I don’t really see Mastodon “catching on” in the mainstream unless BlueSky fucks something up big time. So much of a social network’s success is determined by, uh, network effects.
BlueSky happened to be in the right place at the right time and got a critical influx of influential users, and Mastodon just didn’t.
it didn’t ‘happen in the right time’ and all that shit; it had advertising paid for by investors. and also the viral 'mastodon’s tooo haaaarrd to understand for my wee wittle dumb baby brain" campaign. no way that dumb shit was organic.
It’s harder for microblogging platforms because a huge draw is having notable people and celebs. Those individuals are the content more than content itself. Popular posters is easier for the corpos to monetize than quality posts and discussion.
I don’t really see Mastodon “catching on” in the mainstream unless BlueSky fucks something up big time. So much of a social network’s success is determined by, uh, network effects.
BlueSky happened to be in the right place at the right time and got a critical influx of influential users, and Mastodon just didn’t.
it didn’t ‘happen in the right time’ and all that shit; it had advertising paid for by investors. and also the viral 'mastodon’s tooo haaaarrd to understand for my wee wittle dumb baby brain" campaign. no way that dumb shit was organic.
It’s harder for microblogging platforms because a huge draw is having notable people and celebs. Those individuals are the content more than content itself. Popular posters is easier for the corpos to monetize than quality posts and discussion.
Yeah. People are gonna trap themselves in centralized corpo platforms forever until they learn to value free media and decentralization
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