Gregory's Server@ajroach42 Ultimately I firmly believe Mastodon will fail simply because the new user onboarding experience is rough, but it’s a super interesting experiment and will no doubt lay the groundwork for networks to come.
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@ajroach42 Ah fair! I’ll fully admit I didn’t know that it had been around for so long. I hope it doesn’t replace Twitter either, it’s its own thing and should stay that way! It’s a very unique site nonetheless.  @Ascadia102 I wrote a thing with some history: https://ajroach42.com/what-everyone-seems-to-get-wrong-about-mastodon/ The beauty of what we're doing is that it isn't one site, you know? @ajroach42 I’ll be sure to give that a read here in the morning, thanks. Yeah and that’s what drew me to it, I had heard about it a few months ago and had been meaning to try it out, but now that a few creators that I follow have moved here I had literally no excuse to not try it out and I’ve enjoyed it so far. @jasongreen @ajroach42 sorry, ended up logging off for the night last night. I moreso mean that as it grows the more servers (I believe that’s the right term for the different ones you can go to?) it will have, which will further divide the population. While personally I view that as a good thing, carving out niches and all that, it will no doubt make financial viability for server owners a challenge. @jasongreen @ajroach42 since, correct me if I’m mistaken, most servers rely on donations for upkeep? @Ascadia102 @jasongreen My instance ~60 users, is funded out of pocket to the tune of about $30/month. An instance of 1000 users would probably need closer to $100/month. So yeah, donations, but not many. @Ascadia102 @jasongreen That's kind of the opposite of what is happening. It started with hundreds of servers run in closets on raspberry pis and old laptops for one or two people, and it's growing in to a bunch of bigger servers with many more people. Small instances are good. |
@Ascadia102 Mastodon has been here for 6 years, we haven't failed yet. the fediverse has been here for ~10+
Open standards are hard to kill.
Of course, that depends on your definition of success, and how you define failure.
Will it replace twitter? God I hope not, that place was awful.
Will it be here in another 10 years? If so, I hope it looks a lot different.