I wonder if some of the influencer accounts (in academia or any other field) complaining about this app on the bird app are responding to an anxiety about losing the 1000s of followers they have on there. Which is a fundamentally different approach to microblogging than one which sees it as a place for non- or less-hierarchical conversations between people, networks of information and resource sharing, and so on. I’m honestly happy to have started from scratch, reconstituting a circle of meaningful and mutually enriching connections. #TwitterMigration
(Just to clarify, I wasn't subtweeting any particular Twitter users, but thinking about complaints about Mastodon coming from large bird app accounts in general.)
Good points. When I was migrating our account over from Twitter, it was eye-opening to see how low the signal to noise ratio really was between total tweet activity v. substantive tweets / total followers v. ones who actively engaged with the account / etc.
A lot of people don't like change or new things, anyway, so there's bound to be muttering and grumbling from some part of the user base at the thought of changing to a new platform.
