@dangillmor For context, I was a daily active Reddit user and I’ve deleted the Reddit app this week to remember not to “accidentally” use it, I’m exploring Lemmy now, which ain’t half-bad so far.

My reason: I hope this CEO arrogant dude to be fired. I don’t have high hopes that the third-party apps will be saved in any meaningful way, and that’s sad but that’s ok to me; my goal is for this guy to be booted off, and it feels realistic, considering the poor handling of the situation and the likely poor growth metrics as a result.

Will I come back if he’s out? I dunno, Reddit was really nice but not exactly indispensable to my life. And Lemmy really doesn’t suck as a replacement, so…

@paulg The community discourse here reminds me of the one on Twitter when I joined it, back in the late 00s.

Does it mean Mastodon will become troll country like Twitter someday? Maybe. I’ll be honest, I don’t exactly care. I feel like what matters is that it is awesome and effectively most valuable right now.

@taylorlorenz I have a feeling the reason people are sensitive about your post, is that there might be somewhat of a fear that Mastodon might end up only used by people in tech disgruntled by Twitter, making it a pretty niche product forever.

And then the journalist ban happened, and now journalists are flocking to it, which is probably Mastodon’s only card so far making it a broader audience than tech.

With that background, and with your post framing the feature gap as a reason Mastodon may never be a good fit for journalists, my guess is that this is the underlying fear that is getting riled up by your post.