OLD ACCOUNTApr 4, 2017

reading a bunch of comments about Mastodon on tech news sites about how it "will never succeed" or will go extinct. Problem is, that defines Mastodon's success in the metrics of Silicon Valley VC. The point of Mastodon does not appear to be a growth -> exit -> brand vehicle strategy that Twitter has been struggling with.

I'm having a good time here. Isn't that success enough?

Show threadJenn FrankApr 5, 2017

@PolymerWitch This is a Good Toot.

(Every post about "is this doomed to be the next Ello"—not individually, but cumulatively—sets my teeth on edge. Because, no? It's a basement operation to make GNU Social more accessible to folks who've felt burned by Twitter? In that regard it's gloriously successful? More successful than Jabber in the early '00s?)

Show threadJenn Frank
@PolymerWitch I think speculating on the project's potential for long-term success is fine, even great—I love that energy! I love the cautious optimism!—but it's ultimately misguided, if only because, as you correctly point out, it's basing "success" and "value" on a metric that isn't valuable to the end-user at all
Apr 5, 2017 at 3:59pmWeb