One year ago today November 18, 2022 was the Twitter Lockout, and in one amazing day a quarter million new users flocked to Mastodon. Not everyone stayed, but a great many did. We have continued to confront disruptive growth, while striving to hold onto ideals of community, kindness and respect for each other. Is Mastodon perfect? No, but today, one year latter, the state of our platform is strong. Open social media is thriving.
@mastodonmigration Ironically, I was just noting how many interesting and previously active accounts I follow here have left or recently stated that Mastodon isn't really working for them.
Obviously that's anecdotal, but I guess I would point that number of users accounts isn't really a good metric, since many of those could be abandoned. What one needs is some version of an "active user" count or # of posts, etc. I'm curious how things are doing on that measure.
