Ted UnderwoodMy main anxiety about Mastodon right now is that the private-sector AI world is poorly represented here. Over time that could lead to ideological sorting that would make this space less appealing for ML-positive folks like myself. But idk, I’ll give it time. Twitter’s decline may play out over years rather than months.
Pamela K Gilbert@TedUnderwood do you think so? I figured it would either collapse or stabilize in a new normal in a matter of months?
@PamelaKGilbert I can see it being really slow. Lock-in means inertia is strong. But the company is losing money. So they do lots of little cheesy monetizing things—cutting out third party clients, etc. None fatal. Maybe Musk gets bored enough to resell it? Brand identity could really stink a year from now, but it’s still 10x the size of Fediverse. Meanwhile, our growth could be contingent on platform changes that take lots of time.
@PamelaKGilbert One good sign is that the fraction of disparaging posts about Mastodon on Twitter is now roughly equal to the fraction of ones about “the bird site” here—and we also no longer feel compelled to call it the bird site.