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Platform shifts don’t happen overnight. A year ago this time, Mastodon was a curiosity. Today, it feels like Twitter circa 2010. That's something.
by Eric_WVGG 4y ago
Platform shifts don’t happen overnight.
A year ago this time, Mastodon was a curiosity. Today, it feels like Twitter circa 2010. That's something.
- marban 4y agoTwitter 2010 was already a global party.
- depereo 4y agoAnd so is Mastodon, now.
- anigbrowl 4y agoNo it isn't. I know someone who runs a specialist news outlet and cross-posts everything to Mastodon. It yields only a trickle of traffic/engagement despite the target market being pretty anti-Musk. Indeed, I'm told traffic/engagement on Twitter has actually improved since the takeover. What people say and how they behave are two different things. A lot of people still check Twitter every day because train wrecks are interesting.
- raydev 4y agoEvery time someone shares a link to a Mastodon post, I click on it and eventually realize it's not my instance, so I can't just click to follow the person or return to my feed by clicking. And that is only one example of how the decentralized experience is fundamentally broken.
- raydev 4y agoThere also weren't any functional alternatives to Twitter at the time. The following+unthreaded discussion model has only been replicated by Mastodon, and Mastodon obviously has much stronger competition!
- tick_tock_tick 4y agoYeah but it already failed... Popularity peaked and it's in a straight dive down.
- dahwolf 4y agoYou shouldn't be downvoted as you're factually right. MAU have been tanking since Dec 22. They lost almost 50% from the peak, and the line continues to go down, losing a few thousand active users every single day. Which isn't a total failure, it can be a small self-sustaining network but it fails to have a broad appeal.
- jdminhbg 4y agoTwitter circa 2010 was gaining active users. Mastodon today is losing active users: https://mastodon-analytics.com/ https://mastodon-analytics.com/