As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.

  • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    my engagement rates on mastodon and bluesky have been significantly higher than twitter despite having 1/5 the number of followers

    • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      1 year ago

      Small town big city syndrome, in a small community you can conceivably know, recognise or otherwise relate to a good proportion of the people in your town, and anyone you don’t know you likely know people in common - but once a community gets big enough your brain can’t deal with it and your neighbours become an abstract concept, background noise, rather than people.

      • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I remember someone studied this real sociology. They watched people greeting each other in small towns and such and found that around the 1000 person mark people stopped greeting each other.

        I’ve notice the same thing on hiking trails. If I only see a few people the whole day we not only greet each other but we may stop to chat. More people and you just say hi. A very popular trail though? You might get a nod.