More Users Flock to Mastodon After Musk's Twitter Acquisition Bid
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Users will organically flock to instances close to their interests. Celebrities will surely have their own instances and niche interests/non-famous people will have their own (to reduce the noise). And users will have the ability to follow whichever they want (including both).
Twitter has 217 million daily active users.
Mastodon has about 250,000 monthly active users out of 3 million registered users, according to Rochko’s estimates.
.004% of twitter’s monthly active users switched
This article seems like a bit fluff to make Elon look bad.
Is this a new low in frivolous, mediocre and low quality tech articles?
You might as well move your chair 1 metre forwards and write an article declaring that you are more closer to the Sun than the 0.00000001% of other people.
i run the server so i have to keep it updated, pay for hosting but it is still a good investment. looking at backblaze b2 pricing, if i move to that, my media hosting costs would still be miniscule compared to the benefit i get from literally owning this own piece of internet
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I guess you don't remember Digg?
> as far as I can tell because there's twice as many people using it at the same time as ever have
Weird times.
Musk brings absolutely nothing to the table in any of these arenas and has been publicly terrible at at least two of them.
The internet is full of agendas, opinions and viewpoints. All this move shows is that there's also at least one idiot will to watch 45billion evaporate.
Ok, ok, it's Elon. So he's willing to talk about it and anything substantiative coming out of this will probably arrive just after full autonomous self driving vehicles.
To think this is about freedom of speech is naive. This is about restricting and allowing different speech, but I can promisee you it'll be just as limited.
People are looking for alternatives because they don't like the idea of their speech being controlled by an unstable manchild that calls people that point out his ideas are bad "pedo"
I did and am still missing the interaction with 98% of my contacts.
What's the difference, from a principle perspective, from a private Twitter and Mastodon?
You can run a Mastodon server of your very own, with your own rules. You can’t do that with Twitter. You can even do things like block posts from free speech absolutist servers if you don’t want to have an environment free of any decorum like noted pedo guy Musk will probably be pushing for.