Mike Masnick ✅Feb 8, 2023

More strange Mastodon reporting. This time from @thurrott, who claims "I’ve been using Mastodon since December, but the interaction there is almost non-existent compared to Twitter."

Dude, you follow 22 people. Try following more people. The "non-existent" interaction is *up to you*.

I've found WAY MORE interactions and engagement here than I ever had on Twitter. Plus fewer death threats.

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/social/279094/mastodon-continues-to-lose-users

Mastodon Continues to Lose Users

Usage of Mastodon has dwindled over the past two months, with monthly active users plummeting to less than 1.4 million after hitting a peak of 2.5 million in December.

Thurrott.com
Show threadhikewithrichardFeb 8, 2023
@mmasnick @thurrott it took since 2006 to get to where i am on twitter. It’s not inaccurate. It takes time for a social networking site to be dynamic.
Show threadauthor_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5Feb 8, 2023
@harmonicarichard @mmasnick @thurrott Gotta wait for that multi-generational arc of history, right? It's not about "your lifetime" after all. /s
Show threadhikewithrichardFeb 8, 2023
@ShrikeTron @mmasnick @thurrott Early adopters find value quickly. others do not. Plurk has been around for a decade and yet I still see no value in it. Flickr was great, but then lost a lot of users by forcing people to pay to post more.
Show threadauthor_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5Feb 9, 2023
@harmonicarichard @mmasnick @thurrott I see a lot of it boiling down to being the same as "school" popularity games. Just not worth it.
Show threadhikewithrichardFeb 9, 2023
@ShrikeTron @mmasnick @thurrott What are you calling "it"? Twitter, flickr, or other?
Show threadauthor_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5

@harmonicarichard @mmasnick @thurrott "it" being "social network dynamic".

"engagement" being a popularity contest.

Feb 9, 2023 at 3:29pmWeb
Show threadhikewithrichardFeb 9, 2023
@ShrikeTron @mmasnick @thurrott In 2006 - 2007 social networks were about social bonds and friendships because communities were dozens of people wide. There were no likes, or retweets. We had to read and reply. That's one of the reasons I hate favourites, retweets and more. It gives the illusion of interaction, but it's hollow and meaningless. At the first tweetups everyone said "I feel like we have been friends for years, despite meeting you for the first time today."