Kevin Beaumont19h ago

I've had 20 sign ups to my Mastodon server in the past 48 hours, and 100% of them have been scammers, phishers and SEO spammers.

I make an effort to go in and suspend the accounts, nobody ever protests the suspension.

The fediverse is at a crossroads, the user base is dwindling and the new users are mostly just SEO spam accounts.

Show threadKevin Beaumont19h ago
For those who don't think the user base is dwindling, a few years ago Mastodon was celebrating about 2m monthly active users. Nowadays it's 0.7m.
Show threadJimmothy Baggins19h ago

@GossiTheDog Its clear there isn’t enough incentive for mass
Public to join the Fediverse. The messaging is to confusing, the onboarding is strange to people. Influencers are big part of modern social media and there is little incentive for them to be here.

I’ll also say I don’t believe the majority of servers have the resources to take on mass amounts of people if they were to come.

Mastodon / Fediverse is a niche place. To be honest there is nothing wrong with that. So long as people have the means to keep things running there will always be a fediverse.

Show threadRowinSpeez
@64bithero @GossiTheDog I think also, deep down, most people just want to lurk around the popular kids where they can see what other people are looking at and doing.
Mar 24 at 10:28pmWeb