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jacobian Jun 15, 2023

“Mastodon had its chance and it blew it”

I couldn’t agree with this post more. I had super high hopes, but I’m pretty convinced now that between the technical and social issues there’s not a good chance of mastodon being anything other than a tiny niche.

I’m unlikely to go back to Twitter, and BlueSky seems unlikely to be a place I wanna hang out, so I guess this is still home for me for now. But I’m pretty sad things here aren’t going in a different direction.

https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/

Why did the #TwitterMigration fail? – Café Lob-On

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Jørn

@jacob The author writes some boilerplate stuff about "normal users" which is, despite not wrong, also not helpful.
Mastodon has no fancy features, this is true. It's also not sustainable for an open source project to keep the pace competing on fancy features.
Then the author goes on to complain that when you set up a new *instance*, the federated timeline is empty. What "normal user" sets up an Mastodon *instance*?

The author just wants New Twitter, well BlueSky is right there.