Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive
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@rysiek @chrisp
Unfashionable take, but I really liked G+ (in the early days, before the mandatory YouTube disaster).
I got in as part of the first wave of general public users, courtesy of an invite from a friend who worked for Google.Woz was on it, and I found a lot of interesting music there (that wasn't being pushed anywhere else).
It (unsurprisingly) went to shit after they added the mandatory requirement to have a G+ account to add comments on YouTube videos.
@dec23k why unfashionable? I never used it, but that doesn't mean it was bad. That was years before all the really toxic social media stuff started happening. No shade if you liked it.
The point I was making is that this here tiny little fedi has way more staying power than a social network with over a hundred million users at the time, pushed hard by one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
That, to me, is the superpower of decentralized services.
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Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive@rysiek it was fortold that the troglodyte Lance Ulanoff would emerge from his rock and proclaim that mastodon was not his friend then go back under his rock while shaking his fist at the clouds in the sky. And so it was
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Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive@rysiek I remember well using it in it's beginnings. But I gave up because I could only find tech nerds at that time instead of Gene Roddenberry.
When I came back years later, the audience fortunately had widened. We now have even Star Trek embroidery! https://mastodon.art/@inarticulatequilter/116352586519746418 -
Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive@rysiek that scrub, what a fuckwit. I am glad that saying toots literally hurt him. may he keep saying it. on twitter. where he belongs.
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Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive@rysiek it sure has failed as an experiment!
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@rysiek @chrisp
Unfashionable take, but I really liked G+ (in the early days, before the mandatory YouTube disaster).
I got in as part of the first wave of general public users, courtesy of an invite from a friend who worked for Google.Woz was on it, and I found a lot of interesting music there (that wasn't being pushed anywhere else).
It (unsurprisingly) went to shit after they added the mandatory requirement to have a G+ account to add comments on YouTube videos.
@dec23k @rysiek @chrisp
The funny thing about Google+ was that it was shut down in order to cover up a rather nasty security breach.
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@rysiek I love Mastodon, but the term "toot" is still ridiculous and reminds me of farting. I had wished "verse" (as in Metaverse) was the choice for posting something, and if someone reposts it, it would be a re-verse. Which would have been a clever word trick
@dhinojosa
If you can post verse, you can post prose. So maybe Fediverse posts should be called "Prosts" instead of toots or verses?
Nah, "verses" is better.
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Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive@rysiek Glad he took being wrong in good spirits but man, this article is super obnoxious. And NGL, I will never lose sleep over William Shatner not being able to find me on mastodon. Now if it were maybe Chris Pine...
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@rysiek I was going to say «I would not read it, but I didn't... sorry, I just read the headers XD XD and noooow, I will retut it
@cibersheep @rysiek @revengeday tha old ways are often the best
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@rysiek I love Mastodon, but the term "toot" is still ridiculous and reminds me of farting. I had wished "verse" (as in Metaverse) was the choice for posting something, and if someone reposts it, it would be a re-verse. Which would have been a clever word trick
@dhinojosa you may say post and share and John Mastodon won't kill you.
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@rysiek He was right. It did die
@CoolerPseudonym nope!
you appear to have depression. bye!
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Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive@rysiek What a terrible article. It doesn't even give credit to John Mastodon for creating this site in the first place!
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@dec23k @rysiek @chrisp
The funny thing about Google+ was that it was shut down in order to cover up a rather nasty security breach.
I only know this because @hipsterelectron mentioned it@moses_izumi I had assumed it was because of difficulty monetizing but data breech makes sense.
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Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive„Unless someone buys the code off Rochko today and consolidates this mess ASAP, it can't survive.“
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Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-surviveWelp, he was wrong about Mastodon fizzling out in two weeks, but the one thing he wasn't wrong about was Mastodon growing stagnant. Mastodon's sat at the same active user counts for a while and it's plateau'd. The platform hasn't seen any significant growth since the 2022 Twitter exodus, and though growth obviously isn't everything, Mastodon remains relatively niche.
Still, funny reading about this dude just having a massive skill-issue with using Mastodon.
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@moses_izumi I had assumed it was because of difficulty monetizing but data breech makes sense.
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Well, the breech probably happened because Google dropped all investment in it. So, it’s all sort of the same thing, I’m sure. -
Welp, he was wrong about Mastodon fizzling out in two weeks, but the one thing he wasn't wrong about was Mastodon growing stagnant. Mastodon's sat at the same active user counts for a while and it's plateau'd. The platform hasn't seen any significant growth since the 2022 Twitter exodus, and though growth obviously isn't everything, Mastodon remains relatively niche.
Still, funny reading about this dude just having a massive skill-issue with using Mastodon.
@Eeveecraft counterpoint: https://pluralistic.net/tag/scalloped-growth/
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Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-surviveИзвините, вы заблокированы.
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@rysiek What a terrible article. It doesn't even give credit to John Mastodon for creating this site in the first place!
@bodhipaksa @rysiek John Mastodon sadly had to wait over five more years to get proper credit. A disgrace, truly.
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@rysiek it has shrunk a lot which i am sad about, but what people need to remember is that foss shit never goes away, even when you want it to
@quinn I don't think growth for growth's sake is the way to go, and while it does provide *a* signal, it is not *the* signal so to speak.
I fully expect Bluesky to start enshittifying, because of course they will with their cryptocurrency bro overlords looking for payout eventually.
Meanwhile fedi is doing its thing, getting more resilient, easier to join, dealing with some long-term issues around moderation and so on. And will be there, better prepared than ever, for the next wave.
