Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.pcmag.com/news/x-rival-mastodon-says-app-downloads-up-47-on-ios-amid-twitter-exodus

As many users seek alternatives to X, rival social network Mastodon says that its official app downloads are up 47% on iOS.

Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko says downloads on Android are also up 17%, while total monthly sign-ups rose approximately 27% to 90,000.

The open-source X rival functions much like its competitor, the site formerly known as Twitter, on the outside. However, unlike the centralized Twitter, Mastodon consists of thousands of different social networks, which are integrated into a web it calls the “fediverse.”

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cultsuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Does anyone know good people to follow? I’d rather not join Bluesky.

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- Matty@lemmy.autism.place ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  There’s Fedi.Directory which you pick whatever category of your interest and it list various Fedi account. It’s mostly Mastodon based-account but you get couple other non-mastodon account like PeerTube for example
  
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- pedroapero@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Don’t know who exactly you are interested in, here are some random known accounts:
  
  the EU commission (other EU institutions as well): ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission
  
  gog games: mastodon.world/@goggames
  
  The New Stack: hachyderm.io/@TheNewStack
  
  Mozilla: mozilla.social/@mozilla
  
  Rust foundation: social.rust-lang.org/@rust
  
  Free Software Foundation: hostux.social/@fsf
  
  Electronic Frontier Foundation: mastodon.social/@eff
  
  Greta Thunberg: mastodon.nu/@gretathunberg
  
  Regarding individuals, I’m following a bunch of software developpers. I’m mostly interested in topics, hence I prefer Lemmy by far.
  
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- GravelPieceOfSword@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I learned to follow hashtags, not people on mastodon myself…
  
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- SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I joined bluesky because the weather group I followed on Twitter moved there, so deleted twitter and follow them on BLuesky now. Is there a reason not to join bluesky?
  
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  - x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The biggest reason is that it’s centralized.
    
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  - rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I would say no* but the asterisk has a few paragraphs involving funding sustainability, cryptobro involvement, and dubious decentralization.
    
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  - gladflag@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Corporate vs. community. Bluesky is technically backed by an open protocol but it’s still controlled by a large corporation. A bad actor (read: Elon) could make it shit.
    
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  - cultsuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No, just a personal choice.
    
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capital@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
iOS friends, check out the Mastodon client Ice Cubes.

It’s free and it’s very good IMO.

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- thal3s@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Ice Cubes is a fantastic Mastodon client!
  
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dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- noxy@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  you need to know what domain your friend uses for email if you email them
  
  you need to know your friend’s area code if you call or text them
  
  you need to know the password that goes with your username on your computer
  
  not blaming you for your friends struggling with this, just, ugh, how does anyone struggle with this?
  
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- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  You need to know what instance your friend is on.
  
  of course you need. your friends need to tell you. only they can know. just like with email and IRL cities
  
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- TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I mean, it’s just like e-mail addresses, I really don’t understand the difficulty. Yes technically if I want to e-mail joe smith, I need to know his address, including what mail provider he uses. Which is why when I ask for his e-mail address he tells me “Joesmith@gmail.com”. and not just joesmith.
  
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  - muelltonne@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, I really don’t understand why people are so confused. From a practical perspective your username is username@instance.tld and that’s it. You’re on some server and can simply follow that guy@mastodon.social and you will see the posts.
    
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- macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The weird thing is that it doesn’t matter what instance/server your friends are on. If they follow you, they’ll get all your posts in their feed. The best advice I can give anyone starting out on Mastodon is to follow tags instead of people in order to surface interesting posts, then you can follow people as they come up on feeds.
  
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Rekall_Incorporated@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Good to hear at least some upside for Mastadon from the recent rise in Bluesky users.

Hopefully this trend will continue and and Mastadon can retain at least a solid percentage of those why try it.

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- Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Considering that every post about Mastodon has supporters who get the spelling wrong, it might be a little much to expect the general public to figure it out. BlueSky is pretty much the VHS to Mastodon’s Betamax.
  
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  - Rekall_Incorporated@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well played, sir!
    
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lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That’s good news. Odds are that some of those people will rebound back to closed media platforms; but the ones who stay help Mastodon and the Fediverse to grow.

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Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Fantastic! I’m reducing my dependency on for profit entities every day, and federation is a great means to that end. Let’s welcome those moving over during the exodus!

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- NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Make sure to actually understand how those “non-profit” websites and services are functioning.
  
  It costs money to power servers and to maintain them. Most of the fediverse instances like to claim they are run on donations and so forth. But… think about how angry people get at the idea of tipping for ANYTHING and then wonder how many of those are throwing significant cash at your favorite lemmy or mastodon instance per month.
  
  Everyone is always shocked when they find out how social media or a “free” vpn or whatever is funded and where there information is going. But hey, I am sure it will be completely different this time.
  
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  - barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    hink about how angry people get at the idea of tipping for ANYTHING and then wonder how many of those are throwing significant cash at your favorite lemmy or mastodon instance per month.
    
    a) it’s not significant amounts, it’s quite cheap, per user, to run lemmy, e.g. lemm.ee is one of the bigger instances and costs 200 Euro a month, b) tipping 20% on a bill that doesn’t even include any service is not the same as donating to a service you like. This is more like a patreon which doesn’t lock anything for non-donating users.
    
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  - Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Make sure to actually understand how those “non-profit” websites and services are functioning.
    
    Generally speaking if you aren’t the customer then you are the product. Individual Lemmy and Mastadon instances are getting around this for now because they are small enough that their operational costs can be covered by the ideologically motivated instance admins and users. If Lemmy or Mastadon ever gains wide popularity this will change.
    
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  - DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The guy who runs the instance I’m on sends out a statement every month, detailing how much he’s received in donations, what everything has cost, and how much there is leftover. Accounting for a small buffer to allow for emergencies, he donates the excess to Alzheimer’s research. We’re a Pritchett focus instance, so everyone’s happy with that.
    
    I’ve paid far more to my Masto admin than I ever did to Twitter.
    
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  - TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You can be against the US’s tipping culture while at the same time being someone who donates to things lol
    
    But yeah, definitely. For a lot of these things the funding has to be coming from somewhere and there’s no way donations are enough.
    
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  - BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    But hey, I am sure it will be completely different this time.
    
    Exactly.
    
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