I gave up over a 150,000 followers on Twitter to be on Mastodon full time. Yes, the engagement and reach is a lot less, but I'll build it back up and it will be worth it. I hate to see people run back to Twitter because of friends or careers or whatever. You know what changes that? Being on Mastodon and bring those people here. Musk is a horrible person, don't be one of his enablers.
@grumpygamer As an #adventuregame nerd I am happy to see you around here. I've not been on #twitter very long. I joined a couple of months before #musk took over and left few weeks later. Things became more and more awkward up to the point I couldn't stand it any more. The folks here on #Mastodon seem to be much more #respect|ful, even when we disagree. I hope that won't stay too soon.
@grumpygamer I was happy to leave Twitter & Mastodon is a much smarter, intellectually, emotionally & creatively, space but I went back to Twitter briefly not because I think it's a safe or good space but because people I care about are >>still<< there. Some people are finding shifting confusing & hard 💝 Original Twitter was an amazing space... it had unpleasant parts too... the weird trolls 🤣 🙄🤦♀️ but it was easy to find people... I'm not sure it's that easy to find people on Mastodon? I've seen several comments from people who have tried shifting but couldn't "connect"...
Just anecdotal, but people who care about it, suggest that audience engagement and response here is ~10x what it was on Twitter, so at 13k followers here, you're probably already pretty close to the same number of eyeballs actually reading your stuff, as were on the Bird site.
Plus, the earlier you move, the cooler you look once everyone else finally arrives.
@nattiegoogie@DavidBFox I've been here since 2017, although I stopped posting due to early Mastodon users being jerks about how you posted. Happy that things are much better now.
@grumpygamer I absolutely agree with you. Also, the other alternatives (like Spoutible) are scary the same way as Twitter. At the end of the day, I now find it scary to use social media platforms owned by single individuals.
@grumpygamer thats commitment. But unfortunately Twitter isn't enabling Musk. He is going to be just fine with or without it. 5 years from now Twitter will be revamped in his image I am sure.
Personally, if I didnt read news stories I wouldn't notice anything different about Twitter. All functionality has been the same and interactions with my peeps are the same. so I am in both places.
@grumpygamer we should thank Elon Musk and that other guy for having you move from Twitter to Mastodon. Each real human contact, which is clearly the case on Mastodon (hope it stays this way) is worth more than the plethora of bots and any artificial social element on Twitter
@grumpygamer I closed my Twitter account for the silliest of reasons: I don't find Musk's jokes remotely funny, and then he started pushing them in ways that couldn't be easily muted.
I went to sleep, then quit next morning. With barely any followers, that part was easy. I haven't quite managed to give up visiting Twitter, because there are still some interesting people there I haven't found here yet. But at least I can't be tempted to respond to anything, and that can be pretty liberating.
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Harder to bring people here because Twitter labels all Matadon links a "harmful" so others can't see them. I didn't even realize this until someone sent me a screenshot. @frngr
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