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Why is Mastodon struggling to survive? (www.reddit.com)

submitted 9 months ago by thenexusofprivacy to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I don't like the clickbait title at all -- Mastodon's clearly going to survive, at least for the forseeable future, and it wouldn't surprise me if it outlives Xitter.

Still, Mastodon is struggling; most of the people who checkd it out in the November 2022 surge (or the smaller June 2023 surge) didn't stick around, and numbers have been steadily declining for the last year. The author makes some good points, and some of the comments are excellent.

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[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

I never liked the microblog format so while I've had acouple masto accounts since 2016 I never used it. But i also never used twitter.

[-] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Also, let Mastodon shrink if that means that the "market share" of other native Fediverse server apps grows.

The fewer people think the Fediverse is Mastodon, and the more exposure the other stuff in the Fediverse gets and what features it has over Mastodon, the better.

[-] TheV2@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

I prefer Mastodon over Twitter for microblogging. However, I didn't use Twitter for microblogging, but to receive news (directly or at least officially) from game devs, directors and other creators.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 9 months ago

Drag simply thinks microblogging is boring. Nobody has anything interesting to say and nobody smelled drag's toots.

[-] endofline@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

Nothing interesting for 99% population. Tech blogging is the hardest stuff and most tech youtubers pretty much stopped contributing. What's the point of sharing knowledge if any gamer on twitch has bigger audience than you maybe 200 - 300 live watchers and it's the a good number of viewers for a very well known polish security researcher ( ex Google ). So you know why social media is going shit