> I feel the same with the "find me on mastodon" twitter bios: people will realize that only 50 of their thousands of followers can be found on mastodon, and then move back in a few weeks after giving up on the experiment. During all that time they have still kept most of their activities on twitter because there is simply more going on there, more replies to their tweets, more tweets to reply to, etc.
Pretty much. Among the big anti-Elon names, Kathy Griffin already gave up on Mastodon and is just posting once every 2-3 days now, probably because getting 200 likes on her posts is a major step down from the 100k+ she was regularly getting on Twitter.
> banning them might have actually the opposite effect here: then they get forced to focus on mastodon.
I agree, but if you're a professional relying on engagement metrics for your career--as many artists, musicians, journalists, and social media marketers do--it would take massive, massive guts to go all-in on Mastodon when it clearly has not taken over Twitter's engagement by any extent.
For historical precedent: Instagram instituted a very similar policy to stop people from adding OnlyFans links, but it didn't really decrease IG usage as far as I know. You still need Instagram to "funnel" people into your OF, same as journalists will need Twitter to funnel people into their articles. It's simply too valuable a resource to give up for them.
Pretty much. Among the big anti-Elon names, Kathy Griffin already gave up on Mastodon and is just posting once every 2-3 days now, probably because getting 200 likes on her posts is a major step down from the 100k+ she was regularly getting on Twitter.
> banning them might have actually the opposite effect here: then they get forced to focus on mastodon.
I agree, but if you're a professional relying on engagement metrics for your career--as many artists, musicians, journalists, and social media marketers do--it would take massive, massive guts to go all-in on Mastodon when it clearly has not taken over Twitter's engagement by any extent.
For historical precedent: Instagram instituted a very similar policy to stop people from adding OnlyFans links, but it didn't really decrease IG usage as far as I know. You still need Instagram to "funnel" people into your OF, same as journalists will need Twitter to funnel people into their articles. It's simply too valuable a resource to give up for them.