Mastodawn

Dec 1, 2022

2017: "Six reasons Mastodon won't survive: Terrible name, there is no single Mastodon, toots, handles are meaningless, where is everyone, apps feel like a science project."
- @Lance_Ulanoff in Mashable https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

Six reasons Mastodon won't survive

The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.

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Blake Leonard

@conradhackett "handles are meaningless"-- I beg to differ; even from the start, it was a sign of interest in some subjects. Nowadays, handles on official domains exist (i.e. the EU Commission and the German government), and serve as trustable verification.