Makeuseof has abandoned us. Is all hope lost?
- Almost, but not enough nazis
- No billionaire owners
- Not enough of it is a walled garden
- Very few corporate media accounts
- No algorithm to decide for you what to read
- Not enough proprietary software
Honestly #5 is the biggest one. I don’t want algorithms in my timeline but I do want some kind of algorithm “for you” feed when I feel like exploring.
Basically because of everything that makes mastodon great ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
- Mastodon’s Business Model Might Not Be Enough to Compete With X
Although Mastodon does have a diverse business model and has the capability to succeed in the long run, competing with a company the size of X is challenging without significant resources. If Mastodon chooses to keep its platform ad-free, it’ll need to think about how it markets existing revenue streams and potentially create new ones.
Lol what
This feels like a badly organized listicle than an actual discussion about what might happen
Number 4 made me audibly blow air out my nose in amusement. It’s misunderstanding what mastodon is, it has no business model, by design.
Like an LLM-generated listicle. “Mastodon” doesn’t have a business model any more than email does.
TLDR;
- Mastodon Hasn’t Appealed to the Masses
- Ordinary Users Often Find Mastodon Difficult to Use
- Twitter Is Well-Established
- Mastodon’s Business Model Might Not Be Enough to Compete With X
- Mastodon’s Growth Has Slowed Down
- Users Sometimes Have to Wait to Join Mastodon Instances
Personally I don’t use it because I just never liked the Twitter style and always liked forums and image boards more. But it seems like it comes down to lack of awareness and willingness to switch. Their other points don’t really hold up
Honestly, I’m enjoying Mastodon more because it hasn’t replaced Twitter.
It’s not full of spam and arseholes, it’s not trying to bruteforce shite takes or adverts into my feed, and I can self-host the whole thing while still interacting with the platform as a whole.
They even acknowledge mastodon is growing and twitter is shrinking, write this article when mastodon starts shrinking and twitter starts growing
Nowadays, we have got two more Twitter alternatives - one more similar, than Mastodon (Bluesky) and one bigger than Mastodon (Threads).
All that “sign-up difficulties” (2, 6) should be no more after the official app making mastodon.social a default instance.