Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
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Six reasons Mastodon won't survive

The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.

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@rysiek 6 reasons:
1. dumb name
2. i dont get what federated means
3. dumb name
4. i dont know how handles work
5. valid concern
6. valid concern

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@MarkAssPandi @rysiek The apps one is kinda strange though. Half of it's kinda valid ("no one knows how many instances there are and there's no list"), but just the fact that there's more apps than the official one? That's just weird (and deliberately forgetting the plethora of twitter apps there used to be before they shut that possibility down).

(Edit: autocorrect)

@Mabande @MarkAssPandi @rysiek
I had 3 different mobile Twitter apps in the Before Times, not counting the (very bad and totally overrated) official app.
Can't even remember the names of them now.

@dec23k @Mabande @MarkAssPandi @rysiek

Alternate Twitter apps were so popular Twitter had to close off their API just to get people onto the official one.

@EdCates @Mabande @MarkAssPandi @rysiek
Yes, and that happened years before the 2022 buyout.
@dec23k @Mabande @MarkAssPandi @rysiek oh gawd yes. I remember it affecting a buddy of mine who Twitter had approached to make an app for the Palm Pre. He did, only to have the APIs yanked out from under him.