alt Hacker News> Mastodon, you'll see all of them.
Alone... look, I want Mastodon to be successful, but revealed preferences don't lie. Mastodon MAU is about 0.1% that of Twitter, down more than 60% from the peak.
> Mastodon, you'll see all of them.
Alone... look, I want Mastodon to be successful, but revealed preferences don't lie. Mastodon MAU is about 0.1% that of Twitter, down more than 60% from the peak.
The number of people you want to follow is much smaller than that 0.1%.
Granted, not everyone I want to follow is on Mastodon, but many, many people I do want to follow are. More than I have time to follow. Indeed, many of the people I followed via blogs in the RSS days now are on Mastodon. It's essentially become my RSS reader, and the content is the same.
Ultimately, the constraint is my time - not the percentage of folks using Mastodon.
(And there's also the bridge with BlueSky, but it requires the BlueSky account to actively consent to the bridge).
Reminds me of the time I canceled my Netflix DVD subscription because I could get them for free at my library. Did the library have a collection as large as Netflix? Not even close! But did they have movies on my To Watch list? Yes!
I figured I'd resume the DVD subscription once I ran out of DVDs at the library.
More than a decade later, I still haven't run out. Every year they get more movies I want to watch than I have time for. Who cares that they're only 0.01% the size of Netflix?