 For the past 6 hours, there’s been 2,000+ Mastodon account creations per hour. This hasn’t happened since December 2022. @mmasnick predicted that Elon Musk’s new Twitter Blue policies would result in another Mastodon migration, and it looks like he’s right. Once Twitter effectively becomes “pay to play”, Mastodon suddenly becomes more appealing. https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110102918619817258 77 comments
@atomicpoet@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social @fediversenews@venera.social Japanese Twitter users might find misskey.io interesting @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews Because who in their "right" mind would pay to see right-wing extremist rubbish!? @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews @moliver Paying for server uptime is not the same—and you know it! Mastodon isn’t just free and open source, it comes with an AGPL license. I can run Mastodon on my own hardware—for free. And many do just that. But should you opt to pay for Mastodon, there’s a big difference between $8 to run your own server and $8 to be visible on Twitter. @moliver Is this the part where you say “the Internet isn’t free”? Because everyone with a smartphone knows this. The point is that Mastodon itself is free, both in the sense of “free as in beer” and “free as in freedom”. I can download Mastodon, run it on my own hardware, and pay nothing except the price of bandwidth. Can I download Twitter and run it on my hardware (legally)?  @atomicpoet  @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews I haven’t noticed the influx of new people like I did in November/December, but maybe that was more of a function of being part of the inflow myself. I am hopeful we will start to see more “official” accounts come online. A lot of companies and public institutions are going to balk at having to pay if they want visibility!  @chris @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews Speaking personally, it's shocking how much resistance my workplace puts up toward this kind of small expense, while barely batting an eye at, eg, software licensing in the tens of thousands. @rbos @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews Oh totally. I saw it while on City Council too. We would bicker about $100 for something but wouldn’t bat an eye at a million dollars. I think it is part of the human condition to haggle. And you can’t haggle as easily over a huge sum for a big identifiable purpose. @chris @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews Bikeshed problem, I suppose. Hard to have an opinion about the nuclear plant, but you can sure as heck have an opinion about what colour the bikeshed should be.  @chris @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews When people create a new account their reach is fairly limited until they build some followers so that's one thing to keep in mind. I have been noticing quite a few accounts from new people joining though. (My account looks brand new but I've been here since October or November) @wesley @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews Good point. I should monitor the #Introduction tag  @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews I know a few people who have gave out at last with this recent announcement. But, also a lot of friends are annoyed they keep seeing tweets from republican pols and pundits that they don't follow-- @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews just migrated over from twitter, for this reason.. Jamie @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews And now is a good time to remind newcomers to donate to support their host instance.  @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews I love these graphs but could we please have colors that make sense? The top two are nearly indistinguishable. @davidr I don’t make the graphs. You should bring it up with whoever makes @mastodonusercount. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews I finally ended up deleting the remaining two tweets on my account (having to do with a loved one’s passing), turned on Privacy, logged out, and deleted the app today. I have zero interest in being on a site where only Twitter Blue users can engage in discourse. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews @m3t00 @mmasnick @fediversenews I’ve looked at the sign-ups and I’m not seeing what you’re seeing. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews  @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews Maybe a dumb question but what are those huge spikes in the "toots per hour" line about? also, Elon boosted some conspiracy theories targeting trans people… which is basically his MO since buying the place; even removed the rule against it. (Sorry for sending this multiple times; trying not to be automatically boosted) @atomicpoet But the key to maintaining this momentum will be providing those new arrivals with the tools and features that they have come to expect from microblogging. Since there is so much resistance to a general search and the ability to quote-toot, I'm not sure that the momentum will persist. As much as it pains the die-hard purists, maybe adding those features to make this place feel like home to the newcomers would be a good idea. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews not to mention the absolutely abhorrent transphobia and right wing agitation from the Twit-in-Chief. h/t @aral @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews Mastodon will grow incrementally, while the other platform will become redundant and wither away.  @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews How permanent are these migrations? Like the last one around when Musk took over, what was the retention rate then? @staidwinnow @mmasnick @fediversenews When Musk took over, peak MAUs was 2.5M. Now it sits at 1.3M. I’d say we’ve done pretty well for ourselves. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews as long as people aren't just using this as a bargainIng chip for Elmo. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews I think it has a ton to do with TT and neta as well. Folks pissed at meta regarding their spending money to brainwash congress with lobbyists has urged many of us to delete our accounts and head elsewhere. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews It is concerning what they're doing. Our interpretation of it is that if you don't pay, your account isn't going to see the light of day. They are of course free to do what they want, so hopefully this trend continues and we can get more people on Mastodon. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews Is that 4500 instances and less than 2500 posts an hour? I wonder how many instances are silent for long bouts of time. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews I’ll never pay for Twitter, so this gradual pay-to-play implementation is a good Twitter habit breaker. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews Is anyone doing a health check on the smaller instance owners? @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews I had 2 Twitter accounts. One is deactivated and will go away when its time is up. One is signed out and the app deleted. I had been signing in to check in with a couple of journalists, but have decided to stop. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews Are there any statistics on Mastodon server shutdowns? Since the presumptive reason for exodus is end user preference for free service, it might be interesting to know how sustainable that model is in the long term. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews I think when Elon said "freedom of speech not freedom to reach" that many stayed on Twitter in the belief that there would still be some normality but now they've realised there is a two tier system where, unless they're on Twitter blue they might as well not exist. Side note: For me, I would sooner donate to the instance I am on than paying for Twitter Blue so that some billionaire can make their interest payments. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews downloaded when I saw the iOS update adding support for this app in iMessage. It looked interesting 🙂 @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews Will be interesting to see if #Bluesky will have any role. Their progress seems to be lagging badly. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews I left because I got fed up watching Musk mistreat the Twitter employees who actually keep the site running. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews it’s what brought me here. I was intimidated by the signup process before actually trying it. It was easy. He’s wrecked the feed, stifled voices, amplified the insane ones, now it’s the fake blue badges that will dominate over there. Hopefully that will be its death knell. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews just kinda sad that it is more about the personal cost than the Nazis but well  @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews I'm just not so sure we all want these Twitter trolls with us.🤔 I wrote This for the negative behavior on Twitter…😁 @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews never underestimate the power of top tier YouTubers.. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews Cool, i'm the part of the Great Emmigration ;-) @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews@venera.socialSadly, it seems this is what mastodon is going to rely on. Twitters demise rather than offering something better. It's like former twitter users counting on hitting hard ground when they fall from the sky. How about listening to what they want, they miss?  @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews @matthewskelton a few million more and then once they’re locked in and twitter is dead, we can implement the dastardly “pay to play” plan for Mastodon. *evil laugh* @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews 新的推特遷徙潮感覺又要來惹  @atomicpoet Although the data do show an increase in new Mastodon accounts, over the past couple of months activity in my feed has decreased significantly, almost to pre-Elon Twitter. These new users seem pretty quiet. @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews definitely motivated me to kick the bird app and actively seek alternatives @atomicpoet @mmasnick @fediversenews Aren't a lot of these bots, as you pointed out here?  @atomicpoet I see posts from another Mastodon statistics account that puts user count in the 6M range. Any idea why there's a difference? @atomicpoet |
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