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(DIR) Post #9oke5W3fsfOkcOXkw4 by abbenm@mastodon.social
2019-11-08T12:02:51Z
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I'm trying to keep track of the mass migrations to Mastodon that have happened.I think it started with:- early adopters, programmers, FOSS people- tons of peeps in Japan- furry community moving off Twitter- LGBTQ+ folks leaving twitter- people who saw that polygon article (me) or heard about it when it started getting mentioned on hackernews- comics/artists leaving twitter- NSFW blogs leaving Tumblr- sex workers- and now, Indian politics Twitter usersAm I missing any big moments?
(DIR) Post #9okfespvHeThLxXW9A by freemo@qoto.org
2019-11-08T12:20:57Z
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@abbenm Interestingly even though QOTO is STEM specific it seems we are getting a pretty big surge from the indian community lately too. I suspect this is because india is such a big center for tech and naturally twitter users will be a good portion of tech users.So yea #QOTO is definitely enjoying the recent surge.
(DIR) Post #9okkEJDvZIed8xuoAS by cprogrammer@mastodon.social
2019-11-08T12:20:45Z
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@abbenm You got it right. The right wing politics (Indian Nazism) has affected twitter india. India is under a grip of majoritarian madness and it sure has affected twitter india moderators. The exact reason I have migrated to mastodon is because of twitter's arbitraty policy of blocking users who stand for 'reason' and allowing so many users who continuously spew hatred against the minorities in India. Sooner or later these right wing folks will move to mastodon and I dread that day.
(DIR) Post #9onLG2xz4I7DvF4Mwi by chidgey@engineered.space
2019-11-09T19:16:36.729668Z
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@abbenm @Erik It’s all steps helping momentum. Good list 👍🏻❤️
(DIR) Post #9opYisNFa0FvOgvaWO by angristan@mstdn.io
2019-11-10T16:07:17Z
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@abbenm Brasil!! That was insane
(DIR) Post #9opYispxrFDypkMWHJ by abbenm@mastodon.social
2019-11-10T16:26:44Z
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@angristan forgive my beginner-level question, but do you have a general gist of what the brasil migration was? Like roughly when, and why (if there was a why)?
(DIR) Post #9opYitRBcqzyhBmFIO by angristan@mstdn.io
2019-11-10T16:48:41Z
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@abbenm it was around april or may of last year. I don't remember the initial reason but multiple big brazilian twitter accounts started advocating for mastodon and boom
(DIR) Post #9opYiuGaXk7DGbpIPo by angristan@mstdn.io
2019-11-10T16:49:44Z
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@abbenm my two instances gained multiple thousands of accounts in a few days, it was really huge (for my scale)
(DIR) Post #9opYiutwBRahEeEikS by deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-11-10T20:10:59Z
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@angristan @abbenm wasn't that wave mostly k-pop fans too?
(DIR) Post #9opnEw8KpxMOsD52bQ by abbenm@mastodon.social
2019-11-10T16:50:15Z
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@angristan hope you don't mind me boosting your post. I'm doing that with helpful comments that contribute info on who has been coming to mastodon. Thank you for that one.And based on what you are saying, about your two instances suddenly getting tons of people that definitely qualifies in my mind.
(DIR) Post #9opnEwNDwbGncO2voG by angristan@mstdn.io
2019-11-10T23:39:23Z
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@abbenm I wasn't the only one, mastodon.social had to close registrations because to spread the load
(DIR) Post #9opnINLq69iu9m2Kiu by angristan@mstdn.io
2019-11-10T23:40:00Z
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@deejoe @abbenm yeah a big part of it
(DIR) Post #9opnNGdiTn3omxjO9g by aju000@mastodon.social
2019-11-08T12:21:28Z
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@abbenm Tons of Japanese? Do they have a manga community here? 😍
(DIR) Post #9opnNH2syDC431VUO0 by dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud
2019-11-10T14:17:07Z
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@aju000 There's some Manga, though Loli were a bit more of an issue -- that's problematic in many areas outside of Japan.Might try Pawoo.net. I don't recall the other large instances, though mastodon.cloud is now run by a Japanese firm.@abbenm
(DIR) Post #9opnNHVbFSA7U4wQ8u by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2019-11-10T19:08:34Z
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@dredmorbius @aju000 @abbenm searching for .jp on instances.social is a decent way to find japanese instances if you’re looking for something specific? (obviously you’ll miss a few, like pawoo that don’t use japans country code, but it’s a decent place to start)
(DIR) Post #9opnp0vwT3dKBZUEMK by pootz@social.putz.space
2019-11-10T19:10:57Z
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@abbenmIs there a mastowiki yet?
(DIR) Post #9opnp2Swlpd0wDw6RU by abbenm@mastodon.social
2019-11-10T19:23:46Z
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@pootz I was linked to this very good wiki, which is a summary of significant servers and historical moments and other such explainers.https://wiki.freedombone.net/view/welcome-visitors/view/a-peoples-history-of-the-fediverse
(DIR) Post #9opra4wFh7oo50lW0O by cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-11-10T16:59:54Z
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@abbenm BoingBoing.net's April 2017 blog post by Mark Frauenfelder about Mastodon brought me and some other people here. Of course I've moved instances and I don't know how many BB people stuck around
(DIR) Post #9oprdK5loJrXwjlSFM by ajayagarwal@mastodon.social
2019-11-08T12:05:05Z
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@abbenm I read it in a major newspaper in Bombay city. That is how I got to know. Mastodon got covered man
(DIR) Post #9oprdKp95c9uDSzgyO by abbenm@mastodon.social
2019-11-08T12:13:10Z
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@ajayagarwalWow, that's awesome! I had no idea. So it became mentioned in the mainstream press in India?
(DIR) Post #9oprdLEJa2I9TWlnCi by ajayagarwal@mastodon.social
2019-11-08T12:17:49Z
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@abbenm Yes. The newspaper is called Mumbai Mirror and it's the second most English paper read in the city of Bombay. Here's the article: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/mastodon-finds-favour-with-twitter-users/amp_articleshow/71963786.cms
(DIR) Post #9oprdLUGcj3IH0EX4K by rugk@social.wiuwiu.de
2019-11-11T00:28:43Z
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@ajayagarwal @abbenm uhm #AMP link, so my usual note that AMP is no good and controlled by #Google. See https://social.wiuwiu.de/@rugk/102322584556276804 for details.
(DIR) Post #9optsCGROeJFv8yYFM by m4sk1n@101010.pl
2019-11-10T17:32:47Z
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@abbenm new gab lmao
(DIR) Post #9opviM804HBJWdSklM by petit@social.ufeff.club
2019-11-11T01:14:31.669120Z
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@abbenm There's this. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/thousands-of-spaniards-leave-twitter-for-gnu-social
(DIR) Post #9opxzxi1nNKQucpzFY by dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud
2019-11-10T14:07:48Z
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@abbenm Some of that is covered here:https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/10/mastodons-2-year-anniversary/The Japanese influx was inspired by a major tech blogger in Japan who'd set up his own instance. I forget his name, may have been nullkal?The G+ shutdown saw some folks move to Mastodon. #GooglePlus There was the July-August 2018 migration from Twitter that brought, then hounded out, Wil Wheaton.A few Generally Annoying Bunches who've tried to elbow in, largely rejected.
(DIR) Post #9opy7lBUFKsoNrKpiy by abbenm@mastodon.social
2019-11-10T18:22:35Z
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@m4sk1nI prefer to pretend like gab never happened
(DIR) Post #9oq0udHQce5Fy2Xv16 by orangesec_0@freespeech.firedragonstudios.com
2019-11-10T18:51:32Z
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@abbenm independent journalism being snuffed out.
(DIR) Post #9oq5XRh81wOX97KWps by rosnovsky@social.rosnovsky.us
2019-11-10T09:43:33Z
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@abbenm @extinct not sure if it was a big moment, but there were quite a few people leaving Facebook earlier this year... (I’m one of them)
(DIR) Post #9oqO2mGnNdVF6x6RIu by hyde_stevenson@mastodon.social
2019-11-11T06:31:54Z
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@rugkOr check https://switching.software for ethical alternatives 😏@ajayagarwal @abbenm
(DIR) Post #9p2mg23t7k1l85gr3o by abbenm@mastodon.social
2019-11-10T15:37:13Z
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@lertsenem from the feedback I'm getting it's clear the french migration was a notable one that I've omitted.Also I'm glad that now (finally), some people more informed than me are chiming in on this timeline. I was somewhat surprised that my top-of-the-head formulation was new/helpful info and that that history, such as I know of it, was *already* lost to such a wide swath of people here.
(DIR) Post #9p2mqjAXhsIFiiu1yq by thegibson@hackers.town
2019-11-10T16:28:04Z
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@abbenm There was the infosec migration in March-April 2017
(DIR) Post #9p2mqjZ0EvrKwaLZ6e by abbenm@mastodon.social
2019-11-10T16:29:25Z
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@thegibson gotcha. I kinda lumped them in with what I called FOSS/early adopters/programmers, but I do recall encountering distinctly infosec folks early on. Now it's such a blur that it's hard to separate them out.
(DIR) Post #9p2mqjvKttiw3qnOuu by abbenm@mastodon.social
2019-11-10T16:30:26Z
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@thegibson hard in the sense that it's hard for me to look at my masto timeline and by very admittedly idiosyncratic slice of mastodon experience and see anything in the firehose of toots as a recognizeable infosec community. Which is of course more a function of my limited info and experience than anything else
(DIR) Post #9p2mqkSeu0NXjCO0rA by thegibson@hackers.town
2019-11-10T16:34:04Z
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@abbenm yeah, I rode in on that migration, both infosec.exchange, and hackers.town came to be because of that one.There were many more, and it could beat the same time, and tangentially related to the FOSS migration, although the wider fediverse pre-mastodon has a LOT of Foss folks.I dunno. I just know I rode in for the infosec crowd.
(DIR) Post #9p2mxbDnea1L6BheCW by Stoori@polyglot.city
2019-11-08T13:59:21Z
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@abbenm IIRC sex workers were adopting earlier, somewhere between LGBTQ+ and artists in your list (I don't know that Polygon article so I can't date it in my mind).
(DIR) Post #9p2mxbVAbzuny3pWHA by abbenm@mastodon.social
2019-11-08T14:27:38Z
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@Stoori gotcha. I'm a bit fuzzy on that detail so that's helpful to know.
(DIR) Post #9p2mxbofRVVkwWx5fM by Satsuma@wandering.shop
2019-11-10T19:10:17Z
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@abbenm @Stoori the instances for sex workers were a direct response to SESTA so it can be dated somewhat precisely: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180402/06272439542/sex-workers-fighting-back-against-sesta-fosta-with-their-own-social-network-plan-to-expose-politicians.shtml
(DIR) Post #9p2ntU8a9NMrvJreqW by abbenm@mastodon.social
2019-11-10T15:50:14Z
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@lertsenem yeah. My intent was to kinda lump in GNU Social, Diaspora, etc as FOSS early adopters, although I'm fuzzy on exactly when they showed up and how large a population that was.
(DIR) Post #9p2ntUMPJyQWcCKhOa by clacke@libranet.de
2019-11-17T06:18:02Z
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@abbenm @lertsenem If we are talking the whole Fediverse, the FOSS phase was 2008--2016, although the early part also had some refugees from places like Jaiku, who weren't necessarily interested in the license or decentralization, some just thought identi.ca offered a better UI than Twitter.
(DIR) Post #9p2oQ6UT5eJO8jeggS by jeroenpraat@todon.nl
2019-11-10T14:13:37Z
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@abbenm I also remember an influx of Spanish people.
(DIR) Post #9p2oQ8fWzULitcqYCm by clacke@libranet.de
2019-11-17T06:23:57Z
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@jeroenpraat @abbenm Before Mastodon days, maybe in 2015, there was a noticeable migration to quitter.es driven by some certain Spanish personality that had been suspended on Twitter, but it largely petered out as that person was reactivated on Twitter.