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Seems to me the wave of people trying Mastodon has fallen off since Musk toned down a little recently.

nkotov 4y ago
PG is a good example - went to Mastodon on December 18 after suspension, and came back to Twitter and hasn’t posted on Mastodon since December 24th.
- vidanay 4y ago
  "PG"...that narrows it down.
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  - pwinnski 4y ago
    The "cool kids" refer to Paul Graham as "PG" to show how in the loop they are with venture capital. It's a hero-worship thing.
    - kweingar 4y ago
      Maybe it’s just an abbreviation. When I write “SBF” I certainly don’t intend it as “in-the-loop” showing off or hero worship.
    - nkotov 4y ago
      Didn't realize it was unknown on Hacker News...
- BaseballPhysics 4y ago
  PG is an SV tech "influencer". He wants a megaphone, not a community. No great surprise, then, if he's decided he prefers Twitter.
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neogodless 4y ago
https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount As of this comment 9,652,679 accounts +1,543 in the last hour +29,624 in the last day +178,438 in the last week It comes and goes, but the recent SMS 2FA change has triggered another wave.
pwinnski 4y ago
Absolutely, for sure, although I'm not sure anyone expected literally everyone to switch overnight? Twitter growth curve involved peaks and troughs for years, too. The idea of treating anything short of a 100% conversion rate as negative is very weird to me. I see pretty large and steady growth in servers, users, posts, engagement, everything. As the mobile clients are booming, the rate of growth in full-time active users actually seems to have accelerated from the bumpy spiked of Musk's initial nonsense. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/08/lazy-reporters-claiming-fediverse-is-slumping-despite-massive-increase-in-usage/ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/08/lazy-reporters-claiming-...
cykros 4y ago
I mostly left Mastodon once Twitter stopped being so onerous with their wrongthink policies. The abundance of splintered fiefdoms is reminiscent of the power tripping found amongst IRCOps in years past, and is frankly a bit of a yawn fest. I'll stick with a platform where I can expect that people I'm conversing with won't be cut loose because one server operator doesn't see eye to eye with another. The irony is if you asked most of these folks how they feel about net neutrality, they'd say they were big proponents.

PG is a good example - went to Mastodon on December 18 after suspension, and came back to Twitter and hasn’t posted on Mastodon since December 24th.

vidanay 4y ago
"PG"...that narrows it down.
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- pwinnski 4y ago
  The "cool kids" refer to Paul Graham as "PG" to show how in the loop they are with venture capital. It's a hero-worship thing.
  - kweingar 4y ago
    Maybe it’s just an abbreviation. When I write “SBF” I certainly don’t intend it as “in-the-loop” showing off or hero worship.
  - nkotov 4y ago
    Didn't realize it was unknown on Hacker News...
BaseballPhysics 4y ago
PG is an SV tech "influencer". He wants a megaphone, not a community. No great surprise, then, if he's decided he prefers Twitter.

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neogodless 4y ago

https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount As of this comment 9,652,679 accounts +1,543 in the last hour +29,624 in the last day +178,438 in the last week It comes and goes, but the recent SMS 2FA change has triggered another wave.

pwinnski 4y ago

Absolutely, for sure, although I'm not sure anyone expected literally everyone to switch overnight? Twitter growth curve involved peaks and troughs for years, too. The idea of treating anything short of a 100% conversion rate as negative is very weird to me. I see pretty large and steady growth in servers, users, posts, engagement, everything. As the mobile clients are booming, the rate of growth in full-time active users actually seems to have accelerated from the bumpy spiked of Musk's initial nonsense. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/08/lazy-reporters-claiming-fediverse-is-slumping-despite-massive-increase-in-usage/ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/08/lazy-reporters-claiming-...

cykros 4y ago

I mostly left Mastodon once Twitter stopped being so onerous with their wrongthink policies. The abundance of splintered fiefdoms is reminiscent of the power tripping found amongst IRCOps in years past, and is frankly a bit of a yawn fest. I'll stick with a platform where I can expect that people I'm conversing with won't be cut loose because one server operator doesn't see eye to eye with another. The irony is if you asked most of these folks how they feel about net neutrality, they'd say they were big proponents.