Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Apr 5, 2025

It's been eight years to the day since Lance Ulanoff, the storied Tech and Social Media Expert and an award-winning tech journalist, decided that Mastodon won't survive because William Shatner couldn't find him on here.

Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives:
https://rys.io/en/177.html

Please join me in celebrating the annual Mastodon Won't Survive Day, right here on fedi.  

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Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives

Eight years ago Lance Ulanoff had a problem. William Shatner could not find him on Mastodon. His distress is understandable, relatable even. Who wouldn’t want to be found by Captain Kirk himself! The

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Show threadDaniël Franke Apr 5, 2025
@rysiek My personal opinion is that fedi, or its successor, will keep on chugging along as VC poisoned shit will rise and fall, absorbing a portion of users that got tired of the churn every cycle, until people realise that it has become the de-facto standard.
Show threadMartin
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Reminds me of #xmpp.
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Show threadDaniël Franke Apr 5, 2025
@martin The biggest strike against XMPP was that it really was not prepared for the mobile world.
Show threadMartinApr 5, 2025
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It's now and it has seen several VC funded chat silos come and go. Probably it will still be here when the current silos #WhatsApp, #signal and #threema are gone.