How likely is it that you will still be on Mastodon a year from now?

#BOOST OK

✅ Certainly
80.2%
⭕ Not sure
19.2%
❌ No way
0.6%
Poll ended at .
@vowe bin bereits seit 2019 hier also sicher auch noch in einem Jahr 🫶 
@varni @vowe Similar thoughts here! Since 2017 in my case. Canʼt imagine why Iʼd leave in 2024 at the moment.
@vowe I don't worry about the declining activity - people just put an extra time budget on getting familiar with the Fediverse. Not everyone was tweeting daily before.
@vowe Not sure if Mastodon, but pretty likely still in the Fediverse. Unless a new open protocol takes over.
@vowe fb 6 yrs, twtr 6 yrs, I’m gonna say yes.

@susiemagoo @vowe

I think it's been 4 years since I deleted my FB account.

The people that I matter to, know how to find me. Sadly that includes some of my kids.

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” (Dr. Seuss)

@vowe "Certainly" for me, but as I'm on #Friendica rather than #Mastodon I can't respond to the poll. (It's a Friendica bug which I hope they get to fix soon).
@vowe
Certainly ... at least in the #Fediverse (but this short message format suits me rather good)
@vowe I run a server and maybe a second one for job reasons soon, so "Quite possible".
@vowe I will have moved to my own Akkoma again.
@ellenor2000 @vowe I hope to be on my own server too by then, which will likely be Akkoma too. Though I'm already on someone else's comfy Akkoma server.
@vowe I'm not planning to be on #Mastodon for much longer, because #PeopleAreSoVeryRude

@DaveW @vowe

Is there somewhere else where people are much more polite?

@DaveW @vowe

Maybe move to an instance that is more to your liking?

There's a few people that moved over here from twitter with a Twittertude, that isn't in line with some of the Fedi-Vets.

Open minds and open hearts.

@DaveW @vowe Indeed. Though it doesn't get much better than Masto. I'm staying.
@vowe don't know, but its good to have options
@vowe I'm new here. So I'm not sure. But it's nice here!

@vowe

If it stays free / libre / open it will be great.

If it turns into a bunch of proprietary apps with ChatGPT connecting to corporate Mastodon servers, I'm out.

#SaveMastodon

@vowe - presumably all the "no way" voters have already left...
@ChazBrenchley @vowe just voted "no way" bc i will never use ...
@vowe I'm not on Mastodon now, and I don't see myself going back when there are so many better fediverse options out there!
@vowe It WAS going strong before, just not at this scale. Everything will settle. Some Twitter users will turn out to have been tourists and some will turn settlers. Everything is better in a network that does not have world domination as a goal.
@vowe I only wish I could predict the future. I didn't think I would ever feel compelled to migrate from Twitter, even only partially.
@vowe Unless I die. Or Mastodon dies :)
@vowe I can't say i'll be on the same server, for the same reason i changed "MUD" homes at least 4 times during the early 90s. But I'll be here, somewhere.
@vowe You forgot the ‘why not?’ Response.

@vowe

It's my Twttr presence that will eventually be reduced.

At the moment, the Kolektiva part of Mastodon feels like "home" to me (which is why I don't do the stuff that I do on Twttr here).

@vowe Heck yes! It better not be going anywhere!
@vowe
I think this poll has a huge potential for misunderstandings.

Volker properly thinks of Mastodon as the whole Fediverse not even knowing about it or simply ignoring it maybe because he thinks anything other than Mastodon is irrelevant.
While me and educated Fediverse users think about leaving Mastodon because of its poor functionality compared to other Fediverse applications WITHIN the Fediverse (like me shifting to Misskey as of Today).

So I want to STAY here (as I already did way before all the Twitter trouble) but not necessarily on Mastodon. Because Mastodon imho follows some user unfriendly decisions (i. e. completely defective Markdown implementation, filtering Markdown format chars just to not show Markdown at all, destroying the meaning of certain markdown formatted posts and so much more) and due to its "market" dominance may bend the Activity Pub protocol in a way that it's getting incompatible to other Fediverse apps like Friendica.

Well, maybe I'm just a pessimist.
@vowe
It's my main thing now...
@vowe Quite happy to be here!
@vowe just went on Twitter and saw what was trending. All right wing bullshit
@vowe I say certainly because it is a breath of fresh air when compared to Twitter.

@vowe

I'm being honest

Not sure

I need more up to date info

I try

I post @Yahoo news and @maddow

I love ALL the art

I love our pets

I really need news

That ugly bird kept us up

I'm not feeling that here

I kept up on the ugly bird often

I can miss an entire day here and still get more substance from Yahoo news than from here

Truthfully? It's disappointing

The reason I was on the ugly bird was to keep up faster

I really miss Patrick Skinner and the cats the most

Just sayin

@vowe @bethroots unless they bring AIM back 😂
@vowe mastodon is not really anything special. Like in other platforms, many people in their bubbles waiting to hear opinions that coincide with theirs, blocking away others. More leftish leaning, but otherwise like Twitter, same foul language. Some good discussions also, like in Twitter.
@vowe I'm staying. Dropped/deleted all the other SMs.
@vowe I doubt it. I'm in love with Mastodon at present and it's my first experience actually using a micro-blogging social media, but chances are I'll stop using it as often and eventually stop over time.
@vowe I'm not active on here much but I'll probably still be checking in from time to time
@vowe Technically I'm not sure if I'll still be on Mastodon this time next year, but the odds look very good so far.

@vowe

Okay. But this time last year, how likely did you think it would be you would be on Mastodon?

Certain
29.4%
Not sure
29.4%
No way
41.2%
Poll ended at .
@vowe I'll go a step further and state I'll likely be working on software integrations into the fediverse by that point. There's a huge amount of potential here.
@vowe Not sure. I can't tell my reach and it seems very few people are here, so...
@vowe 3 years and counting! ✔️
@vowe @gregeganSF invited “definitely” but I do have a suspicion that there’ll be multiple “Mastodon” federations, instead of “one big happy family”. I am pretty sure I’d choose a “No companys or brands” federation if/when they show up.
@vowe It's going to depend a lot on how fast Mastodon builds out new features vs what other alternatives emerge. It's currently the best overall but in many ways the UX is a significant step down.
@vowe oof, it counted me for “no way” because it kept not accepting my response and I was clicking back and forth to see what was going on.
@vowe Considering I'm still active here after almost a year, which is more than I can say for most social media sites, I think I'll definitely be here for several more years. As long as this site doesn't go down the same road as Reddit or Twitter, at least.
@vowe I rounded down to “No Way,” but my precise answer would be “Very Unlikely”
Not a Mastodon fan. So no! But will be in the Fediverse.
@vowe
Unless I get driven out by Twitter immigrants who keep wanting to turn Mastodon into Twitter.

@vowe I voted certainly, but how active I am depends on whether mass migration continues.

There are still plenty of communities that are important to me that don't have critical mass over here.

And the learning curve is steep enough and turned-off functions are common enough that I need to recommend weeks of getting used to this place to really enjoy it.

@vowe
I am never going back to Twitter— not that there will be a Twitter to go back to soon enough.