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Hey, #TwitterMigration .

You might have said some stuff about Mastodon in the past that you're sheepish about now.

Don't be!

It's not a big deal and nobody's going to hold it against you. Promise!

We're just glad to get to connect with you again.
#twittermigration

Pro-Elon trolls are joining the #TwitterMigration so here's your regular reminder to block and report them immediately. If a server continuously fails to take action against abuse, block that server and demand your instance admin do the same.

Here, we're the content moderation. I've got major respect for the folks who built this place because, while the rest of us were complaining over on the #birdsite, they were successfully de-federating Gab.

Let's continue this proud #Fediverse tradition.
#fediverse #Birdsite #twittermigration

Probably also worth noting:

My dear twitter refugees,

As you are grieving the communities you are leaving behind, please remember Musk bought a platform, not a community.

YOU built the communities, and you will build them again.

#twitterMigration
#twittermigration

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration

The Fediverse and Mastodon hockey stick graph continues at a linear rate. It’s up to 9 million users, an increase of about 2 million from last week. Of those, 7 million of those users are on Mastodon. https://fediverse.observer/stats

#fediverse #mastodon #twittermigration #stats

Fediverse Observer checks all servers in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home using a map or list.

Fediverse Servers Status. Find a Fediverse server to sign up for, find one close to you!
fediverse.observer
#fediverse #mastodon #twittermigration #stats

Very excited to see this article by @izavarise with @mollyjongfast, @adamdavidson & myself. Am excited that my team's research could help this discussion as we all work to understand the latest twists and turns in the #TwitterMigration.

https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-migration-shows-no-signs-of-slowing-following-musks-takeover

Migration from Twitter shows no signs of slowing following Musk's takeover: report

Since Elon Musk's takeover, Mastodon account names have been added to the Twitter bios of more than 90,000 users, according to a report.
Isabella Zavarise (Insider)
#twittermigration @Molly JongFast @Adam Davidson @izavarise

"Oh, report the Twitter trolls if they come to the Fediverse," some of you #TwitterMigration people are saying.

No, I'm telling you that moderation on the Fediverse is imperfect, especially for admins.

If you've ever had a thread get boosted 6,000x, you'll know what I mean.

Don't make this place appealing for the trolls.
#twittermigration

My team at work just launched new research on the #TwitterMigration: We analyze which platforms are growing - especially #Mastodon, #Tumblr & #Post.

We look at which sites users are adding to their Twitter bios, posting to their friends about & downloading apps for.

Please do boost this, and love to hear any comments or feedback on it!

Download it here:
https://www.deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-Twitter-Migration-December-12-2022.pdf
The flow of Twitter Users Stating New Accounts on Emerging Social Networks
#mastodon #Post #tumblr #twittermigration

What I want folks of the #TwitterMigration to consider:

When you join Mastodon, be careful about your role in the potential gentrification of this social network!

I say this because I'm noticing more and more high status folk making this their home.

That's fine.

But before you came, this place had a culture -- a very real and vibrant one.

And now that you're here, other high status people are sure to follow -- those people will try to seize this space!
#twittermigration

1,000%!! Here is how I restructured my Twitter page for my #TwitterMigration. Also pinned a tweet about Mastodon. I'm here now and for good!🙏💕
#twittermigration

Hey friends! https://ottawa.place is now open for signups 🎉🇨🇦❤️

@andrew and I built it as a hosted-in-Canada, capital-region-focused (but open to all Canadians) instance.

Please boost so folks can find us! 👀

#fediverse #twittermigration #canada #ontario #ottawa #canpoli

ottawa.place

Mastodon instance for residents of Ottawa, Gatineau, and surrounding regions. Instance de Mastodon pour les résidents d'Ottawa, de Gatineau et des régions avoisinantes.
Hometown hosted on ottawa.place
#fediverse #Canada #Ottawa #twittermigration #ontario #canpoli @andrew

Notable that Marc Andreessen backed Elon’s Twitter takeover and is now also backing Post.news, Twitter’s main competitor outside Mastodon. Once again, you think you’re given a choice but the rich get richer either path you take!
#technology #tech #twitter #elon #musk #twittermigration
#twitter #technology #tech #Musk #twittermigration #elon

Now that you're here, you'll finally stop haunting my dreams of "what could've been" – post Identi.ca days & @davew's epic #Twitter BearhugCamp day dealio! ;)
👇
Vintage TechCrunch (2008):
"The Bearhug" - Steve Gillmor
https://techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/the-bearhug/
😊

Seriously dude, so grateful for everything you've done and continue doing, here and everywhere...
🙏

#Twitter #Mastodon #RSS #TwitterMigration #Fediverse #Technology #Federated #Montreal #OpenSource #CDNTech #Software

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#twitter #fediverse #mastodon #Software #RSS #technology #opensource #federated #montreal #twittermigration #cdntech @Dave Winer ☕️

One thing I think is missing from some conversations I’ve seen about the #twitterMigration is awareness (maybe on both sides!) that the experiences of some of the people coming from #twitter were very literally traumatic.

Felt dread all the time. Regularly driven to tears or worse. Stress manifesting as physical discomfort. Learned to walk on eggshells and feel shame and terror over spontaneous levity or genuine self expression.

Twitter did not necessarily have widespread and robust conversations about what trauma might look like in terms of social media. It’s difficult to think of it as even applying to yourself, if that’s a new idea.

If twitter people seem mistrustful, overly cautious, argumentative, too emotionally reactive or unreactive, prone to taking things personally, or prone to excessive self recrimination, they might be inherently difficult people, maybe. Or, spitballing, they might be recovering from a terribly toxic environment.

Or they might be giants, idk.
#twitter #twittermigration

Elon Musk plans to reinstate nearly ALL previously banned Twitter accounts — to the alarm of activists and online trust and safety experts. The decision will have dangerous consequences, particularly for vulnerable communities. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/24/twitter-musk-reverses-suspensions/ #twitter #twittermigration #tech #technology #elon #TwitterMigrate
#twitter #technology #tech #twittermigration #twittermigrate #elon

If your instance is blocking an instance with folks you'd like to still read, you can add any Mastodon account to your feed reader (I like NetNewsWire myself) by using the following formula:

https://instance.name/@user.rss

#feditips #rss #mastodontips #feeds #fediverse #twittermigration #migration
#fediverse #RSS #feditips #migration #feeds #twittermigration #mastodontips

Honestly I'm starting to feel that Mastodon is the most convincing emerging Twitter competitor simply because people are blatantly intentionally pretending to misunderstand it as a means of identity formation and value signalling in a way that they're not doing with any of the other next-gen (or legacy) services #TwitterMigration #meta
#meta #twittermigration

That's taking time. It's taking some lessons in humility on my part; realizing I don't have all the answers.

And it's taking some patience.

That's not easy; we're watching warily as the #TwitterMigration grows.

But we've had some great contacts this weekend, and good people showing interest. I'm really hopeful.

Thanks to everyone who's expressing supportt. I think we plan to have more info and structure as the week progresses.

American Thanksgiving is a good week for Canadians to talk!
#twittermigration

maybe *your* business plans should go in that direction!

I'm not doing business plans. I've got a full time job already.

I'm just trying to set up co-op hosting so we can handle the #TwitterMigration as it comes in.
#twittermigration

A lot of confusion here!

This is to host new users from the #TwitterMigration.

If you can give them a place to park, you should.
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People grumbling that #Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax!
#TwitterMigration
#mastodon #twittermigration

Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.
The plot shows the graph of the number of new users in the Mastodon platform as a function of the date for the last months. It can be seen that until Musk's purchase was completed, the daily new users were about one thousand. It jumped to twenty-five thousand during the first migration to Mastodon, just after the Musk's purchase of Twitter was completed on October 27. A second jump to 100k new users per day happened in the second wave, just after the massive layoffs in Twitter on Nov 4th. Finally the third jump to almost 150k per day happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum on Nov 17th.
#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration

Something that is very frustrating:

Journo: "If Mastodon is so cool, why didn't it take off in 2016".

My dude (and it's almost always a dude), it's almost 2023.

I shouldn't have to explain what social lock-in is anymore.

Social Media has been around long enough for you to know that people don't just move platforms.

They need to see that their friends are jumping first.

That's what is happening right now.

#twittermigration #riptwitter
#twittermigration #riptwitter

Newbies from the #TwitterMigration should know this: content discovery works different here.

1. There's no universal search
2. Popularity of hashtags varies instance to instance
3. There's no secret algorithm
#twittermigration

The silver lining to the #TwitterMigration: maybe this will result in more funding, more people willing to develop the Fediverse to its full potential.

As I keep telling you, there's more to this endeavour than being a Twitter replacement!

We have the chance to entirely re-make the Internet!
#twittermigration

If you want to know how big the current #TwitterMigration is to Mastodon, look at this current chart.

I have never seen anything this massive.
#TwitterMigration spike
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For those out of the loop:

Twitter's closing its offices as employees quit in droves. It actually might now exist next month.

There's now yet another #TwitterMigration as people create new account on Mastodon. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/twitter-offices-closed-1.6655881
#twittermigration

Several weeks into the #TwitterMigration it seems clear to me the value of Mastodon is not that it is a Twitter replacement, but that it is a gateway technology to decentralization. Mastodon has flaws, I'm not claiming it's perfect, but many criticisms I've seen stem from expecting centralized services from a decentralized structure. It's up to us to try and explain the differences and set expectations for what alternative services can look like.
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The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration
#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration

#Introduction Hello Mastodon! I've spent the last day looking around and I like what I see, so thanks #fediverse for what you've built, and the warm welcome to new folks like me.

Who am I? I am no one. Just someone who's been lucky enough to work in #Antarctica for 16 years, and is back for another summer season, this time on the #antarcticpeninsula .

I am employed here, but don't represent anyone but me. I'm proud to work in Antarctica, and happy to share with you. Not a #twittermigration .
165 centimeter person stands next to snow pile much taller than her Snowshoe print tracks gleam in setting sun, leading back in 5he distance.
Three Gentoo penguins silhouetted against mountains. 165 centimeter person stands on rocky shore next to large clear glacial blue ice chunk as tall as her, and three times as long.
#fediverse #introduction #twittermigration #antarcticpeninsula #antarctica

#fediverse #mastodon #twittermigration @Aral Balkan

#TwitterMigration day 10: Facing a sustained barrage of welcoming posts I have no use for, I've actually had to unfollow a couple people to keep my timeline relevant.

And it's okay, not everybody is chasing maximum noise in their own use of social network.
#twittermigration

So, Fediverse veterans? How are you feeling with a little success, lately? Is this a case of "don't wish too hard," or are you enjoying the #TwitterMigration (some say #invasion)? It's okay to be honest. We're all friends here.

  • It's okay, but some intimacy was lost (73%, 38 votes)
  • It erased our community (7%, 4 votes)
  • I'm out on this ledge until you all LEAVE! (19%, 10 votes)
52 voters. Poll end: 2 years ago

#twittermigration #invasion

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Remember that you can mute someone for a fixed amount of time.

Is someone posting about something you don't really wanna see in your feed right now? Boosting too much? Generally making you anxious?

You can mute someone for a few hours or days, after which they'll show up in your feed again.

There's a lot of new people joining right now and if all the new energy is making you a bit stressed or anxious, don't be afraid to mute people for a while 💚🌻🍂

[ #FediTips #NewHere #TwitterMigration ]
#newhere #feditips #twittermigration

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