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   Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 12:05:41 JST Mike Masnick ✅

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   So, after a week or so of steady over 1000 new masto accounts per hour, in the last day it's dropped to 500 to 600 per hour (still much higher than in January), but anyone know why this is happening?

   (This is all per @mastodonusercount of course).

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 12:05:39 JST Chris Trottier

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     @shoq @mmasnick @mastodonusercount @Gargron @kainoa All of this is conjecture. However, Mastodon usually grows when Twitter does something stupid. And to be honest, the bad news about Twitter has kind of slowed during the past two days.

     Usually, it's easy for me to find bad news about Twitter. But look at my feed today. It's practically bare.

     Mind you, Hootsuite just destroyed its free tier probably because Twitter demands big payments.

     But who cares about Hootsuite nowadays?

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     Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 12:05:40 JST Shoq

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     @mmasnick @mastodonusercount

     A dropdown box on the sign-on page(s) could capture something about why someone signs up. That'd be useful for analytics downstream

     What brought you here?
     1) Referral from individual
     2) Referral from organization, project or team
     3) Mention in news article or broadcast
     4) Refugee from Twitter
     etc

     cc @Gargron @atomicpoet @kainoa

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     Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 12:05:40 JST Mike Masnick ✅

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     @shoq @mastodonusercount @Gargron @kainoa fixing the tag for @atomicpoet

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     Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 12:05:40 JST Shoq

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     @mmasnick @mastodonusercount @Gargron @kainoa @atomicpoet

     Thanks MM. I'd been thinking about a "suggest edits" bot for just this use case.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 12:08:09 JST Chris Trottier

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     @shoq @mmasnick @mastodonusercount @Gargron @kainoa But I'll tell you this much. Once Pixelfed finally releases its mobile apps, I suspect there's going to be more growth.

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     Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 12:14:54 JST Shoq

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     @atomicpoet @mmasnick @mastodonusercount @Gargron @kainoa

     I suspect it's more just a huge drop-off in business as journalists flee twitter. They were HS's bread and butter. We've been hit with nothing but the $100 dev fee.

     On second thought, HS is surely in the enterprise tier, so you may be right and they've been jacked.

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     aethervision :ziltoid: (aethervision@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 12:18:38 JST aethervision :ziltoid:

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     @atomicpoet @shoq @mmasnick @mastodonusercount @Gargron @kainoa Agreed. The mobile app has developed to be everything anyone pining for OG Instagram is asking for. Kinda hoping for a quiet open.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 13:30:19 JST Chris Trottier

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     @shoq @Teri_Kanefield @mmasnick @mastodonusercount @Gargron @kainoa IMO, with Twitter, it’s not a matter of if but when.

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     Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 13:30:20 JST Shoq

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     @Teri_Kanefield @atomicpoet @mmasnick @mastodonusercount @Gargron @kainoa

     It will be interesting to see if this depression news causes any up or down-tick in fedi signups.

     https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/report-more-twitter-drama-after-slack-shutdown-employees-play-hooky/?utm_brand=arstechnica

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     Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 13:30:21 JST Shoq

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     @Teri_Kanefield @atomicpoet @mmasnick @mastodonusercount @Gargron @kainoa

     That's a good point and could be spot-on, Teri. On the other hand his users hadn't been all that active, and it's been alleged that thousands of them were bots anyway.

     I just wish we had fewer distractions from projects trying to recreate a model that we know is broken. It's hard enough to educate people about how and why the verse should be our future.

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     I moved to Mastodon.social (teri_kanefield@law-and-politics.online)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2023 13:30:22 JST I moved to Mastodon.social

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     @atomicpoet @shoq @mmasnick @mastodonusercount @Gargron @kainoa

     I wonder if the spike in signups the past week was because of the scandal with Spoutible. A lot of Twitter users had been waiting for Spoutible. The Courtney Milan / Christopher Bouzy thing caused a bit of an implosion for Bouzy.