I was on Twitter for five years and I ended up with 8,000 followers.

I've been on Mastodon for five months, and I already have 16,000 on here.

I think the biggest difference is that Mastodon just leaves me alone to do whatever I feel like doing, whereas Twitter would go out of its way to punch me in the head anytime I tried to enjoy the platform.

@lowqualityfacts I was an early adopter of Twitter, I was there since it’s second year and I had about 2,500 followers when Elon permanently suspended my account. I’ve been on Mastodon since November and I have about 750 followers already.
The thing that really bugs me though is that because my Twitter account was permanently suspended (was it because it was liberal? Because I said unflattering true things about Elon?) I couldn’t keep my list of follows. I miss my old crowd.