Post A38gBfrRBuYaUcaPbc by mathlover@qoto.org
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(DIR) Post #A38fpc6MUHeYSl30wS by freemo@qoto.org
2021-01-11T20:25:22Z
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#QOTO is seeing a pretty big spike in new user signups this last week. Anyone know whats going on and what is causing the exodus this time? Is this all because all the social media decided to ban trump maybe? It is the only event of consequence I know of.#mastoadminQT: https://qoto.org/@users/105536992499784251
(DIR) Post #A38fuJ8CRj1x4j95hw by raucao@kosmos.social
2021-01-11T20:26:09Z
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@freemo Not just Trump. It's a veritable purge by now.
(DIR) Post #A38g1fzTr0b601a544 by mathlover@qoto.org
2021-01-11T20:27:37Z
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@freemo I suspect it's either due to the Trump account suspension, or due to increased interest in decentralized software in general.I'm banking on it being mostly the former
(DIR) Post #A38g7dU45RJbxjjDSy by freemo@qoto.org
2021-01-11T20:28:40Z
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@mathlover general adoption of decentralized software without a specific catalyst in the last week or two seems almost certainly unrelated. If that were the case the surge would have happened over the time span of a single week.
(DIR) Post #A38gBGlCVxiIe2TZui by allison@blob.cat
2021-01-11T20:29:24.154782Z
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@freemo pretty much every mainstream social platform is in the throes of mass purges right now, many of those purged are ending up here
(DIR) Post #A38gBfrRBuYaUcaPbc by mathlover@qoto.org
2021-01-11T20:29:24Z
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@freemo Fair point. It's probably just a reaction to the Twitter bans.
(DIR) Post #A38gEtnRpqCaaAG39c by swiley@qoto.org
2021-01-11T20:29:59Z
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@freemo I had a mastadon account on a different instance years ago but abandoned it. The recent stuff reminded me why federation is important. Furthermore the UI, software, and terms of use on qoto are IMO much better than most instances I've seen.While I don't agree with some of my friend's political views I don't like the idea of a huge group of people being censored. It bothered me when platforms like parlor became so popular among them instead of something open like mastodon so I (and probably many people in similar situations) have been encouraging them to find an instance they like and join it.
(DIR) Post #A38gUx6fIRmlTttwkS by joe@social.thisisjoes.site
2021-01-11T20:32:50Z
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@freemo Parler got removed from the Google Play store and kicked off of AWS, so that might have something to do with it
(DIR) Post #A38goKtn3rh6m37dYm by freemo@qoto.org
2021-01-11T20:36:15Z
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@allison Makes sense. I knew they all banned trump, had no idea they were mass purging users as well. I wonder what their criteria for purging them happens to be, most of the people winding up here have been well behaved so far as far as I've seen.I also wonder how many people who are coming here are people who have been actually banned from other social media vs people who just see the increase in censorship and are bailing ship on the principal of it.
(DIR) Post #A38gvcgzIu1XzEbnMG by biomedmax@qoto.org
2021-01-11T20:36:31Z
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@freemo I contributed to that spike. I'm a new member and that's my new toot (hi! 😀 ). I believe it has to do with ban on Trump and Parler. Personally I have been gradually leaving other social media for a long time now. There is no particular reason why I registered here at today (instead of yesterday or a week from now) but I guess the ban of the potus contributed a little.
(DIR) Post #A38gwzTS5UhavrvgYq by freemo@qoto.org
2021-01-11T20:37:16Z
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@swiley Thank you, that is very reassuring to hear. I feel the same way. Hope you have a wonderful time here. I am the administrator of this instance and feel free to reach out to chat anytime.
(DIR) Post #A38gzAfVRDYiELbiam by freemo@qoto.org
2021-01-11T20:38:18Z
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@joe Maybe, but if parlor users were have as obnoxious as Gab users (I dont really know as I never went to Parlor) I would think there would be a lot more rudeness going around and I am not seeing a whole lot of that right now.
(DIR) Post #A38gzhm2LxOIu9utqy by icedquinn@blob.cat
2021-01-11T20:38:31.188475Z
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@freemo @allison anyone who looks vaguely republican.they've been banning anons with barely any posts, they banned one of the babbit's relatives who had only 4 tweets, people with barely any followers..
(DIR) Post #A38h4ZBdhtifijD636 by freemo@qoto.org
2021-01-11T20:39:16Z
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@biomedmax Makes sense. Seems that is the going consensus. I am the local admin here, feel free to reach out to chat anytime and hope you enjoy yourself here.
(DIR) Post #A38h9wAPh7bMRMCJs0 by freemo@qoto.org
2021-01-11T20:40:10Z
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@icedquinn Oh wow if that is really the case that is scary and disgusting. I am no fan of republicans or democrats, but I would never ban someone simply for sharing those political ideas.@allison
(DIR) Post #A38hA46SBjBh3OPGoC by icedquinn@blob.cat
2021-01-11T20:40:22.716317Z
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@freemo @joe gab caught runoff from trumpites getting banned the earlier waves. parlEr has been pushed more by content creators IIRC.but they did not know their enemy and so they were consumed.
(DIR) Post #A38hG0zSfrqd8YyOdk by icedquinn@blob.cat
2021-01-11T20:41:26.957710Z
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@freemo @allison like they literally had zero fucking idea of the landscape they were on. AWS? fucking seriously?
(DIR) Post #A38hd6T2TcmYmgoium by joe@social.thisisjoes.site
2021-01-11T20:45:37Z
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@icedquinn @freemo When someone first told me about Parler I knew it wasn't going to last, but I didn't realize how quickly it would go downPeople still behave naively despite getting burnt again and again
(DIR) Post #A38hgbrgCMQj1x0xwu by icedquinn@blob.cat
2021-01-11T20:46:16.427917Z
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@joe @freemo they are not students of history and they were not cynical. two traits which make for worthy opponents.
(DIR) Post #A38jDJIGMn8iwXbaz2 by Demosthenes@qoto.org
2021-01-11T21:03:05Z
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@freemo @icedquinn @allison I'm not being hyperbolic here, there's a lot of information warfare going on right now. You might be sure you have recent backups and prepare for more surges.
(DIR) Post #A38lXpKXAGpc0FZvU0 by freemo@qoto.org
2021-01-11T21:29:25Z
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@Demosthenes We backup regularly and automatically and keep multiple instances of our backups in different geographic locations and with different providers.@icedquinn @allison
(DIR) Post #A38mKeg9YRiP9ryQvw by xamaxama@qoto.org
2021-01-11T21:38:12Z
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@freemo I only created this account because trump one got suspended, so I guess there's an importance to that event
(DIR) Post #A38mXeVjUUI6OxIUam by xamaxama@qoto.org
2021-01-11T21:40:37Z
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@freemo I only created this account because trump's one got suspended, so I guess there's an importance to that event
(DIR) Post #A38p2vsdA5nn9n3DLU by dannyboy@qoto.org
2021-01-11T22:08:42Z
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@freemo That and AWS dropped Parler.
(DIR) Post #A38r0u0ZLnMOgEvKaW by hast0011@mstdn.social
2021-01-11T22:30:36Z
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@freemo could be because of whatsapp was changing the terms and conditions.
(DIR) Post #A39Gvx98qvmNm2EZX6 by sid_enceladus@qoto.org
2021-01-12T03:21:08Z
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@freemo I moved to Mastodon due to the recent Whatsapp privacy policy which extends its services to Facebook and its policies. And Instagram is also following suite in becoming very invasive. Although I already used Signal before, now I finally have many of my friends moving to Signal from Whatsapp.By the way Whatsapp is the most popular messaging app in the Asian Region with almost 340 mill users. Its a big number, and hence many of them want an open source alternative for everything now.
(DIR) Post #A39LAyOCugAFmzhMUi by louiscouture@qoto.org
2021-01-12T04:08:42Z
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@freemo it may be part of a trend to stand for privacy, or conservative who comes from parler
(DIR) Post #A3AYdYDom9YnalkwO8 by tursiops@tooting.ch
2021-01-12T18:14:11Z
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@freemo I saw more users on my instance too. I think it's mostly about being sick and tired about Twitter.
(DIR) Post #A3AdZyxluUb98nMtbE by FailForward@qoto.org
2021-01-12T19:03:36Z
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@freemo @biomedmax I’d go out on a limb and propose that a part of the uptick might be a result of various New Year’s resolutions of people, which just delayed till the first working week after the holidays 😉 .Seriously, I signed up last week and it was a completely random act. Except for LinkedIn, I never had absolutely any social media account before (so no migration here - if we don’t count stuff like stackoverflow as a social network). From this experience I learned one thing: joining Mastodon is an extremely confusing experience even for a technically skilled individual.Given the complexity of joining this community, I would say that if there shall be any uptick in registrations, it would be perhaps on mastdon.social which is the easiest to discover. Otherwise the whole concept of 1) “find your community” and then 2) “participate everywhere” (as vaguely advertised on joinmastodon.org) has a potential to blow up skulls of non-technical people.Just consider how does it look like from a layman’s perspective (say an average bloke used to use Twitter/Parler/FB/… user): what does opening an account on an obscure website called QOTO.org (what the heck is that even?!) have to do with using a Twitter-like platform called Mastodon which one should do via some obscure a clumsy app like Tusky?I.e., all this is not for an average person out there. Attention span of an average human being these days is like 5 minutes at best. Joining Mastodon network and knowing what you are doing along the way needs at least 15 minutes, in reality perhaps an hour or so.
(DIR) Post #A3AfUv47ArApVr35Fo by freemo@qoto.org
2021-01-12T19:31:03Z
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@FailForwardThat is possible but the timing seems a bit too on the nose. There was no sign of an increase just following new years. the first sign of increase started 4 days ago but the increase was not linear with numbers increasing by a weak-exponential curve since then.So I have concluded it is due to recent social media censorship and banning. The first indication of increase was the day Trump was banned from twitter which is also when republicans, or at least trump supporters started to get banned, and in the day or two that followed these bannings increased along with more social media joining in.It seems almost certain that must be the cause unless there was a similar provocative event with the exact same timeline.@biomedmax