camelbeard, 1 year ago I have been working in software development for 2 decades. I'm saying that to make the point that I'm in the more technical group of internet users. Anyway even I just jumped ship from Twitter to mastodont without really understanding how it worked. So I'm pretty sure lots of users just signed up with the first server they found and slowly realized it wasn't just a Twitter clone. Now that I do understand it I really love the concept, but it's definitely different than just Twitter. For example I use two accounts on different servers with very different content. Personally I really like that separation.
I have been working in software development for 2 decades. I'm saying that to make the point that I'm in the more technical group of internet users.
Anyway even I just jumped ship from Twitter to mastodont without really understanding how it worked.
So I'm pretty sure lots of users just signed up with the first server they found and slowly realized it wasn't just a Twitter clone.
Now that I do understand it I really love the concept, but it's definitely different than just Twitter.
For example I use two accounts on different servers with very different content. Personally I really like that separation.