> You seems to be a bit frustrated yourself by the fact that there was little to no such adoption in the first place after showing those links right in front of

> You seems to be a bit frustrated yourself by the fact that there was little to no such adoption in the first place after showing those links right in front of you. How many times do I have to say that I'm happy with the current size of Mastodon? > I thought you said you had a 'good memory'? This has nothing to do with memory. You made vague, almost nonsensical accusations. > We all know that the vast majority of normal users (not techies, developers, etc) have tried it, aired their frustrations and left and didn't stick around. Absurdly false. There's no evidence whatsoever that hundreds of millions of people have tried Mastodon. That's such a bizarre claim, especially since you continue to talk about how you think the total number of Mastodon accounts ever created is low. > But clearly you refuse to acknowledge that and continue to ignore the centralization and corruption risks with Meta's backroom NDAs with instance admins. This may be the first relevant thing you've said. Except I'm 100% opposed to Facebook's P92 project. > Yet the majority of the normal users (220M+) on Twitter took a look at Mastodon, tried it, left and never looked back again. Whether they "looked" at Mastodon, I couldn't say (and neither can you), but I can say that the majority of Twitter users didn't try it. Do 200M people even have the motivation to try Mastodon? > But for perspective of that figure, it seems that Nostr reached that 'total number' quicker than Mastodon did in less than 7 years. There's an obvious reason for that, the elephant in the room. The Mastodon and Nostr signups both mostly occurred after Elon Musk acquired Twitter. > Is that why you haven't replied to this comment [1] who is asking whether if there is even evidence of 'over a million regular users?' (non-techies) using it? Why do you take "regular" from the other commenter to mean "non-techie" as opposed to "frequent"? According to https://joinmastodon.org/about https://joinmastodon.org/about there are 1.2M monthly active users. There are no demographic surveys of Mastodon, so I have no idea how many are "techie" or "non-techie", nor do I care. > Mastodon was meant to challenge that during the so-called #TwitterMigration outrage as that alternative for normal users. What do you mean Mastodon was "meant" for that? As you continue to say, Mastodon was created in 2016. The so-called #TwitterMigration was a result of Elon Musk acquiring Twitter in 2022. Unless you're claiming that Eugen Rochko magically predicted this acquisition 6 years prior, Mastodon was not meant for that. The simple fact is that after Musk acquired Twitter, a significant number of people including myself were looking for an alternative to Twitter, and they found it with Mastodon. You seem overly concerned about what happened with Mastodon from 2016-2021, but I don't really care about that. Yes, Mastodon had relatively low adoption before the Musk acquisition. So what? > given that you're were part of the Twitter collapse nonsense on HN last year. But you knew that already. Citation needed.