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Is the latest Twitter calamity driving significant users to Mastodon? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by mookulator@lemmy.world to c/mastodon@lemmy.ml
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Another day, another absurd melt down at Twitter.

So far, Mastodon has been unable to attract a significant number of high-profile users (politicians, leading thinkers/creators of various fields, celebrities etc). In my lay opinion, it won’t truly replace Twitter unless it does.

But today’s news of rate-limiting and self-DDOSing seems even more insane than before.

Is it having an effect? Are notable public figures moving? Are the numbers up?

I ask this out of genuine curiosity, with no other motive!

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[–] Desistance@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

According to some charts, both the apocalypse of Reddit and Twitter is driving large Mastodon and Lemmy growth. As for celebrities and notable figures, who knows. They might be trying to get into BlueSky.

[–] testman@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Numbers are up
(source: https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110643905799139442)

But it is still not as big of a migration as the one that happened in November.