And you're absolutely right but the problem right now is, people aren't moving to Mastodon because it's a better service as far as UI and UX are considered (which are the hallmarks of a good product).
They are moving to Mastodon because of disagreements with the owner of Twitter for the most part. I was on Mastodon before anybody knew what it was and I mostly found out niche communities and it was good for people who liked that sort of thing. But now, the move is based on hate towards the ideologies of certain people (in this case Elon Musk) instead of the incompetency of the software itself.
I do not agree with Elon Musk's many ideas and I'm not much involved in the Twitter drama because I'm not a user either but as far as I can see, Mastodon's current popularity is based on the ability of people to hate Elon Musk, not Twitter.
> They are moving to Mastodon because of disagreements with the owner of Twitter for the most part.
Actually, I have no doubt some are doing that, but from my twitter perspective, most are actually doing it because they expect twitter to end or, otherwise, become unusable or be abandoned by too many others. Many aren't moving to Mastodon so much as creating accounts there just in case — then continuing to use twitter for the moment.
Musk's acquisition is absolutely fuelling this, but the cause for movement is less ideological and more pragmatic, IME.
A lot of migration is fuelled by Musk firing XX% of Twitter's workforce, and several competent people (former SREs at big tech corps, systems engineers) posting threads that predict huge technical issues in the near future.
Some also just leave because they don't like Musk, sure. Personally I'm happy to have an alternative that's somewhat decentralized, where I can pack up and move while keeping my whole network if I don't like how such or such sysadmin behaves.
> Personally I'm happy to have an alternative that's somewhat decentralized, where I can pack up and move while keeping my whole network if I don't like how such or such sysadmin behaves.
I'm always happy with alternatives, especially FOSS ones and I like what the community has created too.
It's just that, I'd have been happier if people moved to Mastodon for its ideas on decentralization and tech instead of Elon Musk.
And I'd be happy if companies supported Linux because they like free software and not for economic reasons, but the end result is still traction for Linux, so I'm not complaining.
They are moving to Mastodon because of disagreements with the owner of Twitter for the most part. I was on Mastodon before anybody knew what it was and I mostly found out niche communities and it was good for people who liked that sort of thing. But now, the move is based on hate towards the ideologies of certain people (in this case Elon Musk) instead of the incompetency of the software itself.
I do not agree with Elon Musk's many ideas and I'm not much involved in the Twitter drama because I'm not a user either but as far as I can see, Mastodon's current popularity is based on the ability of people to hate Elon Musk, not Twitter.