Is mastodon a success? I agree federation is the best strategy (I have a blog and HN and nothing else), but twitter seems to still utterly dominate Add in a re

Is mastodon a success? I agree federation is the best strategy (I have a blog and HN and nothing else), but twitter seems to still utterly dominate Add in a really significant requirement for cheap compute, and I don’t know that a federated or distributed model is even slightly possible?