On the other hand, it shows they still have some level of influence that people think there was as mass exodus.

Hard disagree with this. The majority don’t care about twitter, the only people who absolutely adore it are journalists and techies which is why it was such a big deal in the news and on forums and everyone in the real world just went about their business. The celebrities are only there for marketing and connecting with the journalists.

I follow mostly techies, very few went to mastodon, and among them were none of the ones I cared about.

Seems like the people doing the most things in my field have no time for drama and are busy doing stuff, while the ones that actually accomplish little have the time and energy for this.

Counterpoint: most of the Cloud Native crowd I follow moved to Hachyderm.

> Seems like the people doing the most things in my field have no time for drama and are busy doing stuff,

Standing up for ethics isn't performative drama. I made my exit very quietly because I didn't have time for the drama of a petulant tyrant. I care that the tech I consume is open source or at the very least is guided by some principal of any good kind.

Sure.

People spent months and a tremendous amount of energy discussing the state of a site that is a glorified animated wall of text, but it's not drama.

Sometimes I wish I could teleport this community to were I lived in Mali and force you to stay there for 6 months to re-calibrate your sense of what's important.

Most people didn't. Some small group of people spent tremendous amount of energy. I think both of you agree on that point.

Same thing with iOS devs, everyone I followed on Twitter is now on Mastodon.

Most of the Python developers I followed are on Mastodon. "Techies" has lots of sub-cultures, so it could be C# or React developers are stuck on Twitter, for example, so if you are in those groups it might seem nobody has left.

Which Mastodon does LeBron James use again?

I wouldn't know. I haven't watched an NBA game in over a decade.

>>×The majority don’t care about twitter

Exactly. Exactly.

Good luck to Substack, though. I'm rooting for them in this scenario.

Substack has attracted so many shrill rightwing kooks (Greenwald being the canary in that particular coalmine) that when I see someone has a substack I roll my eyes.

So here's to them being a more pretentious rumble/truth/parler/etc...

Actually, I'll take that back...

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR35o66A/

I don't follow that much of the sports world, but the celebrities are definitely shifting more towards Instagram. I feel like Twitter is rapidly distilling down to LinkedIn type hustle-culture influencers.