Mastodon is absolutely thriving. I get you want to be a contrarian but the fediverse is loaded with people who left X and never went back.
This doesn't look like a particularly thriving platform: <a href="https://mastodon-analytics.com/#:~:text=Mastodon%20Active%20Users" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon-analytics.com/#:~:text=Mastodon%20Active%20...
I hope one day someone calls one of my projects a failure because I only have a few hundred thousand daily users.
just don't compete against facebook and twitter.mastodon has failed to capture the audience numbers of the products it sought to compete against, you can say that without criticizing the product.
> mastodon has failed to capture the audience numbers of the products it sought to compete againstI really don't think that was ever the goal.
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mastodon has failed to capture the audience numbers of the products it sought to compete against, you can say that without criticizing the product.
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I really don't think that was ever the goal.