Andy BaioApr 7, 2017

Prediction: Mastodon will likely outlast Twitter.

Historically, decentralized, open-source platforms and protocols with any adoption run forever, even if they rarely reach the popularity or cultural relevance of centralized platforms.

It seems likely to me that when Twitter eventually shuts down, people will still be running Mastodon instances.

Did you know Diaspora has 328 active nodes and 17k users? Hell, there are 3,652 active FidoNet nodes, and that started in 1984!

So... am I wrong?

Show threadHisham

@andybaio Are the 17k active users or does it include people like me who created an account 5 years ago and logged once every 2.5 years?

Also... FidoNet!? Do they use it over the internet nowadays??

Apr 8, 2017 at 1:30amTusky
Show threadAndy BaioApr 8, 2017
@hisham_hm that 17k stat is users active in the last month, they have at least 670k registered accounts https://the-federation.info/