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Anyways it'll be back on the rise now 😂

@mmasnick #JohnMastodon moved quick! Twitter is DOWN!

@mmasnick Get their asses!

@mmasnick This must feel encouraging to you. You're the only person who's writing about tech who seems to have a good understanding of the industry (disclaimer: I haven't read everyone reporting on tech, my initial experience being somewhat unimpressive).

@mmasnick so we have a list of journos on Masto?

@mmasnick I don't know you, but I like you..

@mmasnick That's because they were trying to manipulate people to go by the other RW Billionaire funded platform of Post. Easy correlation to see who wrote those articles and see who's on Post and possibly benefitting from it monetarily.

@mmasnick It's the capitalist viewpoint of making a lot of money is not enough, you need to make all the money.

@mmasnick @chadloder lmao get em

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No good sports guys yet. Of course, #Pittsburgh is a Burgh, we'll be last

@mmasnick I wish I could boost this post multiple times.

@mmasnick I wrote some thing similar yesterday:
https://thecanadian.online/?p=167

@mmasnick After I read that the "slump" was a sampling a single instance, I waved off reporting on Mastodon. Newsies aren't going to grasp it.

@mmasnick Very much like your concluding paragraph. This with bells on: "it's already hit critical mass to be an extremely useful site".

@mmasnick Oh dear, what happened on the birdsite that we have another wave coming? I’ve been (blissfully) unaware.

@mmasnick The safest investment in all of finance: Musk is and will continue to be a self-absorbed dick.

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I'm expecting to see a lot more stories like this.
As the corporations realise they are losing data, they used to capture on Facebook and Twitter. As they lose advertising opportunities. As they can no longer buy their way into top spot. As the Far Right realise, their hate is not tolerated and can't spread as easily. As Right Wing media struggles to get its favourite narratives to dominate the News cycle.
Expect to see more stores like this.

@mmasnick I suspect the journalists were covering from themselves: both for not having the skills and attention to engage (most of what I saw) and for experiencing extreme dopamine withdrawal as they didn't get the clicks and RTs they live for ...

@mmasnick They're flocking back?

@mmasnick Yeah, they now look a lot like the president of IBM

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Good one. It's lazy journalism in years of constant refreshing of the news feed. They're forced to experiment with something for less than a week and write a "deep analysis".

I consider editors and media owners cause of problems, not only journalists in question.

@mmasnick I didn't tweet today😮

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ahhh man, you are the best 🍻

@mmasnick Good to hear.

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Heh. That was fast.

@mmasnick I have charity PR clients who I keep asking, "What's your plan B?" Today was a great day send another reminder email they need to get on Mastodon.

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“I’m not sure how going from 600k to 2.6 million in just a couple of months can be deemed “a slump.”

@mmasnick I've dumped Twitter and committed to mastodon but it's harder to use and hardly anyone says anything. I really thought subscribed to Ars and /. accounts would change that but no one comments on those articles either. Where are people talking?

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@mmasnick been using it since the whole mess started. If anything it’s only gotten better. Those journalists are full of it.

It was crap like these “slump” articles that made me think I shouldn’t invest myself or my time in the FediVerse/Mastodon.

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@mmasnick Your Honor, I present Exhibit A to the court, effectively titled: "rightfully rubbing their GD noses in it".

Good heaping slice of humble pie with some karma syrup applied liberally on top for good measure. 😏

@mmasnick One thought that I have, in reaction to those other articles: publications like The Guardian have a vested interest in staying on centralized outrage platforms like Twitter, because that's where a huge amount of their traffic comes from.

In a space like ours, they are literally powerless.

@mmasnick The press making shit up. This is my surprised face: 😐

@mmasnick@mastodon.social great article!

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These journalists don't know how to look at data. Not only are only a small fraction of #Twitter accounts active, a lot of those active accounts are bots and trolls. I still have a #Twitter account, to interact with a group of dedicated pro-EU Britons, but I spend far more time on THIS platform. I find it to be time well spent, as opposed to arguing with faceless fascists who may be just bots. The right metric would be average account ACTIVITY by real users, excluding trolls/bots.

@mmasnick yeah, the instant I saw the first "Mastodon is slumping" article, I knew it was because the authors were trying to go back to Twitter

@mmasnick Incredible timing

@mmasnick ... Engaged users is the whole ballgame, so to speak. I don't deal with anyone hiding his identity.

@mmasnick somewhat agree with the slump tho. Especially when Twitter is stable-ish now (in term of controversy) things are defini looks slowing down.

@mmasnick I will fully admit that I haven't gotten around to reading either article you mentioned but I would be curious to know if they have a methodology in place for handling users who move instances. If a user goes from one to another does that look like a decrease in usage to these counters even if it's only ever been one person the whole time?

And I'm sure they're not taking instances below a certain threshold?

@mmasnick the mau drop doesn't seem to have bottomed out yet though so it's a bit premature to celebrate the long term growth. I wish there were more stats on overall traffic.

@mmasnick they're all back because the Birdsite, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube are down...but the Fediverse isn't! 🙌

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@mmasnick they are so lazy 🤦‍♀️

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I left FB for Plus back in 2012. When Google decided Plus was one of their jillion failed experiments and shuttered it, I didn't return to FB. Similarly, if Mastodon fizzles, it won't mean going back to Twitter. I'm reasonably certain I'm not alone in the "once I've left, I don't go back" tendency. Which is to say, whether Mastodon fails to thrive, I don't think it returns any luster Twitter might have had.

@mmasnick I also wonder if the peak could have been artificially inflated by users playing on multiple instances before deciding which one to stick with.

@mmasnick Your article makes valid points. But possibly the best part is in the comments, and the sheer number of “This comment has been flagged by the community” posts. Someone is fired up!

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I'm getting a distinct abusive relationship vibe from those who have left Twitter, returned, and are now leaving again.

I suspect this leaving and returning to Twitter will go on for quite a while.

I'm not joking or being smug here. It's an existential crisis for many of these people. The last thing they need is ridicule or scorn.

@mmasnick I just saw that Wired slump story this morning. Tired: Wired. Wired: Tired.

@mmasnick Define "ton". Picking up m a now that I've l-ed it o.

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Are there stats compiled for the whole Fediverse? I'd be interested to see growth (or otherwise) across the whole sector.

Oh, and that article about MySpace is GOLD. I wonder how long his "Natural Monopoly" theory lasted after it collapsed. 😄

@mmasnick I love the article! But the comments! Do all your articles attract this much crazy? 😳

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Those are not journalists. Those are minor celebrities who happen to talk about current events.

@mmasnick I see you’ve fallen into the all too common trap of expecting honest journalism from The Guardian.

@mmasnick love mastodon

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Tis interesting that even after #RegressionToTheMean is taken into account, the Fediverse has seen a meteoric rise. The mean itself has increased, which pleases me.

@mmasnick They should but they won’t. Journalists don’t like it if you call them out on their 🐂💩 which is why they get away with it so often. 🤨

@mmasnick I’ve started using this app daily after finally deleting Instagram and TikTok over the weekend. This is my first comment under any post on here.

@mmasnick It's amazing that people who present themselves as journalists are so easily thwarted by surface details.

There are people who dig in to figure out what's going on, what works, what could be better, etc, but few of them call themselves journalists.

@mmasnick Mastodon is boring because the algorithm isn’t fueling rage engagement which is a lazy reporter’s bread and butter.

“Somebody is mad on the internet”: fulfilling deadlines since 1994.

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"Musking up Twitter" lol. Definitely an idiom that should catch on.

"Don't be such a musk up! Stop musking around." "I installed the new version of the OS and now my computer is totally musked." "You can just musk off, buddy."

@mmasnick love you Mike ❤️

@mmasnick my observation is they come here to dump content then get upset when it gets no traction. They don’t follow anyone so they don’t see anything interesting. They don’t get the way this works. If they followed people they’d have higher engagement and more interesting content. On Twitter follow ratio mattered to the algorithm. Here it doesn’t.

@mmasnick #inpo #matodon #sona #Janseke