Mastodon is doing decent in Japan - with well over 500,000 users. Thanks to Pixiv hosting pawoo.net. But if you do not have Japanese friends then it is pretty u

Mastodon is doing decent in Japan - with well over 500,000 users. Thanks to Pixiv hosting pawoo.net. But if you do not have Japanese friends then it is pretty unlikely you have friends using Mastodon - as it isn't as popular in the U.S (55k~ users). Disregarding all servers with <1,000 users. If you have a tight knit group of friends getting everyone to swap over to Mastodon (and slowly bring their friends) isn't that difficult. That's how the social effect works whenever there's a max exodus of users from Platform A --> Platform B (like what happened with Myspace-->Facebook, Digg-->Reddit, etc.). It isn't impossible - just unlikely. You can see some statistics here: https://mnm.social/ https://mnm.social/