I don't like the clickbait title at all -- Mastodon's clearly going to survive, at least for the forseeable future, and it wouldn't surprise me if it outlives Xitter.

Still, Mastodon is struggling; most of the people who checkd it out in the November 2022 surge (or the smaller June 2023 surge) didn't stick around, and numbers have been steadily declining for the last year. The author makes some good points, and some of the comments are excellent.

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[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

I never liked the microblog format so while I've had acouple masto accounts since 2016 I never used it. But i also never used twitter.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (6 children)

There's just not many people on there. And I already never used Twitter except to read in-time updates from people and companies, so naturally with many of them being on Threads or Bluesky, that's where I'd go to get that information.

I mean it's just normal to have a "social" part to social media, no?

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Mastodon is 10 years younger and has 0.24% of Twitter’s user-base.

They’re doing great!

[–] disguised_doge@kbin.earth 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Twitter had 271 million monthly active users a decade ago

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[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bluesky, using ATProto, which as near as I can tell is not used by anyone else, is not part of the fediverse as a result. Since both ActivityPub, and ATProto, and for that matter also Zot, are all open sourced protocols, it is my hope someone will build bridge software that incorporates and provides interoperability between both. Hubzilla would seem an ideal place for that to happen since that is already it's role, to bridge multiple protocols.

[–] nate@social.trom.tf 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

@nanook Actually, quick fun fact, there's already bridges. Bridgy Fed offers Activity Pub <> AT bridging, and Mostr offers Nostr <> Activity Pub bridging (and can be chained with Bridgy Fed to offer Nostr <> AT bridging). Not aware of any Zot bridges except the Hubzilla plugin that lets you follow AP users.

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[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

I think people are tired of the 140 character type social networks, the novelty has simply worn off. It's either self-promotion or "I had two eggs for breakfast lol" type of posts.

People who came to Mastodon, posted "Hello world!" and didn't bother to set a profile picture or add a description will always complain about the lack of discoverability, or the place being boring.

You literally have to put in work to set up your feed, follow hashtags, people and post yourself for it to be a network and not just a feed of things. And I think people struggle with this concept a lot.

I do understand that it's not for everyone. But it's not a problem with Mastodon, it's just a natural filter IMO. "You have to put at least this much effort to integrate". Low-effort things are usually just rage-bait.

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