• @coffeebiscuit
    21•1 year ago

    … Probably the bots that Elon likes will still be free.

  • m-p{3}English
    16•1 year ago

    Elon is the greatest advocate for Mastodon, and he’s even paying for the effort.

  • blakmarkit
    5•1 year ago

    @ajsadauskas @technology “It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots.”

    He’s not very good at this, is he? It’s like he’s had amnesia about firing his entire Trust and Safety team…

    • AJ SadauskasOP
      8•1 year ago

      @Epsilon It’s not, but it’s the one many first-time Fediverse users coming across from Twitter end up on. (Much like how many users coming across from Reddit end up on Lemmy first.)

      Then the jump from Mastodon to Calckey/Pleroma/Frienica/Pixelfed/etc in many cases comes later.

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 year ago

        but it’s the one many first-time Fediverse users coming across from Twitter end up on.

        That’s because it’s the only one ppl will mention as an alternative. Stop telling ppl to try mastodon, tell them to try firefish or akkoma.

        Also, the jump effect is way overstated. Some users do end up moving to other software, but many more just leave because they don’t like mastodon.

          • @Archpawn
            0•1 year ago

            From what I can find, Threads has 10 million active users, and Mastodon only has 1.7 million. Threads may have been a “massive flop” in that they’re not doing as well as hoped and the userbase is declining, but it’s still far more popular than Mastodon, which also has a declining userbase outside of some recent spikes.

  • urbaer
    0•1 year ago

    @ajsadauskas @technology I dunno, seems like more of a thought bubble that will get retracted quickly if it ever gets deployed.

    It does seem like it would be the death knell for twitter if it was though