An Incredible Day In Internet History
It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.
It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.
The exodus continues...
Another 100,000 new users joined Mastodon on Saturday.
Mastodon stats from Nov 19, 2022: 7,230,521 accounts, +108,944 in the last day, +582,363 in the last week
#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome #mastodonmigration #mastodonstats
@mastodonmigration On the left, the vertical axis is new users?
@Sunny05 Total users on left. Number of new users per hour on the right.
Excellent news! 
@mastodonmigration Is there a way to know if there's been a corresponding decrease in Twitter engagement over the same period?
@bruce @mastodonmigration Probably not. According to Musk, traffic on the bird site is up, and I'm inclined to believe him. Lots of people come to watch a house on fire, and there's lots of Musk fanboys, crypto grifters, hate speech enthusiasts etc. celebrating what they think is a big Win.
I'm curious to see what it'll be like by the end of the month, though.
@jozeldenrust @bruce@darkmoon.social@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online
This!
The social studies/historian in me finds these figures fascinating. Push/pull factors, migration patterns, etc.
@mastodonmigration The great herd of #twitter zombies in this #twittermigration only need to eat a few brains to help them adapt to the #fediverse It’s a small sacrifice.
@mastodonmigration Wow! (We really need a choice of reaction buttons like Facebook. Maybe in some future update???). Absorbing that many new people a day is a big challenge. If I can help in any way, please let me know.