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New research from my team on the #TwitterMigration:
This is our first quarterly update analyzing which platforms are growing - esp #mastodon & #postnews. Includes new data on users posting, app downloads & more.
Get it here: 
https://is.gd/EI1lOl
Any help boosting and sharing out this new work is very appreciated!
@tchambers Very interesting! Also, I've heard anectdotally that certain communities are splintering to different platforms -- journos to Mastodon and Post, and I've heard some gamers are favoring Cohost. Have you seen other examples of this?
@irwin We are definitely going to add a section in the next quarter's report specifically on "communities" migration en masse to different platforms.
I think your view on this is right and we'll study in more to try to add hard data to it.
@tchambers This is making the rounds in my timeline and rightfully so: https://doctorow.medium.com/social-quitting-f049b33ad3f6
@irwin @tchambers Now THAT was a very interesting, well researched, thought provoking article.
I have had FB accounts. Same as LinkedIn accounts. I generally find I get blocked from both unless I can prove my identity by sending them a copy of a government issued ID. That's not happening. That ends up with my being barred from the account so I set up a new account with a new name and contact all my friends to tell them the new account name. The cycle of new account then blocking continued until I finally said stuff FakedIn and FakeBook.
There's something morally abhorrent about random websites insisting on seeing government ID when there is no transaction going on. It's like being asked to pay to walk from your car parked outside Office Max to Circuit City because you're walking across the KMart parking lot.
The trouble with FB is too many people believe all their "friends" there are real so they won't leave. They're likely AI bots placed to stop people leaving.
@irwin @tchambers I believe this: @doctorow is him.
@irwin @tchambers @pluralistic Good article! I asked Bing to summarise the page and got a kick out of "enshittify" making it into the summary. (Rightfully so!)
@tchambers @irwin Did you see WordPress' Jetpack has added a Mastodon button? Excellent development.
https://wptavern.com/jetpack-11-9-adds-sharing-button-for-mastodon-updates-stats-dashboard-design
@Researchbuzz @tchambers @irwin
Good news, a sharing system. It uses adding your instance to a query as an intermediate step.
Share button
Query of your instance
Resulting share.
Also great is Wordpress is adding publish on Mastodon.
"The Jetpack team is also looking at adding Mastodon support to Publicize so users can have their posts automatically shared when they are published. Many people have requested this feature on GitHub and it may land in the plugin sometime in the future.
@Researchbuzz @tchambers @irwin That's a good thing, but whereas you can crosspost automatically from WordPress to Twitter for free, you can't do that from WP to Mastodon, which is a pity.
@tchambers @irwin adding that to my blog immediately
@tchambers @irwin +1. Would really like to see how communities are splinting off and reforming elsewhere ... I'm also curious if Reddit is a benefactor here, since I moved my Arc Browser activities from a Twitter Community to one on Reddit, and it's thriving:
@chrismessina @tchambers Also Discord is another venue people are migrating to. It's going to be tough (but valuable) to do a complete ethnographic study of the post-Musk diaspora.
All great and definitely on it for next quarter's research! 
@irwin @tchambers yup, I see the same thing - a lot of tech/programming communities e.g. Apple/Swift people seem to favor Mastodon and many have left Twitter, while most politics/news content (e.g. those tracking the war in Ukraine) have stayed on Twitter. Bitcoin/crypto people have stayed on Twitter and also heavily use Nostr now (and I think it's mostly them so far).
@mackuba @tchambers I, for one, am happy the crypto/NFT folks prefer to stay on Twitter! But journalists I think have a difficult problem having to maintain presences on multiple platforms.
@tchambers @irwin @mastodonmigration yeah, the pro crypto community is moving over to nostr. It has support for micropayments via bitcoin for example, and has very different attitudes to blocking than the fediverse does. The mastodon instance bitcoinhackers.org recently shut down and moved over to nostr, for example.