I keep seeing articles about Mastodon slumps, and journalists going back to Twitter. Is it fair to say, that maybe Mastodon isn't for journalists, or brands, or even people who want large accounts? Maybe Mastodon is true social media, for people who want to interact and discuss, not be influenced, sold to, or manipulated with cult style tactics and followings. There will always be groups who dislike the idea of the people controlling their own inputs, people who don't like the idea of accessible Administration, and people who don't like the idea that if we don't like a space that we can just move to another one, or even create our own. Individualism is scary to the kind of people who thrive on complacency, and not challenging the status quo.

@RickiTarr

Expert and well reasoned opinion is essential and there's lots of that on Twitter as long as you filter out the dross. Not so much here.

@dallas @RickiTarr I've found a couple here much easier and faster than I ever have on twitter. And I was able to interact with them.

Regrettably, people spend too much time on twitter playing the algorithms instead of communicating. Even if you filter out the crap, it still affects the information negatively.

In the end, both environnements are just a vehicle to get a message a cross. I prefer the one where a community is in charge, not somebody like Musk.