Movetodon: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

But people are moving in quantity, because tools like this enable the network effect to follow them to the new place(s). So no, this is not pointless.

ploum• 4 years ago

"Doing the good thing is pointless as long as not everyone is doing it" said every last man to do the bad thing in history.

Don’t do what the world is, do what you want the world to be. Said the others.

(disclaimer : I’ve fully deleted Twitter and Whatsapp last year thanks to enough people on Mastodon and Signal. No, not everyone. But enough to survive).

guerrilla3• 4 years ago

It's hard to say what critical mass is, and not knowing that, it's hard to say it has or hasn't been reached. Half a million people signed up earlier this week and it's still going strong at a consistent ~2,000/hour. A handful of famous people have also moved and a few others have reserved accounts. Maybe this isn't the tipping point, but maybe it is. In any case, it's not "pointless" for the people who did move. It's community, and a hell of a lot less toxicity (so far anyway.)

crackercrews• 4 years ago

Account creation does not equal regular usage. Does anyone know how much people are actually using mastodon?

tlavoie2• 4 years ago

I think the cool thing (regarding toxicity) is that with moderation at the instance level, and instances able to choose their federation partners, there are natural limits that aren't in place with a half-assed moderation in a centralized system.

It's sort of "think global, act local", but for discussion.

TMWNN2• 4 years ago

and a hell of a lot less toxicity (so far anyway.

To the most engaged on Twitter, toxicity is a feature, not a bug.

Barrin92• 4 years ago

that comparison isn't right because in reality it's about moving people from a single app into an open ecosystem. If Mastodon-like projects have success it's going to be a 30 year, linux-ish thing, not some attenion driven wave. Not to mention if you can spare a few megabytes of disk space you can do both, you shouldn't tell people that using Mastodon means you have to abandon Twitter in the first place.

rsynnott3• 4 years ago

I mean, that's assuming that Twitter doesn't change dramatically.

For me, the last straw is the planned blanket unsuspension of banned accounts. Twitter's moderation was always weak and inadequate, but life is too short for dealing with some of the complete monsters that that will allow back on. I think I'm done.

(Also, Musk has said that they plan to deprioritise tweets from accounts who don't pay for a checkmark. Literally no-one I am interested in hearing from will pay for a checkmark, so that would make the site largely pointless, even if they weren't doing the "bring back the Nazis" thing)

throwawaaarrgh• 4 years ago

People: just text your friends. Social media is an entertainment venue, not real connection

jolexxa• 4 years ago

wow thanks for sharing this! super convenient to hit “follow all” and suddenly have 80 people to follow!

nacs• 4 years ago

Worked great and added a few dozen people from Twitter. Encouraging to see people moving over.

toofy2• 4 years ago

as a point of reference, with this and fedifinder, i find about 300 of those who i followed on twitter.

it made rebuilding my network painless.

if you want people to find you with these tools, put your mastodon @username@servername in your twitter profile.

syx• 4 years ago

All these tools are great, and I've been using some myself to reconnect my network on the Fediverse, but after 2 weeks I've already started seeing people going back on Twitter, it really feels like it was just a phase.

dpkirchner3• 4 years ago

It's a relatively minor thing but the thing that drove me away from Mastodon was the "content warnings" that are used all over the place. People (ab)use them like they'd use hashtags and it makes viewing the content either annoying (web) or frustrating (iOS app). Twitter provides a vastly superior interface, somehow.

benjiweber• 4 years ago

You can turn that off https://mastodon.social/@benjiweber/109388009967277758

WesSouza2• 4 years ago

Although I'm not sure the Twitter to Mastodon migration makes sense for everyone on Twitter, I think there will be a good chunk of people that will use Mastodon more frequently than Twitter.

Also, other disgusting decisions from Elno will certainly trigger more influx spikes.

mlindner• 4 years ago

Mastodon doesn't do any of the things I want out of Twitter, and Twitter continues to function perfectly fine. So little reason to move. All the people I follow are still primarily (or only) on Twitter with a couple having mentioned mastodon backups. (Ah there's one person I looked at from time to time that closed their twitter account, but I can do without.)

pimeys• 4 years ago

I never really used Twitter in my life, but I've found the Fediverse to be so good I even browse Hacker News much less nowadays. No matter will Twitter collapse or not, this has been quite a lovely addition to my toolbox.

And I love to own my data and have it in EU. And not a single tracker in my instance. And the people I follow are extremely friendly and smart. Thank you!

Trencin• 4 years ago

There is an irony here that I think most people miss.

pipeline_peak• 4 years ago

That in 6 months everyone will go back?

WesSouza2• 4 years ago

I'm building one too, and plan on open sourcing its code.

Movetodon: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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