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1) it's not a platform, 2) 192000 is the number for mastodon, there's a wider network that mastodon servers are a part of, 3) this is not some company like tw

1) it's not a platform, 2) 192000 is the number for mastodon, there's a wider network that mastodon servers are a part of, 3) this is not some company like twitter or gab or whatever with quarterly performance announcements and user on boarding targets, it is software that works, works well and people use it. That's the criteria for "not a failure" in this case. You know whats a failure? The corporate "unite the world by sharing ideas, a better world through freedom of information exchange" ideology and motivation of the founders of the big tech sites, specifically twitter. They have already proven this by abandoning it. They're failures.

rvz 4y ago
> 1) it's not a platform, It is a platform. The creator of Mastodon seems to think it is. > 192000 is the number for mastodon, there's a wider network that mastodon servers are a part of, That is the daily active user count of the entire Mastodon network and instances that have been online for long enough to at least have one user login once a week. > this is not some company like twitter or gab or whatever with quarterly performance announcements and user on boarding targets, Yet, out of 3 million registrants and only 192k use it. That is more than 90% of people not using it meaning that there is virtually no one using it on a daily or even weekly basis. That is a failure for something that has been constantly compared to as a 'Twitter alternative' or 'alternative social network' ever since its 1.0 or 2.0 release and each time Mastodon is brought up anywhere else other than Mastodon; like this site for example [0][1], Twitter, Facebook and online news articles. After 6 years of existence, it really is a total failure and the denial, constant contradictions by it's supporters (it is a platform like it or not) and deflections underscores the low usage with a clear majority of users still running back to Twitter after a few days of using Mastodon. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17788060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17788060 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15514987 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15514987

rvz 4y ago

> 1) it's not a platform, It is a platform. The creator of Mastodon seems to think it is. > 192000 is the number for mastodon, there's a wider network that mastodon servers are a part of, That is the daily active user count of the entire Mastodon network and instances that have been online for long enough to at least have one user login once a week. > this is not some company like twitter or gab or whatever with quarterly performance announcements and user on boarding targets, Yet, out of 3 million registrants and only 192k use it. That is more than 90% of people not using it meaning that there is virtually no one using it on a daily or even weekly basis. That is a failure for something that has been constantly compared to as a 'Twitter alternative' or 'alternative social network' ever since its 1.0 or 2.0 release and each time Mastodon is brought up anywhere else other than Mastodon; like this site for example [0][1], Twitter, Facebook and online news articles. After 6 years of existence, it really is a total failure and the denial, constant contradictions by it's supporters (it is a platform like it or not) and deflections underscores the low usage with a clear majority of users still running back to Twitter after a few days of using Mastodon. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17788060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17788060 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15514987 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15514987