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Which Twitter replacement are people moving to (edit:looks like Bluesky if they can keep the servers up)?

I’m a big fan of Elon and what he’s built so I wasn’t planning on leaving, but can’t even use it now. Mastodon still seems too complicated to get the masses on. Where will non-tech folks go?

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I created a Mastodon account yesterday before I even knew about this and it was surprisingly easy and user-friendly. The big thing it's missing, for me, is a way to find the Mastodon accounts for people you follow on Twitter. If more of the AI/ML community switched to Mastodon, I wouldn't have any need for Twitter.

I don’t have a problem for myself, but many non tech folks I know were not going to move over and I like to have a mix of folks I follow.

There used to be tools for this but they went by the wayside with the Twitter api changes.

had you done this before the API was closed you'd have had access to a bunch of tools that let you find twitter users on mastodon

Bluesky is having some degraded performance due to "record-high traffic" (according to them).

As a casual user, it's noticeable how many people are posting now.

That’s still invite only though right?

Yeah. I think each user gets onr invite per week. Here's an invite code: bsky-social-ejzzv-3pehr

Thank you much. Greatly appreciated. Trying it out now

Looks like you got it. Have fun!

Yeah, noticed a lot of dormant follows pop up on my home feed again.

Been on Mastodon since November. Signup was done in seconds. Finding people to follow was done gradually.

It's lively, and I use it everyday.

TBH, I don't really miss the people that don't want to come over.

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