Have a feeling the Twitter migration debacle will end up (at least among tech circles) splintering into tech optimists funneling here, and tech pessimists funneling into Mastodon.

Twitter will boom after this, but only among “normie” users (similar to Instagram or Tumblr)

Designer, among other things. Learning backend dev. @astralwave on the bird app

This is no competition for mastodon due to limited beta access and crypto barrier but it could see a big surge of onboarding in 2-3 months as fediverse disillusionment sets in. Mastodon is simply too unusably complex for most people.

Blogger at ribbonfarm.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

Oh yeah it will draw a smart minority crowd brain draining away. Same as FC

I just found a server and got on Mastodon. I see what you mean now by unusably complex. 

But it’s hoops that maybe people might not mind jumping through, I think, if politically-motivated

Well you can just start and run one. I ran one for a couple of years.

Hmm, I don’t know, Mastodon seems to be invite-only in practice, as well, since most of the good servers are invite-only. 

I’m still searching for a server myself (begun searching this week)