Anybody else feeling it? Mastodon becoming essential...?

Mastodon is tiny, yet are we now seeing the vital niche that this nascent open social media platform is beginning to fill?

Today the AoIR, Association of Internet Researchers @AoIR abandons Twitter for Mastodon (https://aoir.org/aoir2023onmastodon/), and EU Commission Vice President Vera Jourova declares Twitter the largest source of #misinformation and #disinformation (https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/111132449403615794)...

People are turning to Mastodon...

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@mastodonmigration @AoIR

New accounts are growing at a very strong exponential rate that seemingly has seen growth from under 60,000 accounts in a week to over 100,000 a week, so approaching 15 million total at last count.

No doubt many of these are right wing bots and various scumbags who are real, however, the nature of Mastodon itself pretty much affirms such accounts will never grow to anywhere near the power they have on Twitter and other shitty platforms.