How many HN users are moving to Mastodon from Twitter?

I deleted my Twitter account years ago, I just didnt use it anymore. I was on Facebook for a while, but I hated every minute I was there, so I also deleted that.

I signed up on mastodon a year or two ago, and it's the most positive experience I've had online in a very long time. It's fun, like MySpace was in the beginning.

Mastodon is interesting because it isn't one thing, it's many unique communities that talk to each other. My home server is full of people like me, it's a strong community where people feel safe and comfortable. However, most of my follows are from outside my server. It's an environment where I can be my actual, genuine self, which is a nice experience these days.

I think mastodon has captured the spirit of what social media was originally meant to be. Without the pressure of trying to extract money from your users, the users are more free to express themselves. It's the way things used to be before "don't be evil" went down the toilet.

Mastodon is good, and whether or not it "replaces" Twitter (which is not and never was the goal), it's going to stick around for a long time.

Try moving to nowhere. You'll be surprise how little you actually need such platforms.

I have been using less and less of Twitter for the past few years, then the recent massive move of the infosec community to infosec.exchange / ioc.exchange made the switch easy enough.

After 15 years on Twitter, moved to Mastodon about a month ago (I still have the Twitter account, in case Musk comes to his senses and divests). So far, I'm a fan; it feels a bit like Twitter did in the early days, which is generally better than Twitter today. The mobile clients leave something to be desired, but apparently the Tweetbot people are making one.

I canned my Twitter account the day I first heard of the pending change in ownership

Not for some grand reason... I just realized I never used it or benefited from it

I won't be moving to mastodon but it's more that I'm tired of the format than anything specific to the platform

I left twitter without signing up for mastodon. Mastodon seems kind of lame, and user-hostile and I don't expect it to ever be mainstream.

I moved, along with what seems a good proportion of science twitter (the Fauci tweet was obviously a big push for many in the field).

A nice benefit is that many of the 'big on twitter' scientists whose professional self worth is tied to their follower count have stayed put.

Be careful what you wish for. If random rule changes are something that you don't like, you certainly won't love whole instances banning you and/or your instance for not aligning perfectly with their highly individual and often contradictory quirks.

I never used Twitter, but I did sign up for a Mastodon account recently, in case the mass exodus from Twitter makes it an interesting place to be. It used to be common to hop along from one social network to the next, after all!

I moved. UX is not as bad as expected. All info/people i am interested in have also moved except a few who switched to substack instead.

Twitter is still quite a show but i suspect people will grow tired.

Twitter has been a mixed bag anyway, for me at least.

You decide to follow some tech people like uncle bob and realise he's a boomer with questionable takes and posts bait for attention and engagement.

The vast majority of tech-twitter are misguided juniors, or grifters selling coding courses, e-books etc. to those juniors.

I took the opportunity to delete my account. Finally one less social media to follow. I need to delete Facebook too, but maybe later.

I also created my account on Mastodon today.

I, for one, definitely am. Twitter is going crazy (or Elon is), but signs are not looking good.

I'm not.