@jerry i fucking love your dry sense of humor, Jerry.

@jerry Probably written by the same folks who keep churning out the "End of Remote Work" articles.

@jerry it's the zombie apocalypse!

@jerry Well damn, maybe you can buy some servers off twitter since failure seems to need more compute than success.

@jerry At least they’re talking about Mastodon I guess. Crazy how little any of the tech press has recognized Lemmy/Kbin considering the Reddit fiasco

@jerry It must be because everyone who leaves is added to the Clacks overhead

GNU Terry Pratchett

@jerry but jerry, what if people want Shatner to find them??

@jerry 😂 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

@jerry @BlueWaver22 😂

@jerry it turns out the killer feature of the Fediverse is not caring about interest rates.

@jerry it works like a graveyard where you need to keep expanding space to have room to bury all those dead accounts, right?

@jerry The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

John Mastodon or Mark Twain
I dunno, I'm a bot.

@jerry You have my sympathies

@jerry Not sure where all these data come from... but frankly, I can't see it dying from where I sit. And I'm glad the #infosec sphere is here too! :apartyblobcat:​

@jerry Yeah very strange phenomenon where less users is actually more resource intensive…

@jerry public standardized open technology never works and is always replaced by special much more capable technology. When everyone can implement something and it is compatible with other stuff, how can you exploit people. Look what standardizing electricity plugs have led to. Thousands of companies implement devices. How to corner the market with this? *Italian hand gesture*

@jerry Mastodon is dead! Long live Mastodon!

@jerry Mastodon is apparently so well engineered that it requires less resources with more users. all the folks quitting are reversing those optimizations.

@jerry The end is nigh. Repent Mastodons. :mastodon: 🙃

Quitting is computationally expensive.

@jerry Like AWS, apparently it's the Egress that kills you

@jerry funny how that works.

@jerry the real question is why the three people left are producing so much content.

@jerry

Ah yes, Mastodon is dying.. from success. :catjam:

@jerry Hamradio , according to sources has been dying for fifty years and multiple large companies are coming out with shiny new radios with better technology every year or so. No worries 😉

@jerry no one uses mastodon because it's too crowded

@jerry mastodon is difficult to get started with, to make it for real you need to simplify the sign up process to the likes of twitter

@ThreadTree unroll

When do you guys find time to read all these "news articles"... I woke up on Monday and I already missed on all the drama that has unrolled over the weekend.
Couldn't care less.

Sad that it's children and cousins are dying too... RIP Calckey, Misskey, Kbin and Lemmy! I'm guessing that all those new users are just people who've come to pay their respects.

@jerry It *is* kind of a shame, tho, because 'everybody's saying' is of considerable power to us apes.

@jerry Very sad indeed. All that extra usage is clearly a sign of the end.

@jerry Thanks for that! :-)

@jerry

🥳

@jerry mastodon is dying which is why in one day 500 new people followed me

@jerry 3.7K toots since November 2022.

I… somehow feel the premise of that article is woefully incorrect.

I'd love to see how that compares, but I've found no way to easily identify how many titty toots (a tit is a type of bird) I've produced since 2008.

@jerry Is it just Mastodon that didn't make it or all alternatives to #Twitter?

@jerry 😲

@jerry The financial analysts have figured out that Mastodon instances can't be run on the DotCom model, and that the network effects only tie people to protocol compatible instances.

So to them mastodon will *always* be failing, even once it gets bigger than FB.

@jerry I stopped using it earlier this year because of how clunky it was. Vastly better now.

@jerry Yeah, that must be why my mastodon timeline is always so laggy .. not because of 600+ toots that echo from the distant past (apparently) every day ..

@jerry Someone(s) really want this to fail.

@jerry

No one goes to Mastodon anymore…It’s too crowded.

@jerry It's as if #Mastodon and the #Fediverse are playing soccer and the media keep telling us how bad we are at baseball.

We don't want exponential growth. 12M people behaving (mostly) decently and with (mostly) effective moderation make a much better social network than 120M bots, trolls, corporate PR accounts, and conspiracy theorists.

@jerry it's not dying, but it doesn’t seem to be taking off either. Hopefully things will change.

@jerry Haters gonna hate.

@jerry Maybe the process of not using Mastodon is very resource intensive?

#MakesSense

@jerry
Success is the best revenge against those who doubt you. :meowsip:

@jerry@infosec.exchange it's like the right wing extremists that are saying the knip was a failure one day after they put it up in a 6 week test that took years to greenlight.

@jerry not actively trying to grow into a massive social network in the vein of Twitter == dying for many people who weren't around in the early days of social media. Back when it was more about small groups of like-minded people rather than an endless feed of content.

@jerry 🤭

@jerry It's not making any money, so how can it be successful? /s

@jerry

Seriously

Anyone who believes there isn't a tech media agenda to slander #Mastodon and the #Fediverse -- probably to pimp for #Bluesky and probably #Meta - #Project92 - #Barcelona -- is simply not paying any attention

Or is in on the scam

@jerry 😋

@jerry Crazy to me how people seem to assume if Mastodon is not instantly as big as say, twitter, it isn't successful. Things take time. Maybe Mastodon never becomes that big. Maybe it only becomes 1% of twitter. But in the mean time people are enjoying it. It's like IRC. IRC isn't nearly as popular as Discord but plenty of people use it.

Also I guess if you can't make money off it its DOA in everyone's mind somehow.

@jerry All of these articles seem to be making the assumption that Twitter, with its debts and lack of ad revenue, is actually viable.

@jerry it's almost like there is a compulsive need among a large swath of media to destroy things which are explicitly set up to be egalitarian and social, instead of set up to exploit others for profit. Hence, BlueSky, which I just read sells user generated data to train AIs, is good, while Mastodon is bad and failing.

Anything which shows people that another way not only is possible but within which people can thrive must be terminated as a matter of urgency.

@jerry guys today mastodon is offically dead everyone delete ur accs 😂

@jerry ChatGPT is hella confident and good at writing acceptable bullsh*t.

@jerry Anything like the articles that talk bout how happy everyone is about returning to work in person five days a week?

@jerry It's very unfortunate and sad that I'm constantly wasting so much time on this dying service that no one is using

@jerry

Tell that to the journalists' and the billing department at the hosting provider, eh? 🤦‍♂️👍

Perhaps they will give you a Quiet Quitting Mastodon discount off the storage usage fees. /€

@jerry

I love the comments, but I'm going for the serious side on this one.

I expect we'll see a lot more of this in the coming weeks and months as the Fediverse ramps gradually to a household name.

It represents a public open platform that has no dependence on the corporate model and I'm sure it scares the shit out of them. So we'll see all the tricks. Quiet digs, rephrasing and some musical chairs with syntax to convey the idea that the Fediverse will never work.

#Fediverse #CorporateCreep

@jerry 😂🫢

@jerry cc: @daringfireball

@jerry It’s dying so much that my phone hasn’t stopped buzzing in a couple of days from notifications. When I left the other place, I had hundreds more followers but way, way less engagement. I’m having actual, mostly civil back and forths with folks about all sorts of topics.

@jerry Did the article copy all of the other articles, and state "It's really hard to sign up to Mastodon!" despite it being no more difficult than, say, picking an ISP or an email provider?

@jerry Was it from one of those news networks with the dwindling amount of TV viewers?!

@jerry

@jerry
HA! 🤣

@jerry if the big names think we're not worth it, maybe they'll leave us alone

@jerry After seeing the first news articles that the #Fediverse/#Mastodon dwindles, shrinks and doesn't catch on, I thought that the journalists didn't do enough research or that they were misinterpreting the data (huge spike in November and then it went down a while). However, now I think that there is some economic interest involved or that they are paid. In fact, within 12 months, the Fediverse number of users almost tripled and the active users almost quadrupled.

@jerry Netcraft confirms it: mastodon is dying.

@jerry ...From a bluesky account?

@jerry I'm boosting as fast as I can

@jerry Someone should inform the couple hundred thousand people who joined over the weekend they chose wrong and should forget it right?

This is highly irresponsible.

Does it matter TwElon ghost wrote that article?

Probably not.

@jerry by that definition, other Platforms like Twitter and Facebook are also dying

@jerry It's interesting to note how the notion of 'mastodon sign-up process is too hard' persists even in the technical media. I mean, I'm a COMPLETE tech faker and figured it out *before* they made it easier.

@jerry I quit Reddit to join mastodon. Does that count?

@jerry
Ooooooooh others are jealous! 🤣😆
"Waves" at all the fediverse "losers"👋

@jerry if we can get all these people posting to shut for a moment, perhaps we could hold a minute's silence...

@jerry

I just read a blog post about all the "problems" with it. This has not been my experience at all. It's my all-time favorite social media where I get the most engagement & spend the bulk of my online time.

@jerry

@jerry Funny that 🙌✋

@jerry Mastodon as phenomenon caused the series of glitches in the Matrix.
Will it be just another one Matrix reboot or complete destruction?

#mastodon #matrix

@jerry Well, that's because it says in the Mastodon docs deleting old posts is an expensive operation.

We're all sat here clearing out our toots, and it's killing the servers.

@jerry Strange, isn't it?

@jerry My thin foil hat just becomes tighter every time a major company has issues and then a lot of news sites start to crap on its competitors, downplay the issues in oddly non-news and more like apologist way or just directly attack generally expressed opinions about the said company.

I'd love to see some investigative journalism on how PR companies spin certain concepts really fast into every possible social media after some big company needs a PR disaster deflection.

@jerry pr machines

@jerry
@purplepadma

RIP Mastodon :blobcatpensive:

@jerry I hear that people started moving back to the bird app

@jerry "Mastodon is dying, NetCraft confirms it."

@jerry looks like you're doing the exact opposite from twitter, who's cutting their servers after the influx of new subscribers - I mean after not paying their GCS bills

@jerry 🤣 Go figure.