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Fairly high profile people like Neil Gaiman created mastodon accounts so I think there definitely was the potential for something else to take over if that some

by rcarr 4y ago

Fairly high profile people like Neil Gaiman created mastodon accounts so I think there definitely was the potential for something else to take over if that something else was user friendly enough. Mastodon was never going to be it but there were no other real options.

rvz 4y ago
> Fairly high profile people like Neil Gaiman Who? I have to say, that doesn't sound remotely convincing to the 220M+ daily users of Twitter who continue to use the platform since there was no 'mass exodus'. It was more like a leaf falling out of a tree.
- riffraff 4y ago
  Neil Gaiman had 3M+ followers on Twitter, it is a pretty high profile account. Anyway, I think it's more relevant that many accounts are now also syndicating to Mastodon, which makes it a viable alternative for consuming users. It's far from being an exodus, but they are averaging 200k new users per week, which seems pretty good.
  - NikolaNovak 4y ago
    Right, but that's where absolute and relative come into play. 200k new users per week is... what, 0.05% - 0.1% of Twitter active user base? Not saying one day it might not snowball, but it's been 6 months and I wouldn't call Mastodon an existential threat to Twitter just yet. I am tremendously enjoying and schadenfreuding the twitter melodrama, but even most people making fun of twitter/musk/socialnetworks, seem to be doing it on twitter.
    - sleepybrett 4y ago
      My mastodon timeline has been growing pretty rapidly over the last year. With obvious ratcheting up happening whenever elon steps on yet another rake. 'Let that sink in' nearly doubled the amount of posts per day, 'hardcore mode' another, 'api shutdown' another...
lenkite 4y ago
Still seems to be tweeting on Twitter: https://twitter.com/neilhimself https://twitter.com/neilhimself
- sleepybrett 4y ago
  Many people double-post right now. Though since twitter effectively killed it's API that basically gutted a bunch of tools that would automate that for you. Though maybe you could post to twitter and have a tool that is just plain webscraping your home timeline and reposting.... It looks like neil does quite a bit of boosting (retweeting) on masto: https://mastodon.social/@neilhimself https://mastodon.social/@neilhimself

by rcarr 4y ago

rvz 4y ago

> Fairly high profile people like Neil Gaiman Who? I have to say, that doesn't sound remotely convincing to the 220M+ daily users of Twitter who continue to use the platform since there was no 'mass exodus'. It was more like a leaf falling out of a tree.

riffraff 4y ago
Neil Gaiman had 3M+ followers on Twitter, it is a pretty high profile account. Anyway, I think it's more relevant that many accounts are now also syndicating to Mastodon, which makes it a viable alternative for consuming users. It's far from being an exodus, but they are averaging 200k new users per week, which seems pretty good.
- NikolaNovak 4y ago
  Right, but that's where absolute and relative come into play. 200k new users per week is... what, 0.05% - 0.1% of Twitter active user base? Not saying one day it might not snowball, but it's been 6 months and I wouldn't call Mastodon an existential threat to Twitter just yet. I am tremendously enjoying and schadenfreuding the twitter melodrama, but even most people making fun of twitter/musk/socialnetworks, seem to be doing it on twitter.
  - sleepybrett 4y ago
    My mastodon timeline has been growing pretty rapidly over the last year. With obvious ratcheting up happening whenever elon steps on yet another rake. 'Let that sink in' nearly doubled the amount of posts per day, 'hardcore mode' another, 'api shutdown' another...

lenkite 4y ago

Still seems to be tweeting on Twitter: https://twitter.com/neilhimself https://twitter.com/neilhimself

sleepybrett 4y ago
Many people double-post right now. Though since twitter effectively killed it's API that basically gutted a bunch of tools that would automate that for you. Though maybe you could post to twitter and have a tool that is just plain webscraping your home timeline and reposting.... It looks like neil does quite a bit of boosting (retweeting) on masto: https://mastodon.social/@neilhimself https://mastodon.social/@neilhimself