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> If you remove the communication links between those nice round planets shown in the animation, they become drab and dreary, and not worth having at all, and y

> If you remove the communication links between those nice round planets shown in the animation, they become drab and dreary, and not worth having at all, and you're back to twitter. True, if you are the toxic community that was cut out. You know who still thinks the Mastodon is worth having? Mastodon.social users, who were able to protect themselves from unfriendly/unwelcome users, and didn't have to go back to Twitter. Also, you gave an extreme example, of a left-leaning and right-leaning instances not agreeing with each other. But I see no reason why an instance mainly populated with geeks and an instance mainly populated with gamers/musicians/sport fans can't peacefully federate.

stubish 4y ago
> You know who still thinks the Mastodon is worth having? Mastodon.social users, who were able to protect themselves from unfriendly/unwelcome users, and didn't have to go back to Twitter. Per the parent anecdote, nobody thought Mastodon was worth having. The users all went back to Twitter, along with all the unfriendly/unwelcome users, because that was where the action was. I also suspect a few dropped out entirely.
- ikt 4y ago
  > The users all went back to Twitter It was just the Indian users that went back to Twitter, as per: https://mastodon.social/about https://mastodon.social/about 83.7K active MAU The greater group of people on mastodon.social stayed.