@rasterweb I think people assume any migration for social media are only a success if they move at the speed of the MySpace yo FB migration, which took like a month or so, or as fast as the tumblr exodus, which was more of a nuking of the user base and then a ton of people leaving, still about a month long.

Myspace and tumblr both had smaller, less entrenched user bases. Ive personally made like 3 accounts on tumblr over my lifetime because there isnt a need to tie yourself to it, and MySpace was just the social hangout everyone adopted until Facebook fit the ticket better. MySpace didn't have strong competition like fb does now with twitter, instagram (even if meta owns them both), or even reddit.

Twitter and reddit are entrenched in a different way though, a lot of people have made unique connections on twitter or follow news and communities on reddit, and its really the community aspect that make those spaces harder to leave. So the migration won't take a month like the others, it will continue to happen over time, and as we foster a better space for people over here on mastodon, the migration will continue to go. Unlike twitter and bluesky, which relies on capitalism to thrive, mastodon thrives on community support, so we have an advantage in longevity here that those platforms will basically never have.