Interesting replies here. I feel people haven't given enough thought to the implications of moving from a commercial platform that appropriates your data to a network where some of the nodes might fall over and disappear, have unclear policies and poor transparency etc. And you..

@DrNomyn Naomi Smith @AndrewMurphie

@AndrewMurphie @DrNomyn Naomi Smith I feel like sociologists should study this rather than setting up Mastodon instances for our tribe 😂 not that I have felt very or at all attached to the discipline for a long time.

🍉 Dr Mark | 北马克 | 🐰🐉 @AndrewMurphie @DrNomyn What's interesting to me are the people saying 'oh you know Twitter was bad in the beginning', but people have totally different expectations of the amount of effort you need to put in to learn a new platform these days.

Naomi Smith @AndrewMurphie @DrNomyn Oh yes! And all those dopamine hits from thousands of followers and likes and virality aren't migrating with them. In fact a lot may find that they are not even big fish and in a murky pond.

🍉 Dr Mark | 北马克 | 🐰🐉 @AndrewMurphie @DrNomyn I'll stay until this place is finished, also it's fun watching Elon flounder. It brings me joy