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.
@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.
@64bithero @GossiTheDog On a related note, I recently started a blog for my hobby miniature projects.
It seemed like a few others had blogs, so I started making a list. The first few were new starts just like me but as I kept looking I started to find more and more hobby blogs that have been regularly posting for nearly twenty years. The latest discovery was this month, and I added another eight or so blogs to my list.
When the rest of the world moved on to Facebook, Twitter and wherever else they never left. They just kept plugging away, their community may have dwindled, but it never died.
Niche survives just fine, and can be plenty sufficient for the people there.
Kevin Beaumont
Jimmothy Baggins
Stryder Notavi