The Twitter outage had no effect on Mastodon sign-ups.
But it did result in a spike in Mastodon posts.
This implies many people are using Mastodon as a "back-up" Twitter.
Honestly, if you're active on Mastodon, there's probably two reasons for this:
1. You don't feel Big Social is safe for you2. You so absolutely believe in the tech that you're fine with getting rid of your old audience/connections
@atomicpoet 2.5 Mastodon users are a better, nicer, friendlier, more intelligent, funnier, more supportive, and generous class of people
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