so nice I love it.
Im honestly looking at dumping all socials for this place because of how less stressed I get here
Everyone here is so nice I love it.
Im honestly looking at dumping all socials for this place because of how less stressed I get here
Le Podthécaire 🔻Count me as a +1 😃
rag. Gustavino BevilacquaDid someone told "Streisand Effect"?
😁
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@mmasnick Well, it's all your fault.
British Tech Guru@mmasnick Same here. I had 64 followers on the Twitter account that got blocked unless I deleted a tweet critical of an ultra-right-wing politician. I get way more engagement on Mastodon and more followers too. Twitter was always so biassed.
Joe Uchill@mmasnick I'm actually kind of a jerk.
@JoeUchill Ok. I wasn't counting you then.
Dumbledope@mmasnick
You can consider me a twofer. My (differently named) bird site account follows you but I rarely access the site.
Ethical problem: How do you unfollow someone on the bird site without making them think your account was a now-deleted bot or that bird site management is manipulating their followers?
You can consider me a twofer. My (differently named) bird site account follows you but I rarely access the site.
Ethical problem: How do you unfollow someone on the bird site without making them think your account was a now-deleted bot or that bird site management is manipulating their followers?
@@mmasnick NUH UH! You are!
Trey Roady@mmasnick Don't worry; we can ruin the latter for ya soon enough 😁
si_irini@mmasnick
Reading your answers is really fun!😂
Loving each other is much more fun...😜 😆 😉
Maybe that should also arrive somewhere else!😉
Reading your answers is really fun!😂
Loving each other is much more fun...😜 😆 😉
Maybe that should also arrive somewhere else!😉
Techronic9876
rmquist@mmasnick would you feel more at home if we organized a "be mean to Mike for a day" campaign? 😄
lord pthenq1@mmasnick
We are lovely!
We are lovely!
Ministerofimpediments@mmasnick nicer? Maybe. Realer? Definitely.
Overrated Future@mmasnick Twitter shrinking to Mastodon maybe?
With spring, it's another good news thanks to you!
Comrade Lion-O@mmasnick You forgot “more handsome,” prick!
@ThisAccountKillsFascists sorry, sorry, trying to fix...
Kenneth@mmasnick
Most excellent!
Most excellent!
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)@mmasnick Nice one, Mike! Iʼm still thousands away.
Mike McCue@mmasnick Now those are some bonafide growth numbers we can all get excited about!
Nick 'The Viking'Yeah, *we're* nicer but you're the same Mike, what's up with that you should be nicer here too
🤣
Seriously, cool man!
Adwin@mmasnick Hope this will last for years. Looks like a comfy place. Interesting how the censorship and intellectual property rights will be covered...
Cyrus Patel@mmasnick Yeah yeah we nice
ᴚ uɐᗡ@mmasnick congrats!
MASTODON is better on so many
levels 🔥
Chris Pirillo@mmasnick ...what's your sense for the attrition rate here? Especially in relation to people who signed up for Mastodon and never logged in again after following.
@ChrisPirillo definitely a fair bit of attrition. But still plenty of engagement.
Random Geek@mmasnick @ChrisPirillo It’s kind of the circle of life on Mastodon and ActivityPub in general. Something terrible happens on / to Twitter. A thousand people sign up for Mastodon. Ten stick around.
After a few years of that, there’s roughly one moderately successful social network worth of folks that check in regularly. Which honestly is kind of impressive.
ElPamplina 🇺🇦@mmasnick With the advantage that most of the followers are real human here. 👍
xs4me2Because of the lack of algorithms and simply being human…
Yahia Lababidi@mmasnick I’m happy for you, Mike, and us 🫶
At the rate I’m going, I’ll need to be on #Mastodon another year or so to catch up with my #twitter following (which took 10 years to build).
I do agree with you about people being more engaging on #Fediverse 😊
Kat the Leopardess@mmasnick Glad to see more people popping on. As much as I can agree with how nice amd engaging it is on the Fediverse, definitely check out the settings for blocking words on here. No algorithm trying to strong-arm your timeline = you can add in blocks for words/hashtags and the block will actually stick!