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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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 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?

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This is a baffling comment. There are tons of people on mastodon, more than I could ever hope to keep up with. I have a couple hundred accounts on follow and never manage to keep up. Honestly it could use some sorting.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I don't want to follow random people though? Twitter was useful as a way to follow specific companies and people to know when say, a service goes down or an update is released.

These people and companies aren't on Mastodon.

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This is the thing a lot of Mastodon users seem to miss. I was on Twitter because of specific people and companies. They aren’t on Mastodon, so I have no use for it.

[–] mat@zelk.space 1 points 10 hours ago

@BURN some of them are on threads and have enabled fediverse sharing, this is also why mastodon can’t really die thanks to activitypub (and opensourceness/decentralisation)

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, chicken and egg. Unfortunate twitter has now locked down feeds so you have to be logged in, so also fuck them on that point.

It's a tradeoff. I am so disgusted by twitter that I chose to give that up and leave.