Younger audiences most certainly are not on Mastodon. The younger hardcore "gamers" might be, because they understand how to move around Discord servers, but th

Younger audiences most certainly are not on Mastodon. The younger hardcore "gamers" might be, because they understand how to move around Discord servers, but that's not as huge a group of users as one might think. Mastodon is not and will never be "normie" friendly, so it'll never be a contender. Sorry, just the way it is. Time will tell how things play between Twitter and Threads, but Twitter seems to be taking some interesting steps towards maintaining it's relevance. Mastodon was always a joke and still is. Threads has 100 million users already. We'll see if they maintain.