I joined one of the shards of Mastodon in 2018 or so and it's amazing to me how little it has evolved even since then. Not a knock on the developers who maintai

I joined one of the shards of Mastodon in 2018 or so and it's amazing to me how little it has evolved even since then. Not a knock on the developers who maintain it, but something is inherently broken in how it functions. It is not a consumer product and will not get adoption. Way too much friction that will be too alienating to journalist-types. I also get irked by quotes like this from the article: > All the chaos has scared away advertisers and users, who are leaving [Twitter] in droves. [...] On November 12, Mastodon founder Eugen Gagron posted that “[t]here are 1M more people using #Mastodon today than there were on October 27.” Unless this writer has evidence that these 1M people are deactivating their Twitter accounts, this is meaningless. Signups to a new platform do not equal to those signups "leaving" the other one. The point the writer is making for advertisers is more reasonable, but they too have likely just paused campaigns for the time being and could scurry back as soon as traffic warrants it.