>It's completely unworkable, offers no value proposition to users, is more expensive to implement and is way more complex. And yet we still have thriving commu

>It's completely unworkable, offers no value proposition to users, is more expensive to implement and is way more complex. And yet we still have thriving communities with tens or hundreds of thousands of people who are all pretty happy and satisfied with the way things are. Because you don't understand what the value is doesn't change the fact that a ton of people do find it valuable. Calling mastodon a failed platform is laughable when we have so many people who enjoy it. I mean that literally, it's a running joke and we all laugh at takes like this. We even have memes about it. The value proposition is actually quite simple: it's small, it's decentralized, theres no algorithm, it's wholly independent of corporate or advertiser influence, and it's full of people who value those things highly. It is the antithesis of centralized corporate social media, built by and for people who find the modern corporate web intolerable. What you're complaining about is ActivityPub. It's bad, everyone knows it's bad, we talk about it all the time. There's a great deal of discussion and effort being put into improving it. It comes with some frustrations and odd behavior, but it's largely irrelevant to most users. The fediverse in general has quite a lot of active users, and that count is growing slowly and steadily. Clearly these people find value and utility in these platforms. Claiming it's an unworkable platform with no value is objectively incorrect. > Famously, POTS has no issue with spam You should do some research into this claim.