npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3 (npub1hpc…hjn3) Mastodon (and wider fedi) usage always fluctuates - in the past year and a half, there's been a consistent theme of huge increases when Musk does something stupid, followed by many, but not all, of those new accounts drifting away.
It's like a tide that carries shells towards a beach: with each wave, many shells wash up on the shore, and most are immediately pulled back out to sea; but with each wave, a few shells get left behind and become part of the beach.
More generally, though, I think the idea of any single social media platform becoming truly dominant is dead, if it ever truly existed in the first place (and it's always worth remembering that Twitter was *never* that big, *never* so large as its outsize cultural presence in some countries suggested).
Mastodon and other fedi platforms don't have to become huge. They just need to be big enough for the people who want and need to use them, one of many islands in the social media ocean.
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2023-10-10 07:04:19
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