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

[kamerakata@ruhr.social]

@rysiek
There were three men come out of the West
Their fortunes for to try.
And these three men made a solemn vow.
John Mastodon must die.

[quinn@social.circl.lu]

@rysiek there's a lot of good people saying important things on Twitter still, too. People I respect and people I care about. Network effects are crucial.

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@nblr
I've seen people say that about BS accounts. Just signing up to protect my brand! Like copycat accounts are concerned about accuracy in account impersonations. They'll let some celeb have their real "protected" account of @johnsmith on BS and just use @johrsrn1th to ask people for iTunes gift cards.

@rysiek

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@chrisp
Three seriously low hanging plums, those.
@rysiek

[liquidlamp@hachyderm.io]

@xinit @rysiek @revengeday his comment is a year old, when bluesky's nefarious pivot was signposted, but less clear.

[64bithero@mstdn.games]

@rysiek to me there is fundamental flaws in his arguments and to anyone trying to mock him.

On one hand the chief complaint of Mastodon for him and for many is also its biggest feature. By its very nature Mastodon has no reason to ever “die”. It has no stakeholders no profit margins no business to keep a float. If someone just one person is willing to keep a server running In their basement forever with Mastodon on it. Mastodon will live for ever.

The gist of argument in my view ? Or what I see is the argument; is that Mastodon will never outgrow Twitter or X. And I agree, it won’t. Mastodon GMBH essentially guaranteed that by killing the ability to find other servers while using their servers.

I am done caring if Mastodon grows to billions. If people don’t want to put in a little work and see something amazing. That’s their problem ! Mastodon has plenty of interesting funny people who toot everyday. And that’s more than enough for me

The article itself is douchey as I imagine the author of it Is. But I think the argument is won that Mastodon will not achieve mainstream. My argument is that doesn’t matter.

[xinit@mastodon.coffee]

@liquidlamp
Fair, but we all knew they were going to have to bring VC money in. Even in the early days of Twitter, it was pretty obvious to many that there needed to be a way to generate revenue to pay for infrastructure and salaries. Monetize or die, more or less.
@rysiek @revengeday

[cybervegan@autistics.life]

@rysiek It'll never catch on. Lol.

[angiebaby@mas.to]

@rysiek Insightful views on Mastodon from a man who ... *reads again* ... set up an account solely to stop someone else from signing up using his name ... clearly not realizing there is no central username database for Mastodon.

[suneauken@mastodon.world]

@leanderlindahl @rysiek Oh yeah; we’re just drowning in hype here. All those politicians and influencers heaping undeserved praise on the little ol’ elephant.

[drathvedro@mastodon.social]

@rysiek Uh-huh. Great post to see in trending after coming from threads to check if mastodon gained any traction yet (it didn't)

[edcates@mastodon.social]

@falcennial @rysiek

I think we should all celebrate by tooting "Toot!" at his mastodon.social account.

[edcates@mastodon.social]

@dec23k @Mabande @MarkAssPandi @rysiek

Alternate Twitter apps were so popular Twitter had to close off their API just to get people onto the official one.

[trebach@functional.cafe]

@johnlogic @stux @rysiek He sounds like the guy running the quiz in Billy Madison