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Comment by beanjuiceII | Hacker News Reader

70k users doesn't seem like that many...and I am not sure I'd call them "users" yet, technically I'm a "user" but I checked it out for a few months here and there and don't plan on ever going back. The entire experience felt really clunky to me and moving the pin seems like a tough pull that would take quite awhile. but you know just my opinion!

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A small fraction of Twitter's users create most of the value of the Twitter network. Given that, I think the interesting question is what segment do those 70k fall into?

Considering you can have a not repost everything you tweet on Mastodon, it doesn't seem like all that much commitment to be in both places.

Same with when GitHub annoys everyone and the folks pop up announcing their move to GitLab.

The segment that makes up the dramatic reaction is the same segment who can move without issue. No stars, no followers, no real reason to be there (specifically) if we're honest.

I think this is a mild marketing opportunity for Mastodon, a big old nothing for Twitter.

Probably not the people who would lose most by leaving the huge audience that Twitter offers.

70k! whoua, twitter is in trouble. It might be a good rise for Mastodon, but the fact is that 70k user-ish is nothing in social-media-scale.

True, "members" might be a more accurate term.

How do you eat an elephant?

A bite at a time.

This is the same thing we saw happen to GitHub/gitlab when Microsoft acquired it. Didn’t mean much long term.

yep just have to wait out until all the current thing people forget about it

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