@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.