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Surely no one felt more desperation for Mastodon to operate as an adequate substitute for Twitter than GOP leadership in the aftermath of Trump's Twitter ban an
by jimbob45 4y ago
Surely no one felt more desperation for Mastodon to operate as an adequate substitute for Twitter than GOP leadership in the aftermath of Trump's Twitter ban and the 2020 election. If those people, the most motivated people in all of time to make Mastodon work, can't make Mastodon work, then I struggle to see how the Musk-haters plan to switch over successfully.
I'd apply the same argument to every other platform - if someone could have done it better than Twitter, then you'd better believe that the GOP would have already been all-in on that platform long before you got there.
- throwaway-jim 4y agoAnecdotal - I had a account in one of the largest english mastodon instances for a few years now and have seen multiple waves of twitter exodus into mastodon. Server becomes extra lively for a few weeks and then it returns to normal. None of these people last.
- OscarCunningham 4y agohttps://the-federation.info/mastodon https://the-federation.info/mastodon It looks to me like not all of them go away. There was a noticable step up after the spike in May.
- mcv 4y agoBut Mastodon works. If Trump's people can't make it work, it's possible that it's not Mastodon that's the problem. (For the record, I'm not on Mastodon, but I follow a lot of people who are.)