• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    That’s not terribly surprising, given that both of those groups rely most heavily on network effects: the very point of such accounts requires being where their audience is, especially brands. Those kinds of accounts will move en masse only when most everyone else has already done so

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      Also, we do have some influencers here - namely a few Linux youtubers, and technology connections. Basically it’s those that you would somewhat expect to have a presence on a budding social network like mastodon.

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        Wasnt aware technology connections was on masto. Admittedly I dont use my mastodon all that much, becuase I dont really much enjoy the microblogging formula as much as a more forum like system like I could get from reddit and now lemmy, but the only youtuber Im familiar with that Ive been able to find there thus far has been NotJustBikes.

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        If they do, it will be because we’ve reached an arbitrary critical mass. Think, mastodon has 2.1M active users now, twitter has 230M active users.

        Mastodon will be considered viable at roughly the same number of users that caused the media to think of twitter as “mainstream”

        I’m thinking at least 20M users, 10x what mastodon has now.

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        I would like more of a sports presence here tho and unfortunately sports beat writers I followed on Twitter aren’t coming here