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I'm still wondering why Diaspora didn't take off but Mastodon did...

• guizzy 3y ago
  When it started, Mastodon had an existing userbase to communicate with on OStatus, in the existing GNU Social communities, so it could skip the "Who wants to talk to a ghost town?" era of a social media's growth. Though this prompts us to wonder why GNU Social took off (modestly) but Diaspora didn't.
• Macha 3y ago
  A different era. Mastodon had plenty of problems of closed networks to show (before it was Twitter, there was the failings of e.g. tumblr and Google+ to point to)