𒀭𒂗𒆠 on Nostr: npub12ze48…yhunm It's not all that strange unless you're the type of person who ...
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It's not all that strange unless you're the type of person who reads a lot of news articles about tech, where it was covered pretty routinely starting around 2018.
(Basically every article about the fediverse is exactly the same: "wow, some people made a clone of twitter that's non-commercial and distributed! it's full of gay furries! i personally find it confusing and plan to never use my account again!" I wouldn't recommend bothering with them.)
We got a lot of people from twitter in many waves, but most of those waves were groups of people with specific complaints they'd been making for years, who heard about it in the wake of some big event (usually some kind of spectacularly bad moderation decision) because somebody they followed was like "hey I just heard about mastodon, since twitter is so bad I'm gonna just move over there". It didn't necessarily escape those groups, which is why I can easily categorize the waves in terms of being mostly gay/trans people or mostly furries or mostly anticapitalists or anti-nazis, and also why there were many independent waves of signups for each of those groups.
It's not all that strange unless you're the type of person who reads a lot of news articles about tech, where it was covered pretty routinely starting around 2018.
(Basically every article about the fediverse is exactly the same: "wow, some people made a clone of twitter that's non-commercial and distributed! it's full of gay furries! i personally find it confusing and plan to never use my account again!" I wouldn't recommend bothering with them.)
We got a lot of people from twitter in many waves, but most of those waves were groups of people with specific complaints they'd been making for years, who heard about it in the wake of some big event (usually some kind of spectacularly bad moderation decision) because somebody they followed was like "hey I just heard about mastodon, since twitter is so bad I'm gonna just move over there". It didn't necessarily escape those groups, which is why I can easily categorize the waves in terms of being mostly gay/trans people or mostly furries or mostly anticapitalists or anti-nazis, and also why there were many independent waves of signups for each of those groups.