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

[mdstevens0612@mas.to]

@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...

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@cibersheep @rysiek @revengeday tha old ways are often the best

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@dhinojosa you may say post and share and John Mastodon won't kill you. @rysiek

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@CoolerPseudonym nope!

you appear to have depression. bye!

[bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot]

@rysiek What a terrible article. It doesn't even give credit to John Mastodon for creating this site in the first place!

[cass_m@socialbc.ca]

@moses_izumi I had assumed it was because of difficulty monetizing but data breech makes sense.

[mcm_63@mastodon.uno]

@rysiek

„Unless someone buys the code off Rochko today and consolidates this mess ASAP, it can't survive.“

[eeveecraft@dragonscave.space]

@rysiek

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.

#Mastodon #Twitter #FediMeta

[kichae@wanderingadventure.party]

Cass Well, the breech probably happened because Google dropped all investment in it. So, it’s all sort of the same thing, I’m sure.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@Eeveecraft counterpoint: https://pluralistic.net/tag/scalloped-growth/

[seyd@declin.eu]

Извините, вы заблокированы.

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@bodhipaksa @rysiek John Mastodon sadly had to wait over five more years to get proper credit. A disgrace, truly.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@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.

[dgodon@mastodon.online]

@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!

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@dgodon move slow and gradually improve things.

[dank@jorts.horse]

@rysiek

1. Terrible name

lol

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

[haunted_refrigerator@theforkiverse.com]

@rysiek Ha ha ha ha ha ha...solid!

[wanwizard@mastodon.scot]

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

[eeveecraft@dragonscave.space]

@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:

https://fedidb.com/software/mastodon

https://joinmastodon.org/servers

https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=96

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:

https://mastodon-analytics.com/

Server counts have also been decreasing.

[stadtkind@chaos.social]

mastodon is the level of petty I aspire to