Sarah Perez 💙Jul 24, 2023
As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/as-twitter-destroys-its-brand-by-renaming-itself-x-mastodon-usage-numbers-are-again-soaring/
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Show threadMelroy van den BergJul 24, 2023

@Sarahp try to also join other mastodon instance.. Ignore the mastodon.social domain.

Like mine: https://mastodon.melroy.org what is the point if everybody will move from one centralized server to another? Fediverse is also about decentralizing...

Melroy's Place

Melroy van den Berg from The Netherlands is running the server. Be free to sign-up as well. Just give a good reason during your sign-up.

Mastodon hosted on mastodon.melroy.org
Show threadPomax
@melroy @Sarahp mostly that you don't need "one mastodon account", you can have many, just like we used to be in 20 different channels on 7 different IRC servers back in the day, each with their own name register. So having a mastodon.social is super useful if you want to be "where everyone else is, mostly, too", and then you find some fun other communities to join later.
Jul 24, 2023 at 5:30pmWeb
Show threadMelroy van den BergJul 24, 2023
@TheRealPomax @Sarahp Well, I'm using the activitypub protocol to connect to communities, people, hashtags, etc. I don't need several accounts.
Show threadPomaxJul 24, 2023

@melroy Folks who are escaping Twitter do, though. Everyone has their own onboarding track, and folks escaping twitter should be welcomed to mastodon.social if that's the server they found. We want to encourage them to discover mastodon, not chastise them for a choice they probably didn't even make =)

Step 1: get them off twitter/X
Step 2: let them discover the ecosystem,
Step 3: help them find their community once the initial post-twitter shock wears off.

It's a process, these are real people

Show threadMelroy van den BergJul 25, 2023
@TheRealPomax yes, I understand. I just meant that education is part of this process. Awareness.