Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

@rysiek some of the criticisms seem legit and still pose challenges. And it got a pretty good boost from the birdsite imploding. But I’m glad to see it still going and slowly improving. So nice to have a non commercial social media space!

@dgodon move slow and gradually improve things.

@rysiek

1. Terrible name

lol

"Lance Ulanoff was Chief Correspondent and Editor-at-Large of Mashable"

@rysiek LanceUlanoff: "This profile has been hidden by the moderators of mastodon.scot."

@rysiek

Counterpoint: that article is over three years old and was written not long after the Twitter exodus. That doesn't counter my point that the platform has plateau'd in terms of active users:

(fedidb.com)

Servers

Find where to sign up for the decentralized social network Mastodon.

(joinmastodon.org)

Fediverse Observer checks all sites in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home from a map or list or automatically.

We observe all Fediverse Sites. Find a Fediverse site to sign up for, find one close to you using a list, map or let us auto-pick one for you!

(fediverse.observer)

Estimates range from ~750k - 1m monthly active users, and I know it's been sitting at that for a while because I occasionally check in with FediDB. Monthly active users has been coasting around 1.1m - 1.2m for over a year now. Mastodon Analytics show that the monthly active user count is currently coasting downwards when zoomed all the way out:

Mastodon Analytics

How many users, active users, servers are on Mastodon?

Mastodon Analytics (mastodon-analytics.com)

Server counts have also been decreasing.

mastodon is the level of petty I aspire to

@Eeveecraft the point that piece is making is: such numbers do not mean "stagnation".

Mastodon (the project) has overhauled it's management structure at long last and for the better, implemented a lot of functionalities people have been asking for years for (quote-toots, grouped notifications, many others).

Fediverse (the community) understands itself better, has done a lot of work around becoming a more friendly place for newcomers – and that work continues.

Fedi is anything but stagnant.

@mxchara @RoyHorace @rysiek I for one am not glad to have the abusive Trekkie still on this platform. Shatner is an asshole but at least he's not an accused sex pest.

@rysiek If you interpret the word, "Stagnant," like that, sure, but that's not what I mean by stagnant, and I thought that was pretty clear with the arguments and links I provided.

I mean stagnant in terms of growth, and I am talking about Mastodon specifically, we're not talking about the Fediverse in general. Where did I mention the Fediverse as a whole and not Mastodon?

@dec23k It was great in the beginning. What I liked most about it was how communities formed by people sharing circles when that feature was introduced. You could share a circle if no more than 2000 people/accounts were in it. And people could choose to follow those up to 2000 people. There were a lot of circles going around with "people who regularly post on [TOPIC]". So you could follow those 300 or 800 accounts by putting them in their own circle and if you didn't like some of them, you'd remove those as they kept posting stuff you weren't interested in. I was in several such circles and I followed several of them. This shaped fan communities very fluently because everybody had a their own set of fans on a TV show, for example.

I had >1000 followers because of that and it was the most active platform I've ever been a part of, while one article after another kept coming out about how nobody ever posts anything of G+. The discrepancy between my experience and the public opinion was incredible and extreme.

But then they added "Communities" which were like groups on any other social platform and everybody started posting to those instead of to their personal timeline when they posted about things for which a community existed. And so everybody had to either pick one or a few communities or miss out on posts about their favourite TV show. That was the start of the end of it for me. @rysiek @chrisp

@rysiek what a treat
"Mastodon cannot live on hype alone."

@rysiek I am happy to celebrate the ninth year of Mastodon Won't Survive.

@rysiek That aged well lol

Ulanoff sounds like a very self important person. Hopefully he chose to remain on X.

@rysiek

I am totally ok with this plan. Slow is good!

@dgodon

@rysiek it's bitter sweet to see that Lance is no longer a tech writer and he's just posting bird photos on #Facebook.

@Eeveecraft fair enough. Mastodon is often a stand-in for fedi, hence me interpreting it that way.

@rysiek 🥹🥹 yeah I miss the old days even tho I am around 20s I can feel back pain ehehe

@BenjaminNelan
1990 was ten years ago, and you can't convince me otherwise.
@rysiek

@rysiek please don't open that article, they'll see an uptick in traffic coming from Mastodon, which won't survive

@rysiek @quinn what do you mean by payback eventually?
They will want it now if not yesterday!