Sadly, I start considering if Mastodon really have some impact at all. I've always believed that having the control of your content is a must. And that's why I try to have most of my content under my control.
But also, social networks are for that: to be social. I do not plan to become a influencer but yesterday it was a bit painful the lack of ANY interaction here.
I was part of the organization of https://jmad.madridjug.es, a small openspace unconference we create to celebrate Java 30th aniversary (https://jvm.social/@jmiguel/114522106079659463 , https://jvm.social/@jmiguel/114523466295298658).
The event was (for me, for the organizers and for assistants) a success: we talked about a lot of topics, from productivity to AI. From mentoring junior people to testing strategies. And also, of course some super nice networking.
Do you know how many interactions I got?. Zero. 0️⃣ (to be honest: one, from a friend how also was in the event). How many in Bluesky? 12. Not a big number but a more reasonable one.
I don't mind to talk in the void. At all. Probably I'll kept my personal mastodon instance for long. But my concern is about keeping this https://jvm.social server running. Does it worth it? Will Mastodon explode at some time to become, at least for tech people, a good place to talk?
I highly appreciate people that are PAYING WITH HIS MONEY this server but probably we could get a free server (yes, there are) and run it at no cost (well, this cool jvm.social domain it's also expensive compared with .com or .gov names). Maybe it won't be so fast, so extensible but... do we need it?
I really would like to hear some opinions about this topic.