I remember there was alrady once an influx of new users on mastodon a few years ago but can’t remember why. It died down pretty quickly and most of those users actually went back to twitter and some of them set up mirror accounts on mastodon but haven’t seen a lot of actual conversions. The same thing happened with GitLab when Microsoft bought GitHub. Is this really going to be somehow different? I’m yet to see people sacrifice convenience to gain freedom.
@dusan Some already completely ditched their Twitter account. And I'm not sure what conveniences have to be sacrificed, because IMO the Fediverse is a lot more convenient. Every time I'm on Twitter I'm close to popping a vein in frustration.
@trinsec by convenience I mean having all you contacts and people you’re interested in following on Twitter and some but not all of them on fediverse. I also found it that I miss a lot of news from some projects that they post on twitter which is fine for me but some users would prefer sacrificing their freedom in order to stay well informed.
@dusan Indeed. And it's the best way to show the world at large that, yes, every account from their domain is verified as coming from them! And it doesn't cost $8 a month! ;)
Sure, the server costs money.. but if they are big they already have a server lying around anyway.
@trinsec the sad thing imho is that the @EU_Commission has a mastodon account and host their own instance while most major open source projects don’t even have an semi-official account. It’s really not that difficult.