Mastodon has roughly 1% as many active users as Twitter. But it feels like much more than 1%. Why is that?
Because we're not a random 1%. People in some communities are much more likely to find Mastodon appealing. For example, at least 30% of the people I follow on Twitter are on here, based on their Twitter bios.
This "homophily" makes it easier for communities to reach critical mass. The downside is that it makes Mastodon more of an echo chamber (on top of the other reasons that make it so).
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@randomwalker Interesting. I left Twitter 7 weeks ago after 14 years.
I find Mastodon to be much less of an echo chamber than Twitter. I'm running into all sorts of interesting and different people here, especially in other fields of science.
