“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

@jacob Wow, that's wildly different from my experience. Maybe my instance is just unusually good? I'm also not confident that the basic premise (That Mastodon use is down) is correct, everything I've seen has shown scalloped growth. Each time I have a surge in my own use (based around my own schedule and attention), it's been better and more active on here.