@jerry I’ve never personally seen something fail so successfully

@jerry Terrible news. I just hope that the 200 people who have re-tooted this and the hundreds of others who starred or replied to it… really take the personal time for themselves that I’m sure this mourning process deserves.

@jerry@infosec.exchange you’re just being “data pillaged” really hard, brah. — Musk fanboys, probably.

@jerry dying sooo hard that servers have to update !! and that people are leaving that one app, forgot what its called, twitter i think?

@jerry I see that occasionally...self-styled influencers who are losing the influence they seem to think they have. Of course, media reports that masto is failing are from the sort of companies with a vested interest in people NOT having control of their own social media.

@jerry it shall be forever known as 'The Mastodon Paradox'
That's would make a great title for a book about this very subject

@jerry So? Is there any other way to scale down than adding more servers?

@jerry

They are telling on themselves.

The whole model is feeding you ads in those other places. And those newsfotainment services can't stand it.

@jerry zzz....

@jerry damn it really is tough out here 😮‍💨

@jerry media doesn't get how Mastodon works tbh, like it isn't just one server its multiple

@jerry 😂 such a shame, and you’d think it’d mean less work 🤔

@jerry I love how “Mastodon isn’t successful” because corporations can’t figure out how to make money off of it. Meanwhile, my business has got more business off Mastodon than Twitter so 🤷‍♂️

@jerry thanks while it lasted. Too bad we will keep donating and inviting our friends for no reason at all.

@jerry News journalists are too focused on cash lost or profits made. They have never given much attention to any FOSS despite it underpinning the internet and corporate IT.

@jerry Could you refer to that news article ?

@jerry Ah, we're dead again. Oh well, we had a good run. RIP Mastodon 2023 - 2023.

Just came from Twitter, everybody's exiting from there @jerry

@jerry Wikipedia has the same problem with being declared dead by the jealous

@jerry As hard as we try to fall down and die, we miss the ground and only gain more users.

We need Dorsey or Musk to help us. Only they know how to do shit like they do.

@jerry Oh no I guess my mastodon-dedicated second monitor goes in the trash now.

@jerry Thank goodness corporate media is here to tell us it's literally impossible for people to learn to use a new tool that's different from a tool they used to use, but they're totally okay with constant rule changes from a megalomaniac billionaire.

@jerry RIP mastodon. The only social media I regularly get posts shared over 100 times.

@jerry I wonder how many folks who write those articles are hanging out on smaller instances having a grand old time, but writing those "Mastodon is dying" articles because their paychecks depend on it.

Assuming that they're sapients and not LLMs writing those articles, that is.

@jerry
I have noticed some more undesirable posts, imho… mostly bad information. Mute works for me. 😻😻

@jerry probably written by some shrill...

@jerry We're not actually here, y'know.

@jerry I’m perfectly happy if the meta, alphabet, and AOL users think we’re gone, because it means we dodged a bullet. Whew!

@jerry lol

@jerry The fact that I’m still gaining follows and finding more and more interesting people is a clear sign of rapid and inevitable decline.

@jerry I just showed up, so if experience tells us anything this place is over the hill and not cool anymore

@jerry elon can afford to have anti-mastodon propaganda written, but not to pay for his server infrastructure 😂

@jerry these articles always highlight the conflict of interest that Capitalist financial models of journalism are exposed to. Journalism should and must be run without the backing and/or interest of anyone except their readers.

@jerry It is very sad how it is dying as the member numbers increase so much.

@jerry How does an open, federated platform even die anyway? People are still on Usenet and IRC. What do journalists think Mastodon is?

@jerry Suffering from success

@jerry

Porn's incoming

@jerry 😏

@jerry
I wonder who's funding those articles...any guesses?

@jerry

Mastodon is dyeing, in the same way democracy is dying because of the Republicans fetish for money and power of oligarchs and corporations pushing for Fascism.

@jerry

Probably also why I’ve commented 4 times today. Yeah, mastodon sure is dead/s

@jerry Steve Balmer moment…. https://youtu.be/eywi0h_Y5_U

@jerry

The same line they pulled with G+.

@jerry From the same award-winning analysts behind "The End of History" and "640K Ought to Be Enough for Everyone."

@jerry There is no such thing as Mastodon.

There is, however, such a thing as people using Mastodon the way they weant it to be used.

@jerry Just like #Wikipedia. Dead on Arrival and Doomed according to then influencers up until there was no denying anymore

@jerry I see a red flag whenever the media calls the Fediverse "Mastodon."

@jerry

It's a familiar refrain.

@jerry :blobfoxcomfysip: https://tech.lgbt/@Kye/109982031390613361

@jerry I just saw an article about how Elon is failing and mastadon is winning, just depends on the outlet

@jerry AH, the dying platform. I guess I picked a really bad day to make mu account here.

@jerry
Quitting with gusto!

@jerry @briankrebs I swear to Christ the journalists’ treatment of this platform will be the end of me.

They’re just incredibly hard to defend, as a group.

Brother, can you tell me how to create engagement on platforms like these? I do lack in this.

@jerry Mastodon is dead. Long live Mastodon.

@jerry @pixelcats

@jerry but I just got here ;w;

@jerry @UncivilServant do I detect a tad of sarcasm?

@jerry Sorry to see you go

@jerry maybe twitter users will migrate to here after the tweet limit hiatus?

@jerry long live Mastodon!

@jerry Was it the Verge think piece?

@jerry

Mastodon is failing so hard that Meta/Facebook/Instagram's new Threads app is designed to be compatible with #ActivityPub instead of #ATProtocol.

@jerry ohh that’s why I’m having so many positive interactions on here in the last few days. Guess it will keep increasing as the user count drops!

@jerry Twitter’s more social anxiety than social media.
Elon Musk should stick to SpaceX.

@jerry
You got me for a minute not gonna lie :rainbowlaugh:

@jerry All the advertisers and centralized social media sites aren't happy about people leaving for the fediverse. They've prob got a PR push going to put hit pieces out.

@jerry Quitter! That rhymes with something bird related!!!

@jerry

@jerry Pitchbot: Twitter is limiting tweet read to 600 per day, here’s why this is bad news for Joe Biden and Mastodon.

@jerry rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated, eh?

@jerry 🤣

@jerry Meanwhile they're confused by why their article is hardly getting any incoming traffic from their tweet about it.

@jerry It’s truly horrible how Mastodon continues to fail at doing the thing it isn’t meant to do.

@jerry every one of those articles should just be called "i didn't like it so no one should"

@jerry

People want instant success. What they don't realize is that people take decades to grow in both skills and connections.

@jerry
Twitter. Not enough bandwidth. Mastodon critics. Also not enough bandwidth.

@jerry They really can't stand John Mastodon. Looks pretty good to me. 😂

@jerry all the new people following me must be here to pay their respects.

@jerry @northernlights Those so called "news" articles are merely fear, uncertainty, and doubt fueled. They are written by people with clear bias at best, or at worst, they have a vested interest in seeing the #fediverse fail. The genie is out of the bottle now. There's no putting it back in. No amount of wishing will make the fediverse go away.

@jerry You'd expect a professional journalist to know "twitter" isn't spelled with an M.

@jerry
Inactive accounts are the heaviest

@jerry What is driving me crazy is one of my friends on Twitter dismissed joining Mastodon because of these articles believing it was niche and there was only a few thousand people here. I pointed out 110,000 people alone joined in the 24 hours after chucklehead rate limited everyone.

I think I've talked them into it now they know the actual truth.

I saw Mastodon mentioned in the same sentence today as Reddit and Twitter burning to the ground.

Clearly an agenda going on there.

It's one of those overly dramatic, multi-episode, highly choreographed deaths like on 1980s soap operas.

Only to have a surprise reveal of #Mastodon 's long lost twin, Mastodan!

@jerry our demise has been greatly exaggerated 🤣🤣

@jerry there is this idea that a forum is either dominating or dying.

@jerry Sounds like FUD.

@jerry Hi I’ve been quitting mastodon for a while now and loving it

@jerry 😂😂😂

@jerry Yea it's crazy how Mastodon didn't make it and is a massive failure that no one is using. Crazy.

@jerry See whats funny about this is I just got into an argument with a twit refugee about how "mastodon is gonna need a central body to compete with twitter." I was like ohhhh honey, you arent from around here are you. We arent competing with anyone. You are competing, there is no back end to save you here. He then went on to say how xyz needs to happen that amounted to Mastodon functioning like twitter, algothim and all. Didnt catch the decentralized memo I guess.

@jerry
Death by a thousand sign-ups. :bl46:

@jerry it'd be a lot damn easier if the protocol didn't add load everytime someone leaves

@jerry they must have read your posts about calckey 🤣

@jerry At first they ignore you...

@jerry "So much quitting over there, you wouldn't believe the amount of quitting; many people have said it, right there on the app with the thing, they toot, not like a tweet but a toot, but they kicked me off of there, the RINOs did; and that's why so many people quit and came over to Truth Social from Mastodon. It's true. They won't say it but it's what's happening, more quitting than you could imagine." ~ President Donald J. Trump on the fall of Mastodon.