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

[royhorace@mast.lat]

@mxchara @rysiek at least we have George Takei

[driftini@wetdry.world]

@rysiek the thing is fedi is just not comparable to twitter, no wonder one loses when held to the standards of the other

you go to one social or the other for different reasons, I believe fedi excels at less but better connections and conversations, while twitter is the instant winner when it comes to keeping up to date with higher profile people (non-indie music artists and such) or generally what's hot on the internet at a given time

I am not considering twitter's ideological issues here cause they're a recent problem that's not intrinsic to the platform I feel

[sexybenfranklin@smores.town]

@rysiek what if Mastodon didn't survive and this is all limbo?

[shellsharks@shellsharks.social]

@rysiek Obviously this looks painfully ridiculous reading it from the year 2026, but even back then he was laying it on a bit too thick, like he wanted it to fail .

We of course know it will live forever...

https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/11/18/mastodon-will-never-die

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@RoyHorace @rysiek far better George Takei than William Shatner in this particular case!

[vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de]

@RoyHorace @mxchara @rysiek

I think its George Takei's social media team rather than him directly, but one thing I've noticed since 2017 is whilst I was initially one of the oldest on my Fedi group, now there are *many* folk on Fedi easily old enough to be my parents (and I'm 54!) and a lot who aren't from tech backgrounds, which shows the network has become accessible and usable for older people..

[nickapos@mastodon.oncrete.uk]

@shellsharks @rysiek A lot of journalists and influencers assume that most people are like them. They project their own competencies, or lack of them to the wider public.
This is similar to a review who reviews a new computer and the first thing they do is encode 4k video.
They assume that everyone wants to do that.

Also they are often missing the point that open source projects are evolving around a community. The community dictates the direction a project will evolve and not some kind of corporate agenda.

In any case the majority of journalists have decided to ignore mastodon and fediverse in general and quite a few of them did what they could to manipulate their audience away from fediverse.

[Gæst]

@rysiek "There is nothing intrinsically wonderful about Mastodon aside from the fact that it's not Twitter." - there is lack of understanding in that statement from the article. Like completely missing the point. But hey ho, we're here on this dead platform after many years

[webhat@infosec.exchange]

@DJGummikuh @rysiek William Shatner couldn't find me on Mastodon either. I'd post a link to the tweet, and it's been deleted

[quinn@social.circl.lu]

@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

[chrisp@cyberplace.social]

@rysiek How is the Metaverse going, anyway?

Mastodon has outlived the Metaverse, bitcoin usefulness, NFTs...

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@chrisp Google+. Fedi has already been around several years longer than all of Google+.

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@rysiek lmao brilliant! happy website day everybody, this is a good and funny reminder to toss a coin to our instance provider for suurre

[mxfraud@tabletop.social]

@rysiek extra funny part the embedded tweet that doesn't load with:
"This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. "

[thestonedonkey@beige.party]

@rysiek Mastodon having a bit of a learning curve is one of the best things about it IMO.  

Much like the Internet before AOL and the masses having easy access, and we all saw how that went.

[stux@mstdn.social]

@rysiek What "reporter" uses words like this in a tech article

I think they had the feeling they where on Twitter still

Clowns!

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@rysiek Hopefully he's learned a bit more than that because WOW!

I honestly thought AI wrote it and hallucinated the whole time. Something trained on rage bait from middle schoolers. Wasn't a coherent argument in it anywhere.

"The logo is cute, but the service right now stinks almost as badly as a thawing woolly mammoth."

Even if mastodon had face planted, this article wouldn't be relevant to anyone but the guy who wrote it...and maybe Shatner because it's got him in it.

[matera@mastodon.sdf.org]

@rysiek YES! Bumblebees can't fly

[scott@sfba.social]

@rysiek

[coolerpseudonym@wandering.shop]

@rysiek He was right. It did die