Mastodon is apparently quite popular in France. I'm guessing this is because you get 500 characters instead of 140, and French isn't a very succinct language?
@nyubis let's just say today quite mainstream media talked about it, so here we are!
500 characters is so much. Almost feels like cheating. This must be what twitter is like for Japanese users.
@nyubis that, and 3 more-or-lest famous blogs/websites wrote about it during the past days, apparently
@nyubis it’s probably more a network effect: some popular french people talked about Mastodon, and made a migration wave

@nyubis That IS a serious relief! xD

But also, we have some small-but-active free software, queer and anarchist communities, and articles & talks about Mastodon circulated through those circles these past two days.

@nyubis it's because a very famous french youtuber promoted this website 2 days ago :)
@nyubis Or becauyse french famous youtubers migrated here ;)
@nyubis and maybe it's also because a lot of french peoples likes to think they are rebels :wink:
@nyubis Could be quite a reason, yes :)
@nyubis I'd say it's because we collectively like to rise against concentration of power, and that we have a high amount of crypto-anarchist around, but hey maybe you're right ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@nyubis Maybe because we're more talkative?